TechnoBabble

Diablo 4 looks interesting, but $70 and microtransactions just rubs me the wrong way.

Binary voting isn't a perfect system, but so far it's proven to work well enough.

If a better mechanism proves itself in the future I imagine Lemmy will adapt to it over time.

Motherland if I'm not mistaken.

Plex DMCA'd my private server a few months ago.

So I cancelled my Plex Pass and moved on to greener pastures.

They seem to be doing everything they can to get rid of their foundational userbase so they can attract... Ad supported free TV watchers?...

What morons are running the show in Silicon Valley?

Won't all nsfw content be invisible to third-party apps?

So people aren't paying to keep reddit alive, they're paying to have some advertiser friendly, bot-ridden husk of reddit available outside the official app.

Those outsized API fees don't even get you the original reddit experience, it's disgusting.

I don't blame the dev, but I also don't understand his decision.

The only thing you can't do with an open API is exploit every dollar of value that passes through your service.

The main difference between a Silicon Valley API and a FOSS API, is the SV API is trying to get tons of people rich as fuck by exploiting you. The FOSS API can live long and prosper by simply asking for donations every once in a while, or engaging in very light-handed monetization.

There are like a million little nuances to this whole issue, and the lack of nuance is what Silicon Valley relies on to convince people that they must pillage their users, but that's the gist.

All the VC money is being dumped into AI right now.

Tech companies of yesteryear are starting to have to prove themselves in order to get funding, instead of relying on the wishy washy promises of old.

We can already see with Lemmy, that this phenomenon is giving breathing room to FOSS services.

I think it's awesome, even if we'll have to deal with growing pains for a while.

So in that case, Bambulabs P1P is probably the printer you want, despite it's proprietary nature.

I probably should have asked what you were looking for in a printer before starting to recommend stuff, but at least we figured it out in the end.

I think the best solution to this whole monetization issue is to just make sharing bandwidth as easy as possible on the fediverse.

If hosting can be done by everyone using an instance, no one entity has to bear overwhelming costs, so there's no excuse to demand money.

does that change your recommendation at all?

Not Really.

I'd get maybe $300 worth of printer, and then save the other couple hundred bucks for filaments and modifications that you'll want after spending a while with the machine. That's where the Ender 3 S1 fits right in.

I don't really recommend spending more as a beginner, because you wont know what you actually need until you start printing stuff.

Though, if you don't like to fiddle with stuff at all, the Bambulabs P1P ($599) is a thing that makes good parts. I still don't recommend it, especially for a beginner. But for someone who just wants stuff to work in an Apple sort of way, (expensive, locked down, a bit contrived, but mostly seamless) that might be the best choice.

If I were starting printing today, I'd probably get an Ender 3 S1. You also can't go wrong with Prusa printers, but you'll pay a bit (a lot) more for them.

Really anything from those "best beginner printer" lists will work, as long as it has ABL (auto bed leveling).

Regardless of what anyone else says, you'll want ABL at some point, so just get it right off the bat. Because adding an ABL sensor afterwards can sometimes be super annoying.

But I wouldn't recommend anything from Bambulabs. Lots of gear on those printers is proprietary, and you will need to buy parts at some point.

With other printers you can get cheap parts everywhere. With Bambulabs printers though, enjoy waiting months for a $180 part that's $20 on every other printer.