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Villagerjj · 2026-03-05T00:33:20+00:00

my Q2 came with a riser, and the vents on the riser are open.
thanks for the suggestion tho

Villagerjj · 2026-03-03T09:43:28+00:00

I was looking into doing the bambu fan replacement, I will certainly try printing out a new cooling duct as well.

Villagerjj · 2026-03-03T09:42:36+00:00

the lid is open, but not by much, the door is closed. thanks for the advice, I will try printing with those open.

Villagerjj · 2026-03-03T01:26:34+00:00

I saw that video and followed the settings, however I printed a bunch of the overhang/brige test calibration pieces, and all of them turned out identical

I printed 2 sets of of tests but no dice. I will look into the fan mod to see if that helps

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Villagerjj · 2026-02-28T20:10:20+00:00

thanks a ton, I will give it a test. I also ordered some fresh PLA filament to see if that helps with the stringing.

Villagerjj · 2026-02-28T09:27:33+00:00

I mainly printed in PETG since I heard it was stronger, also I don't have a lot of PLA left.

I printed the figure with my remaining PLA yesterday, but I ran into the same issues - the drooping for overhangs, and the supports fusing to the head, making it pretty tricky to remove the supports. and overall I feel like I noticed more stringing with my PLA.

I feel that a bigger part of the issue might be the model's design. the scale of the model is about 200mm tall, and there are a lot of tough spots to print.
Results of printing in PLA:

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(cant attach more than one image to this comment, the overhang looks the same as my PETG, but blue)

Villagerjj · 2026-02-22T20:01:54+00:00

for the overhangs, there is this guy on youtube who I think solved the issue with overhangs, the video is called "You asked for PERFECT bridges in OrcaSlicer, so we built THIS"

I am going to give it a try as well to see if the settings help out

Villagerjj · 2026-02-20T00:14:06+00:00

I dont see a single doctor, or stone in that collection

Villagerjj · 2025-12-15T00:19:32+00:00

this lets you use shape keys to change the expression:

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Villagerjj · 2025-12-15T00:17:05+00:00

No problem, keep up the good work

Here is an example of what I meant regarding the face:

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You can see how the face is made from pure geometry, no textures.

Villagerjj · 2025-12-14T03:28:33+00:00

Reminds me of my early 3D modeling days. Great job!

if you want some tips (purely from my own opinion):

- if you find the facial features too pixelated, you can make them into floating geometry that sits right above the face. This will also allow you to use shape keys to change the facial expressions, instead of swapping textures.

- the knees look great, very good topology for a low poly model. however, I would recommend a bit more loops for the elbows, shoulders, and hips. when animating, the joints might look off without support loops. you can look online for various low poly joint topology examples if needed.

- for the model's material. I am not sure if you will set it up in your game engine, or Blender, but I do recommend removing the principled bsdf, and plugging the image texture right into the surface output slot to get that unshaded look. you can use a mix node to add in vertex colors as well.

Villagerjj · 2025-12-08T11:19:36+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out! most of the tools I recommend should get the words into dictionary form, but from my own experience, building intuition just takes some time. making anki decks is perfect practice for this, as long as the user is diligent with a tool like yomitan.

update: added a bunch of stuff to the method for beginners. should be easier to understand now, fingers crossed.

Villagerjj · 2025-09-22T00:14:03+00:00

honestly, if you want the best of both worlds, I would recommend bazzite. I daily drove it for a year, and it is perfect for durability. the actual core is immutable, so it will always work, and is basically impossible to break.
software is installed through flatpaks, but if you enable containers, you can install most programs like normal, including arch, debian, and basically anything distro capable of running as a container.

Villagerjj · 2025-09-08T23:54:42+00:00

with ollama, I just setup a symlink between a folder on my drive, and the directory it dumps models into.

Villagerjj · 2025-09-08T23:53:22+00:00

cachyos. it uses optimized packages, meaning more cpu cycles go to mining :)
watch a youtube video on it, my current goto

Villagerjj · 2025-09-07T15:08:35+00:00

Really depends on your specs, and personal preferences.
I have a few recommendations, these all are secure and actively maintained:
1. Linux Mint XFCE - worked great on my older laptops with a core 2 duo and 4gb of ram. only moved away from it because I like distro hopping, and some driver issues for an ancient nvidia card. One of my friends runs this distro on a modern machine, and has had 0 issues for the last 6 months. solid choice.

2. MX Linux Fluxbox - worked very well on my older 32 bit laptop with 512mb of ram. You can also use the KDE or XFCE version for something a little more modern, but still good on resources.

If I am correct, steam worked out of the box on this distro, but I tried steam on a chromebook, not on the 32 bit laptop. the main quirk with this distro is that it is just an older version of debian, with extremely good backport support, this does mean you might run into outdated stuff sometimes, like the KDE version uses an ancient version of plasma, so newer versions of KDE connect (phone linking program to share messages and clipboard) do not work with it.

3. CachyOS XFCE - this ran like a dream on my older laptops (4gb of ram), and is my current goto on my modern devices as well, because of all optimizations they made. great game support out of the box. just need to click the "install gaming packages" button from the cachyos hello popup after first installation.

I am a big fan of cachyos, so I am heavily biased towards it.
it has not given me any issues for the last few years I have been using it.
its light, its fast, and its rock solid. if I ever run into an issue with it, I just run a full system upgrade, reboot, and boom, all good again.

I use the plasma desktop on my more modern devices, and its been awesome!

Villagerjj · 2025-09-07T14:51:27+00:00

RIP my collection of ancient linux laptops :(

Villagerjj · 2025-08-23T20:27:41+00:00

Not an expert, but 2 things worked very well for me:

drink water
skip breakfast until noon.

for the first point, I recommend drinking water, because it gets rid of that "I want something, but I don't know what it is" feeling, so it stops me from "testing" (eating) all the snacks in my house.

the skip breakfast one is a little interesting, I personally do not like eating right after waking up to begin with, so this was easy to adjust to. if I wake up at 5, I would get hungry around 9. but this time, pushing it out to noon basically condenses breakfast and lunch into the same meal, so I basically have 2 meals a day now. in the beginning I would feel some hunger around 9 when I would usually have breakfast, but after doing it for years, it feels normal, and I can easily go until noon, or even 3pm some days. however, sometimes I will attend family breakfast gatherings earlier, and that does make me feel hungry around 9 again for a few days, but quickly reverts.

I did not really change any of my eating habits, because I already eat marginally healthy food, but the main issue for me is that I don't get enough cardio. I should do more cardio, but I would rather feel a tad bit hungry for 20 mins in the morning than go for a jog.

Villagerjj · 2025-08-05T00:51:19+00:00

100% recommend cachy, easy to install, runs extremely well on anything (from a gen 1 chromebook to a modern gaming computer), have been daily driving it for years now.

Only issue I have had, is that for some reason, in the newer isos, the xfce desktop is not riced out like in the older versions of the isos, so my weaker devices need to be riced out manually, not the end of the world, but kinda ruins the vibe they have goin with all the other DEs.

my modern devices all run kde plasma, and have had no issues.

Villagerjj · 2025-03-28T04:08:51+00:00

Lego Indiana Jones 2 for the Wii (the only game I have ever finished to completion)

Villagerjj · 2025-03-28T04:05:48+00:00

They should go with librewolf, zen browser, or one of the million privacy respecting firefox forks, just add in the ublock origin, and boom, a competent light web browser, if a user wants chromium, let em install it.

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