It in fact would, because there would be no incentive to keep it like it is - it would never have been made so bad if it was a democratic decision.

Facebook and Co. is bad today because there’s a conflict of interest between users and shareholders, and Zuckerberg chose the shareholders cause they line his pockets. This conflict would not exist if it was democratic.

deeply antisocial

It doesn’t really have to be. The problem is that the profits that comes from that machine are not spread among the working people - that would be the social way to implement it.

Someone on Twitter is saying that the username for the fridges was “admin” and that the password was the current date… Prime security in effect here, clearly /s

I think you’re conflating consciousness and intelligence. I think you could theoretically have an artificial general intelligence on the same level of intelligence as a human, or even beyond, but with zero consciousness. We know that intelligence does not follow consciousness (unless you believe a fish or a cow is not conscious). Why should consciousness follow intelligence?

You should start a community for those games. Or contribute to an existing one. Be the change

That’s a fair point. Obviously we don’t really get earthquakes in Denmark.

The article says this uses only 30% of the concrete you’d otherwise use. Presumably prefab would use more.

In Denmark it’s usually bricks (very common and traditional) or other stone like materials or concrete. Never understood why there is this difference across the world in how houses are usually built, but wood seems a very… Temporary material for something like a house? I’ve lived in buildings from the 1910s, I can’t imagine anything made of wood lasting that long.

What do you mean switching? Think this is more about using less concrete than stopping to use it entirely. That also helps, but yea it’s a problem.

Not sure about speed but I imagine it could be pretty speedy, if for no other reason than the fact that it can run with much fewer workers and probably also running during the night. I mean even if it was half as slow as manual labour, if it ran for 24 hours, it would still be faster overall.

But another point is that it uses much less material, 70% less according to the article. I suppose that helps with costs and CO2 emissions.

How much did it cost to get all the parts?

Scenarios in gambling are rarely “purely random”. I.e. the likelyhood of winning in poker depends on what you already got dealt and what other cards got dealt and so on. What does “purely random” even mean? Like a lottery with equal chance of winning for all participants? Yea that’s gambling but just one kind of gambling.

Sure, but the point of this post is to highlight Bambu’s anticonsumer practices.

I’ve been considering what printer to buy for a while now, but I sure as hell know it won’t be a Bambu.

Which model are you using? My experience is that it can definitely do “standard boilerplate”. What programming language are you using?

It’s clearly a controversial thing to say on the fediverse, but everyone must realize that AI is another tool - a sometimes faulty, sometimes great tool. A professional can use it well, a careless person can use it carelessly. But it is a tool that can help in certain cases. It’s a nuanced thing, which many people unfortunately have trouble accepting. It has flaws, yes. It also has benefits. This shouldn’t be controversial to say.

That of course doesn’t guarantee that providing that tool must be profitable. It may well be that providing AI models is just too expensive to actually make sense, at least as it is right now.

I applaud you for that, but it sounds like you’re admitting that Prusa is overpriced and that you can get equally good printers for cheaper elsewhere - is that correct or do you think otherwise?

I really couldn’t care less about speed 😅. Dunno why so many printers advertise speed as a main selling point, I’d always choose high quality and reliable prints rather than speed. I guess it’s important if you’re running a printer farm or whatever, but I’m just looking to get the one printer.

From what I can read, Voron is more like the printer itself becomes the hobby, rather than actually printing stuff. I’m not really interested in tinkering with the printer itself, I just want it to work.

Snapmaker U1 looks really good, but then again it is another Chinese brand in the sea of other chinese brands. But multi-color printing included in the price… It’s a really good deal.

FreeCAD unfortunately seems to be suffering from “open source hell UX”. I just tried installing it and the UI is glitching with black sections when I move my mouse. I can’t even get to the point of using this software. Unfortunately, FreeCAD is clearly not ready for serious wide-spread usage.