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AliasVortex

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  • When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?

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  • I wanted to echo this by saying that my lab stated as 4 bay Qnap NAS and evolved into repurposed consumer hardware as my interests and needs changed. My current server is an Optiplex that I bought for being small, quiet, and hanging lots of cores and my NAS is just my old gaming PC build with an HBA card (for extra SATA lanes) stuffed into a fancy case. A server is any computer that you say is a server (ideally one with functional network connectivity).

  • There Have Been Times I Liked The Villain Dynamics Better

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  • Actually, now that you mention it, Worm is this to a tee. Worm is still probably one of my favorite reads to date; highly recommend (it's like a The Boys with less evil corporations and more X-Men)!

    For all the praise, I'm not entirely sure I liked the ending, but the rest of the book more than makes up for it...

    I keep telling myself to get around to reading Ward, but so far haven't had the time to commit to it.

  • I'm part of a weekly art thing. This week it turned into a comic!

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  • Not quite Gengar doing a kick flip, but still delightful!

  • Core One vs. Voron 2.4.

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  • Also a 2.4 owner, I bought the 350 LDO kit from Fabreeko and it was delivered back in August. Getting it assembled and dialed in was certainly a process, but aside from that it's been an absolute workhorse (I think I've got something like 200+ hours of print time in; completely blows my Thessian Ender out of the water in terms of both speed and reliability). You certainly can tinker with it and make it a project printer, but they print really well stock. The only mod I'd say is anywhere near required is swapping out the magnetic bed meshing sensor, only because the sensor readings tend to drift as the sensor gets hot. You can totally work around it, by waiting for the printer to warm all the way up or cool down to ambient before printing, but I'm impatient plus the mouse switch mod (Klicky) tends to be more reliable and accurate (plus it's temperature agnostic).

    Don't get me wrong I've totally modded mine: swapped out some of the plastic parts for metal ones, added a brush to clean the nozzle before my print (makes for more consistent Z heights), replaced the panel clips with snap latches, but none of it was required to make the printer print better (mostly just to make maintenance easier and partly because it looks cool).

  • let's try this again...

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  • The new hotness in the open source MMU space is ArmoredTurtle's BoxTurtle project, which seeks to be an open source equivalent of the Bambu AMS. I'm still working on the parts for mine, but from everything I've seen the build is way less fiddly (and as a result more reliable) than the ERCF.

  • let's try this again...

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  • Seconding kit Vorons. While they certainly aren't the cheapest option, they aren't that much more expensive than other higher end core XY machines. Fabreeko has the 250/300mm Trident kit at 1.2k and 350mm 2.4 at 1.4k + an extra $150 or so for printed parts. Compared to the new Core One at between 950 - 1.2k or the X1C also at 1.2k you're looking at an extra $150 to 350, but that also comes with build volume increases (both the Prusa and Bambu are at roughly 250 mm³). Definitely wouldn't recommend them as a first printer, but Vorons are shining examples of what's possible with open source (and they're absolute workhorses too).

    Highly recommend them with glowing praise for being all around fantastic (they also run sales on the regular, though kit deals are usually reserved for special occasions like black Friday, or Clee day)

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  • The infamous "if loop" actually exists

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  • Custom laptop built with some 3d printed parts

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  • E3D makes pretty decent stuff and is based out of the UK- it's just annoying and expensive to get ahold of everywhere else (insert generic grumbles about Revo nozzles). Otherwise, I've had good luck with Phaetus nozzles, but I'm not sure that pricing/ availability looks like in the UK.

  • I wish you a very merry resource crisis.

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  • Lemon it's January.

  • There is currently a bill in the NY State Assembly to require background checks for the purchase of 3D printers

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  • Why do you print like you're running out of time?

  • What year is it

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  • LA is burning, and the Right is furious—about sign language interpreters

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  • Correct. ASL is fascinating because of how visual it is and just how much you can convey by taking the same sign moving it differently (for example you can describe a rough flight by making the sign for airplane and then bouncing it up and down).

    I might also add that in addition to your facial expressions form grammar structures, body language (of which facial expressions are a part) also conveys tone/emphasis. For some concrete examples of how this provides context: the sign for thin becomes anorexic if you suck in your cheeks/ stomach while you make it. Similarly, fat can become obese if you puff out your cheeks and slouch a bit while you make it. Or on a more topical note, the sign for fire is made by wiggling your fingers in an upward motion in front of your chest (visual), the size of your sign sort of describes the size of the fire your talking about, small slow movements might describe the dying embers of a campfire, while larger (pushing towards of out of the area you normally sign in) more frantic movements would be used to describe a miles high inferno.

  • robust solution for dessicant & holder for keeping filament dry

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  • There's some community history, but the short version is that the US patent office issued Slice a patent for surgical tube in hot ends which Slice has then used to litigate away competition. As a result, Slice's actions have not sat particularly well with the parts of the 3d printing community that value open source and community innovation.

    there's some debate as to the validity of that patent as there's evidence that this idea dates back to the early reprap movement. Source.

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  • robust solution for dessicant & holder for keeping filament dry

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  • Given that the video is over a year old, nice to see that slice hasn't tried to sue him out of existence.

  • Wish there was a toggle for it like there is on phones

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  • We call that pseudocode and it looks fine to me. No computer will run it natively (AI meat grinders aside), but most devs will be able to pick up on the logic and convert it to actual code.

    Disclaimer: am a programmer.

    Edit: as an aside, manually dealing with time is its own form of madness and is usually best left to libraries (ie other people's code) whenever possible.

  • Lemons

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  • Was half expecting a slightly more combustible take on lemons...

  • Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

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  • Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.

  • Happy birthday, peon

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  • Ate without table -3