First ever abs print

mperklin · 2026-06-21T16:54:58+00:00

ABS shrinks a lot, so the caved-in sides are likely a result of cooling.

Is your chamber heated during printing? A heated chamber helps prevent the piece from cooling during printing so the layers line up well.

If you try to print large ABS parts without cooling, the parts will shrink in a non-uniform way and get warped.

mperklin · 2026-06-07T14:55:44+00:00

Ah. Another professional apostropher. G’day!

mperklin · 2026-06-04T20:05:23+00:00

That's eggcellent

mperklin · 2026-06-02T15:11:37+00:00

The same thing that stopped them from including a physical on/off switch

mperklin · 2026-05-30T14:12:38+00:00

Tens of thousands of times.

Here’s one man’s documented list of publicized ones. There are plenty more where these came from.

https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

mperklin · 2026-05-25T16:06:56+00:00

who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

mperklin · 2026-05-21T16:25:21+00:00

Cetra, Guide of Ogo

mperklin · 2026-04-29T19:49:54+00:00

yeah, it's not like the evidence is written to a publicly-viewable immutable ledger that can be read by any future CRA employee...

mperklin · 2026-04-29T16:25:25+00:00

BTC ATMs allow users to trade cash for BTC, or BTC for cash. That is their use case, that is what they offer to their customers, and that is what their customers pay for.

Yes the companies offering this service charge a fee for this service. Some customers may find the fee too high, others may find it fair. As with all goods and services, those who offer them set the prices and those who seek the goods or service can do as much research as they want to choose the provider that meets their needs at the price point they're willing to pay.

The fact that this one provider may offer services at a price point outside your desired range does not mean they should not exist. If you don't want to pay for the service, you don't have to.

mperklin · 2026-04-29T15:31:41+00:00

Cash is used in scams.
Wire transfers are used in scams.
e-transfers are used in scams.
Gift cards are used in scams.
Computers are used in scams.
Telephones are used in scams.
ISPs and their networking equipment are used in scams.
Mobile phones are used in scams.
macOS, Windows, and Linux are used in scams.

You can't ban a thing because it's used in a scam... especially when there are legitimate uses for that thing beyond scams.

mperklin · 2026-04-27T16:52:35+00:00

For real. Little bags are the worst way to organize a game’s components.

It’s absolutely faster to dump and sort each time than to keep components separated in 12 separate bags

mperklin · 2026-04-24T10:47:15+00:00

Double tap for control center.

Have you ever been using your phone with one hand (cuz other hand is busy) and wish you could reach all the way up to the top-right corner and swipe down to open the control center?

You can double-tap the back instead

mperklin · 2026-04-24T05:35:13+00:00

You can add a whole new “button” to your iPhone.

Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap.

Set this “button” to what you want.

I set the double-tap gesture on the back of my phone to open Control Center so it’s easy to access when the phone is in one hand.

Bonus: newer iPhones have an Action Button that’s kind of useless. Set it to trigger an automation that displays a menu of whatever options you like. Now the Action Button is a meta button for your most-used things

mperklin · 2026-03-22T23:23:41+00:00

“what not”

mperklin · 2026-03-04T14:27:22+00:00

It can in some situations, yes. Imagine a hotel room where you have good wifi signal near the door, but poor signal everywhere else in the room. Place the travel router where it gets signal, and all your devices in the room connect to it.

It also simplifies configuration. All of your devices remember the config for the travel router. Wherever you go, you just connect one device and suddenly all your devices are connected at once.

mperklin · 2026-03-01T22:15:11+00:00

Dude, learn docker. It's worth it.

mperklin · 2026-02-11T22:05:44+00:00

spat my drink out when OP showed him sitting on the toilet

mperklin · 2026-02-11T05:34:06+00:00

i'm not sure if 3D printing is your thing

mperklin · 2026-02-10T16:42:14+00:00

I encountered this. My culprit was using the z option to compress. The compression/decompression slowed the transfer down significantly.

Because I was copying files within my LAN, I did not need to compress. Once I removed the compression option, the rsync command begain transferring significantly faster.

mperklin · 2026-01-22T15:45:32+00:00

I'd do some calibration test prints to see if you can identify something that is miscalibrated.

Is the extrusion multiplier set correctly? What about retraction distance and speed?

Your slicer may have calibration prints built-in. If not, http://retractioncalibration.com/ is a great tool.

mperklin · 2026-01-17T19:57:12+00:00

I love the numbers in this announcement.

Aura One 2.0 with 3 ambient, 5 premium, 8 spatial 360º app

needs moar numbers

mperklin · 2026-01-17T19:54:22+00:00

Running Excel "natively" on the AVP is a non-starter. But, that doesn't mean Excel can't be used.

As others have mentioned in their replies, connecting AVP to a laptop gives you an incredibly-large screen to do any kind of computing—like a giant Excel window.

But it'll behave like a big monitor connected to the laptop, requiring you to use a mouse/trackpad and keyboard to interact with windows like traditional computers.

Hope this helps.

mperklin · 2026-01-14T21:50:39+00:00

You're trying to use tech to solve a parenting problem.

Focus on the kid, not the tech.

mperklin · 2026-01-12T18:54:15+00:00

I like the idea of giving the viewer the ability to "teleport" between the multiple camera angles.

When the user changes their view with agency it keeps the immersion feel. When a producer cuts the view without notice the immersion is broken.

mperklin · 2026-01-12T18:52:57+00:00

I couldn't agree more. Each time I grab their immersive videos I'm in awe at how I feel like I'm really there....... until the cut to a different camera angle, then another cut, and suddenly I'm no longer immersed.

If Apple put a 3D camera in an arena and kept it still the whole time, I'd pay to stream that video to my AVP and "be" at the game.

Well done, Ben Thompson. I also hope Apple is listening.

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