sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
- Comment on The best of both worlds with IEMs and TWS buds maybe? 3 days ago:
I always thought those were for bluetooth earphones w/ better dacs, but after looking at it more, it seems they can be used with IEMs, which make a lot more sense now that I’m thinking about it.
It also looks like they can be used when plugged into the phone as well like an extremely bulky apple dongle. Interesting.
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- Comment on Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why? 5 days ago:
Currently I use Codeberg and Forgejo. The former for cloud backup and the latter for local backup.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 6 days ago:
ahh interesting, I did not know that
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 6 days ago:
interesting, so it was originally about awareness!
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- Comment on Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions? 6 days ago:
I personally have a Bambu A1, but in hindsight I would not recommend Bambu’s printers, since they are going the Apple route of locking down their ecosystems, blocking things like third-party slicers and accessories. Not very nice of them. My A1 will be perpetually stuck on firmware v4.0.0.0 for this reason as I prefer using OrcaSlicer over Bambu Studio. There is no reason why they should block OrcaSlicer, it’s a fork of Bambu Studio (which itself is a fork of PrusaSlicer, rules for thee not for me?)
The Creality Ender 3 seems to be the most recommended budget beginner printer. I have never owned one myself, but I have used one before in school, and the print quality is great. No idea how difficult it is to maintain though.
If you can stretch your budget a bit, you might also want to look at printers from other brands (Sovol, Qidi, possibly used Prusas, and the new Elegoo Centauri Carbon + non-carbon).
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
You see here, blocking third party accessories people bought with their own money and blocking third-party software that many people use (not everyone, but certainly many) is not very nice. I’m not saying Bambu should stop making their printers user-friendly, or that Bambu should stop making printers altogether. What I’m saying is that you don’t need to actively block third party software and accessories to make a 3D printer easy to use. Offering good first-party software is great, but that doesn’t mean you need to block all the third-party options altogether. The two can coexist. The first-party option for those who don’t want to tinker, and third-party options remain available for those who prefer it. Don’t think OrcaSlicer, the Panda Touch display, or OctoPrint is going to break the printer, esp. for OrcaSlicer being a fork of Bambu Studio.
I really hope they don’t restrict filament, but at the rate they’re going, they might just do that. HP did it with 2D printers and ink, and Bambu’s already halfway there with the RFID tags, so it’s a matter of a firmware update to stop the printers from working with third-party filaments.
- Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part? 1 week ago:
so womb egg. Interesting.
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- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
Nice, the Prusa Core One is a very good printer. Happy printing :D
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
I have a Bambu A1 too, and it prints great. However, in hindsight, I would not recommend Bambu’s printers. I don’t like that they’re locking down on their software ecosystem. It’s not just third-party slicers, but they also broke third-party accessories like the Panda Touch display which isn’t very nice at all. I use OrcaSlicer, so I have to set my printer in LAN only mode with the firmware still on v4.0.0.0. If you have the newer firmware, you have to toggle the “developer mode” which for some reason is different to the LAN only mode. I use Tailscale to access my LAN only A1 remotely. LAN only mode also means I can’t use their mobile app, which I think is a silly restriction for the sake of it.
Third-party slicers and accessories are only the beginning. I’m almost certain that in the future they will make it required that you use Bambu’s own filament, they already have the RFID tags in there so all it takes is a firmware update. Who knows, maybe they’ll implement more restrictions similar to Apple like pairing parts to the printer and blocking things like third-party nozzles. I really hope they don’t do that, but it looks increasingly more likely…hopefully Bambu doesn’t become the HP/Apple of 3D printers.
