That or just sure numbers. It kind of feels like when we got satellite as a kid. I spent two days of scrolling the guide before realizing I hadn’t watched a single thing. I was like great, we now have 500 channels of TV, but my life still sucks.
Us3n3t is wild for sure. I mean they’ve wrote the textbook on how staying obscure is the ultimate approach to success with most things. And it just functions. Plus the need for a bit of knowledge acts as almost an intelligence test to keep the morons (and the people who can wreck it) out.
I’m even more lazier than that. Pirate subscription. It’s still a subscription, but I’d argue the 10 dollars a month is worth my time to type an obscure tv show I’ve suddenly remembered into my TV, with one eye open at 2am. I’ve got nothing against a subscription or two, but I certainly am getting sick and tired of like a dozen of them.
All it’s going to take is a recession, and then it’ll be back with a vengeance. Because guess what’s first on the chopping block when money gets tight?
I mean the convenience of it all would say no, but these services have become so enshitified, they pull content constantly, you need to have a billion of different ones, and now they are putting stuff like Atmos and 4k content behind higher pay subs. Plus ads now too, which is infuriating.
So yeah I mean I’m sailing more than I have in the last decade. Because streaming is now just cable except I have to individually subscribe and not just have one subscription (which you just know is around the corner and then it will fully be cable 2.0).
I’m getting mighty sick of spotify too. The great thing about Spotify when it came out was convenience obviously, but moreso was that you didn’t have jammed full iPods or your phone wasn’t plugged up with music. But my phone’s like 256gb now, that holds a shitton of music, it ain’t no 8gb iPod. So barriers removed. And I wasn’t pirating basically at all the past decade either. So they only have themselves all to thank now. Solely. Greedy fucks.
Hey do you 'member that time they shut down Napster so no one would be able to download music anymore?
I would try bumping the flow up manually a bit, and setting it to run slower. Try changing your filament to Generic in the profile too, if it’ll let you.
Then see if you get a few clean layers trying all of this.
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Anycubics support has always been trash. There’s whole groups about it. I had a little bedslinger from them, it was sort of ok for what it was, but it was wildly inconsistent day to day, and they pretty much drop any sort of updating or support for their products day 2 after release. I spent a lot of time dialling that thing in, but you’d get something tightened up and dialed up, and then three other issues would rear their head. It was like playing wack a mole. Their idea of support is you have to kiss up to this specific person on their Facebook groups and hope they play along and respond back to you, because they don’t often answer emails and when they do it’s basically just a feedback loop. Then it’s just back and forth. I ain’t got the patience for that stuff anymore.
I only want the higher end stuff now.
I think toolchanging is where it’s going to be too. Just want to see what’s out there in a few years after some development. I’m just sticking with AMS right now, because it’s largely foolproof. But that Snapmaker stuff is definitely pretty impressive. Cant wait to see where that goes
It depends on what you want out of the hobby honestly. 30 years later, I just want a printer that works, without fuss. I’ve done the customizations, I’ve done the firmware flashes and attached third party controllers. But I’m a huge fan of my Bambu P2S, because it just works. In over 300 hours I’ve only had 2 failed prints. I haven’t done one iota of really anything to it. Plugged it in, and the things just been chugging away. Lots of parts availability, locally and online (which is huge). Lots of support available locally too.
My previous printer, an Anycubic coincidentally, used to take like 4 or 5 false starts before you could finally get a good first layer.
I get the hate, I get that people want customization and what not. But some people just want shit that works. That’s why I look at Bambu as the McDonalds of 3d printing. It ain’t that healthy for you, it’s a scourge on the planet, but it also tastes kinda good and it’s a guilty pleasure from time to time, right?
Yes theres Prusa and all sorts of other printers that are good too, don’t take this the wrong way. Run your own journey for sure. But I’m running mine too.
Calgary
I will glance proudly at the TV, knowing my city dodged the biggest economic bullet that we probably ever faced. This was the Olympics that we would have been holding too. While I lament that our current Olympic facilities are decaying, I don’t at the same time think it was responsible to invite this organization (and all the chaos that they bring) back into our city. We can provide the funding for future infrastructure in other and more sustainable ways.
Just do it outside then.
Or just do it in the garage. Not to devalue your point (because you aren’t wrong either, the dust isn’t probably healthy), but honestly thinking back over all the shady things that have gone down in my garage over the years, sanding a bit of PLA wouldn’t even nick the surface.
I mean death to the streaming companies, but yeah I don’t really miss optical media at all. My truck in high school you’d literally open up the door and CDs would be spilling out all over the damn pavement. They talk about distracted driving with the screens in modern day cars, but let’s actually talk about you flipping through pages and pages in those darn pouch books trying to find the CD you were after, back in the day. Now that was OG distracted driving.
Probably like 2010, 2011 was my last time? It would have been movies for our dvd player in our bedroom when my (now) wife and I were in University.
I got an iPod Nano for my birthday in the fall of 2005, which brought the burning cd factory that was my computer to a screeching halt. I’d still back up files and stuff using CDs, but it went from like going through a carousel of blanks a month to going through a carousel of blanks in like 3 years, within a very short period of time.
There’s been a few movies where it’s like almost instantly. Sometimes the screeners get leaked, and they tend to be higher quality. Final release quality is usually just before they start coming out for sale on the Google Play/Amazon stores, or when they start playing in the secondary market budget theaters. If you have one of those nearby, when you see they are playing the movie you are after, start looking for a higher quality dl
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I just sold an Anycubic Kobra for $100. And it wasn’t fun. You aren’t getting $200 for it, I would honestly put it up for $100, be firm and just get rid of it if you actually want to be rid of it.
Or you can play the game for six months, and maybe get $120 for it. Is that $80 worth six months of dealing with some of the most awful people on the planet? I had a guy trolling me, like he kept messaging me from different profiles that he had created, writing just the most random shit. Super bizarre.
It’s not always this simple, but generally higher wall counts>infill percentage for strength and durability (and filament use)