Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Myminifactory buys thingiverse 22 hours ago:
What is it supposed to show? I’m using a Chrome web browser.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
I’m referring to the relationship between someone offering you more money for the same work the difference of which gets passed on to consumers.
A few consumers are going to a business and offering more money for the same work. The consumer is the business’s boss just like your boss might offer you more money. You aren’t going to turn down the raise because it will hurt other consumers just like the business isn’t going to turn down the money even though it will cost other consumers more.
and if i did i sure as hell wouldn’t care if their CEOs got a paycut to benefit the consumers
I brought that up because that wasn’t going to happen. If you get a raise, your boss isn’t going to take a paycut to make it happen. The raise comes from the consumers.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
The money is fixed. You getting a raise means the money has to come from somewhere- which means the boss taking a pay cut or the customers paying more.
- Comment on Myminifactory buys thingiverse 1 day ago:
I got an error when I clicked that @ link?
- Comment on Trying to evaluate AI model generation 1 day ago:
you’re robbing yourself of the opportunity to grow and expand your horizons as a creator,
I have never used AI for my 3d modeling but please. EVERY remix on printables is “stolen”. But actually not stolen because the cc license says “USE IT for non commercial”.
What you are describing is “Don’t use a service that steals for you. Spend years learning how to steal by yourself.” If you aren’t the Picasso of your generation and inventing an entirely new style like cubism, you are only stealing ideas that you see around you and teaching yourself how to incorporate those stolen ideas.
Many people are trying to solve little problems like “I want a 3d model of my cat.”, not change the art world.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
If your boss offered you a raise for the same work, would you turn it down?
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
A mismatch between supply and demand is called a shortage. The source is irrelevant.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
You think companies would cut off ad revenue and pass cost savings to customers?
Fridges will get MORE expensive to ensure that you see ads on your fridge.
- Comment on Duval holding cue card for Brando who can't remember his lines. 5 days ago:
He didn’t treat acting seriously because he knew it was people playing pretend and he was in it for the money, not the fame.
In real life he got a Native American Activist to accept his Oscar for him and make a speech abput Wounded Knee.
- Comment on We live in the future! 5 days ago:
Disney has for gatekeeping media,
Disney hired real artists. Their artists did such amazing work that everyone copied Disney which caused the gatekeeping. Nothing stopped artist from not copying Disney to create their own works like Pixar before they were bought by Disney. AI art comes from training on existing art. So its not expanding culture to cut and paste existing art. It’s a great time saver for home users to create art that is out of their ability. But its not a substitute for real artists.
The cab company alternative was a taxi, which was a government granted monopoly known for having extortionate prices.
Which existed because to prevent congestion, accountability against criminal acts, and maintained an employee/employer relationship. Despite its drawbacks, employees have more rights than gig economy workers.
I guess what’s next is an app Airplane company that ignores all regulations and lands on parking lots because it will be cheaper than following the laws. So what if a few people die if tens of thousands save money and have more convenience.
Using a public ledger that can be tied directly to a person
Its far more easy to trace money in a bank account or made through a credit card than crypto. In most cases crypto is completely untraceable until turned into real money that’s deposited into a bank.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 5 days ago:
Their prices seem 2x what they were a few years ago. 2.5 years ago I bought two 16TB HGSTs from them for $170 each.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 5 days ago:
Yeah I’ve reinstalled Windows on Dells and it just works without any hassle because it reads something in the bios that says it already has a Windows license. I was wondering what it reads that would be configured in Proxmox to allow the same. I would be nice to be able to create a Windows VM on the fly without any license setup or license bypass tricks during/after install. Instead it would just work because Proxmox tells it to.
- Comment on SBA #31 5 days ago:
I don’t understand any of the references in this comic. It’s SpongeBob, Hank and Bobby but other than that I’m lost.
Why are SpongeBob and Hank at a convention? What’s that Stargate looking device behind Bobby?
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 5 days ago:
It’s my belief that it is a human conceit that emotions are the pinnacle of defining humanity.
