Saw your cable chain comment. I’ll be working from a formbot kit so hopefully the chain included with the rest of the BOM works out.

One bit of fun is that I’m going to try printing all my own parts in eSun ABS+ on my ender 3 pro. I have an enclosure for it, and it runs micro Swiss direct drive / all metal hot end. Will unplug all fans. I’ve never brought the bed to 100 but I’m using spring steel / PEI and I can’t see an obvious reason for concern. I have good dry boxes and the printer is pretty well tuned, so I think it should be up to the challenge.

If I can’t turn out good parts after a few tries and some tuning, I’m not too proud to admit defeat and run back to PIF but I’m remaining optimistic for now… I didn’t choose the project life because it’s easy. :)

I’m considering reading ahead and going Klicky / pinned m5 right out of the gate based on what I’ve been reading. Any thoughts on that? QoL mods I will regret not doing during initial build?

For background, I’ve modded nearly all my ender, and the only jobs that really sucked were those (like the dual Z and SKR mini) that involve basically disassembling the machine to rewire the harness or move motors around. Not terrible, but those kinds of core projects I’d rather build in initially than take a working unit offline for a day to rejigger. If I can get in front of those with the Voron build I think it will be a much happier outcome. Camera. Lighting.

First, let’s consider that up until fairly recently in human society, writing has been the domain of the wealthy and not entirely accessible to everyone. The rich could write whatever they want or patronize those who could write what they wanted for them. The rarity - relative to the greatest developments of proliferation being chiefly the printing press and recently the internet - of written works, demanded that anything someone bothered to put into physical written form must have considerable innate value to someone. If they didn’t, nobody would have bothered with the effort or expense.

I no longer have access to the reference for a citation and am having trouble digging it up, but I saw (probably on a blog about AI) some figures recently describing the amount of written “material” produced by humanity on a daily basis (or some other comically short time) in 2023 being comparable to the amount produced in the ~five thousand preceding years since the written word is thought to have been invented.

With as much “writing” being produced, most of it being spam or low-effort shitposting, the signal to noise ratio is unbelievably high. Regardless of the profundity of the thought being born and described, the chance of having anything written today - randomly on the internet - recognized for its quality is infinitesimally small.

I believe that there IS a fantastic amount of truly remarkable writing being done every day all over the internet. Nearly all of it will be retained on some form of media basically forever, even until the media is woefully obsolete / destroyed / the heat death of the universe. Most of it will never be set upon by human eyes again after this weekend.

Today, like hundreds of years ago, what rises to the surface does so due to commercial pressures. If you are awesome and impress a publisher with deep pockets, your words could be preserved in a form that will be read in 2434. Of course, it will have to continue to be impressive long after most of the books selected by Oprah’s Book Club.

Hey, @AvaddonLFC

Carrots. Same as potatoes. Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. Someone already mentioned onions, same idea.

I know your edit says you were thinking about dishes, and I think carrots can be their own dish with very little preparation. I like to bake mine on a sheet for half hour or so at 425f, and they are wonderful on their own. Also so low-calorie you can eat a practically infinite amount of them without spoiling a diet!

Let’s look at what Snoosite has been historically good at.

• propagating web content
• providing a space for derivative communities of content

The web content is already all over the place and takes no more than a dedicated core moderation team to begin driving discussion. The latter - content communities - is what really made Snoosite exceptional, and what drove that engagement was principally the aggregation aspect in the beginning combined with a distaste for the alternatives.

Lemmy is modeled very closely after Snoosite, obviously, and shares the same potential for link aggregation. The community building is really an organic function, and if we’re able to ride the wave, we may not continue to blast into the stratosphere but arriving at a decent plateau to provide a viable federated alternative is a noble and lofty goal.

The secret sauce, if the Lemmy devs implement features creatively, is ActivityPub. Cross pollinating conversations and communities between microblogging, distributed image sharing and tagging, and link aggregation communities of content using built-in features of hashtags and boosting is … well, it’s game-changing, and it gives me tingles to think about how well it COULD be done.

I’m not really wasting any time on Snoosite anymore other than for archaeological purposes. Now, it’s only been a few days, so I can only speak from my own history - when I made a decision to drop Birdsite like a hot rock, I did so completely and deleted my account. I’m a little less inclined to be as drastic with Snoosite because of historical significance relating directly to technical interests of mine. But as time passes and the Fediverse grows, and Lemmy (or another technology) matures into the space, I think the relevance of Snoosite will fade like so many farts in the wind before it.