Bluewing
@Bluewing@lemmy.world
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 17 minutes ago:
We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons
I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I’ve had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.
When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn’t matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.
- Comment on Files 2 days ago:
People who design 3D prints chase whatever is popular and pays. So all payed models tend to look alike. IMO those are people to totally ignore.
To find the new and unique you need to sort through a lot of chaff to find the seeds.
- Comment on Sitting here waiting for my first Bambu A1 print... 4 days ago:
As a knuckle dragging Philistine also, I own one too, so I speak from personal experience. I like mine as a printer that currently works well also.
But, forewarned is forearmed as they say.
- Comment on Sitting here waiting for my first Bambu A1 print... 5 days ago:
Oh you sweet summer child. I understand how great it looks compared to your old Ender.
Bambu, Pretty good hardware Less than good software/firmware Dubious business practices.
My recommendations are to ditch Studio and Handi app that runs on your phone. Switch to to Orca Slicer. And run all the calibrations in Orca. Run LAN mode and if your firmware is stable, don’t upgrade it unless you really need to. Don’t buy Bambu filaments. The RFID tags ain’t worth $5 to $10 more per kilo. They are made by Sunlu and eSun. Buy those direct for less money. A standalone AMS never goes on sale. And they cost nearly as much as your printer did.
- Comment on Thoughts on Mattercad / alternative? 6 days ago:
I tried it back in the day and wasn’t impressed by it. But I used CAD professionally before hand also. So I expect more powerful software.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 6 days ago:
With asbestos, one has to wonder if there was just no good substitute for some of it’s properties. While it’s very rare to see used these days, there are still some careful applications for it. Lead is the same way. Lead solder and even lead pipes was commonly used up until a relatively short time ago for water supplies.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 week ago:
Then they didn’t much care I guess. Which was worse than not knowing.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 week ago:
But not lead…
- Comment on FreeCad in docker 1 week ago:
The most recommended youtube FreeCAD instructor is www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions. He has an extensive series that can take you from literally how to set things up and how to begin your first part and sketch to designing airfoils. And he stays current with the stable releases and a few peeks into the weekly releases.
- Comment on FreeCad in docker 1 week ago:
Sadly, this is the truth.
- Comment on FreeCad in docker 1 week ago:
And does not run on any of my Linux computers.
- Comment on Anyone use Bambu Lab Cool Plate 1 week ago:
With the super tack cool plate Bambu recommends removing the print while warm. Don’t wait for the bed and part to cool. And DON’T wipe with IPA. Soap and water only when needed.
I bought one when they were on sale just before Christmas. It’s not a plate I intend to use a lot. Any part that has a good flat base isn’t meant to be printed on the super tack plate. Only those designs sketchy bed adhesion at best and can’t be printed with supports.
I did use it to print a storage sheath for a fillet knife I have. I was very impressed that I was able to print a rectangular hollow tube with 2mm wide base and 165mm tall vertically with no supports or brim. It was a fine test of my skills as a designer, printer calibration, and the super tack.
- Comment on Designed a simple photo frame on FreeCad. Why are some layers peeling in my print? 2 weeks ago:
“Preferred” doesn’t mean “all the time”. But chamfers are easier to get nicer results with the majority of the time because they are easier for the printer to make.
- Comment on Designed a simple photo frame on FreeCad. Why are some layers peeling in my print? 2 weeks ago:
Avoid fillets and use chamfers if at all possible. Fillets will often call for printing supports or just look bad. But the common 45 degree chamfer will be easily printed and look better when done.
Chamfers are to be preferred over fillets.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
Because you guys don’t have trees…
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
There is a tremendous amount of inner peace knowing that your environment can reach out and kill you if it chooses to and you are unlucky.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
That’s Wisconsin… FTP! (If you know you know)
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
Yes. It pulls the surface heat out faster. But, the lakes have been frozen over for weeks now, (18" on the lake I live next to-- we are driving pickup trucks on it to go ice fishing).
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
The trees don’t “explode” but young spindly trees can shatter if the conditions are just right, (and they are not right now). It’s very rare to have happen.
Source: I live in northern Minnesota. And I live closer to Winnipeg than the Twin cities.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
At these temperatures, it’s best to keep your ass and your pet’s asses inside and pray the furnace don’t quit.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a common thing. And they don’t “explode” as much as shatter. It does require enough sap to be up in the tree trunks too. And our trees are too smart to let that happen for the most part. But it can and does happen sometimes to thin spindly young trees.
It’s been pretty cold up here in far northern Minnesota since last Wednesday. With morning temps at -25F, -30F, -30F and -35F this morning. The high yesterday was -15F and a high of -5F today. It’s not the very low temps that bother anyone up here, it’s the windchill that will kill you. Yesterday, the wind chills were running -35F to -60F. Which can cause frostbite to exposed skin in 5 minutes or less and possibly kill you very quickly.
On the upside, at these temps large amounts of snowfall are almost impossible. So I won’t need to start a tractor and plow the mile and a half to the nearest plowed road.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure. It’s a method of cooking meat in it’s own juices. So he might be trying to refer to the meatballs?
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Milk and butter is placed in the back of the store to increase the chances you will buy something as you walk by. Every grocery store does this.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
It’s a cooking method
- Comment on Heave-ho! 3 weeks ago:
They used to make 'torpedo" style bras back in the 1960’s. They so pointy they could poke and eye out…
- Comment on Heave-ho! 3 weeks ago:
It’s all just an engineering problem. It takes a lot more to support a heavy load than a light load…
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 3 weeks ago:
I thought TimeShift was a bit of a pain to restore from. So I switched to Deja Dup and haven’t had any issues with it.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 3 weeks ago:
After using TimeShift, I find Deja Dup better than TimeShift.
- Comment on What do you guys do with your poo? 4 weeks ago:
They make great kitten toys based on the rate my wife’s 2 rescue kittens enjoy stealing them out of the poop box.
- Comment on Good FOSS design software for beginners? 4 weeks ago:
The UX is getting better In addons search for the Open Light or Open Dark themes and install them. The 1.1 RC are far smoother to use.
For me I’m a big fan the of Pie Menu addon. I can create custom pie menus as needed with the tools I want. It allows fast working with the tools I mostly use right at the point of work.