Yeah. It’s a betrayal of trust in my eyes. They were the first company to get a genuine “plug-and-play” experience to 3D printing. They amassed a huge user base, then acted against those users’ rights. There’s no way in hell they win the lawsuit against them, so at least the people who have already bought printers from them should still be able to use them. But I would avoid Bambu like the plague from here on.

Just a heads up to you creative folks, the pieces of fiction that have changed my life probably weren’t produced by folks attempting to make life changing fiction. They are usually pretty small and simple stories that were a bit heavy handed with their themes. Or a small part of an overall series that resonates with me

The main issue is that, once you have enough value in stock, you can take loans out against it, thus extracting the value of the stock without actually having to sell the stock.

This isn’t the case here. Their printers are some of the best out there. Their cost is high but not unreasonably so for what you get. The company, on the other hand, is garbage. They’re breaking the law and doubling down saying they’ve done nothing wrong. People are pissed off about that, not their products.

Same. The devs get big bonuses if the game is successful, so I bought the game. If the publisher won his lawsuit, I would have pirated it. If they ever take the game away, I’ll pirate a copy. Obviously I’m emotionally invested in the devs getting what’s rightfully theirs, but I also don’t see an issue with piracy of big name games in the modern age of gaming. But please buy indie games if you can afford to, they are the only ones keeping gaming alive right now

I’m not entirely familiar with the process, but I think Goldberg uses steam architecture, but replaces calls to steam servers with locally emulated ones. And I think Steamless emulates the DRM check locally, to spoof the call to steam servers. Neither tool requires internet or active steam servers to run. If the internet disappeared tomorrow, as long as I had my game library downloaded, and the latest version of those two tools installed, I could play all my games forever. Of course, I still prefer to buy my games as physical copies or offline installers from GoG, but you kinda have to go where the games are.

You aren’t wrong, that’s why I use Goldberg/steamless to keep my library of steam games safe, even if steam shits the bed

I don’t use the internet for much these days, but I am on graphine OS and I have yet to be blocked from websites due to it. My adblocker prevents me from some, and not allowing javascript prevents me from some, but I’ve never seen that QR code or had any site prompt fro Google play services

Take a look at the latest gopros. They work underwater, are tiny, and have replaceable batteries. All you need is a watertight seal, and they’ve gotten those down in size by quite a lot.

There are free and open source messenger apps for those that care. The one I use is Fossify Messenger, and it’s fairly bare bones but I’m not really a texting power user, so it’s perfectly fine for my use case

Everyone here hates you

The internet would be a better place if you weren’t here

Hard to imagine a shittier thing someone could do in a comic thread

Alright, so you’ve changed your argument. Slang does not mean “an exaggeration.” I’m not trying to be the word police, it’s just hard to understand your argument if you aren’t using common definitions of words. You are arguing that the other person exaggerated, not that they are using slang. And to some degree, I agree with that.

I will also admit that my last response missed a key point. Open source projects have been struggling to keep up with garbage PRs that started once AI bots have had the ability to submit PRs themselves. Hell, it started before that, when people still had to submit their AI generated PRs. On the whole, PRs across projects have been more slop than before LLMs existed. In your dog example, it’d be as though a breeder specializing in breeding female dogs moved in and business was booming. Yes, not every dog coming into the vet is a bitch, but there are significantly more bitches coming in than before.

Ultimately, as they are right now, the net result of AI PRs is negative, so anyone choosing to release them is actively increasing the level of slop, even if a few of their changes aren’t themselves causing an issue. I’m not saying the people submitting them are malicious, just that they are contributing to an overall worse open source scene.

In what way is it not literal? I’ve had to work closely with AI in a software engineering capacity, and if you let the AI do anything unchecked for long it will spit out slop. Slop by Merriam-Webster definition, is “a product of little or no value” or “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence” which sounds exactly like an unchecked claude bot randomly submitting PRs to open source projects would be producing.

Other than first-party Nintendo games, I do all my gaming on Linux

Are you referring to “slop” as slang? In what way is it slang?

I was as well. Put off buying it for years, as I am the patient gamer who waits for deals. I caved after playing Satisfactory and still having the itch to build factories

I think it’s cute, but I cannot agree with selective breeding for defects, so I would never own one

I think past thunderbolt 4 you get 2 displays daisy chained off of one port. I have a thunderbolt 5 port and I run 2 4k monitors off of it