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Captainant

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  1. Well, there's a bunch of threads missing the context with broken Twitter links, but that's more on them breaking their APIs before you had surlyx set up
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    3D Printing

    Just to temper your expectations a little - printing can be a little finicky and has a little bit of a learning curve. Once you have the models you load them into a program called a "slicer" and define settings like type of infil, % of infil, number and thickness of the walls on the model, supports, etc etc etc. Once you have all that set along with your filament and layer height settings, your Slicer turns the model into a gcode file that your printer uses to actually make the thing. While you're thinking about what printer to get I'd strongly recommend you to download and get familiar with a slicer program like PrusaSlicer (the OG), or OrcaSlicer or BambuStudio (customized forks of PrusaSlicer). I've found that I spend more time setting up and slicing my models than I do printing sometimes when it's a small and detail-rich model. Supports are tricky, and for the type of stuff you're doing I'd recommend "tree" style supports, which branch out and up and work really well with organic and complex forms
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    3D Printing

    Your timing is unfortunate, I just checked and everything is $100-200 more expensive than it used to be. I really like the Bambu printers but they're not the be-all-end-all, but they're pretty much push-and-go to the point where it's basically an appliance and not a tool The other brands like Creality and Elegoo make cheap and decent printers but their software support isn't as good, and you spend a bunch of time tinkering and tuning instead of printing. Prusa is a really nice and open source printer, but they're not cheap. They write most of the open source software for slicers and printer firmware, and are deeply committed to repairability. If you're primarily just doing model printing I would recommend Bambu's A1 ($500, 10 inch³ print volume) or an A1 mini ($350, 7 inch³ print volume) since they're a cheap and self-level and self-calibrate and they're CRAZY fuckin fast. If you want to do multi-filamant you can buy the AMS separately later, or buy it as a bundle and save like $50
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    3D Printing

    Do you have the files or models you'd like in your diorama? Websites like cults3D have some really talented modelers and sculptors and you can get some great models there. At an inch tall you can get some excellent detail with an FDM printer using a .2mm nozzle - I've printed D&D minis at that scale that once painted you can't see the layer lines. You can (could I guess due to tariffs) get a great FDM printer like an a1 mini for $250-300 that'll do one filament, or add another Benjamin for the filament switcher AMS unit to do up to 4 filaments. If you've got files I'm happy to print em and mail em to ya from Houston if you cover the postage. Otherwise, there's some great print services with very reasonable prices to get your model printed in resin which ends up looking like a factory-made part. Alternatively, check out a local hobby or model making store. They may have some correct timeframe and scale sets that you can buy off the shelf for more kitbashing parts
  5. Lol remember when this was a big deal? Ahhhh, better times. Better times. Sure we might have been still getting over COVID but at least we weren't being led by a dude selling scams to his army of useful idiots
  6. Bullshit, it let some feds go arrest a judge in their own courtroom. It doesn't matter if it's bullshit, all they need is the sniff of legitimacy and an okeydoke or two. The warrant that was "toothless" has left damage nonetheless. Strange how the fascists keep finding ways to use the shield of justice as a sword, huh?
  7. Absolutely trumpian in his degree of cuntitude
  8. About that... https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2025/01/06/texas-ends-mandatory-vehicle-inspection-rules-2025-fee-costs-emissions-testing/77434595007/
  9. It's CRAZY the difference in reaction between deporting citizens and stealing their ID along the way, and when DT had a collective REEEEEE over facemasks. All the biggest MUH FREEDUMS folks are AWOL on this issue
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    3D Printing

    Some really cool hotend and new nozzle tech. These guys are getting 40mm³/s flow on a simple hotend swap. They were able to push 100 grams of ABS in an hour! And it has the benefit of bringing a bambu printer into the more typical nozzle open standard instead of Bambu's locked in standard The Kickstarter launches in 4 days! I'd love to have that kind of crazy flow upgrade
  11. They're literally deporting citizens and taking away their birth certificates and other documents and lying about it. They're arresting people at their fucking citizenship appointments. It certainly isn't about fucking citizenship
  12. My exact same options and trim level of my 2019 model year car is nearly double now in 2025.
  13. Just like how Hegseth stopped drinking once he became SecDef like he promised right?
  14. Quit feeding that death panelist troll. Put him on ignore and let him #bothsides on his own
  15. I'm surprised you're not jumping onto the $TRUMP action, it also spikes up massively in volume at the same point in time in late April
  16. Lol they can bring a suit, that will be indefinitely delayed by the fascists because the courts invariably favor fascism over justice by way of never ending delay. See: US V Trump
  17. It's more that trumps target audience doesn't give a shit about anything except what he says. They're fully into the cult of personality, and will fully argue that the sky is yellow and the sun is blue if trump says so. They WANT everything trump says to be true. It means the world is simple and can be addressed with the simple solutions that trump proposes. It takes some strong stuff to break that spell. For 1930s/40s Germany it took most of their men dying in war and their cities being turned into bouncing rubble before nazis started to believe they just might not be the master race. We're dealing with the same caliber of evil today. Today they even borrow yesterday's phrases and slogans.
  18. The thing that makes my teeth itch is it wasn't "a judge helping an illegal immigrant" - it was a judge not allowing cops to go arrest someone without a proper fuckin warrant. This judge is being arrested by trumpco for not giving him the ol okeydoke like they've become accustomed to. I'd love to hear from @TwiceHorn why this ISN'T a serious attack on the judiciary - even if the charges are complete bullshit. I really don't understand your earlier comment on how the charges will obviously get beat so it's not such a big deal
  19. I watched a recent bit of journalism from one of the drone shops in Lviv that's churning out thousands of kamikaze FPV drones every month - they've got new tech running on the drones that allows a pilot to "mark" a target or the thing they're trying to hit so the drone will keep tracking even if EW severs the link to the pilot. Along those lines it doesn't seem like a stretch to program some visual/intertial guidance for a swarm of drones to fly in at 100 AGL. Lord knows the topography data is available and definitely fits onto an SD card
  20. That's not really true in terms of size - you can get an incredibly safe (compared to 20 years ago) and small car today. Like I said earlier: the only reason trucks and SUVs have gotten so huge is to get the "light utility vehicle" exception for emissions standards so they don't have to be as fuel efficient. Also, lulz at people bragging about needing to drive >100 miles a day for your commute. Congrats, I guess
  21. That's the main reason trucks have gotten so huge - larger vehicles have a different and looser set of emissions standards, so our trucks get bigger to take advantage
  22. That judge is still getting menaced and threatened and hassled. Who is she gonna call? The fuckin cops?
  23. Considering how Ukraine is getting drones in pretty easily... I'm guessing not great. Hell, there's a legendary Cold War story of a West German student that flew his single engine plane straight into the Kremlin and landed on Red Square. Their organizational efficiency is so dog shit they're a nationalized swiss cheese failure model
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