Yeah. That interview made the CEO look like an incompetent, greasy villian.

I can print to my Bambu printer locally by using LAN only or an SD card, not sure why you think I need their cloud to print at all.

Also https://orca-slicer.com/ is not offline, some kind of a fork of it is offline.

Completely disagree. 100% disagree. If I need something that my printer from Bambu cannot do I will get another printer. For what I need it though it is great and keeps me from *wasting* time. My time is what is important to me more than money.

I like their products. I just want printing without fuss and without having to learn every detail about leveling, etc. Their product works for me and I do not care about its openness, it is about as important for what I need it as my headphones being open sourced (not at all). So this product is for my use case, not for people who want to control every aspect of their printer and every software feature.

IF they decide to make it prohibitively expensive to operate their hardware, then I will go back to a less capable hardware kit.

I got an Idea. How about locating and deleting data centers that host these things? Deleting them from existance.

Screw Google most of the time. They ARE evil.
That said, I don't trust anyone that would break this down with an, "Environmental Measurement" is not to ever be trusted at all.

It is misdirection. This is about the fact that people in areas that data centers are looking to build hate what these data centers do to their areas.

Instead of building out new power and increasing the bills of residents in a new data center area, they side step it by using, "excess power availability" in widespread areas. Sucking up the excess. PREVENTING, areas from having excess which means that in 6 months or a year, forced power upgrades in these areas leading to higher power bills.

Basically the same thing happening to people but hidden with a small veil of separation of the consequences running these, "Data Centers". In effect they are just spreading the problem around and hiding it.

Dawkins has a lot going for him. Not a dumb guy. Never seen anything about him that let me feel like he is an expert in AI.
In this, I consider his opinion worth as much as any semi intelligent or more, random person on the street.

Everyone that was not brain dead KNEW the moment this passed that it would end up a nothing where billions were siphoned into friendly, "Businesses".
It has accomplished what it was created to accomplish. It was a 100 percent success to the politicians that had their hands in it.
They only people surprised are the idiots that should have never been allowed to vote in the first place.

So looks like AI is taking over everything, every platform, every product, every service, every job, it's a plague, a virus, a disease of some sort and apparently there is no cure, someone is always pushing it. Is it AI that is pushing AI?

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    20% Overrated /. has long become a voting system for political opinions that the moderators agree or disagree with, 'Troll' or 'Overrated' means that they disagree with the opinion, yet the opinion is a fact in this case. It is a fact that taxes are introduced by majority voting to take something away from a minority. It is a fact that income taxes were introduced only to tax the top earners and it was 1% for incomes of 3000USD and over, 6% for incomes of half a million and over, it is a fact that can be independently confirmed.

The opinion in this case is that such behavior is confiscation and that it is not a sound foundation for the economy and that eventually these taxes expand to the rest of the population because this is how taxes work.

So I wonder is it the fact or is it the opinion that the /. moderates here? Neither facts, nor opinions are a way to troll anyone, if we mark everything that we disagree with as 'troll' then there is no discourse at all.

So are you saying that a large number of people ganging together to take possession of property that is already owned by a small number of people is a fair way to run society, fair way to tax people, just invent new "taxes" on the fly on property that has been taxed already or that hasn't been sold yet, so there is no transaction, no money exchanging hands? Is THAT how "happy places" operate? Is that a sustainable path towards happiness?

This is just property confiscation, I understand that poorer people do not care about wealthier people paying anything, that's how taxes and subsidies are pushed through in the first place. However call it what it is - it is confiscation of private property. As a side note, the so called 'income tax' also started as a wealthy people's tax. It was 1% and it was only applicable to a small fraction of the population who were earning over 3000 dollars a year or so and 6% of additional tax on incomes above 500,000USD, which was a tiny number of a small fraction of people.

You can go ahead and figure out what happened to that idea of only taxing 1% of a tiny number of people over the last 113 years without my help.

Cool. So, TDS Trumps all other things. Got it.

Again, so Jared Isaacman is doing a good job but, Elon thought he would be good so ... Crimes.
Cool, so, that would be true for any person highly involved in the Space industry. So, we should only get the opinions of those that have nothing to do with NASA about the next NASA Administrator? Or, is it colored vision?

That said, you are going to get voted up for stating that even though previously they got all the contracts based on being awesome, once Trump got in and they got the same contracts it is sus. Then when called out, "forest for trees" bullshit.
Same is same bro. You don't have to love Trump or Elon to clearly see that SpaceX is the cheapest and most capable space program in existence currently. They single handedly lowered the cost to put stuff in orbit Pre SpaceX $90,000 / Kg to LEO. Now, Falcon 9 charges $2,800 per, Starship is set to smash even that. Anytime they do not get the contract and could have done it, someone is paying more for a launch that is done with a craft with a lower safety rating than the Falcon 9. So, you have to ask (Other than cases designed to keep launch capability DIVERSE) who got paid off.

There is no reason to ask for Space X. Because the reasoning is simple. They have an excellent record of doing what was said to be impossible. Doing it safely and at an extremely low price.

It's all good though, this is Slashdot after all. Nothing but numbers and facts, Guaranteed to be modded -1 Troll in 10 min.
When you see it. You will know that points here mean nothing if there is any hint of politics. Every Anti Trump even that has no info gets modded up and everything that does not hate when hate can be done is modded down.