The trend I see are the Mac Minis with a lot of unified memory. These are typically very well off people though. Prices for even old GPUs like 3090s are ridiculous now. I don't think connecting 2 machines over Ethernet would work well, but putting 2 GPUs in a single machine does.

I think they know it's a somewhat viable option and is part of the reason they're doing the hardware cartel/circlejerk thing.

Voron Micron or Salad Fork kit.

I thought enshitification was the specific process of "platforms" gaining a large market share, then exploiting both the buyers and sellers that use the platform to jack up profits/extract more rent.

Replace "sustainable," and the bit about profit and capitalism, with "efficient" and "corruption and un-free markets," then this is a common right-wing talking point (back when the right wing tried to engage intellectually, at least).

In my unscientific opinion, the current population is unsustainable, and there's no known ways to make it sustainable enough to support the population in the long term (I hope there will be, of course). The most sustainable framing practices are less intensive and result in less output per acre. That's just about survival, ignoring quality of life. I've heard it claimed we'd need 5 Earths for everyone on Earth to live a first-world-like lifestyle. Granted, we should drastically change our lifestyles.

Climate change will also likely lower the human population the Earth can support, and I think we will likely adopt even less sustainable practices to make up for the loss, accelerating our own demise; kicking and scratching and bringing all the ecosystems of the Earth down with us.

Some people are comparing this to the industrial revolution. Which resulted in hellish conditions for much of the working class for ~100 years until unionization started becoming more widespread.

Are humanoid robots really the best choice? Seems like robot forklifts (exist), robot pallet jacks (exist), and some kind of box grabber arm would be more efficient. I've always thought that humanoid robots were being worked on just for thr challenge and the fun/spectacle factor (and I guess investor hype in the case of Musk).

I thought Johnny Got His Gun was disturbing when I watched it in school. May have been because I was a kid though.

Dogville, and most of everything else by Lars von Trier (as others have mentioned).

If it was good, the AI companies wouldn't sell its use. They'd be using it to write all kinds of new cool software, dominate financial markets, etc.

I did most of this a long time ago when the team was 2-4 programmers. Moved to PRs when we started bringing on interns. No way the business owners would've allowed pair programming. Pair programming may be better and more productive, but the decision makers are often more ideological than rational.

PCTG is supposed to be roughly half-way in-between PETG and ABS in heat resistance.

They also want training data from their employees correcting the agents so the agents can eventually replace them (that's what they're hoping for at least).