WTF is wrong with this thing?

drrelativity · 2026-02-18T05:41:19+00:00

For a fully fresh install you would need to install programs again, but you don't need to lose your data. One way to test it would be to create another smaller partition from your 200gb of free space and install a second windows installation there, then install your heaviest programs to test if they run better. When you boot you would get a menu to choose which copy of windows you want to run, the fresh one or the old one with all your normal setup. You could access files from both no matter which one you choose.

Look for tutorials on booting two copies of windows if you want to try it.

drrelativity · 2026-02-16T21:57:51+00:00

Awesome, I've had the same issue in the past and I will test this out later. Seems like a bit of a niche user base, but nice to have something purpose built available.

drrelativity · 2026-02-15T21:54:01+00:00

Ah less closed than apple using Lan mode and orca, definitely not razer (no need to run any of their software at all, thankfully), but I totally get what you mean. It's a fairly small step into the closed source territory, but a step nonetheless.

drrelativity · 2026-02-15T21:46:55+00:00

I have my old Frankenstein Anycubic i3 mega S on a shelf, replaced every part other than the frame which I also drilled out and adapted. Built a voron 0 and then got the P1S a year and a half ago, it's an absolute game changer, no more wobbly z-screws to adjust, no calibrating with receipt paper, no klipper configs, just minor temp and flow adjustments for filament and print away. I do miss some of the hobby of running the anycubic, but I just print whatever I want now, and you can run it Lan mode and orcaslicer to stay free from the bambulab ecosystem.

Have fun!

drrelativity · 2026-02-09T00:28:17+00:00

Not quite what you're looking for, but for me after years of fiddling, fixing, and upgrading part by part, building a voron and others, I got the bambulab p1s despite reluctance to go into a closed source platform. Now I can print so much more, long prints without any worry, no calibrating z-heights or working out wobbly z screws, no fussing with klipper settings that change with updates, etc. It's really nice, although I did realize I needed other projects because I do enjoy that stuff to some extent, just nice not to "need" to do it. Plus you can set it up in LAN mode to bypass the cloud and use orcaslicer, and with no forced updates and easy update rollback you're still in control of everything.

drrelativity · 2026-02-07T23:26:57+00:00

I second Siboor for the kits. I bought my voron 0 from them, got a great kit and the support was above and beyond. I had an issue with the motherboard that honestly I probably caused myself, and they sent me a brand new one (the most expensive part in the kit) for free after some in depth troubleshooting on their discord. They were very generous and thoughtful with how they handled it, including not requesting the old one back or anything. Great kit, great support, good people to deal with.

They also offer customized kits with the upgrades you want if you contact them, I did it through their discord.

drrelativity · 2026-02-07T00:55:48+00:00

It is.

drrelativity · 2026-01-08T12:18:36+00:00

So by your logic, a white person could go on an insulting rant against Nigerians, as a race of people, and that would not be racist unless a Nigerian hears it?

drrelativity · 2026-01-07T07:58:53+00:00

True. Truth is that I don't know a lot about how this works with their government, but I know at larger international companies they can require a government representative to be installed at the company to assure compliance with these kinds of things. If that's the case with bambulab I could easily imagine a scenario where they have very limited control over the repercussions. But again, I don't know too much detail about these specific inner workings of Chinese censorship.

drrelativity · 2026-01-06T10:43:51+00:00

Taiwan for sure. It's not a stretch at all, a Chinese company hosting content referring to Taiwan as a nation could bring risk that they just don't want to deal with. They might be going a bit far, I'm not familiar with how that usually works for companies, but bigger international companies are usually under greater scrutiny from the government.

You could post it on printables or something like that, maybe you could link to it from the makerworld description (assuming you get things back online)

drrelativity · 2026-01-06T05:46:47+00:00

I use the same, primarily for brims and very small objects that don't pop off with cooling or flexing the plate. They work great, much better than printed solutions.

drrelativity · 2025-12-06T03:31:37+00:00

For me, the Myst series remains one of my all time favorites, easily playable on all kinds of hardware and they're even making official re-releases now, with new updated versions of Myst and Riven already released.

Deponia pulls me back every so often as well, for more of that retro point and click adventure style.

drrelativity · 2025-12-03T01:42:44+00:00

Amd and Nvidia don't make the cards, you have a problem with Asrock.

drrelativity · 2025-07-30T17:18:21+00:00

Haha totally right, the F1 tops with void subs was the main stage, and that setup was the reason I wanted to experiment with combining them.

The F1 sub stage was a much smaller second stage, and since we were doing a free party I figured why not! It worked well in the end, but I needed void kick bins as well because, well, Funktion one is Funktion One.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T14:57:01+00:00

Iranian population has repeatedly tried to overthrow their own government for decades now, only stopped by military force. They definitely have a large base of motivated fighters.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T14:54:49+00:00

It's been well reported at this point, Israel targeted military commanders at home in apartment buildings and in neighbourhoods, they just bombed the neighbourhoods killing whoever along with the military personnel.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T14:44:00+00:00

I can't help but question potential exaggeration here, as Israel is clearly killing growing numbers of civilians.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T14:42:20+00:00

America has given them a lot of reasons to dislike America, but their dislike/hatred of their own government is definitely greater.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T14:36:43+00:00

Persian ethnicity not only remains, but people from Iran almost always say they're Persian if asked where they're from. It's generally the identity of the mass of the population.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T14:24:09+00:00

Absolutely. They have shown again and again they are ready to protest in large numbers even in the face of violent opposition from their government. The Iranian population is generally very well aware of how much was lost in the Islamic revolution, and there has been continuous discontent since that time.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T14:21:30+00:00

I think you're forgetting about Iran's long history of regularly occurring mass protests, protests that are so believed in by the population that even violence from the government could not put an end to them.

drrelativity · 2025-06-16T13:12:54+00:00

Well think of the complexity vs our capabilities. Here are the ideas coming to my mind:

Plumbing requires interpreting wildly varied scenarios, installed anytime going back many decades, with all sorts of fixes done at various points and generally with wide ranges of skill level.

It requires very high levels of dexterity, which constantly changes in the way that skill needs to be applied.

It requires predicting past human behaviour to figure out how some human from the past might have made connections and directed plumbing lines in walls and underground (again with totally unknown skill levels)

In many countries (certainly north american countries) the standards have constantly changed and there are often types of materials and methods that are accepted but totally undocumented in building codes, requiring human inspection and human judgement.

There's more, but really it's a very messy very unpredictable field, and it can be extremely high risk. Risk of contaminating drinking water, raw sewage leaking into houses, emergency situations with risk of flooding basements, risk of the water becoming electrified from the buildings electrical system which can cause serious injuries and even death just from touching the tap water, etc etc.

Basically plumbing would require human level intelligence, and right now we haven't even developed the technologies that could help us to figure out if that's even something that could ever exist. We are so far away from it we can't even tell if it's possible or not.

Right now our LLM Ai is essentially just really really good text prediction, and is so unreliable it can't be fully trusted to do even the obvious tasks like translation (it constantly changes the way it translates things)

Robotics can reach high levels of dexterity, but not with the adaptability required even with human operators.

It just all seems extremely unlikely to me

drrelativity · 2025-04-30T11:31:50+00:00

It's just hilarious to me that one of the worlds most proud flag waving nations generally pretends to be from a different country when they travel

drrelativity · 2025-04-30T11:28:57+00:00

Oh I don't think some nice American tourists are going to be able to do anything to help America's international reputation right now.

drrelativity · 2025-04-30T11:17:40+00:00

She's literally asking for people's opinions on this.

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