[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have an Ender 3V2 that I converted to direct drive with linear rails and CR Touch, and was pretty happy with the reliability of it. I've been wanting to build a Voron forever, but the amount of hours to build/cost of a kit (I can't print ABS) was a barrier to entry.

I just picked up a Sovol SV08, which is a derivative of the Voron 2.4 (there are some proprietary parts on it, but $579 vs. $1000-1200 for a kit, I'm OK with that). I'm pretty happy with it thus far, although it did require some initial tinkering. Here are the highlights:

  • Core XY
  • Enclosure Ready
  • Fast (printed something that took 26 hours on the Ender, and it took less than 4 on the SV08).
  • Finicky for the initial z-offset. Heat soak the bed for 30 min at 65 degrees, then run the automatic z-offset.
  • Got super frustrated why I couldn't figure out the inconsistent extrusion/shitty prints. Tightened the tension screw on the extruder. Problem solved (rookie move).

Time will tell if it's a long term printer, or more of a tinkerer. However, they open sourced it all - and there's already a ton of mods. Printing the housing for the BTT 5" touchscreen, saving me $50 over buying a touchscreen from Sovol. It might be worth a look.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a Debian server with a very user-friendly web interface. It also has solid documentation and a robust community. I've been running it for 6 years, and I am very happy with it.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I used nothing but Linux for my Master's and am currently using it for my doctorate. I've been full-time on Linux for over 10 years.

I did find that OnlyOffice played better with MS Office than LibreOffice. I also use the school's Office 365 that they provided me to open my finished files in the web version to verify the formatting matched. There was only one time it didn't.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The problem isn't with Nextcloud (I had the same issue happen with me). The problem is with the default sync settings on Thunderbird and DAVx5 (at least for me). Thunderbird defaulted to a longer than I wanted synch schedule, so I dropped it down to syncing every 15 minutes. DAVx5 was set to 240 minutes unless the event was created on my phone. Once I updated both schedules to every 15 minutes, I haven't noticed an issue.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

OpenMediaVault is a Debian server with a Web UI.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think he was saying that he thought System76 abandoned Pop. I think he was saying he was running Pop on a System76 laptop, and the laptop gave up the ghost.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Fucking nosy ass neighbors, man.

I think this is the root cause. Anecdotal evidence to support:

I'm white, my parents are white, and they lived in a posh neighborhood outside DC. For 3 years, Dad was working/living in England, so my sister and I would check on the house and/or I would go up to DC for a long weekend (I was living in NC at the time).

I arrived on a Friday night, unloaded the car, and was cracking open a beer to relax... And there was a ring of the doorbell. It was the cops. They said a concerned neighbor called, I told them my parents were currently living in England and came up for the weekend. I ended up digging through paperwork of my Mom's looking for something tying me to the address. While the cops were waiting, they saw multiple pictures of me and my sister hanging on the wall. They said "this will suffice. Enjoy your weekend."

The neighbor apologized the next day and asked if I had bought a new car.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Some tips I've found for a successful launch with my Ooni... Immediately before launch, give the peel a little shake (horizontally, not vertically) to see if it slides. If it doesn't, lightly lift up the corner of where it's sticking, toss in a pinch of flour and try again. You can also blow under the corner, which will spread out the flour as well.

Mine aren't perfectly round, but they're getting better. And if true disaster strikes, fold it in half and tell the folks eating it you MEANT to try making calzones this time around...

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

1TB hard drives were on sale, and I wanted to digitize all my DVDs and stream them to my Xbox 360. That was 15 years ago.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Pop!_OS on my desktop and laptop. Prior to that, I would distro-hop like it was my job. I bought a system76 laptop and figured, why not. So, I had Pop preloaded on it instead of Ubuntu. Here's the reason I ended up settling on Pop as my one-and-only distro.

  • Based off Ubuntu/Debian, which I am most familiar/comfortable with
  • No Snaps
  • Flatpak supported out of the box
  • Relatively rapid deployment of updated kernels (currently on 6.2.6), so no need to worry about hardware support
  • Tiling windows that are well implemented
  • Backed by a company, but one that shares the same values as me
  • Stable, even with semi-rolling release nature of it

The downsides are that their choice of colors are god-awful. I get it, it's their company's colors, but I don't think it looks really all that good on an operating system. I've gotten used to it, and don't care as much anymore.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I started with Plex, but I would say it wasn't until I spun up Nextcloud and got it running that I really would say my life changed. My entire family now has Nextcloud accounts, a family calendar, instant upload of pictures from my phone, all my recipes, and I even have OnlyOffice document server running for editing documents in Nextcloud.

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