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Well, got a Bambu H2D, finally a printer i can more or less be in the office with while it prints.
It's quite a monster size printer though.

dot matrix printer head cut in half (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_printing#/media/File:Tally_Genicom_T2240_print_head_assembly_-_cross_section.jpg)

Transforming our printer into a bio-booster! Today, we're 3D printing a Guyver unit. Join "3D Printer Adventures" to see this sci-fi marvel come to life! #GuyverUnit

This is a really good video about printing photos at home from Simon Baxter
even though I just own an A4 printer.
#printing

Heute mal so nebenbei das #OctoPi bei meinem #3dPrinter aktualisieren. Ist eh ganz easy und geht schnell.
1. Backup im OctoPi UI anstoßen
2. Raspberry Pi Imager vorbereiten
2. Backup downloaden
3. 3D-Printer ausschalten
4. SD-Karte aus Pi in Laptop stecken
5. Raspberry Pi Ima…

Apropos the leaving of Federal documents in a hotel printer ....
People tend to forget that many printers retain in their memory (which might be persistent across power cycles) that contains the contents of the most recent documents printed, scanned, or faxed.
It may not be obvious how to extract that data, but let's say that the powers that coerced all ink jet printers to print a unique printer-identifying pattern of small yellow dots and circles (hard to see with the human …

Somehow I got myself on this mailing list, every month or 3 they send a list of used printing equipment in Europe. I actually enjoy glancing at it, definitely a Heavy Metal vibe, for example this thing, made in 2011, has printed 137M impressions, and can be yours for a mere 420,000€. Free shipping probably not available.

Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/firestorm-hp-3d-printing-funding

Preparing for the Coos County Fair bonsai show! We're 3D printing a special battlefield-damaged Stormtrooper helmet plant pot today. Join "3D Printer Adventures" to see this unique piece come to life! https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

I shy away from the "Apple philosophy" with all my might, but there are many companies that apply it. I have a high-end 3D printer with a closed ecosystem, nothing that frightens an Apple user, but it terrifies me. Why? Because a simple (bad) printing bed costs more than 120 euros.
It's not a question of whether I can afford it, it's that I don't want to do it.
Fuck them, I'm going to get a Chinese one (and probably better) for half the price.

Looks like it is time for a new printer. The old one just won't connect. Everything I do and it says it is connected, but when I check the Linux and WIN10 boxes say it isn't there. It is an older machine (over 10 years old) so it owes us nothing.
Looking at a machine that will hook into the 5Ghz part of the network, mega tanks and decent reviews and... NOT HP!

Trump's people left some paper on the printer 😆 , interestingly they even planned to give Putin a present.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

Got temporary access to a 3D-printer (Dupicator 4S), it is kinda fun

Finally had to break down and clean the bed on my 3d printer. It was plenty sticky, but the stickiness wasn't as evenly distributed as it should have been. There was probably 3-5 years of glue on there. Now, it's nice and clean and I can work on building the glue back up for another 3-5 years. 😁
#3dprinting

This fall, Texas requires public schools to display the 10 commandments in classrooms.
I’ve made a PDF that largely conforms to the specifications required by Texas SB10, and you can download a printable (I recommend a color printer) version you can print out, frame or laminate, and donate.
Get the PDF: https://p…

I have been unable to choose an all-in-one printer/scanner/copy machine for personal use.
Why? There’s an incredible amount of options barely differentiated with tons of details hidden behind undefined terms used inconsistently across brands.
I expect that the result will be: end up choosing one based on price alone and the hate it from that moment on for every paper cut.

@… but not as many as want to fuck up a printer.

What else is new? We got a 3D printer! Printed this cassette holder.

Civility & common sense has truly gone to hell: Obnoxious audacity has become the norm worldwide.
And you can thank all the societal leeches that live by the philosophy of, "If you don't ask, you don't get".
☑️ Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafes into remote offices | Fortune

It is hard to comprehend how screwed up is HP's "Instant Ink" program.
Although one can remove a printer from the program, one can not remove the printer - it hangs around on HP's webpages and it emits notifications (even if unplugged) like a zombie.
There seems to be no way to sign up a new printer (assuming I wanted to sign up) except via a smart phone.
(A set of new cartridges for the new printer costs more than I paid Amazon for the entire new printer,…

Why is this not better known? Machines to convert our plastic waste into 3D printer filaments.: https://avatar42.social/2025/08/14/why-is-this-not-better.html

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

And then there's just the random stuff, like Guitar Hero guitars and drums and keyboards (in a bundle with the associated vintage consoles), an old MakerBot 3D Printer, some telepresence robots, and a fair bit of A/V equipment. Hopefully some folks out there will enjoy these, too!
https://mastodon.omnigro…

Today, I re-printed the first two things I ever designed for #3DPrinting nine years ago and change. When the pen clips for our kitchen whiteboard broke back in 2016, right after I bought my first printer, I made replacements.
…

Invertible Syntax without the Tuples (Functional Pearl)
Mathieu Boespflug, Arnaud Spiwack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09856…

🥡 3D printed food: Yuck or yes? Researchers ask South African consumers
#food

Fox spirit? Oh haha, no. Nothing like that.
*horrible modem and printer screeching noises in the background*
I said we're haunted by a FAX spirit.

