It can be both. The three RAM manufactures (Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix) have a historical record of price fixing and collusion (I believe Gamers Nexus has some excellent reporting on this). It isn’t just supply and demand, it’s that three sketchy companies have the world over a barrel and may well be using the demand spike to keep prices (artificially) high with the knowledge that nobody else can enter the market and that it takes YEARS and a truly ridiculous amount of money to scale up production to increase supply.

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My favorite irony of all of this is that it’s very possible to build a 3D printer from scratch (hell that’s how the hobby got started in the first place) with open source software that never talks to the Internet. It’s more work, but not to the extent that it’d stop anybody determined.

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Hey, that’s pretty cool! I’d be super curious to see how other materials outside of pla (not particularly great for long term outdoor use) or tpu fare, especially with tools like metal printers becoming slightly more accessible.

Also, it might be worth cross posting to !3dprinting@lemmy.world, it’s always nice to see cool and bleeding edge use cases for the technology.

All the cutters I’ve seen mostly rely on the printer’s physical movement to drive the cutting blade, rather than a servo. Technically there’s the SnappingTurtle, by the same guy who made the BoxTurtle project, which appears to be closer to what you’re looking for, but unfortunately isn’t available yet.

That said, maybe take a look at the BoxTurtle project/ discord? Part of the project is the FilamATrix tool head, which is a mechanically activated cutter. There’s also the AT4 tool head and the crossbow filament cutter (which you might be able to adapt to your old printer if you didn’t want to do a full tool head conversion).

If it helps, I like Ellis’ guide for tuning my printers.

That’s the direction I’m moving my lab in. Plus a bit of supplemental markdown to keep track of which guides I’m referencing (and which parts can be ignored because I baked it into the terrafom). It’s really nice to know that as long as I tweak the terraform for changes, I don’t have to worry about forgetting what I changed.

I’m partial to OVVO, I tend to be pretty hard on frames (-8 prescription, I can’t not wear glasses), but the two pairs I’ve had have been nigh indestructible- deceptively sturdy especially given how thin and light they are. (Bonus points for not being part of the eyeglass cartel too)

Good news! If you have a regular local account, this should just work for you. If you open the user tab in the settings menu and pick your account, you should have an option to configure the fingerprint reader (framework docs).

This doesn’t quite work for me, because my account doesn’t show up in the users list to configure (I think it’s because domain accounts tend to have higher UID’s than “normal”, so they get filtered out, but I’m less sure what part of KDE controls that to dig into it).

ASL can count as high as you need to, it gets kind of tedious after about a 999, because of all the place markers that need to be added in (like manual counting, or spelling out a number on a check), but one can sign up to 999 with a single hand. for numbers up to 99, it’s more or less using the chart above. For everything after that you mark the hundreds place with the letter C and then go on the rest of the number (476, would be signed 4 C 76). Beyond that, it’s just a matter of adding on the place value signs for “THOUSAND”, “MILLION”, etc. (which are two handed signs) so, 456,789 would be signed as 4 C THOUSAND 56 7 C 89.

The exception to this would be strings of numbers, like phone or room numbers, where you sign them much like how they’d be spoken. So when directing someone to room 235, you’d just sign 2 35 (the concept of hundreds isn’t really important here, because in most cases, the leading 2 just means the room is on the second floor).

Edit: ASL is very visual so here’s a link (with the caveat that there’s variations in signs between signers/ regions, so online stuff may be different than what folks in your area are using)

So… A Chromebook?

Ender’s 3 price point is tricky, because the initial machine is so cheap there isn’t a whole lot else in the same sub-$200 bracket that’s particularly great. Realistically, if you can step up to $300 (which you’d probably spend in upgrades for the ender anyway), you’ve got the Bambu A1 and Elegoo Centauri Carbon. I’m not personally a fan of Bambu, but they are very set and forget folks that don’t mind being in an ecosystem seem to love them. Centauri is on the newer side, but from everything I’ve seen, it seems to be a very strong contender for best budget printer (also worth noting that there’s rumblings of a version 2 coming out early year, so you might be able to snag a clearance sale or some shiny new features).

I think I see the play on words, since each key is a “sign”. In practice though, Sign Languages tend to be a mix of logographic language where each sign represents an idea or concept and segmental language where you string a bunch of letters/ sounds together to make words. I can only really speak to American Sign Language (ASL), but generally you only finger spell to super short words/ acronyms (like ASL) or as a fallback for when someone might not know a sign / when something might not have a sign (like proper nouns).