I am a mechanical systems engineer for a boat manufacturer that makes roughly 24 high end boats ($500k+/ea) per year. We use a lot of FDM printed production parts on our vessels and have had really good success with their performance. True, we have to design around the materials available and peculiarities of the process. But the flexibility for quick-turn, high mix low volume parts is fantastic. You won't find our highly specialized mechanical parts on Printables or the like though.

We aren't alone, I have vendors that sell products that use 3D printed enclosures or other components.

FWIW, we are running a Bambu X1C and have well over 3,500 hours on it, and our favorite materials are TPU 95A, PC, PETG-CF and ASA.

Mod this up. 37 scans in 2 months for cancer treatment, I had no idea. This definitely colors the story differently.

I would say that for ICE cars, like cell phones, why bother upgrading? Even better than cell phones, the large majority of ICE used cars on the USA market are incredibly maintainable for less money than new ICE cars. Unlike ICE cars, PHEV and BEV are still seeing reasonable improvements in features performance generation over generation, and so will see sales driven by that. Also, like real estate, who can afford a new car? I would love it if I could buy my 2002 Yukon XL brand new today and get another 20 years out of it.

Perhaps we will see driving go the same way as general aviation...

The only AI I have (knowingly) used at all is the web search summary that comes up at the top of a Bing or Google search. I have no idea which AI model they use, nor do I care. I can say that given the specific technical nature of my searches (eg. SolidWorks, DraftSight, Bambu), they are usually less helpful than the actual search results including forums, wikis and help files/articles.(OEM or 3rd party).

I entirely plan on keeping my fleet of ICE cars going as long as I can (model years 2002 Yukon XL, 2006 Scion xA - I want to drive a stick, 2007 Impala - for teenage drivers, 2015 Odyssey). Frankly, BEV is still far too expensive and their used market has nothing that meets my desires. I am not alone either. I transport my kids with friends (requiring minivan or full-size SUV) and doing off-grid camping trips multiple times per year - there are no BEVs on the market that fit that. My Yukon XL made it from the Blue Mountains to the Klamath Mountains last summer on one tank while pulling a trailer. Food eaten and bathrooms stops over those hours? Try picnicking cute little way-side parks with no electricity, I'm not forced into a restaurant or Target parking lot for charging. I hate how people say that you can just charge while eating at a restaurant when you're on a road trip - feeding my family at a restaurant costs as much as filling my Yukon's tank!

Don't get me started on all of the connected phone-home where your car can get an OTA update that bricks your car because you attended an unapproved protest. I know this is not limited to BEV only, but one more reason to stick to the 2010's and older. Now I have lots of room for a plug-in hybrid in my fleet...

The most expensive car I have ever purchased was $18k USD, and I have a hard time imagining buying anything for over $20k USD. How long until there is a large market of road-trip worthy BEV family cars for $20k??? I anticipate full-on Cuba here eventually...

It seems to me that almost every green tree, river side, and hill top in the USA is considered sacred by one tribe or another of the European's predecessors on the continent. It makes sense given the nature of nature worshiping religions those tribes typically practiced, but at some point it feels we've reach the point of absurdity?

I'm not sure how you can change a driveway that is only 20 feet long and rises 5 feet from the road to your garage entry point. Assuming that you actually own your residence...

I have used Netflix DVD since the mid 2000's, and I loved being able to queue up months of movies (which my wife and I would watch once a week). Every week would be a surprise which movie we would get, and that was fun. As others have said, the selection on DVD was tremendous compared to any streaming service at this time. I even appreciated the emails they would send out of movie recommendations, that appeared to be written up by real flesh-and-blood people, that would give you lists of movies to watch, like (fictitious examples given) The Ten Best Film Noir Movies You Might Never Have Heard Of, or Top 6 Alfred Hitchcock Must See Movies.

I have found what is called "The Criterion Channel", and we'll see how we like it. There is so much acceptable-to-good-to-excellent content made in the last 90 years of "talkies", that I don't have much desire to see many movies released in the last 10 years. Now get off my lawn!!

Regarding malaria:
1. Masks will not work
2. Social distancing will not work
      2a. Hiding in basement or other shelter in home might work
3. Hydroxycloriquine (sp?) will have a statistically significant chance of working

How can you call any company large enough to lay off 1,000 people a start-up? A company that is three years old and has somehow exploded to 200 employees, sure. But a 12 year old company with 7,000 +/- headcount??? Maybe not blue-chip mature & boring, but not a start-up any more.

I have an ancient Charter plan for $32/month that they have failed to raise the price on for... maybe 10 years? It is something like 30Mb/s down and 3Mb/s up, and is plenty for my needs. It will be interesting to see if they leave me alone or not...