Our fucking corporate HP printer requires every single employee to make a separate fucking HP account in order to scan anything on the stupid piece of shit.
Not to mention in CONSTANTLY freezes and crashes.
We are replacing it. Fuck HP.
They are a massive megacorp though. It always leaves me to wonder “how much”.
Tons of capitalist companies do stock options where “technically” the employees own a share of the company, though that percentage is usually extremely small, even collectively such that they have no decision power. I can’t help but think that it is similar with huawei, but with better marketing.
Well, I didn’t think anyone would be dumb enough to do that, but you might be right…
I am also very low. I just pretty much let someone else take credit for it so that it would actually be taken to management.
I got my company to start using bitwarden. That was a huge step and 1/4 of the company forgot their password in the first 60 days. I sent a big email detailing how to make a mnemonic device with a passphrase that bitwarden generates 😂 complete with photoshop drawings on one i generated. no forgotten passwords since
It simply is too buggy and crashes too often for complex assemblies and professional work. Especially if the rest of your company uses SolidWorks or similar where FreeCAD can’t export to the format
When time isn’t money, it’s fine and is only sometimes frustrating nowadays.
That is very cool, I have never met someone who had success with open hardware. Can I ask what the company is?
Any tips for doing crowd funding if I decide to put my stuff on the market? I feel like crowd funding has died off a lot in comparison with 10 years ago since most campaigns either don’t reach the goal, don’t deliver the product (or a very basis version), or were scams to begin with.
Open-source hardware is almost non-existant compared to software. There is a reason for it.
I am an electronics engineer who makes open source hardware as a hobby.
Hardware is extremely different from software. It requires substantial monetary investment.
My company last year did a dirt-cheap lowest-possible-budget prototype design and run of 10 for someone funding themselves independently. It cost 8000€ for the design and that one prototype run, and an extremely simple design at that (electronically, medical-spec mechanically).
Software you buy a system and you can develop and develop and iterate and test 1000 times and develop multiple projects on that single machine. If you sell 0 units, sure you are out a computer and a ton of personal time. Sucks, but you won’t lose your house.
If you do electronics + mechanical development, every time you iterate on the electronics, that will be 200€-1000€ please, plus test equipment. If you make a small mistake equivalent to a wrong pointer that is another 1000 down the drain.
Hardware projects, pure material-wise, can cost more than a car to develop (just going through CE and FCC compliance testing can be 2k-10k and you aren’t allowed to sell in the EU without it.
You need capital to burn or be OK with a non-market-ready end product. Most people would rather make a down payment on a house than develop open hardware that might never recoup just the material costs. You can’t just give the hardware away for free unlike software also.
Neither are all but the cheapest smart TVs.
It’s called double and triple dipping. Every single company that can get away with double, triple, quadruple dipping can and does.
Buying the initial product + Subscription + selling your data + dropping support to force you to buy a new product is quite commonplace. The old mantra of “if you are not paying, you are the product” doesn’t apply anymore because most companies do both.
Or who’s eyesight it gives.
Each blind person gets horrifying deep sea fish eyesight or the eyesight of someone committing murder and now they all are thought to be hallucinating.