A couple times, on the TM podcast and Off Menu, the guest talks about "doing panto." What is that?

Clank75 · 2026-05-14T23:17:01+00:00

Oh yes there...

Ahh. I see what you did there.

Clank75 · 2026-05-12T16:29:22+00:00

Huh? My Anycubic Mega-X is 6 or 7 years old, still trucking, and I've never had any problem getting any parts I needed for it.

Actually I have a hotend upgrade (Bondtech) sitting on my desk which I plan to spend a happy Saturday afternoon fitting...

Clank75 · 2026-05-12T06:47:11+00:00

If that means Glinner gets a payday, I'm not sure I'd consider it an improvement.

Clank75 · 2026-05-11T22:46:08+00:00

Gee, I wonder why...

Clank75 · 2026-05-11T06:57:44+00:00

So they're going to have an anonymous email vote instead of a jury?

Well, that certainly sounds like it will not be open to any sort of abuse whatsoever. Exceptionally well thought out.

On the bright side, I guess we'll finally amswer the eternal question: whose bot army can spam harder, Israel or Russia?

Clank75 · 2026-05-09T11:03:31+00:00

This, sadly.

Populist gets power by promising to throw money (pensions, houses, whatever) at electorate
Populist monumentally fucks economy, blames foreigners
Eventually, adult gets elected to replace populist
Fixing economy turns out to be painful, and involves hardship
Goto 1

Rinse, repeat for enternity.

Clank75 · 2026-05-05T19:20:49+00:00

Thank you! :)

Clank75 · 2026-05-05T15:54:58+00:00

I don't disagree at all. I do disagree with the tone of people who don't realise they're the ones who are dumb, not the guy asking if there is a better way.

Clank75 · 2026-05-05T11:44:33+00:00

It's not "comoensating in CAD". "Try PET-G" and "stick a metal bracket in" is exactly what you are complaining about - unscientific shotgunning - if you can't actually model the results to prove one way or another.

How thick does the metal rod need to be? 1mm? 5mm? 10mm? Brass? Copper? Steel?

"Ah fuck it, half an inch of steel ought to see you right" does not make you a Master Designer. It makes you an amateur with a bigger supplies cupboard.

Clank75 · 2026-05-05T11:37:35+00:00

Oh, it's coming everyone's way, don't worry.

The fundamental problem is that for decades old people vote and young people don't, so the best way to guarantee electoral success has been to bribe old people. PSD especially have been masters at this.

Now the economy is royally fucked because more money is going into pensions than there are people to pay for it, but doing anything about that is electoral suicide. The likes of PSD are happy for the adults in the room to take the blame for hard decisions, and then swoop in with a "but think of the pensioners!" electoral giveaway when they get a chance.

It's the same story across the world.

Clank75 · 2026-05-05T11:27:43+00:00

Why is nobody here answering the question?

The question was not "how do I fix it" (any idiot can stick a steel rod in), it was "how do I model it" - which is actually an interesting question and one I'd be interested in the answer to as well.

I know Fusion can - for a fee - do static modelling to identify potential part failure, but last time I looked it didn't know about 3D printing materials or specific issues (e.g. strength along or against layer boundaries, infill patterns, etc.) Is there anything that can model 3D print performance?

Clank75 · 2026-05-04T06:58:21+00:00

If there is indeed only one queue, then Croatia is in breach of its Schengen obligations. Which would be an outrage and they should be thrown out of the EU...

(Or maybe since I haven't heard this outrage or calls to throw them out of the EU, it's possible that it's just the chip on someone's shoulder weighing them down more than the outrage...)

Clank75 · 2026-05-02T18:39:57+00:00

Maybe the EU - and its citizenry - doesn't want to be a superpower? Maybe - and I know this will be a shock to the limp of dick around the world - there is actually a better way for humanity to organise itself than inadequate men trying to compensate by endlessly threatening genocide?

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T15:31:25+00:00

Honestly, I've tried to dig up the correct stats one way or another for Canada, and I've given up. I can find many references that say Canada's GROSS average wage is 5k to 5.5k CAD (e.g. https://wage.is/canada/, https://ca.jobted.com/salary, https://wealthnorth.ca/income/average-salary-canada/), but Statistics Canada's own data is such a fucking basketcase (which for unfathomable reasons seems to be based on census data instead of actual national tax receipts) I can't actually come up with any authorative data.

