Meh, i tried usenet about a year or two ago when I was getting back into this, and it was utterly useless for anything that wasn’t English speaking media for myself. Anything locally produced or foreign shows translated (for my kids) where almost impossible to find so YMMV. It seems to have a lot less variety than torrents offer.

I found a private torrent tracker that caters to my liking and now there’s almost nothing I can’t find anymore and it’s also full bandwidth (1gbit in my case) download 90% of the time. Costs are about the same, just for VPN instead of provider and indexer.

I’m sure as hell downloading it!

It’s not just inconvenient, it literally makes large parts of the internet inaccessible, even important and useful parts that are not just memes and SoMe.

All I think is “oh, that person is either a tattoo artist (and friends with a bunch of them too), or good friends with one”. But thats just based off of my own experience, the people I know that are heavily inked are all tattoo artists or married to one.

so they are also good at risk management, as they’re avoiding cannibals

Eh, I’d argue it’s actually the exact opposite of good risk management. They’ve spent a lot of time and money mitigating something that’s extremely unlikely to ever pose a problem. They should take a step back and reevaluate that risk matrix, maybe get a second opinion on it too.

Then they must have use some impossibly shitty magnets to be able to drag the plate sideways like that. I can literally drag my printer across the table only by the plate if I try to pull it off lengthwise instead of upwards.

There should definitely be enough holding force to trigger the collision detection if it hits the print enough to move the plate like that.

It could definitely be the nozzle getting caught on something so the motors skipped a few steps, I’ve had that happen once before and it produces this exact outcome.

It’s OK…nothing stellar or impressive, but acceptable and absolutely good enough for most light users, the one-sided Z-axis is not ideal.

But yeah, the speed is completely shit compared to other modern bedslingers. edit: seems they managed to catch up to the cheaper competitors WRT speed, so they’re on par with printers that cost less than half now.

I’d probably go with the Sovol…both of these printer are going to take a beating with that kind of use and I think that one will be cheaper to service in the long run…and you’re going to service them a lot printing that much.

If you think it shakes the part loose when moving print plate back and forth, try reducing accelerations and max speed of your Y-axis

It’s still not working for me unfortunately, I’m using the latest release and I get “unplayable, video unavailable” error on everything.

It’s always the poor poor white rich people that have the boot on their necks right? The poor poor oppressed white rich people… JFC

There, Fixed it

A reference to The benefit of having a recommendation engine auto add stuff for you

A recommendation engine is perfectly fine and can be fun to discover new things you might otherwise not know about, but auto adding is a huge nono. You don’t want some random shit getting automatically added to your server and taking up space (or using potentially valuable/limited download credit from a private tracker) just because it thinks it knows what you want to watch/listen to/read. Automatically adding new stuff unsolicited it just a really bad idea.

a new crime of inciting use of pirate IPTV services or software.

This one is particularly nasty, because simply suggesting to someone that pirate IPTV exists can be used to incriminate people that haven’t even done anything wrong. Regardless of your view on piracy, merely discussing something should never put you at risk of criminal charges.

I’ve had colleagues just play the “I don’t fucking care if you’re sending me back because my papers have a spelling mistake, this is just a business trip” method when US customs/immigration starts acting up. Not sure I’d have the balls to do that now that the US is sending people to KZ camp light for pretty much nothing.

Assuming every hinge there is motorized

That image isn’t even a mockup of what it could look like, it’s probably just some AI generated crap. Those servo joints will never bend around the base to align with the height of it.

Anycubic’s latest innovation could redefine what users expect from portable 3D printers, and has already won the iF Design Award 2025, but the company has offered no official launch date.

Lol of course they haven’t, this is a concept idea with probably zero engineering hours put in to it yet. This is their designers thinking “ooh, this would be super neat!” And their marketing team going “fuck yeah!”

Right now, if you want to add a new movie or TV show, you probably:

Search for it manually across different Arr services

I mean, you only search one arr service depending on the media type.

Check which quality profiles or indexers work best for that media type

Figure out if it’s already available somewhere in your library

You’ve already setup your quality profiles and indexers for your Arrs when you initially configured them, so there’s no need to do that every time you add a new item. If it’s already in your library, it shows when you search for it so not much figuring out.

Manually add it to the right service

Again, you’ve already searched in the appropriate Arr service for the media type. The “manual” action is pressing “Add”, which i assume you’d need to do with this too?

I think I’m confused as to what problem this actually solves?

Definitely looks like you have some extrusion issues here. Check if the nozzle is partially clogged and that the extruder isn’t skipping.

If you don’t like closed source printers, don’t look at anything from Anycubic. They all run proprietary FW that you cannot modify on proprietary controller boards, and their hot end also use a custom nozzle thats very close to a volcano but not enough to actually use standard volcano nozzles.

FWIW I have the kobra 2 from them, but it was their last model where you could flash klipper on, and I switched out the hot end for a standard volcano ($35 mod). It’s a good printer considering I paid $250, putting out 200mm/s printing and 350mm/s travel with fairly good quality. I have put well over 1000h on mine and aside from bed levelling probe drifting a bit requiring occasional recalibration, it’s a solid performer.