Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.

I once had a client tell me, “T as in… T.”

Yeah, that was helpful.

That was me!

I think. Your link doesn’t appear to go to the comment in question, or else I am blind. (Either is possible.) I just finished a large drawer shell print with my X-Max 3 mere minutes ago, in fact.

And to the surprise of absolutely no one with more than two brain cells to rub together, all three of these are moronic ideas. If that hasn’t been driven into the ground firmly enough already.

There’s nothing quite like waking up to a layer of frost on the outside of your sleeping bag to really highlight to you how the day is going to go, is there?

Rackin’ frackin’ gotta build a fire to get all my water back into liquid form again.

Bonus points if you just realized that your water filter’s cartridge is now toast…

TL;DR: Because Saving Private Ryan is a movie, and meanwhile reality is reality.

Whether or not a helmet can stop a bullet (and manage protect its wearer in the process) depends an awful lot on how much energy it has to dissipate, i.e. how fast the bullet was traveling and how much it weighs.

Rifle bullets travel very fast. This has not changed appreciably between WWII and today, although contrary to expectation it was more common to have front line soldiers issued with full power battle rifles back in WWII which were actually more powerful than the intermediate cartridge rifles most often issued to them today. Military rifles nowadays actually commonly fire a much lighter bullet than in the past. (Yes, there are exceptions. That’s not really the point.)

There is no such thing as any kind of metal helmet that can protect the wearer against a rifle bullet that is a square hit and within the rifle’s optimally effective range. You can play with ceramics like are used in plate carriers that protect the torso, or weird high tech aramid fibers, etc. but the long and short of it is that such a thing would be too bulky and heavy to feasibly wear on your head. A bog standard 7.62x39 round, i.e. that fired from an AK pattern rifle commonly found all over the world, delivers around 1000 ft-lb of energy at impact within 100 yards. Even if you could magically stop it somehow it would ring your bell like you wouldn’t believe. We’re talking unconsciousness, fractured skull, brain damage.

And to put it into perspective, the 7.92x57 round fired by the types of rifles likely to be issued to the Germans during WWII was even more powerful than this, developing around 2,900 ft-lb at the muzzle (I can’t find a figure for at 100 yards offhand, but just subtract a couple of percent). Yes, that’s around three times more powerful. You are therefore much less likely in reality to be happy about being shot in the dome with a WWII battle rifle with a primitive WWII helmet versus a modern helmet and a modern intermediate power cartridge.

A steel helmet stands a greater chance of deflecting a pistol round which is slower and carries considerably less energy. 9x19 round at 100 yards is packing more like 250 ft-lb of energy, a quarter as much as the 7.62, and is also shaped with a much wider cross section and a less pointy nose so it’s less likely to penetrate hard objects.

Any garden variety lid would be much more useful at deflecting a shot that was a glancing blow, or that was fired from a very long way away, and/or has ricocheted off of something and thus lost much of its energy. Not to mention fragments of whatever it hit – bits of brick or doorframe or glass or whatever it was the enemy’s bullet hit near you that was not you. And shrapnel, and gumpf raining down on your head from nearby explosions, etc. Helmets are designed to maximize their effectiveness based on what we understand and can build (and, yes, what the lowest bidder can manufacture) but are not and never have been expected to shrug off a straight-on headshot from an enemy’s rifle because this is a fool’s errand.

Yeah, I argued against that at the beginning and I got downvoted into the dirt. Curious.

It would probably work on Musk. I’ll bet you his ego is that fragile.

It’s so you can’t wind up crashing anything into the print. There is only a finite amount you can move the print head back towards the plate (or the plate back towards the head; however your printer works) before you run the risk of hitting the print with some mechanical component. Be it the X/Y axis gantry, the housing around the print head, or anything else. Sure, you could theoretically tune this maximum value to be whatever your particular combination of width/depth/height of toolhead enclosure is, and its offset from the gantry, etc., etc. but 100% effective avoidance pathing is difficult and, in the event your print bed is mostly filled, potentially impossible.

So it’s safest to just not do that. It can always be assumed the nozzle can move around at or one layer above the current print height without hitting anything. Below that level is increasingly risky.

