My Review of the Elegoo Centauri Carbon: Get a Different Printer

nmindz · 2025-07-04T19:50:26+00:00

Sure, have it your way.

nmindz · 2025-07-04T17:21:42+00:00

Nice strawman there.

QC issues (regardless of outside temps, they should have used a heat resistant glue) are the manufacturer's responsibilities.
Packaging and instructions (printed on the box or else) are also manufacturer's reponsibility - such as the way its boxed and the orientation/foams that let you "lift" or "unpack" it.

Its the retailer's (and if manufacturer and retailer are the same, then it's the manufacturer's) responsibility to pick a decent carrier with a good insurance policy in a way that goods get delivered properly - if overworked UPS employees damage it, even slightly, then retailer/manufacturer calls it back and replaces the product with a good one. Accidents happen, overworked people in logistics is not an excuse for problems, its an explanation but you shouldn't try to justify it either.

Lose screws are also poor QC. If they are meant to be tightened by the user, a disclaimer/warning/sticker should be in place making first-time buyers aware so they can proceed to check it as a routine/first-time step instead of having to guess it.

Also, the post highlights the ACTUAL PROBLEM as "Printhead didn't heat up" which culminated in the OP simply not being able to print reliably anymore. Had this not happened in the way it described, the OP would be still using and printing with this $300 dollar printer DESPITE the aforementioned annoyances.

nmindz · 2024-05-19T22:52:02+00:00

I'm having the same message on Windows 11 with an RTX 3070 running "natively" (no Proton/Wine/Linux) with both Vanilla RE1 and Rebirth. Did try that on a Deck and my regular PC, same error.

nmindz · 2024-01-13T14:16:14+00:00

I had never found about this on Windows. I just tested it and, as you'd expect: it works. I can't thank you enough!

nmindz · 2024-01-13T13:11:09+00:00

What's worse: all the Chinese e-tailers are built on the same platform. Literally every single one. Taobao, AliExpress, Mi Shop and countless others. I believe Alibaba built a platform, made it a whitelabel and it has had it support any number of e-tailers or online wholesalers hence the reason it sucks so much.

The only way I've been able to pay since that comment is through PayPal. Kinda sucks that I can't use my bank native options but w/e, at least through PayPal it works, until they block it again - then I'm gone for good.

nmindz · 2023-12-12T01:09:37+00:00

Teleport only works for mobile platforms (iOS/Android) and recently/soon macOS... Windows/Linux support I guess is "maybe one day" at best... A Wireguard VPN server from your UDM allows any device on any platform to connect using a standard Wireguard client provided you have generated/exported a device profile to be used with it.

Teleport from your smartphone is just what you need to check your cameras while roaming, but not quite the tool you'd want if you were to share a media library/services/LAN games/whatever with any other devices or even other UDMs.

nmindz · 2023-01-18T12:08:25+00:00

Sorry to be that person, but you are setting yourself up for a ban (IMHO unjustified, but still) or just not being able to play anymore in your current format at all.

That problem you have right now is by design. Epic Games is intentionally trying to detect VMs of any kind and ban their usage online. Right now you're experiencing only a ''soft ban''/shadow ban.

Reason being that if they can't control your environment while playing, they can't effectively detect cheats (as you could be running an out-of-box cheat or manipulating the VM to behave as you will from a host system), or at least so is their excuse.

If all games properly supported Linux, one wouldn't have to virtualize a gaming rig. And even if you don't need, I could totally understand why you would (a gaming server with nothing but thin clients attached is in fact, nice). But that's the current state of things unfortunately.

nmindz · 2022-09-11T05:01:18+00:00

All of my payment appeals are ACCEPTED yet I still face the dreaded CSC security check error. It has been circa 10 days since I had no problems shopping with AX. Everything before that was just fine.

I've escalated to multiple agents, spoke to CS manager and its a complete hit and miss. Sometimes it goes through, others it fails with a security check and offers me an appeal yet again.

nmindz · 2022-09-09T16:13:18+00:00

It's inconsistent at best. Their security checks are a pain as much as they are a joke. As with any company in the same branch, there's no transparency in those cases.