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

First 3D-Printed Home Made Primarily From Soil is Built in Japan–Ditching Unsustainable Concrete https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-3d-printed-home-made-primarily-from-soil-is-built-in-japan/

@… Exactly - I originally set it up as an airprint server for my wife's mb air, since the printer was quite old, but it ended up becoming a general-purpose remote printing service for all devices. The rpizero runs a minimal raspbian install with cups, printer drivers, and avahi - it's been working flawlessly for years. Other clients …

New sign and revised handle... Larger back piece in case of wind.
(No stencil for this one... printed on a nice printer!)
Laser-cut banana for scale.

#protest #resist #fascism

Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/694877/brother-printer…

My greatest act of anti-consumerism to date: My decade-old printer is still working (albeit with some hiccups) and I refuse to buy a new one.
Though I guess using Linux instead of Windows also counts here...

I've been thinking back and forth for a few days now about whether to stick with Linux Mint or bite the moral bullet and switch back to Fedora.
And the winner is..... (drum roll): Linux Mint!
All in all, the more justifiable decision for me. I was able to eliminate a few minor problems, for example by connecting the printer via USB instead of just via WLAN. This means that printouts are made immediately and not minutes later. These “ghost fractals” on the desktop have also st…

@… @… If you want to print to an actual PostScript printer, you can use the “-l” option to lpr.

@… @… If you want to print to an actual PostScript printer, you can use the “-l” option to lpr.

@… @… Interesting… my (getting old now) 3D printer is loud and annoying. I’ll check into this when I have/make time (if it’s before I replace it with something of this generation…).

That thing where a neighbour goes on a bit of an “anti-woke” grumble on the neighbourhood chat then asks for help the very next day…
#lgbtq

there is something profoundly funny about how mainstream tech now talks about how #Linux-based handhelds are better at power management than #windows-based ones. what’s next? “use linux for better printer support!” or “sound is only reliable on Linux tbh”
Really curious where the Proton train wi…

@…
You need the social sciences equivalent of a
NO I WILL NOT FIX YOUR PRINTER
t-shirt

Been a while (according to OctoPrint, 7.5 years) since I used the 3D printer.
Am low-key surprised it all fired up so easily.

Feedback from the printer on my pamphlet layout: "that's not how people normally do things"
But I *was* taking into account the fold sample they gave me...

Alright, time to fix the biggest issue with the Legion Go: the D-Pad. It was absolutely destroying me trying to play _Sea of Stars_ and with the power bestowed on me by my 3D printer, it _will_ be fixed.
#3dprinting #legionGo

A New Ultrafast Printer for Large-Scale Assembly of Piezoelectric Biomaterials
Nan An, Mingtong Chen, Zhengbao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15167 https:…

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

Prepare for a long journey to the Dark Side (of gardening)! We're starting a 22-hour 3D print of a Stormtrooper Helmet Plant Pot tonight, soundtracked by cantina tunes and synthwave beats. Don't miss "3D Printer Adventures"! https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/694877/brother-printers-security-flaw-password-vulnerability

#NPR reports of #Drumpf admin operatives leaving 8 pages of sensitive internal eyes only 👀 #Putin feting itinerary notes behind in #Alaska hotel sparks ridi…

Well, my first conclusion after, well, about two weeks of using Linux Mint: mixed.
If you've been using Fedora Linux for years, it's a noticeable step backwards. What runs smoothly under Fedora, where devices are recognized without any problems, requires a little extra help with Mint - and often more time...
Examples: I have a Brother DCP3515 multifunction laser printer. Under Fedora, it is recognized immediately via WLAN and if you want to print something, it can be done…

The ultimate display: Where will all the pixels come from?
Benjamin Watson, David Luebke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23001 https://arx…

@… I glued a rpi zero to my printer, connected it via usb, and set it up as a print server on my lan - I don't have to deal with any of those issues ever again :D

Tonight, we're not just printing—we're building a fleet! Firing up the 3D printer to create a massive Wasp-class amphibious assault ship (LHD). Get ready to see this miniature marvel come to life, layer by layer! #3DPrinting #WASPClass

Should I be surprised? We just replaced an aging HP ink jet printer with a newer version, also from HP.
About the first thing it did when powered on was to scream about how HP brand ink cartridges must be used, how other cartridges may not work and and that firmware updates may invalidate them in the future.
And that a nearly continuous internet connection is required to use the cartridges that are in the machine, else printing would cease.
This seems to me to be a clear ca…

Join "3D Printing Adventures Penguin Style" today! We're channeling the Force (and our 3D printer) to create an awesome Darth Vader plant pot. Don't miss it! #StarWarsFans