Kyle Davis

https://fosstodon.org/@linux_mclinuxface

Ceaseless tinkerer.  I do open source stuff for #Valkey at Percona. Ex-AWS. Ex-#bottlerocket. Ex-#OpenSearch. Ex-#Redis.  Spare time pursuits: #3dprinting, #OpenSCAD, #gardening.  Interested in building a greener future with technology. he/him
Located in Edmonton, AB #yeg

Opinions:: My own, not my employers.

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2026-06-23 02:08:38 UTC

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It’s over! #yeg #yegwx
Time to not feel grimy and to clean the kitchen.
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2026-06-22 03:09:51 UTC

Welp. #YEG is getting taken out by rain.
We gonna be a bit stinky tomorrow.
#yegwx
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2026-05-08 16:29:07 UTC

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it’s a liability thing. Some student (or occasionally department or prof) would put up hate/offensive/worse. People had to ruin it.

2026-04-11 11:45:17 UTC

For admin tools, would you rather have a:
GUI (web/app based, point-and-click)
or
TUI (run from a terminal session interactively but not a command line tool)?

2026-04-09 00:19:52 UTC

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too bad these models aren’t solid. I need to 3d print a tiny PCjr for my desk.

2026-03-28 20:59:20 UTC

I made this satisfying #3dPrinting project a couple of weekends ago.
I have a pair of sleek Pugeot Isen salt/pepper grinders. They work great but definitely a frustration object trying to fill. The salt/pepper needs to go into the centre hole only and if anything gets into the outer channel, you have to pick it out.
So, I measured it up and spent 20 minutes in #OpenSCAD then 20 minutes on the printer for a perfect fit into the outer channel.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/308/783/042/037/258/original/fc107b4b41456eca.jpeg
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2026-03-10 18:18:42 UTC

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Percona isn’t but Redis and Valkey are… somewhat.

2026-01-14 03:24:49 UTC

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that place sounds great. On my list next time I go to Jasper!

2026-01-11 23:45:02 UTC

#yeg laughs at the weak airport in northern Finland.
More accurately, they confidently explain that -40 is the same in F and C.
“Departures from Lapland's Kittila airport that would have ferried winter travellers back to places like London, Bristol, Manchester, Paris and Amsterdam were all cancelled on Sunday as temperatures did not go above -35C on Sunday.
The issue is expected to continue on Monday as a low of -39C is forecast by Finland's meteorological agency.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74vnxlvl40o

2025-12-05 14:53:28 UTC

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yeah, that’s fair. It’s probably more of a story about parts of unknown provenance.

2025-12-05 14:34:52 UTC

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more details: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69297a4e345e31ab14ecf6e9/Cozy_Mk_IV_G-BYLZ_01-26.pdf

2025-12-05 14:34:29 UTC

This is one of the craziest #3dPrinting stories I’ve read.
1. A printed part in an AIRPLANE ENGINE bay and not one done on some exotic industrial thing.
2. It looks like a shit print: obvious printing flaws like sagging and stringing, separate from the failure.
3. The part seller claimed it was ABS CF but it had the glass transition temperature of PLA (99.9% sure it was just PLA sold as ABS.. so fraud probably on the part seller’s part)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o

2025-10-25 14:14:11 UTC

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Do you have the model!? That's amazing.

2025-09-09 13:29:16 UTC

Ever wonder why you see so many PCBWay sponsorships on YouTube?
The screenshot below came to my _work_ email address.
I don't have much associated with my work that is connected to #3dprinting
The only link I have between this email address is an #OpenSCAD tutorial I did at a conference were I was also presenting on other stuff.
There was a recording and it has... checks notes: 186 views over 1 year.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/174/538/189/739/414/original/b0042076b7a14484.png

2025-08-19 17:51:41 UTC

Okay, yeah, this looks good.
I wish it was #OpenSource hardware, but encouraged to see that it is going to be #Klipper and OrcaSlicer rather than proprietary garbage.
#3dPrinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-8es8uAlcc

