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- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 4 days ago:
I typically build a whole new PC and then do a mid-life GPU upgrade after a couple generations. e.g. I just upgraded my GPU I bought in late 2020. For most users there just isn’t a good reason to be upgrading your CPU that frequently.
I can see why some people would upgrade their GPU every generation. I was suprised at how expensive even 2 generations old card are going for on ebay, if you buy a new card and sell your old one every couple years the “net cost per year” of usage is pretty constant.
- Comment on Can you tell when the dry filament started being extruded? 4 days ago:
I’ve got the same experience, never really had any issues with moisture for either PLA or PETG.
- Comment on Anyone use Bambu Lab Cool Plate 1 week ago:
Pretty much every PLA or PETG print unless I want the textured surface of the powder coated sheet.
Large prints seem to peel off fine, and then I use the razor to slice off any smaller prints that don’t peel off when I flex the bed.
- Comment on Anyone use Bambu Lab Cool Plate 1 week ago:
Cool plate supertack I assume you mean given there is an older cool plate available too.
Yeah having the razor blade scraper is a requirement for that build plate to get some types of prints off. I live the plate since I pretty much just don’t have to wash it or worry too much about accidentally touching the surface.
- Comment on Trying to design a simple photo frame. Please help me understand these print issues. 1 week ago:
Yeah, that isn’t going to work. The nozzle has drag force due to the molten plastic so any tall and thin beams are going to flex as the layers are deposited.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
“Its the customer’s that are wrong” is essentially what he is saying. Anyone with any marketing ability should know how insane that sounds. Build something that people want to use to drive growth. This is pretty much an admission that LLMs are a solution in search of a problem.
- Comment on Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all? 2 weeks ago:
Stupid question, you sure you are using the right bed temperature? The feature of a PEI textured sheet is that it self released the part when the bed cools down,.
- Comment on Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all? 2 weeks ago:
Back when I had a Prusa I never had any success with the textured sheet and PLA, however it worked perfectly with PETG.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
What you might think is “common sense” may not be for others. There is value in this being documented, otherwise the person without “common sense” may be influenced by someone with an agenda who does document their thoughts.
Same as when people make fun of “obvious” research, there is value in having it peer reviewed as a reference for future researchers.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 3 weeks ago:
Have they actually gone up that much? Oraybe just specific models? I just bought a 12TB NAS drive on Black Friday and the price difference was less than $20 compared to when I tried to do the exact same thing the year before.
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 5 weeks ago:
Yes, given the comment about averaging with the neighbours green will be overrepresented in the average. An additional (smaller) factor is that the colour filters aren’t perfect, and green in particular often has some signficant sensitivity to wavelengths that the red and blue colour filters are meant to pick up.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 month ago:
My question is “Why?” Pretty much everything on Spotify is already available elsewhere in FLAC format good for archiving rather than Spotify’s bad lossy compression.
- Comment on Where do you guys buy your 3D print and such at? 1 month ago:
I’ve never really found anything unique enough that I’ve felt the need to purchase it over a free option that is available. Frankly, these days I tend to get frustrated by all the obviously bad models out there and just use my CAD skill to properly design exactly what I want.
Also I’d never purchase just a STL file, I’m opposed to the format because it is so difficult to modify. I might consider buying a STEP file if it does something unique and useful to me while saving a bunch of modeling work.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 month ago:
Pretty much, I’ve been working on reducing my dependence on big tech companies by self hosting or using open source where possible. While impossible to do fully, at least if I lose an account things are either backed up or I’m only losing a small amount of my data.
- Comment on Best Racing Games in 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Speed, Realism & Driving Thrills 1 month ago:
Agreed, no matter what comes out Trackmania is the game that has me coming back day after day.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 1 month ago:
I’d love Jellyfin if not for their incredibly infuriating seek behaviour. Why do I have to press play to start the video again?
- Comment on STL vs Modifier quality 2 months ago:
The STL export will take your nice parametric model and turn it into triangles. The software defaults of most CAD systems are terrible for this. (I’ll die on the hill that STL needs to be phased out and STEP needs to become the default for precisely this reason). If you add a vector in the slicer then it has the context to be able to choose the right quality when slicing.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
If Windows overwrites your EFI partition then you won’t be able to boot into grub. It absolutely happens, I’ve had it happen with my main computer within the past year.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
Windows generally works fine alongside Linux, but then randomly one day you could log on and it boots straight into Windows and to fix it you need to learn the “fun” task of fixing your system with arch-chroot.
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 2 months ago:
I suspect the Prusa issues were because you had a bunch of people not taking care of the machines. My Prusa Mk3S was just as reliable as my Bambu P1S.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 2 months ago:
Xbox controllers can be a bit unreliable on Linux in my experience. I’ve got an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C wireless that I quite like. They are way cheaper than an Xbox controller, have hall effect joysticks, and low measured latency.
- Comment on Looking to buy a cheap but best first 3d printer. Ender3 V3, CR-10 SE, or something else? 2 months ago:
It depends on the type of person you are. Those machines you reference are in a class of machine where you are likely to have to put a lot of work into them to get them running reliably and probably more money than if you just bought a better printer from the get go. They are machines to recommend people who want the 3D Printer to be their hobby rather than designing and printing stuff.
If that doesn’t sound like you, just buy a Bambu or Prusa.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 months ago:
A cell’s voltage will change with how much energy it stores, but if you keep applying current to force more charge to move you can cause voltages to be quite far outside of the proper range. However you don’t want to do this as at minimum you are damaging the materials in the cell, or worse, cause a significant safety hazard where the cell could catch on fire.
You can look at the Discharge Curve of a cell which compares voltage vs capacity, as a rule of thumb, essentially the steeper the curve changes, the more damage you are doing to the cell by operating in the range.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 months ago:
Something is off with the link’s measurements. 3.7V is a li-ion cell’s nominal voltage, not its lower limit. Typical operating range is 3.0V - 4.2V. No battery chemistry I’m familiar with would have a lower cutoff as high as 3.7V.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 2 months ago:
Not an iOS user and it certainly seems like something they would be behind on, but with Android every password manager with a Android app will work since the hooks are built directly into Android. Other than websites and apps that don’t implement passwords properly it works pretty well.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 2 months ago:
I hate how many places don’t allow for + aliases. I want to know who leaked my email.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 months ago:
What you call 0% or 100% on a battery is an arbitrary number anyway. Absolutely never do this for safety reasons, but back when I worked for a battery lab I did experiments where I discharged cells to below 0V.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
I bought a new phone a couple months ago and on the first setup it installed their app. Then when I traveled soon after the eSim I was using installed something else when I connected to that network.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
Is this even a thing you can avoid anymore? You connect to the network with their SIM installed and it immediately downloads the apps they say you need.
- Comment on Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers 2 months ago:
This is what the Core One should have been from day one. I was wondering what Prusa was thinking when they released the Core One without doing anything to make it competitive in a market that had moved onto larger build plates and AMS units.
Their claims of larger print size always pissed me off, Z height is the least useful dimension on a printer.