Is the measure in Imperial pick ups,

or metric pick ups?

Which is still better than most other brands.

Libre office draw is pretty competent.

Affinity layout is also quite capable.

1st. Affinity is not one application that does all, but three specialized application that integrate tightly.

2nd. Affinity is made by Serif, which was bought by Canva. Serif has been around since the age of diskettes, making affordable pro graphics software.

My first choice for RAM, SSDs, and Flash drives is always Goodram, because they are European, but I’m pretty sure they buy the actual chips from Asia.

At least they got that part right. It runs Pine.

Note This article is written by me and spell checked with AI. Many of the images are generated by AI. They are mostly to explain certain points and break up the wall of text.

Well FUCK YOU!

Use your word processor to spell check, and buy stock photos taken by humans, which have probably been ripped off to train that AI.

Your disclaimer doesn’t legitimize anything.

Vivaldi. By the OG team behind Opera.

Only 49 years!

Enshitification.

What’s your fan speed? Those lines crossing have very little sag, which may imply a lot of part cooling. PETG likes it hot.

I usually keep it below 30%

The engineers and trainers who work on my underlying models regularly review anonymized logs of interactions to identify failures,-hallucinations, and “degraded” logic—exactly like the failure that occurred in this conversation.

adding to this. I imagine that the emitter by itself costs a fraction, so set-up a huge array of these dumb emitters, and a few active systems randomly within that array. You’d essentially create an interdiction zone.

Oh, I don’t ask for actual answers, but asking it to provide bibliography often points me to the sources, so that I can draw my own conclusions.

Good idea, I’ll try.

You are welcome to try. I can pastebin the prompt. I asked it about itself, the model. It replied that it didn’t exist. I pointed it the the docs, from the Google page. It acknowledged the page was legit, and told me there was no mention of Gemma 4, although there were like 20 mentions, including download links. It insisted. It took me pointing out the specific paragraphs to have it say "this may indicate there is Gemma 4 model. May be…

At some point it told me I was hallucinating.

I’m trying out Google’s Gemma4 LLM, which is run locally, and is touted as a 100% private model.

Asking it some questions about itself, at one point it acknowledged that chats were sent to “developers”.

Scientists at Cornell University

may be

closing in

I mainly use Elegoo Rapid PETG. I hated PETG because of it’s very low speed, but this filaments is a real game changer. Prints fast and easy. A bit stringier than PLA. Idry it before storing, which helps a lot. I don’t think I have seen anything inside with 3 or more top layers. What filament are you using?

I have a printer that started life as an Ender 5 Plus. the print volume is 350x350x400. I have printed some pretty big things, like a full size Mandalorian helmet in one piece, and never maxed it out. A lot of my prints would fit in a Bambu lab A1 mini. Ask yourself how many large prints you’d do in one piece. Also, printing large prints can be stressful, as failures mid print are a lot more painful in large prints. You won’t see many printers larger than 350 for a reason.

My printer has been converted to an Endorphin Hybrid CoreXY so of the original printer, little more than the frame, motors, and bed remains. It’s a pretty competent printer. Over 3x the stock speed, good quality prints, and cost me around 150€, including an overkill (not really, has room for a toolchanger mod I’m planning) Octopus Max board. if you use a simpler board, you could probably shave around 40€. I had the printer, so it was a no brainer for me.

I got a couple of rails that were larger, because for some reason they were cheaper than the original. I cut them to size with an angle grinder on a miter adaptor which I had, but which are cheap. Just make sure you wrap the rails in masking tape, and grind down the edges a little. Any speck of iron dust will wreck the carriages.

Ender 5 Pluses are cheap used.

If I were starting from zero, maybe I would have looked into an Elegoo Centauri carbon, 310€, or an Anycubic Kobra X,339€ including 4 color MMU, or ideally a Snapmaker U1 toolchanger, 850€.

Just because I have some rails wouldn’ really justify building a printer from scratch, but that’s just me. To me is like justifying building a mountain bike from scratch because I got some wheels free.

How good a welder are you? introducing a 1-2mm. difference is really easy when welding, not to mention the squareness of the frame. Extrusions allow for corrections.