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- Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear 10 hours ago:
correct. I initiated a return with amazon. I have had a 250g spool in the drier since about 10am today, and will try it this evening, but if that doesn’t work I’m just returning it.
In trying to do a cold pull (which you do in this machine by attaching the nozzle upside down and manually pushing filament in), it was oozing and popping with the remnants of the previous filament, which to me says very wet filament?
I had tried drying filament for ~8hrs yesterday with no good results. Is there something else that could cause the oozing issue? My friend brought up that maybe the temperature sensor isn’t working properly and it’s hotter than it thinks it is?
- Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear 14 hours ago:
I’m not sure if it’s the Z or gunk building up and dragging. Also with the new nozzle it’s been only PLA and no joy whatsoever.
- Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear 1 day ago:
Thanks to everyone for the input, after drying a ~100g spool of PLA for 8 hours and having failed prints on the original nozzle and new nozzle I have initiated a refund.
- Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear 1 day ago:
yeah I anticipated wear, but with <2kg of material that seems excessive no? I did have some feed issues, but even with those resolved and it feeding nicely, I still have problems. A friend of mine did suggest that maybe with the feed issues I managed to do something that brought the nozzle out of spec and that’s why I’m getting issues.
- Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear 1 day ago:
No special filament, other than <10g TPU. Interesting I’ll try the test. I think I’ll get the dragging though, as I was trying to do some business card type prints that were basically what you’re suggesting and got issues. Sometimes the first layer would be ok, sometimes not. It would wind up dragging it around and as it was warm, it would roll the layer into a “snake”
- Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear 1 day ago:
It was just normal PLA. The only special filament was some TPU, but that was <10g total.
This is helpful, I think it’s one of 3 things based on your input:
- Wet filament. That’s causing oozing/build up on the nozzle and causing dragging. Fix: Try drying like you mentioned.
- The hardware had a failure somewhere. Fix/Verify: ???
- The firmware is bugging and not setting the Z properly after calibration. Fix/Verify ???
- Submitted 1 day ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 3 days ago:
doing this dance right now, I toyed with the honest version of this. Either by adding a “robot.txt” section, or typing “This resume prepared for XYZ inc for the position of ABC based on proficiency in <list job reqs> as requested in position posting”
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Ah, I thought the date was announced like two weeks ago. My mistake.
But in any event hope you get some good time in with it this weekend. When the vibe is that unique there’s nothing like a second helping done right.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Yeah, this was one of those games that I could see the craftsmanship but just wasn’t for me.
But strong follow up to a much beloved original IP for a very reasonable price? That borderline shadow dropped? Love it, yall enjoy your suprise Christmas and go nuts. Cool as hell.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad somebody got the joke.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 4 weeks ago:
I understand you’re frustrated about the AI race. That’s an excellent point, and it deserves careful consideration. First, in considering the AI race we need to consider what AI is…
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 4 weeks ago:
“cheering for the Chiefs doesn’t make you a football player”
No see THAT makes you a terrorist.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 2 months ago:
Nice try FBI Agent.
- Comment on Remember the car jacking scene in Terminator 3? 2 months ago:
The thing that pisses me off most is that cars have these vulnerabilities, and automakers do a shit job of protecting them, but do just a good enough job to keep me, the owner, from playing with them.
- Comment on Can/should I just use a networked folder as a duplicati backup destination? 2 months ago:
This is really helpful thank you! I think it’s samba share? Whatever Unraid has just baked in and calls “shares”.
Googling rsync that looks like it’ll work, and faster is better!
While I do want true backups of a few drives (as in: if a drive fails, restore the backup to a new drive, physically swap it out, and you’re good to go), the majority of the data I’m just looking to have it “backed up” (as in: all of the files are present in more than one location). The majority of the data is ~18TB of media for my plex server. My unraid is: 1x 2TB, 1x 10TB, 1x20TB and 1x20TB(parity). It sounds like Rsync-ing the 20TB drive with my plex media and the 20TB unraid disk would get me what I need?
Thanks for the pointers, getting a few things to google is incredibly helpful.
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 2 months ago:
I recently talked to someone who’s small family business was in their 3rd generation of making these. What they said is that there was a big market in south east Asia.
Like we learned early covid, a lot of hygienic paper goods are made locally (not worth enough to ship), and they said that there just aren’t as many trees to make paper from there, so despite being very far away, this little family shop made and shipped these.
The person I talked to wasn’t involved in the business directly, so they/I might have some of that wrong but I thought that was interesting. Like I guess it’s enough to keep them in business but probably not enough to attract new comers?
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 3 months ago:
The character drama with Brendan gleeson opposite Colin Farrell set in an idyllic small town in Europe that serves as a contrast to accent sparingly used violence emblamatic of violence on a much larger scale that’s hinted at but not shown featuring a mishmash of strongly acted and intriguing supporting characters?
In Bruges.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 4 months ago:
Not really “pink”, and lacks romance, but very pleasant: Dave the Diver. Cozy-ish game with nifty characters. Only thing would be I don’t know if you meant “no/minimal combat” because you don’t want the mechanics or the vibes. Dave has not particularly challenging combat mechanics, and paw patrol levels of violence levels (although you are catching and eating fish).
If you like park builders, Zoo Tycoon is cozy as hell. Beware the DLC trap though. You can get the base game with a lot of meat pretty cheap, but the DLCs are like $10+ each and not really a good value IMO. But the game has a great vibe with some really neat mechanics that try and imitate real conservation efforts.
