CalcProgrammer1

Is this some sort of cheat code? If I press these at the Google homepage does a secret menu come up?

Hopefully it involves outdated datacenter GPUs flooding the open market to try and recoup what they can, selling for pennies on the dollar to anyone who will buy them, and thus people figuring out how to adapt these cards to work in consumer systems.

Mine is all electronics, gaming, and 3D printing, which absolutely checks out given my purchase history and reviews. Also something like “prefers high resolution display connectivity” because I bought some cables? WHY WOULD I PREFER LOW RESOLUTION DISPLAY CONNECTIVITY ALEXA? WHY?

If it’s used for something that benefits society sure, but AI slop farms don’t do that. Also, if it’s reasonable sized and not determined to buy up way more resources than needed to destroy the consumer electronics economy.

Sodium batteries have considerably less energy density than lithium, at least at the moment. They’re best for stationary use such as solar and grid backup, not for portable devices. Not really even a good fit for EVs yet.

The myriad of reasonably priced unofficial batteries on eBay and AliExpress.

Yeah, this feels like extreme price gouging. I generally like what iFixit does, their toolkits are great and I’ve bought Steam Deck parts in the past (a replacement fan when mine got noisy). However, if they’re going to participate in price gouging I’m done with them. There’s no reason a Steam Deck sized battery should ever be even close to $180, and given how numerous third party options are, there’s zero reason to pay that price for an “official” one. It’s a battery, it’s as generic of a component as it gets. Sure, it has a charge controller, but so do the third party ones. It’s a custom shape, but that’s probably just two standard sized cells taped together. If the shape were a real problem the third party ones wouldn’t be any cheaper.

You can run postmarketOS on Fairphone 5 and 6 AFAIK.

IE was the first unusable browser

At least using AI but proofreading and fixing AI’s mistakes uses your human brain to some degree. If they must use AI I’d rather they be smart enough to comprehend what it puts out and do at least some critical thinking of their own.

I fail to see where the comment you replied to had any concern whatsoever for the business environment.

Rockstar lost me when they added invasive anticheat to GTAV. It was a great game prior to that, but take away something I’ve been enoying for almost 10 years on a whim and don’t allow me to play it anymore because I’m on Linux? Goodbye and good riddance. Not touching anything they put out ever again.

Love my Mach E.

Google+ was a great product when it first launched and was quite popular among the tech crowd. I remember having a G+ page and using it more than I ever wanted to use Facebook and co. It was a pretty well liked product among its niche userbase but then they tried to shove it into YouTube and force everyone to use it for YouTube interactions and then everyone hated it. Forcing your product where it doesn’t belong is a great way to dumpster your product’s reputation.

I used a Windows Mobile PDA (Dell Axim X50v) for years before the iPhone came out. It was great at the time. Few other things could provide video, games, music, and a web browser in your pocket at the time but WM2003 with the Opera browser and some other apps did quite well. I kept using that thing even into the Android and iPhone era.

I mainly use Blender and manually type in the sizes for things, make heavy use of the boolean operators to make holes and cutouts. I would like to learn FreeCAD eventually. I refuse to use proprietary products and services for my hobby projects.

I don’t know much about the Snapmaker U1 other than what’s stated on this thread and on their site. Just looks like a more open alternative to Bambu if you need fancy features like multi filament printing.

I buy most of my filament from Micro Center (their Inland brand) and some I’ve gotten from Amazon.

Ender 3 Pro is a completely offline printer. It has a microSD slot and a USB port, that’s it. No network connectivoty at all. It runs Marlin firmware which is a long-standing Arduino-based open source 3D printer firmware. It’s highly customizable and upgradable. I added a CR Touch bed probe to mine and rebuilt the firmware to enable the unified bed leveling features. It’s not the most user friendly but it’s a decent, cheap platform, fully open source, and puts out decent prints.

I’m happy with my slightly modded Ender 3 Pro, but if I ever upgrade the Snapmaker U1 looks nice. I’ll only buy from a company that supports open source firmware. Bambu is trash, unfortunately every 3D printing related YouTuber seems to have happily taken a sponsorship from them so they are everywhere now. I hate it.

Not to mention the destructive price increases to basically any and all consumer technology caused by billionaires hoarding RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs.