1st. You dou you. 2nd. Kudos for the design and ingenuity.

Now the buts:

I personally don’t agree with the concept of “I’m going to print this just to prove I can”, especially if it’s subpar.

I have so much h to print, for me and for others, that I see this as a waste of time an filament.

My own personal point of view.

You want wild? I see it white and gold in the PC, and blue and black(ish) on the phone.

My cheapo countertop induction stove can be programed and has power/temp settings. I spent some time testing the temp feature and it was pretty accurate

If you use on an induction stove, it’s probably more efficient

They banned linux packages?

I hope this goes forward. I used to use sleepers a lot, but they were slowly deprecated. The idea of spending a day or more getting to the destination, is not very attractive to me. High speed rail, for under 4h trips is pretty much my limit for daytime travel by train.

Sleepers on the other hand! They are like teleporting! You go in, blackout, and suddenly you are there! Magic!

Prostitution works for me

Oh, FLAT hub!

At least they are removing all those gang members from the fields

Yeah, like the 2026 world cup.

I use Firefox with badger and ublock, and next dns which does a lot to make for a clean browsing experience, I didn’t know about that extension. Installed. Thanks!

I like Sovol, I like what they do, and how they do it, but this article makes it sound like Sovol did something groundbreaking.

Eddy? 15€, Rápido UHF (for example, much higher flow hotends out there ) around 70€. Converting an Ender 5 plus (easily found used in the sub 200€ range ) to corexy (Mercury one) around 230€.

So yes, the max is nice, but I’m modifying my 5 plus to be in that category of printer for around 300€, or if I had to buy a used E5+ under 500.

The regular SV08 IS groundbreaking. They essentially made a Voron for half the price.

"Canada joined Ireland, Thailand, Spain, Argentina and Mexico as the few countries that saw support increase over the past year, despite remaining below 2021 levels.

However, those countries regularly outpaced Canada across all questions asked by Ipsos."

So, not leading, eh?

This. His fan base thinks he’s playing 5D chess, while the liberals think he’s playing chess, but in reality he’s being allowed by his babysitters to throw checker pieces everywhere to divert attention.

Says the website that has a baljillion cookies

CheetahGPT

The ideal is a mix, planes for the long haul, trains for short haul.

I’m still waiting for someone to explain why nuclear Israel good nuclear Iran bad

French artillery engineers had a simple idea: Take a big gun, mount it on a truck, and you’ve got self-propelled artillery at relatively little cost.

Horses have been moving artillery pieces around basically since mobile cannons were developed.

I can empathize with (part) of your reservations. Others, as you pointed out may be a tad paranoid, and others are simply unfounded, and disregard advancements in general.

Nowhere did I say magic. I said I like the enhanced properties. It’s completely logical to expect enhancements. Progress is littered with unfortunate developments. It’s a price we pay for advancements, but if you assume that by default, advancements are bad, we might as well all just stop breathing and die.

I could spend the next few months listing initial advances or improvements thereof, that are unquestionably good. PLA is such an example, as are other bioplastics, vaccines, seat belts and air bags, air source heat pumps, most renewable energy generation (or rather extraction) methods, BPA free, easily recyclable plastics, like PET, long distance communications both voice and data, accessible long distance travel, fucking tools and fire! And so many more advancements.

Of course there are things like lead in gas, or the systematic attack to efficient mass transport in the US, leaded paint, use of asbestos, hydrocarbon fuels, massively toxic pesticides, PFOAS, Ford Pintos and the corporate decisions behind them, etc.

But the balance I think is positive, and contrary to what many scream, we humans tend to try to redress the harms we cause.

Assertions like “We live in primitive times where biology is only in a precursor stage of discovery and poorly understood.” when we can literally fucking manipulate DNA, is just plain ignorant.

You seem to imply that all advancements are dangerous, or evil. Not so. It may be two steps forward, one back, but we go forward.

BTW, I hope you are making that popcorn from corn you planted from heirloom seeds, and extra virgin olive oil, in a solar oven, else you are probably going to be eating GMO, cooked in fucked-up fats, while breathing fumes from burned hydrocarbons, or being subjected to one of many forms of radiation, etc.