It’s not just that it works differently for different people, it even works differently depending on your ethnicity and the ethnicity of who you’re looking at. It’s really weird.

As well as Apple products. and Microsoft Windows devices. The whole tech industry gets shittier and people merely adjust their expectations.

People are not buying rationally either, especially not when they’re literally bombarded with manipulation attempts (ads, product placements, influencer marketing etc.). Something BambuLab does relentlessly.

Their printers just work.

So do machines like Snapmaker (U1) and especially Prusa, but without the amount of involuntary butt stuff.

And it’s not even true, the amount of issues with Bambu are piling up. A1 even manage to melt themselves recently, print failures with the print head becoming a plastic blob, the whole shebang. It’s the same with Apple indeed, as in people being ignorant in regards to all their issues because of the whole lifestyle feeling the marketing team managed to create.

Uugh, why do I see this at 3 in the morning. Good thing there’s Termux.

Security is the first thing that comes to mind. Compartmentalization prevents or at least makes it considerably harder for compromised services to screw up all the others.

Another thing would be that it might be easier to manage backups and snapshots.

Beautiful indeed, not a meme though.

Some brands offer dedicated PP print plates. I think Prusa has one.

Buy stupid “cars”, win stupid prices.

Yeetus deletus

It’s ironic though since this is indeed a self-reinforcing cycle as well. The easier it is to get guns for the public the more the police is being armed, and at the end of the day it’s the state who’d win this arms race. The kind of “moral collapse” (not sure if the term is correct) necessary to overthrow an oppressive government can’t be gained with bullets, those merely reinforce whatever state your society currently is in or moves towards. I totally understand that you feel e.g. enabled, stronger, more independent etc. when holding a firearm, especially backed by US gun culture. Unfortunately the main thing firearms and the idea of them being a solution to something creates is pointless violence, which the US suffers greatly from for… well, forever.

now it’s a lot harder to fight back since dems took tge guns…

And other nonsense only a US citizen could utter.

Strong recommendation to only print things like these out of PHA, as it is the only filament (I know of) our body can deal with if digested. There’ll always be a small amount of microplastics shedding off.

Since it’s an immoral monopoly it’s up to you to decide if it’s perfectly morally justifiable to just sail the high seas for this.

I think there were other (DRM-free) Indie publishing platforms though… not sure how much they have to offer though.

Great, real dystopian nightmares beyond my comprehension.

It’s the classic relativism bullshit fascists, conservatives and emotionally compromised people always concoct to justify not having to think about the consequences of their actions and allegiances.

Not to mention the utter insanity of implying a lack of content that’s repostable in 2026.

If Stonetoss is what comes out of that decision perhaps it’s better for you to keep lurking.

I read the comic, I read the comments, and all I can think is “what the fuck is wrong with humans”.

One more thing I should’ve mentioned: It’s important to make a (free) account if you try it. Although they still offer a chat interface without it, that interface is then connected to one of their very small models and lacks the “Thinking” feature (same as ChatGPT’s “Reflection”). Not very useful in most cases and more of an appetizer.

Certainly interesting. I’d recommend you to take a look at Mistral AI (“Le Chat”), they’re a European company and far more trustworthy in terms of data security and privacy (GDPR and such) than US products. Their models are all available for self-hosting which might provide more flexibility in the future in terms of self-hosting and their web service doesn’t try to aggressively extract every data point from you (although you perhaps circumvent that with the proxy anyway). In my personal experience it’s also more likely than e.g. ChatGPT to admit when it doesn’t know something (or ask for specific data it needs) instead of making shit up, but I don’t have definitive data for that claim.

Of course I don’t know how well it works in Japanese or from Japan, if you try let me know! 🙂

Damn, that’s indeed a really cool solution. I’ll look into this, thanks!