finalarbiter
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- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 3 hours ago:
The new bondtech indx is really interesting, all the active electronics are in the main tool head, so is more in line with how typical cnc tool changes work and should be less expensive compared to other extant tool changing options.
Prusa just licensed the indx for their new toolchanger, but there are going to be kits for a variety of common platforms.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 day ago:
Realistically the connector would have been proprietary, but I can see a world where we got cartridges that came in little cases like the games for nintendo ds or switch.
- Comment on Earbugld question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 2 days ago:
I think that visualization dealt psychic damage to me lol.
My problem is that I have super waxy ears, so unless I cleaned them literally every time I used them, the silicone tips would just get uber crusty and gross.
- Comment on Earbugld question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 2 days ago:
I don’t really wear earbuds because I don’t actually like either style. The hard plastic ones are uncomfortable after 10-20 minutes for me and don’t stay in my ears. The soft tip ones get really gross and are difficult to clean well, but a decent pair comes with different sizes of tips to better fit my ears.
I have over-headphones that I like, but many of them tend to be uncomfortable after a few hours. I’ve actually come to really like my bone conduction earbuds for general listening because it just rests on my temples with minimal pressure and there’s nothing in my ears. They have pretty solid quality, but not audiophile-grade or anything like that.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 2 days ago:
mAh/g (milliamp-hours per gram) is a similar unit, but it’s missing the voltage term. We can do a little dimensional analysis here to translate between them. Power = Current * Voltage, so you’d multiply this (CurrentTime)/(Weight) value by the nominal voltage of the cell to get to (PowerTime)/(Weight). So it is essentially still a measurement of capacity, but in terms of current instead of power.
Phone batteries are often specified in units of Current*Time (e.g. milliamp-hours), but I’m not sure why.
- Comment on Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers 5 days ago:
Beware, obstructing your license plate can get you a ticket in a plurality of states. Not saying you shouldn’t do it, just that you should be informed about potential consequences.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 5 days ago:
Interesting! TIL
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 5 days ago:
Yeah, disliking non-sequiturs inserted for their own sake is a good summary of my point.
I actually hadn’t seen gibe before, but a quick search suggests it means something pretty different. Per Grammarly:
Gibe generally means to make mocking or insulting remarks, used predominantly as a verb. On the other hand, jibe can either refer to a sailing maneuver… or mean that something is in agreement, often seen as ‘jibe with’.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
I think it has to be considered by degree. Some companies, like Micron, are outright discontinuing their consumer brands while others are ‘just’ deprioritizing consumers to chase the AI bandwagon.
It’s those companies’ prerogative to chase profits, but I’ll never buy another Micron product again if they ever decide to come crawling back.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 5 days ago:
Yeah I’m not actually against marvel quips, though I definitely feel they became detrimental to the writing style of their films over time. When I complain about it, I’m really complaining about interruptions where they aren’t warranted and don’t contribute to the narrative.
A good quip isn’t just funny- it can contribute to audience understanding, help with pacing, and fits naturally into the narrative. A bad quip interrupts the narrative for no reason other than to interrupt. I don’t really have a good example for this, it’s more of a ‘know it when you see it’ situation. It was definitely better in the early marvel films.
As much as I love witty characters like Spider-Man, not everyone needs to be comic relief and sometimes it just doesn’t jibe with the story being told.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
I recognize the reference, and am also not actually against people having joy in their lives.
My problem is with the use of a tool that is built on a corpus of unlicensed works (regardless of how you feel about the current copyright system, which imo is broken af) and has caused significant environmental and economic damage to the world.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
Fucking slop images contributed less than nothing to the article.
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Go off, king. Great point.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 1 week ago:
Anyone who thinks people aren’t as shitty irl clearly haven’t worked in customer-facing roles, e.g. restaurants, retail, or support.
- Comment on Covering electricity price increases from our data centers 2 weeks ago:
If they want to do things to reduce their total consumption, great. I also do things to reduce my energy consumption, and thereby lower my electric bill, like installing LED lights and using a ‘smart’ thermostat to more efficiently manage my heat/air system. Is that laudable?
At no point should the cost burden for their actions have fallen on residential electric customers. The things they are doing are the bare minimum, and likely more for PR as towns are starting to chase out data centers.
