Was it “The News”?

Trump is old and feeble and will die before he faces any consequences.

This bitch we can put on trial.

“Bitch English” is the language I speak aloud while writing an overly polite email to assholes.

The Vista rollout was so bad.

My workplace got a bunch of new laptops that didn’t have Vista-compatible sound card drivers.

Years ago saw someone copy/pasting stuff in Excel one field at a time using the “Edit” menu. She told me this way she knew it was working.

I had to walk away.

I will also say that back then computers were a lot scarier, since many people had never used them. People were terrified of clicking the wrong thing.

Quarterly reports are what matters with publicly traded corporations because the public stock price is the product, because buying and selling those shares minute to minute are how investors make the money. The long-term health and profitability of the company isn’t important to them because their goal is to sell high as soon as possible.

That’s simply the reality of being on the open market. All public companies do that. The best, most moral company in the world will cease to be the second they go public.

For private corporations stock can’t be sold on a whim to whoever, so stability and longevity are important. Going public is either about cashing out or expanding quickly. Valve caught lightning in a bottle in that timed Steam just right to where there was no incentive to go public prior to becoming the behemoth they are.

The thing is, that doesn’t necessarily make them good or evil. Plenty of private companies are evil, and most are still driven solely by profit.

Valve keeps its customers happy because it is profitable to do so, not because it’s morally correct. It’s also why they sell loot boxes and take nearly triple the cut of sales that some other online marketplaces do.

Valve’s growth of Steam was flexibly scalable in a way that didn’t require a huge capital investment like buying a bunch of real estate, so they didn’t need the cash infusionoffered by going public. Keeping it private is more profitable.

Is Valve better than many other gaming companies? Yes. Is it because they have better morals? No.

It’s because they’re not publicly traded, so their practices focus on long-term profit and growth instead of short-term. They dont treat cusomer better than EA because it’s the right thing to do. They do it because the short-term profits from it are less than the long-term profits from having a loyal customer base.

They still operate for profit above all else.

Gabe is a billionaire yacht collector. He’s not your friend. He’s a parasite with good marketing.

And it means that in the end we’ll all have to face Harambe.

Doesn’t that pretty much describe DC? At one point, they ha Juaquin Phoenix Joker, DCEU, and the Robert Pattinson Batman all kinda overlapping.

Cable was a shitty service. It was expensive, you had to subscribe to a bunch of shit you didn’t want for just a few programs you did, and was full of ads. People dropped cable for streaming because it was cheaper, centralized, and didn’t have ads.

Now that cable is essentially dead, streaming is bringing back the high prices and the ads, and now you have to sign up for a bunch of shit you don’t want for the few programs you do.

In that case, for a random person I’d still recommend Bambu unless you’re boycotting on ethical grounds.

Their printers run just fine without a network. Just export the g-code to a microSD card, put the card in the printer, and select the model from the card. It also allows you to use whatever slicer you want that way.

It’s really only cloud printing that’s locked behind Bambu Studio.

The thing is unless you need the slightly bigger bed size, the A1 mininfrom Bambu is simply a better product. It’s faster, easier, and often cheaper (I got mine for like 150-ish). And the full-size A1 is also bigger.

That’s the thing with Bambu. What’s made them such a disruptor and given them the opportunity to be shitty is that they make a really good product with excellent software at less than half the price of a comparable Prusa.

And with the new SnapMaker U1 slapping back, they dropped their prices again. The new X2D is half the cost of the last-gen X1 and has an extra nozzle.

Exactly. And I think we need to be honest about our criticism of Bambu. A lot of it is legitimate complaints. They stepped into a community that built itself around sharing ideas and group effort. They benefited from the work of the community and made some great innovations, but refused to share those innovations with the community that had shared so much with them. That’s a dick move.

But there’s also an uncomfortable element of the Bambu hatred coming from people who have been part of the community for a long time. They tinkered and toiled using weed-eater line through modified hot glue guns and spent years buulding up shitty machines into something serviceable. They did awesome things, and they should be proud if it. But they can also be gatekeepers who are hostile to those who just want to print something without needing to understand g-code or what pressure advance is.

They don’t want new users who haven’t made the tinkering and fiddling the hobby. They see the confusion and technical knowledge required as a rite of passage all users need to experience. They were a huge part of making 3D printing what it is today, but (just like Bambu) hey don’t want the next guys to benefit from it.

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The problem with Bambu is they are not trash at all. Their printers are high-quality, and the way they integrate with their proprietary slicer (that they totally stole from the community before locking it down) and MakerWorld is genuinely excellent.

I have 3 Bambu printers. I don’t buy their products anymore (my newest printer is an SV-08 max), but I still use the ones I have and they’re excellent, easy machines. And if someone new comes to me wanting a starter “just click print and it works” solution, I’m still likely to point them towards an A1 mini. They’re cheap and work great out of the box with zero handholding from me required.

And that’s why I kinda hate them. They don’t have to be dickheads, but choose to be. Their products are fantastic, and I’d honestly be using Bambu Studio for them instead of Orca anyway.

I feel like I had one installed over my garage door.

“I’m homeless right now, so future affordable housing is worth nothing to me.”

Fist time I got an AARP flyer in the mail I wanted to punch the mailman.

They actually work in tandem now. And honestly, some of the generative stuff in Adobe products I find genuinely useful. Specifically I really like the AI noise reduction in Lightroom. It allows people with less-expensive cameras to have better end results.