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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good printer for ASA filament?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The Centauri was designed to be a price breaker and has some drawbacks,but currently it is mainly so cheap because they did not manage to get a proper multicolour system going (which they promised). For someone who mainly prints ASA it’s a decent choice and relatively open software wise. I have a few friends who have it and none had issues - and all were new to printing. (Tbh, if I had the WAF and the room I would have one for ASA/technical printing only…but well…)

  For the Snapmaker everything I read in terms of ASA would make it “workable”. (Even with a 12$ hood from a Ikea basket). If you send me a DM around the 15th or 20th of January I can tell you more,by then mine should have arrived and I should have had to run tests for all my technical filaments. (Even if you just want to print ASA/technical a toolchanger has its merits,e.g. for mixing materials or -this is not yet implemented but like to follow- different nozzle sizes). It’s very very unlikely that it will take hundreds of hours of work to print ASA - all the people I spoke with basically chucked some kind of hood on it and were good to go and from the technical parameters it should not be an issue. And if it is then it’s "chuck a external heater in some corner and your donex(they come prebuild these days).

  Good that you take it seriously. Sadly there are a lot of people onlinr who claim “ASA is not toxic, I sleep next to my unfiltered ASA printer all the time”,etc. The reality is: A longer ASA print is deadly enough to kill a small bird in a small room. While filaments have improved, the filtering solutions used by printers are often,well, not much more than a marketing buzzword and none eliminate the risks - which is an issue as ASA has some potentially cancerous compounds (in theory they are not used normally - but formulations differ between batches), stryrenes are always airway inflamming and ASA is the worst offender for ultrafine particles. So your solution is basically the best thing you can do but sadly my garage has no power and is far to prone to thieves.

  And yeah, ask me about Bambu being a shame. They were always “doubtful and not open”, but their shit worked. A few month after I got mine they went full enshitification mode and did their crazy lockdown thing. (Only when facing legal consequences they at least backtracked a bit - but it’s still not all the way). And their support is pure evil (my favorite story: They did not send me part of an order - somewhat expensive spare part and required a video of me not getting the part - how in hell I should have done that is still a mystery - A stronly worded legal letter helped). And their new product lines are somewhat buggy,artificially limited (like the actively heated AMS that cannot print and dry at the same time), the spare parts that don’t exist in the required amounts and the very strange design decisions that seem to be mainly driven by “doing things in a way that keeps the ecosystem closed”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good printer for ASA filament?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you just want to print ASA and no multicolour the Centauri Carbon is actually not a bad choice - it brings everything to print ASA and works relatively reliable. And it goes pretty cheap at the moment.

  Not quite in your price range but the current hot shit (would need a improvised top cover and maybe even a external chamber heater) is the Snapmaker U1,but while it seems a decent machine so far it is clearly meant for PLA/PETG/PCTG. Nevertheless I am also using my P1S (Bambu) as a very sucessful ASA printer which in theory shouldn’t be possible (it is,just needs more time and preparation).

  BUT: please, for the love of god,the spaghetti monster and everyone else: Still get a proper ventilation/filter solution. While ASA is less toxic than ABS it is still far from healthy.

  And stay away from Bambu,imho. Not only is their whole environment becoming more and more walled garden like, their support and spare part availability is simply shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any documentaries on what government mental hospitals are like when a defendant is found Not Criminally Responsible/Insane/Not guilty on account of medical status?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Each patient had either a double (2 patients per room) or single (one patient per room). Each room is a regular psych ward room if you do not account the doors and windows. (We still had iron bars but these are phased out in favour of high security glas). The doors are similar to prison doors, the windows are shatter proves high security glas.

  This is a good representation: wz.de/…/w709_h483_x354_y241_bed737e9084c58b2.jpg

  Additionally there are multiple “special isolation rooms” per ward. These contain nothing but a ground integrated toilet (which can only be flushed from the outside) and a matress - and a lot of cameras. Patient who are in crisis can be seperated in there as an alternative to bed bound fixation.