2025-08-05 14:50:25 UTC

"...Huh. Why is this slow?"
"This build process used to take less than 10 seconds and barely touched the CPU."
Looks at code.
"Ahh, it opens JSON files 174k times. That'll do it."
`git blame...`
please don't be me.
please don't be me.
please don't be me.
Not me! A contractor with an itchy ctrl-c/ctrl-v

2025-07-22 13:22:30 UTC

So I’m having a bit of a #3dPrinting conundrum.
I swapped out my #SV08 nozzle assembly for the SOVOL hardened steel model. I’ve run hardened steel for years on other printer - just up the printing them by 5c and go.
SOVOL recommends printing PLA at 245, which seems way hot. At that temp I’m getting charred spots but it is printing relatively normally. At the top end of the material 230c, the 0.6 line width is printing closer to 0.45mm, so massive under extrusion.
Thoughts?
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/897/089/031/505/197/original/2f00f82ca5490aa9.jpeg

2025-07-18 14:40:10 UTC

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thanks for the lead. I’ll check it out if I can pick it up easily in Canada and no one comes back with a personal recommendation.
This is a big project: I’m printing something that will span the front side of my house.

2025-06-29 13:31:47 UTC

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that makes slightly more sense… kinda. Checking raid checksum performance does seem silly even when raid isn’t being used!

2025-06-23 12:17:44 UTC

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The deep-fry comparison: a mineral oil bath at 250c or 482f seems wild. Heating cooking oil to that temp in your home creates a lot of air pollutants.
I can't imagine doing that with mineral oil in my basement and my family being okay with it. Maybe with a lab-quality extractor hood or something, but again, not a home thing.

2025-06-21 19:40:43 UTC

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lolol. No it's not organized. But it's always in the process of organization.

2025-06-16 12:53:14 UTC

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while it’s a super interesting project there are things that don’t add up.
1. Eink displays driven at higher fps suck battery at extreme speed (and reduce their lifespan substantially). The quoted battery life doing anything like his sample videos don’t seem in life.
2. The original Wolfenstine 3D requires a 286, not a 186. I guess there could be a custom build to avoid a check for a 186. Doom required a 486 and 4mb of ram and it definitely needs that.

2025-06-06 22:40:40 UTC

A request:
I’m trying out some #3dPrinting tolerances for small print-in-place mechanisms.
This entire object is 18x12mm - I’m aiming for something generally printable on a range of printers without futzing about in a slicer.
If I threw this on #Printables would you give it a test print and report back if it works on your printer?
It’s 1.37 grams and takes about 7 minutes on a slower printer.
(Excuse my son for video bombing: nothing keeps him from his afternoon toy car races)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/638/790/209/280/607/original/3e915e6d3a3b4adb.mp4

2025-06-02 14:05:10 UTC

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I should add that our volumetric cooking measures (cups, etc) are subtly different than US ones.

2025-05-02 22:33:49 UTC

Someone’s dad is into #3dPrinting
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/440/615/009/944/236/original/cbbc5b80bf5c0b51.jpeg

2025-05-02 14:05:13 UTC

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For clarity, who do you mean would provide first party support? The project? My employer?

2025-05-02 13:47:02 UTC

Apropos of nothing:
If someone takes something away from you, holds it for over a year, then gives you back less, should you clap about getting back less than what you started with?
#foss

2025-04-29 11:28:14 UTC

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That was deeply disappointing.
That was a my old riding and I had a couple interactions with Blake and he was quite wonderful.
Kerry on the other hand? 🤮

2025-04-28 15:54:20 UTC

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that's an idea. A much smaller instance than I imagined though - 147 is pretty tiny.

2025-04-28 15:22:44 UTC

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It's a slipper slope IMHO.
I get the argument on each side, but the implications are pretty hairy for non-OSS stuff. Even if it's executing on a CI server _someone_ in the project is going to have to work on this, ya know? And organizations often have prohibitions on certain licenses, no matter where you're using it (because of potential IP virality).