For now, I would stay away from Bambu and go with other options (see Elegoo’s Centauri Carbon/non-Carbon, the Creality K2 Plus, Qidi’s Q2 and 4 Plus, Sovol’s SV06 ACE, and of course Prusa…)
- Comment on Designed this animatronic cat clock , eyes and tail move 1 week ago:
I like the cat
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
Yeah, and that makes it LAN only. I have my printer on the older firmware and don’t need to use this toggle, but in the newer firmware the regular LAN only mode doesn’t work and you HAVE to use developer mode.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
One other thing i forgot to mention, the firmware update also meant that third-party accessories/upgrades like the Panda Touch display no longer worked. So that sucks.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
The Elegoo Centauri Carbon was recently released with a price of $299 I think, and it has an enclosure too. The Centauri non-Carbon is $50 cheaper with no enclosure. Seems like a pretty good deal to me. And of course, there’s the Ender 3 V3. I think Sovol also has their SV06 Ace around the same price.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
They blocked third-party slicers for printers with a firmware update. I personally use OrcaSlicer (a fork of Bambu Studio with additional features, and Bambu Studio is itself a fork of PrusaSlicer…), so I had to set mine to LAN only mode to continue using it. That also means I can’t use their mobile app (it doesn’t work with LAN only mode, almost certainly to push people into their ecosystem of software) but I wasn’t really using it anyways.
I don’t like that Bambu are locking down on their ecosystem like this. Hopefully they don’t get any ideas from the 2D printer industry and make it required that you use their own brand of filament…
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 1 week ago:
Creality has the K2 Plus which is enclosed, has its own AMS-like system (no idea how good it is though, never used it before), and is also larger than Bambu’s P1S and X1C.
Qidi has their Q2 and Plus 4, the former being newer and the latter being larger. I haven’t used any of Qidi’s printers, but I’ve heard lots of good things about them.
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 1 week ago:
Qidi and Creality both make good quality enclosed printers.
I have the Bambu A1 myself (not enclosed, but they do have the P1S which is), but I would not recommend any Bambu printers in hindsight as they are locking down their ecosystem and blocking third party software, like OrcaSlicer and I think OctoPrint too. I have my A1 set to LAN only, perpetually on firmware v4.0.0 and use Tailscale to access it remotely.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 week ago:
Qidi has some good value options with an enclosure. There’s also Creality’s printers that seem pretty good, and of course Bambu (but unfortunately, they are taking the Apple route of locking down their ecosystem…)
I print with the Bambu A1 (not the Mini, the bigger one) which has great print quality and the only downside is that I have to use the LAN only mode and keep it at firmware v4.0.0.0 since they blocked using third-party software with the newer firmware updates (such as OrcaSlicer). I have set up tailscale so I can access my local network remotely though, so it’s not all bad.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
top is interference patterns (like a wave) while bottom is as if it’s a particle (only two slits)
- Comment on Any FLOSS alternative's to Ground News? 3 weeks ago:
You could always group your feeds. I have mine grouped based on topic (news, science, technology, etc.) but I guess you could always group them based on political spectrum.
- Comment on What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL? 4 weeks ago:
Ah okay, that makes sense. So “replacing” parts of a project would mean switching dependencies from something that’s GPL to something else (e.g. one that is MIT licensed).
- Comment on What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL? 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the thorough explanation, that was really helpful! So AGPL would be better suited for things like self-hosted services where you don’t want a closed-source hosting service to use your project, while GPL and AGPL are effectively the same for standard desktop apps.
Interesting that the LGPL licensed parts of a project have to be “replaceable” (meaning updatable with a new version or fork? or does it mean something else?), even if the project in question is closed-source.
And projects that include GPL code must be GPL licensed themselves or have a compatible license (like AGPL?). But what if you want to both use this set of GPL code but with a different license (either a permissive license like MIT or a different, non-GPL copyleft license), that would mean that you wouldn’t be able to use the code. I guess that’s the tradeoff between copyleft and permissive licenses.
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- Comment on Strange relations between numerical expressions and physical constants 5 weeks ago:
circle circle circle
- Comment on Can you dear lemmings help me undo my cat's latest keyboard shortcut? 5 weeks ago:
I searched a bit and apparently you need to right click, put your mouse on “shelf position”, and choose bottom. Also, you should right click the empty part it seems like. If right click does nothing, try using two things to click instead, maybe that will work.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 5 weeks ago:
:0
- Comment on The two types of people 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the air molecules around you would also not be experiencing time, so you still can’t breathe.
- Comment on Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women? 5 weeks ago:
interesting