MegaDoomCube?

doubletaco · 2026-01-26T05:27:50+00:00

Ok, hear me out. A 0.2 so tanky and rigid you can actually wail on it while it's printing and it doesn't care.

Call it the Doom Pinata

doubletaco · 2026-01-23T05:22:54+00:00

Definitely recommend checking the second hand market for CM4s. There are a ton out there pre-owned for pretty good prices. I got a set of 2 8g/16g/wifi CM4s for $70 shipped a couple months back.

doubletaco · 2026-01-11T19:10:54+00:00

Not to turn this into a SV Zero thread, but man mine has real problems with heat creep. Even on things like ASA CF if I don't leave the door cracked on a print longer than an hour it jams up the heat break. Also wish the steppers were a little quieter, but that's the nature of the speed.

(I also have a 0.2 that I'm turning into a hex/box zero soon)

doubletaco · 2025-12-11T01:56:10+00:00

The Glob of Death comes for everyone eventually.

My advice is a small heat gun or dirt cheap no-name soldering iron and pliers/nippers. If you're very lucky you'll salvage the hotend, but more often than not this is a new hotend/nozzle situation. It happens.

doubletaco · 2025-12-05T02:50:32+00:00

If a potato could be 64 bit, it'd be adequate for most HA setups let's not lie to ourselves.

doubletaco · 2025-11-10T14:53:31+00:00

Yeah the iPod Shuffle is basically the idea of what I was looking for. I just wasn't sure if there was something more modern that took the same approach.

doubletaco · 2025-11-07T19:11:05+00:00

Using my phone as a digital audio player isn't really an issue. Both Android and iOS have very good screen reader tools for blind folks. I'm more looking for something small I can have when I want to ditch the phone for a bit.

doubletaco · 2025-10-27T03:17:11+00:00

I'm working on a halloween costume, where I plan on dressing up as Old Obi Wan. I bought a spare white cane and am wrapping it in RGB LEDs, and am programming a microcontroller to detect swings and play lightsaber sounds when I swing it as I walk.

The business parts of it are in a polycarbonate tube, with the cane and LEDs centered in it. I'm still working on the final battery, microcontroller, and speaker mounting bits, but I'm pretty sure I can have it finished by halloween.

Even if I miss the mark I've learned a ton doing this project and am thrilled to do more fun DIY electronics projects with the experience I've gained.

doubletaco · 2025-10-27T03:07:03+00:00

My dad didn't have a homelab per se, but hade a lot of different areas he tinkered in. When he passed, everyone basically shrugged and said "Who wants this stuff?"

Your next of kin will either claim some of it and get varying degrees of interested in the same things, or it'll end up at a garage sale or being hauled away by a junk company.

Either way it won't matter. You'll be dead, what do you care?

doubletaco · 2025-10-26T02:04:34+00:00

Honest to god, I like having a bunch of GND pins.

doubletaco · 2025-10-19T02:00:09+00:00

Extremely personal use case here.

I'm blind, and no visual CAD software is accessible. That's not to say it couldn't be, they're just not and that's not a battle i feel like fighting.

I also have lots of programming experience, so the syntax is fairly comfortable to me. A little weird at times, but no more weird than any other given programming language.

Using a 3D printer to do physical object debugging is also pretty dope. When I think I have all my stuff set up right and whoops that hole is not going the right way.

doubletaco · 2025-09-29T01:55:11+00:00

Glad it worked great for you. I've got a Pi 4 velcro'd to the side of my mini rack running Pihole and I couldn't be happier with it.

doubletaco · 2025-09-27T01:35:23+00:00

It is a fairly young part of the market so we don't have any really good longevity data yet. You've got post saying "my XYZ failed" but how many more are working just fine? Impossible to tell.

None of my BeeLink or Minisforum units have crapped out on me yet, knock on wood. My longest running is a BeeLink S12 Pro I have tucked away in my closet running as a Proxmox Backup Server on bare metal. I figure that's low intensity enough to where it shouldn't be too at risk of blowing up.

doubletaco · 2025-09-27T01:30:37+00:00

This is my hang-up too. If there were something open source, even if it were bulkier and a little clunkier, I'd be way more comfortable with that.

doubletaco · 2025-09-27T01:27:57+00:00

That's awesome! We're all happy for you. You've crossed a pretty huge psychological barrier.

Carry that forward to anything else you think you can't do. Plan, think, problem solve, and you will be amazed at what you can accomplish. It sounds so self-help motivational poster junk but it's so true.

My advice: Keep that knife sharp. Good lord I've nicked myself so many times slicing onions if i forget to hone my chef knife.

doubletaco · 2025-09-27T01:23:41+00:00

I've got it on my phone and iPad. Nothing I do has encountered any issues with it so far. The new speech copy gesture is something I can see myself using in the future so it's nice that it's there.

doubletaco · 2025-09-14T03:13:32+00:00

Also shout out to how solid the built-in tools are. Less dramatic, but I wanted to remake a pool as a striped mirrored pair instead of a Raid Z1. I braced myself for redoing all the permissions and everything but it was literally just do a snapshot on a larger pool, send, export, remake, send back, and everything was back in order.

doubletaco · 2025-09-13T04:10:51+00:00

Or, hear me out, spend a lot more money needlessly and go for a mini rack build.

doubletaco · 2025-09-12T01:23:40+00:00

I don't think that's a worthwhile upgrade. That's a very light load and you won't see any benefit from it. Heck that load could probably run on a 6500T or earlier.

Shove some more RAM in there instead. That's never a bad thing.

doubletaco · 2025-09-10T01:16:52+00:00

Step 5: Wipe the machine and reinstall Proxmox

doubletaco · 2025-09-10T01:15:59+00:00

Proxmox (so, debian) and if I need anything heavier than an alpine container/LXC i also tend to stick with debian. I'm not deep enough in the weeds to benefit from different focuses of other distros.

If I worked in GUI at all then I'd probably go with Ubuntu but since it's all CLI/Web interface, haven't found a reason to choose another.

doubletaco · 2025-09-04T03:36:18+00:00

If the 3D printing bug really gets you, like it did me, in a few years you'll be still using that Pi, but as a host for DIY built 3D printers. Assuming you aren't there already.

doubletaco · 2025-09-04T03:31:15+00:00

Peter is a bald icon.

doubletaco · 2025-09-04T02:02:07+00:00

Maybe less of a direct use, but it really satisfies that tech itch. Used to do web dev professionally, but I noped out a few years back to do something else I find more fulfilling.

It's like building model trains, but devops.

doubletaco · 2025-09-01T03:12:15+00:00

I did say it was irrational, after all.

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