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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Kinda sounds like combine infill layers in prusa/super slicer, that setting will have it do the perimeters as per normal but do infil at 1/2/3 etc layers, so 0.2 layers would get infill every 0.4 at 2, so it’ll print the perimeters and anything that can’t be merged, go to the next layer and do the perimeters and chunky infill, I use it to save time and I haven’t noticed much difference in functionality.


  • Supposed to be an easy, if not a drop in replacement afaik, it’s under a permissive licence (Apache 2.0), beyond that it’s authored by RedHat I can’t tell you much else, it’s something I’ve been considering moving to personally (and work, pretty much for licencing and the few of us that want to use more open tech stacks) I just haven’t had a chance to work with it.

    Supposedly able to pull docker images and work with docker-compose, just not swarm.



  • I had issues getting spi going with my lepotato for whatever reason, at least getting the sensor to work with klipper, so I ran it directly from an spi header on the mainboard, found that super easy to get going. Was going to run a port to the skirt so I could connect when I need but the new toolhead has it built in. Can’t really say if it’s made a massive difference, maybe less vibration when printing? Macros are probably up there as one of my favourite klipper features that I don’t take enough advantage of, just done some loading and unloading assist ones and some basic preheat ones. What I really need to do is get around to doing filament profile tuning and putting them somewhere to share between machines (slice on my laptop, desktop and lab machine, it’s a mess), really should keep a list of things I plan to do so I don’t forget.

    The nevermore max warped like that on me, the one I printed is 300x300 square with thin ish walls so prone to warping, I ended up doing the warp prone stuff in petg.


  • Thanks! I did a nevermore max (what you can see at the top) so they’re all exposed, they do make a huge difference to chamber temps. I used buildtak surfaces and seriously they’re unbelievable, I have their pei surface on now which doesn’t grip as hard but wow if it doesn’t work for brimless warp prone material, surfaces being damaged isn’t a huge issues as I can just replace the decal. I finished the original build about a year ago and had some cludged together mods to get stuff like the tap probe going with cw1 (it was super jank, SB+cw2 is so much better for maintenance, also did one to mount a dragon UHF)

    I have aluminium composite panels and they’re ok insulation wise, did you end up going for full insulation on your panels? I think I recall you looking into that reflective insulation material at one point. One more edit, my only concern is ambient temps, it was mid - high 30s last week, I do want to climate control my garage eventually, just don’t have a great way of doing that right now.

    These printers are totally like hobby cars, swear I do more mods than anything else.






  • Oh they can totally be, first job out of uni in 2012 had diesel f350 super duties as field service vehicles, they made sense for some jobs where it was super remote and rough driving (1000+ km a tank), they’ve since gone to 2 panel vans and a truck which is way more handy. They’re super high off the ground so you need to be careful and most importantly, use your mirrors, these were all tow capable so they had the larger mirrors with the second parabolic mirror, you can effectively minimise blind spots to your sides and behind (I think all car mirrors should be that way, I added them to my sedan’s mirrors) but they still turn slow and are heavy. A chunk of my coworkers outright refused to use them, instead opting for rentals, and others were definitely white knuckling it the entire time they used them.




  • There’s room for accessibility options, no one is forcing you to use them. While there are tools in the souls series to solve issues, there’s no reason not to have some sort of scaling option at the least for people that want it, things like directional subtitles, colourblind mode, those are just basic. Why alienate players who would otherwise enjoy the game but may have limitations, it’s ok for games to have complex systems and themes that may not appeal to everyone, that’s totally independent of accessibility. I personally really enjoyed my playthroughs, and would love other people to be able to enjoy these games as well, and I’m pretty sure fromsoft intends for their games to be enjoyable.

    Your point about rhythm games doesn’t support your point, guitar hero and rockband both had difficulty settings and later entries had nofail modes. They also had practice modes where you could slow down sections you were struggling with and work through it.

    Quick edit: my only real complaint is FOV, camera is super zoomed in on some of the giant bosses, DS1 remastered supported ultrawide, would have been nice for Elden Ring to have that at leaat



  • I’m a data engineer/architect and it’s the same over here, I get asked constantly “how can we stuff AI into this solution?”, never “should we consider using AI here? Is there a value?”, my view, people don’t understand their data and don’t want to put in the effort to understand their data and think that it’ll magically pull actionable insights from their dataswamp, nothing new, that’s been a constant for as long as I recall.

    Like I totally understand the draw of new and exciting, but there’s so much you can do with traditional analytics, and in my view you really need to have a good foundation before doing anything else.



  • I’m also thinking that way wrt to “we need more fast charging for EVs to work”, I recall that plugging into a standard outlet will get you something like 5-8 km an hour, slow charging is totally acceptable for most people’s usages. If you’re in an area where block heaters are the norm you already have outlets at parking spots, if I could commute to work and plug it in, covers most commutes in a 8 hour day, even those of us who rarely go in and live 70k away I’d be getting most of my range back. For the amount I drive, level 1 charging is more than sufficient.

    I think a compact with 2-300 k range would suit me just fine, would cover the odd longer trip and I’ll totally grab a rental for anything longer, like I already do it I need to move a fridge.