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bluewing

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  • I'm Guilty as Charged

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  • After many years of tiptoeing through the distros, from RedHat 5 and Mandrake6 to Slack to Gentoo and now Fedora 41. The last thing I want anymore is to need to go RTFM.

    I don't want to open a terminal to compile anything, (I got stacks of tee shirts), or goggle, (yes goggle), to make things work. I'm too old for this crap and I don't have that much longer to live wasting my short time remaining staring at a terminal and reading man pages. Distros and Linux by extension should "just work" in 2025. And thankfully they do-- most of the time.

    You want to be a Sysadmin and a cmd line commando, have at it. I'm peacing out.

    Now if only GUIs could be called and worked telepathically. Or better yet, fix any problems before they happen without me even knowing about it.

  • "Works for me"

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  • An Antiquarian I see. Carry on my good fellow!

  • "Works for me"

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  • Perhaps the best line ever uttered in any movie. Rowdy Roddy Piper maybe a B movie actor at best, but he was meant to play that role in that movie.

    I have often wondered: Who wore a kilt best. Bruce Campbell or Rowdy Roddy Piper. Campbell was a Sharp Dressed Man in his kilt for sure. But Piper wrestled in one for years-- it was his trade mark garb.

  • Donald Trump impeachment efforts ramp up

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  • How many times did the magahats offer impeachment articles for Biden? The theater isn't meant to be successful, but just a constant buzz for voters.

  • Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass: Denying their own documented restrictions

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  • I'm not yet in a hurry. ;) Thank you for sharing!

  • brick layering script has been open sourced for prusa and orca slicers

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  • At it's most basic, a patent is a piece of paper you can wave around and hopefully scare off others from your idea. But, until a judge somewhere bangs a gavel and says Yea or Nay, it's nothing more than asswipe. A patent fight is insanely expensive-- even for multi-national corpos. Hence all the cross licensing agreements among them.

    Source: I've held a minor niche patent, (it wasn't worth the money spent beyond the cool factor), and I knew a person who held a patent on what was basically a rectangle with drilled holes in it. He wanted to sue another manufacturer that was was doing a direct knock off. He got told straight up 1.You can't afford it. 2. It wouldn't stand up in court. 3. So don't bother.

  • moms rule

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  • The French tried to impose "metric" time way back in the day. Even they learned that was a bad idea and quietly dropped it. The solar system seems to prefer it's base12 time.

    I think it maybe helped give rise the the saying: "The French follow no one. And no one follows the French."

  • Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass: Denying their own documented restrictions

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  • Ok, I will look forward to looking at it.

  • Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass: Denying their own documented restrictions

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  • Yeah, the noise of the K2 seems to be a common complaint. But placed in a different room, if you have one, would solve much of that. Nor do I know what user hacks have been developed to mitigate the noise. Still, there seem to be more users that like their K1 than not. Crealty, if nothing else is almost a tinker's dream machine. The installed user base is very active and highly talented. Crealty might not care much about their users, but they ain't stopping anyone from modifying their machines. If you can dream up a hack, someone somewhere has probably already done it. I would almost bet there is an Ender 3 somewhere that has been rebuilt into a bread machine. :)

    Qidi also gets dinged in reviews for fan noise. But if you have a printer that has active chamber heating, you are going to get a rather large fan to pull air into and exhaust air out to help control temperature. That's the price you pay to print nylon filament I suppose. Qidi's after sales support gets decent marks from users also. They seem to be pretty responsive to customer issues. Personally, I place high value on support. It's worth more than the color of the paint and the badge glued to the machine. Being involved in million of dollars in industrial machine purchases over the years, I've learned that the hard way. Print quality seems to be considered average at the worst. Oddly, there are few reviews on line and no one seems to test the high end engineering filament printing ability. I think to really understand what the issues are you probably need to hang out in reddit's r/Qidi for a while to gather a good sample. I did and while users had issues, they seem to get resolved and people could get on with their printing. I'm kind of wishing now I had bought the little X-Smart3 rather than the Bambu Mini.

  • Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass: Denying their own documented restrictions

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  • I don't think anyone does at this point.

  • Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass: Denying their own documented restrictions

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  • I tried switching to LAN, it took multiple attempts and half a day to get my mini to show up as a choice for LAN mode in Bambu Studio. And then when shut off for the night, it was gone again in the morning. As in it couldn't be found. And now it's back to Studio not connecting to it.

    I'm not sure what I can do besides using the sneaker net to run it.

  • Bambu's Gaslighting Masterclass: Denying their own documented restrictions

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  • There are the usual suspects-- Prusa, Creality, Qidi, Soval etc. They all have their fansbois and detractors. Prusa is the most expensive Soval the cheapest.

    Everyone complains about Prusa's price while ignoring they need to pay EU wages and taxes. Personally, I think Prusa knows they can't sell printers to cheap ass consumers. So they are slowly withdrawing from that segment and switching to entry level business printers. Still, they offer the best long term support out there. My trusty 6 year old Mk3s+ stills works as good as as new and I just downloaded new and improved firmware for it yesterday. That's support and worth a lot of money to some of us. There is a community mod I'm considering trying to convert it to run Klipper.

    I find Qidi an interesting brand. Priced between Prusa and Bambu, (though cheaper than Bambu's CoreXY offerings), they often get passed over, but they offer printers with more industrial features than anyone else. All enclosed CoreXY printers with active heated chambers with high temp extruders and hardened steel nozzles, Qidi makes printing difficult engineering filaments easier than any other consumer printer available right out of the box. You can even get an idex model. The Plus4 is the newest offering and they are bring out an ams style filament box for it soon. The biggest complaint seems to be fan noise. I almost bought one, but they dropped their X-Smart3 1803 printer. So I ended up with the A1 mini.

    Crealty is, well Crealty. The K2 is supposed to be a pretty good printer. And based on user reviews, Crealty might have finally gotten one right. But it's large and more costly than the rest of their offerings. I do not follow Crealty at all.

    Soval offers a mix of budget style printers. From Mk3 knockoffs to a not quite CoreXY machine-- the gantry moves up and down and the bed is fixed. But they are budget priced. Reviews seem mixed. No multi filament printing offered or on the horizon.

    Do your due diligence and pick out the one that seems to fit your needs.

  • This High-Resolution, Non-Contact Filament Sensor Improves Print Quality

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  • It's a nice thought, but it's not going to do much in the real world. Between the system reaction time and the device assuming the filament is actually round-- it's not-- and absolute accuracy of the device, this isn't doing anything to improve print quality beyond a placebo effect.

    But it might make PandaPi some money.

  • Men With a Mild Fever – Arcade Rage

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  • As a man who has "sucked it up" most of my life, getting sick with "just a cold" twice ended with pneumonia and a stay in the hospital. Any CT of my lungs shows the damage that ain't ever growing back. I take illness a bit more seriously now.

  • Before You Criticize People Who Bought Bambu

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  • At some point as the old stock inventory is sold out, the new inventory WILL ship with the new firmware. I'm willing to bet, new machines are being built with the new firmware as we speak. I have no idea how soon those hit the pipeline. Might be a few weeks, might take a couple months, might be today.

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

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  • It only appears so. It's flipping the xz and yz planes only as it hits each quadrant. It just does it really fast. Looking closely at the layer lines will show you it's not a true 3D movement.

  • Before You Criticize People Who Bought Bambu

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  • Bambu has stated the same is coming for us with P and A series machines also as they roll out the new protocols.

  • Before You Criticize People Who Bought Bambu

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  • Since your printer will be drawn from "old stock" on the shelf, it's more than likely it will have the old firmware included. Now, the new slicer versions may not function with it anymore-- and that may include Orca. But that remains to be seen.

  • Before You Criticize People Who Bought Bambu

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  • To be fair, that's most likely a CloudFlair problem and not a malicious action from Bambu. CloudFlair is a curse on the internet and websites that use it should be shunned and ridiculed.