Price is comparable to a used RTX3090 with 24GB vram, which is probably more attractive to someone who is also interested in Linux/Windows gaming (and already owns a pc I mean). I would also guess that the RTX would be faster than the MacBook. IMO unified ram is more interesting when you can get a lot of it

2010 is ancient technology, according to wikipedia Nvidia released the 600 series in 2012… Even if there was some inference engine supporting it then lack of computational speed and memory bandwidth would probably make it not worth the effort.

I bought a used 3090 two years ago, and back then they were usually listed for €800-1000 in my country. I thought I was lucky to find one for €700 after searching for a few months, and I don’t think they’ve ever been cheaper than this here. There are definitely fewer of them available now, but you can still buy one for €950 (and possibly even lower if you’re patient). So prices have gone up, but IMO not by ridiculous amounts like RAM.

• Full Bore is IMO one of the most underrated games on Steam (10+ years old and only 78 reviews) if you like puzzle platformers.
• Baba is You if you like puzzles without platforming.
• Dropsy surrealistic point-and-click.
• SteamWorld Dig 2 metroidvania, and currently on sale.
• Ittle Dew Zelda-style adventure game… with puzzles.
• VVVVVV retro puzzle game, with platforms but no jumping.

I thought I had more varied taste in games but kind of realizing that there’s a pattern now that I’m writing down the ones I’ve enjoyed the most.

When shopping for a cheap 3d printer forget about brand loyalty, most of the common ones have released both a some decent and some garbage printers. That doesn’t mean they’re all the same though, some brands are worse than the rest. Since I started 3d printing I’ve been told to avoid Flashforge because they (allegedly) make printers that are designed to fail, and that they have altered common open designs to force you to buy their extremely overpriced spare parts instead of cheaper/better third party components.

Unfortunately I’ve been out of the 3d-printer-recommending loop for a few years but when I was more active Sovol had an above average track record. However, there is nothing saying that they won’t do the same thing as Creality, and drop any semblance of quality while bribing youtubers for good reviews once they are popular enough.

I’m not saying I think it’s going to be intentionally killed or taken down, my prediction is that everything is going to turn to garbage when bots are vastly outnumbering human users. And I think that unfortunately the only form of “captcha” that will be able to keep bots out at scale is some form of centrally issued human ID coupled with an unbroken cryptographic chain starting on hardware level. But I am of course talking only about larger public services, small invite-only private instances would definitely still be an option.

3. With AI becoming stronger and stronger, it’s just a matter of time before the part of the internet without OS-level attestation tied to government issued IDs is going to become completely unusable. At some not too distant point anyone with a Claude/ChatGPT/etc subscription will be able to instruct it with things like “Invent 20 different personalities and create accounts on different Lemmy instances for them. Write neutral comments for them for a few weeks, then gradually begin to subtlety promote X. Use your psychology skills etc. to manipulate other users to support X and coordinate the accounts to shut down anyone criticizing X. Always post in character and never reveal that you are an AI.” Then multiply that by a million people trying to push their ideas, products, politics, conspiracy theories, etc.

The large free search engines have really gone down the drain recently… Kagi (a paid search engine) also has a small web feature, but it’s really cool that you’re building something that isn’t profit driven. I’ll be sure to share your search engine with my friends!

If they are getting valid findings with high quality reports from AI tools already, why would they do that?

Sure, we’ll find workarounds

I’d phrase it as “we might occasionally find workarounds that kinda work sometimes”. I tried running de-Googled Android on my phone for a while, and the only reason I could use it for online banking, pay for public transport, contact health services, etc. was because some people had reverse-engineered Google’s services (i.e. microG). It also stopped working every now and then when something changed, and to my knowledge Google could also shut it down instantly if they started encrypting their APIs. I wouldn’t bet on there always being workarounds if this push to lock down operating systems and online services continues.

Someone else posted something interesting/alarming the other day… With AI becoming more advanced and also more accessible, it’s going to be increasingly difficult to keep spam, scams, etc. at bay. If the mainstream computing world ends up in this gilded cage trap, even if a minority choose to maintain and use forks that stay outside the system, it might be quite difficult to keep for example a forum functional.

