I'm unclear what the open source version from China of a resin printer is. Creatlity and Elegoo don't appear to be at all it as they lock you to the chitubox ecosystem.
I use prusaslicer and uvtools with my Elegoo Saturn. No proprietary lockin. I also own a Prusa, so I don't feel bad using their software with another brand.
What are the open-platform alternatives? I was under the impression that the majority of printers used the CHITUBOX hardware platform internally, which was now locked to the CHITUBOX slicer. Has this changed? That would be wonderful news.
I don't think that Formlabs locks you into their wash and cure stations. Some of their printers lock you into their resin, but it looks like the Form Studio 1 discussed above and the Form 3, 3L, 4, and 4L let you use resin of your choice, although the Studio 1 does require you to buy a special $80 tray.
> I don't think that Formlabs locks you into their wash and cure stations.
I would posit from the the getgo the average joe shouldn't consider resin printers, they should opt for FDM printers, because with FDM printers when the printer finishes printing a part... that's it! You more or less just pick it up from the printbed and there you have it... with resin printers, you -HAVE- to wash away the surrounding uncured resin. So, sure, it doesn't lock you into the wash and cure station, but doing it manually is an absolute chore any which way and chances of getting gooey resin on your hands, your clothes, your furniture goes way up and it is the most profoundly annoying thing when it does.
Try out a resin printer at your local makerspace to see what they're all about and the work that's required to print a part and develop it with solvents; for yourself get an FDM printer, they're plenty good enough for the average joe.
Is it? I've heard of people getting good results with PLA and a 0.2mm nozzle. I don't doubt resin is better, but PLA seems to be acceptable to a lot of people. And it's far safer and cheaper.
My local maker space only has fdm. Formlabs claims to have a new line of healthier resins which can be used on non formlabs printers, which had made me curious again about resin.
IIRC, ChiTu Systems once tried to use their leverage against the printer brands that rely on their components, and printer brands pushed back by seeking an alternative systems supplier with a new slicer. ChiTu-based printers have gained compatibility for alternative slicers after that.
I think that is more for space/budget reasons than really being a preferred way to work. One thing is handy for is being able to carve something in place though. I saw someone use it to do inlays in the middle of a large plank tabletop that would have required a truly huge CNC machine to be able to hold the plank.
The developer of LiberNT worked with ReactOS and he managed to contribute a lot. But regarding AI governance on the project, there were conflicts between the developer and the community. This caused the separate fork we have seen called LiberNT.
It's not inferred from the work but through weeks of communication. The only evidence would be the chat history of ReactOS Mattermost.
With enough interest in integrity computing, that they are still in business, selling development environments (there are community editions available).
Eiffel was also the very first OOP language to introduce non nullable references, which I bet many folks in HN would attribute to something more trendy.
The video editing software in the video is SGO Jaleo. I've read about its existence, but I don't think I've ever been able to find a demo of someone using it before, so that was really cool to see. With regard to how the video was captured, there was a Firewire card option for the O2. I believe a number of cheap cards were compatible with the official one. I suspect it would have made capturing harder, not easier, given that they had a VTR with SDI output though.
There was an official 1394 card for the O2 that only supported DV (not the usual block device protocols).
SGI was super weird with 1394... the Origin 3400 I-brick had a 1394 port that it used for its internal CD-ROM via a 1394-to-IDE adapter, which is freak show stuff.
That was Motif but not CDE. Maybe you were making a statement not directly about the video, I'm not certain. Irix called it the Irix Interactive Desktop.
I did like it. I still do, visually. I don't think I would want to go back to it full time.
Fun fact: Irix 5.3 in Nov 1994 was the first desktop OS to allow web URLs to be desktop shortcuts, pre-Windows95+MacOS similar capability. SGI licensed Netscape Mosaic so they could do that.
Indeed it's not CDE (although GP could just be saying that he liked old school WM / UIs like CDE, not necessarily that the one in TFV was CDE) but I think technically in the vid it's even SGI's 4Dwm. Heavily based on Motif but not totally visually identical to Motif? According to Wikipedia 4Dwm began in 1991.
As a sidenote a friend back then was lucky enough to have a SGI at home (for his stepfather was at the head of SGI Benelux) and that 4Dwm environment always struck me as particularly slick.
I can't get past the paywall, so I don't know exactly what factors this article cites, but usually people cite stress from under-staffing and being over-worked and for hospital workers a rise in workplace violence. For nurses subjected to gig work systems, there is probably also a lot of career uncertainty.
So, I'd propose that the first line of fixes would be: Staff more; Refuse to use nursing gig-work systems; Make health care, especially preventative health care, affordable.
Today, Bitwarden works as the FLOSS extension client/app. Next year, maybe Bitwarden won't be, but we will still have the source for today's code which can be forked and carried forward. I like to think there are enough users behind Bitwarden that a fork would likely work out if it came to that. For that reason I'm not jumping ship yet.
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