I've been looking for a reason to buy a 3d printer and I think I've finally found it!

Anyone care to recommend some suitable (and beginner friendly) printers?

The Bambu Labs A1 series as others have mentioned is ridiculously good, from all the reporting I've seen. I ended up getting the P1S with the multi-filament printing on sale on Father's Day and I've used the heck out of it. It replaced an older Ender 3 Pro that I loved, but was always having to mess around with. I don't know the hours, but it's been printing the vast majority of the time since I got it, last Father's Day, and it's been super reliable.

This weekend I designed and printed out a routing template for routing out door hinges onto door jambs. I had bought a tool for doing it on doors then realized it wouldn't help me on the other side.

If you want something that ‘just works’, it’s hard to go past the entry level options from Bambu Lab despite their march towards Cloud and ecosystem lock in. If that kind of thing bothers you, the new Creality ‘Hi’ series is probably where I’d start if I was starting today. For other useful things to print, check out Gridfinity as well!

Bambu Lab. Not open source friendly but they're the first company whose printers more or less Just Work.

I walked into my company hardware labs at the right time and was gifted a bambu labs a1 mini with 350 printing hours on it. I've since added another 300 hours over the last month and a half. It's a fantastic machine, and only costs $200-$240 (MSRP is 240 but I've seen it as low as 200 new).

Stick to some matte pla to begin with and with the a1/a1 mini it's as close as you can get to plug and play.

Also check out grifinity if this project appeals to you.

Thirding on Bambu lab although they are supposed to be announcing their newest model any day now. You may want to wait a few weeks to see if you could pick up someone’s p1p or p1s for cheap if they are upgrading

> using yt-dlp to download my subscriptions, convert them to mp3 and host the podcast feeds inside my local network

Hey! I've just had the thought of doing this myself the other day. Do you mind sharing what tools you're using, besides yt-dlp? For example, what are you using to host and generate the rss feed (if that's what you're doing)?

One tool you might like is MeTube. While it can't schedule anything, I have it running it on a headless Beelink computer. So if I want to grab a video or channel, I can open a browser on any device, go to the server, and tell it to fetch whatever I want. The download location is set to a NAS so I can view the media with any device as well. It even supports extended yt-dlp options, so you can even tell it to use things like SponsorBlock. It's pretty great overall

https://github.com/alexta69/metube

i have this tool which is a fork off from metube that has more features like task scheduling and presets. and notifications for automation

https://github.com/arabcoders/ytptube

i personally use it to drive my entire YouTube related tasks.

I like the new features you added. I will give it a try. Thanks for sharing!

Simply incredible. Thank you for sharing this!

I use https://github.com/amsehili/genRSS to create the rss feeds. I host them by running a Docker container that serves the folder on my nas that contains the media and generated xml files.

That seems to be just what I was looking for. Thanks!

I personally switched to using 2FAS[0]. My favorite feature is that it comes with a browser extension that can automatically fill in the OTP on web forms, after approving the request on the phone app.

[0] https://2fas.com/

I agree. I also wish it was possible to run multiple queries in the same window e.g.:

  select * from crime_scene;
  select * from suspects;

    SELECT
      cs.*,
      s.*
    FROM crime_scene cs
    FULL JOIN
      suspects s ON cs.id = s.id;

This maintains zero relationship between the tables, of course, but it shows you both. You could also specify individual columns.

I haven't found a way to reconfigure the side buttons on my Logitech Lift Vertical without that bloated software permanently running in the background on Windows. I'm honestly afraid to check how much it phones home.

I wish Solaar got ported to Windows.

Both the VSCode vim extension and the IdeaVIM plugin for Intellij support surround. There's still some plugins that I miss in those implementations, but both projects are gradually adding support for more.

I did so because ShadowPlay was so unreliable. It would just randomly stop working and, when it did work, more often than not the footage it would save would have its audio desynced gradually towards the end for the last minutes.

I've been using Steam's recording feature since beta and it works quite well. One disadvantage (or advantage depending on how you look at it) is that it doesn't save raw footage, but only already compressed video which makes editing more difficult. I'm hoping they introduce the option to choose how it's saved in the future.

In the Discord API, "servers" are called "guilds" which I assume it was the original name for them when they started developing the platform. Don't know why they decided to change it.

In the dark ages of the internet, you had to host a server in things like Ventrilo[1], which was the thing Discord tried and succeeded at disrupting. Since now you can create a "server" for talking with friends (and friends of friends) without being technical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrilo

Suspect, pure speculation, when they pivoted from being focused on gamers, switching from guild to server helped.

Or, even more broad, someone just thought it might and implemented it, irrespective of whether it actually changed anything (discernible from background growth) or not

There are sooo many AI chat options to choose from[1] that I don't need my browser to provide one too. I just want my browser to be a good browser.

[1] I've been enjoying my self-hosted instance of LibreChat a lot, but I also started using Kagi's assistant lately. Besides those two I'm also using 'aichat' cli tool for quick queries, particularly for helping with cli commands since the context is already there.

Exactly!

I wouldn't mind a good novel application of machine learning that does something that can benefit me.

But a dedicated chatbot button to open a website in a sidebar, or, worse, spending resources on proxying requests to OpenAI/Anthropic/whoever, or even worse, running yet-another-GPU-cluster... all that doesn't make any sense to me (firefox "AI" integration is the first option). It's not something I actively want, and not even something that feels useful - it's rather a net negative as it distracts developer resources from doing something meaningful.

If Mozilla wants to tick some "AI" upper management bingo checkbox, at least please try doing something actually useful with it.

Oh, this is amazing! I've been having so much fun with it.

One small issue I've encountered is that sometimes images remain completely static. Seems to happen when the audio is short - 3 to 5 seconds long.

Can you share an example of this happening? I am curious. We can get static videos if our model doesn't recognize it as a face (e.g. an Apple with a face, or sketches). Here is an example: https://toinfinityai.github.io/v2-launch-page/static/videos/...

I would be curious if you are getting this with more normal images.

I got it with a more normal image which was two frames from a TV show[1]; with "crop face" on, your model finds the face and animates it[2] and with crop face off the picture was static... just tried to reproduce to show you and now instead it's animated both faces.

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ae/65/d5/ae65d51130d5196187624d52d...

[2] https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2...

[3] https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2...

But that image was one which both could find a face and gave a static image once.