- Comment on Covering electricity price increases from our data centers 2 weeks ago:
“Hey guys, we’re gonna pay for the electricity we’re using and the upgrades we’re forcing the providers to make!”
Like yeah, that’s the basic fucking expectation despite it not being the norm for these slop companies. Nobody should be impressed by this.
- Comment on Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning 2 weeks ago:
Web browsers like Firefox don’t need AI built-in, regardless of whether it’s a local model or through one of the big slop companies. LLM usage is not a base requirement for browsing the web, and thus should not be part of the core product.
If people want them, detection tools and the like should be offered as extensions that users can choose to add.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s a joke in the same vein as “Thanks Obama”.
- Comment on What's going on with Olympic skiers and penises? 2 weeks ago:
From what I understand, this is something a German tabloid speculated on and the world ran with it. There’s currently no evidence this actually happened.
“This wild rumor started off a few weeks ago from pure hearsay,” FIS spokesperson Bruno Sassi told The Associated Press. “There has never been any indication, let alone evidence, that any competitor has ever made use of a hyaluronic acid injection to attempt to gain a competitive advantage.”
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft’s 2027 Xbox could be a huge shift for the platform 2 weeks ago:
Don’t give them ideas! At this rate they’ll be releasing a MS Teams reskin to compete with discord and call it MS Squads
- Comment on Clever trick to Un tangle a spool 2 weeks ago:
It’s really easy to make a clove hitch- One loop basically just needs to slide under another. It isn’t difficult to imagine that the machine could have a little bit of play or backlash that could affect the ends of each layer in this manner.
- Comment on Clever trick to Un tangle a spool 2 weeks ago:
Honestly idk. It’s happened to me before, but not in the last several years. I know it wasn’t my fault because the tangles were deep in the spool and only uncovered late in a print, so it’s unlikely to have been caused by user error during handling or filament loading.
- Comment on Clever trick to Un tangle a spool 2 weeks ago:
Some cheaper brands have poor QC to save on cost, so spools will occasionally have some tangles in it.
- Comment on 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X 2 weeks ago:
Problem is that fair use doesn’t prevent a dmca takedown. It doesn’t really matter until you go to court and prove it, unfortunately. These takedowns are functioning exactly as designed, allowing for easy corporate censorship with minimal repercussions for abuse.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, those features are older than LLMs. I don’t need firefox to tell me how to group my tabs- I’ll group them in the way I want, when I want to do so.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Anthropic has a cloud service?
- Comment on Material's Printed Batteries Put Power in Every Nook and Cranny 3 weeks ago:
It’s interesting, especially for compact or oddly-shaped devices, but I imagine these printed batteries are not great for repairability. The nice thing about cells is that they’re pretty standardized- it’s simple to identify, order, and install a replacement part from your vendor of choice. With these custom batteries, it might not even be possible to replace depending on how the OEM designs the parts, let alone find an alternative if the OEM doesn’t sell replacement parts.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 3 weeks ago:
Historically, general encyclopedias were limited by the physical amount of space they took up. Wikipedia is not limited by the page and volume counts of physical media and we shouldn’t treat it as such.
While I can agree that domain-specific encyclopedias should continue to limit the scope of their information to relevant topics, I see no reason that Wikipedia should follow suit. Who truly benefits from reducing and editorializing information, especially when the fundamental principle is the free and open flow of knowledge? Could Wikipedia stand to have writing on complex topics that is friendlier to the average joe? Sure, but that should never come at the expense of restricting the sum total of knowledge stored in its servers.
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 3 weeks ago:
Right, what trust? The trust they lost by putting dumbass MBAs in charge who don’t know shit and chase short term profits over sustaining a healthy community?
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 3 weeks ago:
If i didn’t have to redo all my customizations on a fresh install, I might actually cry tears of joy (i like to try different os and write my laptop regularly, so this is a legitimate annoyance for me)
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 3 weeks ago:
Off the top of my head:
- better/more consistent sync
- container windows
- setting a default container for ctrl+t (and maybe shortcuts for other containers)
- a more user-friendly version of about:config
- more control for automatic data deletion aside from manual and when firefox closes (e.g. delete history+cookies older than 30 days)