fishos

It's well known inside that firefighter duty has more freedoms, WAY better food, and that pay rate is miles above anything else you can get while inside. That's not to say these aren't brave people risking their lives, but it is definitely a sought after position for it's many perks.

I was thinking this for a second, but is this really plausible? Normally when we talk about corporations we talk about how powerful they are and how they use different nations to locate headquarters and offices in order to mitigate legal and tax obligations. We regularly talk about how governments can't reign them in and how they act with impunity.

But now? "They HAVE to capitulate. They are just doing it to survive." Really? Do we really believe that? Or is it more likely that this is what they want and if they didn't, they'd be fighting tooth and nail to stop it? I'm with the second option honestly.

I can PRINT most the parts. My X1C came with spare part models already downloaded to memory. My A1 contains a bunch of self printed modifications that I found online.

You don't know what you're talking about, you're just fear mongering.

I have an A1 and a X1C. Got them because I was tired of my printer being the project and not the actual prints. I was inspired by the guy building life sized Trex models. He highly recommended them. I have about 600 hours on my A1 and about 150 on my X1C. Only time I have issues is when the model is poorly made/badly sliced(so basically user error).

They are basically "set it and forget it". Setting them up is basically connecting 3-4 cables and 4 screws - incredibly easy.

I could not recomment them enough. I print almost daily now while with my ender I spent more time trying to fix z offsets and other junk.

The A1 and the X1C came with lots of extra parts in my experience. Hotend, screws, nozzle wiping pads..... And a variety of parts I've just printed with the printer itself.

Yeah, you can definitely tell the show was filtered through the lense of "what will the average person understand". I just appreciated the focus on actually building something vs just seeing the business side of it.

It's definitely satire, but I feel Silicon Valley did a decent job. Yes they absolutely made things up, but it was more about the backend and pushing updates and servers being erased because someone accidentally sat a drink on a keyboard.

I agree with this. The tie looks too business/professional. The bowtie has a certain charm. But it needs to be like "neon bus seat" design. You know the one I'm talking about. Or like water cups from the 90s.

looks at all the replacement parts that came with both my Bambu printers and the extra nozzles I ordered at the same time

What are you even talking about?

Hell, we purposely flooded a ton of abandoned/semi-adandonned towns building the dams out East. They made the movie Deliverance entirely about visiting the area before it got flooded. Of course we'd let nature do it too.

This. CD/DVD players/burner drives are cheap and readily available for PCs still. Hell, you can find external floppy drives still.

Though, admittedly, the lack of software on BluRays might hurt that since the need won't be as strong. But I wouldn't expect drives to completely disappear for awhile.

He was too good for us. Rest well, good sir.