displaced_city_mouse @ displaced_city_mouse @midwest.social

Writer, teacher, data driven humanist.

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Not sure if it counts, but obsidian for notes and my daily journal, and latte-dock to replace the stock KDE app bar.

Oh, and emacs with doom for general text editing and most coding tasks.

emacs with doom FTW.

Looking forward to learning how to get tree tabs in FF.

+1 for btop - so much easier to find and kill runaway processes.

Thanks for this - I have been seeing the same symptoms with connecting/disconnecting USB audio devices on a brand new (<24 hours old) Endeavour install. I'll check pipewire version in the AM.

I just hopped both my laptop and desktop from Manjaro to Endeavour - so far, so good. I'm still restoring files from backup and installing stuff, so it's still early days, but already things are feeling better.

Fair point, and thank you. Let me clarify a bit.

It wasn't my intention to say ChatGPT isn't helpful. I've heard stories of people using it to great effect, but I've also heard stories of people who had it return the same non-solutions they had already found and dismissed. Just like any tool, actually...

I was just pointing out that it is functionally similar to scanning SO, tech docs, Slashdot, Reddit, and other sources looking for an answer to our question. ChatGPT doesn't have a magical source of knowledge that we collectively also do not have -- it just has speed and a lot processing power. We all still have to verify the answers it gives, just like we would anything from SO.

My last sentence was rushed, not 100% accurate, and shows some of my prejudices about ChatGPT. I think ChatGPT works best when it is treated like a rubber duck -- give it your problem, ask it for input, but then use that as a prompt to spur your own learning and further discovery. Don't use it to replace your own thinking and learning.

There was a story once that said if you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, they would eventually produce the works of William Shakespeare.

So far, the Internet has not shown that to be true. Example: Twitter.

Now we have an artificial monkey remixing all of that, at our request, and we're trying to find something resembling Hamlet's Soliloquy in what it tells us. What it gives you is meaningless unless you interpret it in a way that works for you -- how do you know the answer is correct if you don't test it? In other words, you have to ensure the answers it gives are what you are looking for.

In that scenario, it's just a big expensive rubber duck you are using to debug your work.

I'm printing PLA+ at 200C nozzle, 60C bed temp. It's been fine so far with a few failures I've filed under "User Error".

OK, now I'm curious how I change the bed temp settings after the first layer -- something in the slicer? I'm using Ultimaker Cura, and have just recently been digging into the advanced settings.

I'd heard about needing to keep the filament dry, but it hasn't been an issue for me yet. That said, I'll get what filament isn't still sealed into a dessicant loaded container ASAP - thanks!

Heat is ~28C outside (90F or so), more in the shed. I've no ABS since I've I read it's tough to work with and I haven't had an application for it yet. I just did a cleaning on the plate, and I'll see if that makes a difference.

OK, good to know -- just did an alcohol/dish soap wipe and restarted the print, will check it in a bit, and do the cleaning after every print.

https://superuser.com/questions/318555/where-are-man-pages-stored-in-ubuntu#318559 has your answer.

Not just parents -- my wife has an unhealthy mobile game addiction. We've talked about it and talked about it, but it's still a heavy draw for her.

Same here, never had any problem.

If you want to use gimp as an ALTERNATIVE and go in without the bias, you’ll likely learn your way around a LOT faster.

I think this is the key phrase -- do you want an alternative (where you might have to learn new ways of doing things), or do you want a clone? GIMP is not a clone, but an alternative.

I also think this gets to something I was told loooooooooong ago, when I was a young lad asking what was the best computer to buy. Someone told me, "Find all the software you want/need to run, and get the computer that will run it all."

In other words, if you need to use Photoshop, then maybe you don't use Linux -- maybe stick with Mac or (shudder) Windows.

Way-neet Joo-are-ease

OK, so no to pulling it all off.

I'll give this a try, but let's say I put the filament in the printer cleanly -- the filament won't be tight for long as it gets pulled into the printer, so what's to keep it from jamming itself up again?

UPDATE: I really need to learn to try things before I start complaining they won't work.

I followed your advice -- as I was tightening up the windings, it became clear that the lead winding was under the next one. I know I wasn't the most careful when I initially loaded it, so you're diagnosis was probably correct.

So I pulled the tangle out, cut off the damaged section of PLA, and more carefully reloaded the filament this time. It seems better now -- the filament is feeding better now. Time will tell -- I'll post an update when this print either completes or fails.

I have the predecessor to that, the Photon Ultra. I'd be very interested in seeing how the anti-aliasing performs on the D2 - I've been fighting voxels on the Ultra since Day One, and haven't been happy with the results.

One thing I've found after printing on my Anycubic Photon Ultra for a while is that I rarely need the .010 - .040 layer heights. I do most of my figures for display, not gaming, and I just don't see that much distortion from layer lines, or difference when printing at different layer heights. Voxels are a much bigger issue IMO, and I spend a lot more time and effort in getting anti-aliasing set right.

Right now I want something with a higher resolution (the Ultra is only 720P IIRC) and better anti-aliasing -- even with it dialed in on Chitubox, I have to do some sanding and filling on smooth surfaces.

...there is a big, big difference between calling someone homeless/addict or saying “experiencing homelessness/addiction”

I agree with this -- my point in bringing this up was to highlight the differences in the language we use and the images and ideas those words conjure in the reader/listener. Your experiences are much more direct than mine, and I appreciate the insight.

... I don’t think the author intended to degrade people with their wording. ... I think we do a disservice to the people directly suffering from homelessness/addiction/mental health by misdirecting our frustrations towards the journalists increasing awareness of the problem.

I see your points. However, had the director of the facility also used the term "homeless", I would have never posted this. Its the changing of the word from what was said to what was written that gave me pause.

On the other hand, you have also given me some other ways to think about this story and how it was presented. Thanks for forcing me to confront some of my biases.