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Last time I tried it, it wanted my media in a specific file structure, so I ended up having multiple instances of the same show. I could reorder everything but I got a plexpass when it was dirt cheap so I’m not that inclined to reorder everything.

If I was just starting out, I’d probably use Jellyfin but haven’t mostly due to inertia.

I mean, I looked at that and thought it looked like a real Monet painting and my art experience is just walking around museums occasionally.

Does this mean RAM gets cheaper?

Email is considered insecure as a 2nd factor. TOTP stands for Time-based One-Time Password. Usually you store a seed and that combined with the time generates a time based password. If someone intercepts it, it’s only valid for a certain time frame (I think about a minute or so), after which it’s invalid.

Some can be very big if they include pictures. (like cookbooks)

However, yes… if it’s just say a fiction book with no pictures, they are kilobytes in size.

I use Orca Slicer all the time on my Debian machine. Works great!

Pretty much all the functional models I use are free. I get them from https://www.printables.com/ https://makerworld.com/ https://www.thingiverse.com/ https://thangs.com/ or I design them myself. Back when I was on Mac I would use Fusion but lately I’ve been 100% Linux so I’ve been using FreeCAD and it’s way better since v1.0.

As far as paid models, it’s mostly been things from https://www.myminifactory.com/ and generally sculpts because I want to support authors. Sometimes it’s through patreon but they usually send myminifactory links to redeem.

But yeah, get yourself a pair of calipers and learn a CAD program.

I’ve been down this rabbit hole and have some thoughts. Personally I’ve been trying to stick to Linux which makes things harder but since you have Mac and/or Windows, you have more options.

First, my main app I use (and why my laptop is still dual boot) is Fusion 360. I have a hobbyist license so it’s free with some limitation that don’t really matter. It doesn’t work great on linux (I’ve gotten it to run with WINE but it seems to crash and not run great) so I’ve been looking at alternatives. However, it works great and will do pretty much whatever you want. Also works well with CNC if you want to branch out into that.

Lately I’ve started looking at https://www.onshape.com/en/ as it’s all browser based. The free version means nothing is private but because it’s browser based, it works with Linux. I’ve just played around with it once but it looks promising.

I really want to like FreeCAD but it’s been confusing to me when I’ve tried to use it in the past. I think I just need to sit down and watch a view videos and read the docs to learn it. I’ve heard good things about it after it hit 1.0 so maybe I need to revisit it. I feel like this will be best to learn long term.

https://openscad.org/ isn’t your standard CAD program but it can be really powerful. I’ve used it a few times but you need to think of your models programmatically and I’ve found this to be difficult for some applications. It’s really cool though and worth checking out.

I’ve found TinkerCAD to be ok for simple things but it seems a bit simplistic for the things I’ve been trying to do.

I almost exclusively use PLA and I’ve had no trouble but all my stuff is indoors. I’ve heard that it doesn’t do as well in the elements so for anything outside, I’l probably look at using petg which from what I’ve read, holds up pretty well outside.

I have an ender 5 which I’ve had to do all sorts of things to. I’ve also had terrible luck getting z-probes to work with it. They’ll work for a while and then just die on me…

A while ago I backed the Phrozen Arco on Kickstarter. It was a mess of a compaign but I eventually got the printer (Over a year and a half late). However it’s just worked and makes nicer prints than my ender 5. I love it so much. My makerspace has a Bambu which seems to have the same results. I love just printing something and having it work and not having to fuck with the printer. It’s been so nice.

I’ve tried it a few different ways and the best outcome I’ve had was using some tubing, like this one: https://youtu.be/yuZ0DA8w9XI

I don’t always do it but when I do, I do it this way from now on. The tube makes sure the filament stays aligned, I also cut the two ends at a 45 and try and join them up inside the tube. Usually I’ll save the ends and then do a few rolls at once, can usually get another few prints out of it.

I haven’t been to a fast food restaurant in ages, most restaurants I do frequent are because the food is good and I want to support them. I think I’d be fine as long as there were still grocery stores.

I’m not really pro-china on much of anything but I agree with them on this. Trump’s tariff’s are bullshit and he should be called out on them.

https://archive.is/J31rj

Tori Amos commented on the allegations:

And if the allegations are true, that’s not the Neil that I knew, that’s not the friend that I knew, nor a friend that I ever want to know. So in some ways it’s a heartbreaking grief. I never saw that side of Neil. Neither did my crew. And my crew has seen a lot.

Gaiman is the godfather to one of her kids and apparently she was pretty close to him. If she didn’t know, I feel like Terry Pratchett wouldn’t have known either. This isn’t like with Epstein where association implies knowledge of what was going on. After reading all that I have on the allegations, I’m comfortable believing that Pratchett wouldn’t have known anything about the alleged sexual assault and if he knew anything, it was that Gaiman was known to sleep around… consensually… with adults. (Because apparently this seems to be known among people close to him… including that he and Palmer allegedly had an open marriage)

So unless further info comes out that indicates otherwise, I will continue to enjoy Pratchett’s works.

He asked employees to print out their code so he could review it.

I had a coworker come to me with an “issue” he learned about. It was wrong and it wasn’t really an issue and the it came out that he got it from ChatGPT and didn’t really know what he was talking about, nor could he cite an actual source.

I’ve also played around with it and it’s given me straight up wrong answers. I don’t think it’s really worth it.

It’s just predictive text, it’s not really AI.

If you are looking for FOSS, I highly recommend joplin. It’s simple but works well. I used it for many years until recently I switched to Obsidian. I dislike that Obsidian isn’t FOSS but I’m using the free tier and the community plugins really make it so much more powerful than Joplin. They both store things in Markdown so I’m not locked down to their ecosystem which I think is a requirement for any note taking app.

I just think as someone new (like the OP), setting up vanilla pihole is a little easier.

Not all I self-host but pihole, plex, & homeassistant are certainly my most used.