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Comment Re:alternatively (Score 1) 73

Same here but this lack of support will matter much less than dropping i486.

There are still embedded systems sold today that only meet i486 specs. I don't use them but some industries do.

Sure a $12 ESP32 can handle those tasks but it's a revalidation thing.

Not that anybody from those vendors stepped forward to maintain a tree.

Comment Re: Market forces at work (Score 1) 191

"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) 191

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) 191

"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) 60

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) 87

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) 87

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:Poor strategy by Ford (Score 1) 191

F-150 people don't strike me as the type to accept anything really innovative like the lightning.

Ford wasn't counting on people switching from gas F-150s to the Lightning. They were counting on the F-150 name helping to sell their new product. This has essentially been effective, in that they sold about as many of those as they reasonably could have hoped to have done. People who bought them generally seem very happy with them, though not very many people were ever going to be in the market for that vehicle.

With that said, Ford should have parlayed that success into a lighter, cheaper EV pickup. Call it the F-100 Lightning. I'd guess they haven't been able to execute on the supply parts of the picture, and that's the real reason it hasn't happened. It took Tesla a while to get into the swing of having battery supply at a good cost. Ford simply isn't there yet, so they are using protectionism to delay the progress of the entire market in an effort to to catch up.

Comment Re:A better response? (Score 1) 87

The best solution is replacement of their electronics and thus freedom from their entire software stack. There are mods for a number of printers for doing this. I for one have a FlashForge Adventurer 5M and while it is hackable and they haven't done anything stupid to users yet, they do have horribly inadequate RAM (128MB!) so there's a project to replace all the electronics with a Pi and a common control board.

On occasion there have been commercial replacement boards for some printers. Biqu has made some for a couple of Bambu models.

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