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[8tg]

4 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

Just make sure you tape the lights and be extra vigilant on corners on this left hand drive vehicle in your right hand drive country   

Fun fact, in the uk the shifters and brakes are the other way around.

Rear derailleur and brake are on the left, front derailleur and brake are on the right. In the US it’s the opposite.

[SimplyChunk]

50 minutes ago, 8tg said:

Fun fact, in the uk the shifters and brakes are the other way around.

Rear derailleur and brake are on the left, front derailleur and brake are on the right. In the US it’s the opposite.

Just don't forget if you don't swap then around

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, 8tg said:

Fun fact, in the uk the shifters and brakes are the other way around.

Rear derailleur and brake are on the left, front derailleur and brake are on the right. In the US it’s the opposite.

Sounds like that's fun in a panic when muscle memory sets in

[linkboy]

2021 Ford EcoSport Titanium 4x4

 

 

It was time to get a new vehicle, as my 2018 Jetta really didn't suit our needs anymore. It's struggled badly in the winters here in Reno, and it's getting harder for my wife to get in due to her bad back. It also got damaged in an accident at work by a drunk moron who crashed into in three times (here's a picture of the damage: https://i.ibb.co/RYjdSjw/20240220-113544.jpg).

 

After shopping around for a while, I narrowed it down to the EcoSport and the Kona, and ultimately decided on the EcoSport (the recent issues with Hyundai/Kia cars being stolen helped in that regard as well). I've had it for almost two weeks now and I'm super happy with it.

 

I know the EcoSports kinda get crapped on (and some of it's justified, the models with the 1.0, 3 Cylinder engine are crap, mine doesn't have that engine), but it suits our needs perfectly. I'm not someone who wants all the bells and whistles in my car, I just want it to get me where I need to go without any issues. The EcoSport has enough modern features to make me happy, but it's still very basic (most things are controlled via buttons as opposed to the touchscreen, for example). We wanted a smaller 4x4 Crossover that will allow us to go up into the mountains (see the picture above, I wouldn't dream of taking my Jetta there due to how bad the road going in was), but didn't break the bank to much.

 

My next goal is to get a tow-hitch installed so that I can put my bike carrier on it and actually be able to take my bike to some places I wasn't able to get to with my Jetta.

[SimplyChunk]

36 minutes ago, linkboy said:

 https://i.ibb.co/RYjdSjw/20240220-113544.jpg

once, twice, three times for luck 

[linkboy]

15 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

once, twice, three times for luck 

 

That whole day was a mess. 

 

He hit my car, hit another car who was turning, almost ran that driver over when she got out to try to get his information, then crashed his truck into a tree across the street.

 

And just to top the entire mess off, he didn't have any insurance.

 

You have no idea how much I hate the parking lot where I work.

 

This happened on Saturday

 

 

[linuxChips2600]

12 hours ago, linkboy said:

That whole day was a mess. 

 

He hit my car, hit another car who was turning, almost ran that driver over when she got out to try to get his information, then crashed his truck into a tree across the street.

 

And just to top the entire mess off, he didn't have any insurance.

this YouTube link contains time-skip to relevant quote from Linus

 

Edited April 11 by linuxChips2600
edit for clarity

[linuxChips2600]

My relatively new Acer I got from my local Micro Center; so glad I didn't go for a sub-$400 laptop instead and that I ended up following the sales rep's advice.

I needed a laptop that has good battery life after I broke my gaming PC trying to set the voltage to 1.51 volts for the DDR4 memory.  I was basically attempting to make 3600 CL 16 mem work with my 5900x system but I think I partially cooked the whole memory subsystem since Windows started throwing WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERRORS on me for that gaming PC even when I switched back to the original RAM which I was running.  It didn't help that the original RAM was already overvolted for an extended period of time anyway (1.4-ish volts for 3200 CL16).  Anyway me being brazenly stupidly experimental with tech aside, my HP Victus gaming laptop would not cut it during school hours when I am on campus as that laptop has a measly 2 hours of battery running Ubuntu Linux and I doubt that the story is much better for Windows either, so unfortunately given the circumstances a new $500-ish laptop it was.
 

Yes, that is a keyboard cover on the keyboard, and yes that is a Chinese Mandarin to English dictionary in the background (I lived in Beijing for 5 years when I was young).

 

Edited April 11 by linuxChips2600
clarified circumstances

[linuxChips2600]

8 minutes ago, linuxChips2600 said:

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shoot I didn't read the README for this topic; should've posted this elsewhere instead

[Psittac]

Not sure if I have shown this yet, if I did it probably wasn't fully setup.