And services can choose to only allow operating systems which don’t lie, have anti-tamper mechanisms, and authenticate themselves cryptographically. It has definitely been easy to spoof your identity in the past, but OP is talking about where we might be heading in the future. Since the laws about OS:es having to partially identify the user is so obviously useless in its current form, don’t you think the corporations and politicians who are pushing for it are going to keep expanding it when they get the opportunity?

Then he said Arch Linux should implement it anyway because the law requires it. archinstall PR #4290

Well, it’s not “the law”, it’s your local law. To most people on the planet, it doesn’t apply any more than for example North Korea’s laws. As far as I can find, Arch Linux is not owned by a foundation or similar legal entity (i.e. which could have been located in California), but the lead developer appears to live in Germany.

Have you tried Vivaldi? Co-founded by one of the Opera Software co-founders, so perhaps not a surprise that it feels a little bit like classic Opera. I liked it a lot, but I have since switched to Firefox because I want to support the non-Chromium options while they exist.

Now is a bad time to buy hard drives price-wise

It’s a bit of a gamble, isn’t it? At least here, HDDs appear to have gone up 10-20% compared to lowest prices last year, which isn’t that much compared to SSDs and RAM. Personally I bought new disks last week just in case the prices continue to rise and I don’t want to end up in a position where I have to buy new disks while they’re at an all time high.

You mean “spinning disk” metaphorically, right? Or is there any reason to not have it in low power standby mode? I don’t have any hot spare in my server, but on my desktop I use hdparm to spin down a rarely used storage drive just because it’s so loud.

When buying your first car, would you pay extra to get a worse car so you have to learn mechanics in addition to learning how to drive? :)

It’s definitely about finding the least bad printer if shopping the budget stuff, they all have issues as you say. Personally I think it’s best to buy the printer which is the least likely to have severe design and/or manufacturing flaws and focus on learning how to get good prints out of it. When you’re a complete beginner it’s difficult to know if your print turns out bad because you’re doing something wrong or if it’s caused by a hardware issue.

Creality made good printers in the beginning, i.e. original Ender and Ender Pro. They used high quality components and offered good value for money compared to what else what available at that time. However, when they had cornered a large part of the market and got known as the brand that made the best beginner printers, things started going downhill. They switched from Meanwell power supplies etc. to cheap noname components, quality control seemingly became non-existent, and they released several poorly designed overpriced printers (E.g. the E3v2 - my first printer - and everything with “max” in the name).

I think there’s a combination of different reasons for why there always have been so many people who believe that Creality make good printers:

1. People who have bought their Ender 3/Pro before 2020 actually have good printers, and give them honest praise on forums.
2. Fake reviews on the internet, which hype up the product since their only goal is for you to click their amazon affiliate link and buy it.
3. Creality paying content creators for positive reviews, including several well known and otherwise respected within the community.
4. Buyers who got lucky with the QC and don’t own any other printers to compare with, might think their printers are the best.
5. Buyers who are now happy with their Ender after having spent €100+ on “upgrades” and/or days of troubleshooting the printer. I’ve even seen a guy insist that an Ender is a better first printer than a cheaper more reliable alternative, because the 20 hours he spent on his Ender to get a decent print out of it gave him “an invaluable learning experience”.
6. And I’ve also seen people who haven’t yet bought any printer claim that Enders are the best beginner printers, just because they’ve read that statement so many times they’ve come to accept it as a fact, and now they’re “helping” others looking for a first printer by answering their questions.

I think my E3v2 is good now, but I’ve replaced the hotend, extruder and part cooling fans. I’ve added a second Z lead screw to fix gantry sag, and I found a manufacturing error where the X belt tensioner wasn’t straight because tightening the screw into the aluminium extrusion bent the plastic (difficult to find, but luckily easy to fix with a metal shim). I’ve replaced the firmware with Klipper, controlled by a Raspberry Pi. And I’ve probably spent at least 50 hours just trying to fix and improve the printer, which I didn’t mind btw, but I think most would prefer a printer which just works out of the box.

In retrospect, I wish I had joined some 3d printing discords and talked to experienced users before deciding on which printer to buy, and not relied so much on google, websites and random comments.

Might as well link to the original post on reddit, I don’t think Tom’s Hardware much value in their summary of it :)