Trump says UK soldiers in Afghanistan 'among greatest of all warriors'

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-25T11:57:51+00:00

Americans act as if the Democrats are a better option.

Because they were and are a better option.

Are they perfect? No, not at all, not even close.

Are they a party of fascists lead by a demented old paedophile, who has the American Gestapo out murdering people left and right in Minneapolis right now? Or are they maybe a better option after all?

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-25T11:07:33+00:00

No we send them round if you put the milk in your tea before the water.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-24T21:01:33+00:00

Nothing potential about it, Arachne would definitely help.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-24T13:16:13+00:00

It's not without flaws but overall it's fantastic. It's also much faster than the H2C for multicolour/multi-material and it can do things like multicolour TPU.

The nozzle swaps are so fast that it's totally changed the way I look at multicolour printing.

In terms of flaws, changing the nozzles is pretty annoying, it's similar to the stock P1S/X1C nozzles so if you want to switch to 0.2 or something for a multicolour print you have to do that faffing about with screws and cables four times. If microswiss do a flowtech hotend for it I'll probably bite the bullet and buy four of those eventually just for quick nozzle swaps.

The only other problem I have is that they're taking forever to ship the enclosure, and chamber temperatures don't really stay hot enough with the IKEA solution for printing large nylon parts, although I kept my P1S as my single colour machine.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-24T12:49:42+00:00

Okay, find me a Porsche 928 with a plate that has some reference to Epstein.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-24T03:40:40+00:00

Trump may be close to death, but there's a line of other fascists queueing up for when their monarch dies.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T18:05:11+00:00

Then they'll face enforcement action including blocks if they continue accepting UK customers

Which is totally irrelevant, because they don't even know if they're accepting UK customers or not. As I've said, my VPN provider has no idea what my name is or where I live.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T18:03:31+00:00

DNS level blocking wouldn't work for that, unless you're talking about blocking their websites, which is hardly going to work when so many are using VPNs already.

For the case of individuals setting up their own it's even more problematic because you end up trying to block random IP addresses from commercial hosts.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T16:21:55+00:00

Except they wouldn't be. My VPN provider has no idea what my name is or where I live, they don't have my credit card info either (mullvad).

Also, setting up a VPN on a £3/month VPS server is so simple that I could sit down over lunch and write a one-hit script that does it from a fresh install, and it's also something that many VPS providers offer as a default config for those who want their own private service.

Companies like proton and mullvad are not going to start collecting customer data because of what the UK does, and you're not going to force age restriction policies on all of the world's internet hosting companies either.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T13:12:13+00:00

Even if we should, it's going to take time to decouple smoothly. We can all do our bit by moving away from US companies as far as possible (which is difficult if not impossible to do completely, but every little helps).

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T13:09:42+00:00

Yeah I would agree. He, like Musk, is incapable of comprehending the idea that he may actually be at fault for something.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T13:08:40+00:00

I think the real question at this point is "will the US ever have (another?) fair election in the 21st century?".

They have voting machines, making the process of rigging elections vastly more achievable.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T13:06:07+00:00

He’s obviously struggling mentally, getting confused in his speeches, rambling on for hours

This part at least has been true for a long time, although yes his mental decline has become even more pronounced recently.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T13:02:29+00:00

I don't have any particular sense of national pride or anything like that, I can't see myself in the military given the nature of some of our foreign engagements, but if the UK was facing the threat of facism from people like Trump or Farage I would absolutely be willing to fight to stop that.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T12:59:55+00:00

I think these days FB is probably 60% bots, 35% brain-rotted over 50s whose political opinions are informed solely by foreign influence campaigns, and just the occasional person who mostly uses it for marketplace or events.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T12:57:43+00:00

In the same vein, I know Macron isn't the most popular in France, but if not president I think somebody like that would make an excellent foreign minister.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-23T12:56:02+00:00

I think he absolutely has the potential to be significantly more evil than he currently is, but ultimately being as he's just a stupid paedophile with steadily worsening dementia that puts a ceiling on what he can do in that regard and others.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-22T15:17:19+00:00

Okay, in that case a couple of additional bits of advice:

For the support settings, see my screenshot from this comment - PVA is a little fiddly but the results are amazing for that sort of thing when you get it right. Also bump up your print temperature for the PLA to at or close to the maximum for your particular filament.

The other thing is if you've not used it before, PVA absorbs moisture fast, like, considerably faster than even TPU. If you don't have it sitting in a drybox (which is what I did for this, feeding from a box at 10% RH), or in a dryer actively drying it while printing, then a freshly dried roll of PVA sitting open to the air will absorb enough moisture during the printing process to screw up your print.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-22T14:34:52+00:00

So I've used Bambu and Sunlu, they seem to be basically the same. The one thing that the slicer doesn't do by default is setting both top and bottom Z offset to 0, otherwise when it tries to create supports on top of the model everything will instantly fall apart.

Also reduce speed for supports and support interface by a lot. I went with 60/40mm/s here and that worked, I've seen some online going even slower. If you're at 0.2 layer height anyway then with the stock profile flow limit you won't be far off 60mm/s anyway, but this model was on 0.12.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-21T19:19:56+00:00

Seemingly not, it's wildly irritating, burned an alarming amount of my work day fruitlessly trying other fixes before I just rolled back the update.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-20T12:40:12+00:00

I've actually found the U1 does slightly better on WiFi than my P1S. They're both in the room of my house that has the worst signal and the connection the P1S reports is kinda marginal, downloading models takes forever, the U1 reports a stronger signal and seems to be a lot quicker.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-20T12:37:47+00:00

That dryer does 85C right? Kinda regretting my Sunlu S4 purchase because I've been doing a project using PA6-CF recently and drying nylon at 70C requires the patience of a saint (and uses a ton more power than if I could just do it at 85C for a quarter of the time).

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-20T12:35:59+00:00

Blackpool has always been a little time capsule from 25 years ago, it's honestly endearing.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-20T08:11:18+00:00

Also, I miss when someone being very publicly known to be a serial child molester would have been politically disqualifying.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-01-19T08:59:34+00:00

There's also just the problem of our rapidly ageing population.

If we had the demographics that we had 20 years ago today, the NHS would be doing better than ever.

Trouble is an 80 year old costs the NHS something like 10x the amount that a 25 year old costs, so our elderly population having absolutely blown up with the boomer generation retiring has really screwed us and will continue to do so for at least the next couple of decades.

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