FWIW, OrcaSlicer isn’t blocked (except on the H2D, and that may change eventually) on newer firmware, it just has to go through Bambu’s network protocol, same as their own slicer. But OrcaSlicer installs that for you.

(I’m not defending Bambu Lab’s practices here, just want us to be accurate.)

I am fascinated by the idea. Why cassettes? At least vinyl is “lossless” on its first playback, but cassettes aren’t exactly high fidelity. Is it about the nostalgia? The vibe? The chonky, satisfying feel of the format?

Yes, the 4:3 image is the proper scene.

Here’s the clip

Beautiful

Cursed stretched 16:9 Dr. Cox

“Nerdface” I have called it.

There’s a fascinating book series, a trilogy beginning with Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett. The magic system is sort of like writing software that effects the physical world.

At a certain point in this series, a group of people learn to link their minds, and they talk about how impossible it becomes to hate people when you’re able to completely empathize with them, their experiences, their weaknesses, etc.

That part really stuck with me.

Wow I knew the circuit wasn’t up to FIA Grade 1, but it’s really let itself go since Formula 1 stopped racing there.

(Seriously though this looks beautiful.)

Also he finally got a pretty good movie starring Willem Dafoe.

The ally flag gets fun colors! It’s the black and white background with a rainbow ∧ shape. I wear this as a pin sometimes. Also my favorite restaurant has one hanging proudly inside.

Indeed!

Awesome. I loved those games.

I also loved playing Doom on the thing when I installed Linux on it briefly. 🤣

Plus if you hold out long enough for the tech to come down in price, you can grab the OLED version that I’m expecting to be announced in a couple of years.

The one near me that does this had this gem recently:

“I studied dad jokes in college - I majored in sighence”

I used to drop that line into trade chat in WoW and watch the corrections come flying in from all directions. 🤣

I suspect that was part of the idea. It’s a murder show taking place in NYC, but still limits the murders to a single building. It’s the extreme version of this quirk of the genre.

Major difference is it’s one(ish) murder per season, rather than one per episode.

Ad-free subscription services that actually benefit the creators are exceedingly rare.

Believe it or not, YouTube Premium is one of them. A Premium view is worth more than an ad-supported view to a creator.

(Obviously Patreon is better, as they can’t make a living off of only Premium views because it’s a smaller group; the population of ad-supported users is much much larger. But YouTube Premium does benefit the creators more than ad-supported YouTube does.)

Fuuuuuuuck yes, a playlist to binge.

That’s a really good point about the nozzles.