Yeah. Somewhere along the line, Gamestop was seduced by the market manipulation angle. It seems that they have not yet gotten such ideas out of their heads.

Like TFS said, dust control. So it evaporated or percolated into the ground.

... has been brought to you by your cities arts council. Who want the mandatory funding for the arts increased.

Just what we need. Another piece of avant-garde sculpture. Like the one in the lobby of our city hall. That disappeared over one weekend. An investigation led to a building janitor who thought it was construction debris and threw it out.

What if you have a job that you enjoy and involves being creative? Figure out what you enjoy doing and get a job doing that.

Now you'll have to excuse me. Amazon just delivered a 20 ton marble block. And I've got to go and chisel something out of it. A David, perhaps. Or maybe a Trump.

This is a great argument in favor of the UNIX philosophy.

[Is that Poettering sneaking out the side door?]

Why sign up with an ID service in Montenegro?

Printer is IPv6 only? How would it even work if my home network were "stuck on" IPv4?

I can understand the remote printing (not on the same network) part. But only up to the point where something jams and I'm not there to yank the plug and untangle it before it gets hopelessly borked.

Based in the Bahamas.

In other words, get ready for your jobs on a plantation.

Makers/workers: Your jobs are safe. Decision makers: Make way for CEO Claude.

Or for the H.S. kid down the street* who is willing to split the discount with me for purchases made on her ID.

*It's all Chromebooks at our local schools anyway.

... value-added input does Bambu's cloud provide? That one cannot replace with local functionality?

OK, there's the possibility of a future mandatory paid subscription model. And a filtering function, to prevent assholes from printing guns.

No! Not my answers to the online Purity Test.

Seriously, AI lacks agency. It does as it is prompted, guided by whatever crap it finds on-line. With no way of judging its veracity.

Unsolicited is the key word. If you send me some correspondence in an atempt to create some sort of relationship between us without my prior consent, you damage my right of freedom of (and from) association. First Amendment.

If you think this is not the case, then allow me, confidentially, to inform you all of where I buried the bodies.