Zero days in third party or OS libraries are an act of God. Or will be declared so in short order should your wish become law.

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.

This is about getting wholesalers to pay them to take the data about where they source their stuff and who they sell it to at what rates so Amazon can replace their step in the chain as well.

Even in tech, a surprising number of managers aren't technical people.

Not too surprising actually if you get over your own ego enough to understand that the skill set and pain tolerance required to effectively steer real live humans toward a goal is not the same as that requited to build a machine to accomplish a task. But anyway...

In government it's often worse.

We had an interferometer we built at work with some in-fiber segments. The version on a tea cart you couldn't stomp your feet without messing up the signal and the version on an optics bench you couldn't talk too loudly.

Optics is *sensitive*

Every place has long term hazard and short term utility. Foolishness can just as easily be defined as leaving that utility on the table.

My 6 year old informed me today that the Sun will explode in 4 billion years. Shall we set out into the void today as in hop on the next rocket out then?

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

I might have cared about unwanted potentially autonomous ai agents being pushed on user machines.

But given that you're bitching about it from a global warming angle...that just tells me you're pissed they beat you to the party to pick my pocket with the killer robots when you were all set to pick my pocket from the treehugger angle.

by signing over your legal agency in the workplace to a different The Man!

Explain to me please how "I disagree with my employer's sales policies" anywhere in the same category of adverse working conditions, wage theft, or other generic abuse that unions constantly remind us they're a bulwark against?

What if I don't agree with my boss's politics? Join the union!

What if I don't agree with the *union's* politics? Tough shit?

Maybe more maxism *is* the answer: seize the means of production...for yourself. Start your own company and flat out refuse to hire any communists.

Just remember: soi boys count as plants...so try some vegan cleanses once in a while?

Too woke for strongly gendered languages?

Maybe that's why my emails keep getting lost: it can't tell a mail server from a femail server!

Thank you! I'll be here all week!

But 20% of all the internet's traffic is still more than enough to make more money than God.

Different set of incentives at play here.

The "better capitalists" are also telling me that biological sex is a social construct and that punctuality and Baconian empiricism are a form of white supremacy that must be interupted to save our immortal souls or something.
https://www.newsweek.com/smith...
https://science.mit.edu/shutdo...

I live in Massachusetts. I get this shit irl with my own eyes and ears. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.