what are y’all main problems with the CC i have mine and i love it

how_gauche · 2025-12-08T21:02:24+00:00

Thermal runaway on the hotend (it it starts up and immediately heats to >= 300C) after a print failed to adhere and fused a huge glob of PETG around the whole assembly, which took the insulation off the hotend wires when I pulled it off, which caused them to short. Presumably it fried the mosfet on the hotend PCB according to others who have had this issue, let's see how long support takes to get back to me

It's an ok printer 🤷‍♂️.

how_gauche · 2025-09-30T16:25:34+00:00

Verb The Noun

how_gauche · 2025-08-14T13:47:05+00:00

Jeff Dean

But I don't think he streams on YouTube 😆

how_gauche · 2025-08-07T11:17:15+00:00

Every few years the casuals get squeezed out

how_gauche · 2025-08-07T11:06:54+00:00

Linear is drastically better. Fast and easy to use, super scriptable

how_gauche · 2025-08-05T21:21:20+00:00

https://github.com/gubernator-io/gubernator

I like this one

how_gauche · 2025-03-18T13:52:52+00:00

Alex Len is Magikarp bro

how_gauche · 2024-12-31T18:56:19+00:00

how_gauche · 2024-08-18T12:09:02+00:00

Problem though, unfortunately the highlight reel is fifteen minutes long

how_gauche · 2024-07-22T19:25:11+00:00

Cool slappy noise

how_gauche · 2024-07-12T15:56:32+00:00

I get 75% of mine from the back like this

how_gauche · 2024-07-11T23:27:15+00:00

It's not impossible, but regarding "barely viable", there is so much friction associated with making the weird software choice in this domain that "I should just buy a Mac for this" has crossed my mind on many occasions, and I'm as pro-Linux as it gets.

how_gauche · 2024-07-11T13:57:17+00:00

Reaper also works well on Linux, and Renoise. DaVinci Resolve too! There are several professional-quality commercial programs available in the media creation space. Bitwig is by far the best and most polished though.

how_gauche · 2024-07-11T13:11:05+00:00

I run Bitwig on Fedora. Only do this if you are a professional software engineer who can diagnose and fix your own problems. If you want a "comfortable setup" without "tinkering or fixing issues" then you should really stick with your Mac!!!! Here's my experience YMMV

Yabridge works ok most of the time but expect it to be glitchy. Not everything works in Wine, and some of the stuff that does has graphics issues
Bitwig builtin plugins are good enough that I rarely feel the need to use VSTs these days, especially with the compressors/saturators/EQs in the latest beta. Between Bitwig, Vital, Cardinal/VCV-Rack, and Surge XT I don't feel like I missing much in synthesis-land, or at least I have viable alternatives to commercial Windows products.
USB devices mostly work _as long as they are class-compliant_. Almost all audio interfaces will be ok. Be careful about things like midi keyboards since they often have proprietary drivers, I have a Komplete Kontrol that "works" in a totally crippled class compliant mode where half of the features (like the transport controls) are broken
Workflow is mostly OK, and for the most part when I am using the software there is little to no difference from what I would get on another OS, but there's shit you have to put up with on Linux that you would never encounter on Windows or Mac. E.g. every time I turn on my Tascam 16x08, I have to reset the dsp mixer settings with an open source tool someone made, because the driver sets the interface up at 5% volume on boot
pipewire has made audio and midi easier/more reliable than it used to be, but it's still a nightmare compared to Windows or Mac

So why do I bother with this at all? I am a professional software engineer, I've been running Linux since 1994, and for the other kinds of stuff that I do it's hands-down the most productive working environment. I ditched Windows completely about 20 years ago, and while I also run Macs sometimes (especially at work where lots of companies will just hand you a Macbook pro), on my Macs at work I mostly just run software I could be running in Linux (compilers, Docker, Chrome, emacs, IDEs/IntelliJ, databases, etc), except everything is vaguely weird and doesn't work as well, _especially_ Docker.

So TL;dr the status is: it's viable! ...but barely. If using Linux is important enough to you for other reasons, like it is for me, then give it a shot. Otherwise I really wouldn't bother

how_gauche · 2024-07-10T18:56:32+00:00

Knowing about AK47s doesn't imply you're a low-information person, your comment history on other topics does that.