2025-04-28 14:57:25 UTC

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CI still has to run Non-free junk. Is that okay?

2025-04-28 14:51:14 UTC

Let's say you're making a contribution to an #FOSS project. It's one of those projects will a small core and many add-on components.
The maintainers say: have you run the test suite?
You run the tests and it requires spinning up non-open source software because of one of these add-ons that may/may not be relevant to your contribution.
So, every contribution requires running a non-OSS software. How do you feel about this?

2025-04-28 13:25:33 UTC

Accepting opinions: what’s the lifeboat for Fosstodon? floss.social?
My posts are about 40% 3d print stuff, 40% oss posts and 20% everything else. Reposts are mostly Canadian topics. So the instance needs to be accepting of that mix.
Overall, I’m a bit sad about the crumbling of Fosstodon (and the actions that got it there) and annoyance of switching.

2025-04-18 16:32:27 UTC

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this is the fediverse.

2025-04-18 02:38:24 UTC

I had a conversation today at work and someone said “No one under 35 knows what BSD is”.
Let see how that works in here:
(35th birthday + 1 second is over 35.)

2025-04-14 19:16:43 UTC

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This #3dPrinting project is finally over!
~98% of my #photography gear lives neatly in this single drawer now.
The top two trays have my Nikon 1 cameras, battery chargers and spares as well as (most) of my 35mm negative scanner.
The Diana flash units kicked by butt. They have a really odd, organic shape that I had a hard time modeling, so I just modeled the “female” port and plugged them in.
There is only one misc area for extra lens covers that aren’t worth organizing.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/337/917/628/722/744/original/57558d35a1162579.mp4

2025-04-03 12:29:14 UTC

Anyone have feelings about Lenovo #ThinkPad (T14 Gen3) with the AMD Ryzen in 2025 (w/ Linux)?
I need a laptop for travel, so it's not everyday critical and something a few years old, off lease should do.

2025-04-01 15:32:51 UTC

I am sadly moving one of my machines from #Fedora to #Debian.
I prefer Fedora in many ways but this machine runs several instances of #Klipper in containers.
The containers themselves are based on Debian and... wow... there is so much pain when it comes to dealing with USB in containers and it compounds when the distro host and the base images approach things differently.
A mess of systemd units and fragile fixes in the container and host just aren't worth it.

2025-04-01 02:55:59 UTC

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or, you know, stuff like the capacitor plague.
Or counterfeit parts.

2025-04-01 02:48:00 UTC

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let me be clear, I’m not defending qidi, but I don’t agree that cheap parts are equal to bad engineering.

2025-03-31 23:29:59 UTC

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Jesus, those are scary pictures.
It’s interesting that the OP calls out cheap parts instead of bad engineering. Probably a little of this, little of that.

2025-03-31 19:48:57 UTC

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(FWIW, I'm a dual citizen of Canada and the US and I'll be going through customs in a transborder US air terminal inside Canada. My likely risk profile is low-ish. But shit is scary.)

2025-03-31 19:48:51 UTC

Parental leave is almost over. Looks like I'm going to need to travel to the US again.
I'm going to need to shore up the security of my personal devices when I cross the border.
I'm going to carry an old, wiped phone: that's simple enough.
I think my primary laptop needs to stay at home.
Trying to think of the best strategy to go 'clean' of personal information across the border and be able to restore when I'm clear of customs/immigration. (In Linux, of course).

2025-03-30 22:14:22 UTC

My 2 yr old is pretty crafty.
He’s figured out how to turn our smart plugs (#Sonoff S40 Lite) on and off from the button on the side. Endlessly entertaining for him, not so much for his old mom and pop.
#3dPrinting to the rescue!
I printed out a simple vase mode sleeve that friction fits over the smart plug physically blocking the button. Adults can easily pull back the sleeve, but he lacks dexterity to move it and perception to even understand there is sleeve over it.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/253/677/603/819/050/original/ab81e4d0c20ca4a9.jpeg
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2025-03-30 16:42:18 UTC

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Back on #3dPrinting/#organization bullshit.
The first tray of the second layer is looking nice, if I do say so myself.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/252/368/412/345/387/original/fa9e88f2403f4835.jpeg

2025-03-30 15:01:22 UTC

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I wish there was an account post throttle.
Like, no more than N posts in an hour, then space them out in my timeline.
I have a few people who come on, repost 100 toots on one specific topic then leave for the day. It’s fine that they do this but it kinda clogs everything up.

