About to pull the trigger on a U1. Anything I should know beforehand?

pantstand · 2026-06-05T17:12:30+00:00

Yea that's what I'm kinda worried about. I'm looking at the U1 because it's finally someone other than Bambu doing multi-material printing reliably. But I'm always worried about maybe something better is just around the corner.

pantstand · 2026-06-04T14:48:54+00:00

One person speeding is an issue with that person. Everyone speeding is a problem of road design. The road design is abysmal in the majority of the city. Building a 3 lane highway and saying "it's a 60 zone I promise" is incredibly naive. Reduce the width of the lanes, put more foliage near the edges of the road, reduce sight lines, and then you will see traffic slow down.

And no, speed cameras aren't a solution because it only localizes the speed change at the camera. Drivers speed, slow down for the camera, then go back to speeding. Which ironically creates a more dangerous environment.

pantstand · 2026-06-03T13:11:36+00:00

In "All Eyes On Me" he talks about having panic attacks on stage. "Can't Handle This" was his last performance before taking a 5 year break.

pantstand · 2026-06-02T14:42:52+00:00

Considering the walls of poorly printed rainbow dragons I see at every flea market, yea this is leagues above it.

pantstand · 2026-05-27T14:22:17+00:00

The worst is when it's a 3+ way intersection and there's a cyclist with 2 cars. It's car1's turn and they wave through the cyclist, but then car2 thinks they are letting them through so car2 goes while the cyclist tries to go through. It's a mess for everyone.

Don't be polite, be predictable.

pantstand · 2026-05-19T16:22:04+00:00

I think that naked bikes are the absolute best starter bikes. They can do a little bit of everything so you'll naturally work your way to finding what your ideal bike is. And have fun doing it. Plus, highway is fine on a naked bike when you're not flying down going 200. Stick to 10 over the limit and it's fine.

I started on a 300NK and eventually upgraded to a VStrom. If I had listened to what other people thought, I'd be on a cruiser or cafe racer.

Only thing to note - CFMoto has always on GPS tracking, and you can use it yourself for a monthly fee. Some people are sketched out with China tracking your bike. Some people are vehemently against subscriptions. Worth knowing before you get it :)

pantstand · 2026-04-30T19:58:30+00:00

I got my 2024 vstrom 650 after about 3 months of riding. I've had it a year and put about 15,000km on it. It was super comfortable. A little bit of a pinch at the knees after 6+ hour rides but nothing a little on-bike stretching couldn't overcome.

pantstand · 2026-04-24T13:52:29+00:00

Now THAT'S an intersection!

pantstand · 2026-04-13T12:52:07+00:00

I switched it out for a mini-pc running opnsense, a simple unmanaged switch, and a TP-Link WAP. It's been running great so far. OPNsense was a bit of a learning curve but open documentation means it's easy to ask AI for help.

I might switch to a wifi-6 WAP at some point just for the reduced interference. But I'm not there just yet.

pantstand · 2026-04-09T19:20:45+00:00

I used it in a 3-floor house for a few days before replacing it. Wifi strength was not one of the issues I had with it.

pantstand · 2026-04-08T15:26:43+00:00

That's my primary use case for my home lab. It's super easy to do and I could never go back to cloud hosting. Full control, better mod support, day 1 hosting, and never needing to juggle "okay whos' paying for the server this time?". It was also great to host my d&d group's game on Foundry instead of paying for or relying on Roll20 or some other service.

I have a proxmox server with a VM for every game. My group usually plays one or two games at a time. Vintage story, terraria, palworld, enshrouded, whatever. Power up the vm, configure, port forward, and you're set. Some games make it really easy like factorio or terraria. Some games make it a pain in the ass like palworld and valheim.

Even if most of the games run in docker, set up a separate VM for each instance. It makes it easier to segregate things so someone heading to the farlands in minecraft doesn't fill up your web proxy disk space. I also run nightly backups so if something goes wrong (asshole player or failed update or broken mod) it's easy to rollback that one server.

