I imagine it more along the lines of breaking a promise. Law is more or less a social contract, so it’s less that the law no longer functions and more that the person in question is breaking the agreement.
But also yes, one who repeatedly breaks the contract with no consequences, definitely calls into question the value and validity of the contact, and that’s when things really start to, erm… Break.
I wouldn’t let multicolor be a barrier for entry for you. It’s something that can technically be added later*, but it is much more difficult to convert a printer to be able to work with engineering materials. Personally speaking, I also wouldn’t mix multicolor and engineering materials ABS is pretty cheap but anything that would need a hardened nozzle (like glass or carbon fiber reinforced filaments) is almost too expensive to waste purging. Plus, if I’m remembering correctly, color swapped prints aren’t quite as strong structurally as monofilament prints.
* technically speaking as long as your printer can run Klipper, there are community projects like Box Turtle or Enraged Rabbit that are meant for more general use (if you’re okay tinkering with things) if Elegoo never gets around to releasing their multicolor unit.
Heads up, PEI sheets are great because you can take them off and flex them a bit to pop parts off, but it is worth noting that PETG (and TPU) can also bond too well to PEI. It depends a bit on the kind and quality of the PEI, but you may still want to use a release layer (I’m partial to washable glue sticks, but everyone has their own personal preferences) just to keep your plate safe.
A solid majority of Bastille’s discography comes to mind, though not as outright depressing as Pumped Up Kicks or Youth of a Nation, most of their tracks tend to be very instrumentally upbeat and lively, with gorgeous vocals, but thematically darker lyrics / topics. Happier comes to mind as immediately fitting the prompt (and having enough radio play to be recognizable), but The Draw, Haunt, and Skulls also fit well (I’d also included their cover of City High’s What Would You Do, also long as being a cover isn’t a immediate disqualifier).
I feel like they’re kind of slept on since they don’t get a whole lot of radio play outside of a handful of songs, but all their other work is just so good. Personal top favorite artist, hands down.
I’ve got a Unifi switch and a gateway instead of a dream machine, but that’s not far from the setup I’m working on (just need the weather to cool down so that I can coexist with the sun in the attic so that I can do the run to the doorbell).
Ethernet’s not nearly as scary as mains power, I wired up our house with 10 runs though the attic and it’s super doable as a DIY project. Consult your local codes/ laws and all, but I was able to run my cable though j-hooks instead of having to put conduit up everywhere, the biggest gotcha was more in the trying to keep my lines away from existing AC power and finding the wall framing under the insulation in the attic. The company TrueCable has a YouTube channel with a bunch of helpful resources on pretty much everything Ethernet/ networking, I’d highly recommend it even if you aren’t buying cable from them (I ended up doing so because they were cheaper than everywhere else and I could get all my jacks, wall plates, and tools in the same order - this was also a year ago though, so prices may have shifted since).
I really like my MX master 2S (second only to my MX Vertical, because I get wrist pain), it’s been really solid for programming, office tasks, light gaming and even some fps titles (I play almost exclusively arcade/non-competitive modes though). That said, I’m not sure I’d recommend it for OP, the MX line isn’t known for using the best rubber materials (the rubber on mine is starting to wear out on the right side and on the scroll wheels - I know v3 switched to using metal scroll wheels which should help a bunch, but I’m not sure if they’ve changed/ fixed anything else).
I was content to let the other comments address the history since I’m not particularly well versed there (and there’s already enough confidently incorrect bullshit in the world). I mostly just wanted to interject on why there aren’t more chip companies beyond just hand waving it away as “market consolidation”, which is true, but doesn’t take into account that barrier for entry in the space is less on the scale of opening up a sandwich restaurant or boutique clothing store and more on the order of waking up tomorrow and deciding to compete with your local power/ water utility provider.
The answer also gets kind of fuzzy outside the conventional computer space and where single board/ System On a Chip designs are common, stuff like Raspberry Pi’s or smart phones, since they technically have graphics modules designed be companies like Snapdragon or MediaTek. It’s also worth noting that computers have gotten orders of magnitude more complicated compared to the era of starting a tech company in your garage.
