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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can’t find any trace of you online. And if they really care, they’ll dig harder to find that time where you declared bankruptcy, or you got arrested for public intoxication, or where someone deep in your past said something negative about you, and that’s all that will stick in your mind when they think of you.

    For me personally, having a simple, but relatively barren social media presence is worth it to avoid the persistent diggers, who will find something about you if they don’t see anything public.

    And besides, everything about most of us is already stored in Apple or Google’s datacenters. There’s no hiding from the deeply intrusive data collection those companies do. So having some simple information out in the open is likely better for privacy in some ways.

    If you disagree with my take, that’s fine, I just wanted to give another perspective.











  • The only thing you can’t do with an open API is exploit every dollar of value that passes through your service.

    The main difference between a Silicon Valley API and a FOSS API, is the SV API is trying to get tons of people rich as fuck by exploiting you. The FOSS API can live long and prosper by simply asking for donations every once in a while, or engaging in very light-handed monetization.

    There are like a million little nuances to this whole issue, and the lack of nuance is what Silicon Valley relies on to convince people that they must pillage their users, but that’s the gist.




  • does that change your recommendation at all?

    Not Really.

    I’d get maybe $300 worth of printer, and then save the other couple hundred bucks for filaments and modifications that you’ll want after spending a while with the machine. That’s where the Ender 3 S1 fits right in.

    I don’t really recommend spending more as a beginner, because you wont know what you actually need until you start printing stuff.

    Though, if you don’t like to fiddle with stuff at all, the Bambulabs P1P ($599) is a thing that makes good parts. I still don’t recommend it, especially for a beginner. But for someone who just wants stuff to work in an Apple sort of way, (expensive, locked down, a bit contrived, but mostly seamless) that might be the best choice.


  • If I were starting printing today, I’d probably get an Ender 3 S1. You also can’t go wrong with Prusa printers, but you’ll pay a bit (a lot) more for them.

    Really anything from those “best beginner printer” lists will work, as long as it has ABL (auto bed leveling).

    Regardless of what anyone else says, you’ll want ABL at some point, so just get it right off the bat. Because adding an ABL sensor afterwards can sometimes be super annoying.

    But I wouldn’t recommend anything from Bambulabs. Lots of gear on those printers is proprietary, and you will need to buy parts at some point.

    With other printers you can get cheap parts everywhere. With Bambulabs printers though, enjoy waiting months for a $180 part that’s $20 on every other printer.