Just do it outside then.
Or just do it in the garage. Not to devalue your point (because you aren’t wrong either, the dust isn’t probably healthy), but honestly thinking back over all the shady things that have gone down in my garage over the years, sanding a bit of PLA wouldn’t even nick the surface.
Yet there’s like 14 people here on the fediverse, where this issues been largely solved.
It’s growing, and I don’t really want the herds and their mindrot either, but it’s the way of the future. Look at the god damn situation we find ourselves in, for example. That’s almost solely to be blamed on social media.
I’m nostalgic for it, but at the same time, I’d be nostalgic for 3.5 seconds if I used one again. People tend to forget how frustrating those devices could be too. I had several iterations of the blackberry, and everyone of them came with a lot of quirks that modern phones just don’t have. Sure, I sort of miss the tactile feel of buttons, but it was also a lot of work punching out long emails on them, and pocket lint did a real number on those things too.
I’m of the opposite opinion. I’m tired of dashboards just absolutely smothered in Technicoloured buttons. I much prefer the touchscreen where everything is centralized. I find it less distracting, personally.
Cars are a very intimate personal thing though, and I understand others frustrations with it. Guess I’m the outlier.
My garage door keeps trying to sell me a subscription so it will work with my car. My garage door! Where does it end!?!!
This is my LinkedIn feed. What a wild adventure opening up that app is. I do it once a week, only to read the most unbelievable shit that humankind has ever written. It’s mostly AI content now and then the comments are AI comments talking to AI posts. Some timeline we are on.
I just sold an Anycubic Kobra for $100. And it wasn’t fun. You aren’t getting $200 for it, I would honestly put it up for $100, be firm and just get rid of it if you actually want to be rid of it.
Or you can play the game for six months, and maybe get $120 for it. Is that $80 worth six months of dealing with some of the most awful people on the planet? I had a guy trolling me, like he kept messaging me from different profiles that he had created, writing just the most random shit. Super bizarre.
I think that’s what we all want. Id be front of line for what you described too.
I’m really paying close attention to those Telo Trucks, but they are a long way from market (if they make it, we’ve been here before, so many times now).
Right on! It’s a neat feeling for sure, seeing your creations come to life, and it’s all uphill from here too! You never forget your first printed model.
Mine was when I was in college, I created a set of rims for an RC car in my solids class, and the reward for the projects best design was I got time on the schools printer to create them. You should have seen this contraption, thing basically looked like a coca-cola vending machine, it was roughly about that size too. It was quite a sight, but for the time it was a super big deal. Real cutting edge. Probably took 30 hours to print what my Bambu could burp out in under a half hour.
If you told me back then I’d have a machine 20 times as capable, and a tenth of the size on the workshop of my bench at home 25 years later, for under $1k, I’m not sure I’d have believed you. Real story.
I’m really struggling to think of if this is a bad thing, in actuality. I mean the premise, obviously yikes, but this inadvertently also might be the best thing Russia has done for their youth in years.
Quaint to think you are getting another election ever again.
AWS seems to have a helluva lot of failure points too. I’m not an IT expert, but I’m pretty sure this is far from the first time this has happened, correct?
I’m even starting to feel like a crotchety old man by wondering if I should be purchasing some physical precious metals.
Look at all of us, wildly ahead of the curve!! We are the future!
But for real, the intense concentration of information into what’s ultimately little tiny fail points can’t ever end well. We’ve gotten a few of these wakeup calls now. In my country a few years ago, one of the main cellular networks suddenly went down, and it dragged down all of our payment systems as an added bonus, plus 911 coverage and all sorts of other failures. That afternoon you couldn’t get money depending on who your bank was, you almost certainly couldn’t make a payment anywhere, couldn’t call for help, etc. It ultimately only lasted a few hours, but it put the politicians in a frenzy. Of course nothing really concrete has been done about it either.
And actually as a correction, I think it was Love Connection and Married with Children when that commercial was on, and not the Simpsons. Regardless, Frankie and Johnny are internationally immortal.
It is, and the funny thing is, I’m actually Canadian. That commercial used to be on during the Simpsons, it was an affiliate channel they used to broadcast into Canada.
Although I did happen to visit NOLA a couple of years ago for work, and had a great time. I even thought of Frankie and Johnny and was prepared to go, as I figured my sister would get a kick out of a selfie in front of the store. Unfortunately I found out it wasn’t there anymore :(
Like the special man says:
Lettahaveeeeeem
So it’s a piece of shit for sure?
At some point even visa is going to back off though. I wonder how much money goes through Steam? Maybe if them and some other orgs band together and say fine, we won’t accept Visa or MasterCard at all then, there’s going to be some hell to pay. This can go both ways. Lots of third parties would be caught in the crossfire too, like order payment processors.
It’s like I tell everyone else that gets harassed, sexually or non-sexually: go tell a lawyer, not HR.