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I’ve been blogging since 1997 and prefer to write things on my own site, but yeah, the sort of “rule” on Reddit was to not link to your own blog. I disabled Google Analytics this year, and it should also be free of any ads, so I feel okay about linking to my own (long) posts about stuff, complete with plenty of photos and the occasional video, but I’m still not sure if that is frowned upon as “self promotion” even on the Fediverse…

I’ve been playing this on my Anbernic RG35XX recently and I’m terrible at it but it’s still a lot of fun.

Very cool! Adafruit posted a foot pedal project that had a potentiometer but I definitely like to see other options.

Looked them up and “Physna is a geometric search engine designed to increase efficiency with CAD design and manufacturing” so yeah, I don’t think they come from the 3D printing community and personally I think I’ll choose to not support them.

Printables is also free of ads… Does Thingiverse still have ads?

I make money, but I produce entire products that use a 3D printed enclosure along with electronic components and code that I write. Just trying to sell something you printed seems like a terrible business plan.

Who owns Thangs?

I use hashtags on my posts to help other discover them, but also to group my posts by subject. I probably follow 30 different hashtags on Mastodon to help me find interesting posts.

Great post! We need more people to share their experiences. In the end, I’d rather support a decentralized open platform run by the community that a centralized commercial platform run by greedy capitalists.

Ugh, not a fan of articles like this. Old hardware can continue to have plenty of uses, depending on what those uses are. (I was using a 2010 Mac Pro to run my laser cutter up until last year, and still have an even older iMac as a music player.)

We’ve got six printers at work and when the sheets wear out I use a fine steel wool and scrub them with acetone. It resurfaces them and gets a bit more use out of them before they need replacement.

I’ve been doing Arduino things for the past dozen years or so, and I was a huge supporter of the Arduino organization, and I still use the Arduino IDE, but I’ve mostly moved away from their boards in the past five years. I’ve used a lot of Teensy boards over the years (hundreds, actually) and the occasional UNO, Nano, and Micro, but the Raspberry Pi Pico has been my go-to board in the past few years, and I work in education where the micro:bit seems to really be taking off. It’s a shame, because I’d love to see Arduino continue, but not as a closed-source company.

Are the any good at all? I’ll probably just stick to my Sennheiser.

I recently got a (refurb) SE (2nd gen) and I’m really enjoying it. I’m sure I’ll replace it in a few years like every other product that doesn’t really have an easy way to replace the battery or otherwise becomes outdated when the company stops releasing updates to support it.

Am I the only one who likes it?

I think it’s the pain of receiving high medical bills which keeps me (and most other US citizens) from doing fun/silly/stupid/risky things…

I got an Anbernic RG35XX just so I could play Tetris with a Game Boy like experience.

Great! I just signed up for monthly donations. Glad to support the efforts and thank you for the work you are doing.

I’ve printed things that function as a block of wood with holes a number of times because believe it or not, it’s sometimes easier. If I don’t have the right scrap wood on hand, and the proper saw to cut it, sometimes printing is easier and safer. (For something like this where others may also need a replacement for an existing item, there’s the extra bonus of sharing the model for others to benefit from.)

“The Internet is a privacy nightmare” (Fixed it.)