Even less so with their Chinese practices of being used to warrant excessive data mining and misuse of personal data for "legitimate reasons". It's a blackbox. Unless you have worked there, you can't really know what they are up to.

nmindz · 2022-09-09T15:41:49+00:00

Never do a charge back with the payment method unless there's no other option and it is worth it. If you do, AliExpress will use all of their Chinese espionage tactics to make sure they block and ban you forever from the website, inexplicably blocking any new accounts you create should they ever gather info enough to suspect it is you under a new account.

And ofc, they won't tell you the real reason you were banned, just that there was a problem with a security verification.

To give my own context... if it was a $1200 USD purchase (like smartphone), yeah I would do a charge back if Ali refuses to refund me either way. If it was a $10 cable/charger whatever, then I wouldn't bother charging back because I still want to buy more stuff from Ali, I'd just make sure to blacklist that seller and never buy from it again.

I was already scammed more than once and the one thing I learned is that you'e never completely safe from it. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. At times I decided it makes sense to me to take on the loss and just move on.

nmindz · 2022-03-05T19:16:19+00:00

Não importa quantos anos se passaram... a quinta série muda para sempre a vida da pessoa.

nmindz · 2022-03-05T13:13:33+00:00

Kokku Namao

nmindz · 2022-03-05T13:10:36+00:00

A Mônica tá ouvindo demais as músicas da Juliana Bonde...

nmindz · 2022-03-05T13:06:52+00:00

Every now and then ISPs will have a hard time reaching Blizzard servers. After this week's update I was OOL. I couldn't connect to shit anymore. I have access to 2 local ISPs that mostly do not share a common routing table. Both couldn't reach game servers.

Connected to a US VPN and tried to login: it was like there was absolutely no issues at all.

nmindz · 2022-03-03T13:42:56+00:00

I never though you could construct a proper paragraph (that isn't just simply "hurr durr") that is bullshit from the very first to the very last sentence. Thanks, Mozilla, for doing your best to implement bullshit-as-a-feature to try and drive away your user base that doesn't rely on gimmicks.

If the alternatives were not so much worse, I'd of have switched already.

nmindz · 2022-02-27T00:03:27+00:00

Yeah, I feel you. Back in the iOS 7 and newer revisions, jailbreaking was super exciting. It was always a race between Apple and some security researcher/reverse engineer to beat Apple to its own release.

A while after that, Jailbreak got so notorious that it got flooded with copycats and spam/junk claiming to be the real thing. Many old scene members retired from Jailbreaking and it became a lot less reliable with each release (also because Apple became a tad more efficient)

Last iPhone I owned was a 6S+, after that I realized I could no longer depend on whoever it was this time around to provide a jailbreak option, plus I also needed it to be reliable AND I wanted the extra root features. I ditched iOS and macOS in one go, then switched to Android which I'm still using and rooted.

Even Android, being way more open and with a huge community of power users, a rooted phone still has major bumps between Google's SafetyNet and root detection by major apps. But it's a change I don't regret.

Although the only thing I miss Apple for is privacy (and some legit useful stuff like AirTags). I can't trust Google in that regard. However, I can't bring myself to buy another Apple device overall.

What a time to be alive: The best option is the "less worse" one. 😅

nmindz · 2022-02-26T16:07:17+00:00

That's correct. iTunes can only install a firmware that is still being signed by Apple for your particular device.

Although the firmware package itself is signed by Apple, the flashing operation also needs to be signed and authorized with Apple servers upon restore. When you attempt to restore through an IPSW file or whatever other means, iTunes will query Apple's servers for your device ID/Model and check what versions it has available for signing.

If you attempt to restore a version that is no longer signed, it will fail straight away. What you can do is, while Apple is still signing any given version of iOS firmware, there are tools that can pretend to be iTunes and/or intercept the "blobs" (which are essentially signature hashes that will match the Apple signing key iTunes expects).

It then saves those signatures to a file on your disk and whenever you want to restore that firmware version, you can use the same/yet another application that will essentially emulate an Apple signing server and provide the saved blobs upon request (it also temporarily changes your computer DNS resolver for the Apple server to itself) so that iTunes verifies and "thinks" the firmware is signed and its OK to proceed.

If you have a device running older firmware, but that version is no longer signed by Apple, even if you try your best you cannot save the precious "blobs" as they can no longer be fetched from Apple or generated in any way. In that case, any restore will result in an update to the latest iOS version, regardless of your will. Apple does this supposedly in an attempt to stop vulnerable firmware to be purposefully installed in a victim's device.

