It’s America, so the answer is probably “No”.
Do you not have consumer protection laws?
We’ve had digital price tags for decades. But you couldn’t do this in NZ. Stores are obligated to sell you a product at the price they advertise it for AND have a reasonable quantity of units at that price… you couldn’t sell 1 TV for $1.
So these systems would need to track what price you saw it at.
(Caveat: Our stores are still cunts and have been found to overcharge people)
They are also IR controlled. A lot of them have a little window on the front of the unit, and an array of transmitters in the ceiling.
SLS4All has an entire machine kit for $7,000
https://sls4all.com/store/inova-mk1-parts-set-del-oct24/
It’s no $4,000. But it’s open source, so a potential candidate for Chinese derivatives and a race to the bottom like we saw with the Ender3.
I thought everyone decided “jfgi” in online discourse was a toxic years ago. It’s the same attitude as :
chemtrails make you sick!
How so?
go do your own research
If you’re going report on something, provide a little more information than just “no”. It’s more helpful, better for the community, and in 5 years time when the facts are different, there’ll still be a reference of what was factual in the past.
I’m old, I have other shit to do, and I don’t have the time. If I’m writing code, I’m doing it because there is a problem that needs a solution. Either solving someone else’s ‘problems’ for $$$, or an actual problem at home.
If it’s a short term problem like “reorganising some folders” I’m not going to (re)learn another language. I’m going to smash it out in 30mins with whatever will get the job done the quickest, then get back to doing something more important.
If it’s an ongoing problem, I’m going to solve it in the most sustainable way possible. I might fix the problem now but 100% someone’s going to drop support or change an API in 2 years time and it’ll break. Sure, doing it in Chicken would be fun. But the odds are, I won’t remember half the shit I learned 2 years later. It’ll be unmaintainable. A forever grind of learning, fixing, forgetting.
So without a commercial driver to actively invest in Lisps, there’s no point. It’s not profitable and It doesn’t solve any problems other tools can. Without the freedom youth brings, I don’t have the time to do it “for fun”.
I love lisp. Well, scheme and less so clojure. I don’t know why. Is it macros? Is it the simplicity? Or is it just nostalgia from learning it during a time in my life.
But I just can’t find a place for it in my life.
It’s not job material, effectively nobody uses it. It doesn’t solve basic problems with ease like Python does.
And because of this, anything I do in it is nothing more than a toy. As soon as i put it down, I have no hope of picking it up or maintaining it in 6,12,24 months later.
A toy I spend 2 weeks in absolute joy, but as soon as life gets in the way it is dead.
Move to NZ. It’s nearly all c# here.
My brother behaves weird with Linux (fedora 39 silverblue).
When doing multiple copies of double sided printing, it’ll print [1|2] [1|1] [2|2] [1|1] [2|2] and then repeat until you realise you now have onen copy of what you want and 10 pages of one side, and 10 pages of the other side.
It’ll also randomly refuse jobs, and then print them 30 minutes later (lmao if you printed multiple copies, gave up and went for a walk)
My Panasonic I replaced it with was better, but you had to download binary blobs to make it work.
But, Linux has gotten more and more complicated in the last 20 years I really can’t be fucked working out if it’s the printer, cups, flatpacks, the app that’s printing, or all of the above.
Now I just email myself a PDF and print from my phone. Fucking stupid but it works.
The host was stable. And I was compiling the kernel for hardware and vfio reasons anyway, so why not compile everything and it’s not like there was a lot to compile.
Tips: don’t
Performance was ok. Lots of fiddling required on both host and guest to get performance close to native.
I used to have Gentoo running a Libvirt hypervisor, which would then run multiple short lived isolated windows and Linux machines with GPU passthrough for all the different companies and projects I was working on.
Spent far too much time keeping the guest machine images up to date, and all the configs and stuff managed and synchronised.
Then my laptop died that I was using to manage everything so I gave up.
Providing it has tabs, I’ll use it.
This is too close to home.
I used to use ANSI, but then moved to England and bought a laptop and returned it because of the “weird” ISO keyboard, then forever bought dell because I could customise it.
Moved back to ANSIland, but will still probably just buy dell.
They’re everywhere in New Zealand.
Why don’t we apply these rules to all things? Why just milk and booze?
Weights and measures act, appendix 4.2.0 part 3, section 2: chicken nuggies.
I like folk music and industrial music. The overlap of the two seems to also have a disproportionate overlap of … what’s the best way to put it?… fascist-adjacent music. Imagery, themes, etc.
Am I a fascist? No.
Are the artists fascist? I don’t know, Boyd Rice sure has had some controversies about him, but he’s not been banned from streaming services. But In some ways I don’t care, I don’t have the time to unpick every lyric, image and interview from the artists I listen to, to make a decision on their political views. I just like the music. Open a public playlist and listen.
None of the music I listen to appears to be sold on Midgard. But does that mean they’re not fascist?
Hasn’t this been happening for years?
Intel’s clear Linux had similar articles published about it years ago.
If they know we have savings. They’ll just increase prices again to take them.