cyberwolfie

@cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad are my printer's VFAs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no such artifacts on my Core One. I am only printing with Prusament PLA so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what service - some, like Jellyfin, are accessed only from home IPs which are static (for music through Jellyfin I use offline mode to prevent too much mobile traffic), so I can add those specific IPs in the whitelist. Otger services I need to access from elsewhere, and I can add entire subnets (i.e. for my phone carrier network or VPN servers). Those change once in a while and that is annoying. Other services I want publically available.

  Jellyfin especially still has some unsecured endpoints where it would be wise to take some.extra precautions. I think the risk some people seem to think this poses is a little overblown (i.e. rights holders finding your instance and reverse mapping your entire library and suing you to oblivion), but better not risk it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What kinds of things are you planning to expose? What I expose I hide behind a reverse proxy with IP whitelists. Whatever I don’t need access to on the go I don’t expose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Battery fuel guage is almost ready for FP4 at least:

  fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/115435804332775702

  And there has been recent successes by the same guy (employed at Fairphone) on getting cameras working (main post of the thread linked above).

  These are recent improvements, and I really hope they can solve the audio stability and GPS stuff so I can move. Thinking of trying out Ubuntu Touch before a mainline distro is ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups of Backups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I put encrypted backups (borg or restic) on a storage box from Hetzner. One local copy on a different drive and one remote. Keep your encryption passwords safe though, otherwise they aren’t worth much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you bypass the age checks with the alternative front-ends? I’ve been using FreeTube for some time, and whenever there has been an 18+ video, I would not be able to view it as I would not pass the age check. If this is a more general check that is being rolled out, I guess there will be less and less videos that will work through these.

  I think I need to start hoarding video tutorial series and self-host them. Would something like TubeArchivist be my best bet for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, this was a general issue? It was driving me crazy as I was certain I hit “shut down” instead of “reboot”. I am soon getting a Linux laptop at work anyway (I’ve only been waiting about 5 montha for it now, so any day now!) - so I will hopefully not experience this fix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D design software for 3d printing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, that’s fair. I have been planning on trying the CAD-plugins for Blender as well. I love Blender, and it is easy to use except when it comes to CAD-stuff. I’ve also been wanting to try out OpenSCAD.

  I like that FreeCAD seems to have quite some steam and hopefully it will only improve going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D design software for 3d printing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FreeCAD is insane. It is absolutelty unworkable and unintuitive for me.

  I find it pretty workable for most of my cases, but have to look up how to solve certain things. I am doing fairly simple stuff though, and I don’t have any other references except some SolidWorks back in high school ages ago. But it gets me fairly easily to where I want to be, and it is FOSS which is important to me - I don’t want to lock my workflow into a software suite that may do a major rugpull at any given moment. I have experienced that before.

  I didn’t start using it until after the 1.0 release - apparently there were some major improvements to the usability with that release. Did you try it after?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D design software for 3d printing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been generally happy with FreeCAD for my use. If I am doing something less parametric and more organic in shape, I will use Blender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was planning to get the OpenWRT One. Any reasons that would be a bad idea?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you update software on your servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think their point was to make sure they are done in order, i.e. update before upgrade, not the other way around as in OPs example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The question should be more understood as “was the word agentic even in use prior to AI-people slapping it on everything?” It was a genuine question, I have never heard it until it being used in this context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is “agentic” even a real word?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pension funds are to a large extent exposed to the stock indices. Since these companies grow and grow in valuation, a larger portion of pension funds are exposed to these companies. The so-called “magnificent seven” make up about 35% of the US stock market now. A lot of people will see a large portion of their pension savings affected by this. If you are not a US citizen, you sre still likely exposed to these companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can it be used without arr-integrations? As just a way to keep track of stuff users would love to have available, but currently isn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of tt-rss.org⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like FreshRSS - I also have some readers that connect to my instance, like FluentReader that provides a better full article view, but I mostly use FreshRSS directly these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A much bigger young audience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Issues with model, slicing or printer settings and/or calibration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I’m saving that link, and I’ve also saved your list of when you change patterns for future reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Issues with model, slicing or printer settings and/or calibration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a nice service, thanks for the share! However, I couldn’t quickly get an overview of what metadata may be included in a .3mf file, so I won’t upload it for now. Thanks for the offer to look at the file though. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Issues with model, slicing or printer settings and/or calibration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gyroid infill used to be the default in PrusaSlicer, but they changed it to grid when the MK4 came out with input shaping and much higher speeds. Straight lines gain most from the increased acceleration. Gyroid will now make your printer vibrate like crazy.

  Good to know - don’t think my neighbors would be all to pleased with additional noise (and not me either).

  This is also not cubic infill, that’s another one (which I would recommend over grid for structural pieces). I actually almost always use Adaptive Cubic infill, which saves a lot of filament.

