Bluewing
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- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 day ago:
“Heros” seldom are.
And real heros are getting very scarce.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 4 days ago:
It’s a calculated risk. But I think they will be just fine when they turn back to their base consumers. And the consumers will welcome them back. Happens all the time. nVidia and crypto Hoe’s are the latest example.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 5 days ago:
So their not shutting down, just focusing on AI idiots until the bubble busts and then they will turn back to consumers…
Rules of Acquisition #1,261-- Always fuck over the idiots in the market. And when you’ve taken all their money, go back to your base with inflated prices.
- Comment on Filament splicing? Do any of you guys do it? 1 week ago:
I have done it back in the day. It’s a real hassle. And I went to the trouble of designing a proper heating and aligning tool to do the job. I could produce a smooth and pretty good splice. The trouble with it was different brands/colors of filament were always iffy about staying welded due to the additives. While it mostly worked, the welds could break just often enough to piss you off. I finally gave up on trying to make a reliable product happen.
Automatically switching spools on runout is the one thing my AMS lite is really, really worth having. It’s why I bought my Mini combo a year ago.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
Reading the comments, it would seem most everyone here thinks that the usefulness of the steam is done when it gets used to turn a turbine at high pressure.
The steam can be used for much more than once. In the 1800’s and early 1900s when steam ran trains and ships, they built double and triple expansion engines that took the energy of the steam two and three times before it was done. It doesn’t need to be one and done. And when the energy is done being harvested for power generation, it can used for other things. Engineers today aren’t dumber than the ones in the 1800s.
I can remember a small rural Minnesota town that had their own coal fired electric plant. (Built back before the REA was a thing). They took the left over steam from power generation and then piped it to around 200 homes in the town and heated them with the leftover steam. While a bit costly to install, it was dirt cheap to run. Those homes lost all that when the power plant was shut down and they had to switch to either natural gas, fuel oil, LP, or electricity.
So don’t get hung up on just the power generation. Think what could be beyond that point.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
They want your sweater back…
- Comment on Qidi X-Max 3 - not performing as expected 1 week ago:
I suspect the stepper screws of not being properly timed then.
I’m not sure just how the bed homes top or bottom, but I would home the bed, shut the printer off so the steppers are off and not locked, then turn all the screws by hand to deadhead against a hard stop to even them out. The bed should be as level as it can be then.
Pro way: Use a test indicator solidly attached to the print head and move it around the bare heat bed by hand. Turn the screws until they are all zeroed out. I did that to my Prusa Mk3s when I first built it years ago.
Is that over kill? Yes, yes it is. But as an old toolmaker, I have the tools to do that kind of super fussy inspection. I also used a granite surface plate and precision squares to build the frame on to ensure prefect alignment of the frame. Ahhh the boredom of being quarantined.
- Comment on Qidi X-Max 3 - not performing as expected 1 week ago:
I don’t own a Qidi, but I do like them.
Some cheap and easy checks to try.
If you have a decent straight edge, (wood and plastic rulers need not apply), check to be sure your bed isn’t warped. The heat bed is only 6mm aluminum and it might be warped. It does happen with Qidi machines. That’s a warranty issue.
It can also be that one of the nuts on one corner of the bed isn’t clocked in unison with the other 3. Multi start screws can have this timing issue. And the only way to fix it is to figure out which is the offending, disassemble the machine just enough to remove the screw, and turn the nut to try a different start. Then test the machine to see if that fixed it. Again, it’s not common, but it does happen.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s better to count 1,2,3,4 - 1,2,3 to keep the beat. (I’ve preformed Take 5 with a Jazz band).
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 weeks ago:
It’s 4:30am and thanks to this thread I’m listening to Dave Brubeck on vinyl…
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
You probably don’t want to eat horse meat these days due to the drugs that are often given to horses, (mostly wormers). They tend to not flush out of the horses system no matter how long you wait.
- Comment on what do you use to add weight? 2 weeks ago:
Last weighted thing I printed was a phone stand. Two 1"/25mm rusty old flat washers turned out to be a fine solution. Lots of used items you can “recycle” into you designs.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
I tried it for a couple of months when it first came out. At that early point it wasn’t too bad for usability. But, after a decent look around it, I wiped it and went back to Linux on my laptop.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
Well, it does boot most of the time. So it’s not completely broken, just majorly broken…
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 2 weeks ago:
As a CEO, you get to decide if your company invests in this BS. So your job can be quite safe if you choose.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
I’m running Fedora Cinnamon with Celeron N95, 8 gigs of shared memory, and Intel HD graphics with a little mini desktop. Runs fine. You have a better processor and if you have 8gigs of memory, you should be more than fine for office needs, web browsing, and light gaming to get your feet wet. Heavy coding or gaming might be a bit of a stretch with your ThinkPad though. I find heavier CAD sessions can be a heavy chore if the renderings get hard, like modeling threads or even moderate assemblies.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
KiCAD is available for most distros. You can even get it via flatpak
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t about the lines. It was always about the switches. And while they are no longer actual hardware, but rather software, those are still the what makes phones work.
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 3 weeks ago:
My A1 Mini damaged 2 plates the stock textured and high temp smooth, when I first got it by freezing and locking up. A firmware up date has appeared to have fixed the issue. It’s been a year since it last happened, but I still don’t fully trust it anymore. Bambu makes decent hardware, poor software, and has dubious business practices.
On the other hand, my 7 year old Prusa Mk3s has never had an issue that wasn’t directly traceable to me. Even after converting it to run Klipper, it’s still every bit as solid and a tank that might not be quite as fast the Mini, (though Klipper and the input shaping has pushed the print speeds to over 100mm/^sec^), it’s the printer I trust to still be using 10 years from now.
- Comment on Yet another request for recommendations 3 weeks ago:
Another brand you could compare the Ender3 to is Soval. The same money in the US, and runs Klipper out of the box.
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried an exorcist?
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 3 weeks ago:
You mean cooking breakfast on the smoldering corpse of your laptop.
- Comment on Assembled my first 3D printer 4 weeks ago:
A hardened nozzle for sure.
You got this repair, you built this thing remember? You are the master of your printer.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 4 weeks ago:
SketchUp and 3D printing do not mix well for some reason. TinkerCAD would be a far better choice to dip your toes in designing items for 3D printing.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t Microsoft drop 3D Builder? I’ve been running Kinonite or some Fedora spin for several years now.
- Comment on Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers 5 weeks ago:
Delaware is where PrintSolid, Prusa’s US store, is located. So yep, they assemble printers there because it’s cheaper to import parts than complete machines.
- Comment on Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers 5 weeks ago:
There are a bunch of truck garden farms and Delaware’s greatest fame, headquarters of many evil credit card and insurance company on the planet.
- Comment on Custom SV08 Max Top-hat / Riser 5 weeks ago:
My dogs enjoy a good scramble and drifting a corner on smooth flooring would crash and burn that whole setup.
Idiot Springer Spaniels…
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
It ain’t like pharma ain’t been trying to make male birth control pills. Lord knows they’d love the extra money.
But it turns out to be damn difficult to get right.
- Comment on Guide recommendation for absolute newbies? 5 weeks ago:
Outside? Not recommended. Garage? Possibly. It would depend on how good the garage is and the temperatures inside during use.