Bluewing

I've been using it for years. But I have been waiting for this day to come. Because it always comes at some point without fail.

No, but they are still having a Fabulous Time^tm^ that you will never have.

Much depends on what you want out of life. Your choices are about as far apart in philosophy as you can get.

Do you wear tweed or have a sport coat with elbow patches? If so, then Debian is as staid and stable as you are. Slowly evolving and the mother of many other distros. Or do you have dyed hair and piercings? Do you live in your mother's basement? Arch might be a great fit for you. Arch is often wild and barely house broken and will pee on your floor as soon as it can. It can be tamed if kept under tight control. But it's a wild ride on the edge if you let it.

There is a middle ground that can draw from both worlds. Ubuntu and Fedora and SuSe are that middle ground. If this is your first time sailing the Sea of Distros, then somewhere in this middle is perhaps the best place to start.

I was there at the very beginning. I watched the rise of today. From playing Oregon Trail on a teletype computer head in a dingy basement, trying to learn Basic, writing batch files, compiling kernels, and rpm hell.

The Badgers were amazing and mesmerizing and are truly worthy of preservation.

Oh, the consumer companies care. But they currently don't matter anymore that we do. And let's be honest, the if and when this AI bubble does pop and all the data centers have closed. The prices will drop enough for consumers to eat up the sudden surplus as if a dam broke because it will "feel cheap and a bargain". There is no lose-lose here for DRAM manufacturers because consumers ain't that bright.

It might. But I don't think there has been much of a cooling for Bambu's market share. There are plenty of fanbois and their marketing IS effective for first time buyers.

There are gems. I sometimes need to do things I don't often do in FreeCAD. A quick refresher from Mango, and I'm back in the groove.

"60% of gamers have no plans to build a computer for the foreseeable future." The unspoken part is, "and the hardware manufacturers don't care". Maybe they will after the bubble pops, or maybe not.

I just bought a mini desktop-- Ryzen 5 with 16Gb memory and 1Tb SSD. It cost me almost $500US. It probably was $100 less last year. I'm not a gamer, but I do make heavy use of 3D CAD and sometimes with large assemblies. And my old Nitro 5 and 1650 nVidia had been starting to struggle.

I do like my new little computer, with Aurora 44 installed, win11 was aborted on first boot, it's a snappy little box despite the modest specs. The downside is, there isn't enough time to make a cuppa tea while waiting on a model regen.

And who knows, I may live long enough to afford another stick of ram, or I may win the lottery someday-- assuming I buy a lottery ticket first.

While something like this isn't very common, it does happen.

Rossmann is just posturing for his fans.

He ain't got the kind of money it takes for this kind of fight. Prusa looked into to filing a possible court case. And they decided this is a fight they can't afford and can't win. Because it's not only Bambu's lawyers, but the Chinese government's money they have. And remember, the Chinese government holds a stake in Bambu. And Prusa can afford a lot better lawyers than Rossmann can.

Not to defend Bambu in any way, but they seem to be stuck between the AGPL and the Chinese government that wants control over the software in the name of 'national Security' (this applies to nearly every industry in China). And third parties are outside actors that they can't control. Which I think might be why Bambu is acting like they are. Their government is now leaning on them to rein this in. And companies in China fear the government more than the rest of the world.

When Bambu first started won this path, didn't they say one could buy a license to tie into their code? And Orca refused to do that. I wonder if part of the "price" involved approval from the Chinese government about backdoor access.

Black bears are fine. I live amongst them and sometimes bump one when foraging. They are pretty safe if you and the bear don't get stupid.

Bear story time.

I have a friend that was bow hunting deer in the early part of the season and had 2 cubs come wandering down the trail. He got some nice video of them nosing around. It was all going swimmingly well. Cute little bears and some nice video footage in a beautiful fall forest.

Then one of them hit his scent, (bears have excellent noses), under the tree his stand was in. Then it started to climb the tree and the video got better. My friend was still not overly concerned. After all the bear wasn't even halfway up to the stand. But the bear didn't stop climbing until it reached the bottom of the stand. My friend was now considerably concerned. Because he had nothing with him that he could use to repel boarders beyond a very sharp pointy stick. Another concern was that if the bear did decide to climb over the stand, the stand was unlikely to support the weight of both of them. And after a 15ft fall they would probably end up in a pile together on the ground. Not a desirable outcome for either of them.

Fortunately for both of them, when the bear got close enough to get a good whiff of just what was up in the tree, it decided it was not lunch but rather something to be avoided at all costs and climbed back down as fast as possible and ran away.

My friend got some awesome video and photos plus a fine story, with proof, to tell in any hunting camp for the rest of his life.