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Comment Re:Self-hosting isn't for everyone (Score 1) 81

Very few ISPs intentionally block inbound TCP.

One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)

IPv6-only [...] site is inaccessible to users stuck on legacy networks

One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.

Comment Re:What ... (Score 1) 95

too many folks are still stuck on IPv4

Printer is IPv6 only?

What I'm saying is that if everyone had IPv6 in their homes and offices, remote access wouldn't require all the silly cloud server games. You could just hit the device directly by its IPv6 address, and assuming your router suppoerts UPNP pinholes, you're done. You'd need dynamic DNS and that's it.

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.

An emergency stop button in the app should be able to do the same thing. If that's not possible, it's a rather bad design flaw.

Also, if something jams in a way that could cause meaningful damage (beyond having to brush blobs of filament off of the hot end) and the printer doesn't detect it, that's also a rather bad design flaw.

Comment Re: Market forces at work (Score 2) 200

"The only silver lining of Trump's demented Iran war is diesel hitting $6 per gallon and the sound of all those F150 tears."

150s don't run on diesel. Only Dodge has a half ton diesel pickup because only they have a mid sized diesel engine. Ford uses turbo gas motors for that market. Those are F250 and larger tears.

Comment Re: These are just US sales (Score 1) 200

Most people don't know the difference between a SUV and a CUV, which is because the manufacturers deliberately created confusion on that point in order to sell vehicles consumers were rejecting. Most people don't know the difference between full frame and unibody either, they only know whether the vehicle crashes over bumps or not. It's irrelevant because it's irrelevant to the majority of buyers, who don't know shit about shit

Comment Re: All according to plan. (Score 1) 200

"the Lightning was always a glorified grocery getter for people who didn't use a pickup for a work-use. It was suburban vehicle for those that didn't want to have an SUV. It was an upscale minivan that you could put plywood and crap in the back - if you didn't care about messing up your $70,000 truck. It was a great vehicle - but it wasn't a "Truck"."

Trucks are heavy vehicles. They're defined in the code as such. The lightning is a pickup. Like the lightning it was named after, it's not a great one in terms of maximum pickup ability. It's a lot more useful than the last one, though.

Comment Re: Bullying the AI (Score 2) 63

Which, of course, is AWESOME.

A human who knows something will reject an obviously wrong answer, but since the LLM knows literally nothing and the AI companies won't pay for it to check even its own work (which won't solve the problem but will REDUCE the major fails) it will just happily shit out a catastrophe.

Comment Re:beat them senseless (Score 1) 95

People aren't "printing guns", at least not with plastic printers.

Yes, they are. They aren't printing every single part of the gun, but yeah, they are printing guns. And I say that as someone who plans to print one eventually, though probably not while I live in California. You can make your own rifled barrels with EDM, too, so you actually can manufacture every part of the firearm yourself.

Comment Re:beat them senseless (Score 1) 95

Many printers, including Bambu Labs', don't have endstop sensors. They run to the end and detect the stepper stall.

Yeah, that's also done with a sensor. It's done with current sensing. And it's not a hard stop, it's a soft stop. So, exactly what I said it was. Note I didn't mention a switch or hall sensor.

They're direct driven by the stepper motors and don't have the power to "strip belts or cogs."

Then they can kill the steppers. That's not better.

Comment Re: All according to plan. (Score 1) 200

I have an F-150 Lightning. It's 2 $200 parts to convert from NACS->CCS1 (one for DC, one for AC). The connector type doesn't matter. CHAdeMO requires an adapter that costs thousands. It's not comparable.

CHAdeMO to Tesla adapter: $565. If adapters in the reverse direction from NACS to CHAdeMO cost thousands, it's because the market is too small to achieve economies of scale. Yeah, you need some active electronics to negotiate the protocol, whereas NACS uses the CCS protocol, so you can do it with a passive adapter, but the actual DC is still DC.

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