𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Totally paranoia fueled here, but I’m thinking along the lines of extrapolating ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ into the practical applications space of ‘extraordinary material properties that deviate substantially from baseline must have extraordinary compromises elsewhere.’

    You know, like the saying, ‘pick any two engineering targets of three: Good, Cheap, Fast’.

    The materials are not magic, so why was this not some baseline for all of these years. Why is it when the world is deregulating and accountability for exploitation and criminality are none existent, suddenly some miracle chemistry product comes along?

    As stated, this is probably unfounded paranoia and is entirely baseless speculation. However, I think the prudent course as consumers in the present is to be extraordinarily skeptical of all new products. I want to know exactly what additives and base materials are used, what volatile organic compounds these create at all printing temperatures and well beyond. There is poor actual thermal coupling and feedback between a thermistor and the real melt chamber temperature gradient. The thermistor is only measuring a block’s temp with heat dissipation and averaging, not the cartridge temperature or hottest point in the melt zone. So what happens at higher temps than recommendations is important to know especially with high speed printing where the extrusion is pulling most heat out of the block but super inconsistently for PID control loop stability.

    I think about Tetraethyllead in gasoline as the standard of chemistry in capitalism. It was the miracle property enhancer solution to stabilize combustion to avoid premature detonation at the cost of harming every human alive.

    Whatever is in these products is in the air inside your home. We live in primitive times where biology is only in a precursor stage of discovery and poorly understood. It is not yet an engineering science where humans can wield the power of a complete understanding to create and modify living systems at will. We have never even created life from precursors and reverse engineering a known system.

    Until exceptionally transparent disclosure of materials, and testing are provided, (haven’t looked maybe they exist tbh), I’ll stick to older materials that have been somewhat vetted by time and availability with the public as lab rats showing no particularly concerning health issues. For this new stuff, feel free to be the rat in a cage. I’m watching with popcorn ready (sry).



  • Love the idea, unfortunately it relies on cdn.jsdelivr.net to work so I won’t use it. It also is trying to access the server: analytics.eu.umami.is to view. I can see the 3dprint.social website, but not any images. I personally never use a website that requires a 3rd party connection to any server that could be accessed by other websites. The standardization of this practice is none of my concern, but it is wrong on many levels of ethics and big picture politics that ultimately impact democracy. Specifically, I may decide to trust your server, but I will never give you agency, real or potential, over me and implicitly trust others as a result of that relationship. Anyways, that is my personal choice, speaking as a user, but as a Mod: also why I’m not going to directly promote this site as it is configured currently. This is no different than my stance on Printables or Thingiverse.






  • I think you’re right in some cases, but also somewhat attributing malice to stupidity. There are primitive people that are far too scared to risk abandoning their mutually exclusive social support network. They exhibit angst at the unknown and unfamiliar and sway in the direction of fight from their fight or flight mechanism. None of this behavior is within the scope of their self awareness. They exist in a fixated cult like state of tribal ignorance and stupidity, and are wholely incapable of curiosity and learning from sources outside the scope of their tribal isolation.

    I was this way before my self awareness grew past the point of reflection. My entire family is like this as are my former and abandoned social support network I am now ostracized from as a result.

    This is the actual barrier in place that enables cult like isolation and fixation. Meanwhile, these systems are wholly built upon outsourcing ethics to an organization that only wields shame to keep members in line. Shame can never motivate positive action. Shame can only negatively curb behaviors. Without positive feedback, these systems can only produce depression and negative austere conservative people able to cope with the lack of endorphins. It is truly sadistic in nature. Those that are still out of balance are considered undesirable when their cognitive dissonance pushes back in actions the person may not even understand or register.

    Religion is largely a cognitive dissonance factory because of these factors. This does not excuse actions that harm others. But it is this antiquated system of subtle harm in the religious tribal structure and its cult like exclusivity of social network isolation that create people with no independent ethics, unable to learn and reason well, and scared of everything outside of their tiny bubble of a life.



  • Not necessarily. Like I don’t have my YT stuff stored anywhere any more.

    Shorter format stuff – sure, and that seems to be the only focus really for peertube now. Most of the YT stuff I posted was like bits and pieces of my journey of creating a product photography studio and progress I was making while still in my collar with a broken neck. I also made electrical hobby and bicycle stuff. I typically uploaded long format with 20-40 minutes detailing what I tried and what did or did not work when fixing stuff that is supposed to be unserviceable or undocumented and like reverse engineering type content. Some of those proved to be a reference I used many years later. My digital storage has never been at a very high quality level. Most of my motivation is like here on Lemmy; I want to share and just be a little social while maybe providing some useful tidbit that helps someone. I’d rather relegate that digital archiving to someone else mostly because my life has never been well supported or super stable.


  • We probably need to also get more of us actually uploading to peertube and posting stuff here with better integration.

    First step is streamlining account creation and uploading. Is there a post goto for how to sign up? What servers are stable versus maybe not so much? Really useful video content is a major undertaking for technically useful stuff. I did several on YT in the past and some in the hundreds of thousands of views about how to fix or hack stuff where I was the only source posted. Editing something well is at least 1 hour per minute, and twice that with a good setup and recording. So like, I’d be far more bummed if that stuff got lost by instances disappearing. That is probably the biggest hesitation I have had. IMO, useful original content is the holy grail for this kind of thing, or maybe that is just my perspective bias.



  • Voron carries the original community torch that started all of this with RepRap and Adrian Bowyer. That is not some minor guerilla thing around Voron specifically. It grew out of the era when Prusa started making excuses and doing anti community stuff. Like they are still great, but not for the same reasons that built them. You can’t build Prusa firmware and mod it easily like with a Marlin config or Klipper. And the Mini is a custom hacked Marlin config that looks nothing like Marlin at all. That killed community contributions and the iterative nature of open source. The offshoots and side projects of Voron used to exist around Prusa and were around RepRap before that. Joseph got his start with RepRap selling kits on the side. That is where the MKx nomenclature comes from.

    Adrian Bowyer broke what was a stratasys commercial monopoly and singlehandedly built the open source community and entire hobby. If Adrian did not exist, there would be no hobby 3d printing at all. The whole thing is due to this open source project and the community it built. That is why Bambu is hated so much. They are a stratasys like parasite here to exploit and oppress as a capitalist cancer. They are the ultimate type of leopard eating face buy.



  • Cheapest Chinese Bluetooth headphones from AliEx around 2019. I think it is an AC6905 chip. The toolchain is rather obscure and piecemeal with write-ups on GitHub and eevblog, but that is beyond my interest. This one was too weak to be useful or one of the audio drivers went out or wire was bad. I have a half dozen of these sports ear buds style headphones that have gone bad over the last decade. Even ones that come from the same brand end up having different boards.


  • It does what Bluetooth headphones do but with regular headphones. More usefully, it is a Bluetooth line-output to plug into an amplifier which is what I am actually working on. This will go into an amplifier that can connect to my laptop and is integrated into my bedside laptop stand (I’m physically disabled so in bed most of the time). I’m working on making several parts of my laptop stand more modular. I want this to be removable to use elsewhere if I want and charged when not in use. It therefore has a use, a place of storage, and is always available.





  • I treat this place just like real life. The feed is not tailored to me, so I block lots of stuff. Rude people, people that down vote, narcissists, communities with bad vibes, if I interact with moderators after interacting in good faith, or if I post something I know to be factually correct but get some negative cascade in response I simply block the whole community or individual. I’ve blocked 200+ users and at least as many communities. I only care about real people that have the decency to interact cordially.