IMALlama @ IMALlama @lemmy.world

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If you swapped hot ends I suggest printing a temp tower. When I went from a PTFE tube to a microswiss hot end on my i3 clone I remember having print one and change my extruder temp. Granted, thi was 5+ years ago...

I was thinking about doing this purely with a slicer and infill density. If it needs a solid layer or two for some reason you could leave top/bottom layers as non-zero.

Even if you're not a great coder right now, building stuff will pay off in the long run. Even if you don't wind up writing code as your primary source of revenue, being able to manipulate data via something like Python is an invaluable skill.

I have multiple friends who cut lawns as kids who built that into a landscaping business by the time they were teenagers. I don't know if I would want to do that as an adult, but when you're young the money can be pretty good.

If it's new and getting worse, I would check for loose screws first. Especially if it happened out of nowhere. It never hurts to check belt tension. You don't want too loose, but you also don't want too tight so don't just tighten them.

If this has always been present in your prints then congrats, you have ringing! You can decrease it by lowering acceleration/jerk/square corner velocity. If you want to get fancy, ringing can also be combatted with input shaping. Klipper makes this easier than Marlin, but it is possible to do on Marlin printers too.

This is very cool! Wear glasses and have been tempted to make my own TPU ear pads with some notches to better accommodate my glasses frames. That will obviously nerf the seal some, but it sound be a low cost reversible thing I can try and revert if I don't like it.

I was considering printing them with no walls and varying amounts of gyroid infill to get the right amount of squish.

Be sure to post a follow up and impressions once you've used them for a little while.

You are likely eating food that is packaged in PLA and PET

"But I only eat canned food!" Canned food containers are plastic lined, but don't worry - we've moved from BPA linings to less studied linings that are totally safer in the long run

"Paper cups and containers!" If it's touching something wet, odds are they have a plastic lining

"But I drink soda/beers out of metal cans!" Oh, hum

"Glass containers!!" Many have plastic on the metal lids

Etc etc. If you eat out you're eating tons of food that was heated and/or kept warm in some kind of plastic liner.

That looks kind a very nicely designed model!

I suggest a much smaller TPU print with supports so you can get a feel for post processing needs. If you print the part well the only way to remove them is with a knife or snips.

I printed wheels for my kid's folding wagon 1.5 years ago or so. They have TPU treads that are around 5mm thick with three walls and 20% infill for some sponginess. They've heald up really well. They've been over curbs, rocks, and tons of other surfaces from 2 seasons.

Even for non-draft, 3kg+ or bust! I tend to make bigger prints and running down spools is a pain.

I get the distinction between a conscious decision, like getting a swastika tattoo, vs something that was not intentional. She said she lost the finger while making a shelf during home renovations. I'm guessing cutting wood. I very much doubt she intentionally cut her finger off, but odds are that it was a preventable mistake.

Sharing these mistakes with others does make you vulnerable. That said, it also can serve as a teaching opportunity. Sadly, tons of wood workers from the 40s-70s were missing the tip of a finger or two. Whenever someone talks about something like a table saw in a woodworking forum these days they'll nearly always receive advice regarding safety.

You take that back, it happened 5 years ago at most!

Depending on what happened they might not make one for you. I drove my car to work, parked in a parking lot, and came back out at the end of the day to a heavily dented fender with blue paint scrapes on my red paint. It was obvious someone hit me. I called the police station, told them what happened, and asked for a police report. They declined and said it might have been a deer. It's a busy/high traffic area and there wasn't any green space for atleast a half mile.

I spend all day work on software. I am now a PM after spending 15 years writing code, but totally agree with wanting to not have to worry about hardware/software once I'm done working.

My personal phone is a Pixel 3a. I would classify it as not amazing/not horrible/decent camera and just works. I personally like some of the UX patterns in Android more than iOS, but these days the two are more or less in parity. Unless you get an OE ROM. Those can be a wreck.

Which bit? Refurb used hardware to sell? Purchase used hardware for business use? Genuinely curious.

For joining parts, you could also consider friction welding. I'm not sure how easy it would be to fill a cavity, but bond strength would be great since you would also be the heating the original part.

That's sad to hear. As I said in another comment here, I migrated when Google Podcasts was killed by Google. I never experienced any playback issues with it. What podcasts apps have you tried? I wonder if they all use a common library.

Google podcasts was a very low feature player, but it also just worked. Antennapod almost seems like it's trying to be too many things to too many people. I'm not looking for anything fancy. Give me a list of episodes from my subscriptions and let me play them start to end without drama.

I wonder if the floor is falling out on podcasting. I've heard more than one host mention that ad revenue is down year over year by a decent margin :(

Appreciate the links. I let GitHub constrain my search by is:issue as I don't have a great understanding of their structure. Yay ado/jira...

I migrated to antennapod after Google killed their podcast app.

Antenna pod has a few persistent and annoying bug/quirks.

• If you're streaming it will often skip forward/backward in time by anywhere from 0.5 to 30-45 seconds when it downloads the next segment. I've seen this across a bunch of different podcasts. Conan needs a friend, stuff you should know, this American life, etc. There's been quite a bit of activity on their forums about this, along with a few attempted fixes, but the problem persists for me
• I somehow wound up with 1+ GB of podcasts despite Auto delete turned on. This is potentially due to the prior bullet. I've had podcasts end early (on time) and also run 5 minutes past their end-timd
• The Android Auto interface is not great. The home screen pop-in, or whatever it's called, will randomly show you 3 podcasts from something you're subscribed to

I also find the interface somewhat odd.

You have an inbox, which is basically a running feed of new episodes from your subscriptions. You can play those directly, remove them from your feed, or add them to a queue. You can then do the exact same thing from the queue. I would either make the inbox dumber and keep the queue or flatten the queue and inbox.

The app is also massively customizable, which is cool, but some of the customizations interact with other things. Downloading from your inbox can add a podcast to your queue. Deleting from downloads, which is a fourth area of the app, can remove them from your queue.

I do generally like the app, and also like the idea of FOSS, but I suspect there are better commercial options out there.