Correct. This isn’t an all or none situation.

I agree, but this will help pop the bubble because local models we can run on our own hardware will crash the demand for data centers

Oh it’s both

I just went from “yeah I’m fucking burned out” to “oh hell yeah, I love Burnout!”

People are really not getting your sarcasm

Yeah but they’re more valuable when burned for warmth

I feared this was the case. I can sympathize.

The problem here starts with your elected officials. They set spending policy which affects your salary budget. There is, as far as I know, no direct legal action you can take to correct this. My state’s employees have been experiencing this for decades.

You can try raising money for lobbyists to represent government employees. You can run for office. You can try getting publicity about the problem in the media. I’m sure there are other things you can do.

But you know, consultations with lawyers are free. I am not a lawyer, so don’t let me stop you from talking to one.

Many government employees are unable to unionize, but otherwise I thoroughly agree

It’s refreshing to see someone admit they were wrong. It shouldn’t be a big deal because we’ve all been there.

A basic food dehydrator does a good job with drying filament rolls (and most can dry more than one at once).

The issue with most of the dedicated filament dryers is one of airflow. They get the filament rolls hot but don’t push the humid air out of the dryer. That’s not to say that they don’t work, but mostly they will work more slowly than a food dehydrator.

I agree with one caveat: that’s not power tripping. That’s just good moderation.

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No argument there

I think if the Jedi weren’t allergic to emotion, they’d have been able to heal Anakin’s trauma (and maybe would have seen the wisdom in freeing his mother from slavery so he wouldn’t worry about her). And with that out of the way, Anakin could learn to let go of attachment.

But unfortunately for him, he had no chance at that.

And it all started with the blockade of an important trade route

I’m with you about their rights, but does not society come into the consideration at all?

If a user posts a help request, a lot of the time that will be indexed by a search engine. Deleting that message completely then leads to dead search results. That’s not only frustrating, it’s a waste of time and effort for everyone.

It costs people their time to answer questions, it costs time and money to host a Lemmy instance. I don’t think a middle ground is ridiculous. Let the user anonymize themselves, but outright deleting a thread harms the network.

Maybe legally, but a federated collection of social sites like this doesn’t operate under a single model. If you post something to Lemmy, you can never fully control what happens after.

So we lump a lot of stuff under the term AI, but prior to ChatGPT, we would have been talking about “machine learning” coming up with this solution.

I really hate the way the AI companies have gone about their business, but machine learning certainly has its proven uses.

I think things like this - that humans probably could have invented on our own, just more slowly without the machine - are just about the perfect application of the technology. It’s being used as a tool that helps humans, not a machine that replaces us.

Damn autocorrect

Hey I meant to mention that Sovol is another brand that’s worth consideration. They seem to respect open source licenses better than most, and they were respectful with the Voron open source designs when they released their own version of the Voron 2.4 Core XY printer.

I built a Voron 2.4 from a kit, but I seriously considered the Sovol version since it is much easier to assemble for a decent price.

To me, that is a good indicator that the company isn’t seeking to lock in their users to a closed ecosystem.