Did you use chlorates, saltpeter, or potassium permanganate?

You could assemble a working pipe shotgun out of hardware store parts without even leaving the hardware store if you were clever enough.

I can think of no compelling reason whatsoever to have my printer exposed to the outside internet. If I have to get at it remotely that’s what my VPN is for.

I had the Samsung notification whistle down pat back in the S3/S4/S5 era. Everyone had that as their default and it was so easy to fuck with people.

A God of War live service game? Who the fuck signed off on that? I’m glad the article was able to zero in on the blistering stupidity of such a thing.

'Member when Kyle’s Mom freaked the fuck out and tried to ban Pokémon Red and Blue because they “depicted gambling” in the game corner, which had no links to the outside world and could not be fed with real money in any capacity, was completely contained within the monochrome screen on your Gameboy, and could be save scummed anyway? Pepperidge Farm 'members.

My, how far the bullshit has come.

Anyway, 16 is sure a funny way to spell 18. Why the hell is the age requirement 16 when you can’t buy a lottery ticket until you’re 18 and in most places you can’t enter a casino until you’re 21? It’s the same thing.

Lootboxes is gambling. So are gacha pulls, and doubly so for both of the above when they can be fueled with real world money. People who are not adults should not be enabled to gamble.

It gets worse. If you have “smart features and personalization” turned off for your Gmail account, which I do, you can’t even ask Gemini anything. Not even to get the inevitably wrong answer.

But this still doesn’t remove the damn button for it from the corner of your screen.

I feel like there have to be ways to neuter the headset in that regard between using a burner account, sideloading applications, and maybe even isolating it at a network level.

Maybe, but I’m going to point out once again that this is a machine covered in cameras and microphones, and fully owned by Meta, which you bring into your house and wave around. Even with burner data it is trivial for Meta to determine your approximate location based on IP, and the fucking thing could very well be recording the faces of everyone around the place any time Meta felt like it.

In my opinion, even setting the bad precedent that Meta’s behavior is tolerable enough to warrant a sale in the first place even if we hold our noses over it, that does not seem like an acceptable risk vs. reward situation for me personally. I believe you can use a Quest tethered without an internet connection to play games once it’s set up, but it is absolutely required with a sign-in the first time you use it.

HTC/Valve’s hardware support has been quite good insofar as I’m able to tell. I have no experience with Pimax in that regard.

For the record, despite being the “best” WMR platform headset the Reverb G2 I have actually has an abysmal hardware track record. HP was awful at supporting the things when they were new, they broke like crazy all the time for seemingly no reason, and now that software support is officially dropped I would not be at all surprised if they just pretended the damn things no longer existed if you asked them at this point. So as much as I like my G2, I wouldn’t recommend anyone buy one now unless you really like to tinker and you can get one for next to free from eBay or something. The WMR headsets were indeed effectively paperweighted, so I sympathize with your concerns there.

It seems quite unlikely this will happen with any of the HTC headsets, especially the ones cosupported by Valve.

Ah, yes. “Weather.” And totally not because of snipers, drones, rotten eggs, tomatoes, hecklers, or Mrs. Cake.

That’s not the point. When you respond to reviews like this the goal is to point out to everyone else who might be reading it that the reviewer is in fact a nut, and therefore their opinion should be discarded out of hand.

Probably. I have no experience with the Google Play Store end of things, but we’ve gotten non-reviews written by crackpots removed from our Google Business profile by just pointing out to Google that they were either off topic or from someone who we could not identify in any of our records as being a person who actually did business with us.

For example, there was one guy who went around copy-pasting the same one star rant to seemingly every retail business in the city whining about mask requirements during COVID, which didn’t have jack monkey squat do to with us and was in fact a state government mandate that we did not control. As a public business we have to comply with the law. Google took that one down when we reported it, although I still see examples of the same screed from the same guy attached to other businesses who apparently didn’t have the wherewithal to complain.

I imagine “app that serves third party content the author doesn’t control and reviewer is complaining about the content not the app” is a situation that is very well understood at Google. Whether or not you can make them give a shit is a different question…