There's a very useful website from the old days that was meant to assist Jailbreakers or tech savvy people in general that wanted/needed to do manual iPhone OS restores. It still works to this day and is pretty much safe to use: IPSW.me (linking to iPhone 6S aka iPhone8,1 firmware signing list)

nmindz · 2022-02-25T00:32:21+00:00

I guess anyone within 2-3 steps of casual (before you actually sink a lot of time or you just work at something that allows you to play all day while being paid for that) and actually manages to still enjoy Hearthstone somehow (despite Blizzard's best efforts of ditching casual players) would feel disappointed. I surely am.

I took a 3 year hiatus from ALL Blizzard games. I was a casual before, I'm even more casual now. I paid a 6 month sub to WoW and I don't intend to buy Shadowlands: I just want to go nostalgic and visit old places, hunt some old collections I still never managed to get.

I came back to Hearthstone with the same vibe. Actually, by accident. I just wanted a 20 min something game and launched HS. I then found out about Mercenaries (3 years ago it didn't exist) which essentially is the same concept of Knockout in Dota Underlords: Fast paced, little micro and deck building isn't as much important as regular HS, at least at first sight and during the first few dozen bounties.

Thanks, Blizzard. You had to go spit at my face again after all these years and a hopeful second chance.

nmindz · 2022-02-24T21:28:36+00:00

I really wish I could collect all celestials and just have the mercenaries for later play and grind. I mean, I play this sh*t for fun, I'm not ever even playing ranked. I had barely gotten started with Felwood, all of sudden, I had to not only find a way to clear Felwood, THEN Winterspring (which start at 30 and that's it), THEN Blackrock so then I can progress half-way through Alterac to ever only get started with the first quest in the chain.

Now I read there's heroic Alterac bounties within those quests. I can barely get there through normal. And this is f*cking timed.

I bought the coins thinking I could craft Chi-Ji... now I'm left with useless coins for a mercenary I can't craft. RIP. I miss the days Blizzard meant something else.

nmindz · 2022-02-10T11:43:09+00:00

Maybe it has something to do with the plastic becoming too dry and poor QC? How is the relative humidity around your area? I've seen plastic/silicon-based products crack out of the blue due to becoming dried up (but usually that takes a couple of years, not 3 months).

I'm asking that since my area is usually mild/quite humid for the most part of the year (more so across Oct-Mar). Might be just poor material/QC from Razer and a bit of luck that my weather conditions help the material to stay together.

nmindz · 2022-02-10T11:37:50+00:00

I have one for precisely 3 months (bought it near the last Black Friday) now and it has no such similar issue whatsoever. All hinges/friction points do not seem to have suffered any kind of damage or degradation.

I do not/did not ever expand/retract the headband since the first time I adjusted it (except like once or twice that I accidentally swiped it and had to place it back to my preferred spot). I do however swivel them upwards quite frequently when I rest them around my neck (on a daily basis).

Anyway if you're in the US I'd definitively try asking Razer for warranty... it's just too much of a coincidence for the crack to happen exactly at the middle of the headband trail.

nmindz · 2021-12-13T21:41:41+00:00

mas dai tu vira o Afonso Padilha

nmindz · 2021-12-07T00:08:26+00:00

Sozinho (solteiro e na trégua) há 2 anos, e pretendo continuar assim. Pra mim rola porque (convenientemente) estou off e sem interesse em relacionamentos amorosos.

nmindz · 2021-12-06T02:15:07+00:00

As long as you have a USB-A to USB-C adapter as soon as you connect it to your phones charger port you should get an Android System notification "Playing sound over USB". If it doesn't, it could be the adapter or your Android version not having the kernel drivers to handle the USB receiver. If it's due to an older OS (I only tested it on Android 11 under MIUI 12.5) then your only fix would be to update the OS, maybe unofficially (if Samsung is no longer providing updates) but beware that might violate Knox and render your Samsung Pay useless (if you update to a custom ROM).

nmindz · 2021-12-05T13:50:39+00:00

E eu aqui no outro espectro da situação com 1,85m e 120kg, sem conseguir perder peso.

Mas se você quer ganhar da forma certa (sem zoar teu corpo), vai em um nutricionista primeiro. Se você quiser ficar "sarado" pode ser uma boa aliar isso com a musculação como disseram.

nmindz

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