Siff

@Siff@mstdn.social

Nerd. Geek. IT consultant with more than 40 years of experience. 3D printing enthusiast. Photography lover. Amateur tennis player.

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Xantw0, to 3DPrinting
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I thought keeping PETG in the AMS would be fine practically for ever, but I guess not...

Tried "drying" in the printer itself as suggested by BambuLab, but still garbage prints (that could damage the printer as well...)

Guess I'll have to invest in a dryer box 🙃

Siff,

@Xantw0 Drying filament needs heat and time and dedicated dryer is the best. People find workarounds like drying in the oven (I’ll be thrown out in the cold if I do that! 🤣) or using modified food dehydrators, but a specialized tool is better!

cassidy, to 3DPrinting
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I designed a print on my lunch break, then printed it during my afternoon of work… then I tested it this evening and it’s wrong. 😭

This is a copy of a random magnetic caddy my wife had from college, with holes for some neodymium magnets inset into the back. It turns out I should have made the holes bigger (and should have test printed to make sure the fit would be good…).

Now I have to decide if it’s worth trying to salvage, or if I tweak the clearance and print again. 😬

Siff,

@cassidy As much as I can see from the picture, you have the magnets on the inside of the box? If that’s the case, probably the wall behind them is too thick, so you can try putting the magnets on the outside and glue them with CA glue. For a pencil holder 4 magnets should be more than enough, but I guess that 2 (depending on their size) should work too. BTW, if you are going to print another one, you can use this to test how many magnets you’ll need before redesigning the holder.

finestructure, to random
@finestructure@mastodon.social avatar

The best thing about the EU is that it makes Gruber so angry

Siff,

@finestructure I believe that this is why the EU was established to begin with - to make @gruber angry 😀

pbl0m, to 3DPrinting German
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First time printing out of a filament dryer. Might be overkill for PETG but hey, it's because I can 😅💁

Siff,

@teotwaki @pbl0m @stooovie You can if the humidity in the room where the printer is is low enough and the filament is not TPU and is not extremely wet (like the one I’m currently using for test prints only, that is wet even at 15% relative humidity after drying it in a drier for around 30 hours!).

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Asked ChatGPT to create a “Pixar version of a typical Apple fan”

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Siff,

@BasicAppleGuy The ears on the third image have grown around the AirPods…

BasicAppleGuy, to random
@BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social avatar

Find the Mac Pro.

Siff,

@jann @BasicAppleGuy @siracusa I think that his has wheels?

jerzone, to 3DPrinting
@jerzone@techhub.social avatar

At least one casualty from this morning's high wind, 2/3rds of my favorite wind spinner is now missing. Once the sun’s up and it's not so nasty out I'll see what became of the other parts. It's survived a couple years I think, with some pretty strong storms. We're getting sleet now, so maybe the extra weight of slush accumulation caused it to spin unevenly and fly apart. Peak gust recorded, 46mph.

2 of the 3 wind spinner panels are completely missing, last one is spinning very fast in strong winds

Siff,

@jerzone I also hate gluing things - I want to be able to disassemble what I build just in case I want to or I came with an improvement, etc. I typically screw things, but in your case screws might add weight and make the whole thing dis-balanced.

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Probably nothing serious

Posted from LG Power Washer Series 2

Siff,

@stux Watches YouTube videos how to wash 🤣 It is addictive, you know! 🤣

moira, to 3DPrinting
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I started seeing occasional ripples on my prints that looked like ringing but a little not? and today I printed something for someone that looked like ringing but was literally in the middle of a long-X-axis path and repeating on every layer despite the shape of the object not conforming to that repeat at all

and now I know a new way to diagnose a bad wheel bearing!

the good news is moving the bad one to the underside of the X-axis gantry solved it for now. also one of the other wheels is on its way out too. :/

the other good news is that these are cheap, but it's annoying that I lost one bearing entirely and was losing a second at the same time.

Siff,

@moira It’s good that you found the culprit and fixed it (even temporarily)! 👍

chrishuck, to IT
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What does it say about your company’s IT department when they force restart your computer in the middle of the workday because updates?

Too bad you were in meetings or doing other work away from your desk for more than 1.5 hours and you had no idea the update was even happening and you come back to lost work 🤬

I love , but I don’t know how IT people live with themselves based on what they do to computer users.

Siff,

@chrishuck Ah, welcome to the corporate world! It gets worse - imagine you have a long running processes (12+ hours) that you cannot run on a server (no permissions; getting permissions will take a week (joking - a month) and the task is due in 2 days), you cannot save interim results (you can, but the apps you need to use don’t provide a resume feature), you cannot split between machines, because… policy and you need the corporate network since some of the data is there.

