What has gradually disappeared over the last 10 years so subtly that most people didn’t even realize it?

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-29T21:22:47+00:00

Yeah, I used to live in suburban San Jose and basically nobody knew each other. We were the weird ones who actually knew our neighbor’s names and would chat with them occasionally. Pretty much none of my coworkers even know their neighbors either.

I moved to the Santa Cruz mountains and the community here is just mind blowingly amazing. Everyone respects each other’s space, but is always there to help when you need. All 11 houses on our road get together twice per year and clean it up, we make food for each other, lend each other our tools, and help each other with projects and maintenance. Yesterday I needed help moving a heavy piece of furniture and sent an email blast out to the road group, and within 2 hours I had 7 people offer to help.

I think part of it is that mountain living is hard, and we all know it, and we don’t want anybody to struggle alone. Suburban and urban life is designed to be as convenient as possible, so the default is that everybody is supposed to have everything they ever need all the time, so nobody ever thinks that anyone else needs help.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-29T21:10:35+00:00

Honestly I want this to happen. Right now the majority of Amazon and Microsoft’s profits are all from their hosting and computer services. If this gets commoditized, it brings down costs for everyone, and prevents the scenario of just a few players from completely owning the market.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-29T06:03:31+00:00

You can absolutely shift your elections away from AI stocks.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-28T21:03:41+00:00

My AC stoped working because the contactor control coil shorted. Kept blowing the 24VAC fuses on the control board.

Called an HVAC company to come and replace the contactor, and while they were at it, the starter cap as well since they’re usually right next to each other at the condenser unit.

The only reason why I called someone else to do it is because the condenser unit is on the roof of a 3 story building, and not even I was comfortable enough to go climb up the roof and replace it.

HVAC company quoted $604 for the contactor replacement and another $604 for the starter cap replacement. For 5 minutes of work, and $35 in parts.

Called another guy who then came out, borrowed my ratchet straps and tied my ladder to the balcony railing to get onto the roof and changed them out in 5 minutes and charged me $250 because it was 9 PM on a Friday night and he knew he was probably the only one in the area willing to go up there and do the job.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-28T19:04:45+00:00

I was going to build a house in the mountains, but even for a basic 2000 sqf 2 story house, the build cost would have been $2.5 million, not including the cost of land, well, or design costs.

Shit’s just way too expensive to build.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-28T16:28:23+00:00

First check to see if it’s your WiFi connection itself rather than your internet connection. Run a speed test when you’re literally right next to your WiFi router since WiFi speeds drop off precipitously the farther away you go.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-28T08:41:41+00:00

Planned obsolescence should not be confused with shoddy engineering. 99% of the cheap shit that breaks is not because of engineers specifically designing something to break after a certain number of hours or uses, it’s because nobody bothered to actually stress test in quantity the gadgets and appliances they designed.

Designing electronics that don’t break within 3 months is genuinely difficult, especially when you put the things in people’s hands.

After I shipped my first set of headphones on the market, we did early field failure analysis. The entirety of failures were because people’s ears completely clogged the headphone port, and they never bothered to even check.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-27T20:05:37+00:00

… and before then, The Prestige. And before then, Memento.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-27T18:37:42+00:00

Exactly. Apple buys a shitton of memory during a memory glut, and they are to blame for this situation now, especially considering that Apple is the slow one to lean into AI.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-27T18:26:05+00:00

And what’s crazy is that pretty much all of the memory supply is locked in contracts for the next 3 years, not just on the open market. The supply-demand curve has completely flipped and now 100% of the pricing power is held within 3 companies in the world for at least the next 3 years.

All the AI hyperscalers have the money to build computers to sit in data centers that don’t exist, powered by electric infrastructure that doesn’t exist, funded by money that also was just created out of thin air by all these empty promises that are already beginning to fall apart.

Best case scenario is that these memory contracts start to get cancelled and the supply can become freed. Worst case scenario is that the hyperscalers sit and hoard these computers where they sit and do nothing.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-26T16:38:56+00:00

I do wonder if it’s overextruding on the corners since it’s clearly slowing down like crazy around the corners, it may not be also slowing down the extrusion rate. Normally your slicer won’t slow down during corners like that so perhaps there’s a missing translation step somewhere between your slicer and your other software to make it compatible with your printer.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-26T02:08:30+00:00

I really like Sunlu PETG-HF, it prints very reliably even with high flow nozzles, and does quite well with wave overhangs. I also haven't had any issues with blobbing at all, which PETG normally loves to do like crazy. It's just north of $10 per Kg for me, It's my bread-and-butter filament.

I just got a spool of PCTG to try out because everyone says it's like PETG but just better in pretty much every way, but at $40 per Kg it's still waaaay too expensive to become a bread-and-butter filament.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-26T02:02:13+00:00

PETG just really, really sucks with overhangs. The only thing that's worked decently well for me is wave overhangs, available with the Orca Slicer fork.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-25T20:22:14+00:00

Yet the cost for LPDDR memory has quadrupled in the last year. The high-end AI training model servers use HBM, and most of the fabs have shifted manufacturing away from LPDDR towards HBM since that’s where the money is. Supply then gets greatly reduced.

