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  • First 3d Printer Recommendations

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  • I highly recommend Orca Slicer, it's forked from bamboo slicer (which is in turn forked from Prusa), so has their modern UI/ layout and natively, as well as natively support bamboo printers. If Bamboo's not your jam, it also plays very nicely with Klipper. As an added bonus, it regularly gets new features added or ported from the other slicers.

  • Considering the Prusa CORE One as first printer - any reason to reconsider?

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  • I don't personally own one, so that's really good to know! I mostly thought of it since it checked most of what OP was looking for, without being a full on Voron. That's said, I'm not sure how much of a beginner machine the Core One will be either. Regardless, I'll add a proceed with caution on my recommendation.

    Out of curiosity, what upgrades did you have to make to sv08?

    (I also graduated from the Thessian Ender 3 program and went to a v2.4)

  • Considering the Prusa CORE One as first printer - any reason to reconsider?

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  • I just realized that there are some important questions that none of us are asking (it sounded like you've already done some research, and have an idea of what you want (or at least what you think you need), but just so that everyone's all on that same page):

    1. What are you looking to get out of the hobby?
    2. What is your tolerance for tinkering? Or in other words, are you willing to learn and fiddle with the machine or would you rather it "just work"?
    3. What kinds of things are you looking to print (not necessarily mutually exclusive categories: big things, small details, multi-color, outdoor/ automotive, etc)
    4. What's your budget?

  • Considering the Prusa CORE One as first printer - any reason to reconsider?

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  • Depending on how much you value open source vs domestic production, part of me thinks that you may want to consider the Sovol SV08. Sovol is based out of China, but that printer is basically a Voron 2.4 modified for mass production (ie much of the printer comes preassembled), and because of it the printer is very open source, as in here's the GitHub repo. My only major concern would be that the machine ships with a non-standard hot end, however I recently learned (Here) that the community already has a mod to fix that. You also gain a much bigger build volume, for a fraction of the upfront investment. (Edit: That said, it may not be the most beginner friendly machine in existence (see replies))

    I'm also somewhat hesitant to recommend a machine that isn't out and doesn't really have any reviews yet. With any new product launch like this, I'd almost guarantee that there will be a teething period as the bugs, glitches, and hiccups all get worked out (as goes the early adopter tax). Which means that you may face a slightly steeper leaning curve as someone new to the hobby (Prusa has been around for a hot minute, so I don't expect it to be too bad, but it's still worth mentioning). That said, if none of that scares you and if you're already prepared for the pricetag, Prusa's are known to be absolute workhorses, there's no reason they can't be entry level machines.

  • With Core ONE, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Quietly Dies | Hackaday

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  • True, you can have a quality closed source product (look at Bamboo or Stratasys), it's more lamenting than at one point Prusa was THE open source die hard (and that's earned them a fair bit of goodwill in a community that generally respects that (on account of only existing because of open source culture)).

    Needing to make money is completely valid and understandable, which is what makes this less of an outright outrage and more of an "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed" kind of situation.

  • With Core ONE, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Quietly Dies | Hackaday

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  • Agreed, it's nice to see Prusa put up a modern consumer printer, but for the price I didn't see anything in the announcement that would make it easier to recommend over the bamboo for the "I need it to just work" folks or the SV08/ voron for the folks that like to tinker (and value not living in a walled garden, Sovol's hot end/ nozzles not withstanding).

    Having just built an LDO 2.4 kit a few months ago, I have no regrets. The 350 kit + printed forward parts weren't that much more expensive than what this is slated to retail at, but I get a comparatively massive build volume, nerd cred, and the open source nature means that I can tweak, mod, or otherwise upgrade to my hearts content, from being able to run whatever hot end/ extruder I damn well please, to custom parts (hell, I've already swapped the tool head mount for Vitalii's metal one- not quite the COTS ethos of the voron design, but about a thousand times easier line up and tension, worth every penny), or more complicated projects like ERCF or Box Turtle.

  • What are you looking forward to on the Thanksgiving menu?

