DON’T PANIC

There’s a massive wave of learning curve for 3D printing. It’s ABSOLUTELY subjective to the individual. So always keep in mind that you’re going to need to do almost all of it yourself.

The funny thing I experienced about the learning curve is how fun it is to ride the wave of “oh I understand now, let me try that… OMG what did I do?! Aaareggggg! Ok, I’ll try again tomorrow. Next week well wtf that was so easy. How did I not get that the first time?”

So the first thing to remember, not all printers provide a similar experience. You can end up with a model of the same filament and same size and to the naked eye, totally the same. But from different printers, could have black and white approaches and steps.

In general there’s a few programs that will let a PC directly connect to a 3D printer. It’s usually USB and manufacturers usually probably the drivers. If not any Linux system is gonna be able to talk to it. Windows is the one that might not talk to USB on a COM channel.

Direct connection is only needed in my case for upgrading the firmware. I have a Prusa MK3s Frankenstein. I have modified a bit of it.

Before I mod’d it took a bit to really tune it in. but now it’s really bulletproof and goes perfectly even after sitting for a while.

Remember to learn the basics for the printer you go with and then look at the mods

Steam’s recent update to carve out a category for demo’s is kinda what you are asking for. At least it is in the right direction, if devs follow it.

LoL make them pay for their lack of effort!

Love it

note to self, if my instance ever fold

join @dubvee.org

I got banned from one of the politics communities for calling out someone using the “blue maga” phrase. I called them ambitious and then called called them weirdo and got my comment removed for “attack language”, when I quested the mod they banned me for a few days. I will avoid any communities that mod is a part of.

that’s exactly what a bot would say!

Huffman Shitshow

LoL

The tungsten carbide nozzle that I use is pretty good. I have only ever had one clog and I was using old filament. I just heated the head to ABS levels and it drained the clog simple enough. When I have had clogs with brass nozzles it can be a chore to clear it. Sometimes requiring taking the whole thing apart. So the tungsten does it all from what I can tell. I havn’t changed it in over a year and my prints come out looking great. The quality of the filament is a big factor. I use the prusa recycled filament for most of my first runs. The heat expansion is splitting hairs on their part. Maybe for science or industrial level uses its an important factor but in home hobby use, its probably next to impossible to tell if it does matter. The optimal temp is always different depending on the users environment.

I’d probably try this diamondback nozzle if I need to replace the tungsten and I can find more independent reviews. It just feels like they are banking on the diamond part being OMG its the hardest material but the ruby is almost as hard and has more field tested and reviewed history to it. Plus its got the pretty red tip while the diamonback has a gray graphite look to it.

From their information it’s like super amazing but that’s not always translated to actual use. I tried finding more reviews but couldn’t find anything.

Do you have one of those? Have you used any other hardened nozzles? I’m still under the impression that the ruby tip is king for the cost and reputation

Not sure if I see a difference but it’s more expensive.

The time and care required to changing the nozzle (unless you’ve got a good mod or fancy system) isn’t worth it IMO.

Quality > Quantity

This solution to abrasive filament is a tungsten nozzle or one of the ruby tip ones. The cost is a bit expensive but with a tungsten nozzle you might be one and done

Fuckin devs…

That’s pretty cool. Where I work, there’s a computer museum and all of our stuff boots up and we have gotten them to load stuff but it’s a chore. We have an Apple Lisa but it’s a stupid thing. It’s best feature is the happy mac boot image and ding. Otherwise it’s useless.

Oh I’ll still see those users on different communities, because blocking the instance only stops their threads and communities from showing on my All sorted list

Confirmed its real, and now I am blocking that instance. Thanks for the info. There is enough content on lemmy, a few instances can be excluded.

I am old enough to remember when Metallica was a garage band and wasn’t radio friendly.

The first time I ever heard them was a live bootleg and I remember Hetfield asking the crowd who was hearing them for the first time “loud cheering” then asking who was recording it for a bootleg “loud cheering and screaming” then he said

you better fucking share that shit with your friends!

I will never forgive them for what they did to Napster.

IMO one of the greatest punk songs ever written

The Stars and Stripe of Corruption

Peak Dead Kennedy’s exercising their freedom of speech while being forced to censer their album cover

I’m playing For the King and No Man’s Sky pretty much exclusivily for the last few weeks. I only get a couple hours a week so its not much. For the King is a fun game. Easy to learn very difficult to master. The game isn’t really anything special but it does have it own spice that makes it fun to come back to. I’ll either make a few attempts to play through a quest and then drop it for a year or something and then come back to it again for a few weeks. Maybe I will buy For the King 2 …

No Man’s Sky is probably one of my all time favorites. I don’t really do any base building but I really just love the “get in my spaceship and go where I want!” type freedom. I have played the same save for hundreds of hours, just recently completed the latest Expedition. Its fun to play a game that lets you take your main character into a new game mode that shuffles up everything and then when your done you can go back to the regular world with a bunch of your new loot.

Are you saying you don’t like 50 different items of the same object with the Rock’s head?

The ridiculous items need to be moderated out for sure.