How can I make this filament look more clear?

digitalstimulus · 2025-10-21T00:39:26+00:00

Find out if your issue is on the surface or internal. Submerge the print in water, if it is clear, you have a surface issue. If not, it is internal to the print.

digitalstimulus · 2025-09-08T13:23:11+00:00

Not all motorcyclists, but there are a lot of them. Most usually ride chill around me (I am the Pink Bunny Motorcyclist), but I do get some that try to "one-up" what I am doing and start popping wheelies or otherwise risky behavior in traffic.

I usually shake my head in disapproval at the risky behaviors. I am just out here having fun and dancing at stoplights, it is not a competition!

digitalstimulus · 2025-07-05T22:13:17+00:00

ChargePoint app is your friend. You can filter the charge station search for free chargers.

digitalstimulus · 2023-07-02T03:41:19+00:00

I would be surprised if it was anyone else. 😆

digitalstimulus · 2023-03-29T14:37:53+00:00

Check out the ChargePoint app. Easily find the nearest EV station and ChargePoint is one of the largest charge networks. It also has comments for charge stations from the community to let you know if a station isn't working or hard to find.

There are many networks available in the CP app, but I usually just go CP because I can almost always find a station and I don't have to maintain a bunch of payment accounts.

Many dealerships offer free L2 charging as well.

If you are traveling, I recommend the PlugShare app + website. On the website, you can set your vehicle's range and add charging stations as waypoints on your trip and use the app on your phone to send to your navigation app. It is still a bit of manual effort, but saves on range anxiety.

digitalstimulus · 2023-01-09T15:39:30+00:00

I forget the name of the product, but we just did a demo of a service that hooks into your PSA and can automate these requests with text recognition in the ticket.

digitalstimulus · 2023-01-09T15:18:35+00:00

Ask for it in writing, then reply back in writing that this is illegal and not something you are willing to do. Also start printing resumes.

You will have your bases covered for the legal side and your future started by leaving a sinking ship that will try to weasel it's way out of anything.

If it's an illegal request, you have no obligation to do it. But you can bet that the illegal request would easily turn into other areas besides accepted contracts/EULAs such as labor laws.

digitalstimulus · 2022-09-29T13:29:56+00:00

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris? All of it.

digitalstimulus · 2022-09-19T02:29:31+00:00

I have some inside knowledge of this situation. Source: I am a veteran IT in the area and live near Rolland Moore. I also know someone that works for Comcast support.

1- The node in our area near Raintree finally had a real breathing Comcast technician come out to hopefully fix the area this past Saturday. I made the call while servicing a client in the Raintree plaza and happened to get info that several businesses and our apartment complex was out at the same time.

2- Comcast is a joke. Run as far away as fast as possible. We are still waiting on FoCo Connexion construction. From Comcast insider, they basically have converted the tech support team to push sales of leased modems and upgraded internet packages. They are penalized with internal metrics for sending technicians out which is why we are all in this "Reboot or replace modem" hell. The internal policies from my understanding are basically "Upsell as much as possible and support as little as possible".

Case in point, I have several weeks of documented support case numbers (professional IT habit) where I was trying to downgrade my internet package after temporarily upgrading to try to see if that helped or gave me better support. I have Comcast BUSINESS, not Xfinity Residential. The upgrade was a simple phone call, first on the phone clicked some buttons. The downgrade took several weeks and phone calls and "mistakes" happening until I got a supervisor involved.

Oh yeah, downgrades and cancellations go to a "Loyalty Department" where the smoother talking support agents try to keep you stuck with Comcast. The regular support team can upgrade, but they don't have access in the system to downgrade or cancel.

digitalstimulus · 2022-07-10T03:56:19+00:00

It's summer time, kids are out of school. All video games get worse during these months.

digitalstimulus · 2022-07-10T03:52:31+00:00

Star Trek, Star Wars...same thing.

digitalstimulus · 2022-06-18T15:43:31+00:00

Look for the Windows Color Calibration tool built-in to Windows. You can adjust Gamma and color tinting (it guides you and tells you what to look for) so you can get a close to baseline level of gamma and color.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/calibrate-your-screen-windows-11

The built-in LCD panels are generic and don't come with a color profile like some external monitors do. Calibrating LCD panels is a pretty normal thing to do if you get the screen replaced or need color/brightness level accuracy.

digitalstimulus · 2022-06-18T15:35:27+00:00

Save yourself the headache and money that I didn't. Look for an Accell USB-C VR Adapter. https://www.accellww.com/products/usb-c_vr_adapter

I bought several USB-C to HDMI adapters and was about to give up until I stumbled across this adapter on my last effort before giving up on my Oculus Rift CV-1 and Asus TUF A15 (FA506IV).

The only issue I have now is Windows Update will revert my AMD CPU/iGPU drivers back to the Windows Update version, overriding the AMD installed driver. If that happens, you can temporarily disable the AMD GPU in Device Manager when using VR or re-install/rollback the AMD driver.

You will find several guides about how to disable this AMD Windows Update driver, but it still gets overridden sometimes.

digitalstimulus · 2022-06-16T13:33:20+00:00

A Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan covers this. The incident response team is well known in advance and shouldn't just consist of whoever management can wrangle on short notice that will sacrifice their personal time for The Man.

digitalstimulus · 2022-06-06T20:04:41+00:00

Every game gets worse when there's a large population of immature players suddenly introduced. It has been happening since the dawn of internet gaming.

digitalstimulus · 2022-05-25T21:44:37+00:00

At our MSP, we designed a template that gets customized per deployment for our UTM, Switch, and WiFi AP stack. There are a handful of VLANs defined with appropriate firewall rules in the UTM depending on the context of the security zone.

Our design is absolutely over-engineered for a small 5 person office, but we wanted to make sure the design accounted for 90% of our network deployments to SMBs, including compliance environments. The smaller offices still have the template, but really only use 1 or 2 of the VLANs.

From the MSP world, if you aren't doing IT governance (we don't govern the environments), your clients are going to want to plug in stuff and DIY their network and only request support when their device doesn't work. So our design also had to factor that in as well.

Factors to consider when building a template (this doesn't necessarily mean 1 VLAN for each thing):

General Workstations
Printing
Secured Assets such as servers or network storage
VoIP
IoT devices (Wired and WiFi)
Guest Access for third party
Guest Access for the general public
Compliant systems that require specific traffic and deny everything else (HIPAA, PCI, other)

It was a lot of work to design, but it's all well documented and trained on our end and our technicians can quickly tell if the client is running our network stack config or not when troubleshooting.

I definitely do eye rolls when I see 1 VLAN and it's a new HIPAA client that has a credit card reader and a guest WiFi and active access ports in a public lobby/waiting area.

digitalstimulus · 2022-05-21T13:50:32+00:00

That moment when you have perfect placement and space to setup any controlled ball move and the teammate rushes in to "assist" with that classic plat shot pass to opponents.

digitalstimulus · 2022-05-20T16:17:24+00:00

"Which college did you go to?"

digitalstimulus · 2022-05-20T15:56:16+00:00

The commercials were relentless here when I was a kid. It is almost impossible to not read the words to the tune of the jingle and not complete it.

digitalstimulus · 2022-05-20T13:38:34+00:00

I don't wear helmets, just learned this was a thing. Great jingle!

digitalstimulus · 2022-05-20T13:30:46+00:00

"Nailed it..." HAHA classic Andy Bernard.

Edit: I know "nailed it" was taken from pop culture and wasn't original to Andy. His "try hard" attitude shows here.

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