2025-03-30 12:25:28 UTC

I've been searching for the last hour for this:
Sometime between 2010 and 2020 I read about a weird theory that there was some "forgotten years" between the 70s and the 80s.
The "evidence" was that the late 70s and early 80s were so distinct and that technology advanced so quickly that they couldn't have been continuous. Something very bad™️ happened during the time and we collectively decided to forget that time period.
I think it was called 19xx or 197x. Anyone remember this theory?

2025-03-29 17:03:52 UTC

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I disagree!
OpenSCSD is the source code you share and the compiled output is a thing.
OpenSCAD is a really hardware description language, its closer conceptual relatives with a things like VHDL and verilog (for FPGAs, etc) than Java or content (like an image or story). There are licenses that cover this type of code and the output.

2025-03-29 16:30:36 UTC

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Ideally, you could setup a GitHub runner (or similar for whatever forge you want) and automate the update to Printables but I understand Prusa has had some big issues with spam so probably a dream. I doubt Prusa would spend the dev time to make something for the small OpenSCAD user base.
I would prefer a model site _not_ owned by a printer maker with this functionality. I guess there is Thangs but their business model is selling a revision system AFAIK, so that won't happen.

2025-03-29 14:42:42 UTC

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💯 there need to be an OpenSCAD package manager. Too bad package management is deceptively hairy.
I figure than 5% of my laptops HDD is duplicate copies of BOSL2.

2025-03-29 14:25:53 UTC

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- The code tends to be :ahem: lacking in quality. I get it: most of these scripts are for personal, self-contained projects, however they are pretty rough to use as shared. The biggest OpenSCAD anti-pattern I see what I call the "pile of numbers" with few or no variables. Like, I get it: _you_ know what `21` means and it makes sense to repeat it 7 times in a 50 line script but with enough of these issues it might as well be an STL.
2/2

2025-03-29 14:25:45 UTC

I love seeing people use #OpenSCAD. However, when I see a project in OpenSCAD on one of the model sites (Printables, Thingiverse, etc.) I'm usually more... hesitant than happy.
- There is no version control and nor meaningful way to contribute back to the code.
- The most common licenses in these places are in the Creative Commons family. OpenSCAD is source code, not content, so it's probably the wrong license and hard to integrate into projects with a more appropriate license.
1/2

2025-03-29 14:18:53 UTC

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are you a citizen of the US yet?
They want your money for life or until you give it up. Which, lately, seems more appealing for me at least.

2025-03-29 13:55:55 UTC

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I use a service and it still consume my free time.
Having to file in 2 counties complicates things mightily.

2025-03-29 13:16:32 UTC

I saw a jar of black olives marked as “Product of #Canada” on a grocery website last night.
I somehow doubt that 98% of that product was made in our borders.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/marketplace-found-up-to-1-in-3-groceries-get-labelled-as-canadian-customers-say-they-re-skeptical-1.7496182

2025-03-27 21:49:46 UTC

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curious: do you live in a house built in the last 10 years or so?

