Don’t forget Louisiana… My wife’s favorite.

A few degrees difference in ambient temperature can drastically affect your exposure times, and god help you if you have a print failure and forget to clean and filter your vat.

As far as model complexity for 3d printing, you absolutely still have those issues, unless you only ever print pre-supported models (which I absolutely love, but aren’t ubiquitous.)

I have a pretty heavily customized ender 3 and I don’t recommend that to people who don’t want 3d printer maintenance as a hobby either to be frank.

I will say though, my issues with resin are never with the machine itself, it’s always the material and the specific prints.

I haven’t bought one in a year or two, but I don’t think there’s an equivalent.

I recommend something like a Bambu for people who want “a printer to supplement their hobby, not be their hobby.”

Resin printing is incredibly fucking cool, don’t get me wrong, but it’s also like a finicky thing, between leveling (if you have an older Saturn like I do), resin temperature, vat film replacement, model cleaning, safe ventilation, and on and on.

If you wanna “set it and forget it” resin is not gonna be that. Probably ever, but definitely in its current form. You’re just gonna have to do a lot more post processing than you will with fdm.

All that said, if you’re fine with it basically being a hobby that can supplement your other hobbies go for it. I didn’t do fdm till after I did resin, and the detail and print quality you’ll get out of a even an older tuned resin system is in a different universe than what you’ll get out of any modern fdm system. But you’re gonna pay for it in extra effort and various pita that do not exist with fdm.

(I can rec a Saturn for sure, I have a 2 and I love that thing.)

Yeah that immediately looks way under-extruded to me.

Also that wood stuff (from what I read) clogs terribly.

Is it not safe to expose externally with ssl yet?

It would be a crying shame if someone were to figure out a way to force those e ink displays to refresh fast enough that it kills the batteries on those things…

So how long till the Supremes rule that CBP is not only allowed to search your phone but also to perform colonoscopies at checkpoints 100 miles inland and sell the resulting videos to extremely wealthy perverts?

Beyond any issues with the owner of the company, these cars have multiple dangerous issues.

You cannot treat a company that makes physical stuff that can endanger lives the same way you treat a software company that makes a leisure activity platform.

Iterative design for a purely software environment is way more forgiving than iterative design for physical hardware or even software that interacts with physical hardware. You can profoundly fuck up the backend for a website and take the whole thing down until you could roll back to last known good production, you won’t kill anyone, but you’ll make the line go down temporarily.

If you profoundly fuck up an iteration on an embedded vehicle system and don’t catch it because you don’t respect safety regulation or existing engineering norms you can and will kill people.

Analogue doesn’t have firmware that can reject a device based on id.

So you can reverse engineer a replacement part if you absolutely have to.

It’s counterintuitive to growing an instance maybe.

The whole idea is that there is no centralization.

It (the fediverse) is de-centralized.

The point is that there’s no one entity in charge.

You don’t have to leave the fediverse because you don’t like an instance. You’re free to start your own communities and/or instances anywhere else, no one is obligated to tolerate anyone and everyone in their space.

Each instance gets to be its own fiefdom to an extent. If you’re shitty enough to a wide enough audience or you tolerate shitty users you might be defederated, but for the most part as a mod you get to decide the rules for your server.

In this particular instance the mod decided to ban someone for whatever reason, maybe it was being a lib, maybe they were annoying a mod, it doesn’t really matter.

The cool thing is that you can avoid the instance if you want, or block it so you don’t have to see anything from it, or start your own instance with blackjack… And hookers. The options are unlimited.

Generally speaking I do things myself because it’s cheaper, in that it lets me allocate cash in higher quality versions of things than I would otherwise be able to afford. I grew up pretty poor and that was how my family did things. Car breaks, that’s why you buy a Chilton’s. Appliance isn’t working? You can always order the part for a tenth of what it costs to have the appliance guy tell you what’s wrong. AC quit working? Those capacitors are super easy to replace and only cost $7.

Now I could pay people to do more things for me, but it’s only under certain circumstances.

Sometimes it just boils down to something my Dad told me underneath a car (or a house maybe) like 30 years ago: “Nobody is gonna care about your shit more than you do.”

Alas, I cannot grow hair on the top of my head, so I must grow it on the bottom.

With that one (creality textured glass carborundum something or other) I kept hitting it with 95%+ IPA, it just gives out eventually. I switched to a textured spring steel plate recently, world of difference for petg, PLA, and tpu. It’s just another consumable :/

If you’re not ready to switch yet a layer of masking tape can get you by for awhile, it’s just a pain because the masking tape will need to be replaced about every other print depending on your settings.

It looks like a glass carborundum Creality plate. I have one of them, they work really well until one day they just don’t.

What did you do to that poor build plate?!?

You can tell by the pixels.

It’s 0.2 layer height, I wanna say it was 3 layers, but it could have been 4. The green I’m using is opaque at even one layer with these settings though

Our Ford, hallowed be thy name.

Make sure to thank him for the unhinged antisemitic conspiracies too.

They’re manual changes. Annoying, but they work for basic stuff.