galaxi

@galaxi@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised I haven’t seen this, but have you tried a different cable? Display port? Could be worth a shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the purpose of the skirt/brim that is not even touching the object?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  #2 is a purge line, meant to clear any pressure in the nozzle and wipe it off before a print. It can be edited in your Start G-code on the printer settings tab > custom g-code on prusaslicer.

  #1 is a skirt, meant to get rid of any last few hanging bits of filament and start a clean print (sometimes the purge line doesn’t get everything off the nozzle). It can also be used to gauge any last minute adjustments to your z offset. If the nozzle is too close or too far, you’ll know before the print actually starts. I find that the skirt can be disabled if you’re using a brim, since it’s redundant at that point. Some who have fine tuned printers may opt not to use one at all without much issue. It isn’t meant as any kind of draft shield as another person said - that’s a separate setting. It’s just a failsafe for the cleanest prints possible, avoiding hanging bits of filament, blobs from built up pressure, and incorrect z height. The first layer is the most important so everything that helps the first layer helps the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your filament usage rate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as fast as I’ve been spending 😇

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I building a fire hazard?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubtful. The main reason I could see a 3D printer starting a fire is either thermal runaway, often caused by bad software (on cheap printers) or electrical issues. You can check your wiring and make sure that nothing looks loose and all of your cables are in good condition. You can also make sure that your printer firmware is up to date. It’s a Prusa right? I think you should be safe from software failure in that case, as they’re quality.

  If you’re really concerned about it, you can also move your power supply, and even your mainboard, outside of the enclosure by using longer cables. This would keep the majority of the electrical components away from the foam and heated box. From my position I don’t see an issue, but that’s my personal opinion – not legally accountable information. I will say that Stefan on CNC Kitchen uses foam as well, to get rid of ringing in prints. If you decide to go through with it, just use common sense and check to see if anything is hot. You might also get some benefit out of looking into silent stepper motors/drivers and trying to make the printer itself quieter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My 3D printed kitchen bags drawer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re right to complain, but at the same time, aren’t single use plastics much lower on the pollution scale than, say, the fishing industry or other industrial plastic pollution? It makes sense to reduce and reuse, I try - but also find it beyond helpful to have a bunch of (unorganized) baggies strewn about for things like loose screws, storing filament spools, organizing USB cables, etc. I could definitely use something like this instead of a black hole under my sink. I know it’s easy to judge – esp without the whole picture – and hopefully people aren’t polluting willy nilly, but curiosity is a better approach than judgment or shaming when it comes to changing minds, wouldn’t you agree?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I practice being more emotionally available as a man?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoy the podcast Deeper Dating. The host, Ken Page, is one of the most emotionally in-touch men I’ve heard from. More so than a lot of women, honestly. Also, therapy and men’s groups are a great start too. Consider poetry, talks from Brené Brown, books on attachment styles, and engaging with more emotionally intimate people in your life - even just as friends, male or female.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Internet boards and Forums dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just thinking about this the other day. It’s weird how Google has become so unusable due to its own practices that it seems to be giving up on being a search engine. I’ve been getting spam pop-ups lately on mobile search asking me to use AI. Of course people will wanna use it, they can’t find their answers normally anymore. You search for something and it’ll show you something completely unrelated because it’s trying to be “helpful” and corral you towards buying shit, and it doesn’t even do a good job at that. Heaven forbid you start to look past the first 3 pages… I don’t have a clue how these websites in the search results are maintained when they’re filled solely with spam and nonsensical gibberish. I’m totally with you. We used to actually see communities around and now it seems like they’ve fallen into the dark web, unfindable except by means of knowing someone who knows someone or, frustratingly, reddit. Paradoxically, it’s like the random AI-generated hash from the dark web is now here clogging up the tubes. I feel like everyone else came along and started dumping trash everywhere because we didn’t put up any signs or make any rules not to litter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Internet boards and Forums dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of this before but it’s fascinating. I think I found my next religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain the boundaries around 'people pleasing'?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just one perspective, but people-pleasing is when you go overboard with being considerate of others – to the point that you lose yourself. So like the one friend who will say they like all the same things as you, say yes to everything, never disagree, etc. just because they desperately need you to like them. They don’t have boundaries, so even when someone hurts them, they’re like “it’s okay, I don’t mind!” They’re missing a bit of self-respect.

