It was my favorite too. It was my first high-end GPU, got it shortly after the TI released I believe (I got the non-TI version), it kept doing what I needed it to until the end of last year when I replaced it with a 9070XT. The 1080 now lives mostly unused in my home media server.

but if the laws are anything like Massachusetts

Californian here. They’re not. Lol. I mean you can do a private party sale and the guy is welcome to store the rifle in his trunk on his way to the meet, but all firearm sales or transfers have to be done at an FFL (basically a registered gun store) and require a 10 day waiting period, meaning you’d meet with the person at the store, do a shit ton of paperwork, pay a fee to the FFL and the DOJ, go home without the gun. Then come back 10 days (specifically 240 hours) later to meet up again, do some more paperwork, pay the person, and you’re now the proud owner of a gun that cost you 15-25% more and infinitely longer to acquire than if you lived 200 miles to the East.

Thankfully, making guns so much more expensive and tedious to acquire than damn near everywhere else in the country has rendered it physically impossible for criminals to steal guns or otherwise obtain them illegally. Now, if someone goes on a killing spree in a shopping mall, they may face legal repressions if the paperwork doesn’t come back clean.

I’d say no. Small production scale, highly niche target audience, moderately-to-significantly higher than average pricing for Steam/ Valve hardware has pretty much always been their thing.

Basically, Steam / Valve hardware (and the company in general) have a strong “for gamers, by gamers” reputation. One of their methods of maintaining that reputation is by incorporating, for lack of a better term, “premium quirks” into their things (Steam Link was relatively novel at its release (and kinda sucked), the OG Steam controller with the dual touchpads and gyroscope, finger tracking and grip strength monitoring on the Valve Index controllers). They know that the Average Joe gamer will probably just pick up a Quest headset or an Xbox controller, so rather than try to fight for market share that has a built-in customer base (for example, most people that already own a console will just use the controller they already have rather than buy a new one for their PC), they maintain their “gamers first” reputation by offering a more niche, “premium” option.

Edit: Also, I’ve never not seen the Deck being touted as a massive success. Like you said, even at higher than normal prices people will buy them. It would be silly for them not to keep that money printer going, they don’t even necessarily need to increase production, people will practically buy them at whatever speed they come off the line.

Not entirely sure everyone will get it. But I found the joke entertaining.

Use your small printer to build a slightly larger printer, and then use that printer to build a slightly even larger printer. Then print this

Your argument would hold more water if organized religions encouraged people to say things like “oh my God”. Saying those phrases or otherwise taking the Lord’s name in vain is generally frowned upon, at least in most western religions (no idea if this taboo exists for, say, Hinduism).

You’re right in saying we don’t think about it when using it in everyday language. Similarly, most westerners aren’t thinking they’re celebrating the birth of Jesus when they are doing their Christmas shopping; obviously the holiday is inherently religious, but the only groups that generally view it as strictly a Christian holiday are devout followers of another faith that forbids them from celebrating, and obnoxious atheists.

When you encourage people to stop saying “oh my God”, you aren’t sticking it to organized religion in any way; you’re literally policing people to do the same thing they want them to do.

when atheists proselytize it’s because organized religion is harmful and they’re trying to limit/remove its power

That’s what they always claim, but 9 outta 10 times I see an atheist on this website it’s because someone said “oh God, that’s crazy” and they had to reply with “🤓😏 more like oh Flying Spaghetti Monster that’s crazy. Haha! Get it? Cuz God doesn’t exist!!?”

Oh, yeah I never would have got that. Lmao. Thanks

My egg is cooked trying to figure it out

Their life was so preoccupied with whether it could find a way, it didn’t stop to think of it should find a way.

You’re probably going to get your post removed / banned, this community isn’t meant for support questions. Check the sidebar

The biggest fault was walt being built up to be a good guy. He’s the main character, but he’s definitely not a “good guy”. That’s kinda the whole point of the show. Most people who walk away thinking walt was a badass have a relatively immature take on the story.

Someone already made like 5 posts about this a week or two ago. It’s really not that odd a story.

Much more chill than I did when I was under the impression that I had a grand scheme laid out for me.

There’s a metal song by Parkway Drive called “Horizons”. I’m sure the “actual” or intended meaning is different than my takeaway, but my interpretation of its message is that it’s unhealthy or detrimental to believe that life has a meaning, that you’re meant to leave this huge lasting impression (“masochistic / to think this would be remembered / sadistic / perpetuation of stagnation” “the marks I’ve left upon this world / will wash away in time”)

The lyrics can sound pessimistic or depressing, but as with a lot of metal the tone and melody help set the mood. The song begins sad sounding, but ends with a sound of more blissful acceptance.

Tl;dr: worrying about what your purpose is in life will only help to assure you live a less meaningful life than we are already all destined to live.

I suppose if you’ve somehow come to the conclusion that testing things does not provide useful information (how do you suppose the people you are asking your question to have come to their conclusions?), I won’t try to persuade you otherwise. I’ll continue screwing around with no understanding of what I’m doing, I guess.

I’m sorry, maybe I’m not phrasing this correctly…

Just because one print works doesn’t mean it will work on every print.

I never said, “test on one print”. I said to test it. Test it on an object with many color changes, test it on a model with a ton of one color and only a small amount of another, test it with different infill percentages, test it on a prototype of something that’s going to be really important so you know how it will work in the end.

Everybody is going to have their own specific answer as to what works well and what is and isn’t necessary, the only way to find the right answer for you is to test things and figure it out yourself. The only way to get things 100% right 100% of the time is leave it how it is now and stop messing with it. Anything beyond that is going to vary on a case by case basis, and you’ll only understand what settings to change when, if you toy around with test prints.

I have been printing for many years. I understand that, “what works on one won’t always work on another”. Which is why I find it odd that you seem to be looking for an answer that works for one person, and therefore must work for every person, for every print. The only one-size-fits-all is going to be the most wasteful in material and time (purge tower and purging filament). If you want to cut back on what the manufacturer/ slicer devs are saying “this will most likely work”, you’re going to have to do some experimenting yourself.

A decent amount, yeah. Depends on how busy we are. I was home for like 7 collective days in January, but I was only gone for like 4 days out of April. Before this job I’d only been to neighboring states on the west coast but I’ve been to Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania.

That’s why I suggested testing it and seeing the results for yourself, not necessarily “turn it off and yolo”.

If you know firsthand what the outcome of changing the settings is, you can make a decision on your own based on your own experience when to use what settings.

Ironically, it might not be a terrible idea to have another AI agent sort through all the generated reports, find the ones that are about the same thing, and condense them into a single report with the details of each one.

I install, service, and repair industrial equipment. I enjoy the problem solving, mechanical and electric aspects of it, and some of the places I travel to are pretty cool. It’s a very niche field though, so I hate when something odd is happening and nobody has any clue what’s going on. I’m also a skinny guy so when I’ve got to do heavy lifting I feel my body deteriorating.