and not being made under exploitive labour conditions.

It’s that last one that’ll get you.

How dare you make such a dangerous wish.

There are plenty of men’s pants with just the front and rear pockets!

Yeah! Last time I go into a store called “Destination XL.”

(I’m joking, I saw the rest of your comments about this.)

That’s a really good point about the nozzles.

I don’t know if it will be faster than a tool changer (I doubt it, but I suspect the difference will be pretty negligible), but it will be much faster than swapping material the way it has been. Purging the plastic from the nozzle takes a while, especially if swapping between, say, PETG/PCTG and PLA for support purposes. Or PVA for that matter. Basically anything where mixing the filaments can compromise the structural integrity of the result you need additional purging.

The time it takes to retract filament into the AMS and then send out the new is pretty small. The longest part of the process is the purging.

Obviously a tool changer is a solid solution to this problem, but I gotta be honest I’m curious to see how this one plays out. And it never hurts to have more solutions to a problem within the industry.

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stoooooooo.

Really just need the final frame.

He’s on the phone a lot with full brightness. Whatever app he uses most burns it’s UI in.

Not wrong, lol. Cheaper than a bunch of toolheads though, I assume.

Also Bambu has completely lost all trust from everyone

No they haven’t. They’ve lost trust from a lot of the hobbyist community, sure, but they’ve tapped a whole new market. And at the risk of having to hand in my hobbyist badge, the slippery slope argument that closed firmware means they’ll someday require DRM for filament is nonsensical. They know what happens to companies who pull that. And they don’t need it anyway. Plenty of people will exclusively buy their filament anyway since it’s the same company that made their printer. From a business perspective they stand to lose far more than they gain locking down filaments.

Don’t get me wrong, the firmware situation is infuriating. And for those who prefer the 3D printer side of the hobby over the 3D printing side, it’s a non-starter. But the field has expanded and most users aren’t power users now.

Modern electric mowers use batteries, and they’re awesome.

I’ve got a buddy who runs full brightness on every phone and complains when he gets screen burn-in. “If full brightness will cause burn-in, they shouldn’t let you set it that high.”

No, dude, they give you the option so you can use the phone outdoors in sunlight. But you shouldn’t run it that bright all the time, it’s bad for it and a waste of battery.

Every time I hand him my phone to show him something he cranks my brightness all the way up. I’m worried about his eyesight.

Nothing says community like splintering the already tiny community into 90 smaller distros sub-communities

Splintering nothing. I’m on Piefed right now. The Fediverse means it plays nice with Lemmy just fine. Same with Mbin.

cm0002’s reply is a good summary. It’s an alternate platform, but because of the nature of the Fediverse it plays nicely with Lemmy. So I’m posting this on Piefed but you can read it with Lemmy, and vice versa.

I get it.

When Voyager got Piefed support I exported my communities and decided to try it. Loving it so far!

And eventually:

Friendship ended with Lemmy

Now Piefed is my new best friend

I mean…yeah, if we had a realistic way to find preserved dinosaur DNA and bring those bad boys back? I’d say do it in a heartbeat. Stupid? Absolutely. But worth it.

Sadly finding DNA that has survived intact for dozens of millions of years is impossible. 😭

It’s usually fine, but when it decides to be difficult it’s extremely frustrating. It’s pretty rare that it directly affects me, but it has happened. And for some of my coworkers it seems to be always acting up.

That being said, I do love being able to walk my dog while on meetings with Teams on my phone.

😳

Wait ‘til they find out the cereal in bags is the same thing as the cereal in boxes.