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  • Nice! My family doesn't like mushrooms either, so my mom has always subbed in cream of chicken, but onion sounds pretty great too.

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    TIL that India cut the Pythagorean theorem—Edit: its similarity proof—, periodic table, and evolution from mandatory education in June 2023 Edit: before adding it back a week later

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  • I'm a software engineer and I think one of my personal favorite random applications of Pythagoras/ trig was in my data visualization class back in scool. The assignment was to take a dataset of Soviet space launches with dogs and display it in an interactive approachable manner (ie less rigorous data science and more local science center), so I thought it would be fun to show rockets for each lauch and animate them rotating around the earth. Queue the trig to place each icon an appropriate distance (scaled to the launch height in my data), angle, and spacing from the earth.

    I'll admit it doesn't come up all that often (in web development), but it's nice to have that foundational knowledge to dredge up when I need it.

  • Its not going to grow by itself

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  • Pretty sure quality is it's own mod that you can run independently of space age, but I could totally be wrong there.

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  • Just to key in on the overlap between FOSS and privacy, because the source code for the software is open, it means that anyone can take a peek at how everything is running under the hood (among other things). It becomes possible to verify that software is storing data locally and properly encrypting when applicable (as opposed to blindly trusting the software's author and or lawyers).

    It may also be a fun fact that best practice in encryption is to open source your algorithms. The helps safeguard against backdoors and mistakes/ errors that could compromise the security of the algorithm. Much for similar reasons as above, as it allows the security community to check your math (in a field where it is incredibly easy to get your math wrong).

  • What are your jokes for younger children?

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  • Where does the King keep his armies? In his sleevies!

  • OrcaSlicer V2.2.0 Official Release

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  • I mostly switched for the interface, it feels far more modern and easy to navigate compared to Cura and Prusa (while retaining all but the most bleeding edge features from each). Still not perfect, but I've found it to be leagues better at managing and swapping between multiple printers/ nozzles/ materials. It has native calibration tools for everything from temperature towers to flow rates and pressure advance. Plus it plays very nicely with Klipper. I haven't used it a bunch on account of not being wholly set up for it, but multi color printing is also super easy. It's kind of dumb, but I appreciate that updates actually update the app instead on installing a new instance (that I'll have to go uninstall later, looking at you Cura) so that my "send to print utility" button in Fusions always just works. Updates also seem more substantial with meaningful features (things like scarf joints to hide layer lines come to mind), you can very much feel the love that community has poured into it. It's open source software in all the best ways possible.

    I was pretty sold after Teaching Tech's video last year, but a number of other channels (Lost in Tech comes to mind as well) have also done Orca slicer videos if you're looking for reasons to give it a try.

  • OrcaSlicer V2.2.0 Official Release

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  • Orca is forked from Bambo's slicer which is in turn forked from prusa slicer.

  • Good-Bite [Litterbox Comics]

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  • Same reason most things are funny, or at least mildly amusing: inversion of expectations.

  • Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate

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  • Enh, the tech space is very much innovate or die. So yeah, they could probably throw everything in maintenance mode and make a reduced headcount work, but if AWS goes stagnant it's entirely likely that Amazon goes the way of IBM and Motorol. Especially when someone (likely, Microsoft or Google) comes to take a slice of the AWS market share.

  • NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

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  • I don't know about a min length; setting a lenient lower bound means that any passwords in that space are going to be absolutely brute force-able (and because humans are lazy, there are almost certainly be passwords clustered around the minimum).

    I very much agree with the rest though, it's unnerving when sites have a low max length. It almost feels like advertising that passwords aren't being hashed, and if that's the case there's a snowball's chance in hell that they're also salted. Really restrictive character sets also tell me that said site / company either has super old infra or doesn't know how to sanitize strings (or entirely likely both)...

  • Submit Your Cool Site/Blogs

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  • I'm not sure if it counts as underground (it's been around for ages), but if you've never thought about how your shoelaces contribute to the overall fit and comfort of your shoe, I'd recommend giving Ian's shoelace site a visit.

  • Unbound Pleasure - CouldBeWorse (Niels Vergouwen)

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