Although I agree with your sentiment, Slashdot is dying. It was painfully clear in the thread about James Horner. However I did want to ask: When did Ask Slashdot EVER produce no criticism? I remember ten years ago when the big complaint was that people would ask any question at all when there was the magic Google around.

You're averse to clickbait so you fequent Slashdot?

Your joke mighta been funny if it had contained a humorous punchline.

Sold.

Less pocket space. Not as heavy, so if dropped it's less likely to break.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Actual machinist doing some destruction testing on a 3D printed part. $2200 printer is not "10-20 times" the cost of a cheap mill either.
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Bad news - look under the hood of your car sometimes. Quite a few components have the ABS recycling number on them.

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The heavier the phone, the easier it is to break. Meanwhile, standby time is overrated.

Nah, it takes me having a communications device I can do a lot more communication with so I see the power bar more often.

What brand of DVD player do you have that crashes at all, let alone blue screens?

Are you on the correct site?

Back in the late nineties I had a phone that lasted 2 weeks on a charge. I ended up buying a second charger to have at work because twice a month my phone would die in the middle of the work day. Now I charge my phone every night and that doesn't happen anymore.

I'll take the thinner phone, thanks.

I carry around a pipe caliper that I designed and 3D printed. A scissor-looking device that tells you the size of a pipe (up to 4") based on outside diameter. Useful on the job.

I designed and printed a custom flashlight holder for those cheap LED flashlights.

Custom replacement handle for a triangular file

Set of custom drawer knobs.

Custom hard drive mounting bracket.

Custom battery holder.

Custom shelf bracket.

~Three dozen clothespins.

3-axis tilt camera stand that mounts on top of a tripod. (replaces one that broke).

Custom 80:1 worm gear reduction for a machine I was working on, as well as a few spur gears and light-duty V-belt pulleys for same machine. Custom thrust bearing and ball bearing holders.

A full set of Meta-Chess pieces.

A custom tool for aligning V-belt pulleys using a 3V line laser module and magnetic base.

Currently in progress is a mostly 3D printed racing wheel controller for my PC, which uses the guts from a dual analog game controller. The controller is unusable because the silicone pads for the buttons cracked, but the electronics are still good and with 4x analog axes I can get steering and three pedals plus 16 digital buttons. My hangup is I can't get the "feel" of the buttons right...

If I ever get off my ass and finish building the electric furnace I've been working on, and manage to melt some aluminum with it, I fully intend to try lost-PLA casting some aluminum parts. That's be awesome...
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If I had a 3d printer I'd custom design an Arduino case. I want to make one that looks like a tricorder, complete with slots for LEDs etc.

His daughter is a lot more likely to get pregnant* as a teenager than she is to shoot or get shot. There actually is a basis for prioritizing one over the other.

*My apologies to ArcherB, no disrespect intended.