It also depends on the accuracy of the emulator. Cycle accurate emulators demand horsepower (or an FPGA). Less accurate (but still perfectly playable) emulators can run on potatoes, but I can feel the difference on games I grew up playing. I’m almost as good as I was as a kid when I play on an accurate emulator or FPGA, but on a Raspberry Pi I tend to be noticeably worse.

That may not matter to everyone, but it matters to me.

Doin God’s work here

If you value your time more than you like to tinker with your printer, then the cost makes sense.

If you like to do more maintenance and prefer to save the money up front, then the budget printers make sense.

20% should be perfectly fine. I can’t get mine less than that without extreme effort, and it doesn’t perform better at that percentage anyway.

I dry mine in a food dehydrator and print with it in one of the filament dryers to keep it dry during long prints. I live in a swamp though, so it’s necessary for me to do this before almost every print.

You’ll want to tow it outside the environment for repairs.

So… KY? Astroglide?

Have his years of wild hedonism finally caught up with him!?

Pop the magnets into the paused print.

The magnets: "Hahaha. This is a fine joke, good sir!’

Resume print

Magnets: “Yes, a very funny joke indeed. Wait, sir, where are you going! Sir! SIR!!”

Walk away knowing that neither you nor anyone else will see those magnets again

Hey I’ve been there. Take it apart carefully and inspect it as you go. Do lots of reading, clean it up, put it back together and hopefully it won’t happen again - but know that it might if you don’t find a cause. Sometimes things have to get worse before a cause becomes obvious.

I’ve got a Prusa, but I’ve had to replace many different parts on it, sometimes multiple times. Some of that was factory issues. Some of that was my fault. Some of it was just bad luck.

I still love the hobby, but it sure as Hell isn’t trouble free.

It will get easier as you learn more and screw up more. You learn what not to do, and then eventually you’ll screw up again as you relax and forget some of the lessons you’ve learned.

But it also gets more fun too. It’s okay to walk away for a while until you’ve got it in you to fix your printer. But repairs will always be a part of this hobby regardless of what printer you have.

I used to brew beer, and that was no different. Experienced brewers are more likely to accidentally ruin a batch of beer because of overconfidence and getting lax about sanitation.

I think any technical hobby is like this.

That was their old model, but this is a complete reimplementation of iMessage and requires no Apple ID, login details, etc. It’s E2E encrypted like all iMessage texts, and Beeper only knows that you have a message waiting, not the contents.

And the people who defend Windows like they do - the ones who say it’s objectively better - have probably never had to support it professionally on either the help desk side or system admin side. I’ve done plenty of both, and I absolutely LOATH Windows because of it.

To think that Windows is perfect… My God, what luck they must have had with it. I’ve run into problems where Microsoft themselves were unable to figure out the cause OR the solution, even when paid to do so. We got a refund on that experience, but I have NEVER run into that with Linux or FOSS. Given enough information regarding a problem, I have ALWAYS had someone who will know the answer.

First, YOU missed the point in the original context which is different versions of different libraries may be needed to run software. Flatpak solves that particular problem.

Second, I don’t owe you or anyone tech support, nor do I care about your satisfaction level with software. Use it or don’t.

If you’re the kind of helpless person who has to be spoon fed answers, then perhaps Linux or FOSS isn’t for you, and other alternatives exist that have professional support staffs.

You act as though inputting the same information (“What is Flatpak?”) into a search engine instead of a random comment on a random forum is just A BRIDGE TOO FAR. That’s a pathetic attitude, but plenty of people will still step up to help the helpless. I just don’t have to spend my free time being one of them - though I often have when it’s obvious they’ve already at least tried to find an answer on their own.

You mean when people just ask someone else instead of heading to the single best information resource that’s ever existed in human history for an immediate answer?

No. I don’t see why people do that.

Not when ruining someone else’s fun is my fun ;p

Flatpaks exist for FreeCAD.

Remember

Shut the fuck up, Wesley! You’re like a small child who wanders onto the bridge in the middle of planetary survey.

Nor am I. Last time I got into any of them was when I enjoyed playing Splatoon 2 for a bit. Unfortunately the matching was really bad when I played, and the disconnections were worse. So you’d get people - probably little kids - on your team who wouldn’t play as a team, then one would get disconnected and you’d have zero chace of winning. Even playing my absolute best wasn’t enough in those situations. Heck, even if I were matched with all adults, that single disconnect would screw everyone.

I found that ultimately it wasn’t fun. No idea if any of that improved over time or if Splatoon 3 was any better. I am now, and always have been, a much bigger fan of single player experiences.

Odo: You have a great gift for crime.

Quark: No, never, none of the time!