exasperant.bsky.social
Part time infrequent Youtuber, Dead Bird escapee.
Unapologetic enjoyer of fireworks.
https://www.youtube.com/@exasperated
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There's a gulf between polite and sucking up with "Great host, watch me laughing along with him".
Does even Starmer know what Starmer stands for?
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*shrug*
I'm stealing that as the title to my next never finished novel.
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A solder blob?
Are you fucking kidding me?
A fucking solder blob!?
You can't be serious.
A solder blob. That's there deliberately, and has to be removed before the damned thing works.
Why?
And when was anyone that sold me these things going to tell me?
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Cats are like people.
In your case they're like...
Dammit, no. I told myself no politics on this platform.
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(This was inspired by someone busybodying over an untaxed/ uninsured vehicle being driven around the area. Quite how, when it's not driven anywhere for several weeks, and appears to be incapable of moving, it's been able to do that I don't know. It could only hurt a child if the kid ran into it..)
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Hard to keep motivated. Sure, people who like the content like the content. Kind of obvious is obvious, really.
But Youtube clearly doesn't, because it's not some gen z wealth fund fucktard with daddy's home TV studio production team.
I miss when Youtube was You > Tube.
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Oh, and given that looks like a mk2 Golf, you'll find it's a far simpler and thus easier to maintain machine than pretty much anything built today, EV or ICE.
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Christ some people get disturbingly fanatically touchy.
You do realise an EV also has things like a bodyshell, seats, headlights, wheels, don't you?
Saying a lack of specialist repair businesses could be a long term problem shouldn't be controversial.
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This person was writing for live performance, and what AI had chewed up and spat back at her was barely something you'd see in a poorly written totally unedited high school creative writing essay.
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The moment I start using AI in any way for my writing is the moment I need to stop trying to write.
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Great. AI doesn't kill creativity, people do.
But enough people think AI can make them the artist they're not that there's a very real risk of creative fields being flooded with it.
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Is your typewriter thinking of stories, creating characters, using its unique experiences, to write stories so you don't have to?
People aren't using AI as tools to help them, they're using AI as a means of replacing themselves while still slapping their name on the result.
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I saw someone on Reddit who'd used ChatGPT to rewrite a joke she wanted to build a standup routine on.
It was fuckawful. But nope, she was going to keep using it "as a tool" to drain any sort of comedy and timing from her.
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The Youtube part of me immediately thought "Yay, that'd be repair content opportunity!"
The realist part of me thought "It'd just be more broken crap I should throw away but keep pretending I'll fix one day".
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That's a nope day.
Brave risking it with the remote control, and lower gently onto the sofa just in case it breaks in splintered lacerating shards ways.
Remain there as much as possible, to give the universe time to reset before tomorrow morning.
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You mean the deep, deep, unshakeable dread, as you start worrying this could mean the end of existence as we know it?
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Why?
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Mine's going through the cloud because I can't get it to bind using LAN only.
So it's
PC>Wire LAN>Internet>Wifi>Printer
To send jobs to a machine the other side of the wall to the computer.
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The thing is, all of this could be a case of Bambu genuinely spotting a security issue, and making a total fuckup of dealing with it. It really might be that innocent.
But it also might not. So I don't think it's a terrible idea to plan ahead just in case Bambu's not simply crap at comms.
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Right now, they've no reason to care other than pride.
Down the line? Well that depends. Wanting to lock customers into their ecosystem, be it filament or paywalling slicer features, network features, etc, would be a harder sell if customers could just swap out a mainboard for something more open.
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It should be that when you buy something, you not only own it, but you own the right and ability to use it however long you want until/ unless it breaks.
What happens if Bambu goes under? Does my perfectly network able A1 need me to go back to wandering around with micro SD cards in my pocket?
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Something I hate is this whole "Buy now, depend on our servers to keep using later" crap.
Somewhere I've got a Blackberry tablet. It's a decent bit of kit. That I can do nearly nothing with.
I bought vid editing software a while ago. Company's now gone, registration server going offline.
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And if someone does make a drop in board that's better for the user, Bambu can either go full control freak, or push itself to develop an improved version of their own.
Of course, if Bambu hadn't just shattered the trust of many, we wouldn't be talking about this...
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That's one way of looking at it.
Another is if someone else can offer Bambu customers a way out of Bambu's grip, Bambu might be dissuaded from gripping too tight.
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On the bright side, not only have Bambu tried doing a lot of damage control since this first broke, but the A1 seems to be lower on the list of products they want to start tightening their control over.
I'd still be happier to be free of them though, after this shitshow.
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Bambu's attempt to exert control over its customers being the push for other companies to give Bambu customers control over the hardware they bought could be just the thing to cheer me up a little in this hell called 2025.
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Things in boxes are the worst, thanks to their inherent stackability, as well as ideal shape to be a low level shelf.
Unlike the ice cream maker I've now moved around at least three cupboards and the loft.
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I'm at the point of not buying any appliance that doesn't have a handy horizontal surface.
Unless, like with my last two exercise machines, it has protrusions I can hang things on.