Yup.

But they want to control the pipeline all the same.

Don’t need a printer to do any of that. it’s also faster just to drive to a state that allows gunshow loopholes and buy an otherwise untraceable firearm. takes less skill, too.

part of the problem with that is that most of your ghost guns are “just” the AR 15 lower receiver- the part classified as the “firearm” because of some technicality only a lawyer can understand.

It’s not a load bearing, nor is it exposed to any particularly high levels of heat, nor any sort of particularly nasty gasses. So that can be printed in just about anything if the printer’s resolution is good enough. (IIRC, they typically call for resin printers.)

Then, the ghost gun peeps just buy the rest of the components retail and pay cash.

for fully-printed firearms, you’re looking at things like DMLS or other kinds of precision metalwork. It’s the kind of work that would be more expensive than roadtripping to arizona and getting loophole-gun.

Fun fact, you don’t need a 3d printer to make ghost guns, and you’ve never needed them.

Laws restricting printers aren’t about firearms, it’s about restricting access to disruptive technology before it disrupts too much of how we innovate. (Because innovation has historically been tied to big-industry with the little guy being unable to get into it. Because it costs a shit ton.)

What exactly are you asking?

It’s pretty easy, for example, to turn an image into a grayscale .bmp and convert that to an elevation map that roughly creates an embossed/engraved surface.

It’s not easy to take photos of objects and turn them into 3d models of that object. It’s pretty much impossible from a single photo, as well. It’s possible, but usually fairly complicated- it’s called photogrammetry and there’s tools and plugins for blender that can do it; but it’s very hit or miss.

I 3d printed most of the bits for a Kosh Naranec costume. he could be a court magician… and it would still fit with the lore in bab 5, too. (oh. you said you don’t want something over the top…sorry. the best part is you can set up some motion activated light shows and play his various enigmatic one liners, stand the thing up in a corner and go get a pint someplace else; without ever leaving character. The avalanche has fallen. it’s too late for the pebbles to vote.)

alternatively you could do an “actual” court magician. or something to that effect. 3d print baubles and a top to some kind of staff. generic robes in black with a big baggy hat to round it out. learning some slight of hand might help sell it.

Charlie Brown turned into a truck driver?!

But I liked LMDE…

(Not enough to use it, mind, but it’s not bad. EOS, at the moment.)

So… PETG and ABS/ASA- as already mentioned here- will probably be the best bet.

But if your printer can handle it (i don’t know how difficult it is, mind,) polypropylene might be a good option. For example, the tic tac lid is made out of ppe.

Ringing.

check your belts to make sure they’re not too tight (and tight enough, but probably just too tight.)

if that’s not the issue then check and tune acceleration and jerk settings. if you haven’t done full calibration stuffs, I’d recommend the guide by teaching tech

I mean, what was it? the 14th they pushed an AI slop update that bricked computers compliments of bitllocker?

Definitely.

“Animated”.

You mean… advertising.

Blasphemy…. There is only Linux from scratch.

All else’s is a heresy most offensive!

(I’m jesting, if it wasn’t clear. Most distros work well out of the box.)

(I would recommend lfs for anyone who likes to learn the hard way. You will learn as you go, but it can be frustrating.)

Fun fact, you don’t even need to crawl through hundreds of feet of black water waste pipe to install Linux.

I think you might be confused as to the reference- Fat Man was the nuke dropped on Nagasaki, and was larger than Little Boy, which was dropped on Hiroshima.

which makes these two not-actually-fiction.

They suck.

Either they’re not actually hybrids or they suck tremendously at both.

Too many trade offs to get the other side working.

No.

• energy requirements will always be higher vs surface transit

• mechanical complexity will increase mechanical failures. these mechanical failures are much more likely to lead to death or severe injury or extensive damage.

• you think self driving is bad now? It’s not. Planes can largely fly themselves, but that’s not the hard part. It’s the everything else, including maintaining safe patterns and separation. If everyone jumped to air travel in a city congestion just moves into the air, and you’ll have shit loads of accidents. Throw in improperly maintained air craft because that shit is expensive and you have a recipe for 9/11-level accidents on a daily basis.

Mass transit is the way to go.

every year is the year of linux if defenestrate windows

Pick one. Use it for a while. Try a different one.

If you just want something that works out of the box and are very new to Linux, I’d grudgingly recommend Ubuntu, and highly recommend Debian-based mint.

(Ubuntu is easier to get started but I’m not a fan for a few reasons.)

If you’re familiar with Linux or don’t mind jumping into a learning curve, Endeavor OS is my current driver, and I’m liking it.