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Good point, that never crossed my mind. Maybe because it’s an Ender 3 so most things are reachable from the front. And for power supply or motherboard connections, I have to flip it upside down anyway.

My last enclosure was a plastic bin upside down, lifted by rope and pulleys, and that needs lots of clearance upwards and was more of a pain than a cabinet.

The one in the picture does not have ventilation, I even said

Just needs an exhaust.

Which is what I am putting in next :)

However, I did a small ABS print, could not smell it outside the cabinet, and when I left it to cool for an hour, the smell dissipated somehow. I’m still putting an exhaust in though.

I’ve thought of building a Voron, a RatRig or another printer that can for inside its own rectangular frame into a cabinet too.

90’s “media centers” that were rigid enough and deep enough to fit large CRT TVs might be a good fit for a printer enclosure too (if you can transport them to your residence that is).

That would have been even easier, but looks like those cabinets are not sold in US or Canada. (Search turns up hardware and/or other storage cabinets)

Relatively, the tolerances are low and surface is too rough for a true ball bearing like spin, but it does not bind or get stuck.

“AI” is a pretty bad blanket term. BirdNet / Merlin is a model trained specifically on bird calls (and some noises) built to recognize bird calls. App and logo use huge general-purpose models to create content of questionable quality.

And yes, a decent birder should never trust just Merlin ID.

Matrix clients aren’t great

IMO the main advantage that Matrix-Element has for normal users is the branding: Element is Element on the web, Android and iOS. (Snikket is trying to do the same for XMPP though)

Matrix is too difficult for “normal” people

Agreed. Simple user+password login to a hosted (non-matrixdotorg) server takes 5-6 pages to click through.

Matrix public rooms have a CP problem

I was spammed with racist copypasta on XMPP once too. But being in large Matrix chats guarantees being invited/messaged.

…Matrix also pisses metadata to any server it federates with, including matrix [.] org

Replication+sync is a strange decision for chats. It sort of makes sense for slower fediverse posts, but creates a lot of strange scenarios and privacy issues with chats. Also, matrixdotorg is used for key backups and vectordotim is used for integrations IIRC.

I hosted Matrix for several years. It mostly works fine, apps look consistent, bridges are nice, but is a pain in the ass in some aspects. Onboarding sucks. Data needs constant cleanup (or gigabytes of storage, even for a dozen users). Sometimes notifications are delayed hours. Sometimes images don’t load.

New Element Server Suite is more corporate-oriented, requires Kubernetes (!) to run, includes defacto mandatory services. Element X has no feature parity with Element Classic, especially calls.

I ran Snikket many years ago for a few months. But now they have smooth invites/onboarding, admin panel, and always had reliable notifications. Even bridges through Slidge. I plan to switch back to Snikket soon.

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