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I think your math is off given that just a typical US consumer full sized refrigerator can use ~650 kWh/year and still be considered Energy Star qualified.

No shit. All they have to do is finally grow the balls to build SSD's in the same form factor as the 3.5" drives everyone in enterprise is already using, and stuff those to the gills with flash chips.

"But that will cannibalize our artificially price inflated/capacity restricted M.2 sales if consumers get their hands on them!!!"

Yep, it sure will. I'll take ten, please.

Something like that could easily fill the oodles of existing bays that are currently filled with mechanical drives, both in the home user/small scale enthusiast side and existing rackmount stuff. But that'd be too easy.

Damn it, Pirate Bay. Again?

Amazon boycott March 7th through forever. There's no need to give them an end date. Our action is completely toothless when we literally spell out for them exactly when we'll come crawling back start giving them money again.

In a way, we brought this on ourselves by tolerating scalpers. Gamers made it known that they'll go hysterical and pay any price to have it now. If enough of us don't do that, scalping video cards won't be a lucrative business and the fuckers will be forced to give up. I guarantee you the reason the stock is disappearing so fast is because resellers have their fucking bots set up to spam all the retailer web sites, and the rest is people trying to compete with them.

What a rat race. Fuck the entire thing.

We have it better than we've ever had it at any point in the past, also: Broad PCI-E backwards compatibility means you can stick your old card in your new board and tough it out for a few months until the fervor dies down and/or the scalpers lose their shirts sitting on their inventory.

I've driven through Snoqualmie Pass in the snow. Much of Wyoming, also. Yeah, midwesterners have no concept. They just think they do.

Yeah, and all the morons from the Midwest stick their thumbs in their belt loops and insist that they really know how to drive in the snow, don'cha know, not like you coastal people.

And yet there isn't a single guardrail anywhere in Minnesota that hasn't got a Chevy Suburban shoved halfway through it.

What your picture is showing is not stringing, it appears to be an utter failure of layer adhesion. That indicates to me you are printing too cold or, more likely, too fast for PETG. What you're grinding against is most likely layers of the print that have not adhered to the layers below.

Try slowing it down and do a test print. See if anything improves.

Hey, I watched a movie about this once!

I imagine it's a lot more for their donors than their constituents.

Good on you.

In the wallet is the only viable place in which most folks can strike these bozos.

All of these organized boycotts should explicitly be indefinite until the behavior of the company in question improves. Then, not only is there no time frame for them to plan to weather out, but they also know you're taking your business to their competitors instead.

I'm already there. Amazon screwed me over on a rather expensive purchase about a month ago and I'm done with them. They "lost" my package (by their own admission) and still haven't found it, but are steadfastly refusing to refund me until the item makes it back to their warehouse.

Given that I'm positive one of their delivery contractor people stole it, I know for a fact this will never actually happen. It's been 34 days so far... So I just charged back my credit card.

The model uses "advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities"...

Well, LLM's are incapable of actually doing the first two, so we're already off to a great start.

I don't think it's much in the way of hyperbole to say that if they make this the default or worse, only search output option then this will be the thing that literally destroys the company.

No one except idiotic boardroom denizens actually wants this. Google failing to provide actual search results is the singular one and only thing that could actually get users to switch away from using it -- and not do that thing where they just grumble and bitch and moan but keep using it anyway. And if no one is searching on Google then nobody is seeing ads on Google, which means Google will not be selling ads.

I will laugh so hard if this happens.

I got my ass handed to me by Castle of the Winds when I was a kid. And that doofy-ass default barbarian sprite...

We always called that one Castle Of The Windows, since the entire game engine is constructed of 32x32 pixel Windows icons.

I was always struck by the similarity to the blue robot on that table to Cyborg from Rise of the Robots and I wonder if there was some cross-pollination there.

Only if you can keep it working for ten consecutive minutes. I went through three of them under warranty until my warranty expired, then Epson told me to fuck off.

If have a Canon color laser now. If that conks out and everything on the market by then is locked out shit I'll just convert my 3D printer to a plotter, or maybe go back to clay tablets.

You can format a flash drive with whatever the hell file system you want. Just, don't expect anything formatted exFAT to work in any dedicated device made before 2019, nor even the majority of them made afterwards.

The ones who need to get their shit together are the manufacturers of printers, media players, car head units, set top boxes, game consoles, and all the other things into which you might want to insert a flash drive (or memory card) that is not a full-blown PC.

Yeah. Just prepare for dust. Wear a mask, open a window...

I don't think anyone is suggesting you take a hose to your indoor units. How on Earth you would contain the splashback is anyone's guess.

Use your hose on the outdoor unit. I use compressed air on the indoor ones, like OP. You can buy the cleaning foam stuff, too. Probably from whoever made your split system, in fact. I've never found it to be necessary, though.

Random hardware trivia, absorbed while managing a hardware store decades ago:

This type of object is called a "well nut." I'll leave it to you to come up with your own pun based on this.