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.

A lot of important packages are available with backports from closer to the development branches that can be installed on the last stable version and will be updated as soon as considered moderately stable. Use backports when available if you need something more recent than the version shipped. They don't cover everything, but there are many backported packages.

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.

I'm a Republican. I haven't voted for Trump or his particular sycophants. Although rare, it is possible to be a member of a political party but still vote for who you feel is going to do the best job in the respective office, regardless of party. If the party doesn't like how I vote, they should get better candidates.

Wish I kept the prompt, but I didn't give it much at all. I have also done solitaire as well. I gave it no hints on what the rules where or what the game looked like. It was something as simple as this.

"I want freecell for Mac. Make it as close to the windows version as you can. Write it in swift and make it a native MacOS application with an icon and everything that goes along with that. If you need to download any libraries or compilers ask me to approve them."

I already had xcode installed and I THINK it used that to compile it, but I'm not positive. I didn't need to download anything to get it done, took it about 10 minutes.

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?

I got tired of my mac not having freecell. So I told claude to create it as a python app with a gui. And it did. But the graphics were a little kludgy. So I told it to try again as a swift app. Boom, I have freecell for mac now. I've never coded anything for mac, I haven't even looked at the (vulnerable) code it's created.

Is it still considered an investment if you're forced to do it?

I'd say Taxes are a compulsory contribution that might be used for public investment. But they also might not. Either way, calling them an investment is way to generous.

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.

Trading on insider information is illegal, but it's also hard to spot. I'd think if all the world brokerages got together and examined all trades within a couple of related connections to each Congressman, it would be illuminating. Congressmen may be under scrutiny. Their grandson's wife? Their sister-in-law's son? Probably not so much. Just look at the Trump family connections, new Trump Towers, all his crypto currency, and on and on.

Guess I should have specified blind trust or some such instead of just saying turning it over to a financial advisor.

As far as who is doing the trading - I suppose it depends on the Congressman. Some seem to not have much actual work product to show for their time in office, so they certainly have time to do it themselves if they wanted. After all, buying or selling a stock online takes well under a minute. And if you were going to do insider trading, I'd think the fewer people who were aware of it, the better.

Trading on inside information should be illegal. Unfortunately, most members of Congress have large stock portfolios before they enter office. What's your plan? Make them turn it all over to a financial advisor? I'm not clear how that would completely eliminate the issue. A Congressman can still see something in the works that could in general drop the stock market or cause it to rise. For the former, they can just suddenly need some money for personal needs and ask the advisor to sell some stock to raise X. Pretty tough to track. Having a "windfall" and turning money back over to the financial advisor before a rise - also hard to track.

If they were going to be in office for only one term, it might be fine. If they are in office for 40 years, cutting out the ability to manage the family wealth would be an unfair burden on the family. Lots of these people have generational wealth. I'm not sure it would be a bad thing to just put in the restrictions and give them a severe disincentive to run for office. But the offset risk is if relatively poorer candidates are the only ones who choose to run, they can be bought more easily. Also not a good outcome.