The image doesn’t really look like columnar basalt, but I could be wrong.

That’s half the fun!

their end goal is 100% to restrict use to their filament only.

I’ll be shocked if that ends up happening. The RFID tags are a convenience, but their software includes profiles for major filament manufacturers.

Don’t get me wrong, the closed-off stuff is frustrating. But they’d have to be complete idiots to limit to their own materials. Locking to proprietary filaments has killed other 3D printing companies and they’d be no different. They’re assholes, but they’re far from stupid.

And I’m sure they’ll track the use on a given spool so you can’t keep refilling it with filament from other brands.

They do track the use of given spool, but not by individual tag. The tag just had the filament profile on it. Instead, when you load up a spool into the AMS they feed it all the way through to the nozzle and then retract it. During this they track how often the tag passes the RFID reader, which tells it how full the spool is since the circumference gets smaller as the spool empties.

But if you put the tag on a refill from another brand, like I do, it goes back to detecting a full spool. I’ve found that Polyterra works just fine with the Bambu Matte settings, so I order Polymaker’s refill spools. Using the tag means it loads up the color cards data for me, which is convenient.

Black Flag Resynced. Obligatory “fuck Ubisoft,” but I loved the original and I’ve been loving the remaster. And I’m pretty sure this is the first Ubisoft title I’ve bought since the original. It runs surprisingly well on the Deck if you limit it to 30FPS and put it on one of the handheld settings.

That is, I love it when I can play it. I’ve been traveling this weekend, and if I want to run the game I need to connect the Deck to my phone’s hotspot to start the game. It can run disconnected, just needs to be connected to start it. But fortunately the Deck suspends and wakes just fine while the game is already running, so I’ve just left it going.

(Obviously it looks much better if I play on my PC or stream it to the Deck from the PC, but I’ve been glad to be able to play it on the go with minimal fuss.)

I’d also rather be vaccinated than dead from my first round of COVID. But yes, I know some people suffering from long COVID and it absolutely sucks.

We all knew infection was the best protection.

Statistically speaking, yes, comparing the group who had had COVID vs the group that was vaccinated, in subsequent COVID infections those who had had the disease were less likely to die.

Because those in the infection group who were most likely to die of COVID had already died. Turns out surviving COVID is a good indicator of your ability to survive COVID.

The statistics on unvaccinated first-time COVID vs vaccinated first-time COVID tells a very different story.

This kind of bullshit frustrates me so much.

Models can be trained on consumer hardware. They’ll just be limited in size and scope compared to larger models.

If she’s going to throw transgender people under the bus, she will also do nothing to protect immigrants, or people of color, or parents, or the elderly, or animals, or the climate, or the environment, etc.

Politics is not two-dimensional. Don’t get me wrong, she’s acting like a piece of utter shit in her treatment of trans people. But to assume all of her other beliefs because of that one is a fallacy. Would I rather the people of Ohio have a viable progressive candidate? 100%. But they don’t, because

The more I think on it, the only move that plays to win is putting in the effort to organize around a grassroots progressive as a write-in.

In a first-past-the-post system, all this move does is guarantee that the more conservative major candidate wins. This is called the spoiler effect. By removing support from the major candidate who is more aligned with your views, you are voting against your own interests, because it effectively improves the position of the major candidate who is less aligned with your views. There is not a vote total a candidate needs to win, they just need more votes than the other candidates.

I absolutely despise our voting system, but despising it doesn’t mean it goes away. Until we move to a ranked choice system or something similar, it is practically always a losing move to abandon the lesser of two evils. In our shitty system, Vote aggressively for progressive candidates in primaries, and then vote defensively for the least regressive major candidate in the general. Until we do that, or until we get rid of our godawful system, the Republicans will keep winning. Because they understand this. You may have heard the phrase, “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.”

TV rules are weird in the US. This is going to be simplified, but essentially it’s accurate as I understand it. Because of the first amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, the government can’t actually tell you what you can and can’t say.

Except in the case of broadcast television. Because the way the law works, the right to use those radio signals is owned by the government and granted to companies. So the FCC gets to decide what you can and cannot say on a broadcast television channel.

Fox News is not a broadcast channel, it is a cable channel. So the government doesn’t get to tell them shit and they can get away with whatever they want.

Thank you, Michael J Caboose.

Large scale covid inflation was caused by FED printing too much money

Was it? Considering the inflation was global I figured it was more impacted by lack of supply and an increase in disposable income for those who were able to still work but not go anywhere.

he lied about being a physician.

Putting the best construction on it, I suspect it wasn’t a lie but rather a misguided attempt to distinguish between his PhD and his medical degree. As in, he is a doctor of medicine and a doctor of epidemiology. One might say “physician and doctor” or something.

But people took umbrage with the use of “physician,” which implies actual practice and licensure, so he stopped using it.

Calling it “lying” adds a level of dishonesty that I’m not sure is warranted. But that’s just me, you do you.

He completed med school, but never did a residency or worked as a physician.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t someone who graduated from medical school a doctor? You just can’t practice without supervision until you go through residency, right? But like, someone on their first day of residency is still a “doctor,” not a “student doctor.”

If rather than becoming licensed to practice medicine unsupervised he continued his schooling to become an epidemiologist, it doesn’t mean he isn’t an MD or DO (whichever he received from medical school), right?

Edit: Ah, the hangup is over the word “physician.” That’s…okay that seems silly to me but I guess I generally do hear that word in the context of “licensed physician.” So I can understand objecting to its use for someone who is not licensed.

I’ll continue to not turn on my PS5 for the last like 18 months.

…what?

Songs To Sing Along To

He better voice the AI, too. And Quasar.

The last two new games they made, GTA5 and RDR2, are both excellent single player games. But they’re not everyone’s cup of tea.

I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make here.

Is the Switch Lite the Honda Fit?