I was a bit conflicted with the success of Bambu because they indicated their consumer hostility somewhat early on. I’d much prefer that for a company that furthers the ecosystem and encourages openness like Prusa or Ultimaker. Bambu kept making super compelling products though. I’m hoping that they see this as an opportunity to repent and reshape the company. It feels like they’re more likely to dig in their heels. Luckily this controversy is before they could really establish monopoly like Adobe.

Yeah the anti-bot measures are pretty strong. I’m hoping that they’re mostly there to stop AI crawlers.

Here’s an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20251124212903/https://smarthistory.org/eadweard-muybridge-the-horse-in-motion/

Interesting that the horses are drawn in the flying gallop position. The story of the change in how galloping horses in art was depicted is interesting, involving the founder of Stanford University and love-affair murder.

That sounds like a fun experimentation platform. Power shouldn’t be a problem except for the bill, the PSUs are meant to be redundant rather than for combined output. You probably won’t draw more than 300 watts most of the time. The drive controller probably has staggered spin-up to prevent over current conditions. The bigger factor in my experience is the noise, expect a jet engine during boot and a dull roar the rest of the time. SuperMicro boards often allow you to set the fans lower, but the PSUs will be loud all the time. If I were you, I’d install TrueNAS or ProxMox and play around with it. You may be able to triage the issues. You may need to set the drive controllers to HBA mode or flash an HBA firmware to them. It’s probably not worth running long term with SandyBridge, power to performance is pretty bad.

Successfully got an eyeroll from the missus, two thumbs up.

That’s an amusing article, but I wonder why is the link to an American small-town newspaper site covering a German hobby?