ShadowRam

Vote with your wallet

I did.

I bought my 3080 back in 2020, because I knew AI was the future of graphics, based on all the R&D and white papers nVidia was pumping out up to that point.

No regrets.

Not my problem nVidia was the only one to invest in the tech, while AMD relied solely on TSMC to shrink their dies.

It has nothing to do with brand loyalty or fanboys or any of that shit.

It’s just straight up better tech.

Then I recommend Prusa Slicer.

This is likely a slicer issue.

What slicer?

Randomize Z seam

There is never a situation where this is a good setting to have on.

_ I’m not using … “retract on layer change”_

There’s your problem.

Hall-Effect is supreme,

But we’ve been using potentiometers for controller joysticks for 25 years now… and yet it’s only been a huge issue lately.

Path of Exile,

The true successor to Diablo 2

No matter what printer you get,

I recommend avoiding any printer designed to move the bed in the Y-Axis.

It’s an old design prior to CoreXY and it isn’t needed anymore, and has a lot of cons compared with no pros.

4,6,7,10

I don’t know. I know I played 9 in its entirety, but it is completely un-rememberable.

But yeah, 100% lets get back to the turn-based formula it was meant to be.
Bonus if we could go back to a 5-team instead of a 3-team

yeah, just because you’re not used to it, doesn’t make 24hz good.

That’s like saying modern animation is garbage and we should stick to stop-motion animation.

Motion interpolation is the best thing ever.

Ya know, I wouldn’t mind ads,

If google would just FUCKING LISTEN TO MY CURATING DECISIONS!!

No, I’m never going to buy a car based off an ad. Block em all.

No, I’m never switching insurance companies based on an ad.

No, I’m not interested in mobile games. Ever.

And yet when I tell google, block this content, not interested, I don’t want to see this particular topic.

It just doesn’t fucking listen.

You’d think this would be an absolute GOLD MINE of information that google would want, to better focus their ads,.

But they just ignore it,

It’s not about linking people to stuff they are interested in and taking a percentage… it’s about wasting everyone’s fucking time, and then they wonder why people run ad blockers.

Most-Hyped?

Since when?

10 years of printing on a custom-homemade machine.

Yeah, I’ve been ‘just printing’ now for about 5 years straight.
I don’t even look at the printer prior to sending it a print wirelessly. I just hit print, and it works.

Always sticks to bed, no failures.

It’s about knowing the mechanic’s and failure points and knowing how to maintain it properly.

Yeah, sorry… I think it’s $99CAD but yeah, $48US

Fusion is still the cheapest CAD software out there

Is it thou?

I was looking at Solidworks and it looks like I can sub for $99/year

https://www.solidworks.com/solution/3dexperience-solidworks-makers

Depends, What kind of programming are you interested in and what do you want to do with it?

• Low level microcontrollers (PLC’s, Robotics, Control systems, ROS, Automation, etc)

• Higher level systems (Software Engineering, Enterprise Software, Networking, etc)

• UX programming (Graphical User interfaces, human-machine interfacing, websites, etc)

• Video Game Programming

• AI Programming, Machine Learning, Prompt Engineering, maybe Data Processing, Vision systems, Simulations, etc

All depends on what you want to do with your programming. You’ll need to narrow down and focus on what you hope to do with it.

While Epic has been pouring money from Fortnite into Unreal Engine and making significant progress in updating the engine.

Unity has been sitting on its ass for years doing absolutely nothing in the way of R&D.

As a result, Unity is now left behind.

Valve has given up on being an Engine developer.

Epic with the Unreal Engine will have a monopoly soon if it doesn’t already.

Anyone attempting to make their own modern game engine these days are way behind the ball. All the big players are switching to Unreal.

And it’s not only Game Engine, but movie making engine as well.

The only company I could see that would have the $$$ and talent to compete against Epic for a Graphics Engine would be nVidia.

AMD doesn’t have the R&D and Scientists specializing in Graphics/Physics/Rendering/Simulation/InformationLoading like nVidia does.
Valve has the $$$ and talent, but they are focused on hardware now, and are even farther behind than Unity.

Having a single Game Engine monopoly will be bad for all of us in the end.

The only Video Game engine that I could see someone develop that could compete against Unreal, is if the engine was built from the ground up 100% focused on anti-cheat. Libraries that are designed from the start to be multiplayer focused with un-necessary data scrubbed properly from the clients so they can’t sniff out data. Something designed to be hack proof.

That game engine, even if not graphically intense would be highly sought after in a wide genre range of games.

Yeah, that’s bad.

What extruder are you using that has PTFE tube that close to hotend? and want to print that high temperatures?

I wouldn’t go above 220C unless its a proper all metal hotend.

Yes. The primary source of power.

It's not like I'm making shit up out of thin air. This is typical nomenclature for safety systems.

If you have an air system, the prime mover would be an pressurized air tank or accumulator.

Properly recognizing the prime movers of a system and defeating them correctly is part of safety.