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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 13h

The problem is all the neighbors who don't get it. Even if you remove your own, if every neighbor has one there is a massive surveillance zone throughout the street.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 14h

"America continues to be a shithole who doesn't provide people in need with the tools and prosthesis they need to live decent lives."

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats. Not a huge fan of the non-open-sourcey-ness of Bambu but hard to argue against the machines, as close as you get to a printing appliance that just works. The P2S is more an upgraded X1 Carbon I gather. Have fun.

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Tiddly @tiddly.bsky.social · 16h

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 20h

Put a UPS on your home automation hub?

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 20h

Buy a Home Assistant Green, buy their new ZWA-2 Z-wave transceiver, buy a Zooz ZSE41 door open/close sensor, create an automation in HA that counts the time after you open and alerts you after X minutes. Then get lost in the vast array of ways you can automate everything!

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 20h

You can do speech recognition and LLM's at home too off your own hardware but admittedly getting the LLM going is slightly less trivial. But yeah, nothing enters my smarthome if it requires cloud anything.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 20h

With very thin nozzles you can get FDM prints quite smooth tho slow, but not entirely, still need post processing. In fact, even resin printed stuff isn't entirely smooth but it's vastly higher resolution. So some kind of resin-based printing, while messy and toxic, can produce staggering results.

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 20h

The timelapse looks pretty fun.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 20h

There's already research that shows that AI users just almost immediately check their own brain at the door and turn into idiot droids and stop thinking. Considering how limited a huge chunk of humanity started out, this is end-of-civilization type stuff.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I just run single colors. Added a Revo to it and it's very easy to live with. Not fast, but I don't churn out a lot of prints either.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Two weeks with a malfunctioning washer and counting. This sucks way more than I thought it would, especially in a place where the concept of "laundromat" simply doesn't exist.

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

You can get into decent quality printers for less now. I have an old Prusa MK3S+ that I use constantly and it is indeed a trooper but hard to overlook the likes of the Bambu A-series that's dirt cheap.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Since you say minis, you may be thinking of a resin printer, they're cheap; do keep in mind those are not suited for use in your living space. The resin is toxic, and the isopropyl alcohol you'll use in copious quantities isn't without its issues. You can print minis with FDM, though not as high res

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, here: gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/pr/gridplate...

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Home Assistant + automation devices. UST projectors and ALR screens. Air fryers. Clothes washers with heat pumps. Sure, in capitalism, things that can make a buck get invented and the rest languishes but we're still making progress, even as civilization is collapsing.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Home Assistant is aggressively free and open, and using Zigbee and Z-wave nothing can even talk outside your home. Sure, there's a lot of surveillance and AI crap etc but that doesn't necessitate throwing out the baby with the bath water.

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

All (existing/old) IKEA devices are Zigbee 3.0. They're retiring them now in favor of Matter based items, however.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Even modest Mini PC's are often overkill for any single app, which is why I think using XCP-NG (or Proxmox), ie a type 1 hypervisor, and then installing services in virtual machines is better. They're more portable too. But yes, need to make sure there's enough memory and cpu to share.

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Not a ton to learn tbh, not for normal home use. Download, install, and use. Linux has come a long long way. If you want to play around first, download Virtualbox, download the install .iso for Kubuntu from Kubuntu.org, attach it to a new virtual machine, install and you can see what it's like.

Kubuntu | Friendly Computing

Kubuntu.org

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

It's literally easy. I mean, there's even Zorin OS that makes you wonder if you're still on Windows. But several other distributions are very intuitive. The only blockers are multi-player games with anticheat, or if you must have something hyper specific like Adobe stuff etc.

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I'm finally swapping the last bastion of Windows use in my home, my gaming rig, to Linux, like Fedora with KDE maybe. Because Microsoft is just out of control.

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Using wifi for home automation gadgets has always made me feel leery, my house runs on Zigbee and some Z-wave. That said it seems like perhaps your networking gear could stand to be swapped out for better more stable stuff. Ruckus for Wifi, maybe. Or at least Unifi. Consumer stuff is ick.

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extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I built on Zigbee and Z-wave just to ensure that they literally have no way to communicate outside of my home automation. I have had to add some wifi but I set up a separate VLAN for them that's cut off from the rest. But when a dishwasher demands wifi to enable eco mode, things are cursed.

extectic.bsky.social @extectic.bsky.social · 1d

As long as it has absolutely categorically no cloud access I'm fine with it. Ring has always been a hideous choice, even before now they've handed material to cops just for the asking turning all the neighborhood Ring cameras into a giant surveillance network.