FWIW, OrcaSlicer isn’t blocked (except on the H2D, and that may change eventually) on newer firmware, it just has to go through Bambu’s network protocol, same as their own slicer. But OrcaSlicer installs that for you.
(I’m not defending Bambu Lab’s practices here, just want us to be accurate.)
If you loved 30 Rock as much as I did (which is a lot), you’ll like Kimmy Schmidt. I like 30 Rock more, but it’s still really funny.
I am fascinated by the idea. Why cassettes? At least vinyl is “lossless” on its first playback, but cassettes aren’t exactly high fidelity. Is it about the nostalgia? The vibe? The chonky, satisfying feel of the format?
with the end of moore’s law, it’s only a matter of time till ARM catches up performance-wise, and out-competes them on price.
I’m not so sure about that, at least in single-thread applications, but I’m also not sure it matters. When performance reaches a certain point the average consumer doesn’t really need more. And I think we’ve largely reached that point for the average consumer.
Is it possible to learn this power?
“Nerdface” I have called it.
There’s a fascinating book series, a trilogy beginning with Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett. The magic system is sort of like writing software that effects the physical world.
At a certain point in this series, a group of people learn to link their minds, and they talk about how impossible it becomes to hate people when you’re able to completely empathize with them, their experiences, their weaknesses, etc.
That part really stuck with me.
The ally flag gets fun colors! It’s the black and white background with a rainbow ∧ shape. I wear this as a pin sometimes. Also my favorite restaurant has one hanging proudly inside.
Man I firmly disagree. Working from home is the best thing to happen to me.
But isolation can suck. I have other social avenues.
Not just have a shower. Turn on some music you loved in your teens and twenties and sing your heart out in the shower.
It always makes me feel better.
I suspect that was part of the idea. It’s a murder show taking place in NYC, but still limits the murders to a single building. It’s the extreme version of this quirk of the genre.
Major difference is it’s one(ish) murder per season, rather than one per episode.
and not being made under exploitive labour conditions.
It’s that last one that’ll get you.
How dare you make such a dangerous wish.
There are plenty of men’s pants with just the front and rear pockets!
Yeah! Last time I go into a store called “Destination XL.”
(I’m joking, I saw the rest of your comments about this.)
That’s a really good point about the nozzles.
I don’t know if it will be faster than a tool changer (I doubt it, but I suspect the difference will be pretty negligible), but it will be much faster than swapping material the way it has been. Purging the plastic from the nozzle takes a while, especially if swapping between, say, PETG/PCTG and PLA for support purposes. Or PVA for that matter. Basically anything where mixing the filaments can compromise the structural integrity of the result you need additional purging.
The time it takes to retract filament into the AMS and then send out the new is pretty small. The longest part of the process is the purging.
Obviously a tool changer is a solid solution to this problem, but I gotta be honest I’m curious to see how this one plays out. And it never hurts to have more solutions to a problem within the industry.
Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stoooooooo.
That’s the way I like it. 😁
That and public libraries (though we’re trying to kill those now).
I don’t think of the UK or France as dictatorships.