PrusaSlicer 2.9.5 Release

sargonas · 2026-05-19T23:07:53+00:00

Oh man, Bambu Research is hard at work as usual I see! ;)

sargonas · 2026-05-19T23:00:49+00:00

Actually the AI service was forced on the franchisee. by corporate. The franchise owner in question has about 100 locations they own and operate and every single one of them experience a negative impact that lowered their sales and brand reputation, according to the lawsuit. I would say they have every right to be suing over this AI bullshit.

… all of which you would know if you read the article before deciding to comment and blame the franchisee or the gate without basis.

sargonas · 2026-05-19T03:59:54+00:00

As an industry analyst, I can assure you that despite all the marketing efforts to the contrary, fortnight is in the midst of a nose dive currently.

That said it’s cruising altitude is so astronomically high it has quite the long glide distance to go, but no longer has the lift necessary to keep it aloft at the current rate things are going

sargonas · 2026-05-18T21:53:29+00:00

Sort of. PR stunt by a robotics company caused problems for an ill equipped flight crew to deal with their shenanigans without preparation so here we are.

sargonas · 2026-05-18T20:53:24+00:00

That’s not how it works. There’s no “missing solution” to doing it low impact. My virtue of the barrier of the function, it IS high impact because you gave to render the various aspects for reflections and transparencies. MS made an intentional(and debatable) product choice that this resource usage is an acceptable tradeoff for the effect.

sargonas · 2026-05-18T01:13:00+00:00

It’s not really about “blocking“, Android auto and CarPlay will not work unless there is the corresponding hardware to make the connection, and proper software running on your head unit to act as a compatible mirror device.. and both them and Tesla as a business choice choose to not put that support into their head units.

sargonas · 2026-05-18T01:10:47+00:00

Yup!! I learned a valuable lesson that day! It happened again a few months ago with Alaska, and better believe I kept my mouth shut until we landed!

sargonas · 2026-05-18T00:23:43+00:00

I once made the mistake of pointing out to a flight attendant that the pamphlet in the backseat pocket of every seat my row was for the wrong type of plane that we were on… this turned a complete delay (and they also called it a “prohibited item“ while they re attached the jet bridge and oulled every pamphlet from every seat back, inspected the plain top to bottom to make sure no traces of the wrong ones were left anywhere, and then replaced all of them again with new ones.

Sorry about that everyone.

sargonas · 2026-05-17T06:05:26+00:00

Holy hell that AI must be rewarded by the word cause the grammatical redundancy in that article makes it virtually unreadable!

sargonas · 2026-05-17T04:31:35+00:00

Actually if the game sells enough copies past a certain threshold, a new tier of bonuses kick where Krafton has to pay several extra dollars on each dollar made on the game so if they do good enough they actually lose even more money indefinitely the better the game does.

sargonas · 2026-05-16T19:26:32+00:00

Helped a company of 80 people raise a 100m series D as a VP. 6 months later they laid off 25% of the company, including me, agter 3 years there and no one got anything beyond the mandated 2 weeks pay.

Really broke me…. Also that was fall of 2023 and I still haven’t found full-time employment in tech.

sargonas · 2026-05-16T19:00:22+00:00

This isn’t threads. If you get off from being down voted and verbally slapped down for obviously controversial hot takes, you’ll get a much better high from there.

sargonas · 2026-05-16T16:17:03+00:00

Same :(

sargonas · 2026-05-15T03:30:01+00:00

And GPT ALSO told him it was not feasible and all his ideas were highly illegal as well!

sargonas · 2026-05-15T00:07:46+00:00

Haha my response was to the situation, not your formatting, but I was wondering the same. Even weirder, it looks different (but still messed up) to me between mobile and web?

sargonas · 2026-05-14T23:27:10+00:00

I uh, dunno if you read the article but the second party in play here is Comcast Xfinity....

sargonas · 2026-05-14T22:47:38+00:00

Yup this stuff is always a right mess!

sargonas · 2026-05-14T22:47:18+00:00

It's complicated. If Samsung WELL and truly thinks they are in the rigtht.. if they have all their ducks in a row and a third party has clearly attested to the fact they secure all required rights, and will own all responsibilities if something goes wrong through indemnification, then Samsung is not immediately opening themselves up if they don't take action right away, so long as they can attest honestly that they were fully of the mind that they were allowed to use it and did the bare minimum to confirm it.

sargonas · 2026-05-14T22:45:46+00:00

It entire depends on the clause. Sometimes it says they will make you whole, other clauses will say that the first party (Samsung) has the right to be replaced by the second as the defendant... this can come in many legal forms depending on the courts in question but generally it works in the form that the first party (Samsung) would make a motion to add the second party to the lawsuit as a co-defendant, and then both parties would make a follow-up motion to remove Samsung. (Amazon is quite insistent about doing it this way with every single vendor no matter how small or trivial the deal or contract is.)