  Ah nice, it seems that the adaptive cubic will make larger pockets? Neither cubic nor adaptive cubic seems very… cubic to me, though. Why is it called this?

  So far I’ve not been making any structural pieces, but that is something I will remember for when I do.

  I also believe that your print would probably had turned out fine in the end, it doesn’t seem like there were any catastrophic failures in your photos, despite the noise.

  Hm, OK, maybe - I think however it would have been difficult for me to keep it going when it sounds like I am destroying the printer for every layer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Issues with model, slicing or printer settings and/or calibration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know of a secure and private file drop where I could upload the file? I am not to keen to share anything from a personal account here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a good way to set it up with a remote?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s how I have been running it for the last two years now. Coupled with Jellyfin, it is such a better experience. My mother just got a new TV - I think I will set up something similar for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Issues with model, slicing or printer settings and/or calibration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for a very thorough answer!

  It’s possible your original Blender design had an issue. Blender is not always kind to 3D printers.

  I’ve had good success with previous Blender files, although this is the first time I’ve used a boolean operator to cut out anything. I usually use FreeCAD for these custom Gridfinity pieces, but the process of converting the .stl mesh to a solid part in FreeCAD seems a bit error prone (several steps involved), and I haven’t yet used booleans in FreeCAD. I could try that again.

  The first thing I would tell you is to stop using cubic infill, it is evil. It never always causes me failed prints, especially larger prints. Nozzles often tend to drag across the previous layers and can easily cause failed prints. I can even hear the nozzle hitting the infill as I print. I often recommend gyroid as a good all around infill pattern.

  Good to know! I use PrusaSlicer, and this grid infill is the default. The way you describe it sounds like what I experience, and I can in fact see some artifacts when I inspect it closely. Though, the sounds I hear would only start when the concave part starts, and that’s also where I see the failures. But that could possibly because there’s too much overhang over the cubic infill? Anyway, I checked out gyroid pattern, and it was pretty dense with the 15% default infill value. What type of infill % do you typically use? Seems I could get away with less here.

  I look at it and I wonder, does the rolling pin need to be supported full length? A wooden rolling pin is ridged and only needs minimal support on the ends. So I might just design the cradle only at the very ends. And then design the middle to be a simple flat that connects the two end pieces. I might even skip the middle altogether and just print the ends. That saves the most material and time and still does the job perfectly.

  You mean an open container with maximum depth and width between the ends that holds the ridges? That could be a good way. They way I ended up doing it was essentially just a rectangular cut-out which worked fine and is similar to your suggestion (although I could save more material doing it your way), but feels less custom… as if that is a goal in itself. I would not like the gap by just printing the ends though, as I wouldn’t be able to squeeze anything else underneath and it would not look right to me. Wish I didn’t think like that, so I could save material, but I know myself enough that I would be annoyed every time I opened the drawer…

  When it comes to slicing your print, orientation matters. How you support overhangs can be tricky and often compromises must be made. While I will use the auto supports as often as I can, sometimes you just need to use paint on supports to get what you needwhere you need it. Pay attention to the top zed support gap. The defaults are never right. I always open them up more. With a .40mm nozzle, I use a .265mm gap. For a .60mm nozzle, a .365mm gap. You might even need to print your parts at an angle. Often tipping the part at 30 to 45 degree angle can make those nasty over hangs completely printable without supports. And this is only a good beginning. How fast you might print an overhang matters, the amount of cooling fan can affect the over hang, lots of fine details that you will learn about as you keep doing this.

  This I will need to read up on more. I don’t actually use supports for these Gridfinity prints (but PrusaSlicer does warn me about potential instability…). The printer handles the overhang between the grids fairly well, but I guess I didn’t think about the long lines crossing the infill. In other prints I’ve only used the auto supports. Could I ask you what slicer you use?

  Good Luck and never fear making a mistake!

  Thanks! I must admit I do fear it sometimes when the printer makes some weird noises…

• Issues with model, slicing or printer settings and/or calibration?
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨3dprinting@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨11⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is also my experience. People are certainly opinionated which could be interpreted as hostility in some cases, but most people are willing to share and help when someone less knowledgable have gotten stuck with something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could look up 3Blue1Brown’s explainers on YouTube, they are pretty good and shows a lot of visual examples. He has a lot of other videos on other areas of math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can export your data from Spotify, and use that as a basis for downloading songs via for example yt-dlp (this can be automated), or slowly build it up again over time in whatever system you set up by buying the albums/compilations containing the songs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the non-fiction stuff he writes good (e.g. The Internet Con, Chokepoint Capitalism). I believe this book is like that?

  I found his fiction, based on the one book (The Lost Cause) I read, to be a bit juvenile in style (as in feels like a young adults kind of book) to the point I didn’t quite enjoy it, although the topics are interesting enough.