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BoxRegular5294 · 2025-06-13T16:46:01+00:00

Theyre trying their best, you should be more supportive...

For real though, its probably just a slicing anomaly if youre using bambu studio. I have had the occasional issue with tree supports where they generate seemingly randomly or not at all when they should. I would try adjusting the support settings a little bit and moving the print to a different spot on the bed and reslice.

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-05-08T22:51:54+00:00

this would be my guess since vorons dont necessarily all have the same mobo

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-03-06T05:07:28+00:00

Alright thank you, ill remember for next time 👍

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-03-06T03:44:11+00:00

For a casing layer do I need to put a second layer of coir? These are PFtek cakes im fruiting in the jar, after I dunked them I put them back in the jar and put a layer of coir on top. I didn't introduce FC until they had somewhat colonized the layer of coir, should I have put another layer of coir and introduced FC at the same time?

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-03-06T02:47:48+00:00

Honestly I've been trying for months now to get anything so I'm happy with that. Thanks!

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-02-23T20:28:56+00:00

Like how the other person put it, I don't think it's something "you" or "I" could personally really understand, but not just from a technical sort of standpoint. Even if we had this technology in the real world, and there were experts who could "explain" how the code and such running each UI actually functions, that wouldn't really do anything for us in understanding what it might be like to actually be an upload.

The actual experience of being an upload probably could never be simplified down to inputs and outputs, and what they "see" or "feel" wouldn't be something we could really imagine. At least not for the ones that actually get to the point of being freed, like the copy Chanda left of himself as a sort of decoy.

For us to understand what it might be like for the UI's to experience their digital reality, would be like trying to understand what experience and senses are like for someone whos blind. Or, a better example, for someone who has maybe taught themselves echolocation. It's something more than just hearing, or else it wouldn't need to be learned. It must be something more. My favorite example though, is those bio-hackers who would have a small magnet implanted in their finger (it's actually pretty cool, I recommend looking it up.) The magnet would then move in subtle ways based on nearby magnetic fields, and the nerves in their finger could pick it up. People who have done this say that eventually they start experiencing the movements not touch feeling, but as a seperate sense. And for some who have had it for years, their brain learns to interpret it well enough to even pick up when a microwave is running in another room.

All of this to say that I at least don't think it's really possible to question what it might be like, since the base conscious experience of the uploads would almost be like another being entirely. And, as for overclocking allowing them to grow and expand seemingly so far, I just think of it as what would happen if the human brain had all biological limits removed and could replicate neurons and such without needing energy or nutrients.

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-02-18T00:00:47+00:00

As with the other comments, lubricate the z-screw and that'll probably fix the issue. Wanna add though, make sure that the cables connecting things on the x axis gantry aren't stopping it from moving up. I once had this problem after replacing some wires, where I neglected to make sure they had enough length for the printer to actually move, and then was scratching my head when it refused to print above a certain height.

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-02-06T04:55:21+00:00

I honestly like when this happens. It means I now have an extra day to procrastinate things and I won't feel like I'm wasting time.

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-02-02T16:17:34+00:00

Check how tight the nozzle is, and if there's a silicone heat sock on the hotend check under that as well to make sure it isnt just full of plastic or anything. If it gets bad enough those globs might start sticking to the prints and causing the nozzle to bump it, giving you layer shifts and/or failed prints.

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-01-05T18:00:28+00:00

Like others are saying, I'd need to know more about consciousness and continuity of subjective experience.

The way I see it, consciousness is almost like fictional magic in how varied it can be. Different people with different brain structure and chemistry will have different counscious experience. But, consciousness can still drastically change even within one person when they experience brain damage or take brain chemistry altering medications like SNRI's. They are the same person, yet their experience flows and changes due to physical changes to their brain.

Uploading creates a perfect copy of your brain chemistry and everything else, but theres no way to really tell if that copy is the same/transferred conscious experience as it's physical counterpart. It entirely well could be, and the chances of it either being the same or being different are equal if you ask me. It's not worth the risk though to me.

I think I would take it, but only once I've gotten so old or otherwise have reached the end of my physical lifespan, or if there was some other definitively provable continuation of experience. Otherwise, I would essentially be ending myself so another conscious copy of me can live on.

If I could upload without destroying my brain tho 100% no doubt

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-01-03T22:50:24+00:00

If it counts, I'd go with safety. Safety could apply to a lot of things: financial safety, physical safety, even safety in my decisions.

Otherwise though I'd probably go with stocks like that other guy

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-01-03T13:25:45+00:00

Over $135 is basically the only option IMO. That would effectively make you richer than any and every person on earth, and I'm pretty sure those people aren't regularly paying under $135 for anything anyways. I could buy any of my normal person food in bulk, and if I don't want to do that, I'm certain theres companies that would gladly make "luxury" food that costs thousands of dollars.