What would check the boxes through a “Hot Topic” lens is Promise Mascot Agency. Surprisingly wholesome, completely off the wall, combat is all card/deck builder based… I… it’s a hard one to describe.
Doughnut county checks all the boxes but is rather short. Katamari if you haven’t done it.
I hear good things about, but have not played: Naiad, Tempopo.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 months ago:
Lmfao, that’s what I mean, it makes way more sense to plan for the scenarios where you won’t be forced to, you know, resort to canibalism.
I’m a big fan of just augmenting your floating stock at home. I make a point of buying a few extra cans every-time I grocery shop, a few extra boxes of pasta etc. I focus on things I may actually cook with so I’m rotating stock. Diced tomatoes, canned beans, those tomatoes with green chilies in them. I’ve got some canned meat that I almost never cook with (a just in-case thing), it gets rotated through making dip during football season, but it’s there if I need it. I’ve also got textured vegetable protein (which is more for camping/a vegetarian I dated and tried to learn to cook for). Again, it’s a luxury for some folks (both for budget and space reasons).
But that was my point. This may not be you but it was surprising to me in early covid how many people just didn’t keep food around. Also spices, like it’s great to have rice and beans, but you’ll be a lot happier if you make sure you’ve got chili powder, hot sauce, soy sauce, etc.
Sure there are “grab and go” scenarios, but it is far more likley someone might need to put together some meals in a less than ideal situation. Being able to do, say, mac and cheese with some shredded canned chicken and hot sauce with a side of green beans goes a long way to keeping spirits up.
I didn’t grow up super rural, but it’s just the way my house was. One reason was the weather, the other was my mom was amazing at stretching a dollar. She’d buy when there was a great sale, and we’d have 4-5x of whatever the item was downstairs. So you’d wind up eating Christmas themed breakfast cereal until like May, but it also meant there was just a bunch of reserves.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 months ago:
As someone who is generally on the more prepared side, the use case for most stuff falls far short of “doomsday”. There is a ton to be said about things that are just generally useful in adverse situations. I’ve lived through a dozen or so storms that took out power for a few days (longest I think was 2 weeks). It’s usually not a complete blackout everywhere.
Point being: I can see it being useful to have a bunch of info in something easily portable to say, double check breaker wiring helping your friend fix some stuff after the storm. Look up the emergency AM/CB/NOAA radio freqs. I have a lot of the resources on this thing on a server, but that’s not mobile and would eat a lot of power just booting up. To package it nicely in a form factor like this would probably run me just about $189.
But the overall point is I think this falls on the extreme end of practical preparedness but I can absolutely see the use. Honestly the most practical thing on there are the books. Again, usually if a community gets hit bad you wind up with people that have power having a bunch of people stay over. Being able to allow multiple people stuff to read would help kill time.
All of that being said, its a distant second to the critical items that, again, have a huge range of uses: A solid first aide kit, 2 weeks of food (even if it’s not awesome). I realize that’s a luxury for a lot of people, but money is much better spent there first.
Strayed off topic a bit, but it’s because while I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to plan for SHTF scenarios, I do think we’re going to see a general decay (but not elimination) of public services/utilities and an increasingly pissy climate. I think it’s important for people to not fall into the bunker-prepper fantasy OR write off being more prepared than they’re accustomed to.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 5 months ago:
Similar. I got a vehicle that had android auto, but not wireless. Plugging and unplugging all the time I’d go through a cable every few months. Power would work, but the shielding would break and it would screw with cell/GPS until I replaced the cable.
Got a wireless android auto adapter to stop buying cables. That’s great but I knew I wouldn’t plug in my phone every time like normal, so I use the wireless charging.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 5 months ago:
They do still exist, I have a specific but popular vehicle, and there’s a dedicated forum style site directly from 2011.
In a perfect world, that would be folded into the “fediverse” protocols, but like they’re already paying their own hosting etc. In the end that’s all reddit did: absorb some nominal hosting and IT for exposure. It made sense for hype niche communities, which is how reddit grew, but now that they’re killing control of the communities… Well… It turns out people were willing to pay for those servers back when they were expensive…
- Comment on 'Traditional unions struggle to understand tech sector' 6 months ago:
isn’t that a lot like the film industry though? Maybe thats the model that makes sense.
- Comment on Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature 6 months ago:
For anyone in that spot of being savvy-ish but having fellow users that finally got used to plex:
A work around is Xteve and owncast. I was successfully able to make an owncast broadcast into a “DVR channel”.
Its cluegy but it does work. My tech level in this stuff is spotty. I’m used to stacks of tech but more for physical control systems (NOT consumer facing). But I was able to get that to work.
- Comment on They did the math 8 months ago:
Listen this isn’t a fancy sport like futbol where they just make up extra time at the end.
- Comment on I never realized this 8 months ago:
Calm down Enoch Root
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 8 months ago:
I love this. I have a box I’ve been wanting to move to a family members place because they have fiber and I don’t. They’re heavy users of the plex server I have on there, so they’re happy to host it, but if I ever had issues around anything boot related I’d be down until I could physically get there.
This would also be awesome for troubleshooting some RasPi stuff where I kind of want the DE every now and then but mostly let it run headless.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 9 months ago:
It might be? I forget exactly what it is in humans, I just remember the pictures I was shown. Midline disorders are nightmare fuel.