Jeff Geerling talked about it on a video about his Washer. Totally agree.

Did the up in price on RPis ended up being permanent?

They talked about earlier this year the reasons why they didn't do it.

Why not make the printer a fully open source project where the guiding is done by framework but maybe most of the work f comes from the community?

Is an open source version viable outside of research and fun? I expect tolerances on everything in a 300+dpi printer to be crazy low. Even the current 3d printers get the jokes that they're a hobby in maintenance/calibration on their own. Can't imagine how hard would be for an inkjet. (Laser could be easier...)

> Even the current 3d printers get the jokes that they're a hobby in maintenance/calibration on their own.

Honestly auto calibration has gotten pretty good. But the lubrication and cleaning is definitely still somewhat involved.

The feeling you got when tinkering is the same I got when first studied formal electronics in HS. I didn't do college, but the only one from my graduation year who stayed into electronics until now it's me. It's been 12years and I'm still doing it. I've been blessed enough to have encountered people that paid me to do Industrial Design and Product R&D. I'm now currently in manufacturing and automation.

Don't they suffer from the same H1B restrictions?

I have a Casino machine addon that connects to the cloud with json/websockets in production. And I have a vertical light controller for indoor farming. These arent with ESPHome. With ESPHome I have a water pump to recharge a big water container when gov sends water at certain times everyday.

Thanks for the TLDR

Love the substack name.

Now we just need another one named worththewirth about the merits of bloated software?

> "or maybe that it's very hard for hardware companies to do software as they try to pay their software guys like hardware guys."

Very interesting point.

That's a great username, do you have another hardware investments you've made?

I invested in AMD around 95 levels, but I started selling them on recent tops around 175-180 to buy more INTC when they dropped after their guidance for Q1

It is not that I dont believe in AMD, I just believe that their growth potential is lower than INTCs.

Foundry businsss is crazy and has waaay higher entry level

What is your cost analysis on Intel's foundry arm? If AMD can support high profits using TSMC as a supplier...who also has high profits, why do you think Intel can compete on price and make good money?

Well, it is not like they arent aware of it.

They were pretty open about this on some earning calls and how do I see it?

I see it as room for improvement and maybe some kind of potential edge over duos like amd+tsmc

I see TSMC and Intel cost structures all the time...they run fabs very differently and the costs are no where near close to each other. When running a foundry the main component of being competitive is price and yield. Intel will struggle with both...mark my words.

How about a hint? A source? A time frame? Anything?

Their name is insider-trade, so I assume it is a joke gimmick account.