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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • It’s not the actual tech, generally speaking, that people are upset about. Although your Luddite reference is probably more accurate than you intended.

    The Luddites weren’t anti-tech, they were anti- the damage it was doing to the people who did the work.

    Most people who hate these new technologies aren’t mad at the tech itself, they’re mad at the quality that’s produced when the only concern is lowering costs and the extractive infrastructure built around it. A monthly fucking subscription for heated seats. This exists now.

    The alternative to this is the galaxy brained take: “THESE PEOPLE HATE HAVING A COMFORTABLE ASS WHILE DRIVING”












  • The only place I know to get it is direct from their site.

    I’m not sure that you do, as far as I know, being able to move them is the only test. I’m printing a torture toaster now to see if I’m getting similar results with that. I know there are more precise ways to measure dimensional accuracy, but I’ve always been able to print a decent benchy and calibration cube. Actual applications have been less successful.