Emotions are in reality a simplified thought process. It’s why animals are capable of emotions. It’s an evolutionary survival mechanism that’s simpler and faster than rational thought.
That’s why it’s easy for an LLM to simulate emotions but can’t see why you need to drive 50m to the car wash.
- Comment on Question: Humidity controlled cabinet 5 days ago:
Re: flow through
A mesh like container so all sides are exposed to air. Many 3d printed designs have channels so air can get into the middle of the desiccant container.
- Comment on Question: Humidity controlled cabinet 5 days ago:
I suspect that’s what he already has. I can’t imagine a compressor based dehumidifier that’s so tiny.
- Comment on Question: Humidity controlled cabinet 5 days ago:
Are you sure it’s 35% ? I’ve found those cheap digital hygrometers to be off by 10-15%.
I bought a box and some say 10 and some say 20. I ended up buying several different brands and price ranges of hygrometers to try and figure out which ones were correct.
I use cereal boxes with desiccant and without any active dehumidifier they stay at ~25% despite being frequently opened and closed. So like others suggested, put a large flow-through bin of desiccant in and forget about it.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 5 days ago:
Could you point me to more info about that?
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 6 days ago:
I don’t understand how it works? I saw a video where he took a bite of a banana before the forecast. How does that stop anyone from cutting and pasting one second of him biting the banana into the start of an ai video with a statement “banana” .
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 1 week ago:
As another replier said, they use an HP cartridge. So this open printer will be ewaste in 5 years
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 1 week ago:
I’m curious how they source the ink.
I recently watched a video about a 3D printer with color that is effectively obsolete because it used what was once common hp cartridges that hp discontinued.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 1 week ago:
They are large and heavy. They are only useful for their virtually infinite life. If the military needed it for a few of their bases, they’d contract it out, a few hundred would be built and that’s it.
For example a few thousand ISDN adapters were built for the government military. But it lacked corporate support because the Telcos didn’t want it cutting into their profits. So ISDN barely existed for consumers. Consumers suffered with 56k modems for 5-10 years until broadband- which telcos sold for more than a phone line, were immune from all the competition requirements of regular phone lines, plus got TV programming profit.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 1 week ago:
NIckel Iron is fantastic without any revolutionary improvements. Batteries made 100 years ago still work today. They are large and heavy so are only of use for home power.
The big “down side” which is the reason it isn’t commercially developed at large scale is that they last forever. No investors are going to give billions to a business that can’t generate revenue forever with a product that needs replacing every 3 years.
- Comment on idk which would be worse tbh 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on what does your "workshop" look like? 2 weeks ago:
I bought a couple 30" deep 6’ long butcher block counter tops. I coated them with polyurethane sealer and mounted them to the wall with 24" deep brackets. So I have a huge amount of desk space without any clutter of legs underneath. On the wall is multi board.
- Comment on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News 2 weeks ago:
I doubt it will matter much. Like GPUs, prices during the crunch doubled. After the crunch prices went down ~20%. Everyone cheered that the shortage was over. No one seemed to notice that everyone was still paying 1.8X more.
So ram is up like 4x. After the shortage prices will drop 25%. People will be paying 3x for ram and think everything is great.
- Comment on Can mere dirt cause heatcreep? 3 weeks ago:
I just fixed heat creep because the extruder spring retainer had cracked a little. Filament wasn’t being fed at the correct rate.
- Comment on Trying to design a simple photo frame. Please help me understand these print issues. 3 weeks ago:
It would be an overhang problem. You could change the channel to a 45 degree notch. But it wouldn’t hold the photo as secure.
Simplest might be to fill in more of the back so you don’t have that thin rectangle going up high until it meets the other rectangle in the middle. Thickening those parts would also help. The back frame could be changed to a hollow square cross section. That would make it stable without significant material.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 4 weeks ago:
I have a laptop with 48GB of VRAM
???
The AMD GPU in some Frameworks have 8GB of vram.
- Comment on Captain, masking is highly illogical 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t Data’s whole identity based around making himself more palatable?