I like that they’ve read the memo about fediverse projects being named after animals, but firefish doesn’t fit. They should have gone with Coelacanth or something like that… but easier to spell.

I did not know that. I’ll give it a look for sure.

I didn’t appreciated the FDroid UX until Google app designers lost their damn minds. Now it makes me feel relief.

A few years ago they started to wrap them in black plastic to slow thefts. And they found it lead to them getting mistreated by shipping companies a lot more - and fewer working printers were ultimately making it to people.

I’ve seen speculation in the 3d printer community that when people see a foreign origin package that just squeaked under the import duty cost and wrapped in black they assume it’s something for some rich jerk and may treat the package accordingly. But when they see it’s a tool frequently used for regular folks to set up a side hustle, they’re nicer to it.

Assuming you’re talking about FDM/FFF printing and not SLA or sintering:

There’s a bit of a catch-22 when it comes to mating flat 3d printed surfaces: The face that’s on the build plate will be the flattest and result in the smallest seam. It’s also the face most likely to be dimensionally inaccurate because of elephant footing, which can result in a ridge at the seam. And the easy fix for having an elephant foot it adding a chamfer, which results in a big visible seam. So my actual advice is:

1. get your first layer super-duper dialed in
2. then make sure “elephant foot correction” (or whatever your slicer may call it) is turned off in your slicer (or it’ll add a 0.4mm chamfer for you)
3. make sure your mating faces are face down on the bed
4. avoid textured build plates if you can

And if aesthetics are a high priority consider using an automotive filler primer (I buy it in spray cans) and then painting the piece after it’s glued. Filler primer will help hide the seam and layer lines.

I dumped a cup of coffee in my laptop a month ago and was so bummed that it wasn’t for sale yet.

It’s not a solid mass of plastic around your hotend. That’s a small win at least.

Most of my PLA is Printed Solid Jesse. It’s $20/kg filament that prints like $30/kg filament.

Well, at least we can all rest assured that all the driver monitoring cameras/tech that’s being build by default into new consumer cars and trucks will only ever be used for safety.

But I learned Perl in the 00’s and I don’t want those neurons to go to waste!

The only thing that will stop climate change is if we reduce the beef industry and eat billionaires instead. Every billionaire will chop 0.1° off the warming trend.

And chrome is repeating history with that browser share too. I have to use chrome at work and it used to be that I used Firefox at home because of tab containers and a couple other extensions. Now I use it because it’s better.

Sometime over the pandemic it shifted. Now chrome is the thing bogging down and Firefox is snappy with a smaller memory footprint.

If this is IE all over again we’ve got a good 5+ years of slow attrition to look forward to.