dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world

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That's not the point. When you respond to reviews like this the goal is to point out to everyone else who might be reading it that the reviewer is in fact a nut, and therefore their opinion should be discarded out of hand.

Probably. I have no experience with the Google Play Store end of things, but we've gotten non-reviews written by crackpots removed from our Google Business profile by just pointing out to Google that they were either off topic or from someone who we could not identify in any of our records as being a person who actually did business with us.

For example, there was one guy who went around copy-pasting the same one star rant to seemingly every retail business in the city whining about mask requirements during COVID, which didn't have jack monkey squat do to with us and was in fact a state government mandate that we did not control. As a public business we have to comply with the law. Google took that one down when we reported it, although I still see examples of the same screed from the same guy attached to other businesses who apparently didn't have the wherewithal to complain.

I imagine "app that serves third party content the author doesn't control and reviewer is complaining about the content not the app" is a situation that is very well understood at Google. Whether or not you can make them give a shit is a different question...

Yeah, but you could also kit build a similarly capable printer if you're willing to go that far, and at that rate you may as well give Anycubic the finger in the process and not provide them with any of your money...

The problem is that their newly sold machines will come with this bullshit preinstalled, so eventually I'm sure your setup will stop being a supported configuration and you'll have to rely entirely on third party tools to feed your printer if you don't already.

Eh. I'm sure they'll continue to pay enough influencers to gush about their products all the time to keep sales running strong well into the foreseeable future.

Remember that a significant population of people deliberately buy Apple products, among other firmly closed, enshittified, and user-hostile products/systems. The majority of consumers are sadly not educated enough to care and their money is still indeed green.

Isn't Mint a fork of Ubuntu anyway?

Either way it's what I'm running on my Thinkpad and it's been fine for me.

Hey Google.

I still can't create folders in the Android Gmail app. But somehow you had time for this?

That's kinda-sorta the goal of the RepRap project, yes, but some ancillary parts are still required like motors and control boards and heater blocks and such.

The company pays for it. Not my dime. The expense doesn't seem onerous and is just to name one example probably a small fraction of what we spend on pens in a year.

And we get everything of that ilk from one vendor with one bill. It's all managed in one place. The renewals all happen at the same time. They like that.

Edit: It's hilarious y'all are acting like you're salty with me like this is my decision. I do what my boss tells me to do. Certainly there are better options for a lot of our business practices but at the end of the day if my recommendations are shot down it's not my call. I hold the passwords and the keys, I do not hold the purse strings.

Yes.

I just had to log in and check. We pay $49.99 per year for our SSL cert. (Edit: Certs. We actually have two domains.) Do they do surge pricing or something...?

Pfft.

I used to run a hardware store. We saw people assembling parts to build zip guns, potato cannons, pipe bombs, bongs, and other similarly related naughty projects all the time. You want to know what I did about it? I told them to let me know how it turned out.

Some boob from the ATF actually came by and tried to grill me real hard about ammonium nitrate at one point shortly after 9/11, and I had to tell him the same thing over and over again phrased many different ways until he finally got it, which was that we don't sell any fertilizer other than prepackaged blended consumer products, i.e. we did not sell any pure nitrates to anyone because we could not, because we didn't bother to carry them. End of discussion.

There was still plenty of crap available on my shelves to make a quite competent bomb if you knew what you were doing. But I didn't go into detail and I sure as shit wasn't going to go around teaching anyone.

Oi. You got a permit to tumble that aluminum foil?

We'd better go the full mile. Here's my list of things to be banned, For Our Safety^TM:

• 3/4" and 1" galvanized steel pipe and endcaps
• Cases of matches
• Acetone
• Stump killer
• Milling machines
• Lathes
• Drill presses
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Salt, Sodium Chloride
• Stainless steel bolts
• Benchtop power supplies
• Sulfur
• Carbon
• Water
• Aluminum foil

I'm sure I can think of others if you give me a minute or two.

It won't even be effective. As I pointed out earlier, hoodlums in the ghetto, who are the implicit targets of this, aren't buying Bambus and becoming 3D printing experts overnight just to run off one off-the-books Glock. Someone with five or six brain cells to rub together is printing guns in quantity and selling them to the criminals. Anyone willing to employ that business model can and will simply kit build a printer rather than buying an off the shelf unit, which is certainly not difficult to do. It just adds one extra step to the operation for anyone who truly wants to do this, and 3D printing a working firearm is already a pretty decent commitment especially if you're not already an experienced printer. Especially Glock frames.

They're trying hard to couch this as a security thing but I remain unconvinced that the "threats" they're positing actually exist. Do you even leave your printer connected to the outside internet anyway? I sure as shit don't.

The only person they're locking out of your printer with this is you. This is to keep you walled within their own bullshit software ecosystem as much as possible, and the only possible benefit of that is so they can inflict further restrictions later, probably in the hopes of making the software side of their crap a subscription model so they can extort you for that sweet recurring revenue.

Qidi.

I've owned two and they've been very nearly completely turn-key (the OG X-Plus) and absolutely completely turn-key (my current X-Max 3). Their bigger machines are fully enclosed and have active chamber heaters to manage pain in the ass materials like ABS and ASA, and even polycarbonate.

They have their "own" slicer but it's just a mildly breathed upon fork of Prusaslicer with built in presents and which has all the plugins for remotely administering their machines already included. You can use stock Prusaslicer, Cura, or Orca with them if you prefer. The boards just run Klipper. You have terminal access, and you can hack the machine however you want if that's your jam.

Their upcoming gen 4 machines promise compatibility with an AMS-like "Qidi box" filament exchanger system, although the details of that remain unspecified at the moment. If you want multimaterial now they have a true dual extruder model also.

As of yet, there's no lockdown, no cloud bullshit (to be fair they do now have some kind of cloud bullshit platform available, but it's entirely optional and I've never touched it or even bothered to look at it), nothing proprietary, and so far there have been no rug-pulls on any of the above.

This is to use up the leftovers from almost empty spools of filament, most realistically. Figuring out exactly where in the filament's length to put the splice for a controlled color change would be incredibly difficult and involve a lot of variables that'd be tough to account for (like the volume of your melt chamber, amount of nozzle prime, retraction, etc.) so it would only be a benefit if you didn't care where the color change happened.

I'm wondering if there's some obvious reason I'm missing why you couldn't make a filament splicer by just taking a slug of aluminum billet or copper, drilling a 1.75mm hole through it, and sawing it in half bisecting the hole with, say, a jeweler's saw so you have a minimal kerf.

Assemble the halves, stick your two pieces of filament in, cook it, let it cool, split the halves, nirvana achieved. No waste, no consumables.

Like... Not a single commercial splicer gizmo works that way. Why?

I feel like I must be the only person on Earth who has successfully used Godaddy for anything and not had a problem...

Ah. So I suppose that means California has successfully solved the skyrocketing cost of living and inflation, drought, rampant homelessness, and uncontrollable wildfires?