Great move by Snapmaker. In considering buying a new printer soon I am very annoyed by how difficult it is to know beforehand how much functionality of a printer is locked behind cloud connectivity that can be remotely disabled at any point. I know Bambu is to avoid absolutely thanks to the very public backlash they got but what about the others?

I know Prusa is a shining example of letting their customers own their devices but they are pricy. I didn’t know Snapmaker had the same kind of mentality until now thanks to that move.

Microslop has been doing this crap for decades

Great work! Hopefully this will spread.

And they won’t be held responsible for it.

The profit motive has been getting in the way of a lot of productivity lately.

The connector is flimsy, will wear out in applications where you connect and disconnect it often and the while standard is controlled by big tech and they abuse that power to hinder open source efforts.

Ah, I see you are logging in using Bash

Log in with an actual wooden log

You have to be in visual range, or radar range if you have one, which is the horizon plus a bit more depending how high above sea level your are and how tall your target is.

If you’re on a ship, unless you’re using an advanced radar that bounces signals against the ionosphere or you have a meteorological phenomena called an inversion which can curve your radar energy over the horizon a little bit, your radar horizon is surprisingly short, something around 12 nautical miles give or take. And the sea is big and Iran is quite far.

This is one big reason why aircraft are used for surveillance at sea. They can go much higher than any ship’s radar antenna mast every could be which significantly expands their radar horizon. They can also scan a huge area relatively quickly as they can travel much faster.

Because if this fuck up, Iran now has the intel that the French carrier is approaching without even having to send an aircraft out to look for it. If they even still have the ability to do so at this point.

But what if what your are looking for is AI generated articles that don’t provide any trustworthy answers or top 10 lists of products that their manufacturers paid the site to figure on the list? Google is still the best for that.

Hopefully this doesn’t give Microslop executives the idea of turning it into a feature to force their users to save their files onto OneDrive

Peaceful living as a smoldering skeleton

I am no programmer and understand almost nothing of the documentation and yet somehow I can tell it’s all bullshit.

It reads like a kid making up words in an attempt to sound smart mixed up with the description for a shady Amazon product.

You forgot to mention that the product they’re sacrificing everything for is widely failing to meet expectations and that they will likely expect taxpayers to bail them out when their investments fail and threaten to take out the entire economy with themselves

IDK if I’m understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves

That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left their customers hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.

This isn’t new. I remember seeing a promotion for this exact same printer many years ago already. I’d approach it with suspicion.

And yet the “I don’t care that they gather data on me, I have nothing to hide” crowd is still clueless

It is baffling that people hadn’t clued in about this sooner