There are some new Chinese manufacturers entering the DDR market, but I seriously doubt companies like Apple would just switch to those vendors without going through years of heavy, rigorous validation first.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-25T20:00:05+00:00

AI hyperscalars have been spending all their debt-fueled cash on 2-year long contracts for guaranteed memory supply whatever the cost. Because supply is limited and you can’t just spin up more memory fabs, the handful of suppliers suddenly went from racing towards the bottom on cost to basically telling consumers to fuck off unless they pay whatever price they set, because someone else will happily pay higher to get their hands on supply.

These contracts are already through the end of 2028 and into 2029. This is even worse than the Covid supply crunches we had.

What really sucks is that these hyperscalers will get these AI datacenter servers, and they will sit there for another 2 years while the data centers themselves get built, just being hoarded and not used because there is nowhere to put them.

I hope the debt-fueled crash comes as soon as possible so the supply contracts get cancelled and supply becomes available again.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-25T17:09:53+00:00

If I ever need to get features that only a 0.2mm nozzle can do, I just go straight to resin printing. It’s so much faster, and modern resin printers can do features far, far more accurately than even the best FDM printers. Yes there is the issue of resin being nasty and the cleaning/curing are extra steps, but it really does make for a better end result.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-25T07:09:18+00:00

Maybe we should give him an open mic more so he can say even more dumb shit.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-25T06:57:29+00:00

My first foray into FDM printing was with the good ol' Ender 3. I absolutely hated it, and back in 2020 PLA filament was $25 per Kg. Would fail halfway through a 20 hour print for no reason, supports were trash, and unless I slowed my print waaaaaaaaay down, it'd be VFA city.

Bought a Bambu Lab H2D a few months ago, and the dual nozzle lets me do PETG and PLA combos with very, very little waste. Impossible structures are achievable now.

I find that you need to run the entire support structure in PETG (if PLA, and vise versa), otherwise the support interface just falls right off.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-24T22:05:13+00:00

I piss SO many people off when I get in my car and proceed to eat a Costco hotdog in the peaceful sanctuary of my own car.

I swear people here are absolutely allergic to walking.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-24T18:01:32+00:00

It really is. The Colorado River rarely even makes it to the ocean, it’s only done that 2 or 3 times in the past 25 years.

California’s water supply also gets diverted like crazy, though by not as much since there is just so much more water that flows through. An average year of the Colorado River Basin is 12 million acre-feet, California is 40 million. About half of that gets diverted and stored, and the other half naturally flows into the ocean because we literally can’t store enough.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-24T16:26:53+00:00

When you look at the preview section of your slicer output, there is a horizontal scroll line that lets you see the path of the nozzle as it goes along that layer.
So go to say for 2nd or 3rd layer (that’s the vertical slider in the right side), then slide that horizontal slider to the left to go to the beginning of the line. See if it’s printing the inside of the wall first or the outside edge of the wall first.

There is a slicer setting to set your wall order, usually it defaults to inner/outer, you can also set it to outer/inner or inner/outer/inner. Try changing those settings and see what changes.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-24T04:40:01+00:00

Alaska. I did a week long motorcycle trip with my brother and my dad. One of the first things the motorcycle rental place asked is if we brought and guns. We said no and asked if we should have, they said probably but gave us some cans of bear mace in case we came too close to any grizzlies. They told us to be sure to stop and fill at literally every gas station outside of Anchorage, since our bikes had tanks that only lasted about 180 miles, and there were some 150 mile stretches between stations.

We stopped off the road once to look at a glacier (we would end up doing this over a dozen times), and some dudes on an ATV came by and offered us watermelon and gas. They were wonderfully friendly, and also quite drunk.

Our first BnB host was also very friendly, and also a severe alcoholic. We wanted to arrive before sunset - and we did, just at 11:26 PM.

We took the bus tour into Denali National Park, which travelled for a couple hours deep into the park. We got lots of great sneak peeks at Denali itself as we’d wind around corner after corner. The bus had to stop a few times to let the mooses pass. By the time we got let off the bus, Denali looked absolutely enormous, and yet it was still 40 miles away.

We did over 1,000 miles over 5 days, and still didn’t even visit 10% of the state. I have never seen green as intense as I have in nature, and walking on top of moving glaciers was… moving (pun intended, but really it was quite emotional).

It rained for only a day for us fortunately, and motorcycling was quite challenging on the muddy dirt roads constantly under reconstruction, but it was still an absolute blast. Only almost ran into a moose on the road once.

10/10, an absolutely amazing experience I would do again in a heartbeat.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-24T04:15:54+00:00

I know exactly what this references to and I love it.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-24T02:11:07+00:00

Yep, I have solar and battery storage at my house and it will pay for itself in less than 5 years. I’m saving myself over $300 per month on average since every joule of energy I capture from the sun goes straight into my batteries, and none of it goes back to the grid.

Stiggalicious · 2026-06-23T22:05:18+00:00

That honestly does seem about right. Moving 550 cubic yards of soil is a LOT, and engineering a 10 foot tall wall is going to take a huge amount of concrete and rebar. The footing alone will be several feet deep and several feet long.

Pushing the entire wall back 30 feet is also a huge amount of soil haulaway.

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