Honestly, while this is insane, what's really insane is that everything now should have the fat cheeto nutjobs name on it. Last I checked America had themselves a big revolution to *get rid of* kings.
Premature release happens to all men at some point or another, it's nothing to be ashamed of, just need a new board.
Considering how dependent a whole slew of US states are on the Colorado river providing them water, this is very expected of course, but still grim. Climate change is really beginning to bite. Arizona is set to renegotiate their water amounts this year, good luck with that one.
Yeah certainly anything mechanical that needs to be strong and reliable. I do have some bits on mine that are mostly decorative (needed to flex on people with a "140 cubic inch" embellisher so I 3D printed and painted one.)
Yep, not really that well informed about what the "super" engineering plastics do, I just do PETG for 99.9% of my prints. Leaving the factory shifter on my bike. :)
Might be workable with some plastics but now we're talking PEI or PEKK. But really, I'd prefer steel.
Making weapons is easy. You don't need 3D printers for it. In fact, if you want to mass produce, you want to machine things out of metal and use CNC and automate it. 3D printing is useful mainly for one-offs and prototyping. And every country has 3D printing anyway already.
Not sure I'd even suggest PLA. PLA deforms over time and is very much not heat resistant. PLA in the sun will just start melting. PETG is a much more sturdy (and somewhat flexible) plastic, for example.
It is a good step forward for 3d printing when you can do multi-nozzle. Vastly less waste and faster. I can see an INDX in my future... eventually.
We should really be building elevated rail and fast maglev though. Would reduce accidents and speed things up a lot. Anyway, hope it's a productive trip.
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Actual light nostalgia kicks in.
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A donut covered in yellow glaze with a white glaze bunny decoration on top.
A "Berliner donut" - the company supplies pastries to go with the afternoon coffee break every Wednesday. Usually they're pink, this one - well, happy Easter.
I'm an amateur just doing basic stuff, but MangoJelly over on Youtube has whole series of tutorials; you could go see how the workflow is and jump through some of those. The expensive proprietary programs are still the ones to beat, but FOSS is important.
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Additive manufacturing is going to become a staple for certain types of production, like prototypes and one-offs. It has unique capabilities that no other manufacturing method enjoys - and of course, it has unique drawbacks as well.
Almost everything we do as a species is done for wildly insane reasons. Whenever you see some activity that, after a little analysis, is straight up crazy like polluting to "save money", you come to realize almost everything we do is done the wrong way for the wrong reasons.
True, but life long wage slavery isn't even the worst of it. The worst is the other incentives. It's literally "profitable" to burn our planet to a cinder, and "expensive" to not do so, and I put those things in quotation marks because they're man-made invented concepts that are innately wrong.
The issue is, as it almost always is now, the wildly people-hostile notions that form capitalism itself. Maybe there was an excuse for the "everyone against everyone else" method at some point but these days it's literally killing our species. Ban capitalism, not 3d printing.
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I hesitate to admit my 3D printer is currently half disassembled for an upgrade... and has been for some weeks. I've contemplated adding a second just to have a backup (and more capacity to churn out Gridfinity organizers). But yeah, tons you can do with one for upgrades around the house.
Since those are Wifi, ensuring they're on their own VLAN that only has access to the HA and not the Internet would be sensible. But I agree, no relay at all is what I'd prefer to monitor, say, the fridge.
As a #Stargate fan, it's certainly sounding like good news for seeing a new show in the franchise. I hope they can make another show that runs a decade like the first one. www.gateworld.net/news/2026/03...
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Couple of them look decent but not really $20 decent. It's digital goods. Sell copies for $2 and I might buy.
It's getting grim out there. I mean, age verification to install an operating system? What dystopian hell is this anyway?
We get it, you're busy with Marathon and shit but it would be nice if the event was, you know... playable.
It's much more than plastics as well. Fertilizer is made from oil. Every single car tire has a barrel of oil go into it. The list of things we use oil for is enormous, and only some things can be easily dispensed with. Every year that passes we use *more* fossil fuels, not less.