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IMALlama

@ IMALlama @lemmy.world

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  • Crappy filament?

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  • Very nice! Welcome to the joys of designing and making functional parts. I suggest doing two things:

    1. Print, or buy, some radius gauges
    2. Make some test parts to understand how your filament and printer behave. For example, materials like ASA will shrink. I've also found that outer dimensions are much more true to CAD than inner dimensions, especially for things like smaller diameter holes for threads. Some text prints will help you figure out what input results in a given output

  • Crappy filament?

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  • Way back when there was an American filament company that sold... very reasonably priced filament that actually printed well. As they got more popular they couldn't keep up with demand and it seemed like they started cutting corners. This resulted in their filament not having a consistent diameter as well as the occasional foreign object in the filament (a bit of charred plastic?), which lead to jams for many of us. They ultimately went out of business due to their reputation of struggling to fill orders and inconsistent quality.

    If you still have the chunk of filament you cut off and also have some calipers I suggest measuring the end that you were trying to feed into your extruder. You could have had a physical clog, especially if your extruder was clicking.

  • Assembled my first 3D printer

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  • Fellow Voron builder. I agree that getting reps in on other things made the build a lot easier. I found the mechanical portion of the build very straightforward thanks to things like flat pack furniture and Legos - it's basically being able to follow well documented spacial instructions. Wiring wasn't particularly difficult, but I've crimped things and built wiring harnesses before. The thing I was the most apprehensive about was getting the pi running and the initial tune, but everything is so well documented even that was pretty straightforward.

    The Voron build is absolutely long, but it's surprisingly approachable and well thought out. I guess that's why there hasn't been a revision in a while.

  • God ****** dammit, here we go again

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  • Same, but I do have some level of worry regarding portability. My solution isn't local or self hosted, as I was looking for easy and works across Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/iOS. I do not look forward to needing to change to a new password manager in the future, but given the way everything seems to be going it seems likely that I'll have to at some point.

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    Can we possibly do without apps on PCs ?

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    Can we possibly do without apps on PCs ?

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  • Spot on answer.

    While I totally agree with you, it really does seem like we're moving back towards the era of centralized committing, at least for mainstream computing. More and more "desktop" applications are really electron apps with a good chunk of the compute happening server side. That's before you start to consider the many browser based word processing products, etc.

  • The Job Market Bait-and-Switch

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  • So much the same. In this market I would rather stick around with the devil I know beii have a good reputation and network. I don't want to be the new person somewhere else should things go sideways. Grated, I am very much on the chopping block at my current employer given the waves of layoffs and "performance frings" that have been happening...

  • Low cost continuous fiber 3D printer

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  • You're going to have a heck of a baller Voron for 2.5k. My Voron, even with some CNC aluminum parts sprinkled in, was way less than that.

  • Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

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  • Oh, I wasn't trying to say trees can't help. I was only saying that we also need to go on a massive carbon diet.

  • Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

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  • Stuff you should know listener?

  • Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

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  • I got curious and will attempt some math and duckduckgoing.

    A forest can remove between 4.5 and 40.7 tons of Carbon Dioxide per year per hectare during the first 20 years of tree growth. Sauce

    Humanity is currently generating around 40 billion tons of CO2 per year. Sauce

    So now some simple math: it would take between 1 billion and 10 billion hectares of forests, depending on their maturity, to keep up. 100 hectare = 1 km2 sauce, so this means 10 to 100 million km2 of forests.

    Earth's total surface area is 510 million km2. sauce.

    Of that, here's a quick breakdown:

    Sauce

    So 10ish percent of the 510 million km2 of land on earth, or around 5.1 million km2 is a good candidate for tree planting. That's not enough if we want to sequester all the carbon produced by humanity. Without getting to net zero global warming will continue. The best we can do is slow it down. More disconcertingly, our appetite for energy is only increasing. The good news is that we're really starting to see large scale wind and farm operations ramping up, but there are still a lot of power plants scheduled to come online in the next two decades.

  • US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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  • It depends who you're trying to protect. Joe consumer doesn't know what OpenWRT is.

  • Ernest is alive

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  • Same

  • Whats the best voice acting in any video game?

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  • "His" DLC for borderlands 3 was one of the high points of that game. I'm currently replaying 1 and while it's fun 2 is just so much more engaging with Jack.

  • Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product

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  • Assembly is relatively straightforward, but sourcing all the components locally is likely getting harder and harder. Granted, for DoD contract reasons there's likely a cottage industry that relies on government rules to keep things onshore. That's part of the reason why we still have some made in the USA clothing.

    This is worth a listen or a watch if you're interested.

  • Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?

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  • Thanks! A VM is a totally viable option.

  • Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?

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  • Yes, this approach is called parametric design. FreeCAD struggled with the topological naming problem for quite some time, which basically means that internally named things, and references to them, can break under certain situations. Exposure to this problem increased as the thing getting molded became more complicated, which seemed maddening from a user's perspective. It seems like it may have been fixed in the main branch somewhat recently, which I was not aware of. That's good news.

  • Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?

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  • I've dabbled in Linux in the past and spend the majority of my time popping between windows and mac os. I also spend a decent amount of time in powershell/terminal, but largely in the context of work.

    I'm not against investing the time learn new things, but time is very scarse these days with two younger kids.

    My modeling workflow is often iterative and fusion's timeline makes it very easy to edit a feature from way back when and then propagate that change through all subsequent steps that reference that feature. You can also add entirely new features and then update the next step in the timeline to reference them. The last time I looked at alternatives this either wasn't supported or was fickle, but based on some comments in this post that may have changed. I'll have to give FreeCAD a try.

  • Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?

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  • Thanks, I'll have to give it a try