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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Problem is, 300 searches is 10 per day. I’ve done 52 today. To cover that I’d be paying $25 per month.

I you could have Spotify and Netflix for that.

If I’d paid their $5 rate and done 52 searches every day they’d have billed me $63 in overage charges.

Their pricing model seems insane to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

1000 is more reasonable but it’s still only 33 per day. I’ve done 52 searches today. $10 is still way too much.

How much better would a search engine have to be to make it worth the cost of a streaming service? For me, quite a lot…

But yeah I don’t mean to say your choice to pay for it isn’t valid. As you say, to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

I mean yes I agree with all your points. But I stand by the assertion that it’s too expensive. I could handle $5/month, perhaps, but 300 searches is waaaay too few. That’s 10 per day. I did 10 searches this morning before I got out of bed.

For unlimited searches it’s twice the cost of a streaming service. Yet it has negligible bandwidth costs, and significantly less storage cost, probably less development cost. Sure a small user base too, but at that price they’re really going to struggle to grow it!

It’s really just too expensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Chat is available on old.reddit. It’s still pretty useless though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

msconfig has a maximum memory option. Worth checking that to make sure it’s not set to 8gb.

Could also be that you’ve installed the sticks in a weird configuration. Often if you have 4 slots the board actually wants you to populate slots 2 and 4 if you’re only using 2 sticks. Details are usually printed on the board.

Or could be reserve for the iGPU, have a look in the bios.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago (32 children)

Wow. I don't mind paying for stuff if it's good. But seriously $5/month seems pretty expensive, and you only get 300 searches. $25 for unlimited searches, which seems like an insane amount of money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In the interests of avoiding pointless semantic arguments, you can probably safely assume that in any discussion of the relative merits of materials, the word “more” precedes any adjective describing said material’s properties. For example: PLA is more brittle than PETG.

[a] bendy part is as useful as a snapped part in every application that requires strength

I don’t agree. There are many application where a bending failure mode is much more desirable than snapping. OP’s situation, for example. Pretty sure they’d much rather they were alerted to a problem because their lights were pointing in the wrong direction than smashed on the floor.

The extra temperature resistance of PETG compared to PLA might not be a big number on paper, but it makes it suitable for many things PLA isn’t. Things for use in a car, for example, are common to see problems when printed in PLA (you can find tons of pictures of PLA phone holders melted in the sun). PETG isn’t immune but will almost always fare better in any situation where there might be heat. For example, an LED light fitting, like OP's situation.

Anyway. Do we really have to fanboy materials?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

You’re going to need to cite some sources for these fairly wild claims.

You can notice it as well, since the browser is very subpar when compared to Chromium

This is the most egregious lie of the bunch. Firefox is extremely close in terms of features, performance, usability, HTML/JS/CSS support, developer tools, etc. It’s privacy tools are, if anything, significantly better. And once Manifest v2 extensions stop being supported by Chrome (which is coming next year) it’ll have significantly better adblocker support.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That story is so common. They destroyed Secret Santa that way. User-run thing that got some traction so they built redditgifts around it, then decided redditgifts wasn’t sufficiently profitable so canned it and took the user-run part down with it.

[–] [email protected] 156 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (24 children)

I use Firefox over Brave simply because I have much more trust that Mozilla won’t suddenly turn into dicks.

(Also because Firefox is awesome now, and because competition in the browser world is a good thing, but it’s mainly the probably-not-being-dicks thing)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s not quite that clear cut I’m afraid. PLA is stiffer which can be desirable but also makes it quite brittle. That means while it has a higher tensile strength, it has a lower impact strength - and it fails more unexpectedly and catastrophically than PETG, which is much more likely to deflect and bend rather than snap. That plus PLA’s susceptibility to warping or bending in even fairly moderate heat generally makes it less practical for real-world practical things that are going to deal with a bit of abuse.

PLA is much better than PETG for models or anything requiring dimensional accuracy over strength, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Well that’s a glimpse into a horrifying hellscape.

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