calculuschild

joined 1 year ago
[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Defederation blocks communication both ways, I believe.

 

I started 3d printing back when you had to build it all from scratch, and it seemed ABS was the only filament to be found. PLA came along soon enough and made things sooo much easier. Then came some more exotic ones like TPU or Nylon I think, but I never tried them out because they seemed pretty niche.

But now I'm getting back into it after some time and am seeing PETG popping up more and it seems to have become one of the mainstream materials now.

Are there any other key materials I should become aware of these days? Has PETG started to replace ABS as a superior "high-temp" filament? Does anyone have experience with these?

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very possible. This may be a question for @eerongal. It does indeed look like this instance is stuck an older version of Lemmy as well (17.4; the latest is 18.0 or 18.1 by now), so this may be a bug which requires an update to fix.

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you searching from a web browser? I know the Jerboa for Android app does not correctly search into other instances yet.

When I search from my laptop, this is what I see:

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Did you access it via the search function here on ttrpg.network? The link you provided won't work until someone searches "!wargaming@lemmy.world" from here and visits it through the link in the search results at least once.

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Since Lemmy is kind of like a bunch of small separate Reddits, its very possible that a community you are looking for already exists; its just on a different Lemmy server. But fear not! You can be the person to connect it so everyone here can see it and start to interact with it!

Use this site to search for other communities that might not yet be on this instance: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

You should find a good handful of communities around D&D, Pathfinder, Fate, etc. When you find one you are interested in, you can visit it directly, but since you probably don't have an account on that server, you won't be able to post or comment there until you connect it to ttrpg.network by subscribing to it.

Mouse over the link (it should pop up with "Click to Copy"), and copy it. Then come back here, open the search page, and search for the link you just copied. You should get a result that you can click on, but notice this time you are viewing it through ttrpg.network, so you can interact with it with your account here. Click "subscribe", and everyone here will also start to see posts from that community.

Congrats! You have just made one link in the Fediverse, connecting everyone here to a community somewhere else.

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OnShape is my go-to. It's what I taught my students when I was a TA for an introductory engineering class at college, and they could pick it up in about a day.

Can do just about anything a "professional" cad suite does, but it's free, works in a browser, and is generally so much better designed so you don't have to fight against the UI to get anything done.

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You were into Warhammer at age 4? Man, I couldn't even read.

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fyi the link to the meta community is wrong here. Leads to an error page.

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for making an official community! Just subscribed from Vlemmy.net!

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't one of these lab grown meats recently hit the market finally?

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The way I picture this is by letting communities have some sort of "partner communities" listing. If mods of games@xyz decide they like the content of games@abc, and gaming@123, they add those communities as "partners" (perhaps those communities have to accept which in turn adds games@abc as their partner). Then, when any user subscribes to one partnered community, they also become subscribed by proxy to the others, and begin to see posts from all 3.

This helps smaller communities piggyback on the success of willing larger communities and gain a bit of visibility as well, which should encourage growth of each partner so smaller ones don't just die out.

Communities can "unpartner" at any time, in which case users would only remain subscribed to the one they originally selected. And of course, users could explicitly block any of the partnered communities if they don't want to see the whole set.

[–] calculuschild@vlemmy.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but PLA the plastic itself is food safe. As in, you can put it in your mouth and it's fine. The issue comes from the 3d printing process which tends to create small pockets and porous surfaces where microbes can hide and grow once it gets wet, kind of like a sponge. So you could print a single-use fork and eat with it, but don't reuse it later.

I think an insert for cutlery would be fine since you aren't going to be getting it wet or putting it in contact with your mouth or food.

view more: next ›