  In terms of activities: Patients have some form of therapy almost every day - either group, individual, work, ergo, etc. - as the main goal is healing/making people so healthy again that they are either no longer a danger and can step by step be released or can be transfered back into the prison system. (Tbh, both goals do not happen that often) Besides that: They can go into the yard, we also had a little veggie garden (which technically was illegal as the veggie were not allowed to be used for human consumption), meet with other patients in communal spaces, we had a open kitchen so they could cook. (Similar to prison they could order things every other week from a store) and well, if they have a TV (must be rented by the patient) can watch TV or borrow a book from a library(more on that below). The lower security wards also had a small gym and “communal activities” room with a billiard and so on, we didn’t.

  Sounds nice? It isn’t. It js far worse than prison for most people and besides a few long termers who simply did not want anything to change after so many years absolutely every patient I have seen would have preferred prison

  Why? While superficially the regime in forensic psychiatry sounds much more relaxed it isn’t under the surface. Almost half of all patients face measures under direct force (e.g. isolation, forced medication, fixation) within the first 4 months upon being admitted. That is MUCH more than regular prison (afaik their percentage in max sec is 5%).

  Unlike prison it’s it’s much harder to get drugs in, as patients and visitors are screened much more and, even if you do, you get drug tested regularily (daily on drug rehab wards, weekly as a new entry on others) and due to staff being medical professionals (and there is much more staff per patient) the chance of getting high without anyone noticing is slim. And if you get caught ones liberties are gone, therapy will change,etc.

  For medication it’s the other way around: We would monitor very very closely if patient take their medication (up to checking patients mouth with a dental mirror, regular blood tests,etc.) or switch to i.v./i.m. medication. A small percentage (afaik around 2-5%) are also medicated against their will.

  The lack of activities is also an issue: Unlike prison where most people will try to get a job this is not an option in forensic psych. So if you don’t have therapy, you don’t have much to do and that is something that bothers a lot of people. This is especially valid as the access to media is also much more restricted compared to prison and that is much more individually regulated. In prison everything that is not seen as security risk must be allowed by law in terms of books. That is not the case here - it’s the opposite. Everything is forbidden unless it’s deemed that it is not impending the therapy goal - makes a big difference and is also a common source of trouble because some people are allowed things others aren’t. Another issue is the lack of education options. While I hear that has improved recently back in my day there was not much to do in that regard - while in prison you can regularily get apprenticeship, GED or even distant education uni degree. Overall basically everyone described the boredom as much worse than prison (but to a certain degree this is required for therapy to work). Adding to this is the lack of perspective - in prison you know how long you will be there. Life sentence here is 15 years and then they decide how dangerous you are. Only very few people get preventive custody or “special gravity” which means they get indefinite sentences/prolonged sentences. This is different in forensic psych. You will only get out once you are considered “healed”/sane. That can be in 15 months. Or 15 years. I had an arsonist on my ward who in prison would have had a max sentence of 5 years. He was there for 15 years and I am not sure he will be out by now.

  Last but not least therapy itself is something on its own. People there first and foremost are patients. Any chance of liberties are directly connected to that (unlike prison where “behaving” is enough). So if you don’t play along you won’t get that TV. Less physical contact upon visitation (e.g. no hug allowed), you won’t get in a lower sec. ward or even have supervised trips to the outside. There are ocassional patients who try to trick the staff and manage to play along even though they really are still as sick as ever - but that has become incredibly rare. Generally speaking,though, the average patient will have less liberties than a average prison inmate. And of course therapy itself, even if you play along, is taxing. Very much so for these cases. I had a grown man cry in the fetal position on the floor for hours, another shift had a man trying to cut of his genitals with kids paper scissors (afaik he had a realisation what he has done and why and his sexual desire was a big part of it) or a man who plainly told me “my dad beat and raped me daily. They say the brain damage brought me here. I hate him for not doing it properly so I would be dead”.

  So overall: It’s not a happy place and it is surely not a easy way out, not “easier” than prison.

  (And as people always think they are clever and claim “yeah I will do this and that and play like I am insane and then get out after 15 months.” It doesn’t work like that - People working in forensic psych. are highly trained to find these cases and each possible inmate is screened while still in the entry ward or prison. I have yet to see someone who has sucess with that. Additionally: If you do this and get caught your sentence starts back on day 0 under some circumstances)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any documentaries on what government mental hospitals are like when a defendant is found Not Criminally Responsible/Insane/Not guilty on account of medical status?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While it’s might not be what you might be looking for,but I used to work in a forensic psychiatry (including high security ward) in a central European country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. You are not a nurse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah? The Rhine allows 2500t load and up to 110m long ships, with special permits up to 5000t and 185m.

