“Plasma Big Screen” is just a stupid name for a large format UI for TVs.

Bambu did the biggest own-goal I have seen in decades. Meanwhile, at Snapmaker…

Not in my experience. They are tools like any other tool.

their proprietary slicer

That’s the problem, it cannot be proprietary when based off slic3R. It’s not their property to lock down.

1. The costs (monetary and environmental) of launching so many new satellites,

Fraction of damage and cost of earth based datacentres.

2. Large-scale computing technology is untested in that kind of environment and will likely encounter a number of issues and unforeseen problems (so more launches until they get it right),

We’ve been putting computers and satellites in space for decades.

3. Additional radiation will increase errors, so they will require a more robust design with more redundancy than Earth-based systems,

That’s what shielding is for. We have probes still working after 48 years in space.

4. If they’re in a low orbit similar to Starlink satellites (which have an expected lifetime of 5 to 7 years) they will need to be constantly replaced.

so place them in higher orbit.

How are they going to cool these in space which is notoriously hard to cool things down in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control

The problems with datacenters are power consumption and water use. This addresses both problems. Sunny side picks up tons of solar generated electricity, dark side radiates heat.

Velcro. Memory foam.

Seriously? that’s the best you could do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

You can’t even dissipate heat

of course you can, by thermal radiation. Power by solar panels which can generate a lot without atmosphere filtering sun energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control

Tech companies do this every week. It’s like a trade agreement with Trump. Both agree and sign a EULA, then they just throw it out. Cricut did this with their systems. Fucking legal because of shit laws.

when they locked out Orca Slicer from the cloud services originally.

Which violated the AGPL license from Ranellucci.

any printer will do that.

limited research needed to make their own products - they’re just copying open patents and software, tuning it a little, and selling the package at manufacturing cost + profit margins

So you really have no idea about these printers. Bambu has a dozen patents for novel IP.

“copying open patents” no such thing as an open patent, IP is either patent, or open domain. All printer companies exploit expired patents, including Prusa.

Stratasys is suing Bambu over: Purge Towers, Force Detection, Networked Systems & Smart Spools, but Stratasys are cunts who try to sue anyone. How did they get a patent for purge towers.

Right, there are many forks of the software, which is allowed under the AGPL licence.

Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci established the original open-source foundation.

Then PrusaSlicer forked from that -ok.

Then Orcaslicer forked from that -ok.

Then Bambu locked down it’s fork - not ok, violation of the slic3r AGPL.

It’s like…can I borrow your car? puts a bumper sticker on it, changes the locks, my car now.

Slic3r is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

The GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) is a strong copyleft, free software license designed to ensure source code remains open, even when software is run over a network. Based on GPLv3, it closes the “ASP loophole” by requiring companies that modify and offer software as a service (SaaS) to make the source code available to users.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

Exactly what the GPL means, Bambu intern.

Catch up to what? Waymo is still losing money.

Just how big do people think the taxi market is?

PrusaSlicer is a fork of Slic3r.

In scientific queries. LMs return an answer from the largest data but if a system or model was recently proven wrong, they still return the wrong answer.

If you make very specific queries about DNA or protein sequence, they usually generate fabrications that are completely wrong.

They tend to return answers trained on the Internet, an uncurated pile of dogshit when it comes to science.

But you had to ask your compliance team. Now repeat after your compliance team has been laid off. Good luck.

Real value and purpose…give one example.

I’m just waiting for the first Glasshole who goes to a children’s playground wearing these and gets investigated by police. Imagine someone judging everything you glance at.

No one would tolerate some guy at a park with a gopro.