I think it's pretty likely that you've seen loads and never known they were different. The difference is small enough that you wouldn't realise it was significant until you were told:
Pozidriv is intentionally not backwards compatible, and one of the biggest problems it has is looking enough like Phillips that people assume it must be compatible, use a mismatched screw and driver, and strip a head.
CEOs are only replaceable because lots of people want to be CEOs. It's not unreasonable to think that something like this would make them less keen. People don't normally put themselves into situations where they'll be legally obligated to do things that might get them shot.
Cups can be a nightmare in the UK as it's usually US cups, but sometimes it's metric cups (which are just 250ml, so an entirely redundant measurement in the first place), and recipes rarely say which, and if you buy measuring cups, they'll rarely say which type they are, but more commonly be metric ones, despite those being the least likely that a recipe would use.
They have to defend their trademark. They don't have to defend copyright, and most of Nintendo's reputation comes from copyright claims. Someone streaming a let's play isn't selling a counterfeit Mario game, they're just showing you things in a real Mario game, so there's no trademark claim.
They're also big abusers of the fact that most of the people they make copyright claims against can't afford to defend themselves against such a behemoth. Even if you're sure you've not violated their copyright and your lawyer's sure, too, it'll be much cheaper to roll over than get the legal system to agree with you.
The instance admins and mods of some of the larger communities are self-described Marxist-Leninists, and sometimes delete comments and ban users who make comments and posts that they disagree with. Sometimes the removed comments are what most people, including most communists, would regard as basic statements of fact, like that Stalin wasn't perfect, that something bad happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, that Ukraine's Jewish president isn't a fan of the Nazis, or that Uighurs are not universally having a brilliant time.
There's a second issue that when openly Stalinist instances like Lemmygrad (who at least used to explicitly say membership was only open to users who thought Stalin was good in their instance description) were defederated by major instances like lemmy.world, lots of users made new accounts on lemmy.ml to post exactly the same tankie nonsense (typically along the lines of Russia is fighting a defensive war and hasn't hurt anyone but even if they weren't, they'd be justified in annexing the whole of Ukraine and killing anyone who objected) as had led to the defederation in the first place.
Sometimes this leads to people not from .ml to make snap judgements about comments and posts from .ml users, when really it's just a vocal minority of nutters posting the nonsense and trying to claim that any criticism they receive is just people being brainwashed by nutters in a more neoliberal/neoconservative direction like Reagan and Thatcher.
The intended use for this kind of product is that you hire a company to break into your company, and then tell you how they did it so that criminals (or, if you're someone like a defence contractor, foreign spies) can't do the same thing later. Sometimes they're also used by journalists to prove that the government or a company isn't taking necessary precautions or by hobbyists at events where everyone's aware that everyone else will try to break into their stuff. There's typically vetting of anyone buying non-hobbyist quantities of anything, and it's all equipment within theoretical reach of organised crime or state actors, so pentesters need to have access, too, or they can't reasonably assess the real-world threat that's posed.
If this is Cambridge in the UK, both times I reported a bike theft, they confidently told me that they recover and return most stolen bikes. They absolutely do not recover or return most stolen bikes. Bike theft is so rarely sorted out by the police in Cambridge that nearly no one bothers reporting it as everyone knows their bike is gone forever, even if they parked it in good view of a CCTV camera and the frame was engraved with contact details all over.
Canonically, this is the lightweight model meant for flatter ground, roads, and the insides of spaceship corridors, and it was deployed to a colony with paved roads and indoor corridors, so it had its adjustable suspension set to minimum ground clearance for better handling. Obviously, this was retrospective to explain away the exact point you're raising after they'd already made the prop and possibly released the film, but being a sci-fi vehicle, adjustable suspension, something that's available in cars you can buy today, would be something safe to assume it must have just from watching the film and noticing the lack of ground clearance.
I consider this an insult to one of my favourite Sci-fi vehicles. The one from Aliens looks much better, much more practical, and much more like something humans should try to build.
Surely PS1, or the Cybertruck could have had more polygons and the panels would line up because they didn't need their vertices rounding to integer pixel coordinates.
A small widget manufacturer attempting that would get bought out by a larger widget manufacturer because anti-trust laws are unenforced. A mid-size or large widget manufacturer would make more money by not doing that and instead forming a widget cartel with the other larger manufacturers because anti-cartel laws are unenforced.
That's reasonable, but the market's already flooded with generic controllers at various price points and degrees of quality. If the idea's to make money, the new design won't do brilliantly as things like the awkwardly-placed trackpads will increase manufacturing costs without being a killer feature that makes most people prefer to spend more on this particular controller. If the idea's to make something viable that hadn't been before (which is what Valve normally seem to go for), then this isn't serving the discontinued Steam Controller's niche as effectively as the original did, and isn't serving any new niche, either.
By the way, the thing they were trying at the same time as the original Steam Controller was the Steam Machine, not the Steam Box. It also kind of did work, as the couch PC gaming part mostly happened, but it took a decade of improvements to Proton and abandoning third-party hardware manufacturers before Linux-based console-like PCs became viable in the form of the Steam Deck. Ten years ago, nearly no games ran under Linux, and all the Steam Machine manufacturers were just changing the logo on one of their existing prebuilts and charging an extra $100 not to install Windows on it, so you were better off with any other desktop.
The trouble with that is that the Soviets had such a large arsenal that even if only a vanishingly small fraction of it still works, it's still ruining someone's day. An ICBM with a dodgy guidance system or leaky fuel tank still hits a populated area even if it misses a city. An H-bomb that misfires is still an A-bomb, and an A-bomb that misfires is still a dirty bomb. It's plausible that NATO could win a nuclear war against Russia without even firing back just from Russia embarrassing itself and giving an excuse for a conventional war they'd also lose, but that's a huge gamble that no one wants to make, especially when winning is still worse than the status quo.
For me, the Deck's trackpads are half way between my thumb knuckles with my hands in a comfortable position, so they're not nice to reach for, whereas everything's a comfortable distance away on the original Steam controller. I have big hands, so maybe you've got small hands?
I'm a big Steam Controller trackpad user, and I already nearly never use my Deck trackpads because they're too low down. This new one just looks like a normal controller with extra bulk, and nonsense in the area no controller except the N64 used because it's not where most people grow fingers. I guess it'll at least have paddles, but they're hardly a unique feature these days. I really just wanted the existing one again, but with more paddles, an option for an integrated battery, USB-C instead of micro B, and an official supply of replacement thumbsticks instead of having to bodge in 8bitdo ones that aren't quite the same shape.
Sometimes people write their reasons for doing things down and other people read them and they don't need to read anyone's mind to know why they said they did something.
I think the main draw of a moving vat is that you can tilt it during the film-part separation, so it concentrates the peel force in a line that passes over the part instead of having it spread over the whole thing and needing more force which could warp the part or stretch the film. That should mean you can get away with replacing the film less often. If the film isn't replaced often enough, it can make the print quality worse, or tear and leak resin into the printer where all the LEDs are, which will kill the printer.
I think all Elegoo's machines have at least some Chitu guts, and Chitu-free machines tend to make that their main selling point (and also cost a chunk more than equivalent Chitu-based ones).
If you really want entry-level, the Geeetech Alkaid is regularly on sale for $99 and I've had one for a couple of years and it's fine. I'm not aware of anything it's missing versus more expensive entry-level SLA printers, but no one seems to be aware it exists. Nearly all the problems seem to be because it's full of Chitu hardware and runs Chitu firmware, but that's true of nearly everything cheapish.
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I think it's pretty likely that you've seen loads and never known they were different. The difference is small enough that you wouldn't realise it was significant until you were told: