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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).

The tech very much has existed for a few years now, but not on a home setting. I don’t know about this product because as you said there’s very little info, but as professional and industrial uv printers go the consumables would be the uv-curable ink (which is some nasty shit) and the parts that get in contact with it–printheads, caps, wipers, dampers, filters, pumps… not every printer has all of these but all will have some way of delivering the ink to and to clean the printhead(s). They have white and usually varnish inks, and they chug these two while the colour layer is similar to that of a regular inkjet printer. They also waste ink on the cleaning (that you’ll do a lot) and this one seem to include a tank or cartridge for fluid for auto-flushing. Also electric and electronic components degrade and fail as well. None of those come cheap, uv lamps are pretty pricy too but last long (I don’t know about this one, it seems pretty small. The ones I’ve seen are more robust with radiators and fans, the cheapest of which costs more by itself than this whole machine) if you take care of them.

The latter. Think an inkjet printer with uv-curable ink, and instead of paper it prints on anything you can put on its bed. They come with white ink, and usually varnish. You can make some relief with more quantity/layers of white and/or varnish. In industrial/professional shops is rare to see these ‘3d’ (also referred as 2.5d) effects, I only know one that prints high-end-ish pieces (for a big markup I guess) and one that specializes in prints for blind people so they use it for putting braille in lots of things, mainly for the time it takes (and I’m talking about professional machines) so most people do flat prints that are also pretty cool.

I can consider acceptable for the kettles to be connected to the internet if, and only if, they answer always with a 418 status code.

The concept of a smart ring shouldn’t be patentable, and maybe it isn’t im not sure. IP laws are really broken, all laws are but I think IP even more so.

So Donnie was playing 4d chess all along. Just as a pawn at the center of the board.

Can you not? Is that an android thing or an America thing?

Be the change you wish to see in the world! Just fork loops , add data collection, trackers, and whatever backdoor the government asks you and call it something like ‘Innit!’. Simple as.

That’d be a contraction of ‘would’ in this case, wouldn’t it? As an ESL speaker I used to find these grammar ‘mistakes’ (for lack of a better word) made more difficult for me to parse the sentences. As with code ‘written once but read many times’ would apply here.

Where exactly are these legal in Europe? I’ve never seen one, we have small-ish trucks (that get bigger every iteration) but not this tiny, that I know of. Pretty sure they’re not legal in my country at least.