Yeah that sounds about right. Maybe it would have potential applications with non-planar printing? That’s still pretty experimental territory I think.

This makes me curious about the effect of nozzle shape on the output. Would a square holed nozzle work or look different than a normal round nozzle? What about an oval or star shape? Hmmm.

Printing on glass, using tape or hairspray to help with adhesion… I’d print a skirt with a couple lines so I could level the bed a bit before the actual print started.

Man hardware has come a long way.

I use ZFS for this exact reason. I didn’t want to be stuck using a specific controller or have problems if I needed to migrate my storage to another server. It’s a lot more flexible than a hardware RAID too and has some nice benefits like snapshotting.

I just stick my head underneath the machine and let the coffee go right into my mouth. No spills and it saves time since I don’t have to wash a mug.

I completely agree on Marin, it’s really a tragic love story.

The scene when you take her to the beach and she wishes she was free like the seagulls always sticks with me. She is so happy Link came to the island but neither she or Link can be free and still have each other.

I like the guy that runs the squid/battleship mini game in Windwaker.

Sploooooosh!

I agree with this, PLA is the most popular material for a reason. It’s pretty easy to get good results without a lot of tuning.

Temp towers are a huge help with PETG though which has much more trouble with sagging overhangs and stringing. It took me a bit of practice to get results I was happy with for PETG.

I took the same course about ten years ago. The networking fundamentals I learned in that class are skills I use regularly but the Cisco-specific stuff I forgot almost immediately. I work on Cisco equipment every so often at work, but I manage by reading the documentation and using some Google-fu.

Mostly you need to know the basics. Can you look at an IP and subnet mask and figure out what IPs are in that range? A lot of junior engineers I work with struggle with these concepts and it makes it very difficult to troubleshoot problems.

For self hosting your home network should probably be simpler unless you want a real lab for learning Enterprise gear. I self host everything in Docker and Docker networking adds additional complexity, particularly if you use VLANs too. I wanted to set up wake-on-lan so I could remotely power on a server and it would have been a real struggle without knowing some networking basics to figure out how those packets would travel across those networks.

My advice is to really focus on learning the networking basics, you’ll use those everywhere. Don’t get too hung up on memorizing iOS commands or things like configuring BGP routing unless you’re planning to get certs or become a networking engineer.

The joycon drift is such a serious issue it infuriates me. I still have GameCube controllers that work great to this day and yet all of my joycons have minor issues or are completely unusable due to drift.

You have a lot more control over the final look with paint as well, though it is obviously time consuming.

Pict-rs has been the single largest pain of self-hosting a tiny Lemmy instance. I really hope things improve. I like hosting it myself but I can’t do it as a second job, having to figure out my own hacks and workarounds just to keep it running and not serving up illegal crap.

Uptime Kuma for web monitoring.

I’m experimenting with both Zabbix and Netdata to see which one I want to keep for monitoring resources on my hosts.

I use healthchecks.io to monitor backup scripts and cronjobs.

I’m using Autoheal to restart containers that are in an unhealthy state. For some containers this means I need to write my own health check. I mostly did this to resolve a rare issue where Plex would lock up but it’s helped in other scenarios too.

The Pirate Bay is not hosting or delivering video, they are just indexing P2P content and hosting magnet links. Pornhub is closer but not at nearly the same scale as YouTube.

To make a YouTube alternative you need a global ad platform, storage capacity for exabytes worth of data, a global network of CDNs, and a global payment system for creators. These all need to operate at a massive global scale delivering content to viewers.

No one but Google has this.