GrindingGears
@GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 1 day ago:
Anycubics support has always been trash. There’s whole groups about it. I had a little bedslinger from them, it was sort of ok for what it was, but it was wildly inconsistent day to day, and they pretty much drop any sort of updating or support for their products day 2 after release. I spent a lot of time dialling that thing in, but you’d get something tightened up and dialed up, and then three other issues would rear their head. It was like playing wack a mole. Their idea of support is you have to kiss up to this specific person on their Facebook groups and hope they play along and respond back to you, because they don’t often answer emails and when they do it’s basically just a feedback loop. Then it’s just back and forth. I ain’t got the patience for that stuff anymore.
I only want the higher end stuff now.
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 1 day ago:
I think toolchanging is where it’s going to be too. Just want to see what’s out there in a few years after some development. I’m just sticking with AMS right now, because it’s largely foolproof. But that Snapmaker stuff is definitely pretty impressive. Cant wait to see where that goes
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 1 day ago:
It depends on what you want out of the hobby honestly. 30 years later, I just want a printer that works, without fuss. I’ve done the customizations, I’ve done the firmware flashes and attached third party controllers. But I’m a huge fan of my Bambu P2S, because it just works. In over 300 hours I’ve only had 2 failed prints. I haven’t done one iota of really anything to it. Plugged it in, and the things just been chugging away. Lots of parts availability, locally and online (which is huge). Lots of support available locally too.
My previous printer, an Anycubic coincidentally, used to take like 4 or 5 false starts before you could finally get a good first layer.
I get the hate, I get that people want customization and what not. But some people just want shit that works. That’s why I look at Bambu as the McDonalds of 3d printing. It ain’t that healthy for you, it’s a scourge on the planet, but it also tastes kinda good and it’s a guilty pleasure from time to time, right?
Yes theres Prusa and all sorts of other printers that are good too, don’t take this the wrong way. Run your own journey for sure. But I’m running mine too.
- Comment on It's literally science 2 days ago:
I remember when I was a teenager and those things were all the rage (mid 90s). I wanted one just because they were alternative.
Fast forward a whole bunch of years and I’m pilfering the supply closet at work, and happen to stumble upon a slightly dusty, but functional and genuine OG Microsoft split keyboard. So of course I just had to.
Let’s just say that keyboard is back collecting dust in that exact same spot. The ergos of it were okish, like your hand naturally rests like that. But even just that little difference of layout messed my muscle memory up way too much. And you are right, hitting some of the function keys was too alien.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 1 month ago:
I’m a little out of the loop these days, and I’m not sure this applies to the newer x3d chips, so grain of salt. But I have a 5800x3d, and took the time to undervolt it (each core separately) after getting it, and it runs a whole bunch cooler without losing any performance. I have AIO on mine, but it’s generally overkill.
- Comment on Got my girlfriend an Xbox controller and 3D printed a faceplate 2 months ago:
Just do it outside then.
Or just do it in the garage. Not to devalue your point (because you aren’t wrong either, the dust isn’t probably healthy), but honestly thinking back over all the shady things that have gone down in my garage over the years, sanding a bit of PLA wouldn’t even nick the surface.
- Comment on My PS1 died today 2 months ago:
I never played the third birthday one either. Number two is great, but it goes from like challenging to next level nightmare impossible right at the end.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I’ve got KCD2, and I mean it’s awesome, but the prologue drags on my god. I just got the darn thing finally started and I was bored of it. I’ll pick it back up at some point. It’s great, it just needs a special kind of attention and dedication that I’m not sure I totally have.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Carmageddon Max Damage. I used to live for the original Carmageddon, back when I was in high school. Between me and my old man, we annihilated that game and all the add on packs. This version is a pleasant return to a simpler time, but it’s a nice shake up of the classic too, it’s actually a bit challenging. I’m really enjoying it, about 55% done. I pick away at it here and there, and have been doing that this week. Probably going to replay Modern Warfare 2 (the 2009 version) on the weekend, as I just finished Modern Warfare 1 last weekend.
- Comment on Where's the best point to jump into modern Resident Evil? 2 months ago:
7 with VR was phenomenal. It’s not quite the same as the 1-4 series though, like it was almost a different universe. I never played its sequel, but I heard it was good.
- Comment on My PS1 died today 2 months ago:
Parasite eve 1 or 2? I don’t think I ever got past the final boss in 2, buddy was impossible
- Comment on My PS1 died today 2 months ago:
I’ve got a $50 game boy wanna be clone that I bought on Amazon on my bedside table, thing runs PS1 games smoothly. It ain’t quite the same obviously, but itnjust about scratches the same itch (plus it’s portable, I’ve enjoyed playing it on the train to and from work for example).
