I bought a dryer but I have too many filaments to keep them all in it. Once you’ve dried it, how long do they stay better in the open air before they go bad again?

Ha. My second printer is a DD ender 3 pro, I made a little clasp that holds cotton wool and clips around the filament so it cleans it as it goes into the head. It’s surprising how much dirt ends up in the wool. Anyway if it snaps overnight the clasp yeets off in a random direction and is waiting for me on the print bed in the morning. As my octoprint doesn’t have great night vision it being missing is the only way I can tell the filament has snapped. 🙂

I have a bunch of 6yo pla, not kept well, I’m slowly getting through. It loads and prints fine but snaps in the pipe overnight after the print finishes and everything cools. I’m planning on just unloading it after every print.

I hear ya. My e3pro was starting to act up so I decided to finally upgrade to a Snapmaker U1, which is great. But once I didn’t have to worry about getting stuck not printing I went back and did a complete overhaul of the e3, Btt skr board (2nd hand) new build plate, direct drive conversion etc. now it’s working better than ever. Somewhere Long the line the old girl started under extruding by like 50%+ I don’t know how it was even working!

I do amazing prints on the U1 but I’m having more fun with the ender.

Seen

What you are talking about is Immutability and an append only backup. The s3 file system and some others has Immutability built in. Not all backups can do append only.

I don’t mean to criticise but if you can add anything more (like the other 200w space) I suggest you should. 👍

Did you mean to say 4000w? 400w isn’t enough for all that equipment.

Part of the childbirth freedom and democracy act. Did you know that a womb isn’t actually needed to give birth. Scientists at the UofT theorize that the organ is a left over from ancient days when babies needed more protection from daily danger. Now in our totally safe society it’s redundant and men can just gestate babies in the space between their organs. Of course c-section is the preferred method of delivery but the alternative is not insurmountable.

Gemma4 e4b quant8 will fit in 12gb and is good

This happened to me last weekend. I finally parted with the device I’d been hanging on to for 6 years a couple of months ago in a cleanout and needed it last Sunday.

I have zero mods. I ran a Ryzen 5 5600x RTX3070 with 16gb ram and I eventually got like 150 ducks or something and every few seconds the computer started to pause and think. It was eventually unbearable. I googled it and thought it was my overall number of beings in the area. So I started wholesale duck slaughter and I think it got better. I have a better computer now haven’t gone back yet. Are you telling me it’s not my PC?

Dual boot Bazzite with Windows Ent IoT? Profit?

I’ve got a decent rig and rimworld chokes at a reasonable farmyard size. What’s your secret?

Use Restic backups to a local drive then sync that with something like rsync to ovhcloud cloud archive (not cold archive but that can work too). You can also skip the local copy but it’s better to have one and if you sync weekly it gives you opportunities to do things like cull photos you took too many of before it slaps them all up. There are plenty of GUI based restic interfaces now if you want a quick check or browse. Use healthchecks.io to monitor the cronjobs and alert you if they aren’t working.

Abefinder/Neofinder is great for cataloging but it costs money. If you do a limited backup it’s good to know what you had. I use tape formatted to LTFS and Neofind both the source and the finished tape.

I had an ex once tell me my own story back to me as if it happened to her first hand. I didn’t tell her and just went uh huh. But I think she was confused why I didn’t find the story funny. Which she thought was hilarious when she had heard the story from me.

Goddammit Donut!

Truly terrifying. But fun to briefly ponder. The book is quite a humbling read and put my mood in a different state for a week afterwards. Among the theories about everything being an accident. There is a chapter about how the Higgs Boson isn’t quite where it should be by our current understanding possibly by accident, and if even one Boson were to correct it’s location by a gigantic energy event there would be a chain reaction that would mean the entire universe would be obliterated.

Yeah. When I read it, my life overall hasn’t been that bad and my immediate thought was a sort of mystical comfort that the end isn’t always an end. Then a few minutes later I thought, what if you had have been human trafficked or some other terrible nightmare. To repeat forever. If there is any truth to it we need to do all efforts to eliminate it today.

I’m not a physicist but I think the physics behind it is that they have observed some atoms instantly revert back to a previous state that they have been in. If it’s possible that given a long enough time line one atom can go back at random any atom can and sort of like a random dice role. When infinity is in an equation anything that happens even in a 1-1billionth chance will happen because of infinity rerolls. That all atoms in the universe at random and at the same time revert back to a previous state they were in. The book doesn’t like to comment too much on whether the theory is viable or not just that it exists.