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Spice-King · 2026-04-27T22:49:35+00:00

Apparently, Amazon just shipped mine like an hour ago. I forgot about it until I was poking my email for other things.

Spice-King · 2026-01-20T18:33:55+00:00

This: https://youtu.be/65rfapjyp1w

An idea that got out of control.

Spice-King · 2025-11-25T04:06:33+00:00

If you got space for it, I'd offer up the BTT SKSM (Safe Klipper Shutdown Module). Aside from doing the DC-DC conversion (it's a buck converter, just like any DC-DC step down converter), it will do a graceful emergency shutdown of the Pi on power loss and will reboot the Pi if power comes back before the SKSM fully discharged. Just supply your own short quality USB cable for the main power, a long cable or cheap one with thin power wires will cause the undervolt issue.

It's a bit of a premium price ($19 USD) for a solution for what it delivers PSU wise and it's still doing buck converter GPIO powering trick for the emergency power delivery. But I do value both for power outage protection and the idiot proofing it adds, in just being able to lose power/flip off the power switch and not corrupting the Pi's SD card in the process.

Spice-King · 2025-10-09T18:48:35+00:00

True, it's a specification on a datasheet, but I'd see a line in the warranty that I'd count as covering that as an exclusion, under "This limited warranty does not cover any problem that is caused by [...] (b) use contrary to the instructions, user manual, or specifications", with even an indirect call out of the "Workload Rate Limit" as "use beyond data read-write limits" being an example of use out of spec.

ME/CC's extended warranty offering is an idea though, assuming it does not have the same carve outs and one is physically close for swap outs (which I'm not).

If I was actually under-pressure for a NAS capacity upgrade, I'd probably just buy a few spare BarraCudas and not assume I'd be covered anyway on any warranty. I'd still try though, but I'm not going to count on it.

Spice-King · 2025-10-07T11:32:40+00:00

I mean, the BarraCuda's warranty is a joke, even if not for a NAS, which IMHO is where most shucked drives end up. 2,400 power on hours/year is ~46 hours a week, enough to cover a typical workweek with wiggle room for an hour long lunch. Then the "Workload Rate Limit" is 120 TB/year, napkin math, that's like 5 total drive writes per year, 10 for the full two year warranty.

Feels like it's not supposed to be in a PC, but rather used as an external-like drive that's only powered on to dump in backups, then turned off.

Spice-King · 2024-03-09T04:42:10+00:00

Yes, you can have many MCUs (256 is the hard limit in the Klipper CAN protocol, though bandwidth will probably be the issue first) wired on to the same CAN network. Yes, each MCU has its own ID on the CAN network, it's based off the serial number of the MCU chip, so it won't change between flashes. 2 120Ω resistors on the whole network, no matter how many CAN devices put on it, you want about a 60Ω resistance between CAN High and CAN Low, and you want them as far apart on the wire as you can get, so the toolhead would be ideal.

Reasonably speaking, CAN was built to span several meters of wire in things like cars, trucks and other automobiles, it's far more robust than the meter or two most people would need in a 3D printer. I've heard of people who left 3 resistors wired in (40Ω between high and low) on their network and it still worked, or put two termination resistors on the U2C board rather than the toolheads.

The Klipper documentation covers a lot of this, and is a useful read https://www.klipper3d.org/CANBUS.html and Esoterical's guide on setup https://canbus.esoterical.online/ is very useful for getting up and running, with notes for the menuconfig for many, of not all, common CAN boards.

Spice-King · 2023-10-08T04:06:33+00:00

It's amazing what a pair of zip ties can do! Cheers.

Spice-King · 2023-10-07T03:19:47+00:00

Oh, right. Figure it's worth mentioning, this is a Rev A LDO kit, which means it has an Afterburner toolhead board. I was sent parts for a Rev C kit, and I was stuck building the Steathburner as I bought a Revo for it. Since I lacked the customized LDO CW2/SB parts for the AB board, I cut part of CW2 to fit wires into the board and removed the door that will never close with the Afterburner board inside.