If it helps answer your question, according to Wikipedia, most of the other GPU companies have either been acquired, gone bankrupt, or aren’t competing in the Desktop PC market segment.
The short concise answer is mostly cost. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all spending multiple billions of dollars per year in R&D alone. It’s just not a space where someone can invent something in their garage and disrupt the whole industry (like, even if someone were to come out of left field with a revolutionary chip design, they’d need to convince investors that they’d be a better bet than literal trillion dollar companies).
I was just thinking that a PiHole might make for a pretty good parental control too. Slightly more advanced networking, but that way you could block YouTube (and anything else) on a per-device basis while still allowing software updates and the like though (at least until your kid figures out how to override the network provided DNS, but at that point they’re hopefully either responsible enough for YouTube or well on their way to a promising career in tech). Plus it gives some observability into what sites are being visited if that’s needed.
Very much agree though, it shouldn’t take an IT degree/ hobby to do parental controls.
I’ve been rocking a Framework 16 for about a year now and would happily recommend it. It’s a bit more upfront, but I love knowing that I can fix or replace just about anything on it (pretty affordably too). It’s just so refreshing to not have to worry about dumb shit like an obscure power adapter or port forcing my laptop into an early retirement.
It’s not the lightest laptop I’ve ever had, but realistically not all that much different from my last gaming laptop. Now that I’m not a full time student anymore I could probably get away with one of the smaller models, but the form factor is pretty nice.
Overall, no major complaints!
I had a whole mini guide on PC building and then accidentally clicked cancel after checking my formatting and lost it, oh well…
Oh, an old GPU is perfect! One of my builds rocked a 750ti well past it’s prime, and it only got replaced because one of the HDMI ports gave up the ghost. Plus, Black Friday isn’t all that far off, so there’s a slim chance you might be able to find something more on sale once you decide if it’s needed.
Yeah, AM5 is still somewhat new, so it’s not as common on the second hand market. Plus, I get 'ya, the second hand market can be tricky for some stuff if you’re not super read up on all the tech/ acronyms and cross referencing every part (nobody wants to buy a bunch of things and go to put it together only to realize it doesn’t work together).
Another personal preference, but I might recommend a second SDD if you can swing it (I tend to favor the WD black and Samsung pro lines, but realistically anything is probably fine. I believe this list is the one the buildapcsales folks reference. Speaking of, here’s the current sales). Moving to a new system can be a bit chaotic and it always feels bad to lose data (because you forgot that Thunderbird stores your emails in appdata or that mods you were working on were in program files and not your user folder). Plus, windows can get weird if you just re-home the drive into a new board. I usually try for a clean install if I can, just to remove all the old drivers and do some spring cleaning. If you do end up with a spare drive kicking around, something like this is by no means necessary, but a handy way to turn it into a giant flash drive for backups/ PC moves.
Oh nice! That’s the same mobo I’ve got. My only real complaint is that the MSI utility for RGB will only run under the local administrator account, which isn’t that big a deal, otherwise it’s been pretty solid.
I’m happy to have helped! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!
Unless you’re running a small form factor case, I might recommend stepping up to a full sized ATX mobo if you can squeeze it into the budget. As long as your CPU is supported it’s hard to go wrong, but I generally prefer the extra headroom of full sized boards; mostly for situations where I might need to toss in an extra drive or something, plus they’re usually a bit less cramped which makes them easier to work on. (Personally, I’m not a huge fan of Gigabyte. I haven’t sworn them off, but I find their software to be kinda clunky and annoying. Plus, I have two different machines with Gigabyte bios’ that seem to think “wake on LAN” means wake up randomly in the middle of the night, just because).
In general, RimWorld is pretty CPU bound (especially if you’re running a moderate or heavy mod list (modders don’t always write the most optimized code, myself included)), so a 3060 is probably overkill (assuming you don’t play anything else that might need it). From a RimWorld performance standpoint you’d get much more bang for your buck by cheaping out on the GPU and putting the money towards your CPU (1.6 brought in a bunch of multi threading and performance improvements, but generally speaking, a higher CPU clock speed means the game takes less time to do the computational work per tick. For the). Alternatively, if we’re talking as cheaply as possible, you might be able to get away with no GPU and using the CPU embedded graphics, it won’t be driving any AAA titles on 4k displays at crazy high refresh rates, but for RimWorld and the other games you’ve mentioned it should be plenty. Plus, the GPU is technically something you could come back and add later.
