A lathe takes no instructions and is potentially the most useful tool of all listed for the purposes of making a gun.
fonix232
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Not a major problem AND going after 3D printing doesn't actually solve the problem - the core components that make a gun a gun, such as the barrel, firing pin, etc., still need to be manufactured in the "traditional" way (unless you're trying to make a single use, one shot gun, but even that has better alternatives than 3D printing).
As it's been pointed out above, the pieces of equipment - lathes, mills, CNC machines - required to make the aforementioned parts require no licencing, no safety mechanisms to prevent gun part manufacturing.
Yeah, I quite "love" this BS.
On one hand, these tech megacorps are pushing for privacy violating measures to "protect the children"
On the other hand they're literally profiting off child abuse and refuse to stop it. See e.g. Roblox refusing to deal with paedos because they were the highest paying customers...
The Chinese companies aren't even copying by doing the same stuff - they're copying models by using the American ones with very directed prompts to essentially distill, say, Fable 5, with just a few hundred thousand prompts, into a smaller, faster model.
It's akin to running a bakery, having a super well selling product, and the competition rolling in and buying up 70-80% of your daily volume just to reverse the recipe, then they'll be selling an "improved" version at 10-20% the cost within a few weeks.
What a load of bollocks.
Nobody owes you anything, especially if it's a free service. And A/B testing is pretty much the only way to get reliable results on how a feature may shape user experience.
Or would you rather companies just delivered features without any care how it affects users?
I mean yeah, to some extent you're right.
But it is also due to telemetrics being helpful in diagnosing issues before users even report them, measuring their business effects, or even doing A/B tests to see how a new feature may affect the user experience.
Problem is that companies realised this info can also be used for other purposes - such as, datamining the users - to create another lucrative revenue source...
I also do not want to mount a network share with the same rights and constant syncing to 8+ devices...
cloud storage actually makes sense if used right. It is obviously overpriced to urge people to buy the larger packages, and sadly there aren't many self hosted solutions that work as well as Google's and Apple's own (whether it be due to platform limitations on iOS or simply an oversight on the FOSS development side), but it's not as dumb as you're painting it.
Fully agree with the rest.
On one hand, no, they shouldn't, on the other hand they're free to voice their opinion and choose a different service if this is the breaking point.
Problem is, it's hard to find a good VPN service that doesn't fuck with alt right chuds and isn't US based.
Eh, the writing was on the wall the moment DRAM manufacturers refused to expand capacity and instead stopped consumer sales in favour of corporate batch sales.
No such discussion happened. As per above, that group of people were super toxic and couldn't care less about this specific person...
At most the remaining people would've mentioned how his panic attack inconvenienced their night out.
Except as I said NOBODY looked up the term. How many times and in how many forms do I have to state that the MENTION of pulse oximeters was: verbal only, in no way entered into a computer before I started getting the adverts?
The discussion itself wasn't even that long, colleague asked why I looked so tired, I told him how the previous night we had to call an ambulance and sort the guy out, colleague said "maybe he should get a cheap pulse oximeter, it can be helpful to predict attacks and handle them without a call [for an ambulance]", and that was it. Topic was dropped.
And no, mutual friends didn't look it up either as they didn't care much for the guy (tbf it was a super toxic community I'm glad I've left behind).
They are.
A barebones manual lathe is still grades cheaper, this provide a lower level of entry. Spend $200 and in no time you can be doing 20-30 barrels a day.
But please tell me how a 3D printer, which is at most useful for the casing (which you could hand craft from wood with a knife...).