  10% of all swiss trade and 40% of all hydrocarbons are brought through there…

  So yeah, kind of ocean-going. There are numerous private ships there that are fully ocean going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool infections?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Worms are what I wanted to write as well…the Guinea worm (Dracunculus medinensis),sometimes also called medina worm, is one of these and was once really common. The Asclepius rod is possibly coming from it.

  If your character has a backstory that brings him to southern Europe, Asia or Africa in these times it’s basically perfect.

  Another disease to look up: Larva migrans cutanea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some unique Games to host server's of?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation for Android File Manager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pihole has a few drawbacks when your systen grows - a lot of things then need to be done by hand that others do either automated or at least easier.

  Personally I have become very fond of technitium - it does everything you will ever need and the main drawback is that it seems so fucking overwhelming initially. But: Once you figured out that you basically only need 10% of the fields it becomes easier. And it’s fucking solid and just works and works and works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a fan of Pi-hole itself, but other than that,why not?

  (Technitium DNS has some advantages down the road)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never. Not what you want to hear,but hear me out. Because if it safes your sanity it is worth it.

  • I got my apprenticeship as a paramedic first and then went back to school to get my full A-Levels. Specialized school we have here,thankfully for these cases. The oldest one of my classmates was 52.

  • I studied economics with someone who was 55 and basically had already done the job we all wanted when we graduate for 25 years. He did so so he finally would get a more comprehensive background and maybe get up the ladder once more. (Which according to linked in he did)

  • I currently do another master (in a distant education setting,though) simply out of interest in the field and to broaden my CV. And you know what? I am 25 years in my field and still learned a fuckton of things, got a better network, love the research field AND got so much better at my job AND found a lot of opportunities.

  • An former paramedic trainee of mine was almost 50 when he started paramedic training. He was a C level executive before and at one point had enough - he changed careers so he would not get even more depressed and is now very happy with it. And I had multiple people do that in my bubble.

  Now,from my current perspective: Was it stressful? Fuck yeah. I literally cried sometimes. Was it a tough time financially? Fuck yeah. I am self employed/have a small company and I had month were making ends meet was really though due to the added expenses and the lost revenue. But it still was worth it. Because: For what it’s worth we all gonna need to work till 70+x anyway to afford retirement. And that’s a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Around the world. He is literally the hero we don’t deserve.

  I am currently living in central Europe and I am fairly sure we could get him a drink in almost every bar here. Or more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lightweight and flexible: Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available | Bitwarden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a bad setup then. Not an issue of the software or hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LanguageTool extension will now be paid⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now everyone who is salty about it repeats: If you don’t pay for it you are the product.

  Tbh, their product is much better than the alternatives, especially for non English cases and we selfhost it anyway for aged now. Which works perfectly well and remains free and open - source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solutions for remote access?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. And Netbird/Pangolin go a long way these days.

  Have a look at Layer7,btw. They are more than decent and you can easily install Proxmox on them as a Hypervisor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solutions for remote access?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a theory: There is a good chance that your provider does CG-NAT and that was the issue with OpenVPN. These would persist with wireguard,sadly, unless you solve them properly. (Which can be tricky). But just for the book: Running an Wireguard Container behind your router and have a port forwarded to it is an option. (But still needs CG NAT adressed)

  Thaft leaves you with a few options:

  • Cloudflare: Imho a bad idea - it’s evil, it’s monopolistic and while it’s “an easy way” it has its technical downsides. As you said a domain is still required.

  • Use a small VPS and run a wireguard tunnel and maybe pangolin as a reverse proxy on it.It has the benefit of being very flexible and once configured is fairly stable and it puts the security part outside your network. But it costs money unless you maybe make it work on oracle’s free tier. I would still recommend using a cheap domain,though)

  • As others have mentioned: Tailscale/Zerotier/Netbird absolutely are an option if it’s just for you. But they get nasty if it’s for more people or larger deployments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**How** should I properly document my homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Netbox,especially when combinded with Plugins is so incredibly good and might,that’s it’s almost funny how good it is. What I do Plugin wise:

  • Documents: not implemented yet by me,but one could store manuals,etc. directly within netbox.

