3d printing is an ideological prod designed to move proletarian or proletarianizing members of American society into alignment with the concerns of the bourgeoisie.
The real value in 3D printing is at industrial scale. Claiming personal 3D printers align you with the bourgeoisie is a bit like claiming hobbyist software development aligns you with Microsoft. If anything, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more obvious it is that these big conglomerates are strangling and butchering what could be a very cool, useful independent means of localized production.
developing software on windows absolutely directly aligns you with microsofts interests
Developing software on Windows for any significant length of time tends to make other languages and systems look that much more appealing.
the totalizing force of the market under capitalism bends your individual desires and hobbies to its ends regardless of your belief!
The totalizing force of the market under capitalism bends towards self-destruction. As the rate of profit falls, Microsoft's effort to squeeze money out of people drives new adopters and smaller businesses out of their sphere of influence. There's a reason Apache and NGINX reign supreme as web-hosting platforms, while Microsoft's IIS struggled for parity for a decade only to collapse on itself in the last few years.
Javascript and Python are the most popular developer languages. MySQL trails just behind Oracle as one of the most popular database engines, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB running tight behind Microsoft's offering. There's been virtually no success at commodifying network protocols.
Try as they might, capitalists continue to struggle to sandbag their positions in the software industry. And the Software-As-A-Service model is only going to hurt them in the long run.
Internet protocols have largely replaced the OS as the chokepoint for interoperability. And no OS has been able to lock down a single proprietary network protocol to monopolize the sector.
It's not useful for everything but it does allow you to make some things that are otherwise not really feasible. And while I don't enjoy it, I think it's done good things for the hobbyist scene
you're clearly some sort of ultralefty because i can't fathom thinking about this issue for more than like 15 seconds, let alone getting into an argument with strangers over it and saying inane shit like "hobby 3d printing is tool of oppression"
i said inane, not insane. your point might be true (i don't think it is), but either way it's still a completely vapid and pointless argument to dedicate this much of your time to.
3d printing as a technology is not, and probably never will be, solely for commercial use. most 3d printing hobbyists do not give a shit about their IP rights and share their models online for anyone to use.
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The real value in 3D printing is at industrial scale. Claiming personal 3D printers align you with the bourgeoisie is a bit like claiming hobbyist software development aligns you with Microsoft. If anything, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more obvious it is that these big conglomerates are strangling and butchering what could be a very cool, useful independent means of localized production.
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Developing software on Windows for any significant length of time tends to make other languages and systems look that much more appealing.
The totalizing force of the market under capitalism bends towards self-destruction. As the rate of profit falls, Microsoft's effort to squeeze money out of people drives new adopters and smaller businesses out of their sphere of influence. There's a reason Apache and NGINX reign supreme as web-hosting platforms, while Microsoft's IIS struggled for parity for a decade only to collapse on itself in the last few years.
Javascript and Python are the most popular developer languages. MySQL trails just behind Oracle as one of the most popular database engines, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB running tight behind Microsoft's offering. There's been virtually no success at commodifying network protocols.
Try as they might, capitalists continue to struggle to sandbag their positions in the software industry. And the Software-As-A-Service model is only going to hurt them in the long run.
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Internet protocols have largely replaced the OS as the chokepoint for interoperability. And no OS has been able to lock down a single proprietary network protocol to monopolize the sector.
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My brother in Christ, I literally develop software for a living. You don't know what you're talking about.
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Bad take.
It's not useful for everything but it does allow you to make some things that are otherwise not really feasible. And while I don't enjoy it, I think it's done good things for the hobbyist scene
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you're clearly some sort of ultralefty because i can't fathom thinking about this issue for more than like 15 seconds, let alone getting into an argument with strangers over it and saying inane shit like "hobby 3d printing is tool of oppression"
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i said inane, not insane. your point might be true (i don't think it is), but either way it's still a completely vapid and pointless argument to dedicate this much of your time to.
3d printing as a technology is not, and probably never will be, solely for commercial use. most 3d printing hobbyists do not give a shit about their IP rights and share their models online for anyone to use.
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