WhatTheDuck

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[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

That will always be a risk, but I wouldn't expect that from a "serious" average vendor. Maybe from a small-time seller, but they're not making much money regardless. I'd think most large print farms wouldn't risk their business to skimp out on license fees.

No real way to know regardless.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the perspective of being a designer, and for all the work shared with the community.

I'm definitely thankful for Makerworld's incentives, and it shows with their abundance of great models.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed with ALL this.

People will just keep repeating it. Every. New. Print. "You could sell that!!" My coworkers can't comprehend just enjoying a hobby for the sake of it.

(I've offered to print things at cost; they're not repeating it in a "I want one" kind of way).

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Really? This would feel like an entitled overstep to me. No shade if that's what you do, it would just feel wrong to me.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I don't blame artists for wanting a piece of the pie. Most artists have tiered payment options so licensed vendors pay more, but Hobbyists seem a bit lost in the crossfire sometimes. The AI slop model grift is getting worse too, which just rubs salt in the wounds.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

I’m all for supporting artists and recognizing the time and effort it takes to create the model. I have a handful of Pateron subscriptions/donations.

Encase you missed it the first time. This post is not whining about wanting free stuff.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

I understand, which is why I don't really blame the individual artists. The 3D printing community has grown tremendously with modern 'user-friendly' printers, so naturally there's been a shift in demographics. It also doesn't help how much AI slop grifters are around now too. I just hate the general trend.

 

$10 for a single model... or $20 a month for four models? For some flexi toy with 20 separate variations that only have tiny changes?

I recognize this is a pretty minor issue in the grand scheme of things. There are plenty of alternatives - both free and paid. It's just a frustrating trend I've been noticing. I'm all for supporting artists and recognizing the time and effort it takes to create the model. I have a handful of Pateron subscriptions/donations.

I don't sell anything. I print for myself and for gifts. Not everyone wants to sell prints at flea markets, but it feels like that's the assumption now.

Side rant: It's annoying how the first thing EVERYONE says when seeing your prints is that "you could sell these!!" I know they mean well, like it's a compliment, but it's annoying when it's insisted on as if they were the first people make such a profound thought.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If it's specifically your jawline that troubles you, have you considered starting by wearing a mask? They're not as common as COVID days, but it's normalized enough. It could be a good way to test the waters and build up more confidence.

I'm not the person you asked, and I can't personally relate. Apologies if what I said is unwelcomed.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 11 points 7 months ago

I highly doubt Reddit is actually gaining that many new users, but the number of accounts created? Sure.

Reddit never has enough bots for their AI slop machine. They create more bot accounts to "boost engagement" via posts and comments.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks, I do, but I have other non-technical family members. They request media via Jellyseer, which then sends the request to Sonarr.

Most of the time it's fine, but when the show has 8 seasons? It'll download each episode individually - some of which won't be available/poor quality/no subtitles. There's often a season pack with all 8 seasons in it and are more reliable subtitles/quality wise.

It's an infrequent but annoying quirk I have to manually intervene with.

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Any initial thoughts so far (if you've had the time to look into them)? I really want to find something that can support multi-season downloads. The *arr stacks have rejected the feature in the past and it's been my biggest gripe lately.

The alternatives seem pretty young still. I wonder if anyone's done a feature comparison between them...

[–] WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Eh... depends on the interpretation of overuse. One person's excess is another person's minimal. Different subjects - like ones that require researching - are expected to need more tabs open. It loosely parallels having multiple books splayed open for quick referencing.

Though, I do feel the number of tabs lately has drastically increased for myself and colleges.

 

Apologies for being nonspecific, but I don't know how else to describe Bob's struggles. Bob has been on the team for over a year now, and his code is just... not okay.

To his credit, he can make something that works... but that's not enough. His code belongs on programming horror. He's not supposed to be my junior; I'm just the repository's lead. I spend half my week helping him. Reviewing his pull requests takes hours because it's always a rats nest that needs significant refactoring/simplification. I'd love to say "do better" - but this is his best.

Most recently, Bob crashed his dev environment with a getter. (A mix of nested parsing logic with Angular's change detection = CPU crashed). It'd be impressive if it wasn't so irritating since I've already had a conversation with him about proper use of getters/setters. I even demonstrated how spammy the calls can be with a console.log statement for emphasis.

I could go on, but this is enough of a rant. I don't really know how to handle him going forward; I spend so much time helping and teaching him but he retains none of it.

Is there any hope for him? Any learning material? Advice on balancing my own sanity and workload?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WhatTheDuck@piefed.social to c/cat@lemmy.world
 

And yes, he does purr with his mouth open.

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