Hey, if the wife supports the 3D printing hobby, I think that’s worth printing a bit of garbage.

Remember when people made fun of China for the social credit thing that turned out to be fake news?

I stopped printing toys. They kids loved to watch them being printed, but they are usually not fun to play. Single-color, low detail, low durability, really not what you want for kids toys.

They usually play with a print for a few minutes and then toss it into their box of toys, never to be played with again. It’s a waste of plastic. It’s literally printing junk.

The main issue with wet filament is that the water in the filament meets a 200+°C hotend when printing. It then quickly turns into steam, which you hear as a popping sound while printing.

This then causes little holes in the extruded filament where the water steamed up. Looks like miniature swiss cheese. This causes all sorts of trouble. The print becomes brittle and weak, almost foam-like, and can be broken by applying little force. Layer adhesion and first layer adhesion will be much worse. It often causes lots of stringing.

It’s usually not an issue for PLA (unless you have really high relative air humidity), but it’s a big issue for PETG, TPU and Nylon.

If you print any of these filaments, you really should get a heated filament dryer.

In terms of physical things:

• Printer
• A roll of PLA (take it easy with buying filament. First figure out how much you will print, only then stock up in filament. Filament has a shelf life of 1-2 years depending on the type. Don’t buy too much or you might have to toss it. You can always buy more. Also, first master PLA, then get into other filaments.)
• A bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol (perfect print bed degreaser, makes your prints stick nicely to the print bed during printing)
• Pliers/tweezers/cutter knife to remove support and for simple post-processing

If you go more advanced (don’t do that in the beginning:

• Filament dryer (required for PETG, TPU and some other filaments, usually not required for PLA)
• First PETG, then TPU, then after filaments if you need them. I print since 2017 and PLA, PETG, TPU have been all I needed.
• Hot air soldering station (awesome tool for post-processing)

Software side:

• A slicer is a must. If there’s one that your printer’s manual recommends, get that one for the start. Otherwise get PrusaSlicer or Cura.
• 3D editing software or CAD software are required to DIY your own models, but there’s tons of models already available on the internet (checkout www.yeggi.com, it’s a 3D model search engine), so that’s not required in the beginning.

Btw, filament doesn’t need to be from your printer manufacturer. There’s lots of different manufacturers for filament. Just make sure the diameter is correct (usually 1.75mm) and that you shop for a material that’s compatible with your printer (PLA, PETG works on all printers; TPU/TPE requires a direct drive extruder which most printers have nowadays; ABS/Nylon requires an all-metal-hotend that can go over 260°C and an enclosure; Carbon-filled filaments require a hardened nozzle).

I personally like spectrumfilaments.com a lot if you are from Europe.

Es beweist mal wieder dass Hirn kein Requirement ist für Top-Managerposten.

Bzw, dass Top-Manager eben völlig andere Ziele haben als das Langzeitwohl der Firma.

Yeah, that’s the second option.

Ich prophezeihe hiermit: In zehn Jahren heult die deutsche Autoindustrie, und die Politik wird sie mit Kohle überhäufen.

Ist das nicht schon lange so?

Du hast schon recht, dass es in Entwicklungsländern durchaus reiche Leute gibt. Aber durch das Fehlen einer breiten Mittelschicht sind das eben wenige. Das reicht um eine Luxusmarke wie Ferrari oder Porsche am Leben zu erhalten, aber doch nicht für Breitenmarken wie VW oder sogar die ganze europäische Autowirtschaft.

Wie viele Skodas sollen sich die relativ wenigen Reichen in Entwicklungsländern leisten?

Die EU produziert rund 12.2 Millionen Autos pro Jahr. Die überwiegende Mehrzahl davon sind im Vergleich zur globalen Konkurrenz, ziemlich teuer.

Schaut man sich die aktuelle Exportverteilung für EU Autos an, dann sieht man das auch recht deutlich. Nicht-EU-Europa, Asien und Ozeanien sowie Nordamerika zusammengenommen machen 89% der Exporte aus. Nimmt man die EU-Autos dazu, die nach Europa verkauft werden, dann sieht man, dass weniger als 6% der in Europa produzierten Autos in den Mittleren Osten, Mittel- und Südamerika oder Afrika verkauft werden.

Damit lässt sich die europäische Autowirtschaft nicht retten. Ferrari und Porsche vielleicht schon. Aber alle Anderen nicht.

Interessanter Aspekt zu Dritte Welt Ländern.

Das was (europäische) Autos so schwer und teuer macht sind hauptsächlich Sicherheit und Komfort. Wird man die beiden Aspekte los, zusammen mit dem Zwang nach unnötig hoher Performance, dann kann man kleine Billigstautos viel billiger mit Elektromotoren bauen als mit Verbrennermotoren.

Allerdings frag ich mich auch was das für ein Plan sein soll, teure europäische Autos in arme Länder zu exportieren. Wer soll denn bitte in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tadschikistan oder Äthiopieen signifikante Mengen an Luxus-Mercedes-Verbrennern kaufen?

Und der Gedanke, dass unsere Autoindustrie mit lokalen Billigstherstellern über den Preis konkurrieren können ist bestenfalls lachhaft.

Indische E-Tuktuks kann man dort z.B. für ab €550 Neupreis kaufen. Für den Preis versendet Mercedes noch nicht mal einen leeren Karton.

Austria

This.

Nobody’s going to forget the name of the browser they use every single day. But if it’s some niche tool that I have to look up every time I use it once every few years, that’s more difficult.

But the acronym totally destroys the understandability of the program name and instead is understood as “an unpleasant or stupid person” (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp).

If you look at similar commercial software you get names like MS Paint, Photoshop or Lightroom.

They should have stuck with “GNU Image”, “GNU Photo” or maybe “GNU PhotoEdit”.

At least over here, Cineplexx is a really big movie theatre corporation. That makes it easy to understand what Plex is about.

Exactly!

cassandrafatigue already suggested that, and I answered below that: https://lemmy.world/comment/21043110

That’s not a bad idea, actually.

Maybe that could replace the scale actually. “This dish is equivalent to 5 pepper corns. This one here is equivalent to a jalapeno. This one is equivalent to a habanero.” and so on.

Afaik scoville only works for chilli peppers. It doesn’t work for other spicy things like e.g. pepper and it doesn’t work for prepared dishes either.

So you can say “This dish contains chilli peppers with X scoville”, but since the amount of chilli in there also matters, that’s only part of the equation. For example, a single drop of 100 000 scoville chilli pepper on a whole plate of otherwise non-spicy food might be less spicy than e.g. a dish consisting almost entirely of 30 000 scoville chilli peppers.

We really need a decent scale for spicyness of foods. The mild/medium/spicy thing is by far too unspecific.

There’s an Indian place down the road that we sometimes order from. I like moderate levels of spicy, so it works well for me. But my wife dislikes hot spicy foods at all. So when I ordered the food I asked if the dish is completely non-spicy, and they confirmed that it was completely non-spicy, and it was too spicy for my wife.

Totally true that.

Just having a single word for “I have to ask for more spices” and for “I got hanged from a tree” and everything in between these two makes it so easy to devalue the whole concept.