I stopped printing toys. They kids loved to watch them being printed, but they are usually not fun to play. Single-color, low detail, low durability, really not what you want for kids toys.
They usually play with a print for a few minutes and then toss it into their box of toys, never to be played with again. It’s a waste of plastic. It’s literally printing junk.
The main issue with wet filament is that the water in the filament meets a 200+°C hotend when printing. It then quickly turns into steam, which you hear as a popping sound while printing.
This then causes little holes in the extruded filament where the water steamed up. Looks like miniature swiss cheese. This causes all sorts of trouble. The print becomes brittle and weak, almost foam-like, and can be broken by applying little force. Layer adhesion and first layer adhesion will be much worse. It often causes lots of stringing.
It’s usually not an issue for PLA (unless you have really high relative air humidity), but it’s a big issue for PETG, TPU and Nylon.
If you print any of these filaments, you really should get a heated filament dryer.
In terms of physical things:
If you go more advanced (don’t do that in the beginning:
Software side:
Btw, filament doesn’t need to be from your printer manufacturer. There’s lots of different manufacturers for filament. Just make sure the diameter is correct (usually 1.75mm) and that you shop for a material that’s compatible with your printer (PLA, PETG works on all printers; TPU/TPE requires a direct drive extruder which most printers have nowadays; ABS/Nylon requires an all-metal-hotend that can go over 260°C and an enclosure; Carbon-filled filaments require a hardened nozzle).
I personally like spectrumfilaments.com a lot if you are from Europe.
Yeah, that’s the second option.
This.
Nobody’s going to forget the name of the browser they use every single day. But if it’s some niche tool that I have to look up every time I use it once every few years, that’s more difficult.
But the acronym totally destroys the understandability of the program name and instead is understood as “an unpleasant or stupid person” (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp).
If you look at similar commercial software you get names like MS Paint, Photoshop or Lightroom.
They should have stuck with “GNU Image”, “GNU Photo” or maybe “GNU PhotoEdit”.
At least over here, Cineplexx is a really big movie theatre corporation. That makes it easy to understand what Plex is about.
The biggest advantage of ARM for Apple is that Appple can make their own ARM chips. They’ve been trying to in-house the whole supply chain for a long time.
The same is not true for pretty much any other manufacturer including Microsoft and Valve.
cassandrafatigue already suggested that, and I answered below that: https://lemmy.world/comment/21043110
That’s not a bad idea, actually.
Maybe that could replace the scale actually. “This dish is equivalent to 5 pepper corns. This one here is equivalent to a jalapeno. This one is equivalent to a habanero.” and so on.
Afaik scoville only works for chilli peppers. It doesn’t work for other spicy things like e.g. pepper and it doesn’t work for prepared dishes either.
So you can say “This dish contains chilli peppers with X scoville”, but since the amount of chilli in there also matters, that’s only part of the equation. For example, a single drop of 100 000 scoville chilli pepper on a whole plate of otherwise non-spicy food might be less spicy than e.g. a dish consisting almost entirely of 30 000 scoville chilli peppers.
We really need a decent scale for spicyness of foods. The mild/medium/spicy thing is by far too unspecific.
There’s an Indian place down the road that we sometimes order from. I like moderate levels of spicy, so it works well for me. But my wife dislikes hot spicy foods at all. So when I ordered the food I asked if the dish is completely non-spicy, and they confirmed that it was completely non-spicy, and it was too spicy for my wife.
Totally true that.
Just having a single word for “I have to ask for more spices” and for “I got hanged from a tree” and everything in between these two makes it so easy to devalue the whole concept.
Trying to construct a reverse situation:
You are at a steak house and the Asian partner gets the steak pre-cut and served with chopsticks. Yeah, I’d guess that would be rather unpleasant.
On the other hand, I really dislike using chopsticks even though I can use them. But the Asian restaurants over here all just give you chopsticks by default (no matter what you look like) and I always have to ask for fork and knife, and that’s also kinda annoying. I guess, the restaurants have to make some kind of assumption if they don’t want to serve double the amount of cutlery, and no matter what assumption they make it will be wrong in about 50% of the cases.
I wasn’t going to, and after I saw it it totally makes sense that it’s possible, it just never occurred to me.
I guess this could be used like static variables inside functions in c. So scope-limited global variables. Not a good design choice in most cases.
This.
When you ask random Christians on the street you will get the same level of understanding.
Pretty much all languages do that. It’s a very basic language feature inherited from basic maths notation. Same as x - y subtracts y from x in pretty much any language that supports operators.
Remember when people made fun of China for the social credit thing that turned out to be fake news?