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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with printer recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a Bambu A1 mini that I’m quite happy with. Bambu studio works perfectly fine on Linux, and I can import lots of different kinds of designs from anywhere, but I think you do really need Bambu Studio to prepare the print for this specific printer. I have no idea if there’s any way around that, but is that necessary?

  The a1 mini is very good at small details. The main downside is of course that it’s not very big, so not suitable for large prints. It calibrates automatically and is very low maintenance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.

  Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.

  Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea, but I’m annoyed by the inconsistency.

  The þ is the th sound in “both”, but not the th sound in “the”; that’s a ð.

  Ðough, ðat, ðere Þorough, boþ, þree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, if you’re going to do this, you should really be spelling ‘that’ like ðat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly it. It has always been up to the browser to decide how to render a website. There have always been differences. The idea that a browser can honour or ignore parts of the content has always been part of it.

  If anything should be illegal, it should be websites 's constant attempts to bypass user preferences. Some of that shit is plain malware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think any CRPG is RP heavy. I don’t think it’s possible for a computer game to roleplay. Well, maybe if they integrate LLMs? But generally, any RP happens entirely in the player’s head.

  I think CRPGs that are sometimes seen as RP heavy, are just very well written. That’s not the same thing, although I suppose it’s possible for good writing to inspire RP in the player. But that depends as much on the player as it depends on the writing.

  I enjoyed the original VTMB a lot, mostly because of its excellent atmosphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micro-retirement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is this “a new trend”? Also, 2 weeks every 12-18 months is not nearly enough. 5 weeks every year is what it should be.