- Comment on Selling my old printer, looking for feedback 2 months ago:
I just sold an Anycubic Kobra for $100. And it wasn’t fun. You aren’t getting $200 for it, I would honestly put it up for $100, be firm and just get rid of it if you actually want to be rid of it.
Or you can play the game for six months, and maybe get $120 for it. Is that $80 worth six months of dealing with some of the most awful people on the planet? I had a guy trolling me, like he kept messaging me from different profiles that he had created, writing just the most random shit. Super bizarre.
- Comment on Made my first model 2 months ago:
Right on! It’s a neat feeling for sure, seeing your creations come to life, and it’s all uphill from here too! You never forget your first printed model.
Mine was when I was in college, I created a set of rims for an RC car in my solids class, and the reward for the projects best design was I got time on the schools printer to create them. You should have seen this contraption, thing basically looked like a coca-cola vending machine, it was roughly about that size too. It was quite a sight, but for the time it was a super big deal. Real cutting edge. Probably took 30 hours to print what my Bambu could burp out in under a half hour.
If you told me back then I’d have a machine 20 times as capable, and a tenth of the size on the workshop of my bench at home 25 years later, for under $1k, I’m not sure I’d have believed you. Real story.
- Comment on US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information 4 months ago:
This straight off of Goebbels desk, or…?
- Comment on negativity 4 months ago:
You present a valid argument.
- Comment on negativity 4 months ago:
I agree. But I tear into them like a degenerate, not totally proportioned quarters.
- Comment on negativity 4 months ago:
What’s up with those pancake cutting lines? Who cuts a pancake into quarters? Is this normal? Am I the abnormal one for not doing this?
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 5 months ago:
What kind of meat stick would do this? I still just literally cannot understand why someone would put themself in this position, no matter how entrenched into their parents basement they are, or how bad they smell.
- Comment on Trump Admin Broke Rules to Move Ghislaine to Club Fed Camp 6 months ago:
It’s cute everyone thinks they have rules
- Comment on preferences 6 months ago:
Bruh…
- Comment on Replacing Wooden Edges 7 months ago:
You might need to add sand to level it all out. If you do this, make sure you get masonry sand and not just regular playground sand (although that will work in a pinch too). Just depends on what shakes out under the wood when you pop it up. The wood might be rebar-ed into the ground too, in that case you’ll have to pop it up with a crowbar. That’s what’s nice about wood, is it’s malleable and simple to level out. You might be getting yourself into quite a project with the concrete, depends on what you observe/how fussy you are.
- Comment on Pissed. 1 year ago:
Reddit is just a symbol of end stage capitalism. If you support anything but some hive mind altered narrative, then it’s a ban for you, and censorship for everyone else. It’s fucking twisted as all get out. Ive been using it a bit lately, as political discourse requires it. It’s so frustrating though, I’m glad that shit hasn’t (largely) spread here. The fediverse is totally the way forward.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 year ago:
We can fight them, but ultimately these companies have the control. They can enrich and empower, and there’s probably not a lot we can ultimately do about it. When the chips fall, I’d rather they just stay on a sub and endlessly echo chamber themselves into oblivion. Some will come here, but it seems like most will stay there until something ultra stupid forces them here. And I mean at this point, even ultra stupid hasn’t, so yeah. If they have to collect somewhere, I’d personally rather it be there than here. I think that’s the main point I’m making.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 year ago:
I believe the definition is somebody who is totally lame.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 year ago:
Then just go to a different Instance. I agree the powermods are a headache, but at least with Lemmy they have way less power. You can start a new sub with a matching name on a different Instance, and draw people away from the power mods. People get pretty sick of the power mods, pretty fast.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 year ago:
I think you have misconstrued what I’m saying here. I hope reddit exists to collect the weirdos, and be a breeding ground for those gross shit it is, and keep it away from here. We don’t need to inherit the 2024 users of reddit, no one wants them.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 year ago:
No, because then they’ll all flood here. Then I’ll have to consult with 9,006 different rules between each sub, while subsequently making sure I’m bending to each power-mods weird and unwritten agenda.
No I’m good with reddit. I encourage reddit. And I encourage all the weirdos to use reddit!
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 year ago:
It’s so much better. Personally I don’t hope it grows much either. Satisfies my content itch, have still had some good quality convos here, seen some great comments threads. Absolutely none of the bullshit that Reddit purposely encourages. Plus most of the zeebs and the chronically offended seemed to have stayed with reddit, and I’m super OK with that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Also $700 isn’t going to buy you much of a PC if you don’t have one already. Maybe mid spec 1080p.
Not that I’m arguing for PC. I’m pro-console in most circumstances. Only for power modders, power gamers or power purchasers would I maybe argue that PC is the better route. Everyone else, console 100% (except this joke of a console).