ShepherdPie @ ShepherdPie @midwest.social

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Well with rising sea levels, it appears to have a chronic watery discharge, so it's probably best that we just get rid of it.

It was pretty obvious because the calibration lines it lays down at the beginning of the print weren't adhered to the bed, which told me that it didn't probe the bed correctly to establish the correct height and was printing with too large of an offset.

The lesson that all consumer electronics have a limited shelf life? That's pretty well known.

It won't because it never had any effect when Mueller released his report that showed Trump & co colluded with Russia. People just took their partisan stances and claimed it was a rigged witch hunt.

And don't give me this shit about justice moving slowly

Yeah that was the stock response I got when I made this same argument a few weeks ago, but even Biden has now stated that the DOJ dragged their feet on prosecuting him. Waiting until after the primaries when he'd already won the nomination to file charges meant that this was doomed from the start.

If you go this route, you'll absolutely need mmWave sensors as regular PIR sensors only sense movement not presence and you'll experience lights shutting off when you're sitting too still in a room. I've considered setting this up a few times but want mmWave and PIR sensors with a lux sensor all-in-one and the market for this is extremely small. I think only some sketchy Tuya and the Everything Smart Home youtube channel have sensors like this but they're expensive and I just haven't pulled the trigger.

Not sure if you got this idea from Technology Connections but he recently didn a video using this exact premise.

I checked HA and found that A) my furnace fan is likely dying as the furnace overheats and power cycles frequently and B) despite the overheating, or furnace has only run at most 25% of the day during the coldest temps we've gotten this winter (which has been mild and only down into the low 30s). I think if/when we replace the furnace we can safely cut the BTU rating down while still maintaining our desired temperature.

Ban evasion. I had literally this same exact situation happen and lost my 10 year old account. I talked about piracy in /r/Movies and got banned then sitewide permabanned for accidently commenting there from a different account.

But you're still relying on companies to produce these parts for you and they'll only do it so long as the market is big enough to make it worth it for them.

Open source is definitely preferable, but at this point and time, their proprietary parts aren't an issue at all as they're cheap and readily available and with the popularity of these printers, I don't see it being an issue for quite a long time. By then, I may have moved onto a new printer anyway since the market is constantly progressing.

Absolutely. The 'mandates' are a bunch of empty platitudes with loopholes so wide you could drive a semitruck through them. Business will continue as usual.

It's a meta dad joke as many dads try to make jokes using references that they don't understand.

About 10 million people agree with you judging by the election results.

Do it. I was in your shoes about a year ago and finally pulled the trigger on the X1C and haven't regretted it once. My previous printer was like the ship of Thesius with upgrades and still failed all the time. I've got probably 700-800 hours on the X1C and have only had maybe half a dozen prints fail and only one repair needed which was covered under warranty. The only maintenance needed has been greasing the screws, which it kindly informs me to do when needed.

I got one with my X1C.

So pretty much like every other company in existence? I don't think there is any danger of BambuLabs disappearing anytime soon and their parts are dirt cheap.

Something else to think about is future expandability. I'm assuming you'll start with an HDD or two, but what about after that? You'll either need to purge out your library or have a bunch of external drives connected. The Optiplex is a great thin client but it only has 1 or 2 SATA ports and one will likely always be used for your OS drive (SSD) which leaves only one internal slot for an HDD.

Also just some random advice, but if you want cheap drives, keep an eye out for WD Element or WD EasyStore external drives to go on sale. These are extremely easy to remove from their case and be used as an internal drive. Something else to check out would be serverpartdeals.com if you don't mind trying some used or refurbished enterprise drives. I bought my last 14TB drive from them for something like $100 and haven't had any issues. This is generally worth the risk since you can just download your media over again if the drive happens to crap out on you.

If they're going to be sharing with friends, they'll need something that can handle transcoding in order to eliminate all the complaints about "the movie isn't working!" due to varying codecs and client compatibility. Any 7th or 8th gen or newer Intel chip (QuickSync) should work or something with a GPU.

More importantly, what will your neighbors say about you showering in your front doorway in view of everyone?

I know absolutely nothing about professional plumbing, but wouldn't that sink loop need to be there to act as a drain and vent for the sink? I don't think the main vent stack would work for that without it

But what Lego set is in the box?