We do have a shitty ai data center up here, only about as super as a supermarket tho.

I think the latter scenario is more likely. Then they can claim “look, we got rid of the guy that did it” and continue with whatever agenda the actual folks in charge are following with a new figurehead.

To have a nice Outlook on things

Schrödinger’s backup

I’ll see statements like this thrown around, meanwhile the PS5, Xbox series X and even the upcoming steam machine are all AMD hardware.

Almost 100 billion revenue last year.

250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?

Yeah. That’s nothing to them.

I’ve had PLA spools go bad due to age, so I can definitely attest to them eventually crumbling out of existence, good to do the bend test if you’re not sure, if it snaps/breaks when you try and fold it in half, it’s too old and the print will come out much more brittle than you’d want it to be.

True for the location dependency, but even here with about 20-30% humidity, it’s pretty noticeable after a week, granted, that’s assuming you leave it out and open, storing in a dry box or in a vacuum sealed bag with a desiccant between prints will help prolong that period immensely in my experience.

Marketing definitely has had quite a creeping presence into 3D printing in recent years, and similarly to gaming, it seems to be targeting the enthusiast class, so trying to convince people to try printing with more fancy (and toxic, and hydrophobic) materials than just the standard run of the mill PLA and PETG and upsell them on all the accessories before they’re actually needed.

Makes you wonder how much of all of this is gonna end up in the dumpster or in the attic at some point

PLA does not need to be dried. You can dunk it in a water bath overnight and it’ll print fine in the morning.

PETG on the other hand will absorb moisture within a few days of opening, so it needs babysitting if it’s been open for more than a week.

That aside, yes, spend time to calibrate your printer before complaining about moisture.

Not even a good use case either, especially when it spews such bullshit like “there’s no recorded instance of trump ever having used the word enigma” and “there’s 1 r in strawberry”.

LLMs are a copy paste machine, not a rationalization engine of any sort (at least as far as all the slop that we get shoved in our face, I don’t include the specialized protein folding and reconstructive models that were purpose built for very niche applications)

The next update is going to be interesting…