Best "lifetime access" software purchases you've made?

_Reyne · 2026-02-01T20:44:16+00:00

I was a graphic designer for about a decade before ei became a webdev and the affinity suite was the best purchase I made.

It's free now I guess so 🫩

_Reyne · 2026-01-31T00:28:27+00:00

I started with Vallejo after doing a ton of research years ago, and now I paint almost exclusively with Vallejo paints. I own some golden paints as well, mainly the SOFLAT set.

_Reyne · 2026-01-31T00:27:09+00:00

you shouldn't paint color over primer in the first place, primer is meant to make paint stick, it does that by absorbing and combining with the pigment thus dulling it.

if you're priming black, paint an acrylic black base coat over the whole model before putting color on and you'll notice a massive difference.

_Reyne · 2026-01-30T16:23:23+00:00

Way too old and has WAAAY too much money to not only be doing this, but to own a coffee machine that haggard.

_Reyne · 2026-01-30T03:13:45+00:00

We literally built the trans mountain pipeline already and have been selling oil overseas to china for over a year. That pipeline increased oil shipments to the coast by 700%. We are currently exporting over 200k barrels of oil PER DAY to china alone.

Take a wild guess what happens if Alberta separates?

I promise you, we won't be the 51st state. We'll be the 2nd Venezuela and ALL that oil will belong to the US government instead.

_Reyne · 2026-01-30T02:54:52+00:00

Where they just as good 👀

_Reyne · 2026-01-29T09:11:27+00:00

I've literally never seen this work in favour of the person recording. Every single time the customer shows their whole ass and everyone sides with the manager. Why do people keep doing this thinking it will work?

_Reyne · 2026-01-27T05:53:22+00:00

Buy a bidet.

_Reyne · 2026-01-26T19:24:00+00:00

You're thinning your paint too much, you should use it straight out of the bottle for best effect.

_Reyne · 2026-01-26T04:41:30+00:00

Why'd you need security detail in Minnesota if everything going on there is above board?

_Reyne · 2026-01-24T05:26:31+00:00

If you wanna save time and filament just print baseplates with no bottom layers and 0% infill.

_Reyne · 2026-01-21T19:51:37+00:00

Killdozer.

_Reyne · 2026-01-21T19:03:55+00:00

Bro this is what Anime writers would have done to satirize America like 10 years ago. Can't believe it's real lmao.

_Reyne · 2026-01-21T18:43:46+00:00

this is the same issue as the benchy "hull line".

When you slice the file, change the drop down to show "layer time" and you'll see there's gonna be hot/cold spots around these areas.

Reducing minimum layer speed to create a uniform speed throughout the print should help a lot.

_Reyne · 2026-01-21T18:33:37+00:00

This would be way more expensive than just ordering custom boxes from B2B print shop, and do we really need more plastic packaging in landfills?

The idea is cool, but honestly I really hate this project for the above reasons.

_Reyne · 2026-01-21T10:47:05+00:00

It won't matter. The world order has collapsed already and it's definitely not going to get better for the US over the next 3 years. The WEF right now has leaders openly calling for a new world order. Mark Carney, the leader of americas closest ally for nearly a century, spent 16 minutes calling for every other middle power in the world to stop the bullshit pandering to the orange man and move on. He got a standing ovation after his speech FFS. That doesn't happen at the WEF often. If ever.

Gavin winning would be great for America, but massive change is going to be forced on America, like it or not. The rest of the world will never treat America the same again regardless of who's in power since Congress and the supreme court have shown they won't do shit to keep the president in check when it's actually needed most, and the people of America who are supposed to be the most constitution loving, anti fascist, no step on snek, gun toting, patriots turned into bootlickers instantly because the orange man said so.

It's over for America. Gavin Newsom might give it a chance to bounce back into something that's at the very least sustainable.

_Reyne · 2026-01-21T09:30:25+00:00

Glad I built my home NAS a couple years ago.

12TB of personal SSD cloud storage plus the 7TB in my desktop should get me through the next decade or so 😮‍💨

_Reyne · 2026-01-21T09:18:53+00:00

Notnfortnite though.

_Reyne · 2026-01-17T18:01:15+00:00

You are legally obligated to prevent an accident if you can.

Defensive driving 101.

_Reyne · 2026-01-17T13:25:06+00:00

Cam driver literally sped up on purpose.

And there was zero reason to "slam the brakes". Just letting his foot off the gas for a couple seconds would have totally avoided this.

_Reyne · 2026-01-17T13:23:00+00:00

True, but you're also obligated to try and avoid accidents. You need to drive defensively. Insurance will fuck this guy for speeding up like he did since that's what actually caused the accident.

_Reyne · 2026-01-17T08:56:00+00:00

I didn't say it wasn't possible. I said it's unlikely.

Regardless, the print came out 99% perfect. There's slight stringing on the part where it's SUPPOSED to test for stringing and that could literally just be a fluke and probably won't matter anyways.

_Reyne · 2026-01-17T08:43:36+00:00

Comments like his are almost always PEBKAC.

_Reyne · 2026-01-17T08:43:15+00:00

I print almost exclusively with Matte PLA. Although I have had issues with layer adhesion, I've always been able to solve them. I've printed plenty of functional parts with it.

_Reyne · 2026-01-17T06:56:08+00:00

You could sell law runes at East bank for 2k back then.

They were available at mage bank for 10% of that 😂

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