ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 1 day ago:
I would say Trump. The problem is, ridiculous come from the Latin for laughable, and fascism is no laughing matter.
Next in line would be Dubya. He was a bit less fascist - although Gitnoi detainees probably beg to disagree - but more amusing.
So I vote for Dubya, despite the fascism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Wait until you get older and one day you’ll realize the kids are looking at you funny when you talk. Then you’ll realize you naturally talk “oldtimey” and your youth is gone.
Enjoy not being an old fart while you can and don’t wish to become one ahead of time. Trust me on that one, it’s not groovy.
- Comment on Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content 2 days ago:
Youtube and Facebook crack down on unoriginal and repetitive content eh?
So I’m guessing they won’t be jamming ads down our throats anymore. Hurray for that!
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 5 days ago:
Small instances probably aren’t for you
I’m sorry but… no.
Look, I’m a child of the 70’s, I know what shite internet feels like and I’m a patient man. Hell, half of the reason why I stick to SDF is exactly because I’m patient (the other half being because SDF defederates almost no other instances and I appreciate that).
But I’m running a BBS with 32 lines and quite a few users (yes, old-stylee, with modems) and also a few Echolink repeaters for hams, and I provide better service and better uptime than SDF most of the time. And it’s just me, myself and I with little time to spare after work.
I’m glad you’re satisfied with SDF. My bar is a bit higher than yours apparently, yet goodness knows I’m not demanding…
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 6 days ago:
I made a donation once, with the idea of making one every year, because I believe in paying for the things I use, and particularly small-time, old-style services like SDF.
But the plain and sad reality is, most of the things I DON’T pay for work much better than SDF services.
So yes, it truly was money poorly spent. It wasn’t much money and it didn’t make a dent in my quality of life in any way, but that’s just what it was - money poorly spent.
My one donation will remain a single donation until SDF services improve to the point when I can reasonably myself that the occasional slowness and downtime are reasonable for a small gig like SDF. Sadly, it’s not even up to that standard and has never been in the 2 years I’ve joined: it’s more slowness and downtime than it is working normally.
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 6 days ago:
SDF had been nothing short of terrible for me for the past 2 years I’ve started using it. It easily in the top spot for worst money I’ve ever spent on anything. And I’m not talking about just Lemmy…
The only reason I’m still here is inertia. But I have a shadow account on Sopuli and I’m getting awfully close to switching for good.
- Comment on Trump praises Liberian leader on English - his native tongue 6 days ago:
Consisting his poor command of English, he must be impressed by anybody who uses it correctly.
- Comment on How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up 1 week ago:
alas, someone bright and intelligent somewhere probably already fed your credit card alongside all your other customer information into it
Well, you’re probably right there…
- Comment on How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up 1 week ago:
How is this Linux news?
- Comment on How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up 1 week ago:
AI learning your credit card number is a recipe for someone to make it spew it out in the future. No thanks.
- Comment on Trump Angrily Tries to Shut Down Jeffrey Epstein Questions 1 week ago:
Of all things that could lead to his downfall.
Too late for that.
And then what if he was impeached (and that’s clearly not gonna happen, but for the sake of argument…)? The next Nazi in line is JD Vance, and he’s much more dangerous than the senile orange buffoon.
And then let’s say President Vance dies in a freak sofa-humping accident: the next Nazi in line is Mike “I sucked Trump’s dick for this job” Johnson.
- Comment on Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show 1 week ago:
Well, I guess nuclear winter is a way to stop all wars ultimately…
But then it’s probably just more Trump BS: as Steven Kroft eloquently said yesterday, just because Donald Trump said something doesn’t mean it’s true.
- Comment on Trump’s latest attack on wind energy gets instantly fact-checked 1 week ago:
Since when does fact-checking Trump change anything at all?
The unhinged sonofabitch literally told 30,573 lies during his first term, all documented, fact-checked and debunked, yet he’s been reelected and he’s busy turning America into the Fourth Reich completely unchecked.
You’re not gonna flip MAGA around by fact-checking Trump: nothing anybody says or writes touches a cult leader whose members are either to entranced or too dumb to see past the lies.
- Comment on UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide 1 week ago:
While Canada wants nothing to do with the United States, it looks like the UK is working extra-hard to demontrate it has achieved the fascism level needed to qualify for statehood.
- Comment on Why Microsoft's enshittification of Xbox, Surface, and even Windows itself — are all by design 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how Microsoft can enshittify: all of Microsoft products have been shit to begin with.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 weeks ago:
I’m very Jesus-like
You mean you’re cross?
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 3 weeks ago:
Or visit Europe
There are plenty of beautiful place to see and great people to meet in Europe too, and you can see and meet them all without subjecting yourself to Gestapo-style thuggery upon arrival.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on Am I a bad person for hating stuff like J-pop and anime? 3 weeks ago:
Love and hate what you want. That’s totally normal.
Just make sure you don’t start hating people who like things you don’t like.
