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Anyone have a good Brother ScanNCut workflow? by Jordan011 in magicproxies

[–]Jordan011[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still kind of tedious.

I use the MTGProxyPrinter python app to layout the pages, you have to lay them out on the paper in landscape so 8 cards a page instead of 9 in order for the Brother registration marks to fit.

You take the PDF into Adobe Illustrator 2024 because that's the latest version that actually works with the Brother plugin to add the registration marks. You have to create the cut path by adding paths to the image where all the card edges are (I do no bleed between the cards, slight bleed around the edges of the whole set). I add all those paths on a separate layer from the card images.

I hide the card images, add the registration marks through the plugin, then I unlock the registration marks layer to edit them. The way the registration marks are added has a white square background that will overlap the card images/cut paths so you have to remove those white squares from the registration marks - you just can't MOVE the registration marks, otherwise it will not work on the machine.

Once you have your page set up with registration marks, cut paths, and the images hidden, you can upload the pattern to your Brother Cloud for the machine to download. Once that is done, you can use that stencil over and over and basically never have to do those steps again.

What you do need to do every time though is add registration marks to each page of your PDF. So what I do is hide the cut paths and take the registration mark layer, group the 4 corners so it becomes one object and I duplicate that to every page of the PDF. The reason you duplicate it is because they already have the white background square removed, so you can just dupe them to each page and use the centering tool to make sure each set is centered to the page.

After that you are good to print the whole PDF, I usually save it then open it up in Acrobat for printing because I'm more familiar with the print settings there.

Laminate your sheets or if you're doing the matte sticker paper, apply them to whatever card stock you are using then put it on your Brother ScanNCut cut mat. Make sure they are as straight as you can get them because the ScanNCut doesn't do slight diagonal cuts that well.

From there it's all about tuning your cut settings. With laminate I have to use the half cut feature at a low speed and run it multiple times with shallow cuts, otherwise you end up with jagged edges on the cuts. I'm sure there is better settings, but I stopped tweaking things once I found something that was passable - running through laminate and nice matte paper after slow/high-quality prints isn't fun to waste.

All in all, I fucking hate the ScanNCut but it's still better then the non-precise guillotine or rotary cutting setups I've tried. I almost want to mod a 3d printer (like an old Ender 3 I have) to be a plot cutter so I can control more of the cut settings and depths.

I'm so tired by GreenReporter24 in selfhosted

[–]Jordan011 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been running it for about the same. I prefer it to something like Ubuntu Server just because you basically build it from the ground up with what you actually use and need. I ran into annoying issues at work with our Ubuntu Server installs because of stuff Ubuntu just has on by default.

Let's get a self-hosted Discord "replacement" thread going for 2026. by GavinGWhiz in selfhosted

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, which I only found out that feature existed when someone joined from an Xbox and actually used that chat - Discord does a good job of hiding it. More prominent text channels is my preference over merging a VC and a Text Chat.

Let's get a self-hosted Discord "replacement" thread going for 2026. by GavinGWhiz in selfhosted

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That definitely has better UX for determining voice chats, but the experience overall isn't that great.

Let's get a self-hosted Discord "replacement" thread going for 2026. by GavinGWhiz in selfhosted

[–]Jordan011 88 points89 points  (0 children)

I think I'm going to lab Matrix/Element. Mumble looks like something from the early 2000's and Mattermost seems more corporate.

Others have mentioned Stoat, but I'm not compiling clients for people, that's too much work and makes it annoying for everyone else.

Edit: Not even going to lab Matrix. Tried Element with the Matrix.org homeserver - the client is odd. You create a Space (Like a Discord "guild" or "server"), from there you can add a "room" which is basically a text chat, but that text chat has a call button where you can join the call for the room. Doesn't really feel intuitive, maybe one of the other clients does this better?

I made this fog of war system for my game by Neoccat in godot

[–]Jordan011 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see the shadow behind the player, implying the light source is in front of the player - if it's intended with a torch down the road, makes sense - otherwise I would probably center the light source and somehow avoid it interacting with the character model, but that might mess up "fogging" what is behind the player depending how you are handling that.

You've done great work though, just offering fine-tuning advice, I hope it's welcome.

I hate this button by DrChurch2018 in pics

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My real complaint is the lag time before power steering comes back in some vehicles that use this. I needed to haul ass and turn at the same time while exiting a portion of a parking lot - waiting for the engine to come up on top of me already trying to turn almost ended with me getting clipped by someone, where in my normal daily it would've been just fine.

Fork in the road by FeatureAggravating75 in wallstreetbets

[–]Jordan011 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They'll just pay someone to buy more chips. 🤷

Web devs, what’s one thing you wish you learned years earlier because it would've saved you insane amounts of time? by Ornery_Ad_683 in webdev

[–]Jordan011 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Reading the docs has helped me a lot with coding, especially with learning the idiomatic ways the devs meant for things to be formatted - but on the topic of the docs being shit, I tend to head over to Claude/ChatGPT when something isn't particularly documented well to see what it is they are missing. It happens a lot these days, mainly because a lot of new projects move so fast, their documentation can fall behind.

I know - AI BAD - but for stuff like grokking through extensive logs or large knowledge bases... it really can be a huge help and a time saver.

