morbidcactus

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I kept them with linear rods, rails were more than I wanted to do at the time. I changed over to a dragon HF after liking it on my voron, just to keep common parts. Hey, its good to know at least that I can probably push more, tuning a profile for it is definitely going to be on my list.

The ObXidian nozzles are really nice, I just have a 0.4mm and 0.6mm regular nozzles, I've used a bunch of hardened coated nozzles before, seem nicer than those but haven't tested much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I bear modded mine at the same time and a few other things, biggest for me was that I liked my macros on my voron and I could share them and the motors are substantially quieter.

I haven't pushed it acceleration wise, do you have any print profiles for prusaslicer or the like? I definitely have room to work with on mine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Personally, likening Poilievre to Harper is just as damning, recognises our home grown shit, we've been pretty good at exporting that globally unfortunately (Harper + IDU, McInnes + Proud Boys, Peterson, shit I went to Queen's so I'll even toss Musk in there)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The ones I have have some speakers aimed at your ear to fill in that part, actually works really well. I can't stand the ear buds you physically insert into your ears, the rubber tipped ones, these have been good to replace my on ears for activity. Plus you can hear what's around you which is why my partner gifted me them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was my first experience with source control, a bunch of Gary's Mod mods were distributed that way, think I recall wiretool doing that, spacebuild was for sure, predated my work use by like 5ish years.

I didn't hate it but definitely prefer git, but I'll take literally anything over not having it,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Bought one a bit after reading this, just did the kit last night, super easy, mechanically nice and feels really nice. Considering a track ball at well, def highly recommend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh I didn't dig sekiro but loved nine sols if that helps any, timings matter but they're pretty generous and gives you lots of tools.

You've already hit most of the ones I'd recommend, dragon age is up there for me, 1st one being more crpg, I came to like veilguard's combat and enjoyed it, the series probably fits your bill.

Edit: cyberpunk with a katana maybe? Not fantasy at all, but the game is really solid, especially since phantom liberty. I've started a run trying to roleplay as Geralt using the witcher gear cdpr gives you, it's worth playing regardless if you've not already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I know you said no souls-like, but what about metroidvania type ones?

Nine sols was extremely fun, does have a story mode that has configurable difficulty. The developers describe it as taopunk, mix of Taoism and cyberpunk, they're a Taiwanese studio, incorporates a lot of mythological elements and ends up in a sort of scifantasy setting. It's got a lot of hand drawn assets, art style is fantastic. I'd call it more of a sekiro-like as it's centred around deflections.

Give grim dawn a go too if you're game for isometric RPGs like diablo, definitely scratched that itch for a diablo2 like game for me. Build system is super intricate and I've definitely barely scratched the surface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Journal got pretty good once they had topics and searchability, I recall playing on og Xbox as a kid, don't think it was nearly that useful.

I love the game but yeah, I'd kill for some placeable map markers personally, I like the journal but don't love flipping back to make sure I'm going in the right direction constantly because I got distracted by something on the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You could probably play a vanguard somewhat that way, they get a lot of stuff that procs after shotgun or power usage that boosts melee, I've always gone the shotgun route but by 3 the vanguard had an ability to use their shields to aoe slam, which boosts melee I think, so you could maybe do a loop of charge -> melee -> slam ->charge? Charge giving you full shields and kinda critical to surviving, but that's just general vanguard on insanity.

Me1 you could probably do with a soldier or vanguard, they're both tanky as all, soldier with immunity, vanguard with barrier. Some fights would be irritating, final one coming to mind, but idk could work. Me2, less certain, you're made of tissue paper and I don't think I really ever used melee in it (also my least favourite of the trilogy gameplay wise)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I've always liked Harvey's veggie burger, recall Lick's (rip) having a good one too, where my grandparents would take us sometimes as a kid as they were vegetarian/vegan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

He won't even get a security clearance, how can anyone trust him to run a government?

 

Experts say that Hudson's Bay had been in decline long before then, some tracing its issues back to its 2008 acquisition by the American investment firm NRDC Equity Partners, and saying that the company's new ownership prioritized its real estate over a cohesive retail strategy.

Emphasis mine.

 

I was joking about a Trudeau/Brazeau charity match against Trump/Musk the other day.

 

Figured I'd contribute with resources I've used and found really solid, not everything is made in Canada but all are Canadian businesses with fantastic customer service.

Filament

  • Matter3D Langford BC based manufacturer, they make some solid quality filament and promote themselves as engineering grade material. Their abs has low odor, petg prints really well, haven't tried their nylon yet but I have a few spools to work with. Their prices are extremely reasonable and they have regular sales, my go to supplier

Parts, kits, etc.