- Comment on Putin declares ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ in latest blow to peace talks - and hints at nuclear threat 3 weeks ago:
One of the curses of humanity is that it’s always the madmen who rise to rule other, normal, decent human beings.
- Comment on What could happen if Trump does decide to bomb Iran's main nuclear site 3 weeks ago:
15 more years of involvement in the Middle East. At best.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s hard to believe, but in a majority of places on Earth, water is readily available.
- Comment on Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s like crypto: you can tell it’s a scam when certain people and organizations start doing it.
Klarna getting onboard something scammy shouldn’t surprise anybody.
- Comment on Alternative to PrusaSlicer on Linux/ARM64 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for pointing it out to me.
I installed the flatpak and it works just fine! I’ll have to check if the gcode files it produces actually work okay on our printers, but so far I’m pretty happy with it.
Also, I like that OrcaSlider has features to defeat Bambu’s privacy invasion nonsense. I don’t have a bambu printer myself so it doesn’t concern me, but I like the developers’ attitude 😃
- Comment on Alternative to PrusaSlicer on Linux/ARM64 4 weeks ago:
I’ll look into Orca Slicer. Thanks!
I suspect that you can compile from source with whichever version of OpenGL you want … if any.
I wouldn’t bet on that: I compiled PrusaSlicer form source and it really does require OpenGL 3.2-only features. I mean it’s not like just an unfortunate dependency. Disappointing considering the time it takes to build this monster 🙂
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Update on the ["crushed letters" issue](https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36243859) 5 weeks ago:
Clones made in Draft can be resized in the data tab. This is super useful for creating offsets.
Yeah I’m aware of the resizable Draft clones. But in my case, it’s not helpful: in the case of the letter R for example, if I shrink it, the outside of the letter creates a gap but the inside of the letter invades the shell’s material. What’s needed here is moving surfaces inward - meaning outward vertical features move inward and inward vertical features move outward (and horizontal surfaces stay put) which is quite different from wholesale resizing.
You insert this print as you would with a nut or bearing inserted into the paused print and continue the print
I thought that’s what you meant. This is WAY too labor-intensive for my purpose: I print those tabs in batches of 256. I can’t imagine printing 256 tiny lettering inserts and manually placing them iin all 256 shells when the print pauses. That’s crazy!
Is this what Prusa does for their parts? They must be using slave labor or something. Then again, at the price their sell their wares, they can take a few minutes to manually insert parts into their prints…
If you have trouble with first layer crispness, print the lettering face up and use ironing to get a flatter crisper edge.
Face up looks very nice, even without ironing. The issue is, the shells have very thin (one line width) walls, and those would need support. That means carefully removing 256 supports for each batch of tabs, trying not to break the walls. Crazy amount of work. Not to mention, the wall’s height needs to be quite precise, and supports usually screws up with vertical dimensions bad, at least for the kind of precision I need here.
Someone else mentioned a 0.2mm nozzle. They are not as slow as one might imagine.
The real issue is, this is the company’s printer. It’s used for printing jigs and things. I’m really trying to avoid changing how it’s usually setup because I don’t want my colleagues and I to change the nozzles several times a day. Also, my boss thinks the markings as I print them now are good enough - which is true enough - so I can’t justify the expense of a smaller nozzle.
In short, I try to make the best of what the printer offers without modifying anything significant.
- Comment on Update on the ["crushed letters" issue](https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36243859) 5 weeks ago:
I would rotate the text 90 degrees so that it has the full length of the top tab
Not an option I’m afraid, as I have to fit two lines of text.
- Comment on Update on the ["crushed letters" issue](https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36243859) 5 weeks ago:
I have not, but I will today.
- Comment on Update on the ["crushed letters" issue](https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36243859) 5 weeks ago:
Make two separate parts in CAD. You can join them as separate shapes in a Parts Workbench compound or using the Mesh Workbench tools. Then upload the meshed file into the slicer. Empirically tune the gaps to suit your printer.
The letters are separate parts - well, bodies:
Basically I use the same shapestring to cut the letters into the shell and pad each letter as a separate body.
I thought about somehow pushing the lateral walls of the letter recesses in the shell outward to create a gap around the letter bodies, but I haven’t figured out how to do that smartly in FreeCad. I have a feeling I should work on them as meshes, but I’ve never used the mesh workbench. Is this what you’re suggesting?
Of course, I could also import the body in Blender and do that there.
Personally, I like to use manual inserts or layer changes. Print your text separately in one color. Recess the text in negative for a few layers. Then add a print pause where you drop the lettering into the designed voids and continue the print, letting the voids and bridging bond the inserted letters.
Wow I’ll have to re-read that when I’m fully awake: you totally lost me there 🙂
If you design the 0,0 location of the parts so that they import into PS already aligned but as separate meshes, you can also use the elephants foot or other unique settings to manipulate how each section prints.
They do import as separate bodies that are aligned. I did try messing around with settings in individual parts, but it didn’t do anything.
