Humidity ruins PLA. It turns brittle AF once it has absorbed any major amount of moisture, and that is significantly sped up with temperature.

Welcome back to the real world

If it works, it works. Really any old cheap pcie card will work, if you just need video out of any kind the card type need not be specific. Glad you got it to work.

That’s good to know. I’ve had some half baked plans to host a public instance for a while (will probably get to it in winter) and honestly the legal risk has been something that’s really held me back. Knowing I have a way to cover my ass for removing it is great.

Hmm, this is something I haven’t heard about. Can you actually register as an instance hoster with the FBI or equivalent to say “hey I have a service that may be exposed to CSAM, I do not condone this and will report any cases of it that I see”? If so that could reduce a lot of people’s specific legal fears of hosting.

By default a fresh new instance will federate with no other instances period.
Instances only “learn” about the existence of an outside instance or community after a user enters a community+instance address in the search bar. After that, the home instance will sync with the remote instance and begin getting all new push data from that point on.

I don’t know if Lemmy allows “whitelisting” of synced instances, such that it will auto synchronize with a provided list and ignore all others even if users search for them. I feel like it does, but I am not familiar enough with the backend to say yay or nay.

Federation means any content posted to any federated instance gets cached on your side and you become a hoster of it.

This includes if someone posts or creates an instance for child porn and starts spamming it. You’re possibly liable. and then have to deal with reviewing and cleaning it up to cover your ass.

Get a used SFF office PC low profile card off Ebay. They often have chipset wattages around 25 or so and easily run on slot power only

Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/p/1958445856 (idea only, not endorsing this seller).

Anything of a semi modern format with a pcie interface thata not an outright scam card will be fine for VGA no-driver video output. IME older AMD/ATI cards seem to boot better than oder NVidia cards…

The more they delete, the more they can resell every few years as “new” while charging ever more exorbitant prices for!

Are you trying to keep the spools sealed in bins with dessicant? If you’re in a moist climate, using plastic bins with some foam gasket added to the lids and a pile of dessicant is the only way to really keep filament long term without it turning into a wet bubbly mess in like two weeks. That’s somewhat unavoidable and means you can’t use many other storage methods, unless you are drying or printing from a dryer every time. Or are lucky like me and live in a desert.

At the college makerspace I used to help run, we had some shelf racking installed with rails that are parallel to the wall and about 5" apart. Spools sit perpendicular to the wall with their round faces cradled by the two rails. There’s also a standalone wood rack with similar rails that can be moved where needed. The filaments are grouped by type and each section is labelled, and then the filament itself is exposed so you can see color since it sits perpendicular to the wall. I’ll see if I can find some photos of it later.

This being self hostable makes me instantly like this. Something like G photos that I could self host and dump a lot of removed off my phone storage would be amazing.

Ok, so a vast majority of 3d printers do not connect directly to a PC these days. They have a self contained microcontroller.

The workflow is:

1. You design or download a 3D model you want to to print.
2. Open the 3D model in a slicer software. The slicer takes a 3D model and, using a profile designed for a specific printer’s nozzle size and controller, converts the solid volume of the model into G-Code, or machine readable code that is a series of coordinates and move rates. This tells the printer where and how to put plastic.
3. Export the G-code to a .gcode (or other) file. Save that file onto an SD card.
4. Put the SD card in your printer.
5. Select the file on the printer display and away you go.

Now, some printers use a network connection component, eg Bambu printers have a wifi adapter. This let’s them download firmware updates and receive print jobs from a computer remotely without needing to move SD cards. This does require the right software, e.g Bambu printers require proprietary Bambu Studio (or it’s open source fork OrcaSlicer) that has the networking module to talk to it. This doesn’t require special driver setup though.

There’s also a lot of porn

In order:

Dry your filament.

Wash the PEI sheet on the bed with soap and water. Let dry, reapply glue if you use it.

Verify your bed is actually hitting temp via an external thermocouple and that it’s thermistor isn’t taking a hike and overreporting temp.

I have a Creaform MetraScan 750 at work. It’s pretty neat, can get 0.005" accuracy or less out of it. We also have a HandyScan with single line mode for very small parts.

Granted, at $150k system cost, it is slightly out of the layman’s budget range…

An OpenScan kit is something that’s been high on my list for hobby purchases for a while. It looks pretty functional from the YouTube videos I’ve seen and my printer is fully capable of making the frame.

That’s a lot of words man

We missed out on 3 decades of progress in the name of greed.

The American Way!

I’ve personally been using a Teamgroup 1tb from Amazon and a few KingSpec (from Aliexpress) 500gb SATA and PCIe M.2 drives for about a year and a half now without much problem or reported health loss. They are not performance winners of course but they still beat the pants off spinning rust.

YMMV of course, always keeps backups or don’t keep anything you’d be super sad to lose on them.

This is an interesting conundrum.
On one hand it would help locate foreign agent bots/bad faith actors faster and recognize vote manipulation by bot farms.
On the other it will lead to even more account-stalking problems, user drama, and would further enable vote dogpiling if you see certain known users voted a certain way.

I’m inclined to say no. They are already “public” if one wants to put in the effort to admin a standalone instance or run alts on multiple services they can see if they care- I personally don’t really care

You don’t even have serial downvoters. You have a few comments without many downvotes. You just consistently post the worst possible political pisstakes repeatedly and constantly and nobody likes them when they run across it every time.