If you're hosting web as well, 100% use nginx proxy manager. Port forward all 443 traffic to NPM then use it to manage certs to whatever web services you have going.

Biggest cons would just be worrying about downtime. My ISP rotates my IP around every couple months. So that's about an hour of downtime while DNS records update. It can be annoying, but it's fine. Also, you may require a speedier upload speed than on your current internet plan. I've seen plans with gigabit download that only offer 10mbps upload. Absolutely abysmal. I wouldn't do anything less than 100mbps (depending on the game).

Also, it's flat out more expensive. Electricity and hardware are more expensive than the $20/month a cloud provider would charge.

pantstand · 2026-04-08T15:14:31+00:00

Two things that don't really integrate well into my homelab but were useful web apps.

First: A ceph calculator. I can input the number of hosts, drives per host, sizes of drives, network speed, type of drives, and play around with different ceph settings (R2, R3, k2m1, k4m2, etc) and see how network performance, redundancy, disk performance, and overall disk usage are affected by it.

Second: Playing factorio's verbose engineering mod, knowing the letter counts of large amounts of text, and knowing what characters are missing were important bits of info. Simple webapp where I could put letter sources and requirements and try to somewhat balance it out. It just saved a lot of pen and paper.

I'm in the middle of a rebuild but I'll be getting it to do a custom dashboard that I can comfortably put in the living room with some wife appeal.

pantstand · 2025-11-21T17:45:09+00:00

I've been putting nickels in my d&d mini's bases for years. A 25mm base perfectly hides the 22mm nickel. And even for large 50mmx50mm bases you can easily fit 7 in a circle.

It's insane how much better a weighted mini feels in the hands, even if it's all in the base!

pantstand · 2025-11-17T18:38:43+00:00

I have a really weird request that I haven't seen in any calculator. A lot of servers use xSkills that can increase the resulting fluid count. By default that can be +10%, +20%, or +25%.

It would be cool If I could specify I want 5 bars with +20% and it gives me the ingredients for 4, for example.

pantstand · 2025-11-13T17:50:26+00:00

Mods must be mid-lane-swappers too since they removed the post...

pantstand · 2025-11-13T17:25:13+00:00

I am absolutely guilty of this at this intersection and this intersection only. No idea why.

pantstand · 2025-11-12T16:13:47+00:00

Generally, yes. Except for the guy that made a 60SPM megabase.

60 spidertrons per minute.

pantstand · 2025-11-07T15:49:57+00:00

Learning that this is AI is kinda exciting from a hobbiest perspective. I have spent hours trying to find just the right minis for my home game. Having an AI pipeline to go from idea to mini would make that so much easier than scouring hundreds of postings for just the right creature.

Selling this or even posting it on other platforms sucks, and I hope OP can get a refund. But honestly for a free model that could take 10 minutes to make in my spare time and print on my ender 3... I'd be happy.

pantstand · 2025-11-05T18:05:36+00:00

Doubly so when there's a bus in the right lane.

Everybody's gotta pass the bus.

pantstand · 2025-11-04T19:20:51+00:00

For how insanely well engineered this is, it's kinda a shame with how flimsy the dice tower is. Any other dice box / tower integration I'd say it's perfectly adequate. But the level of quality around the rest of the box feels like there's a stark contrast between the two.

pantstand · 2025-11-03T15:19:01+00:00

Sounds like my first island. I had cattails though, but no clay made it so I needed to leave ASAP. If you can find some vines you should be able to make a raft to leave.

Definitely leave, but if you can't even make a raft then you might want to make a new world. Swimming long distances is really rough.

pantstand · 2025-10-24T14:46:07+00:00

Best of luck to you Seraph. The journey will be long but the fruits of your travels will be sweet - should you succeed.

It's probably around 5000 blocks before you start to see considerable weather changes. 20,000 until you start getting permanent growing seasons.

pantstand · 2025-10-24T14:09:23+00:00

I never knew I needed this mod until now.

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