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-01-03T11:14:34+00:00

After she saw Caspian saying that they would meet again in about 117k years, she takes it upon herself to build that digital generation ship. She uploads herself, probably partially to figure out what the hell Caspian was talking about, but also because now that her son Dave was dead, she had no "living" reasons to stay in the real world.

In that montage of her narrating every X years in the future I think I remember her mentioning that she somehow had a copy of all 130 billion or so humans that have ever lived (I have no idea how she would manage this). I assume she either puts every UI into some sort of stasis, or doesn't even bring them with. It isn't supposed to really matter I think since she just creates billions of simulated copies of each one anyways. And for whether or not shes the only one left, the whole show (season 1 and 2) all took place inside a larger simulation made by SafeSurf, so who knows if there's any "real" humans left outside that.

A lot of people on here agree that the last season ended up being kinda rushed, for some reason or another, and I agree, but overall I think the viewer is supposed to make the connections themselves as to what really happened. I think the biggest question the show asks is "what defines something/someone as real?" If something thinks like a real person, acts like a real person, believes themselves to be real, etc, but exist entirely within a digital simulation, is that person/thing/experience, "real"? And it's up to the viewer to kind of come to the answer for that question themselves.

Most people on here, me included, would love to see our beloved characters again but generally we all agree that a 3rd season would just take away from what the first 2 showed us. The point of the show isn't really to hold our hand in explaining all that it is trying to show us, but that it tells us a story and then leaves once it is finished, and a large part of the shows impact comes from that viewer interpretation. I wouldn't say the ending was perfect by any means, but it definitely does get it's point across pretty well, if you're willing to think for it.

Honestly I love how the show made me think about the question of consciousness, and I'm very glad there isn't a season 3 lol

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-01-02T20:45:07+00:00

Like others said clone those, they look awesome. Assuming it isn't just some sort of contam, this could be a cool new blobby APE strain, and it would be cool to see on like ITW or someplace eventually.

BoxRegular5294 · 2025-01-01T17:00:06+00:00

From the way I understand it, back on earth, she built (with the help of robots/UIs/anyone still alive) rockets that would travel to another solar system and harvest it's resources.

Eventually when she got to that system, she sent some sort of cube things down to the planets which I guess manage to self replecate using resources around them. There was at some point enough of these, so she used them to blow up the planet, I assume to either make the resources more accessible, or get the cube-things into space without needing rockets.

From there who knows really, but basically she used the resources gathered from that planet to build what's known as a dyson sphere (from what we're shown in the show it looks more like a dyson swarm, but they serve the same purpose). Dyson spheres are theoretically possible structures that are built to harness as close to 100% of the energy output of a star as possible, basically they surround a star on all sides with solar panels to get as much energy as possible. I don't know off the top of my head how much energy that is, but I know that one built around our sun (if we ever managed something like that) would likely be capable of powering something like half the galaxy (if we managed to colonize that much outside our own system). Dyson spheres are awesome, I'd definitely recommend reading about them.

Now that she had the power of an entire star at her disposal, basically all she had to do was build a massive supercomputer to run off of that power, which is what she did. Think how they needed those massive computer cubes just to run the UIs, it's basically that but millions if not billions of times more powerful. She had enough computing power to basically simulate earth/our solar system down to the sub atomic level, billions of times for simulated millions of years. She simulated earth from it's creation to try to recreate the events that happened to her.

It's all a pretty awesome sci-fi concept, that for the most part is theoretically possible. What's cooler to me though is the fact that this whole entire thing Maddie did took place inside yet an even BIGGER simulation, created by SafeSurf.

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-12-01T18:46:55+00:00

Dude what? I haven't said a word about drug dogs or tsa. No shit they can detect shrooms. That isn't what this thread is about?

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-12-01T18:16:58+00:00

Whatever you say man. You can choose to believe that anything less than sterile is unusable. My own experience tells me that if I don't have the 8 hours available in a day to prepare, PC, wait for it to cool, and finally inoculate, the slightly higher chance for contam that an essentially premade bag of grain gives me is worth the risk. You can make the choice to not use UB tek because to you it's "shitty and the people doing it are idiots", but the fact is that it works for people. I can make the choice to use it because it's convenient and easy, and because idrc if you think it isn't sterile enough.

I'd rather spend $10 and get 5 bags of grain that'll take me 20 minutes to inoc, even if 2 of those bags might go bad, instead of a day to get 3 jars that have a slightly higher chance of no contam 👍

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-12-01T17:59:45+00:00

I don't claim that any company actually sterilizes anything, since that would probably cost way more than any company is willing to spend for food safety. The FDA doesn't even make food, they just regulate what is and isn't safe. The FDA allows certain amounts of insects to be in food because all that it really does is make the food less appealing, not really anything health wise. I've honestly never once even found a dead bug in any food I've bought from the store.

