This community is actually pretty active!

Thanks!

I was reading about this solution. My main laptop is a MacBook Air with M2 so I don’t think I can run any version of Linux on it. I have an old windows laptop I’m thinking about trying it on.

Would Linux still run fine on an older laptop?

Thanks! I’m already in !selfhosted@lemmy.world :) great place!

Will do! Do you have any specific communities you recommend for asking for help in Linux / self hosting type stuff? :)

So cool! So you basically kept windows in one part of your machine and ran pop os on the rest? Really cool idea!

Ooo I didn’t know about this I shall look into it.

Could you do it on Windows?

That’s so cool!!

I’m hoping to set one up later this year. I have an old laptop that has good enough specs to run it from my research - I just need to get everything off of it and swamp windows for Linux! Never did a Linux install so I’m excited.

Exactly. I’m really interested in running Linux but it would be more of something interesting to try when I have time rather than an actual OS change.

The biggest issue for me is I’m a photographer and I depend on Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. I know there are open source alternatives, but from what I’ve seen they are far behind adobe.

Woowoo! Cloud has its place and I love it but it’s not for literally everything

Good point!

Somehow this website just goes to https://example.com/ ?

But isn’t the intention of the fediverse to keep our people just trying to make money? Even a chill podcast needs to make money.

Although maybe since the fediverse gives users/instances so much control we could keep them in line hahaha

Tbf if you want a big following for ads and such you need to use whatever has the people on it.

Lemmy is great for personal hobbies and enjoyment, but not running/advertising a business (which I assume the podcast is).

And it should probably stay that way? Not sure.

But I’m of the opinion that stuff like Instagram/Fb/X will always be around, but I’ll stick with things like Lemmy for personal stuff.

Just looked it up. Is it shipping or just an idea? Seems clever tho!

Honestly it’s a cool idea to have a portable printer though, and it could be achieved but just differently.

Like what if you just took the basic design of a normal 3d printer, but made it snap apart and back together, and then made those pieces fit into the briefcase?

You’d just need two vertical pillars, one horizontal rod. Then the print bed itself could move in either the x or y dimentions since the print head would be stationary in one direction.

Hope that makes sense but in my head this solution is way more practical even if you needed to do a calibration after each setup.

I can imagine - I used a Printrbot LC back in the day and it was so difficult to get consistent results. Great learning experience but sometimes it was more frustrating than rewarding hahah. Seeing some of these newer models that work right out the box make me excited! (Although building one yourself is always more fun if you’ve got the time)

The wall art is gorgeous! How did you get that smooth final metallic look? Or is that just how it looks on picture?

Honestly that’s one of the coolest things about 3D printing - being able to create highly specific parts that could be impossible or impractical to source.

I’ve heard that 3D printers are used to repair those terrifying “iron lungs” that some people are still depending on to survive. This is because some of the parts that break on them are literally not produced anymore!