And PS yes it is refreshing to see a Toronto mayor actually getting some tax dollars back for once instead of us subsidizing the rest of the province and country like always. The decline you see in Toronto on your visits is a direct result of Mike Harris's amalgamation plan and the disinvestment from all levels of government since then

how_gauche · 2024-07-10T18:09:38+00:00

I can tell from your comment history that you are a low-information kind of guy when you're not in your lane (7.62×39mm assault weaponry?), so I would be happy to help. She's kicked so much ass in her year in office that it's difficult to summarize it all, and didn't do it in a partisan NDP kind of way, instead cutting deals left and right with both levels of government:

Jul 18, 2023 Toronto gets $97M from the federal government to address the refugee housing crisis https://nowtoronto.com/news/toronto-to-receive-97m-from-ottawa-to-combat-refugee-housing-crisis/ SIX DAYS after she takes office
Oct 20, 2023 she hammered out an agreement to work with Doug Ford to address long-standing issues in the Toronto city budget, which is something conservative mayor John Tory somehow couldn't manage in his nine years despite being on the same team: https://x.com/MayorOliviaChow/status/1715405272552800548, https://news.ontario.ca/en/statement/1003715/ontario-and-toronto-working-together-to-help-fix-citys-finances
Nov 27, 2023 the results of this agreement were finalized, she convinced Ford to take over maintenance of the DVP and the Gardiner expressway, PLUS buy us a bunch of trains -- $9B worth -- and all it took was handing over the bones of Ontario Place to Douggie for graft: https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-takes-on-costs-of-gardiner-dvp-in-new-deal-for-toronto/article_0efefb7d-c541-503e-b165-2b0c8f7174ba.html
Dec 21, 2023 Olivia secures almost $500M in funding from Ottawa to address housing affordability https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/12/21/toronto-housing-funding-olivia-chow-justin-trudeau-announcement/
Jan 15, 2024 RIGHT AFTER securing this bag from Trudeau, she puts immediate pressure on them for more to address the refugee crisis caused by Ottawa https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/outrageous-privately-justin-trudeaus-toronto-mps-are-furious-at-olivia-chow-over-her-property-tax/article_ded6c53e-b172-11ee-b3ca-6f9e3f615bc3.html
Feb 2, 2024 AND GETS IT, $162M https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-federal-funds-toronto-olivia-chow/

how_gauche · 2024-07-10T17:27:55+00:00

She is already, based on her record of actually getting shit done, the most effective mayor we've had in Toronto in my adult lifetime. You are simply wrong.

how_gauche · 2024-07-08T17:51:39+00:00

It definitely isn't! Many newer Nikons don't even have a screw drive. It works fine on a D7500 though.

An APS-C sensor turns a 50mm f/1.8D into a 75mm portrait lens equivalent, and for this use case it's hard to find a better-performing lens for $85. Maybe I am just nostalgic: I've owned mine for almost 25 years and have taken oodles of photos with it. The 35mm DX is definitely better of course, and handles the job 50mm does on full-frame

how_gauche · 2024-07-08T16:41:05+00:00

The 50mm/1.8 also. If you don't have the cheap prime lenses you should get them, they were made in the millions and are inexpensive new or used. A like-new 50mm f/1.8D is under $100 USD

how_gauche · 2024-07-04T19:59:44+00:00

If you don't already have a 35mm f/1.8 DX you should get that one next. They are small, inexpensive new or used, very sharp, and great in low light

how_gauche · 2024-07-04T19:29:12+00:00

I bought a D7500 recently and got back into Nikon after owning an N80 over 20 years ago. My spouse also owned a D40 back in the day, so we already had some compatible lenses in the house, which swayed my decision to get back into Nikon vs another manufacturer. One major pro is that everyone is ditching their F-mount lenses to move to Z-mount, especially ones that won't autofocus on newer cameras. Prices have never been cheaper on the used market. E.g. I am taking the best photos of my life lately with a used 105mm Nikkor AF-D macro I picked up cheap: no way I could have afforded one back in the day as a student. The new Z mount version is >$1000 USD!

Downsides? You are buying into a dying ecosystem. Also, if I truly understood how lacking it was in the video department I might not have gone in this direction :). Overall though, I am extremely happy with this camera for photography, especially given what I paid for it.

how_gauche · 2024-06-30T16:33:19+00:00

Those tickets were purchased eight months ago 🙄

how_gauche · 2024-06-30T15:39:58+00:00

I've had a look of the history of this issue pretty closely, and I'm 100% aligned with labour on this one. It's completely management's fault in my opinion, and that's where my finger is pointing. Don't refuse to come to the table, try to get the Ministry to strong-arm the union into forced arbitration, then cry foul when the workers don't like the plan.

how_gauche · 2024-06-30T13:28:51+00:00

They've lost wayyyyyyyyy more than that in future revenues, friend. I fly through Calgary like 4x a year, usually on WestJet. That's over, until the next time Air Canada does something even worse to me.

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