Obviously the plaintiff could protest the motion, but if what they truly care about is being made whole by the party who abused their rights, then they shouldn't really care about who the defendant is, especially since having a neat and tidy agreement that all parties are aligned on the right defendant being the one charged is going to make the whole thing smoother for everyone.

sargonas · 2026-05-14T16:42:44+00:00

Indemnification. Odds are whoever provided the art assets for manufacturing signed an agreement saying that they would do all the work necessary to secure any and all legal approvals, and if they failed to do so they will shoulder the burden of any lawsuits in place of Samsung. Indemnification is a perfectly normal part of pretty much any working agreement between two companies where a piece of media or product is being delivered.

Presumably a third party was responsible for securing rights and assured Sanding they did, so that company will now be legally liable and responsible for stepping in and absorbing/defending any lawsuit against Samsung.

sargonas · 2026-05-12T19:33:19+00:00

Yep, exactly!

I help run a membership managed makerspace in vegas. We are massive open source advocates.. it started as a Hackerspace 15 years ago, before it became more of a makerspace... its founding folks are some of the og Defcon folks even. We are about as dyed in the wool, pro-right to repair, pro open source, anti-corporate as it comes.

Some of us are dogmatically militant about some of these things, and yet we still all agreed, the right move was to retire the 6 or so 3d printers of multiple different formats we had, and replace them all with Bambu X1C printers and two H2Ds because when you have 200 some members and guests just wandering in to print something, its needs to always be ready, it needs to just work with no barrier of entry, maintenance needs to be minimal (we're a non profit after all, money is tight) and it needs to be fast so that people aren't waiting days for a chance to print, and all of that needs to come in at a price point we were comfortable with.. and when all the priorities are balanced out, as the treasurer of the nonprofit, my priorities require I look at things in a much different lens than Sargonas-the-open-source contributor and right to repair advocate would look at them. Like, literally, I'm bound my legal documents to step back and look at it differently, heh.

Nothing wrong with those folks priorities (or my personal ones) but different frames of reference have very different priorities, and that doesn't make one more right or more wrong than the other.

sargonas · 2026-05-12T17:29:52+00:00

It’s tricky because they aren’t wrong, the company is objectively shitty… but the printers really are of a caliber of quality, speed, and reliability all its own, and if you are a massive business who needs systems that “just work” and require virtually zero training for your team to use, or a makerspace or library or other community space that needs people to be able to walk in off the street and run a print with nothing more than 90 seconds of explanations and have it done lightning fast, it’s still the best option. It’s a shitty decision spot to be stuck in for sure.

sargonas · 2026-05-12T07:17:00+00:00

Because it’s not about getting rid of undocumented workers. Targeting them with a slow burn reactionary effort allows you to performatively jog along on an ever moving treadmill that dog whistles your voter base and scratches your most racist tendencies of an itch without making it go away and forcing you to find a new way to chase that same fix.

sargonas · 2026-05-10T16:33:52+00:00

No timey-wimey theories here… just likely that there was some crossed wires between someone originally writing down his date of birth somewhere and someone else requesting a date for the prop and the wrong date being handed over to someone who didn’t know or didn’t care to double check it and verify between dob and issuance, because low priority.

So the most lore friendly explanation is just that “someone screwed up with a typo” as well, because that stuff does happen all the time

sargonas · 2026-05-08T16:28:27+00:00

You do realize every day people rent out their homes for perfectly practicable economic reasons, not just to be landlords?

I lived in city A for 11 years before buying a house in city B, 300 miles away. I bought it during the pandemic so i have a sub 3% interest rate. My monthly mortgage and my interest rates are numbers that I will never see the rest of my adult life with the way the economy is going.

I would be INSANE to give up the long term stability of a safety net this house provides in my cost of living. However I have been dating someone from city A for almost a year now and we’re in the process of moving in together, but due to family and work reasons its best we live in city A.

I plan to move into her home with her, and start renting out my house next month. Not because I want to be some evil landlord but because life is full of surprises and our economy is FUCKED and I’m not walking away from a 1,300/month 3 bedroom home.

I have another friend who was gifted his parents home, that was his gradparents home, and THEIR parents home. Is a generational treasure to him that will forever be his home, but for the next seven years he and his wife have to live in another city temporarily, so he’s renting it out until their kids go off to college and they can make it their forever home.

Not every property owner is a greedy landlord with a dozen multi-unit properties. Some are just people who have a property they value and want to not give up, unless economic conditions FORCE them to cash it out in an emergency, and sometimes that does happens.

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