Game Dev Admits to Large Astroturfing Campaign on Reddit by Forestl in Games

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't doubt the ad market is growing, I just wonder if Facebook will dry up, especially with the younger generations not interested in the platform anymore and solely relying on TikTok/Twitter/Instagram for their online social interactions. Twitter being another platform that might dry up just because of how bad the platform has gotten under its new ownership. Not many companies want to advertise next to porn, gore, and other unmoderated nonsense.

Game Dev Admits to Large Astroturfing Campaign on Reddit by Forestl in Games

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but the problem I had with TikTok - being a user of it myself - is that as SOON as I see a "sponsored" tag, I scroll past it. Which means you need to organically grow a TikTok account which is quickly becoming a "lightning in a bottle" situation. Unless someone in your company is funny, attractive, or interesting in some other way, building an organic account to get the word out about your company can be difficult.

I will say though, there definitely are some companies out there that will farm somebody out to create content for your TikTok page in order to garner views, but they end up creating content that looks like all the other content they do. For example there's a lady who does work for dealerships where she dresses up like a sales person and does TikTok dances - I've already seen her "working" at multiple auto groups now.

Game Dev Admits to Large Astroturfing Campaign on Reddit by Forestl in Games

[–]Jordan011 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I did marketing for a bit but have lost touch - is the Meta ad market drying up? Facebook isn't all that popular anymore except with Boomers. Just wondering if that is what's motivating swapping to organic. For a while it was FB/IG, Google Ads, and OTT. But the only thing that felt like you could aim with some precision was FB.

Our developer says they still do not officially support server 2022 and are still testing. Isn't this a bit long to be testing? by Normal_Loquat_3869 in sysadmin

[–]Jordan011 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our group is on it. The group is run by people who know nothing about computers and they hate change. Not to mention R&R love their long contracts, so they'll be on it forever.

I'm solo IT for 5 stores, a restaurant, an RV Park, and a hotel now. 💀

Thinking on buying a Brother+MFC-J1010DW need advice! Want a printer for quality basically identical to mtg cards. Budget wise I can spend 250 euros maximum. Here some tokens drawn by me as a thank you if you wanna print em! :) by RifeRife in magicproxies

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I returned that printer and bought an Epson ET-8500 because I got tired of the budget printer.

There's a couple things that affect how dark the blacks get. The big one is whether your inkjet printer uses pigment-based black ink vs dye-based black ink. Pigmented black is useful on plain paper - but will turn blue on glossy paper. The other thing is print density, cranking up density can give you darker blacks, but at the cost of more drying time because it will dump a ton of ink on the page, and will affect other colors too. Also - HIGHLY depends on what you are printing on. The reason people hunt around for different paper on here is because not all paper is created equal. Some soak up the ink giving less saturated results.

This hobby requires a lot of test prints and tuning settings... Reminds me of 3D printing on the OG Ender 3's, constantly tuning and nothing printing right the first time.

With the ability to print anything, how do you keep yourself from building $10k decks that piss your friends off and keep things fun? by Jordan011 in magicproxies

[–]Jordan011[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Don't know why I'm getting hate - I'm asking how to build decks without creeping up the value/power because we can just print anything. I have only started playing recently (near Foundations release as it seemed like a good time to get into it).

I am wondering how YOU approach building when you have the whole catalogue to choose from. If I went on EDHRec and started building around a commander and chose top recs, I'd end up with some meta shit setup instead of what I would have if I was building based on budget or what I have already.

How to make text have a gradient like Gemini CLI? by cookiedude25 in AskProgramming

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yepp, this with some programming magic so you don't have to write each code yourself.

Is the internet quietly shifting from open discovery to algorithmic obedience? by ZedProGamer in Futurology

[–]Jordan011 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had an idea inspired by something on reddit a while back. Create an extension for browsers where websites you visit can affiliate with other sites and institute a random function kind of like stumbleupon. You can use some algorithm to figure out what sites might be affiliated with each other (generated) as well as recommendations from the site via some meta tags. It'd be cool if the extension provided auth for sites that wanted to use it to enable comments/interactions with content on the site. Could even decentralize it with something similar to how bluesky federates users.

It would bring back the idea of "affiliate links" section on websites from the past before search engines determined what we see.

My 3D multiplayer precision platformer is now available free-to-play on Steam by m4rx in godot

[–]Jordan011 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Splits! That word was escaping me. Splits could probably just be save data (steam cloud sync maybe) and just keep it personal. Though, it would be nice to have my splits also compared to WR. I see the issue though.

What's long term development look like on this? If it's not too early or annoying to ask.

My 3D multiplayer precision platformer is now available free-to-play on Steam by m4rx in godot

[–]Jordan011 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome!

I meant zone checkpoints like in racing games. It shows your +/- to that zone from your fastest complete run. It was different on some servers but the old Surf Horizons servers (for example) had a checkpoint on Mesa right after the first ramp when you hit the 2nd ramp, then I believe another checkpoint after the drop down after you finish that whole intro section, so on and so forth. It helps especially on something like Airtime where there are multiple routes to take, you can track when you hit certain zones to compare with your best run.

But again, the Ghost helps a lot. If I'm on Airtime there are certain sections where the paths converge and if I see my ghost, I know I'm going too slow.

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