  • Spool3D Calgary AB based store, Canada wide through canpost for free over $140. I live in Ontario, but most of my purchases are from them, solid selection of material, parts and accessories. My voron was sourced with parts 90% from here, they also have solid filament, sell garolite sheets too for a build surface (trying to move away from using builtak, they're a solid product but I won't be buying American for the foreseeable future)
  • 3d lab tech another in Calgary, the other 10% of my voron came from here. Lots of kits and high quality parts, highly recommend, extremely responsive too and they constantly have new, interesting stuff.
  • Sparta 3D Brampton Ontario based, again, lots of kits and high quality parts, have quality filter carbon as well if you're looking for a good Canadian supplier of acid-free material. They have filament as well, haven't had an opportunity to use it yet however.
  • Makerparts they're moving so unfortunately site looks to be closed for now, BC based, they're all sorts of maker related stuff, not just printing. I bought a bear mod kit for my prusa from them, again, solid product and great to work with.
 

The intent, Carney said during an interview on Rosemary Barton Live, is to invest in Canada's economy "at a time when we absolutely have to build as a country."

The taxpayer dollars would "catalyze many multiples of private dollars" to build homes, energy infrastructure, AI systems and trade corridors — "all of which are fundamentally necessary if we are going to grow this economy, irrespective of how President Trump is feeling on one day or another," Carney said.

Carney also said a federal government led by him would balance its operational spending — such as government-run programs, federal transfers to provinces and territories and debt service charges — over the course of the next three years.

 

Sounds like it's focused on internal trade and global investment, I know 30 days isn't a long time, but maybe we can be better prepared, reducing our reliance on the yanks certainly seems to have public support so there's that.

 

Because mandatory minimums work to deter crime and totally haven't been struck down in the past or anything right?

20mg - 15 years, 40mg is life and Pierre's mentioned using the notwithstanding clause to pass stuff like this in the past.

 

Paper mentioned in article can be found here.

Annealing prints has been something I've wanting to do more of, probably with proper temperature control as my experience has has more waste than I'd like, mainly warping.

Paper claims some pretty dramatic improvements to interlayer strength, they're running filament through a bath before entering the extruder, not sure how accessible the entire thing would be in a hobbyist environment (using chloroform and specialised microwave equipment). Makes me wonder however if carbon fibre filaments would be able to be processed similarly, how well it'd perform with stuff like abs or nylon and if you could achieve that with consumer microwaves.

 

Bandcamp Metallum

New album out, this album is stupidly catchy. It's a mix of medieval folk and black metal, it's cheesy and I've been loving it.

 

Bandcamp for the album, Metallum for the band I'm not usually the biggest modern tech death person, but there was just something about this album that did it for me. Entire album is just under 28 minutes, definitely recommend a listen.

 

Quick question to the community, does anyone have some good tools to sculpt stls or step files?

Context, I'm working on some decorative keychains and have a vector image and text I want to add to the base object. I've used aolidworks for both in the past with alright results but I've switched over to freecad this year, haven't had a lot of luck adding in there, vector image is a tracing of a dog that I was provided, it's simplified but still has a lot of components.

I did look into blender but be honest I'm totally lost using it and have no clue what I'm doing coming from parametric modeling, I'm not an artist at all, my comfort zone is functional parts usually, but was approached by a friend. I did do some mockups in prusa/superslicer where I've added my image and text as negative volumes and merged into a single part. It works but it feels like a really hacky workaround (relevant XKCD) and would prefer to do it right. Any suggestions or resources would be appreciated!

If interested, here's the mockup that I've done a few test prints on, found I needed to change the line width of my vector a few times and made some features exaggerated so they'd come out more. I've (poorly) covered some identifying text on the back, left the rest as to get a feel for what I'm trying to do, did do some rough sanding on the below pictures. There's a pocket on the top edge that accepts a keyring, it's kinda chunky, about the size of a pog slammer or a thicker poker chip.

Rough Sanded Front of keychain with image of a Bernese Mountain DogBack of keychain with some details obscured

 

Just as an FYI because it's saved me grief in the past, both klipper and octoprint can be setup to exclude certain objects while printing. You need to setup your slicer to provide gcode that enables the feature, but it allows you to stop printing a bad object, can reduce wastage in the case where only one part has failed but the others are ok.

Prusa/Superslicer are what I have experience using it with, I used a preprocessing script to output compatable gcode but apparently there's a label objects option directly in both slicers, the klipper link below goes over enabling that feature.

AFAIK Octoprint needs a Plugin
Klipper has native support

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