I used to work on the website for a utility company that insisted on ridiculous uptime. Our major deployments risked taking the system down for a few seconds, though in practice that never happened.

As a result, they made us do deployments starting at 3:00 in the morning since that was the least active time on the site. Fuuuuuuuuck that place.

My brother is an air traffic controller at one of the world’s busiest international airports and I can assure your their system uptime is no where close to 3 9s.

I was looking for a source for the quote, so I appreciate you.

Sounds like he doesn’t really regret getting involved in politics at all based on his follow up answers. Probably just regrets that he alienated the people most likely to buy his cars.

The video specifically calls out Creality from a few years ago - and also the Bambu stuff recently.

I thought he made some interesting points about how ultimately this type of legislation is just encouraging 3D printer manufacturers to just abandon open source, something they’ve been trying to do for years.

Everything that guy just said is bullshit… Thank you.

The back-fire effect explains why so many people love to watch Fox News, even when they’ve admitted in court that they’re not news and no rational person would take them seriously. Reinforcing beliefs through propaganda is comforting - and no amount logic or fact checking is going to change it.

… yeah we’re basically fucked as a species.

Solar can’t be owned by people and not be completely controlled by a huge company.

Think you accidentally added an extra 't

Yeah I got my first printer something like 5 years ago and it was much more tinkering than the average person would probably want to put up with.

I bought a more modern printer recently and it’s a night and day difference. For the most part, you can just tell it to print something with substantially less manual intervention.

Nice! I’ve got no metal or woodworking skills, but I do have a 3d printer. I’ve been doing these types of repairs lately and it’s just soooo damn satisfying. I replaced some broken pieces of a shoe rack the other day and felt like a god among men.

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Lol dammit, I just realized I did the same thing with The Expanse. And I also read the first book but not the others. And I did the same thing with the video game too!

I think it’s something I want to enjoy, but wasn’t enjoying as much as I felt I should be.

Instead of inching your way into the cold water until the testicles crawl up and you finally give up, you’re much better off if you just put the top of your head into the water first.

Which head are you talking about here?

I was gonna say, when I was growing up my dad pirated that game for me and my brother by downloading it from a BBS. We thought it was just called “UFO Enemy Unknown”. Then later XCOM 2 came out and we were like “wtf is an XCOM”?

Game’s still dope as hell btw.

Huh weird. I’ve got an account on .world and if I use that with Sync, posts don’t show get marked as read for me. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.

Really? Do posts show as read for you? Maybe Lemmy.world is still running an old version of Lemmy. Once sh.itjust.works patched to a new version 8 or 9 months ago, Sync became completely unusable for me.

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Not gonna lie, it brought a smile to my face when you were sitting in your house on a cool spring day, reading a somewhat plausible but lengthy story about a captivating subject. Then you got a slight suspicion that this story almost seemed too good. Too perfect for the situation. How could this random person on the Internet have such a great story about being a snake charmer, a stunt pilot, or whatever. Then it hits you just like when back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

I’ve been on sh.itjust.works for the last couple of years. The admins are cool as hell. Highly recommend.