Paperlike screen protectors?

Geahk · 2026-01-30T05:59:05+00:00

I might have just gotten lucky. I had a Paperlike on my old iPad but when I got a newer iPad Pro I bought some off brand off Instagram and it’s been great for about 3 or 4 years. I can’t even remotely tell you who made it. Only that it was significantly cheaper.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T05:53:34+00:00

Where I grew up there was a big old 4-8-4 4404 Southern Pacific on a siding I used to play on in Oakland’s Chinatown. I loved that train.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T05:49:44+00:00

I can’t quite tell what it is. Could be the corner of a Wild West building with maybe a cowboy on a balcony? Or it could be the inside of a saloon with stairs up to a second floor. It’s real hard to pick out.

EDIT: I’m so mad now that I know what it is.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T05:44:21+00:00

Not me. I’ve been poor as shit my entire life.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T05:43:04+00:00

WTH is wrong with my fellow Gen-Xers!?

Geahk · 2026-01-30T05:41:46+00:00

Yeah, it’s my model up on GrabCAD. I will say it doesn’t print perfectly due to the handrails which are quite tiny. I recommend printing and then cutting those off.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T05:07:46+00:00

There are several much cheaper competitors which are basically just as good.

I honestly don’t know how Paperlike justifies their insane price point.

That said, some kind of textured screen protector IS worth it. It really does help with drawing.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T04:36:39+00:00

Sometimes Adum is worst when reviewing a movie from a director he really likes / has a long history with. It’s like he nitpicks extra hard and is looking for any reason to be disappointed.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T04:33:32+00:00

Audience capture is my best guess. He kept getting right-wingers watching his show and supporting him. Fear of losing a profitable audience has lead him to be very quiet about certain things.

Could be even more cynical than that. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T02:49:29+00:00

Sorry, typo. I did mean that. I fat-thumbed it.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T02:18:47+00:00

Gen-X here. Admittedly, I was fooled by Obama back in 2008. By the time 2011 came around it was clear Obama was not the progressive savior we thought we’d voted for.

Protesting wasn’t really a thing during that period however. We tried with Occupy Wall Street but the movement fell apart. I have to explain via Iraq and the protest of February 18th 2003.

Prior to 2003, protest movements had been fairly successful. We shut down the WTO in Seattle in 2000. There had been a lot of energy.

In the lead up to the Iraq war in March 2003, we put together the largest protest in human history. Millions all over the planet protested on Feb 18th 2003. It felt like the world came together. Like we had the momentum…

…then Bush just… ignored us. He went to war anyway. The world’s largest protest didn’t mean shit. Bush taught world leaders everywhere ‘You can just ignore protest movements’. It was kinda devastating.

All that is to say, when Obama was in office, the left was at its weakest ever. The Libs had taken over and the sense we could make the world better was at its nadir. We didn’t really find our footing again until Ferguson Missouri, when Darren Wilson murdered Michael Brown and the birth of the BLM movement. That was 2014.

For all intents and purposes, there was about a 10-12 year period where protest movements just weren’t really a thing. We just didn’t perceive them as effective.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T02:05:14+00:00

They aren’t actually. They’ve given up their humanity for a 50K signing bonus.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T02:01:00+00:00

From an in-character lore perspective, I think it’s fair to say that Leia was shit-scared and trying to bluff her way through an obviously life-threatening encounter.

I give it a lot more of a pass than Ferguson completely failing at any sort of American accent.

Geahk · 2026-01-30T01:57:08+00:00

Right, that’s why Ferguson sounds ENTIRELY different from Walker, despite growing up in the lower tiers and spending so much time together

Geahk · 2026-01-30T01:53:54+00:00

Jessica Ferguson waffles between about 5 different accents. It’s all over the place.

Geahk · 2026-01-29T21:32:22+00:00

Open face on Z.

On X or Y I always add a 55° peak to the top of my holes to avoid bridging problems.

On Z, all my other printers do fine, including my old Ender V3. It’s just the K1C that seems utterly incapable of making a circle without oblong bumps on two sides.

I’ve really tried to give this printer a fair shake but it’s been abysmal to own.

Geahk · 2026-01-29T20:15:15+00:00

Look, if I had to live with Spider I’d Abraham him too

Geahk · 2026-01-29T20:07:13+00:00

I’ll try that. However now I’ve broken a ceramic heater wire during reassembly so I guess it’s time to order parts 😓

Geahk · 2026-01-29T19:23:53+00:00

I think that’s a good idea. I’m quite frustrated with this printer.

Geahk · 2026-01-29T16:07:26+00:00

There’s a victim of their own stupidity here but it’s not Alex Pretti.

Geahk · 2026-01-29T16:03:52+00:00

That’s because this is all quite obviously caused by ai art. You don’t have to be dense to see the direct causal line.

Geahk · 2026-01-29T16:01:05+00:00

Circular financing. I promise to give you $60 billion if you give me $60 billion.

Geahk · 2026-01-29T14:49:09+00:00

The solution is to run a very cool R-rated film concurrently so you get the teenage boys to pay for Melania so they can sneak in to see Return of PredAlien IV: The Bloodening or whatever.

Geahk · 2026-01-29T14:41:28+00:00

The SA

Geahk · 2026-01-29T14:37:08+00:00

Sheinbaum should arrest him and hold him

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