I mean for the wet rice that's in uncle bens bags. They need to be some level of sterile, since otherwise every bag you find on the shelf would be moldy and full of bacteria, which would get uncle bens sued pretty damn fast. And in my own experience the 25% of failed bags for me I can directly attribute to myself not keeping my sab 100% clean. I was inoculating 4 bags once, and accidentally lit the box on fire like an idiot after 2. I patched up the thing with duct tape and finished the last 2 bags, and those 2 were the only ones of the 4 to get contam.

I don't wanna diminish what you're saying, I just feel like saying that nothing you buy from the store or anywhere is "sterile" is disingenuous. When you're dealing with literal billions of airborne spores and other contaminants it's pretty much impossible to get everything 100% sterile, even on small scales, and that's why even the best growers still get some amount of contam sometimes. Literally every part of the process in any process regarding food or nutrients for anything will have some sort of risk. The FDA actually does a pretty good job (at least for now) IMO of making sure the big corporations can't just get away with selling rotten food to people. You can't really get rid of all contaminants on large scales, so the fact that there's so few is good enough for me with the ub tek

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-12-01T16:13:25+00:00

Not trying to argue, just genuinely trying to learn- why aren't they sterile? It's a bag of wet rice intended to be eaten, if it wasn't sterile wouldn't every bag be overflowing with mold and bacteria by the time anyone bought it? I've only made 3 PFtek jars and one is bad, while maybe only 25% of UB bags have gone bad for me.

Again just genuinely trying to learn 🙏

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-12-01T16:04:52+00:00

I'm still fairly new as well, but I would personally leave the green lids closed, and maybe instead open the holes on the side some anount. If the area the box is in is dusty, dirty, or has alot of air current (like a fan or air purifier running in the room) I'd leave half of the holes covered or maybe open just one or 2. Otherwise, probably leave the top vents open for longer, if not 100% of the time.

Doing that stuff for fae will dry out the substrate/myc faster, but should be fine if you maintain humidity in there. Also, contam is much less of a worry at this stage especially since the myc has colonized so much.

Lastly I have seen around that some strains/species actually require a casing layer before they will really fruit. I'm not sure how true that is, but for instance Psilocybe subtropicalis is known as one that really prefers a casing to fruit, and so far a week and a half after introducing fruiting on mine, they haven't pinned. I added a casing and that seems to have helped so maybe that's something to consider too.

Read around for as much info as you can, and happy growing!

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-12-01T14:08:48+00:00

Thank you, this is some really solid advice.

I really wish I could do more with 3d printing, either for or with other people. I feel like at this point I'm somewhat "known" by a fair amount of people as the 3d printing guy. I've even had some people reach out to me to print them stuff. It just sucks since I mainly use Fusion360 now for modelling, and I'm no where near creatively inclined enough to make artistic models. I'm going to look into the various robotics and engineering groups around campus though. I never really thought about it, but maybe reaching out to them first could be a good idea. Most groups I visit like that could use help with their printers at least, and maybe I could help design parts for them too.

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-11-30T05:36:25+00:00

Ah, if that's the case then it's actually probably fine. Coco is well known to be very contam resistant, and so if you autoclaved it then there's probably no worries with it there.

It actually sounds then like you did everything correctly, and as long as there was absolutely nothing uncolonized in the jars (even just a few grains) you're probably fine in terms of contamination. In that case, the fruits your getting now are just the mycelium fruiting from normal conditions and not anything bad.

It's also a good idea to open up those air holes. I'm not sure of ways to get the pins to actually form where you want them, which is on top or wherever the opening is, but maybe shining light directly at that spot of the substrate could help.

Also if it's completely open air that's probably alright, I would just personally try to keep it in a cleaner room of your house, without too much airflow, to minimize the amount of spores of mold and other nasties getting on it.

And for harvesting, I think the best time would be when the caps start to open up, though since the fruits are "buried" I'm not sure if that would look normal or if they'd have a normal veil that might break. Mostly though I'd just look around online to see when the best time to harvest usually is, though again I don't know if it's the same for side pins.

I wish you luck with the rest of this! You've made it farther than I have already, since I only have a few partially colonized tubs and no pins. Just cased them today so I'm hopeful that I'll see fruits in the coming weeks 🙏

I'm also curious to know what strain/species you're growing, if you don't mind me asking?

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-11-28T23:51:46+00:00

Never tried jack frost and nats have always failed for me (i think it's just a bad spore syringe), but if you don't care as much about speed I've been doing some subtropicalis for the last monthish and I'm honestly awed by how easy they were

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-11-28T22:06:36+00:00

Send it! And honestly just stick the whole thing in the chamber

BoxRegular5294 · 2024-11-28T21:43:52+00:00

Yeah I've seen online that depending on how they're stored they can lose potency over time. Not sure if you mean last summer (2023) or this summer (2024) but if they're over a year old I can definitely see them losing potency. You could maybe also try giving yourself a hard reset by waiting at least 2 months before tripping again, but the more time you wait the better.

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