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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • As someone who got the “Kit” version, I must add something that drove me nuts.

    The Voron Documentation is extremely good, while I had some instances in which I would have liked more detail, the instructions are easy to follow.

    However, the LDO documentation is abysmal and missing quite a bit of stuff. They do have a wiki that lists things to skip but the replacement instructions are very short and barely understandable. They don’t even mention things that you might need to print in addition to what the Voron needs. A specific example of this is the exhaust, the “Voron way” would be to print a cap that goes on the top at the back of the printer with a fan and a HEPA filter but the LDO kit doesn’t have that because it should come with the Nevermore filter. But this isn’t really mentioned there in the documentation and you need to dig through the wiki and the github project to find the right files for what needs to be printed.

    I also had some trouble with the cables on the stepper motor that controls the X axis, they seem to be loose inside or don’t make full contact which means that, depending on the wires position, could make the stepper motor not work that well.

    Lastly, I am currently building the Box Turtle AFC (automatic filament changer) System also from LDO and, from what I can find, there is absolutely NO documentation about it. I was in the beginning of ordering some TPU spools because the build instructions of the Box Turtle say that you need some before I saw that they provide those in the Kit.

    With that being said, would I source the stuff all by myself? Hell no.


  • I looked a bit in the names of the Studio, Director and Writer to see what they previously did and what sort of scores those things got on MAL.

    • Science Saru
      • Dandadan (8.50)
      • Dandadan 2nd Season (8.46)
      • Yojouhan Time Machine Blues (8.18)
    • Mokochan
      • Dandadan (8.50)
      • Yojouhan Time Machine Blues (8.18)
      • Heike Monogatari (7.79)
    • Toh Enjo
      • Space☆Dandy 2nd Season (8.26)
      • Space☆Dandy (7.89)
      • Shisha no Teikoku (6.84)
    • Shuhei Handa
      • Dungeon Meshi (8.60)
      • Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen (8.52)
      • One Punch Man (8.48)

    Looks like a pretty good score spread over those with only “Shisha no Teikoku” getting a below 7 rating, the rest everything above or close to 8. With Shuhei Handa in the Position of which we got “Dungeon Meshi” and “One Punch Man”, this looks really promising


  • the actual problem here is that OPs network is not configured correctly and that Plex detects that the physical local client is actually accessing the server from a totally other network.

    Fairly common when you use docker to run Plex and have the container run in bridge mode. This will put the container in the docker network that will then be different to your local network.

    Plex determines if a stream is local or remote based on the network so when your container is in bridge mode, the physical local client will be a remote connection because of the different networks.

    And since remote streaming requires Plex pass since end of April, you will see this.



  • Nice. I have a recent story about this.

    Basically, we have a process to sell something that is too big, complex and extensive for smaller customers so the idea was to drastically reduce this process to be able to give smaller customers the ability to sell that process.

    So, in January, I got an email with the assignment to do this. Since we don’t do it like this, I say he should submit a ticket in our tracker and plan it into a release to have some sort of structure and organisation in what is being done and when. Such a thing should also happen with our project manager because, well, he is the person managing what is being worked on so he should know what is going on and what is important. This doesn’t happen.

    4 Months later, the person sending the mail asked me what the status of that is, I didn’t know because I was busy with our other stuff that actually followed our organisation.

    This feature is super-duper important and already promised to some customers so it needs to happen quickly. Okay, we plan it in a release and I start working on it. The Plan was that since this was a “1 Task Process”, doing that in our existing process, wouldn’t make much sense and we decided to do this in a separate process that then relies on the codebase of our “main” process. While working on it, more and more issues popped up that made it really complicated to do it like that because our existing code just relied on a lot of things even if they are not in use. This meant that, to use it in the capacity as I needed, I would have to rip a lot of stuff out of the existing codebase and made this more commonly useable even though this wasn’t “used” in the process anyway.

    Yes, that sounds weird but you need to know that this is a codebase grown over 15 years so weird things are to be expected.

    I do all of that and the sales team has a meeting and I was asked if I had already something that could be presented there, which I had, sort of.

    This is presented in that meeting and suddenly this is not enough. “There needs to be other places to be involved in this as well and the customer needs to be able to make changes after the fact”.

    So, from the initial “1 Task process” we are now at a more complex process to handle the additional stuff of involving a separate entity of the customer, starting another process and being able to make changes to the initial variables.

    I don’t necessarily have a problem with changing things, but the utter lack of thought or planning of the person submitting the feature request is what drives me nuts. I mean, you had 4 months to think about what this should do and all you could come up with were 4 bullet points that just barely resemble the current state. Adding to that, the constant emphasis on “This is important and needs to happen ASAP”. I mean, in literally every mail that person sent to me was the “this is very important, this needs to be priority”.

    It is like, yeah dude, I got that the 2nd time you wrote that to me but you could have at least invested some time yourself to properly think about this more than 10 minutes. To maybe notice that what you want isn’t enough to do what you need.


  • Nicht “Drachenball” aber ein andere “Übersetzung” die mich nicht los lässt.

    Original Titel “You Were Never Really Here” von 2017, hierzulande ist er dann mit dem Titel “A Beautiful Day” erschienen. Nach der Filmbeschreibung, passt der Titel “A Beautiful Day” nicht so wirklich und wenn dann schon ein englischer Titel verwendet wird, wieso dann nicht den Originalen?