Lemmy - “But muh palestine!”

How anyone took my reply to mean anything different than this is fucking wild on Lemmy. You seem to have understood, but holy crap. Look at how many people thought I was being disparaging…

Lawyers are NOTORIOUS for using wording to flip the meanings of things, and with the supreme court packed the way it is, this could easily be flipped on its head to discriminate against people.

change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.

I mean, has anyone ever thought that this could also be used in the reverse way?

I know everyone is like “yaaaay they’re doing something good!” - but every time I see this, I think to myself that someone – somewhere – is going to sue a doctor or therapist over allowing some kid to transition. Because technically, hormones are a ‘therapy’, to help ‘convert’ someone to the other gender.

The MOST anti-immigrant fucking people I know, are immigrants from India…

It’s so WILD to see the cognitive dissonance they display.

Well then you don’t own your home. With that argument, nobody does. Because the government has the ability to take your home from you, then you don’t own it.

Ownership has granularity to it. You’re failing to see the grey spaces in between, and only seeing black or white.

But, they could, anything could happen, and then you don’t have that library anymore. Physical is the only way to truly own.

That’s exactly my point. Steam has allowed me to OWN Half Life longer than I would have been able to with physical media. Those CDs don’t last that long. I’m not that careful.

So the balance is “own my own stuff and all the problems that come with keeping it pristine so that it continues to work, taking up space in my house” - or the infinitesimally small chance that STEAM goes belly up. Steam has allowed me to own my games for a lot longer than I could have kept them myself. So the argument of “oh they could go away!” doesn’t really hold any water for me. Especially for games with an online component (which is all of them now) – What’s the use of physical media when the game requires some servers that vanished long ago anyways?

It comes pretty close to feature parity in terms of ownership. My kids can play my steam library on their own computers, I can play it on any machine I own, I don’t have to pay them any kind of rental fee, and they maintain my software for me.

Only thing I can’t do is what…sell my games to someone else? I don’t do that anyways.

I mean, if you like horrible driver stability; sure. There’s a reason NVidia has like 75% of the market share, and it’s simply because they have a better product. Drivers are more stable, everyone develops for CUDA processing, lots of games only support DLSS for frame-gen, all of the GPU accelerated AI stuff is all NVidia centered, etc.

At $700 you could build a pretty decent PC that would last a lot longer (3060 12gb, Ryzen 5 5600, 16gb of DDR4), and build a steam library that you’ll have 20 years from now. I’ve had the same monitor, keyboard and mouse for an easy 10; controllers don’t last that long. They’re reaching a point where there’s less and less of an actual argument for owning one.

It’s called an advertisement. Why are you seeing them? Are you just over here rawdogging the internet without uBlock Origin?

For bowden there is a benefit.

There is not. I can empirically prove it to you as well. Half of the ‘capricorn’ tubing you get from Amazon isn’t even genuine - yet everyone there is clamoring on about how it made a difference.

Turns out, that confirmation bias and placebo effect share a lot of overlap. I get it, nobody wants to admit they’ve been bamboozled. But hey…stay critical of your observations.

You don’t really use pressure advance in bowden systems because the bowden system is flexible enough that it actually negates most of the advantages of pressure advance. As the pressure increases, the bowden tube itself stretches lengthwise. This has little or nothing to do with the interior bore of the PTFE tubing. The reason you are increasing it so much is because you’re overshooting due to the length of the tubing, not the internal diameter.

We’re not comparing Bowden vs Non-Bowden here, regardless. We’re comparing generic PTFE bowden, to “Capricorn” bowden anyhow.

So you’ve managed to argue the completely wrong thing to begin with, AND you were wrong on the thing you argued. Congrats.

Please continue to forget about that cancer site.

The tubing diameter difference is only fractions of a mm, and now you’re talking about a 100mm length along. You don’t need to measure it, it’s literally in the dimensions and tolerance info of the product.

This is either A: Simply too close to the bed, or B: Your nozzle is wallowed out due to printing glow in the dark filament or carbon fiber, so you’re printing a fatter bead of plastic than your slicer thinks you are.

This is the result of your nozzle tearing up the previously laid down plastic and folding it over as it follows the path.

Sorry but this is not even close.

The hysteresis that the tubing imparts on the movement of filament is negligible at best. We’re talking fractions of a millimeter of difference; and it’s something that can be accounted for in your retraction quite easily. Remember that this hobby is LITTERED with people trying to sell you stuff. Be critical in your observations, because even most YouTube channels will tell you that [X] thing is GREAT because if they don’t, they stop getting free shit.

Tighter fitting tubing is actually likely to cause you more issues. It’s a myth that capricorn tubing is better in any way. In a way, you want a somewhat loose fitting tubing; especially if you’re cheaping out on PLA.

So, say you’ve got a partial clog – The thing that usually happens is the feeder will skip/slip or tear into your filament. This causes the filament to go out of round, and can even push the sides of the filament out further than the tubing is wide. This causes the filament to then take more pressure to push through the tubing, adding to the already existing problem.

So maybe like some sort of list of computer instructions – which tells the computer to generate a map, and then tabulates the data and presents it to the user like…

If only we had a term for this…

Like algoism, or arithmos… something to do with calculation or something…

The thing is, you can force plastic through a smaller nozzle. But you end up with a problem called die-swell, where the filament then re-expands after exiting the nozzle. You’ll see this REALLY easily with silk filaments.