The only 3rd party reddit app I know that is still free is RedReader. Might be others too.

Sucks they refuse to let up on the API ban but it’s cool, we needed to get off reddit anyway.

My doom scrolling is way down over the past year.

Because after taking a quick look at that first or second page, I don’t even go back. I just head to another search engine 😅

By rewarding mysterious “quality content” indicators that SEOs know how to game with shit people absolutely do not perceive as quality.

My solution is a bit old school: A raspberry pi connected to my network and running miniDLNA. It has an externally powered USB hard drive. My TV runs Android and I have VLC installed. Any DLNA client works including Xbox and mobile phone apps too.

I don’t think mini DLNA is even updated anymore so eventually my solution might stop working but it’s been running solid for 10 years

A miniaturized version of the whole country on the wall using rocks.

Good bye little one!

-Im still here! I just hurt my wing

Rest in peace, you were the best

-i’m not dead, just give me a lift!

We’ll always remember you for your accomplishments

-Yay! Let’s go home and tell everyone. My battery is getting low. Hello? Hello?

Yes. I want to put it into cloud storage that I control and can move around as required, so that I can’t run out of space. And so that I don’t need to manage a local physical drive.

The only thing holding me back with Immich has been the non-obvious back end storage options.

I’d like to keep my data in an S3 bucket, but from what I can tell it’s still unsupported because of some limitations with fuse.

Coming back to say that I got it to print based on the suggestions in the thread.

I settled on a 3mm retraction length in PrusaSlicer which left a minimal amount of stringing. Printed flawlessly after that change.

Thanks for these useful suggestions. I’m learning all about how retractions work now and surprised I never ran into issues like this before.

We are about 4.5 hours into another attempt (previous all failed around 1hr), now with the updated retraction length. It’s still going strong. Seems like this is the solution!

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions! I’ve cleaned the whole thing up and I changed the PrusaSlicer retraction length from 6mm to 2mm. Let’s see if this changes the result.

This printer is mostly stock Ender 5 Plus. I upgraded to an all metal extruder (original one broke) and capricorn bowden tube a while back. Usually the defaults have been OK and I print often.

My extruder gear leaves quite a track mark on the side of this filament and I wonder if this is contributing. I’m in a very hot and humid region and this spool is about a year old. I did have it in my filament dryer for about half a day right before this print, so it was more malleable than usual.

Oh, and this print is a print-in-place retractable cosplay katana, so there is a ton of intricate details which seems to result in a lot more retractions and tiny movements than usual.

Using the PrusaSlicer retraction defaults for my Ender 5 plus: 6mm retraction.

I’m going to try again with less. I’ve never had this type of jam before so I think it’s probably something unique to the print, but maybe this will let me finish it.

It’s like a Futurama joke that flies over most people’s heads

For sure. If you really need to host thrn get the right package of internet services for that activity. If you need a fast fix for a small issue, this method gets around most ISP attempts to block hosting.

We wouldn’t need VPNs in the first place (for the modern use cases) except that security and IT guys started blocking or limiting content based on user IP address.

That needs to stop entirely, it’s a defective feel good security measure that is easily defeated by an attacker willing to spend a few bucks for a new IP.

Fortunately VPN tech is very flexible, so there are ways to get yourself a dedicated IP that nobody else can use, solving the problem and defeating those IT guys.

Yes, that may be the answer. But blocks of IPV6 can still be limited by entire subnets if security/cloud host/IT guys keep turning to this method of reducing their exposure to bad actors.

It totally had its time and place, but it’s trivial to get “fresh IPs” from 4G VPN and proxy services that specialize at this (for a price), so as a security concept it’s only viable if your attacker’s budget is under $20.

🫤 that does suck. Probably so they can charge more for a hosted package?

For reestablishing the connection, use the wrapper ‘autossh’. It can be run from systemd so that it’ll auto start and restart as you command it.

I have a couple instances using this that are absolutely rock solid after years.

Been with Mullvad a long time and it has been an excellent service.

As they have grown, their IP pools are no longer as fresh and I get Google captcha’d on hardmode, or cloudflare blocked, or other account limitations when using the service that didn’t used to be there all the time now.

I wish the VPN community had a way to solve for this.

A solid workaround is an ssh reverse tunnel with gateway ports enabled. You can do it for pennies with a cheap VPS.

With this option you open an ssh tunnel outbound and then you can connect back through it from the other side for whatever local services you want to run.

You first need a VPS with a public IP. Here’s a guide that explains it: https://www.howtogeek.com/428413/what-is-reverse-ssh-tunneling-and-how-to-use-it/

Just remember to enable gateway ports in the VPS side sshd.conf and disable or adjust any firewall on the VPS so the internet can come in through the VPS ip address and tunnel back to your local system.