 

 

 

 

[Lord Sephington]

Picked up this deepcool LD360 to replace my 3 year old gammaxx L360. tore whole system apart as it was overdue a clean. cooler was nice and easy to install, but i have to wait until a female to female 5v rgb adapter arrives to get my other 10 fans lit up.

 

Managed to clean up wiring alot in the front of the case so wires are more hidden, will be finilasing cable management tomorrow when adapter turns up.

 

now i just need to find a decent gen 4 nvme to finish setup.....

[Gloriousbuttler]

[dogwitch]

6 Pack kirby vacuum bags

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, dogwitch said:

6 Pack kirby vacuum bags

[dogwitch]

6 hours ago, Bitter said:

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[avidgamer121]

received my hdmi switch in the morning, hooked it up just now. As my monitor only 1 hdmi port and vga quality is not the best (as we obviously know), this was my best resort. It came at a good price of Rs.340 (4$) including shipping.

[Thaldor]

After years of circling it like a cat hot porridge: 3D-printer. A week ago to be exact but got it today.

 

Sovol SV07 Plus.

I have to say, I am disappointed. I excepted to spent at least couple days troubleshooting and tweaking and it was just going through the manual and the bloody thing just works. Just a bit G-code tweaking so the homing doesn't go haywire after the print head stucks to the print.

 

Good thing everything else took a while.

Decided to not spend 80€ or something for ready made drybox because "saving" money and just DIY that thing:

Costed probably more than 80€ if you include getting Zigbee based smart home hub and climate sensor for it just to escape the horrors that would have become from me trying to make a hole to read some digital thermo-humidity-meter (just look at that beautiful smearing of silicon to make a casket for the lid). But it will hold a lot of filaments and good 12% humidity with only metering consuming power, 2x1kg of reusable silica gel bags should be enough for a long time and when they stop, just few times few minutes in microwave.

At least the concrete block was cheaper than I expected.

 

Now just need to figure out how I could connect to the fluidd/mainsail with phone remotely. Was kind of hoping NordVPN's Meshnet would do it but of course it doesn't support Android phones jumping to the local network through Windows.

[jetnoodles]

6 hours ago, Thaldor said:

Now just need to figure out how I could connect to the fluidd/mainsail with phone remotely. Was kind of hoping NordVPN's Meshnet would do it but of course it doesn't support Android phones jumping to the local network through Windows.

Would tailscale work?

[SimplyChunk]

My last two wanted case badges for Frog   

 

Got the last one of those Roland ones.  5 other people had it in their basket too  

[Average Nerd]

Finally got my Astro A10 headset that was on backorder since 2 months ago.

I love it, totally worth the wait.

 

[Thaldor]

14 hours ago, jetnoodles said:

Would tailscale work?

Going with OctoEverywhere. Turns out there was already an app for that too, I just was dumb enough not to search with right terms

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

@Thaldor Why connect it to the internet? 

Camera & smart plug is enough to cancel it. No need to expose the entire printer to the internet.

 

Few tips for setting up PrusaSlicer:

Under "printer settings" click the icon and add the 3d-printer as physical printer. This allows you to directly upload g-code from within the slicer to the printer.

Don't forget to enable g-code thumbnails.

[Thaldor]

1 hour ago, FlyingPotato_is_taken said:

Camera & smart plug is enough to cancel it. No need to expose the entire printer to the internet.

I thought about that but I looked and about 60€ more compared to just doing it completely free, "nah, I trust way shadier things with my stuff already". And it's pretty much either someone breaks into my LAN through my printer or through my smart home hub or through both, just a question who you trust more. Neither OctoEverywhere nor Nedis seem to have done fishy things so far, so the cheaper option it is.

 

Thanks for pointing out where I can put the G-code thumbnails, was kind of thinking where that comes from but didn't get to it (there's "few" other things more important).

[Kilrah]

Avata 2

 

[WhitetailAni]

I got this off eBay. Mostly as a joke.

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Well they're here and making a stack on my desk. I got a bonus 8th one too!

 

However I can't currently power them all. I don't have enough power cables.

So I purchased these along with some 18awg wire (collectively the ATVs draw 0.4 amps from the wall).

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Going to create the most cursed power cable of all time. Probably going to make a rackmount shelf for them all too (that's why I got the C14 connector, for my PDU)