They’re probably gonna try making the slicer send the print to a central server (based on what I was hearing about the California law), so while making a printer from a kit (like a Voron) isn’t a bad idea, they’re probably gonna try to aim for the software side. The whole thing is so dumb.
Been pirating books for a while. And in doing so, found a few authors I really like, so I ended up preordering some of their books and even recommending them to friends. AI doesn’t ever preorder their books, and will probably not recommend them to random people without being paid to advertise by the author. Which is why the argument of, “I pirate, so what’s the difference if AI does it?” kinda falls flat in my mind.
Yep. Genuinely would have gotten it if on steam, just want to make sure I can continue to play it if I want to in many years time.
Not only that, but if there are chemicals in that water that can’t be filtered, that’s just in the well water now. As someone who grew up on well water in the country, that’s terrifying, as you aren’t gonna get water pumped in at a price that is viable. Especially when you realize most of rural Georgia is like that (same with a lot of southern states).
Don’t forget AI (that scraped Stack overflow) providing a slightly different basic solution, that usually works (at least until you think about improving it).
Other than buying dry goods in bulk (and usually before this because I’m paranoid about prices), alternate day fasting. Been doing it for about a year to lose weight, but a happy coincidence is that my grocery bills are lower and I usually plan to eat healthier meals on the days when I’m eating.
In addition, for produce try looking at an Asian or Hispanic grocery near you, the one nearest me generally has much cheaper fresh veggies than the other grocery stores in my area (though a lot of the other stuff is more expensive, so plan accordingly).
Also, if your food pantry has some things available, try using it, that is what it is there for after all.
Nah, you’ll probably have Internet, and the closest grocery store in a lot of places is like 20-30 min away. But mobile towers are pretty spotty, the closest grocery is going to be expensive (if it isn’t something like a dollar general, which is also pricey), and the roads will be outright dangerous in some areas. There is a reason land in west Virginia and rural mountains of NC, VA, AND TN can be soo cheap.
In all fairness, there is a reason that Appalachian land is cheap, and that is that setting aside your neighbors, the geographic disadvantages are pretty bad for farming and development.
Yeah, when I was questioning my religion (am currently Atheist), I read a bit of Dawkins, and mostly felt like a lot of his work was a bit condescending, and needlessly so. Hitchens was a much better resource, as well as just Douglas Adams (for a sense of humor in the face of the absurd). Now every time I read something about Dawkins, it’s usually negative (last thing I remember reading was about his stance on the middle east, think it was in support of the Israelis during the early days of the genocide).
Uh, no it’s not. Quite literally the opposite actually. You can get apks for your apps outside of the play store currently, just have to install them yourself (yeah, you need to check a box to install third party apps once, but that’s it). The proposed change from google is mostly to make that harder, and make most users locked more into the play store ecosystem so that Google gets their cut from everything.
If that’s the case, then Google really needs to fix the play store because you can absolutely get malware from there. This change is mostly to start locking down the ecosystem to force users to only be able to pay Google a cut of all revenue on the platform (apple already does this). It’s bullshit, and it hopefully backfires for Google.
Not to be too much of a “knew it” person, but I remember when they first started rumors about how dangerous it was that my bullshit detector started going off, because it felt like they were intentionally trying to make it sound like a threat large enough to get attention, and more importantly funding. I kinda expect it to be adopted, then opsec to complain about it sucking in a couple of weeks to months at a few bigger companies.
Kind of a no shit moment, as China has a lot to lose from Iran not being able to sell them oil. That being said, it’s gonna be interesting how Trump blockade plays out, as most Asian countries are dependent on the area for their energy needs (maybe even make them more dependent on China overall given it’s renewable tech).
I mean, if they don’t run Linux I don’t see the purpose in getting one anyway.
“So then, you take a left on {street you aren’t familiar with, so you’ll forget the name when you get there}, then…”
Not particularly, that would absolutely backfire if Zelensky tried that. Most of why the war hasn’t spiralled seems to be that he hasn’t broken any rules of combat, and has decent relationships with most of the countries of the EU. In fact, that would probably give Trump a premise to help Russia, something he has clearly been looking for for a while.
And even then, I think the connotation between Trump and Europe’s Far right is enough to make them generally unpopular, given the far right caused the gas/oil shortages in the first place, so I doubt AfD, Le Pen, or Farage would gain enough leverage to parley that into power.
Ultimately, I think Ukraine needs to quickly shut down Russian oil production, as if they don’t Russia gets a foothold that makes their war last longer. It won’t be particularly popular in a lot of the EU (at least in the short term), but it’s better than giving Russia the means to continue their bullshit.
Or alternatively, if he doesn’t knock out Russian oil quickly, the US might say, how about we end this war on your behalf as long as you keep the oil flowing. Russia is generally losing currently, but if they get enough funds from oil Ukraine could lose the war (or more likely keep it going much longer).
I have actually bought an app on the play store once, because I had a gift card. Turns out, they didn’t use the gift card and used my cc on file for Google drive. Had to spend hours sorting that out with automated customer service, never gonna use that again. Their product actually does suck, and a lot of the reason that f-droid doesn’t is that they aren’t charging you to use it.
Given the state of a lot of the summaries I’ve seen lately, that is scary.
For the printer side, sure. But if they start declaring slicers that aren’t phoning to a govt server illegal… they’ll be slightly harder to find and install. Which is just why this is soo stupid. Not only is it very hard to enforce, phoning models into a central server and expecting it to know what models contain parts for a gun or the like isn’t really possible (you could maybe make some AI to intuit a bit, but it would probably suck at actually figuring out if a print is dangerous or not).