morbidcactus

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[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not the person you replied to but for interest, It was 25 hard capped in grade school only because of the program I went through back years ago, though looking now 25-30 is petty consistent in that region as of last year. Highschool was larger, maybe 30, less once going into upper year courses, literally 8 of us took comp sci and that was combined gr11 and 12

Ontario, Canada for reference. 20 seemed low to me too tbh, but not out of the realm of possibility.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Why does that image only have the sun and the rebel from Canadian media? Both are given more credibility than they deserve, the rebel in particular has history, bunch of white supremacists and alt right personalities were or are still involved, publication absolutely stokes hate and fear.

Edit: I'm still at a loss, why those? The Globe and Mail, McLean's, The Toronto Star, National Post, CBC all have better reputations domestically (though natpost and the sun are a circle these days and most print media is owned by American Hedge Funds so...), far more likely to actually get the news instead of opinion masquerading as news in one of those.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you live near a microcenter

I'm like a stone's throw from the border, if they're cheaper very much consider crossing for that (closest looks like Detroit though, wrong crossing :/) at least for the tap carriage and mount.

Layer lines are unavoidable imo, I've sorta just come to terms, I think I run a tad hot and haven't fully tuned my profiles, but happy with it for my purposes, and definitely heat soak as well, got a process where I do it right after plate prep/cleanup, then I go do my plating and slicing, gives lots of time.

LEDs I'm mixed on, I moved my gantry cam because they seemingly were aimed right at it and you couldn't see anything. I keep thinking about a nozzle camera, but with my current setup I really don't feel like running another umbilical and I'm not 100% sold that it'd survive or really be that handy.

How is the rapido? I'm using dragon HF/UHF for spares and using my existing v6 nozzles, have heard the rapido has some good results.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Are those machined idler blocks‽ if not you have some really solid prints! Impressed with how clean everything is! Just took a shopvac to mine friday, printing parts for a Stealthmax, so lots of buildup.

Need to get into that good enough mindset, definitely caused myself some headache (grabbed a Knomi for the heck of it, tons of interference issues with the blowers I use (sunon and gdstime) but got it going on the fanken-prusa


Instead of running LEDs to the toolhead. It's cheesy and heavy, but rule of cool right?

If you don't feel like printing parts, could run the usb umbilical through the chains.

Is your other printer still up? Having a backup has come in really handy.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

My dad was big into Sierra an Apogee so of what I can recall, be one of the incredible machine, king's quest 6, duke nukem 2 or command keen. Also remember playing math and word rescue at like... 5, shareware was more than enough to keep me occupied at that age. First console game though was altered beast on the genesis.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

If you're not committed, you don't actually need an appliance for it, have had great results with a Dutch oven and a programmable BBQ thermometer monitoring the water temp. One of my burners goes really low so just a matter of adjusting to keep in range. You don't get forced circulation (get some natural circulation though) and it's not set and forget, but you can do with stuff you probably already have on hand. Done with heavy freezer bags before I was gifted a vacuum sealer.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

At least Calgary gets chinooks (as much as they suck for migraines) for a mild reprieve

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I'm still stuck mostly on 1.7.10 and 1.12.2 modpacks, I don't play as much these days though.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

My understanding is that medicated were not found to have the same increase in risk.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Was going to say that, CUPS is great, have had less issues with printers in linux than windows, worked flawlessly when I was troubleshooting a 20+ year old office grade LaserJet for my in-laws (which turned out to be a weird issue with the hub it was plugged into and windows 10 waking from sleep as far as I could tell) and also just works with the older network laser printer I have now.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Fair enough, visually the ModernUI made it similar to what I was used to, I pretty much bounce between part design, sketch and assembly workbenches for everything I do, been a bit but I think ondsel swaps automatically to sketch from part workbench and the dimension tool is way nicer, general freecad doesn't really have that smart dim tool, but the keyboard shortcuts make it better.

Workflow wise, I found it pretty much exactly the same as I used SW and other parametric cad packages, make your sketches, extrude your base and then build sketches for other features. Toponaming fix seems to make external geometry references a bit more reliable, have a few cleanups if I change way back in the tree, not all sunshine and rainbows though, definitely had some frustrations and clunk. What's sold me honestly is I dove in with a largish project (more than I expected tbh, I'll post it when it's more mature) and it's so far totally met my needs.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That sucks! Seems to work on my oldish laptop, can't recall if I used on my really old one too but they both have 16gb of ram and running an appimage on Debian for those, windows seems to be happy with it. Running the python 3.11 versions as well, idk if that makes a difference

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