SoulWager

Even non-AI subtitles are off by default, what exactly are you expecting to be on?

What do you mean by active component? Is processing the audio being played back to add subtitles active?

If I downvote something without explaining, it's probably because it sounded like a bot, but I wasn't sure enough to report it.

I find downvotes important in maintaining signal to noise long term. If people downvote me, I take that as a signal that there's either something I don't know, or that I need to improve how I communicate the idea. I want a community where I can have a real conversation with people that both agree and disagree with me, not an echo chamber that only allows conforming views, nor a shit flinging free for all.

Not often. Certainly not when I'm shouting into the void.

When I'm answering a question or responding to a statement, I'll generally match the level of the existing discussion. I still try to say what I mean, but I'll try to avoid concepts with a lot of missing prerequisites. Target audience matters too, if you ask me how orbital rendezvous works, you'll get a different answer depending on where you ask the question. For example, I'd probably skip explaining how orbits themselves work if you asked in a community dedicated to kerbal space program or children of a dead earth, focusing instead on what the person asking is probably trying to do. Similarly, a comment in a community dedicated to real life space exploration is getting a more detailed answer than the same question in a community for the general public. Basically different assumptions about what the person already knows, and what the person wants to find out.

If I'm just going to cook 1 meal, I'll usually make cheese tortellini with garlic bread. Sometimes pot stickers.
If i'm going to make a batch of something for multiple meals, it's usually burritos, sometimes drunken noodles, sometimes fried rice.
Once or twice a year I'll make a big pot of chili with cornbread, get a dozen or so meals out of it.

What they need to do is throw some spaghetti at the wall, see what's fun, then throw their hundreds of millions of dollars behind THAT.

Egg is obvious if you know what the difference is between vegetarian and vegan in the first place, but I don't think you can expect most people to be able to cook vegan food, even if they're trying, and know the basic definition. I know enough non-obvious uses of animal products(like shellac on fruit), that I'd have no confidence in being able to avoid them all unless I grew everything myself.

People act like it’s rocket science.

There's always going to be a question as to where you draw the line. For example, is it okay to eat figs, even though they're pollinated by wasps that end up in them? Is it okay to eat plants grown using animal products as fertilizer? Is it okay to eat cultured meat that is many generations removed from a living animal, such that none of the material present now was part of the living animal? How about things in the animal kingdom, but outside the chordates? The ones you'd need a microscope to see? Is honey okay to eat?

There's also the issue that other people that call themselves vegan will disagree with you on what all counts.

I think you'll be happy. Coming from someone that's had a prusa mini for 3 years.

I also use FreeCAD, and I don't think you'll have a problem with that with any modern slicer, you can export in step to let the slicer do the meshing, or you can use the mesh workbench to get more control over the resolution of the mesh.

Don't worry too much about print volume. Can always break stuff up into multiple prints, and that's often a good idea even if the whole thing would fit inside the print volume.

I have killed a couple build plates, one from the TPU print sticking too well to PEI, and pulling chunks off, one from crashing the nozzle into it after I switched from a bare metal build plate to a PEI one without changing the Z offset.

Other than that, I've only really replaced one fan that was getting noisy.

As for filament, I use mostly PLA and ASA, because I don't need to do anything special to keep those dry enough to print. Probably around 60% PLA, 25% ASA, 15% TPU. PETG is fine, but I need to dry it to keep from getting steam bubbles in my prints, and can't really be bothered when I can just use ASA or PLA instead.

As for TPU, it will string like crazy if you don't dry it, but you can mitigate this with some parts by turning on "avoid crossing perimeters". Also try to avoid support material with TPU. I now print TPU on the back side(bare metal) of a third party build plate, using a very thin layer of glue stick.

For a while, I thought kissing was how women got pregnant.

It MIGHT have had something to do with getting a half sibling in spite of my father saying he hadn't had sex with the mother. Religion makes people weird, is it really that big a deal to admit you had sex out of wedlock, when everybody already knows you got someone pregnant?

The problem with a benevolent dictator is that they die eventually, and are replaced by a non-benevolent dictator, or a civil war, or both. Unfortunately it looks like the US democracy might have the same outcome.