TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@piefed.social
- Comment on No worries, companies of 3d printers will find out how to scam their customers soon too 21 hours ago:
That’s half the fun!
- Comment on No worries, companies of 3d printers will find out how to scam their customers soon too 21 hours ago:
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. It has killed other 3D printing companies and they’d be no different. They’re assholes, but they’re far from stupid.
They do track the use of given so spool, by the way, but not by individual tag. 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.
- Comment on If only I had enough for the superior siege engine 6 days ago:
- Comment on Keep puffin, dork. 6 days ago:
…what?
- Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 1 week ago:
Not that I want to defend that Epstein-associated adulterer, because fuck him, but he probably never said the quote.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
$60 in 2007 is a bit under $100 now in terms of purchasing power. Games have essentially gone down in price.
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 2 weeks ago:
That’s true of a few BattleBots contenders.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 2 weeks ago:
I thought that story was about how he ended up in American Graffiti. Maybe I’m misremembering.
- Comment on Whoops! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on modest fashion is the best💖 4 weeks ago:
Is that what they mean by Mental Floss?
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
No More Mages is a very short (for now) but also very inexpensive (for now) beat-em-up platformer in early access that was made by a fellow lemming. He made it known to me in a comment a few months back, I picked it up, finished it quickly, but definitely felt it had been worth tossing a couple of dollars at a fellow Fediverse user for! I’m looking forward to what happens with it in the future.
- Comment on How it feels shitting in the school bathroom 5 weeks ago:
He picked his side
Real talk, I suspect most of us, had we been born in the South in the 1840s or early 1850s, would fight for the Confederacy. We are products of our environment, upbringing, and experiences after all. There were abolitionists in the South, but they were few and far between. And as much as the war was actually about the institution of slavery, to the average southerner it was about freedom and state’s rights and shit because that’s what they knew and were told. People were loyal to their state before they were loyal to their country because they didn’t have much knowledge of the world beyond their towns.
What’s more, conscription meant that even men who didn’t want anything to do with the war were fighting in it. In a particularly bitter bit of irony, if you owned twenty or more slaves you were exempt from being conscripted to go fight for slavery.
I will say firmly that the cause of the Confederacy was evil, but I can’t find much more than pity for the average schmuck fighting for it.
- Comment on How it feels shitting in the school bathroom 5 weeks ago:
Statistically speaking he was a poor man simping for slavers, not a slaver himself. But I suppose you could philosophically say that as someone who participated in a society built on slavery he was a slaver in effect if not literally.
- Comment on Day 710 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
I’d say most about this hobby is not complete shit. There are many games with live services and micro transactions, but not all of them. And even those that have them, you can usually avoid them.
Costs are certainly going up, unfortunately, but that’s not because of the hobby being shit. That’s because of the AIpocalypse (hardware) and monetary inflation (game prices).
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 5 weeks ago:
Okay so make it consistent then?
Easier said than done.
There is no Federal VAT, and each state decides its own tax policy. Most states charge a “sales tax.” Some states charge more, other states charge less. These are set by the state and depend on each state’s overall budget and taxation structure. For example, a state like Tennessee that doesn’t collect income tax may require a higher sales tax to meet budget demands, whereas a state like Oregon that collects a high income tax may have no sales tax at all.
What’s more, some states let local municipalities charge sales tax. Alaska actually charges no state sales tax, but allows local sales taxes. Several states have both a state and local sales tax. So even within a state it can be different depending on where you are.
So instead our prices don’t include tax and we just know we have to throw on anywhere from 0% to 11% depending on our location.
In order for pricing to include taxes, you’d have to display a different price for every state or municipality. Or, we’d have to get everyone to agree on one VAT standard, which will not happen because different states have wildly different ideologies regarding taxation.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 5 weeks ago:
I kinda doubt it. CEC lets it turn your receiver and TV on when it turns on, and off when it turns off. And lets it adjust volume. Stuff like that.
At the end of the day it’s still running Linux and my understanding is that streaming services don’t trust Linux users.
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 5 weeks ago:
At this point my Xbox exists for exactly three reasons.
1: BluRay player 2: Borderlands 4 with a friend who only has Xbox
3: Stream my PC to the TV with Moonlight so I can play PC games on the big screen. - Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
I can’t fault you for your opinion. I loved the game, but it definitely isn’t for everyone and I know plenty of people who share your view. And I understand the complaint! It just doesn’t bother me the same way it does you. To each their own, you know?
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
used to make good games…
The last two new games they made were, if I am correct, GTAV and RDR2. The two games I mentioned as having loved. What “used to”?
stop defending these companies who have already proven to not give two fucks about you
Where was I defending anyone? I said I expect the game will be good because the last two they made I loved.
and want to extort more and more from you.
They haven’t gotten a dime from me for anything except game releases, so if you’re trying to complain about GTA Online or Red Dead Online…that ain’t me. As far as I’m concerned, they made products I liked that I paid for. And my guess is the next one will also be something I like.
grow a pair of balls FFS… actually stand up for what’s right
I don’t think falling in line and following your feelings on this topic would be me growing a pair of balls…
and stop caving to your simple mind of, oh but it’s kinda fun
RDR2 was art. That game made me cry. It told a beautiful, tragic story any told it incredibly well. “It’s kinda fun” is hilariously reductive.
But even if it were only kinda fun, it’s a video game. That’s the whole point, right? It’s supposed to be entertaining. It being a piece of art is just the cherry on top.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
Hahaha
I get it, but…it’s gonna be a banger. Rockstar may be a terrible place to work, but they make good games. GTAV and RDR2 are among my favorite game experiences.
I just wish it were releasing for PC at the same time.
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 1 month ago:
Oh hooray. Let’s go backwards in time.
Sony, Microsoft, you fucking dipshits. The RAMpocalypse is making hardware a premium and you’re going back to the hardware exclusivity nonsense?
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 month ago:
I’ve had to put letters on signs like this before. You don’t get equal numbers of every letter, less-frequent letters have fewer. And if they get broken or stolen or blow away or something, that can seriously limit you. So you figure out ways to make up for it, like flipping M upside-down for W.
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 months ago:
So then I got put in catholic school, and without knowing what sex was, began to ask the church if Mary had baby Jesus, through God, so God is the father, why wasn’t Peter pissed that his wife was having a baby with another man? My friends parents split up, because she had a baby from another man. Logically I thought Peter should have been pissed, but he wasn’t. So I asked why.
Joseph, not Peter.
- Comment on Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO 5 months ago:
Microsoft saw people paying for PS+ anyway and copied Sony’s homework. Game Pass is shit too, now.
- Comment on Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO 5 months ago:
SteamOS on PS5 when?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Testicular torsion is one of my greatest fears.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 5 months ago:
Sounds delicious though.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 5 months ago:
Also, the Taco Bell Breakfast Crunchwrap, steak, with extra creamy jalapeño sauce, is perhaps the greatest fast food breakfast item of all time.
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 5 months ago:
It wasn’t a bad deal for me. I was going to be paying for Game Pass anyway, and this was when the consoles weren’t always staying on shelves. Managed to snag one of the lease-to-own versions or whatever and never regretted it.
- Comment on what a drag 5 months ago:
That he was going to be able to take a picture without the window in the way. That’s what that hole is for.
But you’re supposed to have your camera on a strap or something so this doesn’t happen.
