Well light is also a wave and radio is also photons, and I’m sure that’s not taught in high school

If you’d like a real answer, because of particle-wave duality, all electro magnetic emmission can be quantized as photons, including radio waves. Now is it redunant to say photons of light instead of just light? Yes

Check local sales, as much as I hate Facebook, marketplace around me sometimes has some nice steals, like my OG ender 5 for 100$, and that job was selling off their Prusa MK3s to afford MK4s about half off. You never know -_o_-

I own an Ender 3, 5, and a Prusa Mini. The mini is by far my most reliable printer, but both enders have had a lot of work done to them to get them where they are… and not quite click to print yet.

At one of my jobs I maintained some 35 Prusa Mk3s, about a dozen Elegoo’s, and witnessed their graveyard of Anycubics and some other brands. The Prusa’s generally only needed to be unclogged or have their nozzle changed less than once a month, with only a couple failures per week max, the room also was not temperature controlled and they had some… questionable engineering practices.

The elego’s were like pulling teeth, needing glue to keep it adhered, frequent clogs and skips, thermistors needing replacement after under 100 print hours, blobbing would get into the part coolig fans. Small leveling knobs. Prusa’s IMO were designed to be serviceable, but seem to need it way less.

Especially at a business, the premium on Prusa printers over say bambu labs is well worth their customer support. Ive never used a Bambu so I cant necessarily recommended or not, and I do wish I had an MMU on the cheap as you’d get with their mini, but Im most pleased with my Prusa mini

The best code its given me I’d been able to search for and find where it was taken. Hey it helped me discover some real human blogs with vastly more helpful information.

(If you’re curious, it was circa when there was that weird infight at openclosedAI with altman, I prompted to give code to find the rotational inertia per axis and to my surprise and suspicion the answer made too much sense. Backsearching I found where I believe it got this answer from)

I stopped meeting with a doctor who told me to do yoga instead of referring me to physical therapy.

Hard truth though is you need that kind of motion to keep your back in check regardless, not necessarily yoga. I spent over a year in physical therapy after being bedridden for a good 10 months simply because my spine started its own minor scoliosis. Instead that doctor took their frustration with my case out on me because I insisted on having pain while not meeting their possible diagnosis’

But yeah aint gonna do much for actual scoliosis, im just beyond thankful I returned to being functional instead of in massive constant pain

Just putting off that Kolmi fight so kiddo can have a dog

Oh I mean people have already reanimated it, which only proves your point… if people were reanimating the Lego movie after the first trailer, it wouldn’t have become the success it has. There’s a reason they hired by talent for that project

Amazon trucks now sound like a garbage disposal because people got too annoyed when they’d back away but god fucking forbid fast food workers don’t have to fall asleep with the monotony oh hours of beeping stuck in their head. Oh and the headsets will make you go deaf because you need them on max volume to HEAR OVER the fucking BEEPING

Source: was very close to finding out what ice in the fryer looks like

You think he claps them together to sound like a horse galloping?

I mentally prepared myself to watch the trailer, but honestly, it looks very safe, as they certainly know the association is enough to bring profit. Much like the Mario movie IMO, there’s only so much storytelling you can get from conglomerate media.

First couple scenes I really had the impression that the backdrop was AI’d, but overall it looks like the budget went to everything other than costumes and sets. JB most certainly picked a blue T shirt out of the wardrobe and called it good… if they don’t even show armor I’ll be thoroughly disapointed, its about the minimum costume design

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

Not sure how much this is worth, but it seems to me what happens is that a flap squeezes out forward when you’re a little too close, or when the bed isnt adhering well to the material, which can be sometimes improved with some more heat. By habit I always clean with Isopropyl and I notice it less on my textured Prusa bed.

I call this one: out of sight, out of mind

Sooooo… how long you’ve been working for waymo?

+1 for Shelly as I have or any other drop in relay, all the wiring you’ll need to do is behind the switchplate, you can decouple the input switch from the relay output and have HA trigger either output based on some input conditions. My fav config is having two flips of the switch perform a different action

unnecessary anecdote:

I was gifted a small bonsai tree and a care book, and thank god-of-your-choice for old information. Searching for care online started to give me a migraine of botspam text and even images. Are there not enough images of even normal trees to fill in that we need shitslop? I do not care to know of every type of tree before reaching the supposed author I won’t be able to contact. /rant

Do make sure you’re running the nozzle, if you’re trying to move axis from the menu, Enders’ won’t let you move the extruder if it isn’t heated, it has fooled me a few times

Makes me think of that shitty grippy rubber material on cheap mice that becomes gooey with time. I would treat those as euclid until further testing

+1 for Proxmox, has been a fun experience as there are plenty of resources and helper scripts to get you off the ground, jellyfin was the first thing I migrated from my PC, hardware encoding may give you a bit of a tussle but nothing unsolveable. Also note Proxmox is Debian under the hood, so you may find it easy to work with. I looked into unraid, it seems great if all you’re doing for the most part is storage, if you want Linux containers and virtual machines, proxmox js your bet.

I got a small 4 bay 2U server from a friend on the cheap, 1000$ should get you relatively nice new or slightly older used hardware. Even just a PC with a nice amount of drive bays will get you started. And drives are cheap, a raid 1 setup was one of the things I did.

In the end I’ll likely get a separate NAS rack server just to segregate functions, but as of now I simply have a Proxmox LXC mounted to my NAS drives and runs samba to expose them.

Tailscale is a nice set and forget solution for VPN access, I ended up going the route of getting an SSL certified domain and beefing up my firewall a bit. The bit I’ve messed with it it certainly has a learning curve greater than openvpn, but is much more hardened and versatile.

As for pihole, I’ve found AdGuard Home to be just about a suitable replacement, and can be installed along openwrt, though I have a bit of an unconventional router with 512MB of RAM so YMMV