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I hope in some fashion computers and related technology drop out of mainstream appeal and are relegated to actual nerds and tinkerers again. Not in a gatekeeping sense, but just where the goals are about pushing boundaries for the sake of exploration and not solely profit and personal data acquisition motivated.

as my system chases it’s tale in a silicon frenzy

Nice proofreading, Lazlow J.

I’m just a bit too young to have been part of the BBS scene, but I’ve certainly done plenty of Windows re-installs. I had a friend that would wipe his Windows 98SE drive every two weeks or so, whether or not there was any instability. I recently stumbled across an old backup of some screenshots and found one where I was apparently proud of the 31 day system uptime. Best part of the transition to NT based Windows was definitely the near complete elimination of BSoDs. Kinda blocked out the bad memories of random lockups and blue screens just being an expected part of daily computing life.

fdisk, format, reinstall
doo-dah, doo-dah

To be somewhat close to on-topic with self-hosting, the oldest service I have fond memories of running was a small Hotline server.

I’m guessing it wouldn’t be a valid legal argument, but I liked the thought experiment of claiming that it can’t be piracy if the rights holder is intentionally publicly sharing the content. Like trying to charge trick-or-treaters for theft when they took candy out of the bowl you left out with a “Free!” sign attached.

I’m pretty sure I had a VHS with Fred Savage where they ran through it as well.

Dinosaurs! (1987)

Link to relevant scene (starts ~17:05)

This is the first post I’ve ever written on Lemmy – or anywhere, honestly.

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Anyone upvoting or engaging with this, be less gullible please. Even if this wasn’t spam/scam posting what does it have to do with self-hosting?

There’s also a few plugins for Cura with variations on the name TabAntiWarping. I’ve had https://github.com/5axes/TabAntiWarping installed forever but I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually used it in a print. I just took a quick look and there’s a couple others listed in the marketplace now too.

When I first got the printer and was learning I used glue sticks to help with adhesion and just got sick of dealing with the residue and reapplying it - so now I intend on never using them at all if possible. I have 2 of the printers, one just for PLA and has a smooth PEI sheet, the other for PETG/TPU and just the regular textured mat that came with it. I usually don’t need to swap between filament types a bunch so when I’ve got some prints that need TPU it only takes a couple minutes to apply the tape and then I can just leave it on for as long as I want and not think about it. I also use the wide blue tape (can’t remember if it’s 2.5 or 3") so it’s only a couple rows to put on.

Not sure if I’ve ever tried without it, but I cover the standard textured mat with blue painter tape for printing 95A TPU on an Ender 3 Pro. It sticks just fine for printing and haven’t had any issues removing the print after.