2025-03-27 21:20:18 UTC

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I assume so. I believe it’s a Voron Zero based which lots of folks use for ABS stuff.
(I’ve never printed ABS actually! I have odor sensitive family members, so if I do it, it would be in the, currently under construction, garage)

2025-03-27 19:41:39 UTC

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Printed the first top tray for the drawer. Fits perfectly on the first try.
I love how I can get exact fits with #3dPrinting. Now to fill this tray up with more camera stuff!
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/236/084/190/635/538/original/7c2e5cc170ca8357.mp4

2025-03-27 18:25:06 UTC

Damn, this is tempting. I'm generally very pleased with my Sovol printers: they're hackable, #opensource, and perform well. They aren't prefect but they're very good.
The Zero would be nice to have an enclosed printer to handle more engineering grade things. Maybe throw it in the garage.
Of course, of the 5 printers I have right now one is currently functional. Maybe I should get the others all functional before getting _another_.
#3dPrinting
https://www.sovol3d.com/products/sovol-zero-3d-printer

2025-03-25 12:57:01 UTC

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god, I loved them though. I learned so much.
I’m in awe that they got published. Such a limited market for a large, expensive book. As a kid, I would get the previous version book at a discount. The best Turbo Pascal book I got was for 5.5 but it was well into the TP6 era before I got my hands on it.
Anyway, I recall the same thing: pages after pages of source code. The best ones did call out the important things. Stuff like: “notice the lines 423-440”

2025-03-22 15:55:15 UTC

My toddler loves playing “kitchen”.
Recently he’s been wanting to make “cake” for us but he doesn’t have anything that resembles a cake in his toy chest. He loves his Velcro toys that he can chop apart with a toy knife.
Let’s make it with #3dPrinting!
I designed a simple 2 layer cake in #OpenSCAD with each slice being 45°. I’m printing the outer “frosting” with my SV08 and the inner “sponge” layers on my resurrected SV06 and a dab of superglue attached the layers to the frosting.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/206/884/221/211/611/original/7e3b43c012f8aad0.jpeg
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2025-03-21 23:50:14 UTC

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amazing!

2025-03-21 22:23:08 UTC

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woah, okay. Still need to digest that some, but this is helpful.
It looks way more complicated.

2025-03-21 20:28:17 UTC

Does anyone have an IKEA SNURRAD?
https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/snurrad-storage-turntable-transparent-40521526/
I'm fascinated by the mechanism and I'm trying to grasp the geometry of what's actually going on. It's breaking my brain a bit.
It won't fit my fridge and I'd like to make something similar with #3dPrinting
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/202/302/091/326/808/original/8c07be0180446e99.mp4

2025-03-19 19:06:32 UTC

I noticed some worsening inconsistent layer lines on my SV08. I went to Sovol’s troubleshooting site. It suggested to check the tool head for wobble, look at belt tension, and friction in the linear x bearing. All fine.
I went to just tighten the toolhead bolts anyway and I accidentally knocked the nozzle: it moved. A lot.
Pulled the sock off and noticed that the left screw needed a 1/4 turn, then I saw the right. Wow. I’m surprised it was even able to print.
Testing tonight!
#3dPrinting
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2025-03-18 20:27:56 UTC

Welp. It was a good run.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317

2025-03-17 22:26:56 UTC

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Project update. The first layer is filling up fast.
#3dPrinting
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/180/118/737/286/880/original/ba49a7f6e4e94092.jpeg

2025-03-16 18:00:40 UTC

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My camera gear drawer organization project is coming along.
#3dPrinting
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/173/407/280/413/815/original/e6abfcf646805898.jpeg

2025-03-15 23:32:27 UTC

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they’re 1.2mm wide (0.6 lines x2) which is plenty stiff for this application.

2025-03-15 18:13:53 UTC

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On this project I’m not printing bottom layers: they just don’t show and are a waste.
I’m also using lightning infill.
I hold my breath when it starts but I’ve only had one adhesion failure (and it was my unrelated fault).
#3dPrinting
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/167/793/564/539/121/original/842640748c3b1211.jpeg
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2025-03-15 15:38:22 UTC

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always, but I already have a lot of inserts to print. Hopefully I’ll have more capacity for moar.

