wccrawford

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker eufyMake E1 3D-texture UV printer now crowdfunding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched a youtuber that was using this, and the cost to print something was pretty high. Like a 2 inch by 2 inch tile with a little depth was like $2 USD for the ink/resin alone. A larger board that looked like it was about 1 ft by 2 ft, with a single layer of print (no depth), was about $25, IIRC.

  It’s beautiful, but so expensive to run, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, moves like this have convinced me that when I get another NAS box, it won’t be from them. It’ll probably built custom instead. After some quick searching, OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS seems like top runners right now. Hopefully it’ll be a while before I have to really consider it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve bought stuff from Temu and without installing the app. I’m sure it recommends installing the app if you tap the ad on a phone, but not on desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure who needs this advice. The game was designed to be played without it, so that’s good.

  People that need the feature will use it, of course. For whatever reason.

  Everyone else has a choice: Mindless running through the wilds to get where you’re going, sometimes seeing something interesting on the way… Or just letting this thing get you there, without the “follow the white line” minigame.

  The people who are going to use this were already using in-game features to do it as much as possible, but with a manual component that irked them. Asking them not to use it isn’t going to improve their game experience.

  Anyone who roams without the white line isn’t even in this discussion. They would never use this feature, so the advice doesn’t change their mind at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZeniMax union "overwhelming" votes to authorise strike if Microsoft contract negotiations break down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just Rosie the Riveter, as a dragon… For some reason.

  It does feel weird to copy something so obviously and use it for a union logo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really appreciate the specificity of the headline, rather than the clickbait it could have been.