aard

@aard@kyu.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like always in 3D printing you need to understand if something is worth printing. There are enough toys that work as 3D print, and enough stuff that either will not survive the load, or not be played with (like those figurines). For those categories (especially the figurines) commercial ones might have the same fate, though, so just printing one to shut the child up may have smaller footprint/costs.

  A small list of toys that work very well 3D printed:

  This propeller pull toy last longer than the commercial ones with pull string.

  This stomp rocket also works great, and if the kids listen to instructions will last ages.

  This kind of logic game has similar durability than commercial ones.

  This kind of balloon toy also is pretty nice - we used to build those from wood when I was small, but 3D-printing here offers quite a bit more options for experimentation together with the kids. (The author has different models in his profile)

  From that there’s pretty much a direct line to 3D printed RC models, where the main problem is that many are in the classic model builder mindset where you have to live with the parts you can buy, and due to that end up with a BOM containing dozens of different screw types. This one is an easy to build example not making that mistake, and there are some others as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired of spaghetti? How about ramen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Prusa Mini and (back then) mk3s with PrusaSlicer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired of spaghetti? How about ramen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Few years ago I had similar issues with silk PLA - until I accidentally sliced it with a prusa PETG profile. Came out absolutely perfect. Since then I just treat silk PLA like prusa PETG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell kills the XPS brand⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which reputation? I used to work for a dell heavy hoster with thousands of dell servers almost 20 years ago - and apart from them being cheap I have nothing good to say about them. Worst is the remote management - several generations of DRACs all broken in new and interesting ways, and support is useless. You just get better discounts at that scale, which for a business owner drowns out the complaints of the tech people.

  Notebooks also have similar bugs over generations - and nowadays they also feel even cheaper than they used to be.

  Displays were somewhat acceptable - given you’re fine to work around the DPMS bugs they have in pretty much every display for the last two decades - but their display selection page is unusable and lacks most interesting details. So it is better to just get something you can check out in a shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why buy a film canister when I can design and print one?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess empty ones are hard to find - but some manufacturers (like Foma) are selling their films in them. In other news, I’m drowning in those things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some years age when I was still using some more google stuff (like an account for calling out from my PBX) I had each service assigned to its own google account to limit the impact of google doing something crazy to an account.

  Apart from playstore youtube red is now the only service left - and that’s about to go as they now made it too expensive, especially taking into account that they enshittified it so much that we’ve blocked it on the TV, and “adfree on TV” was the main use case there…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So CrowStrikes strategy is “you installed CrowStrike while TSA told you not to install it, as was clearly proven by us taking down your network, so we’re not at fault”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can afford it see if Eaton has a smaller tower UPS suitable for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Recall is a legal term for the car industry which includes stuff like reporting obligations. So if the defect meets the severity level of a recall it should be called as such, even if it is ‘just’ a software update. Ambiguous terms for safety violations are dangerous and may cost lives.