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by brudgers
4154 days ago
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I wasn't being critical, I was being compelled. Hanselman's analysis is reasonable and not misleading. The $600 product easily solves the 95% case. And for a consumer oriented product probably the 99.9% case since most will sit on the shelf because it's still printing and how much stuff do people download off the internet and print with their color printers these days? The idea that we will all be making our personalized LPS (Little Plastic Shit)[1] to our snowflake's content is true. But only because most snowflakes are content without doing it as a hobby. It's Buck Rodgers cool when it's on the screen, but the reality of waiting 8 hours for maybe getting a widget only appeals to some people. It's like raytracing silver balls above a red and yellow checkerboard. Amazing to see it come out line by line over four hours at 320x200 in 1989. Not worth setting up a Blender scene to do it in the blink of an eye today. For most people, there are better options than doing it themselves. For a few use cases doing it yourself is the best option. And doing it yourself is a great option for people who want to do it themselves. That's the same class of people who put their recipes on floppy disks in C64 days. Done ranting. Get off my lawn anyway. [1] or plastic crap : https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Plastic_crap |
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