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masukomi, to cnc
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has anyone tried milling D&D style Miniatures on a 4 axis ?

I don't know enough to know if this is a stupid idea or not, but metal minis would be pretty cool.

I know that in theory it's possible but i'm not sure how detailed you can get.

masukomi, to random
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It is 2:35 PM.
so far, I have managed to

  • walk the dogs twice
  • convince the cat to stop yelling at us by giving her supervised outside time
  • completely disassembled and reassembled the hot end of my printer to remove a clog
  • partially disassembled and reassembled the same thing to remove a second clog
  • eaten lunch

I think I started to work on something before wifey woke up, but at this point, I have no idea what it was.

masukomi,
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The filament somehow got wound under itself and formed a knot. Extruder couldn't pull any more. stuff got stuck.

I thought i'd cleared it out, but apparently not. & now there's a clog in the middle of the heating chamber / tube that refuses to budge no matter how hot I make it or how hard I shove with the wee needle thing.

I can't open that up so... it's just dead i guess.

masukomi,
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😿 the 0.6 nozzle was clogged too. I definitely cleared that clog though.

ALL of these clogs have ultimately been due to filament doing things it wasn't supposed to: breaking + ??? (with the wood impregnated), getting tied in a "knot" so it couldn't be pulled off the spool, and breaking because brittle from too wet... i think.

I've replacement nozzles & the https://noclogger.com/ tool @gooba42 recommended after watching a vid. Maybe it can save my 0.4mm.

It's 4:08 PM. This was all day.

masukomi, to random
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How it started..

1/2

masukomi,
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I was wrong. Now the dogs have started following the cat around the yard.

3/?

masukomi,
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I didn’t think it could get cuter, but while I was typing out the last toot this happened

4/?

masukomi, to 3DPrinting
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Ooh, improved error messages in the new version of Bambu Studio. Unfortunately the button is "i've fixed it" and there's nothing for "how do i fix it"

[edit: i'm not asking how]

masukomi,
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I ended up needing to completely disassemble the extruder, but once i did there was nothing left to hold it in and it just fell out.

Of course THIS happened when i tried to use it next.

Black spaghetti filament all over the build plate.

masukomi,
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Is it trolling me?!

masukomi, to 3DPrinting
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Bambu Studio claims this is going to work. I have my doubts, but I'm willing to give it a try.

Natanox,
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@masukomi @logicalmoody I'd be really curious how well this prints on a Prusa MK4 or MK3S with enclosure. 🤔

masukomi,
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@Natanox @logicalmoody I honestly don’t think the problems have anything to do with a printer, although I do think that a bed slinger would be worse because I theorize it would induce more wiggle.

From my testing last time ( see the toot i linked in my reply to myself), it really does seem to just be an artifact of those two skinny sections

masukomi, to random
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holy 💩! DAYS after updating the "Social Preview" for - at least 3 - GitHub FINALLY started serving up the image instead of the default stuff.

BUT I made a "it works just give it time" post with a link, only MINUTES after having it work in a DM, and guess what? IT'S NOT WORKING... but ..it is... sometimes?

I dunno what's going on with this.

jwarlander,
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@masukomi Ooh.. Cache invalidation issues, perhaps?

masukomi,
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@jwarlander I linked to a specific line of code in a DM and it worked. Then I linked to the repo and it didn't. I force refreshed. Nothing.

Same browser. Minutes apart.

So ... maybe but also it feels like there's something else at play here.

masukomi, to 3DPrinting
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I hate the standard stair-step look of a angled surface. Watching a "Need it Make It" video triggered an idea.

By making the surface a shallow sine-wave we can introduce a wavy pattern in something that still looks & feels like a "flat" angled plane.

Second image shows the dimensions I found most visually appealing.

a screenshot of a sketch of the sine-wave. It is 4mm wide & 0.3mm high. That's it.

masukomi,
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i should note that the angle of your inclined plane plays into the look a lot. As with the stair-step look, the more shallow the angle the farther the waves will be spread from each other.

I would suggest that you're probably going to have a lot more value from playing with the width of the sine wave than the height.

If the sine waves get much taller than this, the eye starts noticing the ridges more than the pattern.

masukomi, to random
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Current status:
Avoiding pain with my comfort dog

masukomi,
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Update: the dog has moved. Now I get to distract myself with videos.

masukomi, to random
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This is Ted. Ted decided to lay her eggs on the edge of our driveway.