  • Lifecycle and Inventory: While it’s not as good as snipe-it (tbh, inventory is imho one of the worst plugins) it does the job for my small deployment

  • Slurp it to scan automatically

  • QR Code for obvious reasons

  • Floorplan as well

  Of course that sounds overkill for a small deployment, but I simply forget too many things after a few months otherwise and it’s something my family (wife is in IT and far more qualified than me) would need if something happens to me,so a proper documentation would be essential for that as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just saying:

  There are alternatives for LE,not for all things, but for a lot. Afaik not all of them do follow suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want some advice on which filaments to use⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a lot of technical things that need to keep stable I use ASA these days. While PETG and PCTG (I mainly use PCTG these days instead of PETG) are cheaper and a little bit easier to print, I have found PETG to be too UV suspectible over time - unless there are additives in it- and I had some parts printed in PETG and exposed to the sun indoors (exposed spot close to the window,but under pressure,like your desk leg) loose strength. While ASA is more expensive and a little bit more difficult to print, but there are versions who are extremely easy to print these days. (But get a proper exhaust / filtering solution) and I simply want things to “work” for a long time. (“Do it right once*-mentality probably) The mixture of the mechanical strain and UV+ temperature seems to be the issue and ASA tolerantes that better.

  For laundry detergents PETG should be no issue, wouldn’t use PLA,though. DO.NOT.USE.FDM.PRINTED materials for anything that touches your food unless you have done a lot of research. Don’t trust the” no issues" fanboys.

  3. That’s ASA. Most definitly. If you need more structural strength use something with CF. If that isn’t enough maybe PC/PBT CF - but that is overkill…
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to buy a cheap but best first 3d printer. Ender3 V3, CR-10 SE, or something else?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest: For that money I would rather go for another 50- 100$ if you can somehow afford them and consider a centauri carbon 1.

  They are decent, work out of the box, now offer a open source firmware and you are set to print basicay everything beside automatic multicolor (which might or might not come…very likely not ). But they are good for all technical filaments, they are fully endclosed,etc.

  Don’t get a refurbished printer. Never.

  And stay away from Bambu unless you are aware of the walled garden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was thinking of getting into 3d printing, doesn't this listing seem too good to be true?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As the original link has been taken down and your advice is still very valid just one point I wanted to add: This is valid UNLESS it’s from someone whom you know well enough that they tell you the truth and knows what they are doing - in that case it can be a good idea to buy a used printer from someone who knows what they are doing and who has ironed out the teething problems some machines have and can provide advice if something goes wrong.

  I was luckily enough to do something similar (with my CNC-machine,though. Standard MPCNC,but the friend I got them from is a pro - he designs his own mainboards and stuff - and would have been able to fix some issues myself without him/would have become frustrated) once and was able to help out a friend this way - he got a nice, highly modified but working very well Anycubic (back then one of the most reliable models…) and I got money for the next machine.

  Otherwise: your advice is very valid. I also fucked up in that regard once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**How** should I properly document my homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah,Netbox is also my main solution, combined with forgejo repo.

  Works very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither it is mine,so maybe we both missunderstood each other. No hard feelings.

  But “worst” is generally,well the maximum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stinky is an understatement - ABS is literally toxic (enough that a longer print can kill a small bird in the room) and while ASA is toxic as well, it is less so.

  Nevertheless both require a good exhaust/filter solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny enough it was quite the opposite for me I had horrible experiences with eSun(and still have them when I open a role that is still orginally packed from my storage) and switched to Sunlu/Jayo and did not have to many issues (as in: Two. Once a order was massively delayed (not their, something went wrong at the parcel service), the other time a role was not correctly packed (in one of the triple packs) and they send another three role package.

  Print wise they are by far the most printed filament for us and we got through upper double digits by now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For PLA: SUNLU/Jayo(same company) for standard stuff Polymaker for special stuff

  PCTG: Extrudr

  ASA: Black Forest Filaments(if in Europe), Extrudr, Spectrum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Avoid PETG and use the even better PCTG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jayo is literally SUNLU,btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎶 Hitting the Brown Note 🎵⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And for hate?

  Like “I would hate to get cancer?”

  Tbh, it’s not pleasant,but also not that bad as people make it out to be if it’s done by someone who knows what they are doing. While I am male I would consider a pap smear (which is done far more frequently) far worse.

  …or a full scale STD test.