[–] 0 points 1 day ago

It may not be much but it is something.

They already run on crude instead of more refined fuel for very small percentage point gains in fuel cost.

5t less fuel over 2 weeks isn't nothing, and this is the first one. With visibly a shit-ton more room for more panels.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    They're joking, but most of the US are "Right to Work" states. Meaning, on paper, you have the 'right' to quit your job without reprisal, but in practice the company can fire you without compensation. They owe for anything you've already done, but that's about it.

    I was thinking their package was pretty generous but you're right it's very basic for other places.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Caring what one the richest people in the world wants/says is only partially celebrity culture.

    He is directly responsible for significant portions of our country's space program and has personally altered our government's structure and spending, resulting in at least thousands of deaths, so far.

    Pretending his thinking is as inconsequential and ignorable as any other moronic Nazi on Twitter is about as dumb as worshipping him.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    We are only 'pretty sure' of the mechanism of how Tylenol works biochemically as of 2025.

    You can test for effectiveness and dangers and everything else you need to prescribe something to get a good idea of whether its actually doing something or not.

    'Alternative medicine' is largely, "I felt better after a bit".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    This seems equivalent to someone buying a hammer from a pawn shop. Upon authorities finding out that hammer had been stolen or used in a crime instead of charging or investigating the Pawn Shop owner, they charge the person who bought the hammer because they made things with the assistance of "stolen goods".

    Used car / firearm / AI-assisted-code / other-example-here

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    I would be surprised if a cartridge being discontinued would kill an open source project like this. They could switch to a different cartridge.

    I'd assume they're doing the one for now because it's cheap-ish and has widespread availability. There's little reason not to expand to other cartridges once the rest of the printer is more stable.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    That's the thing. Steam caught on in part because compared to physical retail "only" 30% was a massive improvement for the average game company. I've heard 60-70+% going to buying/printing floppies/CDs, packaging, distribution, etc. at the high end. I'm sure the big companies got bulk discounts or multi-year deals for supplies.

    Yes that meant that since those aspects were a significant amount of the cost anyway you could do stuff like the StarCraft Battlechest that was crammed with extras. But it also did a lot of gatekeeping in it's own right.

    Now you could probably do some kind of limited run thing that would be a lot more viable, but it's definitely a luxury step up.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Physical media has the inherent benefit of being difficult to remove from the customer. Because of the several thousand years of precedent and "argument" has lead to the current protections many countries have.

    Digital distribution of Digital goods has significant benefits to the customer and producer over physical distribution. A lot of physical game media at this point is basically a license key and a mostly working game that needs downloaded patches they were still developing while the discs were being printed. The downsides are the current legal mechanisms and that a lot of people involved in the producing would like to continue to eat and pay rent.

    Don't act like this guy.

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