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- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 15 hours ago:
We have a president who issues fascistic edicts on the toilet and then phrases them like a Karen in her first term on her HOA or Condo board.
- Comment on Lamp. 15 hours ago:
As someone who grew up in the exact window of dysfunction that makes the movie relatable but not triggering, I agree.
- Comment on More orders of magnitude, please. 1 day ago:
Reception is a little fuzzy.
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- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 4 days ago:
If I bowed out early, would that make me a Dik?
- Comment on Winging it 2 weeks ago:
The part where the baby shoves their hand in your face when you can’t do anything about it is actually pretty accurate. The face you then make as the grown-up is also spot on.
- Comment on Is a Voron 3D printer worth it?? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! I am going to keep those all in my back pocket for when the honeymoon of not having a $99 “box o’ parts” Voxelab wears off, though I feel a little guilty for never installing that BLTouch clone now.
I haven’t printed much with the Sovol yet. So far, the main things I’m running into are bed adhesion (the old standby of a washable glue stick is helping), and I’ve had a couple of vertically oriented parts get knocked off the bed, and slowing down quite a bit helped.
- Comment on Is a Voron 3D printer worth it?? 2 weeks ago:
I know the beds are worse, apparently almost all of them. Sovol chose to change the Voron reference design to be cheaper and it’s just not held down right, so they exhibit beating degrees of “taco” a way inconsistency that the diagram accentuates visually. Mine has a corner that seems to be about 0.4mm too high, and the rest is a bit wavy to lesser amounts. This is the main reason I set it to redo its z offsets before every print.
The Sovol doesn’t use standard extrusion profiles so it’s less moddable, it’s hot end is not completely standard, and it uses injection molded parts in places the Voron uses 3d printed parts (that last may be be an advantage, lol). The Sovol also doesn’t run a completely clean version of Klipper. I think it’s set in a way to make it work a little better with their cheaper BOM.
It’s big and fast and Voron-like, but it’s just not a hand crafted super printer like a Voron can be.
- Comment on Is a Voron 3D printer worth it?? 2 weeks ago:
I just got a Sovol SV08, which is like a Voron but changed up a bit so the teacher doesn’t get mad… and to be cheaper :-)
I’m just coming in from an Ender3 clone, but overall, other than the potential of taco bed messing up some prints, I’ve been really pleased with it. I’m still fine tuning what it likes to do, including slowing it down on some small vertical prints, letting the bed “heat soak” for a while to even out, and running the Z Offset calibration on every print, but Core XY, auto leveling, and all the other little QoL advantages are nice.
For your specific printer, Vorons are generally even more kit built than most printers, sometimes even completely assembled from a BOM by the builder/user. If they did it well, and if it loks to be in good shape, it should be an excellent and well supported printer. I paid USD490 for “We have Voron at home” and I feel like it was a good deal. I’m not super well versed in pricing in Europe, but EUR770 seems like a good deal on a kit, a REALLY good deal on a new 350mm, and a very solid one for a used printer in good shape.
Now, all that said, I am super glad that I kinda had some experience with more primitive printers before I got the Sovol. I’m less panicky about little inconveniences and realities of printing (especially on a budget), and I feel like I at some high level understand how it’s all supposed to be working and that I can look up how to fix things and implement what I learn. If you don’t want to deal with any of that, a Bambu, even with its potential walled garden “sword of Damocles”, might be a simpler idea.I understand they really are just super easy to live with.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen and posted here for y'all 2 weeks ago:
Don Perlin on pencils. I originally thought John Romita Sr, but yeah, that jawline is a bit too dashing.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on You know a guy that works there purposely positioned that price sticker so the letters "f" turned into "T" 3 weeks ago:
Also, ngl, that’s pretty solid freehand sign routing.
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- Comment on Please do not the horse 3 weeks ago:
It’s implied in the music.
- Comment on Shookith 3 weeks ago:
My kiddo had a brief phase of watching these. They’re quite bad, but when cheap CGI cartoons result in plasticky textures and unnatural movement, I have to admit that using it on Barbie of all things is low-key clever.
- Comment on Delicious 3 weeks ago:
The old ZAZ movies were great because they knew to hang the constant gags on a plot that, threadbare as it was, made it a silly movie and not a tedious collection of parody sketches where the actors just don’t bother changing costumes.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 3 weeks ago:
The easy example is to think in terms of chatting with a Christian: Jesus died, but Jesus is not dead.
- Comment on Thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on No looky for you! 3 weeks ago:
Jack Donaghy approves.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 3 weeks ago:
Not immune, but let’s say resistant. Due to federation, they couldn’t lock down existing federated content; due to open source they couldn’t lock down the user experience; and due to those two, nobody’s going to offer them a check for a couple million dollars.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
Yup. American Christmas lights basically ARE very thin extension cords with the bulbs (hopefully) wired in parallel. Back in the day they were pretty much all incandescent and in series, and a single burned out bulb meant everything went out and Junior got a joyous new holiday chore!
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
I have heard there are ways to use these to back feed power from a generator into a house’s system, at least on one breaker, but by definition that bypasses the breaker panel, and the only safe way to use your generator for your house is with a proper cutover installed by an electrician. I can think of literally no other use for one of these cords, except maybe fixing your fuck up if you install Christmas lights backwards.
So yeah, dumb, dumb idea.
- Comment on Not a restaurant 4 weeks ago:
Pretty decent, if overpriced. I like the Chicken Tikka tacos.
- Comment on Hell Yeah! 4 weeks ago:
Go Gators.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
There is test-taking software that locks out all other functions during the essay-writing period. Obviously, damn near anything is hackable, but it’s non-trivial, unlike asking ChatGPT to write your essay for you in the style of a B+ high student. There is some concern about students who learn differently or compose less efficiently, but as father to such a student, I’m still getting to the point where I’m not sure what’s left to do other than sandbox “exploitable” graded work in a controlled environment.
- Comment on the young always think they have all the right answers but THIS eventually happens 5 weeks ago:
My father was a deeply flawed parent to minor children, and a disastrously bad one to adult children. My adult life was punctuated with discoveries and realizations and interactions that revealed him to be a fuckin’ mess. He was better and kinder than his own parents, but that’s damning with faint praise.
- Comment on Damn 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on YOLO 5 weeks ago:
Every once in a while there is am old painting or photo where the style of the artist and subject combine to present a visual that I find eerily modern. Something about this guy just screams “project manager who’s been working from home for three years.”
- Comment on Sensible 5 weeks ago:
And that lamp is definitely a bong.
