elucubra

joined 2 years ago
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

It's tongue in cheek.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

So micro soft?

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“The brain requires a lot of energy to sustain neuronal communication, and it is widely believed that this energy comes from our diet,” Dr Joensuu said.

Who would have thought that we get energy from our diet! That means that I don't have to keep sticking my tongue into electrical outlets any more!

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I use Xpenology on an HP Gen 8 microswrver, a pretty nifty piece of kit. Works great, but setting up and upgrading versions can be a rather involved process.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gamer desktops tend to be power hogs. Running them 24/7 can rack up some hefty power bills, plus noise, plus space, plus other tradeoffs.

Better a used thin client.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

If you have a 3d printer, or access, o know someone willing to print for you, there are many free models out there

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Definitely an option, but for the price of a Pi with all the extras, case, power supply, etc, you can get a used thin client that is way more capable.

There is a guy on YouTube that often reviews these things, and discovers some models that are surprisingly capable.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Synology publishes a list of certified non-synology drives, and warns you that drives outside the list are not recommended, but, at least in non enterprise models, allows them to be used. I believe there is some rather easy way (some config file change or the like) to circumvent the limitation, but yeah, dick move.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bargaining chip. Hehe, I see what you did there.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tesla sells itself as a technology innovation company, but it sells hype.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

The esthetics are +20 years old. While dihydrogen monoxide has been a staple in my dad humor repertoire, this site is a banger.

BTW, the post was downvoted. My guess is that it was one of the dyhidrogen oxide cartels.

 

Every morning I spend 12 seconds making a ranked list of priorities for my day so that I can hyper focus on something else.

 

Most of the multi color printers out there are AMS/MMU or similar, and there are many DIY options, like Armored Turtle or ECF.

They are an evolutionary dead end. Slow, wasteful, expensive to run.

The Prusa XL, or the Snapmaker U1 are the future direction.

Also a good CoreXY machine like vorons/sovols/ratrigs/VZ, etc can be upgraded with the Bondtech INDX tool changer.

We are talking 5x lower print times, 5x lower material costs.

There is going to be a glut of used Bambus and other multi material unit printers, when print farms unload them, since the tool changers will massively boost their bottom line.

Comments?

 

I know that many mods for some printers aim to enlarge the volume, but I've been considering downsizing somewhat my plus, as I have moved to a smaller house and the plus is a bit too large. An option would be to trade for a regular Ender 5, but I have had one, and the plus is better in many respects. Just the 4 guide/2 bed screws put it in a different league.

I really like the plus, I have modded it (hotend, direct drive, Klipper, board...), and have it pretty well dialed in, and I'm going to convert to "CoreX", a cheaper hybrid alternative to CoreXY, that removes a lot of weight from the gantry, ergo, higher speed and accuracy.

I'm going to end up with a respectably fast and accurate single color printer, and I'm considering adding the INDX tool changer.

I have googled, but either my Google-fu fails me or it's just too obscure of a subject.

Has anyone seen something like this?

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Bazzite or Suse? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm installing a second disk in my desktop, and I'm going to install Linux.

I've had dual boot on all my machines since forever. As in decades. I'm an old hand. Perfectly happy in a terminal.

I have Mint in (on?) my laptop because lazy.

I'm asking about QOL. The only "Gaming" I do are flight Sims, and although I haven't tried, I believe X-plane is Linux native. However, I do use some apps which are not Linux native, so I'd need some form of wine or performant VMs.

The PC is a Ryzen 9+64Gb, so it should handle a lot of things quite well.

I've been playing with both in VMs, but I can't get a feel for what my virtualization and wine use would be.

BTW, I might do an install of both, maybe side to side, without commitment to either, and then decide. It's going to be a blank slate install anyway.

From my trials, both seem comfortable enough.

I've heard good things about both.

Opinions?

 

No affiliation or anything. I’m simply stoked!

Elegoo Rapid PETG. I like PETG, but with my printer (Ender 5 Plus, slightly tuned; DD, All metal hotend, dual gear extruder, accelerometer…) regular PETG is sloooow. I’m already up to 180 mm/s it prints beautifully. As with all PETG it likes to be thoroughly dry. Once dry it prints like a PLA+. Beautiful definition.

I paid about 15€ per roll, but buying a 4 pack, it comes to about 12,50€ per roll, so about the same as PLA.

I’m just not buying regular PLA, or PETG anymore. The new generation of materials just leave the older ones in the dust. I had a few rolls of standard PETG that I had slowly been using up, but I sold the last 2, I couldn’t bear the waiting times.

I’m going to try a bunch of the new modified materials, like ABS plus and HT, ASA plus, and especially Polymaker’s HT-PLA-GF, a glass fiber high temp PLA that can be annealed in boiling water without deformation to withstand temps like 150º. Nuts! They are basically sold out until August, but once back in stock I’m buying the stuff.

Interesting times to be in the hobby.

 

Bonus points: Multi platform, Android-iOS... I usually use Thunderbird, but I'd like to explore other options. FOSS not mandatory

 

I use the app in an iPad, a much of the time when I click with my finger on the comments icon, my finger hits the community link.

Anybody else have this problem?

 

We are happy, very happy, that you have joined the light side of the force, but here you are preaching to the choir. Go knock on doors and help others see the light. Oh, and sending some money to one of the thousands of FOSS projects that keep this running would be nice too.

Anyway, welcome again.

/Not_a_Rant

 
 

Is there a way to have Voyager use an external browser to display web links? In iPad I’d like to use Brave, to minimize ads

 
 

I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.

Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.

What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?

I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future

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