kensand

joined 11 months ago
[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't bother with vacuum bags If I were you. I think it's fine if you're using a drying box after the filament has been sitting out a while. Doesn't hurt to try and find out at least...

Personally, I just use a big plastic storage bin with a bunch of silica desiccant in it. I just busted out some polycarbonate (notoriously hydrophyllic) recently that had been sitting in there for 4+ months and printed straight away; no stringing or anything.

[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

I use the washable gluesticks for my polycarbonate prints. I just put PC prints under warm water for a few minutes and they pop right off. Gluesticks generally reduce bed adhesion though IME, so it's a fine line to walk; I never use gluesticks with PETG for example because then the parts don't stick to the bed enough.

[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Presumably via Xwayland, but I haven't tried it.

[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 32 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I've had a good experience with Onboard.

[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Tt-rss has been reliable for me, and the frontend is decent. Not to mention you can just republish feeds for a different frontend to use.

[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago
[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

Yup, that's true, and I am always open to and looking for new opportunities, but that also requires them to be interested in hiring me - not a trivial feat, especially in the current job market.

I'd also wager that the number of job positions writing OSS for organizations like that is much lower than proprietary job positions.

But you know what, I'll go shop around a little in my free time the next week or two. I'd love for (more of) my work to be publicly accessible and not locked up in a proprietary codebase.

[–] kensand@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yup, as a software dev, I would love to be able to devote all my time to writing open source, but I gotta make money to live as well. Switching to working on OSS would be a huge leap of faith that there is someone out there willing pay/donate for my work. As it is, I think it will be my way of giving back once I have saved up enough money from my proprietary work, and hopefully I will be able to switch over sooner rather than later.

Maybe I'll go take a look at what the process is for getting grants from the government or non-profit orgs like Apache foundation...