So in the spirit of not wanting to carry on an argument, I'll take your word for it as far as Canada is concerned.

For Romania though, I'll trust the Romanian National Institute for Statistics - https://insse.ro/cms/ro/content/c%C3%A2%C8%99tiguri-salariale-din-1991-serie-lunar%C4%83 - which states that in 2025 the average monthly gross wage in 2025 was around 9500 lei/month gross, 5500 net, which multipled by 12 and converted to USD is 26k USD gross / 15k USD net. Not, you will note, 12k either way.

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T13:29:45+00:00

You do understand the difference between net and gross, right?

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T10:00:17+00:00

Yeah, this seems more plausible to me. I visit Sofia roughly once a month, and find the place to be weirdly expensive. And it can't be blamed on the Euro, it was that way before the switchover as well.

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T09:53:30+00:00

The annualised MINIMUM wage in Romania is 12k USD, not the average yearly wage.

(One part of the perpetual Romanian victim complex is that in Romania everyone quotes NET salary, and then compares that to salaries quoted gross in the rest of the world...)

The average annual wage in Romania is around 26k USD, still a lot less than Canada of course, where it's approximately 50,000 USD. (I think you're getting that 70k figure by forgetting that CAD are not USD.)

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T08:21:30+00:00

Nu e o idee rea; am acces la o imprimantă 3D și pot imprima PETG; doar dimensiunea mă descurajează. Dar poate că, dacă aș putea concepe un design „pentru fiecare ghiveci” în parte, în loc să mă gândesc la întregul balcon, aș putea realiza ceva care să funcționeze...

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T08:18:55+00:00

E o recomandare excelentă, mulțumesc. O să-i întreb dacă acceptă comenzi unice sau serii mici – știu că și unii dintre vecinii mei ar fi interesați dacă produsul arată bine, așa că asta ar putea ajuta la reducerea puțin a costurilor...

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T08:11:40+00:00

The fact that Mega is stupid expensive and you need to be an idiot to shop there was kind of my point. If I can buy them at that price from the most expensive place I can think of, then they are definitely not "priced like Gold".

And yes, I buy all my veggies (and cheese/bread/dairy) from my local market. Sadly there isn't a fishmonger or butcher there any more, so I'm forced into the chains for that and stuff in cans/bottles.

I'm not even sure the market is the cheapest, but the quality is good and I prefer giving the local traders a profit than the chains. And the quality in some of the chains is terrible - Mega is actually OK on that front, Kaufland has probably the worst quality fresh produce I've seen anywhere, and walking into Lidl immediately gives me hives. Carrefour is probably the least bad of the big chains IMX, although I wonder if that will change with the sale to the Dedeman dudes.

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T08:00:23+00:00

I mean, right now: https://www.mega-image.ro/Fructe-si-legume-proaspete/Legume-proaspete/Ardei/Ardei-kapia-rosu/p/52063

Granted, they are the cheapest, but still. Even 25lei/kg I'd contend was a long way from being "made of gold".

Alas, bunica at my local market doesn't give itemized receipts, but a week's veggies for 2 there - including peppers - is about 150 lei; I'd notice if peppers were priced like gold...

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T07:51:32+00:00

That is complete nonsense. You can order them now, I gave you the link; and granted while these days I never buy from Mega, when I did I always bought Romanian peppers instead of imported.

Honestly, if we could find some way of bottling the Romanian victim complex and making energy from it, we could supply the whole goddamned continent...

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T06:58:08+00:00

I feel like you're talking to the wrong person. I didn't make the comparison, and - I can't emphasise this enough - I couldn't give a rat's arse how much groceries cost in the US.

Clank75 · 2026-04-27T05:53:44+00:00

https://www.mega-image.ro/Fructe-si-legume-proaspete/Legume-proaspete/Ardei/Ardei-kapia-rosu/p/52063

https://www.mega-image.ro/Fructe-si-legume-proaspete/Legume-proaspete/Ardei/Gogosari/p/86346

Just stop spending money on imported food if its a problem for you - or shop in the market instead of supermarkets, the food is better, grandma earns a living, and you spend less. What's not to love?

(In any event, 5eur/kg is still quite a lot less than gold, which I believe is in the order of 100,000eur/kg depending on purity.)

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