Then that will be Microsoft’s captive audience upsell. “Ohhh don’t want us collecting your secrets? Damn better pay up for enterprise licenses…”

I actually really doubt it’d ever go on by default for enterprise installations. One tiny slipup in GPO and IT departments could end up with the most massive explicit data leak in history, many many companies and governments working with very sensitive data would drop all Microsoft products in a heartbeat. Microsoft knows that is an impossible sell and really not worth the squeeze vs just shoving a larger dildo up the private consumer’s ass.

They already said it will be off by default for all Enterprise editions of windows. They’re protecting their corporate buddies but normal users get fucked, as always.

The asset streaming requirements are insane- they recommend having a 150mbps connection for a smooth experience with 50mbps as a minimum. Microsoft says they only planned for 250k players at launch, which is stupid considering FS 2020 had over a million sales at launch…

Torrents are always better because they don’t cost the open source projects anything to host. Direct downloads are expensive relatively speaking for server bandwidth/cdn costs, while torrents can be distributed by the community.

Basically yeah. Up until Zen 2 intel didn’t do much innovating and only around the zen 2 era did those 4th/6th gen chips start to really struggle in modern workloads.

18 months? Lol.

Intel has been stagnating since the 4th gen Core uarch in 2014 with little competition. They knew they were top dog and they sat on their hands until their hands went numb. There’s a reason “14nm++++++++++” was a running joke. This is a decade of monopolistic market behavior finally coming home to roost.

That doesn’t mean anything to a patent troll company like Stratasys. They have tons of generalized patents issued in the last few years on things the 3d printer community has been using as prior art for decades prior and they are using that as a basis to take down Bambu. Like heated beds, lmfao. They’ll make some shit up and sue anyway because they’re becoming irrelevant and are unable to compete legitimately anymore. And the Texas court well known for protecting corporate interests will hand them whatever they want.

Great feature indeed. Here before the stratasys lawsuit lands in Josef’s inbox.

smart!

the only thing I’d worry about is 3d prints not being actually sealed. the layer lines are never airtight and always allow air and thus moisture to leak past them unless a lacquer sealant is applied. so this won’t keep film very fresh for a very long time but would work great for travel and transport!

Humidity ruins PLA. It turns brittle AF once it has absorbed any major amount of moisture, and that is significantly sped up with temperature.

??? i was talking about car engines? Hyundai’s Theta engine series has been cursed with design flaws and horrible machining quality for so many years now that I don’t really trust any of their vehicles enough to even consider switching to one.

Now if only they could start building usable engines, it’d be great.

It might, after years and years.

Thr problem with snap tariffs is it doesn’t give the economy time to reorient. All of that overseas industrial capacity providing those imports has taken decades to ramp up, while US capabilities have atrophied badly. It will take many years for US manufacturing to fully catch up, and in the mean time the 50% or more price increase on tons of basic goods would become baked into the price of said goods and only drive additional crazy inflation.

And even if you ramp them up over time, there is not much business incentive to jump into the water immediately, and you have the same problem.

The article mentions consumer devices but this would also smack basically every single piece of commercial and industrial electronics hardware too and have a lot of knock on effects.

Moving goal posts!

It’s both lack of competition and the end of Moores law. We’ve effectively reached the end of silicon gate sizes and the tooling complexity required to keep shrinking process nodes and increase transistor density is increasing exponentially, so semiconducters no longer get cheaper… and it’s starting to push these cutting edge nodes outside of economic viability for consumer products. I’m sure TSMC is taking a very healthy profit cut for sure but the absolute magic they have to work to have 2nm work at all is beginning to be too much.

NGL, I feel that Prusa has lost their edge.

Yes, they are still the pioneers, and yes, their company still has strong morals and a open-source culture that is lovely for the community.

But- the market has left them behind. XL is a great idea but awfully expensive and maybe not perfectly implemented. MK4’s are great-ish, but get their pants beat off in speed and quality by a P1P that’s $300 cheaper. I know running manufacturing in countries with functional human rights incurs a significant cost, but unfortunately the fickle “free” market that cares more about getting plastic onto a build plate doesn’t take such things into account frequently enough. And that’s worrisome for Prusa’s future.

This is a very good start. It will have limited effectiveness depending how exactly wet the filament is though, as the diffusion speed of water in plastic is low and it takes time to get the water actually out of the center to the surface to evaporate. The few minutes a filament sits in the inline dryer might be OK for surface moisture but will fail with wetter spools.

I think the ideal system would be to have a dry box that the heating unit and fan blow into, but then feed the filament out to the printer through a “stove pipe” that acts as the dry box exhaust. This way you’re still drying the whole spool over time but then get that “final blast” to ensure the surface is as dry as possible. Make sure to insulate all walls such that you reduce how much heat you lose as the air passes through.

Damn. Proton is doing a good job of stacking up W’s these days.

Flawless statistics!