That would indeed be very helpful. But if all the other usages keep draining the supply, it will only help extend artificial reserves.

Stuff only becomes valuable when it’s mostly gone…

I got the 6 million from this link: https://www.chemanalyst.com/industry-report/helium-gas-market-578

The issue is not how much can be produced right now, but the rate at which we are depleting it.

I found different estimates on how long earth’s helium supply will last, and most of them are between 10 and 100 years. That’s not a long time, considering that it means we will lose access to a whole element.

But not nearly the required amounts. We currently use about 6 million metric tons of helium per year.

If fusion plants ever become a commercially viable thing (and that’s a big if), they will never be able to supply anything close to that.

There’s quite a large amount of the usage which could be labelled “for fun”.

But we are consuming about 6 million tons per year (https://www.chemanalyst.com/industry-report/helium-gas-market-578).

The 3000 tons are just a drop in the water and it’s pretty much impossible to get to all that.

Not in a way that could be scaled up to even cover the childrens birthday parties of a medium sized city.

One relevant part that I couldn’t really find in the article is that helium is so light that it escapes Earth’s atmosphere when released into the air.

So any helium that is released to the air is permanently gone.

There is also no known way to synthesize helium, and it also doesn’t renew itself at all on Earth.

It’s also the only substance we have to cool stuff really far down. That’s why e.g. MRIs depend on it.

And we put this precious, finite and often life saving substance into kids’ balloons to make them bobble nicely through the air.

This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It’s a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these they at a young age.

FTFY

If all other executives would earn as much as the guys from Wikipedia, the world would be a better place.

That’s a bit high. PLA still won’t care, but PETG will probably only print perfectly for a quite short time (maybe a day or two).

That said, depending on what exact blend it is, Silk PLA or other PLAs with additives might also have an issue with humidity.

Depends on the relative humidity in your house and the type of filament you use. I have usually ~30% humidity in my flat.

• PLA reall doesn’t care about humidity. I’ve got some 5yo rolls that still print like new, without storing them air-tight.
• PETG is fussier. After a few days they start to act up. I always have them in the filament dryer while printing.
• Specialist filaments (e.g. Nylon, Carbon, Wood) might be much more hydroscopic, depending on the material.

In this case, you should get a 3D printer.

I first read “politically enraged”. Apparently I wasn’t too far off.

To add to the great answers of the others:

The enclosure will only help you to keep heat in, not to keep the contents of the enclosure cool.

If it gets really hot and you print parts that need a lot of cooling, consider opening or removing the enclosure (if possible).

I think, there is another underlying problem, and that is that many Linux users are overly defensive about their OS.

If Windows frequently bluescreens due to a driver, people also say that Windows sucks. But I’ve never seen a single instance where then a more experienced Windows user says “You are wrong, Windows is great, it’s just the manufacturer of the hardware who is at fault.”

To an average user, there is no difference between OS, drivers or even user space software.

And, tbh, if the system doesn’t run correctly (no matter which part of it) nobody really cares who is at fault. Because it’s not about putting blame on someone, but rather about the user wanting to do something and it doesn’t work.

For a bad comparison: Imagine you got a new car and directly after the warranty expired, the motor breaks down and needs to be replaced.

Would you then say “The car is ok, it’s just the supplier of the sealing rings of the piston who sucks”?

I’d rather say, “This car sucks”.

Sure, it’s much better than it has been a few years ago.

But it’s still not nearly at the point where I would blindly recommend it to non-technical people and call it easy. There’s still a way to go.

On the other hand I have no problem recommending Linux to the typical “I only use an OS to run a browser” user. That wasn’t the case 5 or 10 years ago.

I guess your experience must be universal and everyone who has issues must be really dumb. Is that how you see the world?

You are right with what you are saying, but for an average user it doesn’t matter who’s fault it is that their hardware and the OS don’t play nice together.

If they have Nvidia and it works perfectly out of the box on Windows, but not on Linux, it really doesn’t matter whether it’s the fault of Linux or Nvidia.

And sure, if you are buying a new device to run Linux on it, you can use that info to buy an ATI card that works better.

But more often than not people are switching from Windows to Linux on their existing hardware. Mostly because something doesn’t work (e.g. receiving updates on Win10 past 2024), and they’d rather switch OS than buy a new PC.

You really want to run an OS from 2021 on hardware older than 2016? That’s not going to be a good idea, TPM or not.

Why?

10+ years of usage for a PC or laptop is completely normal outside the gamere/tech enthusiast bubble.

If you only use your PC for Amazon, Streaming and occasionally Word/Excel, a 10yo laptop is totally enough.