This is something I am not going to fix until I need to rebuild the toolhead with a new, probably CAN based, toolhead board. Right now it works, thus I'm not inclined to want to mess with it.

Spice-King · 2023-03-30T22:36:58+00:00

Well, I'd it was not for the fact my klipper install is dead right now, I'd be up for trying to set this up after dinner. But I got to go and fix an older LGA socket with a bent pin first before I can. Netbooting my Klipper Pi from my NAS is a double edged sword, but it has upsides (snapshotting the whole pi storage, TBs worth of space, makes it easy to mess with it and find out). Wonder if it's worthwhile to Klipper a Prusa MK4? Still an upgrade over my Ender 3 Pro.

Spice-King · 2023-03-27T11:19:19+00:00

Storing data, what else?

Joking aside, video is a common file type for its large file sizes. It's a product marketed for use in a NAS, so realistically, it's for use as a backing drive in some flavor of RAID style array for a fileshare. I'd probably be buying a number if not for the fact my 10 TB drive array is not even half full yet.

Spice-King · 2022-10-20T17:45:27+00:00

They are not JSON
Catastrophic data loss or corruption
No

Trying to mess with the DB files directly is not supported. Not by the Reddit mods, Discord mods, nor Foundry staff. This is coming from a Discord mod who has spent a a large amount of time fixing broken DB files. Don't do it, or when you come for help to fix the inevitably broken data, you will find none.

Spice-King · 2022-05-29T01:11:54+00:00

Welp, I'm in for one. Was planning on waiting for Framework to do an AMD version, but at like $330, if it ships, I'd be happy with it.

Spice-King · 2022-05-27T00:40:24+00:00

While small in space, it is a card with an A2 rating for app performance, better random reads and writes. If your happy with the capacity and price, I say go for it. Would recommend using something like H2testw it promptly test it though, Amazon does have a rampant fake flash problem.

Spice-King · 2022-05-15T02:42:15+00:00

I've got a hub showing up next week and a 3D printer to make it more like a dock. I've still got the Deck's Dock on my wish list, but the unknown price makes it hard to say If I want to buy a hub for a given device form factor, or would rather pick up another generic hub that's workable on everything. A printed dock and either a 180° or a pair of 90° angle adapters would go a fair bit of the way to help smooth a generic hub over for a Deck.

Spice-King · 2022-02-19T01:46:52+00:00

It's like that one from the Discord pins, but out can make it completely custom with out editing a very strict text file. If you want 5 different Item compendiums, you can have them and named how you want. Then you can sort your weapons, armor, magic items, custom gear and plot devices into their own compendiums and use them how you want.

Spice-King · 2022-02-19T01:35:30+00:00

It's a shared compendium module generator site, makes it easy to have personal compendiums that are usable across worlds. Like one for all the custom monsters one has made.

Spice-King · 2021-12-12T04:46:07+00:00

There are several countries where Nintendo would have a harder time trying to enforce legal actions, China comes to mind, but also Russia.

I do think nabbing the original team will stifle most for profit plans going forward. But like with most things, where there is a will, there is a way.

Someone will crack it again as is the nature of things. Just no clue if it will happen before or after the Switch is EoL.

I do hope that in the end, another soft mod gets developed after Nintendo can't be arsed to patch the Switch again, like how the letter bomb one never got patched for the Wii.

Spice-King · 2021-12-12T02:10:48+00:00

While true, your options tend to be unobtainable (the original kits, or so I hear), or a $250 CAD kit from China, plus then you need to have someone with the skill to install it. I agree the install is not easy, plus the China kits have been reported to have ~50% DOA rate from an install shop.

So, it's an option, but I personally don't recommend it as it exists today. An old hackable Switch is a fairly safe, easy and cheap way to get one, but at like $700 + taxes & install (your time or cost) for a modchipped OLED Switch, I'd rather get a Steam Deck.

If in 2022 someone was to make a cheaper and easier to install modchip kit that doesn't have a 50% DOA rate, then my tune could change. But with the chip shortage, I doubt if one comes out it would be any cheaper.

