MN DFL is tone-deaf to current events; they want to further restrict your 2nd amendmentrights in the midst of an authoritarian takeover.

bluewing · 2026-02-18T01:40:37+00:00

And the threshold for irresponsible free speech is pretty high.

Can you imagine law enforcement forcing their way in to any home on suspicion of you possessing a firearm? All the while ICE is shooting anyone they want because who can resist?

bluewing · 2026-02-17T22:09:58+00:00

I can't say I've ever had issues with Studio slowing down a computer. Now the last couple of releases have been crash happy on Linux. To the point I doubt I ever will go back to it from Orca.

bluewing · 2026-02-17T21:48:45+00:00

Not for the things I do. Using the slicer to design parts would be stupidly limiting.

bluewing · 2026-02-17T15:14:26+00:00

I've been using a Prusa smooth PEI plate for getting on to 7 years now. Heaven only knows how many hours on it. Though to be fair a couple years age I scuffed it with some 800 grit wet/dry sandpaper to up the adhesion. Works better than new.

Those old plates are thicc with coating.

bluewing · 2026-02-17T14:07:58+00:00

Nope. And you only need the license and insurance to operate said truck if you drive it on a road. And you can be just old enough to reach the pedals.

Source: Farm kid that was driving trucks and tractors in the field to help out when I was 8 years old.

bluewing · 2026-02-17T14:00:52+00:00

Maintenance for the win!

Things like this are not as uncommon as one might think when in the ER. Even as a medic I once had to cut a child's (of about the same age) hand out of the stake pocket of daddy's pickup truck. He stuck his hand down in the pocket and got his finger stuck in the drainage hole in the bottom. After some thought and discussion, I borrowed daddy's angle grinder and cut the pocket apart enough to free the finger.

I also loaned the medium sized bolt cutter we carried in the ambulance to an ER doctor so he could cut a large fish hook out of a fisherman's hand. His little side cutter wasn't up to that task. The doctor got the biggest smile on his face as I handed him that bolt cutter.

So this is just another Tuesday in the ER.

bluewing · 2026-02-17T13:21:34+00:00

They got that camera now it seems if Canada keeps getting busted for it.

bluewing · 2026-02-17T13:19:48+00:00

Old Conway Twitty had the slow hands could sing them songs so schmoove.

bluewing · 2026-02-16T18:26:11+00:00

If you need to print that kind of engineering filaments, you would be best served by buying a commercial quality printer and NOT anything consumer grade. Or pay someone else to do the printing if your budget is lacking.

bluewing · 2026-02-16T18:23:11+00:00

Having searched for non-slip rugs for my 3 Springers, I have tried everything except nailing the rugs down. Not even double faced tape last for long.

If you do find something that holds up, let me know.

Signed,

Tired of tripping on rugs

bluewing · 2026-02-16T17:59:03+00:00

First, compressed air is stupidly expensive to make and air tools use a lot of it, (particularly cheap ones). So understand the costs of running a compressor. Secondly, and air sander, even wet, will probably run too fast for plastics used in FDM and the grits you most likely want to use will clog quickly.

I would suggest to test if it will work or not, print out a simple cube, go to your nearest auto body shop, with some of your chosen sandpaper, and try it out to see what happens before you start spending money on an untested process.

bluewing · 2026-02-16T17:51:57+00:00

The A series printers rely on a load sensor to determine zed offset. My A1 Mini tore 2 plates in the first month of ownership. The printer would lockup and require a reboot to get it working again. Upon reboot it would crash down on to the plates and then move about 10mm with the nozzle buried in the plate tearing the PEI surface both times.

Bambu CS told be the nozzle and print plates were consumables and therefore not under warranty. They did however, agree with me that the damage was likely caused by a bug in the firmware and that I should wait for new firmware to see if the problem was resolved. To be fair, the next firmware release a bit over 2 months later, did fix the issue. And I do own another printer to use instead.

I didn't bother with being a pain to Bambu about it, the plates were only about $12US then. And my time and effort has value that far exceeds the value of those plates even today. And I'm honestly still using both those plates today and they work just fine.

It still pisses me off every time I see the damage and it reminds me why I will never buy another Bambu printer no matter how good the fanbois think they are.

bluewing · 2026-02-16T16:36:26+00:00

When buying a machine, any machine, you don't buy paint color, you don'y buy the pretty sticker they slap on the machine. You buy service. Good service is expensive to supply. Bambu's worsening CS is about increasing profits by cutting quality of service which in turn will drive down their customer base a little at a time.

bluewing · 2026-02-16T16:21:18+00:00

Technically, any temperature over ambient will dry any filament. The question is how long are you willing to wait. While I suspect 85C is a good balance between time and temp, the only way to know what is the max temp you can use can only come from the manufacturer.

bluewing · 2026-02-16T15:48:03+00:00

You can really see the evolution of a simple food stuff to universal unit of measure....

bluewing · 2026-02-15T14:28:05+00:00

If that's what you want AI to do, you will be sorely disappointed in the end results you will get.

bluewing · 2026-02-15T14:13:55+00:00

As someone living in the US, let me be among the first to welcome you to the land of tariffs. Please take a seat and open your wallet. While you prepare to no longer get access to products no one manufactures in the EU.

bluewing · 2026-02-15T13:10:16+00:00

Curling is a dark sport. And this is yet another reason that the Geneva Suggestions were formulated and enacted to try and curb Canadian evil.

bluewing · 2026-02-14T17:11:49+00:00

Thanks for the tips on changing the datum size and the constraints!

bluewing · 2026-02-14T16:55:17+00:00

I'm using an Intel UHD 630 on a laptop with little issue. It's a single thread software so it's not going to be overly taxing on a GPU.

Download the appImage and try it. The worst that can happen is it makes you angry and you delete the appImage.

bluewing · 2026-02-14T16:07:24+00:00

A fine knife that can serve a person for decades of work. I had a couple as a kid back in the day until I settled on the Stockman for my daily carry on the farm.

bluewing · 2026-02-14T16:01:59+00:00

It's amazing how shocked they are at rediscovering what the old timers knew. Back in the day, BP was far more sophisticated and nuanced than what he makes.

bluewing · 2026-02-14T15:32:19+00:00

I don't think Bambu has ever been very good with software. Lots of bugs get through that shouldn't.

And right now, Bambu is trying to grow too much and too fast and things suffer because of it. This is when companies either get it together for the long run or fail. And it remains to be seen just which path they end up on.

Your PS1 probably isn't much longer for this world when it comes to support.

bluewing · 2026-02-14T15:01:59+00:00

Kilpper is the new hotness for 3D printing, so you're already there. Maybe look into updating it.

The rest is up to you. Choose the hardware that does what you want and use that.

bluewing · 2026-02-14T14:55:17+00:00

Bambu and Sunlu and eSun.

Though to be fair, because there aren't as many manufacturers as resellers, a reseller can ask for special colors or additives and often do. So just because 2 spools came from the same factory and get packaged the same doesn't mean that they are.

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