They use a laser to melt the top layer of a bed of metal powder, lower the bed, spread more powder, repeat. It results in a generally more porus part than cast or forged material, thus weaker, but can make otherwise impossible to manufacture geometries that can be lighter weight, which can reduce the strength requirements as well. A jesus nut is not an application you skimp on strength lol

Where I live they plow the street with a couple graders, and follow up with a front end loader that clears the snow bank created over driveways, but only on front street driveways, and never well.

I tried the dish soap method and ipa, and what eventuslly got my pei bed to actually work was a quick wipe with acetone. You’re not supposed to use it on textured PEI, but I have been for about a year now and it’s still going strong with one bed

I mainly listed them separately because of availability. I’m in canada and rapeseed doesn’t really exist unless you’re specifically looking for it, so it was only last year I found out what rapeseed is lol

Canola is a modified version of rapeseed developed in Canada. I might see a bottle or two of rapeseed oil next to the 4L jugs of canola from 3 different brands in stores here but that’s apparently not the kind of ratios you’ll see in other countries across the pond.

Most surefire way I know is preheat your oven to 450, put a tiny but of canola, rapeseed, or another neutral oil on it, wipe off as much as you can with a paper towel and toss it in the oven for half an hour, the nrepeat 3 or 4 times. When I say remove as much oil as much as you can, I mean the towel should come away juat about dry. Then to cook with it, let it get hot first, add some form of fat, butter, oil, bacon grease, etc. and then add your food. Waiting for it to get hot first is the key.

As others have said, the printer you should get depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to spend the time and money to mod the ever loving shit out of a printer like I have, an ender 3 is great. If you want to just set it up and start printing, something from either prusa or bambulab will be the way to go, but a word of warning about bambu, they seem to be laying the groundwork to close off their ecosystem as much as possible à la apple, so I won’t be surprised if one day it gets to the point you can’t even use non bambu branded filament on their printers without hacking them.

If you do go with an ender though, I will say before you even get into using it, swap out the hot end with an all metal one. The stock one that butts the ptfe tube to the nozzle was an absolute soul sucking nightmare for me!

The fact that robertson is tapered, so it locks the screw onto the bit just makes it that much better than torx. If the screws are captive, I’ll take torx or hex but as someone in trades, with the option of torx or robertson to resupply my screw tray, I’ll take robertson all day every day

I wait until I’m in the car and my wife is trapped with it

Ikea does this with their app, but generally, you go to ikea to get one or two items, so it doesn’t really speed up the proccess of checking out

I sliced a memory foam pillow to half thickness with a single edge razor and put it in the same case as a firm pillow. It’s stiff as fuck for the first week or 2, but hoo boy is it the best pillow I’ve ever had. My wife kept stealing my pillow, so she got the other half of the foam pillow

Stupid as it sounds, be in the mindset of the human equivalent of using psspsspss instead of walking over and just petting a cat. It’s a goddamn miracle I’m married.

Well this is just perfect. I used to have aquariums and breeding is a sign your tank is in a good state, and when I mentioned that my fish were fucking in a discord group, it grew into pissman watches fish fuck/fucks fish. Just another meme leaning into the bit

Russia: it’s obviously a very convincing puppeteer with IBS

GROND!

So billionaires can get punished seriously… when they cause problems for other billionaires

I’m all for competition in the market and knew enough to be able to fix any problems I ran into on windows, but linux is a whole different beast. It’s the first intel product I’ve bought since my first CPU in 2012

Yeah I got the arc card ages ago before I thought I would ever go to linux, then a buddy of mine started daily driving linux, so I got a resource to to go to for help lol. I’m just waiting on black friday to switch back to amd now

Arc is actually decent on windows, but the combination of linux and arc is less than ideal

I’m in the double minority of linux and intel arc. It’s… less than amazing