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ShepherdPie

@ ShepherdPie @midwest.social

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  • first timer here, Sovol3D S06 ACE arriving this week, open to suggestions :)

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  • I feel like an idiot because you're absolutely correct, and I've even used this recently in Bambu Studio (which I believe is forked from PrusaSlicer, so it may be there as well). I haven't used Prusa or Orca slicers, but it is somewhat limited in Studio, especially when printing "per object" instead of "per layer"

    I'd still recommend OP print one benchy at a time because it's very easy for one object to wipe out the entire print bed of parts if misconfigured.

  • first timer here, Sovol3D S06 ACE arriving this week, open to suggestions :)

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  • Smart idea starting out with a cheap printer as you'll learn quite a bit more this way (tinkering and repairing) and find out if you really actually like the hobby or that it's not for you without spending a fortune first. This can be extremely frustrating at times but also rewarding.

    I've been printing for several years and have never heard of a way to print with multiple profiles at once, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible as things are being discovered all the time and I don't exactly stay up to date on every facet.

    I'd just start out one benchy at a time and learn from experience. Challenges will come, and that's where you'll learn.

    Also, keep your filament dry and get some cheap hygrometers to measure the filament's moisture content (in a dry box, bag, etc) even brand new. This is one big cause of headaches.

  • Should I upgrade my headphones?

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  • Oh my gosh, what a rollercoaster of a story.

  • When your garage is REALLY cold

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  • Bring 'em inside, folks.

  • TIL A restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was found to be serving Popeye's chicken and passing it off as their own

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  • Typical Plankton. Always plotting to get the Krusty Krab secret recipe.

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    Many smaller drivers or fewer larger drives?

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  • I think it depends on what you're storing. If it's video then you'll want bigger drives because you'll fill your array of small drives up quickly and trying to manage 10 or 15 1TB HDDs will get out of hand quickly. Backing up isn't super critical with large "Linux ISOs" since you can just torrent most everything again to replace missing files.

    For fast throughput of small files, I think smaller drives in an array win out and if these are important files, it probably wouldn't be too expensive to buy a couple of large HDDs to backup the entire array.

  • Bathroom scale options?

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  • It's interesting how old console tech comes back around to be useful for other stuff. I've used a couple Xbox Kinects to do 3D scanning and with an augmented reality sand box.

  • westerners, how do you pronounce the letter "w" do you say dablu or double you or just dub or double v?

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  • People call Buffalo Wild Wings B-Dubs

  • TIL Netflix ad tier blocks some shows and movies unless you upgrade your plan

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  • As the article states, this applies to Netflix originals too so I don't know how true this is.

  • TIL Netflix ad tier blocks some shows and movies unless you upgrade your plan

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  • There are guides out there to do it or you can just buy one that's already been flashed to bypass DRM. I bought one 5 or 6 years ago to do it and quit after maybe 10 Blu-rays because it takes forever if you want to compress via handbrake and it's much easier just to torrent directly unless it's something obscure.

  • TIL Netflix ad tier blocks some shows and movies unless you upgrade your plan

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  • Might as well just call it an extended rental.

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

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  • Yes most people use HDDs for this because their speed doesn't matter when they're just serving up a single (or even a dozen) huge files at playback speeds. They're slow for hosting your OS because of the quantity and speed of reads and writes but this isn't an issue with movies, TV, or music.

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

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  • Me too but I just don't see how that'll be possible without something physical to put it on since studios will likely never give us straight digital files without a bunch of DRM hoops to jump through.

    Perhaps they will give us digital files but tied to some service like Amazon or VUDU where you can only watch it through their app after purchasing a copy for as long as the company still holds distribution rights. This has some major pitfalls for the average consumer though since your purchases will be locked into a specific app with some shitty media interface and they'll only be temporary as companies often holds the rights for a specific period of time.

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

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  • You can still get the best of both worlds with piracy. Click of a button to watch media and it'll never disappear unless you want it to (or drive failures).

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

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  • There's currently little reason to choose SSDs over HDDs when you're talking about bulk storage for media. HDDs have plenty of R/W speed for this purpose and are a fraction of the price. New, you can buy 8TB drives for around $100 or used/refurbished (from somewhere like serverpartdeals.com) you can buy 14TB for $150 or even 20TB+ for $250.

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

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  • One reason is that if you ever have an issue with RealDebrid, you can expect them to post your name and email publicly online while talking a boat load of shit about you.

  • LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

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  • I'm curious what the landscape will be like in 10 years. Hard to push 8k, HDR, and all the other TV gizmos when the only source media available is 3GB 'UHD' movies from streaming services that have been stomped all over with compression.

  • Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion

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  • Right and now the parents, who already said they were satisfied with the offer, can watch as it gets sold right back to the shitheads who caused the lawsuit to happen in the first place. Either that or those shitheads can bid some outrageously high number that either guarantees them ownership or guarantees the parents must forgive a much larger portion of the debt so that someone else like the Onion can own it.

    Either way the parents are facing a worse outcome now.

  • What's the longest amount of time you spent trying to find something?

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  • It could be worse. It could have been the Pacific ocean.