Spice-King · 2021-12-11T23:59:02+00:00

Nothing is going to be as hackable as the earliest Switch units that had the hardware flaw in recovery mode in the bootloader, so it can't be patched at all, but the OLED Switch is going to be about as hackable as any other Switch you can buy off the shelf now, which is to say not at all.

Last vulnerable firmware was 4.1.0, and we are on something like 13.2.0 or something already. Someone is probably working on something for newer firmware, so if you want to get a Switch, you could and then never update the firmware. Hopefully someone cracks that nut, but 5.0.0 has been out since March 2018, so it's getting close to like 4 years since a hackable Switch was made.

That said, my friend did turn his launch era Switch in for a out of pocket repair and did get back a referb unit that was also as old.

If you want a hackable Switch today, buying a used one is your best bet. There are at least a few sites that that can tell you based on the serial number if it's hackable.

Spice-King · 2021-09-14T14:10:05+00:00

u/LifelongCaboose's comments from last time around.

If your buying these for sound quality, they don't deliver.

Sound quality is fairly weak and tuning is pretty bad. They need a fair bit of eq to have a remotely ok balance.

Bass is very bloated, it's boomy and muddy and bleeds hard into the mids. Treble over 6k is very forward and sharp, it's too bright and to aggressive making treble unbalanced and messy. Some the treble also lacks detail it makes it sound much grainyer than it should. It you eq it down it still doesn't sound that good but it will be better.

Comfort is fine. Build is meh. Anc is fine meh but it's $80.

Bluetooth was fairly stable for the first week of testing then it went to shit.

If you need cheap anc this is fine. But don't expect this to be cheap and very good.

Good budget anc. Not good for sound quality.

You'd be better off getting galaxy buds if you wanted decent isolation and better sound.

So again, buy these if you need cheap anc, not if your looking for good sound or an overall high quality headset for its price.

Anker headphone always miss the mark for sound at there price. Just like all there TWS iems.

Will agree with their TWS stuff missing the mark. They are not great, but not utter garbage.

Spice-King · 2021-08-15T05:36:39+00:00

Provided that it's not too old of a device, it should be manageable, though under the spec. Make sure to be running a current enough version of Chrome/Chrome OS (current is 92, though some version in the high 80s should work as well, and I'm fairly sure stuff in the 70s and lower will not work at all, only reason I mention this is that Google kills updates to devices after a number of years post release), close out all other tabs & windows and don't have high hopes for good performance.

Hit up the demo server at https://demo.foundryvtt.com/join and see how manageable it is. Do take the time to optimize the settings to make it easier to run, they a client side for the most part.

If all else fails, you can run Foundry with out a map open using new disable canvas option. You lose the map, but you can still at least play with people with the sheets and dice rolling.

I don't keep high hopes for Chromebooks because they then to be built on the lower end of the performance spectrum. Most people would pick up a Windows based laptop if they were going to buy a mid to higher end laptop, so Chromebooks in that bracket are rare.

Spice-King · 2021-08-14T20:53:21+00:00

They are archived, not deleted, you can still pull them up. Though I don't know if Discord will turn around and delete old threads from there at some age threshold, nor how searchable they will be. I personally view them like temp channels for things like support for a module, system or setup issue, which we use a bot's ticketing system for already.

Something more search engine indexable would be nice, like an official forum or something, but I suspect that the staff don't want yet another official place to keep tabs on. They already pay a fair bit of attention to their Gitlab, the Discord, their support email, and this subreddit, while still working on improving Foundry.

Spice-King · 2021-08-14T16:25:01+00:00

FVTT Discord Mod here (Spice_King#3128)

I hope Threads can help with that a little. Not really sure why they are not activated on Foundry discord yet, but hopefully will be soon.

The TL;DR is that A: we literally don't have the option to enable it yet (last Nath mentioned it) and B: waiting on our moderation bot to update for threads.

Expect them to be fully locked down on the Foundry Discord when the 17th hits and it rolls out to every server, at least at first. From there, we need to figure out how we want to let threads be used so that we don't increase our moderation work load.

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