I’m 100% retro and linux gaming, but I don’t need to force my kids down the road I’m on. I just share what I love and hope they choose it for themselves so we have common interests. So far, surprisingly, they both love NES / SNES and that’s thanks to Nintendo developing the same franchises for decades, for better or worse.

I don’t really game on the go other than mindless android games. If I did, steam deck makes way more sense. For the kids I keep thinking Switch mainly because they already love the Wii, and all their friends have Switches, so it’s a social vocabulary thing.

Surely you’re right about the satisfaction part. I need to make sure the kids are part of it, maybe choosing models and building, painting, etc with me. They are pretty young but once they get a little better spatial awareness and reading skills, python and freecad are not out of the question! They play minecraft already, so we’re off to a good start I think.

Saw your cable chain comment. I’ll be working from a formbot kit so hopefully the chain included with the rest of the BOM works out.

One bit of fun is that I’m going to try printing all my own parts in eSun ABS+ on my ender 3 pro. I have an enclosure for it, and it runs micro Swiss direct drive / all metal hot end. Will unplug all fans. I’ve never brought the bed to 100 but I’m using spring steel / PEI and I can’t see an obvious reason for concern. I have good dry boxes and the printer is pretty well tuned, so I think it should be up to the challenge.

If I can’t turn out good parts after a few tries and some tuning, I’m not too proud to admit defeat and run back to PIF but I’m remaining optimistic for now… I didn’t choose the project life because it’s easy. :)

I’m considering reading ahead and going Klicky / pinned m5 right out of the gate based on what I’ve been reading. Any thoughts on that? QoL mods I will regret not doing during initial build?

For background, I’ve modded nearly all my ender, and the only jobs that really sucked were those (like the dual Z and SKR mini) that involve basically disassembling the machine to rewire the harness or move motors around. Not terrible, but those kinds of core projects I’d rather build in initially than take a working unit offline for a day to rejigger. If I can get in front of those with the Voron build I think it will be a much happier outcome. Camera. Lighting.

If you drop your phone that much, I think this is the case you need: https://a.co/d/1fyszgF

:D

Human beings only think in terms of all things having a beginning because in our limited frame of reference everything we know always has.

True! I guess some people specialize in lying about being liars.

Facts.

First, let’s consider that up until fairly recently in human society, writing has been the domain of the wealthy and not entirely accessible to everyone. The rich could write whatever they want or patronize those who could write what they wanted for them. The rarity - relative to the greatest developments of proliferation being chiefly the printing press and recently the internet - of written works, demanded that anything someone bothered to put into physical written form must have considerable innate value to someone. If they didn’t, nobody would have bothered with the effort or expense.

I no longer have access to the reference for a citation and am having trouble digging it up, but I saw (probably on a blog about AI) some figures recently describing the amount of written “material” produced by humanity on a daily basis (or some other comically short time) in 2023 being comparable to the amount produced in the ~five thousand preceding years since the written word is thought to have been invented.

With as much “writing” being produced, most of it being spam or low-effort shitposting, the signal to noise ratio is unbelievably high. Regardless of the profundity of the thought being born and described, the chance of having anything written today - randomly on the internet - recognized for its quality is infinitesimally small.

I believe that there IS a fantastic amount of truly remarkable writing being done every day all over the internet. Nearly all of it will be retained on some form of media basically forever, even until the media is woefully obsolete / destroyed / the heat death of the universe. Most of it will never be set upon by human eyes again after this weekend.

Today, like hundreds of years ago, what rises to the surface does so due to commercial pressures. If you are awesome and impress a publisher with deep pockets, your words could be preserved in a form that will be read in 2434. Of course, it will have to continue to be impressive long after most of the books selected by Oprah’s Book Club.

Again I find myself agreeing with you 100%, so I’m not really sure what the disconnect is here. Maybe you’re finding something in the subtext of the article that I’m too stupid or ignorant to see. I don’t know the politics of the author - I still don’t - and honestly I found the content pretty innocuous and unrevealing, but if it leads to discourse, that’s the point I guess.

Ok, cool. I think your attitude is all piss and vinegar.

First of all, it’s not “my” article. Now if you’d like to start over, you can extrapolate on why you feel the way you do. Otherwise, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

I find this problematic.

One of my buddies at work is christian. I respect him on one level, but I have no respect for his superstitious ideology, inherently or in any other way. As much as I’d like the ideology to go away, I’m a little troubled by the phrase “…dealing with the individuals…”