2025-03-15 14:59:05 UTC

Started a project to organize my camera stuff in a desk a drawer.
#3dPrinting
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/167/027/486/792/264/original/12eb765bc180947e.jpeg

2025-03-13 13:02:12 UTC

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from the photo, I would have guessed Australia 😉

2025-03-13 12:34:47 UTC

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right. I think I’ve met this problem.
When you have two different geometries joining with different with a different number of facets you get some pretty strange problems. The corners can’t quite align. In a 3d print? Not a problem. I can see in industrial applications it could be a big ass problem if it wasn’t just an artifact of an image quality setting.
(I actually like the look of lower facets in some more shiny filaments like this example)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/155/126/033/228/016/original/a3ba5d8bd1627d49.jpeg

2025-03-13 02:42:55 UTC

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there are applications where it doesn’t matter nor show.

2025-03-12 22:59:15 UTC

Weird #3dPrinting question I've been thinking about.
Would the left side print faster? (Assume that both discs in the photo below are the same diameter and height.)
My assumption is that it would. The print head could accelerate during the chunky segments but the right side would be constantly changing directions, so no acceleration.
If it would be measurably faster, I'm not sure. I need to do some testing, but it's interesting to go against years of optimization in the other direction.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/151/891/314/067/419/original/7ea0acfe883a1f85.png

2025-03-08 17:56:53 UTC

I have conquered the wall wart box.
Make sure to follow for more exciting content.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/128/094/592/737/687/original/bf3ae0221ec7563a.jpeg

2025-03-06 00:59:44 UTC

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there is lots of talk about how to separate out action and feelings about the administration vs the people in the US.
It definite makes hard when people’s jobs are on the line and your (personal) actions play(ed) a role in that, but I think people know that if/when the US… gets out of this madness somehow thing will normalize.

2025-03-06 00:06:32 UTC

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I loved it in the day. I wonder: does it hold up?

2025-03-06 00:00:42 UTC

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I do love pepper, but no: one is salt.
Believe it or not Peugeot sells unique skus for salt and pepper mills (and the salt mill was $3 more).

2025-03-05 17:43:18 UTC

I’m not sure how evident this is outside of #Canada but this article sums up the blind rage that most Canadians are experiencing regarding the worsening relationship with the US.
Behaviour and attitudes have changed radically in just a few weeks. The only thing I can compare it to is how living in the US felt immediately after 9/11.
I know most of my following is US-based: please read and understand what is happening. And never make 51st state jokes: they aren’t funny.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/relationship-broken-canada-responds-donald-trump-tariff-threats

2025-03-05 05:01:38 UTC

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I was a bit worried. It feels solid though and salt/pepper mills aren’t exactly a large load😉

2025-03-05 02:24:17 UTC

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more views. #3dPrinting
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2025-03-05 02:21:57 UTC

This was a quick design (less than one hour: started at 3:32, sliced by 4:23), but I’m very happy how it turned out.
53 lines of #OpenSCAD
#3dPrinting
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2025-03-02 15:20:46 UTC

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I’m fairly sure I’ve done this in Cura. Or found a work around to achieve arbitrary surface direction.
I suffer from being a cura power user able to do just about anything, so switching to Orca has been a challenge.

2025-03-02 15:11:55 UTC

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supports aren’t on and they aren’t needed. The gap between the flutes are 0.6mm at this point.

2025-03-02 14:54:00 UTC

I'm having a fight with #orcaslicer
This design needs to be print face down but is fluted.
It will finish successfully but there is a problem with the first layer over the flutes. Orca tries print this layer as a giant bridge/overhang, but some of the flutes are in the same direction of the bridge (or concentric if I enable "make overhangs printable"). When this happens the layer is unsupported and sags.
What I need is that layer to be 45° to the outer perimeter. How though?
#3dPrinting
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2025-03-02 03:04:10 UTC

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summer?
I broke up 10 meters of ice from my walk today. 4c/39f and I wasn’t even wearing a coat.
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2025-02-28 13:46:27 UTC

I want to do some screen-recording focused (personal) videos.
I've used #ScreenFlow at work and I'm pretty proficient with it. But it's also not amazing software and closed source. And I might want to do some stuff on Linux, not just MacOS.
I'd like to find something #OpenSource that fills the same niche. Anyone know of a #foss workflow or (better) an integrated application for doing screen capture focused video production?
(Ideally, needs to work both on Linux and MacOS)

2025-02-28 01:27:17 UTC

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they also take sponsorships and QCon is not cheap to sponsor.
_However_, I’ve organized major tech conferences before: 2.5m is actually that much. Venue costs alone are eye watering.
I won’t name names but I recently saw a tech conference budget that was 8m+ usd for less than 400 attendees.

