In a weird coincidence, the Bizarre Beasts YouTube channel just came out with a video about what happened to Japan’s real wolves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUKGQKkUKeE

Steam heating only covers one third of the functions of an HVAC system.

Exactly. The point is not the technical details of the implementation. The point is that their act of capitulation endorsed the concept.

As Free Software developers, they had an ethical obligation to resist and they didn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

I would argue that even on-hover popups are insufficient, because they normally don’t make it into screenshots and that’s the use-case where you’re most likely to really want to know the absolute timestamp.

Never, ever, buy a device that doesn’t have third-party Free Software firmware available.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck!

The author gives the situation benefit of the doubt that it does not deserve. It is not “mutating” or “creeping;” the ABSOLUTELY INTENTIONAL, ORIGINAL PURPOSE is simply now becoming more and more obvious, even to the people who desperately want to pretend it isn’t happening.

“Everything that contradicts my naive worldview is just ragebait”

Sure, buddy.

No, the problem is that people believe “[concept] on a computer” is somehow magically different from “[concept] IRL” when it’s not.

When you buy a game from Steam, you buy a game, not a license, and the First Sale Doctrine applies just as much as it does if you buy a board game from Walmart. Any claims to the contrary are simply lies, and any government support for such lies is simply tyranny.

TIL you can now drive there from France.

Propaganda works, and the tech oligarchs have their entire massive weight on the scales there just like they do everywhere else.

It’s not “for repairs.” It is, itself, damage.

Reminds me of this:

The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren’t the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.

I remember reading someone getting taken down because they were asking how to extrude instead of pad while they were on the ‘part design’ workbench

Why are those even two different things at all?!

Those two would probably never have gotten started if not for how easy the Bambus are. It took me a month to get decent results off my first printer and they were up and running in a few hours tops.

I’ve got to admit, I’ve never understood that sort of issue. I’ve owned two 3D printers, a Monoprice MP Select Mini (bought back when it was the only ‘cheap’ printer in existence… holy shit, probably almost a decade ago) and a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE (because it was the best ‘cheap’ printer as of a couple years ago), and both of them gave me decent prints pretty much out of the box. After bed leveling, obviously, but without any other weird hardware adjustment or excessive experimentation with slicer settings.

I feel like the vaunted ‘superior ease of use’ of the Bambu stuff is overblown, but IDK, maybe I’ve just been lucky.

Q: “How have you dealt with this?”

A: Poorly.

Retrofitting infotainment on your terms is entirely different from dealing with it preinstalled in a new car. For example, I’m betting yours doesn’t have an unskippable popup warning about paying attention to the road that you have to dismiss every time you turn on the car. Or telemetry that rats out your driving behavior to the manufacturer and/or the insurance company and/or law enforcement. Or other sorts of adware or malware.

And considering that you had to add it to begin with, it definitely doesn’t disable the entire car if you try to remove it or otherwise neuter the hostile misfeatures.

Even in the context of having only experienced certain other CAD software a little bit (e.g. SolidEdge for one class in college, SketchUp for making maybe a handful of models, total), FreeCAD really is worse to use. It’s not just the UI, (although it is partly that and it is genuinely worse, not just neutrally different), it’s that stuff just starts breaking whenever you try to do anything even slightly complex (even after the “topological naming fix”), and that the workflow is just annoyingly internally inconsistent.

For example, you can make a sketch and then apply constraints to it and it’s all well and good, but then you extrude it and suddenly you have to declare the height by setting the properties of the extrude instead of using a constraint or dimension. I assume there’s some kind of workaround involving declaring variables in the data table thing I can’t remember the name of or how to access right now, but it shouldn’t have to be that way. You ought to be able to do things like create a cube by declaring an X edge to be the same length as a Y edge to be the same length as a Z edge using the same tool to set both relationships.

And this is coming from somebody who refuses to use proprietary CAD as a matter of principle at this point, and therefore really, really wants to like FreeCAD.