Also, it might be worth keeping an eye on the buildapcsales subreddit (there’s technically a Lemmy comm, but I don’t think it’s official affiliated and it looks pretty dead), especially if you’re thinking new hardware. If you live near a Microcenter, they’re known for doing CPU + mobo deals that stack with other promos. I’ve also had good luck with Best Buy’s price match (they won’t match Microcenter’s bundle, but if it’s a single item on sale it’s usually fair game).
If it helps, this is probably the list I’d be working off of, if I were buying today: pcpartpicker. It totals up to $645, which keeps it under your budget, but gives headroom to find a cheap GPU on the second hand market or a monitor or two if needed. The 7900X should easily handle the game (and pretty much anything else you throw at it), at $300+ it’s not cheap, but (as long as it’s not thermal throttling) I’ll do more for your TPS than a similarly priced GPU (7600X could probably be subbed in as a more affordable option (saves you $150). The boost ceiling is slightly lower, but still gets you most of the same performance at a much lower power draw and price tag).
Funny enough, it’s not all that dissimilar from my current build, build primary as a video transcoding rig (also a CPU bound endeavor) to feed my Plex server (and handle late game RimWorld, but I will admit to having been too busy lately to put that to the test).
At the risk of stirring up the “just use Linux” woodwork: because the mantra always seems to fall apart once the use case exceeds web browsing and light gaming.
Loosely quoting one of my own comments from a few months ago:
I tried to switch my primary computer (framework laptop) to Linux earlier this year, I made it about a month before I gave up and went back to windows. I had an absolute nightmare with my type-c KVM (frequently, but irregularly causing the machine to freeze and require a reboot). Coupled with performance issues while gaming (and the hassle of having to force games to use my graphics card (oh sure, Steam will pass the arg, but only if Steam itself doesn’t crash loop due to the “use video acceleration” setting being bugged)). Add in whatever random auth/config issues I got trying to remote into other windows machines on my domain (for CAD and graphic design work).
My day job is in software engineering/ programming, so I’m not exactly a stranger to digging through documentation and fixing computer issues, but spending time fixing my computer instead of using it got old pretty quick.
Perfectly happy with Linux in my HomeLab and on my steamdeck though!
Yes Windows really sucks, especially as of late, but I don’t have to worry about my machine freezing when I connect an external display, and for the most part I can rein in the ad delivery and AI nonsense though group policy. Plus I have machines in my domain that are primarily used for CAD software (that isn’t exactly known for playing nicely with Linux, thanks AutoDesk).
That said, I’m not opposed to trying a different distro at some point in the future, but I’m of the option that some time in the oven is still needed…
Not to nitpick, but it’s only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word “said”, is all the dialogue this bad?
Agreed. Not to burst OPs bubble, but I highly doubt they’re hitting a flow rate that high.
If I had to guess, Orca is capping their extrusion move speeds at whatever speed the filament_max_volumetric_speed of their filament profile is set to. In other words, if the profile is set to 12 (default for Creality Generic PLA) the actual speed is probably something like 150mm/s (flow / (nozzle diameter * layer height), so 12 / (0.4 * 0.2)), regardless of what the speed value is set to.
The blue/ silver is very striking, I’m excited!
Looks like the artist has a Patreon that they post strips to: https://www.patreon.com/Dudolf
Honorable mentions:
Shit post aside, I had a friend with a background in the restaurant industry (did a bunch of time in various restaurants, went through cooking school, that kind of thing), who put on a work sponsored barbeque. When someone asked why the folks helping him got promoted to Chef, my friend explained it as “everyone in the kitchen is addressed as Chef, it doesn’t matter if they’re calling the shots, cooking food, or doing dishes. It’s a show of respect.” Grain of salt and all since cultures vary between restaurants, but it’s stuck with me because it was such a genuine moment of “this dude loves to cook and got a chance to share something he’s super passionate about”.