I’ve been consumed with 3D printing related things for the last few weeks 🤓

Been spending a lot of time messing with Sharp3D again. It’s had a few major updates over the last 6 months - it finally supports variables! Makes life so much easier.

I got a Bambu H2D Combo 😅

The experience has been amazing so far

I underestimated how large and heavy it would be. it’s a struggle for one person to shift it (I needed an extra pair of hands!). The packaging thankfully makes setup easy though (the box just lifts off after releasing a few clips).

Setup was quick and painless and the first few test prints have been faultless 🙌

Looking forward to trying out all the things this machine enables!

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Apple updates Stocks App icon 📉

I bought an ATI 5850 (the second fastest single-GPU graphics card of the time) for £252 in 2009. The fastest card (ATI 5870) was just shy of £300.

That sounds so crazy in a world where people are willingly paying >£2600 for a 5090, and up to £1600 for a 5080 😅

Used RTX 4090's are selling for more than the original launch price!

I know there's a whole bunch of reasons why the pricing has gone that way, but oof 😬

It's really hard to stop designing things

I always struggle with finding the balance between good enough and perfect

I'm working on a new service at work and I keep finding new ways to approach it or improve it (e.g. make some component of it simpler, some way to shave off a bit of cost etc.)

Sometimes this is beneficial (e.g. the constant reassessing means I catch an issue early), sometimes it just ends up wasted effort

Hard to know when to stop 😅

Thinking of setting up some PCs to run Foldiing@home on cheap leccy overnight

I’m on an EV tariff for the car… might as well get the most out of it

My Ryzen/RTX box uses ~450W running FAH and produces ~30M PPD

If I run it for an average ~4 hours a night it could produce ~350M points/150 WUs per month for ~£4.29 a month 🧐

Need to figure out how to script it (tell the client to finish up and wait for the last job to complete before shutting down etc.)

Yep.

@sam Must be so rewarding!

I can't wait to do projects like this with my little nephew. He seems to have an innate fascination with how things work - he loves to take apart and reassemble things.

I printed him a marble run kit a little while back, watching him figure it out made had me all 🥹

Picked up an 11900K to play around with 🚀

It’s funny how the stock load power draw (~200W with all cores boosting to 4.8GHz) doesn't seem so bad now

Rocket Lake was rightly panned for being a power chugger, but it's nothing compared to the madness that followed with Alder/Raptor/Arrow Lake 😅

It's easy to cool, too. I'm cooling it with an EK CR320 AIO and it's total overkill - max core temp running Cinebench 2024 MT is just 64c.

Not bad considering it's a cursed backport to 14nm++++++ thing

Upcoming Windows 11 builds won't have the ability to to install without internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/

Maybe that would be the final straw for the MAGA cult? 🤪

“Go ahead and fuck up healthcare and education, insult and threaten our allies, make the whole country a consequence-free playground for billionaires… but don’t touch my iPhone 😢”

It’d be pretty funny if the US tariff and domestic manufacturing tizzy results in Apple relegating US market iPhone’s to slower silicon manufactured on older nodes Arizona.

Imagine if everything goes to shit - TSMC Arizona only manages to build out significant 4nm capacity, 3/2nm get delayed for whatever reason, Trump imposes some crazy silicon import terms on Apple etc.

Imagine the US getting lumped with some 4nm design while the rest of the world gets the latest and greatest 😅

@cmaier nice! I’m torn between the regular and laser combos, gonna sit on it for a while 🙂

It’s a bit of a bugbear for me, I genuinely think open solutions are more important than ever, arghh!

The likes of Prusa have so much unmet potential! Stop shipping half finished products (the XL was barely functional for months after launch), acknowledge that actually people DO want/appreciate cloud services (remote monitoring etc.), and focus on “just works” (copy the zillion things Bambu does here!)

Also, open source 3D printing community, instead of crying about this machine, how about focusing on “just works”?

Maybe it’s time for an open source community to actually focus on appealing to mere mortals for once? Become the exception to the rule!

For every one person that whines about closed firmware or whatever, there are like a hundred who don’t give a shit and just want a tool that works. For those people, the hand wringing over closed this and that is a total nothing.

Bambu Lab H2D looks very nice. It’s a big step up from the good ol’ P1S and X1C

It is tempting

Hello, is this thing on? Good!

With Linux 6.14 nearing release, here's a "quick" update on all the things that have happened!

https://asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14/

DGX Spark is pretty exciting

Wonder what the GPU configuration will be 🤔

All Nvidia has said is “1000 AI TOPS” (FP4 TOPS according to the footnote)

RTX 5070 offers 988 FP4 TOPS, so… is it a similar core configuration to that? The power budget is much lower with GB10 though, as is memory bandwidth. Not clear how die sizes line up either.

Anyway, can’t wait to see what a Cortex X925/Blackwell big boi SoC can do 🤩

Labour has been far, far worse than I expected so far

They’re disgusting

“Least worst” isn’t even a thing any more