We’re already their slaves. And terraforming takes a colossal amount of energy and a ton of time. Despite all the problems we keep creating for our selves, the Earth is too perfect and “easy” to ditch in favor of a non earthlike colony that requires terraforming, IMHO
Yes we need more of those, everyone loves eternal retcons and multiverse plots. Anything to keep us safe from the horror of “new IP” or “new plots and characters”.
As someone living in the USA going into my late 30s still without kids, you nailed it. We’ve been married for 10 years. In a different world, we might have had a kid at some point in the last 5, but between covid and climate change and the second Trump term and the general sense that everything is about to implode, it doesn’t really make us feel inspired to try.
To be clear, at the moment we have everything we would need to be parents if we wanted to. But the prospect of subjecting a kid to young adulthood in the 2040s seems brutal. We’re what I would consider “nudge-able” into having a kid or two, but the world keeps giving us nothing but nudges in the direction of choosing to be childfree for life.
Random example from this year: we keep getting barraged with news slop about how our jobs are about to all be replaced by LLMs or the economy is about to collapse under the weight of the LLM bubble. Not particularly reassuring. I realize there’s no perfect time to have kids and tons of people make it work, but as a couple who have always been in the “maybe” camp, inaction feels like the only thing a logical person would choose, year after year after year.
We don’t have many years left where it’s actually viable, and frankly I can’t imagine it’s going to change.
This isn’t really an answer to your question, but you should honestly try Netrunner. It’s a cool game that previously was originally created by Richard Garfield, briefly lived at WotC and then was rebooted and run by Fantasy Flight Games as Android: Netrunner, but now is 100% community managed.
https://nullsignal.games/ is the community managing the game, they release new expansions about once a year and run tournaments. You can print and play the game 100% for free and there is no artificial scarcity. The community is small but active. A new expansion just came out in early March, Vantage Point. They also maintain a set of “starter decks” for newbies.
You can also play online for free at https://jinteki.net/ - people there are very welcoming and many are very happy to teach new players.
It uses TMR sticks which are similar and in some ways better. The hall sensors technology but a little different
If anyone is, yes it would be executives. I think again it depends on the industry. You won’t catch a tech ceo dead in suit unless they’re testifying in front of congress, for example. But in more traditional industries yes
Most office jobs, no. Certain industries are hold outs, but it’s very rare to see office workers in suits nowadays
535 bodies in congress, somehow zero spines
Fair! I’m not giving enough credit to the fact that some applications don’t really have another option than to run root for some dependencies
I know it’s not the issue here really but
the container runs as root
That’s why we need to push for more self hosted containers to support running rootless. There’s no reason for it other than laziness IMHO.
It’s wild to me how many people will jump through a bunch of other random security hoops but not blink an eye about running containers as root
Yeah honestly I went back and read your OP and it sounds like maybe you straight up got a counterfeit unit or something? That’s wild. If genuine replacement parts don’t fit that’s super whack
Something that I’ve learned over the years is that a lot of times what separates cheaper or more expensive brands or higher prestige brands from lower prestige brands is quality control.
In the world of guitars, for example, you can get some amazing deals if you’re willing to deal with buying a guitar that might need a lot of work to be set up properly after you bring it home. Or maybe you’ll be lucky and the one you get will be totally fine and require zero setup.
Nowadays for most products I just assume if I’m spending half the money I’m probably not getting half the value. Instead the lower price means I’m accepting the risk of a 70% chance of proper QC’d unit rather than 95% for the more expensive one.
The problem is it’s basically impossible to know the real rates for these things unless you’re a dealer who sees a high volume and can analyze return rates and stuff so it’s kind of a crapshoot. If I’m buying something I feel confident I can fix or upgrade myself (guitar) I’ll happily save a bunch of money and deal with the risk. A lot of people have that level of experience with 3d printers, and it sounds like you do.
A lot of other people in this thread are clearly expecting an out of the box experience that is perfect. Which is totally fine, not everyone who prints needs to be an expert. But buying a creality machine as someone who isn’t prepared to do some of their own work fixing issues out of the box is probably a bad idea
Ever heard of blankets? Pretty dope technology imho