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I’ve made a large number of custom prints, and all of them were created using TinkerCad. It’s an amazing toolkit, stupid easy to use but versatile. That is … until something needs a tiny adjustment somewhere. That’s when I feel it would’ve been neat to use parametric CAD instead....

There’s so much spam, and people diligently downvote. But the posts are still shown, with -53 votes or something....

I run an old desktop mainboard as my homelab server. It runs Ubuntu smoothly at loads between 0.2 and 3 (whatever unit that is)....

Hi all! My very old Mitsubishi Pajero III (V60 from 2000) got a 2" lift kit and now the rear wheels have too much toe-out. The stock tie rods won’t adjust far enough and there are no other original “sizes.”...

TLDR: VPN-newbie wants to learn how to set up and use VPN....

I have some jet lighters in my shop. I’m not a smoker but they are useful for other things too. My problem is that they seem to not work at all?...

edit: solved by printing at 20% of regular speed. This seems to give the filament enough time to ooze out of the nozzle, and the print result was excellent....

This is a Prusa MINI+ that has worked flawlessly for 3 months. Suddenly the prints won’t stick to the bed, the first layer is all messy and I cancel the print before anything worse happens....

Let’s say I never want to see another post about Trump, or NFL, or Apple, or that weird “rule” thing....

I am looking for an action cam. It does not need to be a GoPro or DJI simply because they are so very expensive – but finding alternatives is difficult, mostly because all those products are misrepresented on sites like Amazon. Some reviews reveal that the manufacturer offers free add-ons to customers who post 5-star reviews....

Printing here with eSun PLA at 215 C on a Prusa Mini, and there are lots of hairline strings....

TLDR = what’s a good next step after kid-friendly 3d creation tools?...

First, apologies if this isn’t the best community; please direct me to a better venue if so....

First, apologies if this isn’t the best community; please direct me to a better venue if so....

My printer (well, PrusaSlicer) always starts with a line around the object I am printing. See (1) in the image. –Why? What does that do?...

Here’s a part of a cabinet in my wardrobe where my printer lives. It’s a bit noisy with all those hard surfaces so I am just about to put up some foam padding on all 5 sides....

Background:...

Hi all, I’m not sure what to do here. The controllers vibrate extremely loudly, it sounds like I am shaving my face! I don’t remember it being so loud when the thing was new, just two months ago....

TLDR:...

Neighborhood cats shit right in the middle of my lawn. It stinks and the robot lawn mover makes it even worse....

The feed shows posts with - 35 votes. Why? Clearly the crowd says it’s garbage, so can it be hidden?

On Windows, we’ve had the defrag tool and others, that happily works on a drive even while it is in use, even the OS disk....

I mean, the simplest answer is to lay a new cable, and that is definitely what I am going to do - that’s not my question....

edit: you are right, it’s the I/O WAIT that it destroying my performance:...