  There’s nothing wrong with being kind or considerate of others! It’s really important to have to form deeper relationships. The problem is when seeming ‘nice’ takes the place of your personality or being honest about your real self, because you value other’s validation more. People can sense that and it can put them off because they want to get to know the real person. People-pleasers can play the character that they think others want them to be, instead of putting in the work to like and value themselves and communicate their own needs and boundaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best seseme substitute?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like what would honestly be easiest would be to just have some tahini on hand as a backup. It is sesame so it’s not a true substitute, but also it lasts for ages so there isn’t a huge reason to not have some around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My extruder has a problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Changing the nozzle isn’t hard, you just have to be careful. All you have to do is heat up the hotend, hold the heater block with a wrench, and use another wrench to unscrew the nozzle (you might’ve gotten one with your printer for this). Holding the heater block is mostly just important imo so that the torque doesn’t misalign other parts in your hotend. Remember that if you’re facing down, then screwing directions are reversed. So you would unscrew the nozzle counterclockwise (lefty loosey).

  After you get the nozzle off, I would push some filament through the top to get your clog out. Then you can put the same nozzle back on. The main time you would need to replace it is if you’re consistently having issues even after that or you’ve been using it for a while (the hole gets worn through bigger over time). You can also look into doing a ‘cold pull’ to get out clogs.

  Of course your extruder would still work fine if you didn’t have anything in it because it’s only jamming due to trying to push something through a clog :p You have 2 zones in a hotend: the cold end (radiator) and hot end (heater block). Sometimes a clog can happen because of heat creep, where a bit of hot melted filament gets retracted up into the cold zone and resolidifies there, blocking the passage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need advice about whether to dive in or not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey sounds great! You’ve made a good choice. If/when you have any issues pop up that you need a quick solution to, I’ll be around :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need advice about whether to dive in or not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So you can get an Ender or similar printer for $100-200 and it would mostly work out of the box, but there is often a huge amount of troubleshooting that follows. I got a 3D printer originally to try to earn extra revenue but never ended up selling anything because the hobby took over for me. I spent hours learning how it works and hundreds replacing parts (trying to perfect my machine, not at all necessary). It’s a bit of an investment of time and money but you may find that you end up enjoying it and using it beyond the scope of your current project. It’s definitely something that takes a lot of commitment to learn unless you have a lot of money you’re willing to invest towards a more no-issue printer like a Prusa.

  It looks like there are a ton of makerspaces in Seattle. If you have the time, you can actually often volunteer to use the machines for free. And it would give you the ability to use other machines there, like laser cutters. I actually also volunteer about a couple hours north of you at the bham makerspace. If you happen to be in the area and want help printing stuff – or you decide to get a printer and you want help learning how to do it, you should hit me up! I’m super passionate about it and I would be happy to give you advice or help out. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the procedure of buying a ship load of any cargo? ex; corn or paraffin wax?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  God, what year is it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I designed a printable drywall mount.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice design!! Also love to see the interactions you’re doling out. Keeps the community alive. You seem like a nice person!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just playing split screen multiplayer on PC a couple days ago. Not sure where you heard that PC didn’t have it, if that’s what you’re implying. Seems to be working fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone stand sticky note⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite post on here so far, tbh :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I’m recommending anyone give reddit any more traffic or leverage, but I’ve been using Stealth app at the recommendation of someone else on here. It’s downloadable through f-droid and specifically is meant to keep you anonymous and avoid any trackers and other trash normally found when opening reddit links. You can’t even log into an account. I use it on the rare moments I’m looking for stuff on there, it makes me feel a bit better about it.