I tried a Volcano, and because of the long melt zone, I wasn’t able to completely tune out the oozing/stringing (on my Bowden at least). I dunno if the newer high flow hotends still have this problem or not (or if they’re fine on direct drive); something to consider.

I actually have a Orbiter 2, and think I’m going to try the Volcano again. I still need to print a new toolhead for it.

I have a Dragon SF on my Voron which seems to work well (in a Stealthburner/Clockwork 2). I like that I don’t need to use 2 wrenches to change nozzles (unlike a V6) and that it securely attaches to the toolhead with screws (in the Stealthburner).

I’m sure the search engines log the IP, and with enough searches could be correlated back to you fairly easily even if you host it on a VPS? Unless it does some kind of mitigation I’m unaware of.

Qwant is French. Not a privacy search engine and looks like it features AI now. Kagi is really good, but US based and expensive. I think most of Europe does intelligence sharing with the US (“14 eyes” or something like that)?

Would Mastodon and forums not be considered social media?

I’m guessing the cheap, good quality, printers are cheap because they want to capture market share and enshitify (all the proprietary stuff they use is a hint).

I was looking for something to replace my old Creality CR10S a few months ago, Bambu and Qidi were tempting because of the price, but I didn’t like how proprietary everything was. The Prusa Core One looked nice, but looks like they’re going a little less “free” now with their Open Community License and locked boot loaders. I would have got a Troodon (Voron-derived pre-built printer), but they were out of stock. I settled on just getting a Formbot Voron kit. Took a very long time to build, but I’m very happy with it. I know the printer inside and out, so it’s easy to debug, modify, or repair if I need to.

In my opinion, if you’re already somewhat familiar with 3d printing, I’d build a Voron from a kit. If not, I’d get a Voron-derived pre-built like a Troodon or Sovol SV8 (I think the Sovol has a proprietary toolhead though). If you want an easy Apple-like experience, but still pretty “open,” I’d get a Prusa.

If you think you’re going to want to print higher-temp, warp-prone filaments like ABS/ASA/PA, I would not choose a bed-slinger (e.g. Mk4s), because they are harder to enclose nicely and take up a lot of space if enclosed. As one data-point, my core-xy Voron produces much higher quality prints (e.g. less artifacts) and is faster than my bedslinger CR10S.

Relevant novelette: Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future

AI companies offer HIPPA compliant services. They have zero data retention policies (supposedly).

It’s possible to do some server side AI stuff with decent privacy guarantees. Apple utilizes homomorphic encryption to do stuff like landmark ID in photos, which is neat.

I’ve heard the excuse that they’re private property so they can’t. They’re not hard to remove though. They’re usually just attached to poles with pipe clamps.

Voron Micron or Salad Fork kit.

Some people are comparing this to the industrial revolution. Which resulted in hellish conditions for much of the working class for ~100 years until unionization started becoming more widespread.

Forgejo has a roadmap for federation: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md

Not sure how many people, or any, are actively working on it.

PCTG is supposed to be roughly half-way in-between PETG and ABS in heat resistance.

RTO is designed to “fire” only the least desperate employees.

TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.

Tons of people are getting fired because the owners think AI can replace them. Doesn’t mean the AI can do the work properly, but they are getting fired anyway.

I know a person that works at an AI startup and they convinced a company to replace their HR department with AI a while back. Funnily enough, that startup’s “AI” is largely “Actually Indians.” Their service is an agent that writes its own “tools” to solve problems/complete tasks, but the tools often don’t work, so they have a large team of devs in India rewrite them.

AstroNvim is nice. It’s an opinionated and pre-configured nvim distro, so you don’t have to spend as much time finding the right plugins and configurations.

I doubt it’s the “culture.” It’s just that they used to specialize in making things for the lowest cost possible. That’s changing bit by bit. DJI is best in class for example; no other consumer product comes close. They are also leading in many scientific fields.

Can states not sue companies that accept payment from citizens within their state?

These markets were illegal for so long because they can easily turn into assassination markets with plausible deniability.

I think offshoring/nearshoring is booming right now. Tons of “Global Capability Centers” being built. It’s even cheaper than H-1B.