how much do lenses cost like this?

he had the thing for 7 years. if it had rabies it would have died already.

yes this needs details.

I think one of the existing chocolate printers actually used that design. I was concerned about chocolate pellets in a printed hopper though.

he does say you can do chocolate. apart from the hot end, auger, and mechanical parts it’s all 3d printed though. I guess you could go through the cursed endeavour of setting up an all stainless printer to print all the parts in one of those so called food grade filaments but I don’t trust that much. Or you can just operate off the understanding that we are all saturated in plastic already.

Oh I didn’t know about this. Is there an easy way to check if the current setup has proprietary firmware in use?

there’s this: https://greenboy3d.de

Not cheap though, and I think the first batch hasn’t shipped yet.

the main merit to me would be printing super soft materials that cant even be made into filament reliably becomes possible

If there’s nothing wrong beyond the hideous consmetic damage sure.

Some distros have some very specific images like this one that I would install if I had the same computer:

I wish I could wrap my head around either. I haven’t even followed a tutorial and I have been able to produce functional replacement parts and mods to various things at work using onshape or f360 but I would much rather not use those if I could use anything else nearly as quickly.

That’s too bad. From what I can find online there are a bunch that have in kernel drivers but I can’t personally vouch for any of them. I haven’t seen any reports of linux compatible usb bt dongles above 5.0 so far but that might just be Google’s fault for making internet searching garbage.

what kind of computer? does it have wifi already? Its not usb but the ones I always get are the intel wifi+bt units. I bought a few wifi6e + bt5.2 recently each in different form factor for my laptop, desktop, and steam deck. apart from the deck which is soldered on and I don’t have time for yet, the pcie and m.2 wifi and bt combo cards work out of the box on bazzite.

If its a laptop or desktop that has antenna on the motherboard io panel then it probably has an m.2 card that can be swapped for a bt integrated one and you could jump to wifi 6e at the same time. or wait for wifi7 and whatever bt version will exist then I guess.

yeah I’ll stick to the other way around

make sure everything is as square as you can make it, tension and eccentric wheel not too much or too little, no broken parts, get some filament you dont care about and dry it then go through this:

https://ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/

skip any voron or klipper specific stuff and follow the marlin instructions for each section that has them.

Its a huge pain in the ass to do the whole thing, but you will be able to rule out everything that can be ruled out. Some of the sections are more or less once per printer, some per toolhead change, some are once per filament type, some are per individual roll.

it it for sharing or just showing off?

damn. that’s a pretty shit one.

Everything that people try to convince me is good about it just feels so counter intuitive. It also looks like it should be touch friendly, but I tried it on steam deck and it just absolutely wasn’t. We have decades of touch interface design on phones and tablets yet somehow it’s worse than the flop tablets that came before ipad. But to each their own I suppose. Some people absolutely love it and it works for them. That’s a big part of open source computing, one can chose the desktop environment with the most unlikeable devs if it makes them happy.

Anyway spin up a vm when you get a chance and try it. Try all of them if you can find the time. I find a lot of them kinda nostalgic and I really like tiling wm’s for feeling like a power nerd and making my computer completely unusable to my friends. Mostly I just use kde though.

I installed it just to see if maybe I was wrong about gnome being shit and even if it still is maybe vanilla is good enough to put up with it. I never fucking learn.

So this requires some kind of existing tracking software? Are there existing FOSS options for that part?

My current job doesn’t need time tracking (yet?, some of my work is for the sister company) but a job I worked before had us clock in and out for specific projects on a computer, but the subscription ended and we were using a UI glitch to continue using it and literally cheat engine to make it still export the files for the office to use.

not particularly exciting I think I had ‘dog’ one time while distro hopping.

Puzzling choice to have a one letter difference to an also minecraft related project, more so given the stuff with the other dev being a poop.