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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • That’s so cool! Nice work! I feel a certain kinship with anyone who also got tons of 3D printing XP by building, rebuilding, researching, modding, head-scratching, laughing, crying, screaming at an A8 lol.

    This here is mostly fire prevention: Basically an updated stock motherboard, better PSU, an aftermarket MOSFET board for safety, thicker gauge wires with ferrule crimps for all the power cables, the bed is now attached directly to the thicker wires by way of crimp connectors.

    The printing surface is upgraded to carefully cut and polished picture frame float glass. 😂

    Added that sweet fan duct mod, a little Noctua 15mm (because it softened and jammed otherwise LOL), and printed that purple bracket at the library because the plastic decided to literally crumble away.

    Also the adjustable Z-stop was nice but the PLA softened so it’s a bit unpredictable, and the right motor will gently slip until it’s engaged so the gantry needs to be leveled every time…I also can’t guarantee that the Z rods are straight anymore because it requires such a Goldilocks level of tension I probably overdid it lol.

    Oh yeah, I had to replace the main power cable because the one provided just…had a break in it.

    It still works for small jobs though! And it printed all those parts for itself, so that’s kinda the RepRap dream right there right??

    Lol I feel like an amazing machine is in here somewhere if I bothered to research custom boards and stuff. The stock bearings are also terrible. But if I can bother someday I’ll stick Klipper on it maybe.

    It was a crazy, stressful journey…but I learned a ton of electronics stuff, and how to use a multimeter, and engineering stuff! XD

    My Ender3V2’s felt like such a crazy luxury by comparison. 😂









  • I’m so glad it was helpful! You’re very welcome! I try to spread the word since NextCloud’s default photo app…scares people away frankly lol.

    I now use an extension to customize the menu, so Memories effectively replaces the default app from a user point of view.

    Using Memories in Nextcloud AiO simplifies things a bit, but I seriously consider it NextCloud’s “killer app.” It’s got EXIF editing, albums, user sharing, folder organizing, facial (and object!) recognition done locally, geo tagging map view…all local. The face recognizing stuff isn’t perfect, but it’s definitely good enough for the most part.

    It’s also very easy to send to people outside NextCloud, but I run it behind TailScale so it’s not exposed to the open net at all. Copying and sending images through something like Signal also works fine. :)

    It even has a neat Android app that sends my pictures to my server whenever I plug my phone in. (And moves them to my SD card in case something goes awry…but I learned I need to manage the cleanup of that part better lol)

    Given all the other neat things NextCloud does, I like how it keeps photo managing in one place too.



  • That’s what I was thinking!

    Yeh yeh, I get it, Lemmy, we’re all wageslaves now and religion is Absolutely Always Bad™ /s…but objectively here…

    Things like churches and temples were for everyone to commune and worship and gather. They were, and still are, architectural marvels!

    Any of us would be so lucky these days to feel any kind of attachment to our community, and to do some kind of work that we can look at and say “That’s there because of us.”

    It’s hard for most of us to imagine, I think, because alienation from the results of our labor and each other is so wildly beyond reason in our lifetimes. Even building is essentially factory work anymore. Architecture as art is mostly dead in favor of brutalist templated concrete cubes everywhere.

    Not to mention, we’re all constantly burned out and exhausted from meaningless grinds that usually amount to “Have a pulse (optional), deal with people, send emails to nowhere in particular. Produce nothing but Co2.”

    But I like to think this was a positive thing. Building wonders, being a part of your community, having something to be proud of doing, like a collective hobby.

    Lol I know I’m waxing romantically whilst likely being very inaccurate, I’m not historian, but I also think we can take the best notions of the past to make the future less awful…


  • Microsoft knows this has so much power with a certain computer user demographic and I hate it so much. It was the worst, having to teach people to install certain useful software while also directing them to override big scary warnings…“But just this time! Don’t do it all the time!”

    It made me look shady, it made the software look shady, for no good reason.

    …And you just know, sadly they’re the same kind of users that will probably repeat that pattern with a suspicious .exe they got in an email.