No Balatro in here? I haven't stopped hearing about Balatro since it released while I've seen absolutely no discussion of Split Fiction.

Finally I'll get my Peachy printer!

That $85m savings will go a long way towards fixing the $1,300,000m budget shortfall that doesn't even include his proposed $5,000,000m in tax cuts!

I mean sure let's go for it, something is better than nothing, but holy shit maybe try something that will drain a single drop in the ocean of American debt.

Yes.

Till someone gets probed.

Oh come on, I was just starting on the new Tom Clancy book why would you spoil it for me!

What's the point of having extensions on mobile if I can't use uBlock or the like? They're really just going to take out support for the really useful stuff and shove it out to phones?

It'll be interesting to see if internet access has gotten upgraded in the last 5-10 years since this was last heralded. If I'm downloading a 50-100GB game and my internet is 10Mbps with a 200GB cap, I'm still not going to "upgrade" to something without a disc drive.

Good god I hope the 10Mbps/200GB internet plans are all gone. I suspect they aren't.

If you're not connected to the internet, nearly all Switch games just run off the cart. You don't have to install patches to play them. Using scare quotes around cartridges doesn't make them not hold data.

Alternitive title: Deep Space feels better than sex!! You'll never need a woman again!!!

Great! Now when will the EU release Google's stranglehold on ChromeOS and let me uninstall Chrome on there?

The worst part of Teams and OneDrive is they're both very useful programs that tend not to have any problems. OneDrive even lets me be logged in to both my work and personal accounts on the same computer so I can get both drives on my phone!

Then something goes wrong. Why won't Teams install? Why won't it launch? Where did it automatically install on this machine? Looks like OneDrive is installed, why won't it run? It worked yesterday, what is setting the registry setting so it won't even start? Where are the goddamn logs for everything? I found the logs, why don't they show absolutely anything?

Dropbox was very good because it Just Worked. You installed the program and it synced your files, bing boom done. If it didn't, it told you why and you fixed it. OneDrive, for all it's admittedly very nice features, sometimes just doesn't go and doesn't bother telling you why. If you're lucky you'll find a log file tucked away for Windows Installer that says "failed to install" and maybe an error code like 0x80011123: Unknown Failure. Microsoft employs more people to write documentation than live in my hometown so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect some amount of work to go into troubleshooting.

At least both Teams and OneDrive are easier to troubleshoot than Intune. Fuck Intune.

Skimming the headline made me think this was being developed for in-car VR use, and I can think of few things I want less than a VR helmet on while I try to drive. It does sound like a fun thing to put in a cyberpunk story!

That's basically what Twitch does. If you allow ads you get some that are 5 seconds, some are 60, it depends. If you block ads you get a screen saying ads are playing that lasts for usually 60-120 seconds.

You can get an Ender 3 Pro at Microcenter for $99. That's generally regarded as the "best deal" in 3d printing right now, so we'll go with that. It also has a 220x220mm build area, so about 8.5in on each side. I truly don't know where the $500 figure came from, you can buy an Ender 3 V2 Neo, the Cadillac of Ender 3s, brand new on Amazon for its retail price of $320US.

A reel of 1kg PLA, the standard filament, is about $20, also at Microcenter. You can pretty reliably get it for around $10 online, but we'll assume you want to just go pick it up in-person when you need it. 1kg is actually kind of a lot of printing on such a machine, but since you're excited we'll assume you print 1kg per month. Power usage is slightly variable depending on where exactly you put it and the temperature of the room and what you're printing, but a guy on Stack Exchange says his Ender 3 uses 0.12kWh/h. BLS.gov puts the average price for electricity in December 2022 to be $0.165/kWh. If you do a medium-long print every day and print for 12 hours per day, that is just about $0.24USD/day. We'll round that up to a quarter a day for easier math. The only other operating cost is really your time. 3d modelling software is free for a lot of stuff - Windows 3d Builder is surprisingly good for Microsoft software, Tinkercad and OpenSCAD are free, Fusion360 has a free license, take your pick. There are a ton of free models of varying quality to find and print, which really just boils back down to costing your time. We'll assume your time is free because it's a hobby. So you're looking at around $27.50 per month to operate your Ender 3, totally stock. Figure in the extra $2.50 each month for the occasional replacement part, probably a nozzle, and you're still only at $30/month with a $100 entry fee. But remember this is also a hobby, so I can't imagine anyone interested will stick with just $30/month. Nozzles are cheap, maybe try a new one for only $5! Well a Volcano hotend will let you print faster and is only $60, surely that won't break the bank. Your bed got scratched after you tried to pry a print off and a PEI sheet upgrade is only $25, and you can see where the real money sink comes in.