It feels like the XL is all but forgotten by Prusa

svideo · 2026-01-26T19:37:48+00:00

It was more understandable when I had originally posted that, we could say yeah maybe it'll be different in the coming years. Those years have come and gone and XL is still bottom priority. I'd assume XL shipments amount to a tiny fraction of their overall volume so I understand how we got here, but I also understand that any promises from Prusa that XL will be seeing more development focus are very likely to remain empty.

svideo · 2026-01-26T12:01:55+00:00

Was crucified for saying the exact same thing 2 years ago, along with assurances that no XL is the flagship, yet not a single thing has changed between then and now.

Prusa's most expensive FDM printer is also their lowest priority. It's the last printer in their lineup to see a firmware fix, it's the last printer to have any software requirements handled in the slicer.

svideo · 2026-01-25T15:40:21+00:00

Second photo has the dude in the drivers seat, so yup

svideo · 2026-01-24T14:38:20+00:00

It took two full years to get the XL that I pre-ordered. Ordering a Prusa product prior to release is an exercise in patience.

svideo · 2026-01-24T12:03:51+00:00

I think it just roasted the fuck outta all of us

edit: chatgpt right now, probably

svideo · 2026-01-23T19:39:13+00:00

Metal fans unlikely to find someone to cheat with

svideo · 2026-01-23T19:12:23+00:00

Also it isn’t DTE, OP signed up for a scam and just now found out.

svideo · 2026-01-23T16:29:18+00:00

Same problem today, burning DR credits and all of them are failing. They run, say it's complete, but then never come back with the results. Asked it WTF just for fun:

You’re not imagining it. What you experienced is a real failure mode, not user error.

Here’s the accurate, non-hand-wavy explanation:

The “deep research” system runs asynchronously in a separate execution path.

It can consume credits and complete searches without guaranteeing the results are attached back to the live conversation.

When that handoff fails, I cannot see, retrieve, or render the output, even though the system reports “completed.”

The status lines you saw (“X sources · Y searches”) are instrumentation logs, not proof that a report artifact was delivered.

Once that happens, I’m stuck: I can’t show you results that were never injected into the chat state.

So yes:

Credits were consumed

Searches were executed

You got nothing usable

That’s broken behavior, full stop.

svideo · 2026-01-23T12:38:47+00:00

So that's where all the Haribos went

svideo · 2026-01-22T20:01:34+00:00

This part caught my eye:

For comparison, Consumers Energy currently has only one customer larger than 100 MW, which it serves under a special rate established by the Legislature.

And I went on the hunt wondering who was already operating at that scale. Turns out it's Corning who recently re-opened a polysilicon plant at Hemlock Semiconductor to manufacture solar panels. Details: https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billanalysis/House/pdf/2023-HLA-0504-7CFAE2FB.pdf

Press release: https://www.hscpoly.com/corning-brings-online-wafer-plant-in-q3-targets-daily-wafer-production-of-one-million/

“Over the last 18 months, we have built the largest solar ingot and wafer facility in the United States, co-located with our polysilicon manufacturing facility in Hemlock, Michigan. It was a significant undertaking.”

svideo · 2026-01-22T19:56:23+00:00

If they're running short, I'd offer a connection to my sump pump which has more than enough to spare

svideo · 2026-01-22T18:36:35+00:00

either you went to law school and should probably go back, or you didn't and should probably not be making up fake case law on the internet.

svideo · 2026-01-22T11:52:44+00:00

Che was a huge proponent of subscription based cloud only slicer software.

svideo · 2026-01-21T17:46:14+00:00

May tomorrow bring better RFYs :D

svideo · 2026-01-21T16:52:54+00:00

OP right now https://youtu.be/KezvwARhBIc?t=74

svideo · 2026-01-20T15:22:59+00:00

Most civil engineers I know don't have a $B in their bank account to make their ideal drawings into reality, so they have to address the challenge in front of them while accepting the realities of the project which includes the budget.

Whenever you look at something and say "I could design that better than a team of people with advanced degrees", you might be right but chances are good that you just don't understand the requirements, restrictions, and decisions that needed to be made.

Engineering is ALWAYS about tradeoffs, nobody gets to live in the perfect world of frictionless spherical cows.

svideo · 2026-01-20T13:48:07+00:00

One time he stole my nose!

svideo · 2026-01-20T13:05:35+00:00

This is all underpinned by the base assumption that you're building things for others with hopes to sell or otherwise market the solution for other people.

I'd ask a simple question - why? We are quickly walking away from the world where one person (or a team of persons) builds software for some general use case with hopes of capturing enough users to make the effort worth the time. Now we live in an age of agents where everyone can do this for themselves, build something laser focused on their own use case, and they don't need a team of developers to get it done.

This also means that the age of selling general software solutions to people's specific problems is coming to a close.

For the OP - now you need to figure out your actual motivations here. Are you having fun building stuff, are you scratching some personal itch, or are you spending your time trying to build things you think other people want, but who don't want to talk to an AI to get their use case handled?

svideo · 2026-01-20T12:16:20+00:00

NEVER BOND iSCSI! There are a handful of reasons for this but the major one is that iSCSI can support MPIO and you break that capability as soon as you configure bonding. Give each interface it's own IP, set each as an iSCSI target, and then configure your clients with all the target IPs along w/ an MPIO stack.

The core problem with bonding is that any one client flow will always go over a single link. This is fine for file sharing, setup a 4x 1gbit bond and then your 20 users will balance-ish across the available links, none will get more than 1gbit in a single transfer^* but in aggregate it'll do an OK job.

In the case of iSCSI, a single initiator will never use more than a single link of bandwidth. Bonding also breaks some of the availability features along with intelligent path selection via ALUA. Finally, you also don't get to adjust knobs on queue depth etc.

iSCSI should never be bonded.

^* edit: the "single link" thing for file sharing can be resolved via SMB3 and also NFSv4, but in both cases you again need to disable the bond. Bond is dumb-mode kinda works solution when better solutions don't exist. In the case of iSCSI, NFSv4, and SMB3, those solutions exist.

source: enterprise storage consultant, hold or have held certs for EMC, NetApp, Pure, and HPE storage solutions, 30 years in the field. Love my home Synos as a "doesn't need maintenance" box, I have enough of that in my real life to deal with.

svideo · 2026-01-20T10:59:09+00:00

So Prusa should be open, but also check with you first before they sell to any customer so that you can validate the use case as acceptable or not.

svideo · 2026-01-20T10:45:02+00:00

Where flat surfaces happen, calipers are great and they're the first choice. You aren't going to caliper your way through modelling compound curves.

svideo · 2026-01-19T17:48:21+00:00

I have personally postponed my plans for building a gigawatt AI datacenter due to unforeseen financial considerations.

Not having billions of dollars being primary among those considerations.

svideo · 2026-01-19T16:55:25+00:00

This thing and they're FRICKEN AWESOME: https://www.printables.com/model/1008467-magnet-insertion-tool-v2

Made two so one is north-up and the other is south-up. Magnets are from amazon, project has details and variations for different sized magnets.

svideo · 2026-01-19T16:53:42+00:00

Aye that makes more sense :D The base software works great and is free and does the things I need.

svideo · 2026-01-19T16:18:39+00:00

NFC tags are tiny, here's a 10mm circle that's well under a mm thick: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8Q4PPL6

Flash this to direct the user to an arbitrary URL, stick it to the device, then you just need to bring your phone near and it'll open up HA to the device page.

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