2025-02-26 19:34:41 UTC

There is a petition floating around to strip Elon Musk of his Canadian citizenship. I don’t think we should do this.
wait: hear me out
He is the richest man in the world. This makes him uniquely vulnerable.
I doubt he currently pays any Canadian taxes, but we can change that.
If we tailor a very specific tax code that has practically no exceptions that makes people with his wealth pay, I dunno, 105% tax.
He’ll drop Canada real fast. And we’ll now have a billionaire proof tax code to boot.

2025-02-24 15:13:08 UTC

How do the roads and commute look this morning #yeg?
My neighbourhood looks like a re-freeze mess. I suspect the main roads are fine but everything else looks like a rink.

2025-02-23 15:57:02 UTC

Yesterday, one of my PLA prints started warping after the gantry level took a couple tries. This is unusual because my #SV08 is typically rock solid on the first layer.
“Oh well, bed is probably dirty” I thought.
This morning, I went to start a new print and noticed the bed looked odd.
I took the PEI sheet off and noticed that a 5mm magnet was stuck to the underside of the bed!
I’m amazed that it was able to auto level enough to have a semi-successful print.
#3dPrinting
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2025-02-22 20:07:19 UTC

Is there such a thing as a 3D model validator?
I'm playing with some #gridfinity stuff and it looks like some folks have taken.. uh.. liberties... with the correct shape.
It would be nice to have a tool (web based maybe?) that would let me deterministically say: Yes this will actually fit before I take the time to go to the #3dPrinting stage.
Right now, I throw it into tinkercad and eyeball it which is pretty terrible.

2025-02-21 15:13:51 UTC

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interesting- but yeah, I’ve built them 1 to 10 and 10 to 1.
Also, based on your feedback I’m working on another version that is more straightforward to print (and forgiving of layer height variations). That is after my current project which also involves gridfinity, as chance had it.

2025-02-20 21:16:20 UTC

So, I have 5 Kobo #audiobook credits that I need to burn through in the next 10-ish days (forgot to cancel a subscription.. bah).
Anyone have recommendations for books that are especially good in audio format? Bonus point for #Canadian authors.

2025-02-19 23:45:12 UTC

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might be rare if…. Someone… gets their way.
(Also, my condolences)

2025-02-19 15:22:57 UTC

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Grape soda is frustrating. I know it’s not everyone’s thing, but I love it as a once-per-day personal treat.
I typically drink Grape Crush (a Keurig Dr Pepper product). I’m actually not in love with that brand but it’s usually the most available and everything else is hard to find.
Pop Shoppe in theory offers a made-in-Canada grape soda but I’ve never seen it. I’ve also personally never seen them sell any flavour in quantities larger than singles (at 3x the price of Crush).

2025-02-19 15:15:27 UTC

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The personal care stuff that is made in Canada tends to be.. ummm… ”specialist”
Things like Fluoride-free, herbal, homeopathic BS stuff. That isn’t my priority, I just want stuff that works so I look
It’s frustrating (but understandable given competitive dynamics vs large multi-national companies) that these products really 1:1 replacements.

2025-02-19 15:06:39 UTC

I’m still trying to switch over to #Canada-made or non-US products for my day-to-day due to :waves hands: stuff happening to the south.
Groceries were surprisingly easy. I order online and they have “buy Canadian” filter. ~95% ✅
A few things I’ve yet to find that meet my needs:
- personal care products (hair stuff, anti-perspirant, toothpaste, hand cream, etc.)
- cleaning products
- grape soda (my singular vice)
- apple sauce (at least stuff my kid likes and isn’t junk)
- baby wipes