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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

The decline of good search engines and the AI slopocalypse has made it difficult to find good resources. Let alone, to find it a second time. So a lot of us close the tab only after the related task is completed. Bookmarks are too permanent for one-off tasks (plus, we probably have way too many bookmarks already).

It’s crazy to hear you’ve been booted for being inactive! It’s not like Discord has a limit on usercount (…do they?). I’ve know people who disappeared for a year+ only to return like normal. Life happens and it’s best to leave the door open for anyone to return someday.

I also don’t use other social media outside the fediverse. Public discords have always been a gamble. Mods can only do so much to filter out children/assholes. Private discords tend end up in a death spiral of inactivity in my experience. This one sounds like there’s a ton of people, so hopefully it continues to thrive!

That’s all great to hear, thanks for the details! It’s hard meeting new people these days, so it’s great this type of post was allowed by the admins.

Thanks for sharing! Definitely nice to find mature corners of the internet. I’m excited to check it out later!

Do you have a rough idea about the demographics? Most places I find are still 90% men. Not saying anything is inherity wrong with that, but the vibes are different. It’s easy to feel “other’d” if you’re not “one of the bros.” I wish more places had an even split with women/nonbinary folks.

I love this. We need a picture from the front to fully appreciate the spectacle.

Thank you for the time you’ve spent in your reply; it’s very well put and thought out.

Ask him to do tasks where the output can be safely thrown away or delayed indefinitely while he tries again.

This is a great point. He’s been given “easy” tasks with - what should be - plenty of time to finish for an upcoming release. Then we feel the pain when it’s inevitably not done in time and/or being rushed to a finish. Maybe a task that’s harder with no deadline would be less stressful for everyone.

Is there something Bob should read right now to keep him busy and to give him some chance of producing better output in the near future?

It’s hard to know what will help him since his struggles seem to be more generic “coding principals” vs something like “understanding Python better.” For example, he’ll do weird things like use a float instead of an int or an Enum of true/false rather than a boolean. They’re small things that make you go “But…why???” …which are challenges of their own to explain without coming off demeaning.

I’ve given him references for Design Patterns, The Typescript Handbook, and related API references when he starts a task. Do you have any recommendations that might help him?

…if someone tries to blame you for Bob’s production…

Thankfully management is very reasonable, and the rest of the team are more aware now. We’re working on sharing the responsibility more.

Most cases we don’t. Computed signals are better, but those can’t be used for non-injectable contexts (like class models).

I’d like to see you do better than that and I get the sense that you’d like to do better than that.

I’m not quite sure what you mean in your first paragraph. I think it’s trying to address the gatekeeping elitism experts can have? Like “they can’t code to my expectations they’re not developers worthwhile” attitudes? I agree those types are a plague, but what I’ve said here shouldn’t be in that territory.

We don’t know how to properly quantify what knowledge/skill gap Bob is missing… just that there is one and we’re at a loss for how to improve things. That’s why I’ve used “it” for simplicity.

Even so, keep remembering that you’re volunteering to help Bob…

I’m… not volunteering. 😅 “My” section of the app has the most flexibility with the work available, so he’s unofficially become my responsibility.

It’s like I have an unfilling part-time teaching role ontop of my other responsibilities. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mind teaching nor helping someone most days, but it’s exhausting over an extended period of time with such little progress.

I hate seeing him drown with every task he’s given. He’s a good person who’s genuinely trying to get better.

Regardless, thank you for the good luck and everything.