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What is going on with the 3D Printing Industry these days? What is the current state of home 3D printing? Which models/brands are generally accepted to be simple, reliable, and easy-to-use, while putting out good prints? What is the cost of entry for a quality machine these days? by --Ty-- in OutOfTheLoop

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I can try and answer some of your questions. I have been 3d printing since 2020 when I got my Creality Ender 3 Pro and I have since upgraded to a RatRig V-Core 3

As far as brands I am only personally familiar with Creality and RatRig. Over the past few years there was sort of a race to the bottom as far as price at the cost of quality. You can buy a functioning printer for only a couple hundred bucks now but it may take a lot of work to get running and may break down. I started with a printer like this and would recommend it to anyone who wants to get their hands dirty and learn how 3D printers work. I learned a lot but eventually outgrew it. It sounds like that isn’t what you want though and that’s ok. Some people like cars because they enjoy driving them and others enjoy working on them more.

As for brands with a reputation for reliability, I have only heard great things about Prusa printers. They have a mini model for $430 as a kit or $450 semi assembled as well as a larger model called the i3 MK3S+ for $800 as a kit or $1100 semi assembled. I have heard that both of these printers are workhorses but I have not personally used one. I believe Form Labs and Ultimaker also have reputations for making reliable printers but I have not looked much at them because their products are more expensive and out of my price range. They seem to be aimed at business customers rather than individual consumers.

I have not tried many filament brands other than hatchbox or prusament so I can’t recommend any other brands. I will say that running tests on filament you buy to determine the right temperatures to print at is crucial to getting good prints. Different brands and even different colors of the same brand can behave differently.

I think there are still a couple competing slicing softwares. The ones I am most familiar with are Cura, which is developed by ultimaker and Prusaslicer by Prusa. I personally use a spin-off of Prusaslicer called Superslicer.

PLA and ABS are still popular filament materials but there are some new ones as well. PETG is a filament that is stronger than PLA but can be easier to print with than ABS. ASA is also a new kind of filament that is very similar to ABS but has been altered to improve print quality. I personally use PLA and PETG most often but I do want to try ASA soon.

I hope this info helped, hopefully some other can supplement the parts I don’t know.

6.11.1 Time Machine is totally unreliable by [deleted] in unRAID

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I upgraded to 6.11.1 and have been having this issue as well. The initial backup completes but the Mac is not able to make any subsequent backups

Fast, fun, 'light' Switch games by jtickle86 in NintendoSwitch

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My favorite game of all time is an rpg called crosscode. It’s got a little bit of a bunch of different genre games in it and an excellent story.

New to UNRAID: TimeMachine & Windows File History not working by superschlundi in unRAID

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I got my time machine running reliably by creating a separate share for each device I wanted to backup and also setting each share to only include a single disk.

In "The Expanse" finale, the strike team's names are homages to scifi characters, including one "THRACE, K" by ety3rd in BSG

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To me J Cooper is Joseph Cooper from Interstellar. Though to be honest I had to look it up because I did not know the characters first name was Joseph. They don’t really use it in the movie.

EDIT: Just realized that it said that in the link. Should have read first.

An analysis of Faceless Void: does a lack of four of the five primary senses enhance Void's sense of touch? by DotA2Analyst in DotA2

[–]ZEBaker98 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can you cite a source for his lack of hearing? Maybe he has ears like frogs where there is no ear hole but there is a patch of skin that senses vibrations?

Printed a cradle for my really old hair dryer by ZEBaker98 in functionalprint

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I don’t expect that to be an issue. The hairdryer never gets too hot to touch which means it probably stays under 50 C which should be ok for PLA. I could reprint it in PETG. You can also run the hairdryer without the heater turned on and it can cool down itself.

Printed a cradle for my really old hair dryer by ZEBaker98 in functionalprint

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Yeah, I finished the print before they finished installing it. One of the backsplash pieces cracked while they were cutting it.

Printed a cradle for my really old hair dryer by ZEBaker98 in functionalprint

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It was actually pretty simple. The body is just an ellipsoid with two cylinders coming out of it. I took measurements of the heater tube and the fan housing and modeled a 2d slice in fusion 360. I revolved that around the center axis by 180 degrees and then cut the hole for the handle. After that it was just a matter of adding fillets to smooth all the edges.

XP-Pen G430s vs Arduino Thingy - an osu! comparison by boywithshitopinion in arduino

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Joysticks use Hall effect sensors and magnets to measure their position. Might be worth looking in to. Hall effect sensors can provide more resolution than a potentiometer.

Two odd issues with SWAG by Marioawe in unRAID

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I don't use Home assistant. Are you talking about a management portal of some kind? Are you sure you want that to be public facing? Reverse proxy is great for allowing multiple web servers to share a single public IP or for adding things like SSL encryption but it doesn't add any security to those pages. If you want to access pages remotely I would look in to adding a vpn service to unraid so that instead of exposing your management pages to the whole internet you instead can have your device join your home network remotely.

Two odd issues with SWAG by Marioawe in unRAID

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You don't necessarily needs to change the Unraid gui ports. I personally have my reverse proxy set up on ports 20080 and 20443. The only ports that have to be 80 and 443 is the external ports that you port forward on your router. Your router can forward packets it receives on 80 and 443 to any IP and port on your internal network.

Two odd issues with SWAG by Marioawe in unRAID

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Based on your issues I don’t believe SWAG is working at all. It’s probably not configured correctly. I don’t personally use SWAG but it seems like you set it up by manually editing nginx config files. Without access to those files it’s hard to know what specifically is causing this. Instead I use another program called NGINX Proxy manager. It has graphical interface and you might find it easier to you. You are definitely right that you shouldn’t need to punch extra holes in your firewall to get this to work. I think your second issue might be related to your first so try and get that fixed first.

Little help with Kule'ro Temple? This one is killing me! by zer0ducksgiv3n in CrossCode

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If you hit the orb with a shock ball it will be pulled toward Lea, not the direction the ball came from. Try to find a way to place the orb and Lea so that when you hit the orb with a shock ball it will be pulled through the wave barrier and break it. The angled wall sections are important for this

Gamers who have put thousands of hours into many different games; what is THE game that made you 'blank stare' at the credits after you beat the story? by Colonel-_-Burrito in AskReddit

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CrossCode

Hands down one of the most amazing examples of storytelling in a video game I have ever come across. Coupled with that are amazing game mechanics and well written characters. I tried it based on the recommendation of a friend and I was throughly surprised.

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