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Siff,

@chrishuck And IT pushes Windows update around the end of the 10th hour 🤬😡😤.
“You should have told us to delay your update!”. Sure! I need to open a ticket, which will be looked at in 72 hours (official policy). At the same place, access request took 2 months!

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Siff,

@chrishuck Sadly, there are no considerations of how much this will disturb the work! Once someone decided to physically replace a server which we were deploying on… and destroyed work weeks-worth of effort! It was just like in those stories where the cleaning lady is looking where to plug the vacuum cleaner and unplugs the sever! This was planned deployment which went through several “gates” before we were even allowed to “touch” the server.

You just learn to deal with these. 🙁

Siff, to 3DPrinting

@3dprinting #3DPrinting #3DPrintingFails I had a partially clogged (the two broken in the middle pieces) and then a completely clogged nozzle while printing 3 dwarfs’s bodies. Several cold pulls later I was able to reprint them, but I’ll never get this filament again! It is wet (I tried 3 colours and all are wet in different amounts); I dried them between 8 and 18 hours without any noticeable improvement in the print quality!

rasterweb, to recycle
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Finding uses for old filament boxes.

@3dprinting

Siff,

@rasterweb @3dprinting Nice! 👍 I use mine to store for parts of projects in progress.

ottaross, to 3DPrinting
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After many months of trouble free I've had probs with the last few prints – extrusion interruption & jams. Likely filament moisture probs, but also some hot end issues going on.

While I dried the filament, I disassembled and saw the PTFE tube in the heatsink is a bit distorted making initial feed-in a bit annoying lately.

Is that tube typically removable? It seems to be fixed. Not sure if I can replace the tube or would need a whole new heatsink.

Siff,

@ottaross You’ll need to press the blue ring down in order to remove the PTFE tube. Nite that there might be a locking clip under the ring, which you’ll have to pull out first.

chrishuck, to random
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It’s ponderous that, for a week and a half, I’ve been unable to perform design work on a project that we’re going to spend $60M on because my company’s process for buying a $4K laptop is so complicated.

Laptops fail sometimes, and it shouldn’t take this long to get a replacement, even if it’s “non-standard”.

The loaner they gave me is a “Dev” laptop with only 16GB of RAM. It’s using 10GB with only Outlook open and one tab open in Edge. Those poor devs. 🤦‍♂️

Siff,

@chrishuck There is something else going with this machine: On my work Windows 10 laptop, I have 30+ browser tabs, Outlook and a whole bunch of other apps open and the RAM is at 7.1 GB.

briankrebs, to random

One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.

Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866

Siff,

@briankrebs That will be great! Their phone number requirement was always puzzling and a deal-breaker for me!

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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What do the laundry symbols on your clothing mean? iPhone knows. 🧺

video/mp4

Siff,

@BasicAppleGuy Hmm, it’s not working for me? iPhone 14 Pro, Canada. I guess I have something disabled?

Siff,

@dxzdb @BasicAppleGuy Yes

Siff,

@dxzdb @BasicAppleGuy Yes, you have to tap the “i”, but it should have stars around it. When I tried, the “i” didn’t have stars. I just updated to 17.1.1 and I’ll try again

davemark, to apple
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Is 8GB enough for basic Mac usage?

I would love to see a test configuration that proves 8GB is not enough. Some setup that brings a specific 8GB Mac to its knees (using built-in apps).

Like, open a browser, open 40 tabs, open 20 Pages documents, etc.

I hear a lot of complaining about an 8GB base config, but I am still unsure.

Siff,

@davemark That I do everyday on a Windows 10 laptop with 8GB RAM. Cheap corporate IT!

grammargirl, to ai
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@caseynewton built a custom AI copy editor in what sounds like just a few minutes using OpenAI's beta "GPT builder" tool.

You might be surprised to learn that's not what worries me most.

What keeps me up at night is the firehose of all kinds of automated content we're going to face, including large, fully automated influence campaigns like he describes near the end of this article.

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-openai-is-building-a-path-toward

Siff, (edited )

@grammargirl @caseynewton “…answers to the question most of us ask somewhat anxiously in the moments before hitting publish: how are people going to react to this?”

It will be “…what the GPT is going to generate based on this?”

davemark, to random
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"This tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop"

I've read about Flipper, have always wanted to try one (it's $200) but I'm afraid I'd get myself in trouble! 😈

Interesting that this can disable an iPhone like that.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/flipper-zero-gadget-that-doses-iphones-takes-once-esoteric-attacks-mainstream/

Siff,

@davemark It can disable Android devices and Windows PCs as well. The interesting part is why the article and the researcher it quotes didn’t even look into these at all.

phranck, to random
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    dgar, (edited ) to random
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    Siff,

    @dgar Oh, God! (bangs head in wall)

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