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Yep I know. These are the ones the company buys. I’ve tried others when I had to buy a box while out and about but n a hardware store or even a supermarket. Latex gets destroyed very fast, I didn’t notice much of a difference with vinyl… but you are right I have to try if some other material goes better. The thing is I don’t have a clue what the fuck they put in the inks and nobody seems to be able to tell me.

I sincerely doubt these newcomers can achieve at their first try what well established manufacturers haven’t through revision after revision of their machines. The price is the first clue, flatbed uv printers this size start at about ten thousand. Also, important information like which printhead they mount, printing speed (m2/h), uv lamp wattage… is missing which is suspicious at best.

Not at all like a resin printer. Imagine a hybrid: the top part is an inkjet printer with a printhead that goes side-to-side shooting ink but instead of paper sliding under it there’s a flatbed not unlike the one in a filament 3D printer. The ink is cured by a uv lamp (or more than one, but I suspect this printer has only one and very small and weak since the smaller lamp I work with costs more than this hole printer) usually fixed to the side of the printhead ‘carriage’.

No. Just don’t! You nerds, tinkerers, hackers, makers… listen to me: DO NOT BUY THIS.

I didn’t think I’d have to read the words ‘Consumer UV printer’ ever. It’s just a deranged concept. UV printers are the worst kind of machines there are. Imagine an inkjet printer but a thousand times worse, I’m not joking. I work with these, but professional/industrial ones, in professional printshops, and they are an absolute toothache for my customers (again, professionals that make a living with printers and similar equipment). The customers like me, because I’m the one solving them problems (even if the bill for the solutions is more often than not a few thousands) but I’m sure the salespeople look under their cars every morning.

This will only be a hole in your pocket, a piece of junk taking up space in your home, and even a hazard to your health or your kids’ or pets’–UV ink is some nasty shit before curing, some of them make my hands itch even trough the nitrile gloves, and you have to handle and dispose of the waste ink properly ie hiring some waste management service.

It’s true that you can make beautiful things with them, but for a home it’s just not worth it, just take your designs and your media (the things you want to print on) to a print shop and have them printed there.

I’m not saying I agree with the other commenter, specially in the tone, but… where do you think the copper inside your walls comes from? Is this a NIMBY or are you proposing we abandon electricity altogether?

Mining is super messy, all of it. For the environment, the people living in surrounding areas, the workers… I think it was just yesterday I read an article about copper mining in Chile: polluted waterways, lots of orphans when a mine collapsed, people sick, others displaced from their homes… you know real actual problems, not some superstition.

Couldn’t we get the copper without fucking so many people so bad? Certainly, but that would affect profits so it’s not happening.

I agree with both of you but it’s a bit more nuanced than that: what if someone not familiar with the original IPs asks for a ‘space wizard’ or an ‘Italian plumber cartoon’, it outputs Obi Wan or Mario, and they use it in their work? Who’s getting sued by Disney or Nintendo?

The installation in my home follows my country’s regulations as they were ~15 years ago. It’s divided into several circuits, the ‘general use’ outlets one is rated for 25A in total AND at any point, ie you could plug a 5750W appliance in any of those outlets. The lights circuit is the lowest rated at 15A, still letting you ‘plug’ up to 3450W.

He’s not wrong. Schools are day-prisons where parents leave their kids while they slave away to make the rich richer. Most teachers (in my experience at least) are absolute shit, and so are the education systems (again in my experience). And before the ‘in the Scandinavian countries…’ bunch comes: I know a few Nordic people, not impressed, they just have lots of money to throw at the problems (which I would say is the secret for every other statistics they excel in).

Quick edit: that being said I don’t know anyone, including myself, that has learned a language with Duolingo. Can be fun but it’s useless for actually learning.

You’re not far off. We don’t call it ‘federal government’ but in practice it’s exactly that, in the same line that we call the prime minister ‘presidente’.

Completely agree. Also, I’m a Spaniard and kind of a ‘screw expert’ and have heard the sentence in the post like twice in my life so not that common of a mnemonic. I usually say something like ‘clockwise because time’s tight’ (‘en el sentido de las agujas del reloj porque el tiempo aprieta’).

It means ‘half joking’ but yours is funnier.

Them brows though. /hj

To be honest they were super cheap. A Barbie doll or another name brand toy cost the same as the euro store crap this side of the pond. When I visited the states I brought Barbie’s and Levi’s jeans as souvenirs! Literally the same price as the shitty key rings I bought at the airport.

No, that’s not my assumption. Where did I say that? Rich people are mostly born, not made.

English is not my first language and I’m no expert in sewers maintenance so substitute whatever trade/job title instead of plumber.

I’m not against this robot quite the opposite. But I’m curious about the reaction when technology ‘takes the jobs’ of working class people like in this case (or you know last couple centuries) being very different than when it takes the job of artists, journalists, writers…

In which world they aren’t? Like if you have the option of working throwing paint onto a pice of cloth or taping bananas to walls would you chose to work with literal human shit to your knees and your elbows??

Also see my other comment, only 8% of artist (in the UK) are working class against A FUCKING 100% plumbers being working class.

Not trolling at all. I used to hang around an art school when I was a teenager, the vast majority of those kids came from pretty well off families. The small percentage that were of a more working class background were there to get into graphic design or the-like in college, so they didn’t end up being artists.

A quick web search gives that only 8% of artists are working class in the UK which is a wealthy country, I’d bet the percentage goes down in poorer ones.

Generative ai is also machine learning, and you could say that the ai is generating movements and actions for the drone. My question, that was not about the underlying technology or semantics, still stands.

So now all Lemmy is on board with this AI. Why is acceptable for technology to take the jobs of plumbers (usually poorer) but it’s evil for it to take the job of ‘artists’ (usually rich)???

Maybe it’s playing devil’s advocate but how is this consistent? Can you put a listing in Amazon, booking, Airbnb… and tell the customer ‘don’t buy it here! Come to my site or call directly to us and we’ll give you a better price without Amazon’s (or any other) cut!’? Also with the third party apps/stores on iOS (which I support more than this one even if I feel that it can go very wrong) I don’t see them doing it with other platforms like Nintendo’s or Sony’s (PlayStation).