Ted is a snapping turtle and a “threatened” species. We have friends who love turtles and we’re like “You must protect!”

masukomi,
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Also, we now know what caused those trails in the silt that I posted a week or so ago.

Now we really want to get rid of the beaver because as I filmed Ted making her way back into the pond it was clear that the silt built was a significant problem for her.

masukomi,
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I went and checked on it. it is mostly good. It does not appear creatures have tried to get in. There is a little gap that I need to address but my back really hurts right now so hopefully I can do that later today.

I also still need to come up with a solution to hold it down that will free up those weights

masukomi, to emacs
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geeks

Do any of you know of a package that lets me use slack / mastodon style emoji insertion?

Between Mastodon & Rocket (awesome macOS app) I keep starting to type : foo : instead of going to M-x insert-char

Obviously we can't just use : foo : because programming languages use colons all the time, but surely there's something similar we can do like !: foo :! or whatever.

🤔 I can't remember a language that combines colons and bangs.

masukomi,
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@viz ooh thanks Visuwesh. I’ll look into that when I get back to my computer.

masukomi,
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@howard @al3x is was not familiar with the keybindings you mentioned but my goal is to insert them without having to invoke a keybinding while typing.

Preferably with a visual overlay/autocomplete as i whittle down the matching options

masukomi, to random
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Someday, I will come up with a useful way to organize this drawer. Today is not that day.

sammycola,
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@masukomi it’s probably still a USB3 cable, since it has the 3.0 small rectangle added to the micro-B fancy shaped bit.

The USB 3.0 A side (standard USB shape) is backwards compatible by having 5 extra pins in the back of the cable. You can (hopefully) see those 5 pins way in the back of this photo, with the standard 4 pins on the bottom plastic bit.

That’s the secret sauce to 3.0 using the same 2.0 plug, add pins to spots that weren’t normally used.

masukomi,
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@sammycola I've learned so much in all these responses. Thanks. :D

masukomi, to random
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Sunlight through a leaf.

This leaf is green, just like all the leaves behind it.

Except when the sun passes through it.

masukomi, to transgender
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folks:
Do ANY of you have experience with gender stuff via Dartmoth Hitchcock hospitals in or know someone who has?

Because they literally refuse to give me ANY information that isn't on their web site without a referral. Like not even "we require 2 letters"

Obviously I'm not going to ask for a referral to a place that refuses to answer ANY questions and whom I may not even meet the basic requirements of.

masukomi,
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on top of literally being the most frustrating & maddening conversation with a hospital employee I've ever had, it took a LOT to get past the executive disfunction pushing me to not deal AND no-one wants to talk about gender surgery with a complete stranger in a society that makes you feel like 💩 for daring to exist.

masukomi, to transgender
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Well 💩
I just learned that Peru 🇵🇪 signed a law last month that classifies people as mentally ill, despite lots of societal support for them.

Guess we can cross Peru off of the countries USians can flee to in November (if the cheeto gets reelected).

angiebaby,
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@masukomi

I'm poor and lack and specialized skills that would make me a desirable immigrant in another country even if I could.

Guess I'll have to stay and fight. I don't have much of a choice.

masukomi,
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@angiebaby don’t count out Mexico. Last time I checked (a while ago), it didn’t require much to get a Mexican passport and 1st world poor income is generally “comfortable” in much of Mexico and Central America. Being able to make money working remotely is important though. Otherwise you end up being 3rd world Poor which is not great.

masukomi, to accessibility
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Minor Update re the tool I've been working on for a friend for whom Apple's palm rejection absolutely refuses to work.

We've prototyped the cover + hole shape over the trackpad & it got a 👍. Now I've gone back and added 4mm thick leather wrist wrests & there's an internal cable run for charging the trackpad.

the lighter colored "wood" in the picture is a magnetically attached plate that we can swap out if he / anyone else needs a different hole shape.

masukomi,
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A friend of ours just finished setting up a really nice new CNC for woodworking. The plan is for me to model & prototype things with my 3D printer and then once all is 👍 he'll cut one out of wood.

alas, it's too big for my printer so I'll have to cut it into pieces & re-assemble to test.

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In case it's not obvious from the photo, the top hole is where the keyboard goes and there's a rectangular hole below the triangular cutout where a trackpad would go.

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