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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • Further reason to never do business with anywhere where nationality equals race. Criticize their government, they play the race card.

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • As much as saying "Hey probably stop genociding Palestinians" is antisemitic.

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • Honestly? No. Nintendo is entirely too litigant, VW cheated on their emissions, and Samsung appliances are utterly shit.

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • I'll trust them when no one alive remembers when they were a single-party state.

  • Any dead franchises that can survive being rebooted?

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  • I've seen this a lot in popular sci-fi. George Lucas did it, Gene Roddenberry did it, Steven Moffat did it.

    They have great ideas, they make excellent media...with a team that can on occasion say no.

    I remember, I had that VHS set of Star Wars back in the 90s, the one that's basically the theatrical cut except in 480i, each tape started with an interview with Lucas about what a genius he is. You can find interviews with the cast at the time about how off the rail he already was; Mark Hamill talks about undeliverable lines, his then wife basically saved it in the edit. Star Wars hit mythical status, Lucas was elevated to the rank of turbogod, when it came time to produce the prequel trilogy in the late 90s and early 2000s, what we got was the most disappointing thing since my son.

    Steven Moffat wrote many of the best episodes of 21st century Dr. Who. As a showrunner, he is physically incapable of calming his goddamn tits. All he does is shout at you about how awesome the main character is, and over-produce inconsequential shots. There's an episode of Sherlock that takes place at Watson's wedding, it's basically one long monologue by Sherlock, the bridal photo scene is shot like the goddamn Matrix. The man can write! But he prefers to just say "He's the Dokta! He's the coolest and most badassest of the cool badasses. His dad could beat up your dad." And then spend the entire budget on wooshy camera effects.

    Gene Roddenberry was a fantastic screenwriter, but by 1987 he was THE man. Series creator. He got a lot of what he wanted, and he wanted what any forward thinking progressive man in his twilight years wants: A group of vegan space socialists who are always right, and women in short little skirts. He was so into his vision of a post-scarcity utopia that he didn't allow character development, and he knew his boners were rapidly running out so he wanted to sex it up as much as he could. His health declined to the point the team took over, and the show got better. They realized the cast was so damn good that all of them could carry episodes, so they started formatting it as an ensemble cast where each main cast member is the star of a few episodes a season, and they made some of the best television ever broadcast.

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • Oh give them a minute.

  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • "Oh look at these wonderful Chinese 3D printers, they're legitimately ahead of the Western competition and so much cheaper."

    They DDOS the competition, steal intellectual property, violate software licenses, and catch fire.

    "Oh look at these wonderful Chinese electric cars, they're legitimately ahead of the Western competition and so much cheaper."

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • I can think of two cases that might qualify: The American meat industry and the Austrian wine industry.

    In the former case, public outrage over Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle caused legislation and regulation. In the latter case, the wine industry got so cheap that they started back-sweetening rotgut with antifreeze and poisoned a bunch of people, and they had a choice: Rebrand to impeccable quality or die as a national industry.

  • GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

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  • Something something extinguish

  • It took shockingly few generations for our ruling class to become morons

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  • On the one hand, I'm convinced Marie Antoinette didn't say or think like that.

    On the other hand, I think there's a good case to make that if her brother had come to Versailles and explained to Louis XVI how to fuck his sister four or five years before he actually did, the French Revolution wouldn't have happened.

    The short version of this story as I, an American nearing the bottom of his third Mint Julep of the evening, understands it, is the French--of all people--came up with a king that didn't know how to use his penis. Letters from nobles at the time explain how he would stick it in, soak without moving for two minutes or so, and then "bid goodnight." I mean, to be fair, they were like 15 on their wedding day. So Marie Antoinette's life consisted of hanging around Versailles, a palace designed specifically to be an expensive place to hang around. She basically partied the French economy empty, like any teenage girl in her shoes would have. Eventually her brother, Joseph II, visited Versailles and apparently had to awkwardly explain to the young king what orgasms are, and eight months later Marie was pregnant with her first child. She significantly toned down the lavish lifestyle by then, but not after spending the country into an actual crisis.

    It is my understanding that, later in life, Marie would show some frugality, doing away with expensive gifts for her children during famines and such. This happened when she was an adult, I think I must point out. Again, I am an American and thus indoctrinated against the very idea of royalty, but a flaw in absolute monarchy is that absolute power over foreign and domestic policy may land in the hands of a teenager who can't figure out his crotch by himself, and the only thing standing between the nation and an empty treasury is one very specific teen pregnancy.

  • It took shockingly few generations for our ruling class to become morons

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  • You know, genuinely...American education tends to go "Then there was World War One and we tried to stay out of it because it was Europe's problem but we had to go win it anyway then there was the roaring 20s and the great depression 30's and then MOTHAFUCKIN WORLD WAR TWO, the four years that makes up two thirds or our nation's 250 year history." So the scene where Blackadder sits George and Baldrick down and describes the alliances and how "there was only one problem. It was bollocks." Is genuinely my understanding of WWI. That and rotary piston engines. I know what a blip switch is.

  • A Day in the Life of a Threadiverse Mod: Part II - "Some Days You Feel Like Bob Kelso"

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  • When JD had character traits beyond "He's straight we promise?"

  • Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence'

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  • the lid of the Apple II popped off toolless. They included fucking schematics.

  • Beans

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  • And also that weird wrist nub cats have.

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People'

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  • Either of his parents American citizens when he was born?

  • Cultural impact

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  • Almost all of my memory of the original Avatar:

    I went to see it with my girlfriend at the time, and she kept reaching into our bag of popcorn, getting engrossed in the movie and just leaving her hand in there, so if I wanted popcorn I'd scritch at her wrist with my fingertips.

    There's a point in the movie where it does this big heavy fade to black. It's near or beyond the midpoint of the film, and someone in the theater said "Act two." and half the audience cracked up.

    Jake Sooolly.

    People talk about the spectacular CG effects, I really only remember one scene, Native Chick takes Jake Sooolly for a walk in the woods at night and everything's glowing. That scene was striking. Most of the rest of the movie is stored in my brain as visual sludge.

    I also remember the news talking about people being upset that they couldn't be tall sexy blue cat people.

  • The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding

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  • They know they don't get a piece of the pie.

  • Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers and spending hundreds to learn how to do it

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  • Kind of impressive when you think about it

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  • Well, I think Vine was too early. The videos were too short, could you imagine trying to put ads or sponsors in 6 second videos? So how do you monetize it?

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    The only feeling worse than "Why didn't I think of that?" is "I thought of that, but didn't do anything about it!"

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    Using a shop tablet that definitely exists

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    Looking for a shop computer/tablet that probably doesn't exist

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    Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon?

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    Journal keepers of Lemmy: Do you go back and re-read old entries?

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    Pictures posted to Lemmy: Does exif data survive?