I bet we fall just outside the top 10. Seems pretty busy here to me, plus our LOTR memes make top upvoted pretty frequently. Honestly I’m wondering if the user distribution might be pretty dang good below the top 5 servers or so; 234k could be a serious underestimation of the actual active userbase if the next 20 servers all have 1k+
I do quite a bit of parametric modelling and I see how something like this could be made. Find the angles of the sun at specific times, project planes at a fixed distance and angle matching around your cylinder, sketch the time number you want on each plane with a fixed pitch and then project-cut back through the cylinder. Would be a pain in the ass though. And a pretty tough 3d print without soluble supports, given all those tiny tiny interior walls and cavities.
Actually printed one on a Zortrax printer a few years back - not perfect, but came out pretty good.
There are two different versions depending if you're in the northern or southern hemisphere. It's fun to show it to people and show how it changes if you rotate or adjust the pitch/angle of the sunddial.
Is this available on thingiverse or something? I’d very much like to try my hand at printing it on some Prusa’s I have access to. But don’t think I’m up for that big of a parametric modelling challenge.
I have PETG bog planters sitting out in the sun doing just fine. I print PETG all the time on my prusa printers. Just be sure to dry the filament extensively for best results, especially on something like this where you don't want a lot of stringing lol
It’s a maddening, yet somehow fun hobby. If you do it just remember it’s better to get a high quality small one vs a shit huge one.
I started with a CR10 knockoff that was a fucking nightmare. Good for learning how they work, but an overall shit user experience. I upgraded to an Artillery Sidewinder X1 and all my headaches went away (for the most part)
The Sidewinder has been reliable so far. If you really don’t want to mess with anything, a comment above recommended Prusa which I agree with they’re just pricier.
I haven’t shopped around in a few years so there may be more notable brands now. Get one with an auto bed leveler, that’s one thing I wish I had. I don’t have the heart to flash in new firmware and deal with the hardware install (bl touch)
It is surprising. A month ago they were Canadian servers, @smorks moved it to lunanode (Canadian). Perhaps CDN was moved or the whole machine was moved to a cheaper hosting platform since it got very big from then and is under new admin management as of a week ago-ish.
Edit: found the answer from @Shadow, TL:DR is CloudFlare
Correct! The server running this and all data is stored in Canada.
Here’s a blurb from a doc I’m working on:
Lemmy.ca is hosted in Canada at OVH in Beauharnois, QC with all data on a dedicated server. Backups are PGP encrypted and pushed to the OVH backup service, however these will be moved off-site in the near future.
We use Cloudflare as a security and performance layer in front of the server. They accept the traffic for Lemmy.ca through a worldwide network of ingestion points, scrub it of abusive traffic, cache the images, and pass it through an encrypted tunnel to our server. This means they can see in plain text the data sent between us including your credentials, posts, comments and images. You can read more about their policies at www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/.
Designed to not need a driver, yet there’s always at least one guy standing next to the first set of doors constantly using the manual override key. Seems a bit useless to me.
DLR trains have never been designed to be un-staffed. The members of staff on board are called PSAs (Passenger Service Agents) or when the system orginally opened: “Train Captains”.
During normal service they’re responsible for operating the doors, ensuring the train is safe to depart each station and assisting passengers. However they’re also required to drive the trains manually within the depots and also in the event of technical problems with the ATO (Automatic Train Operation) system. DLR trains can’t move under ATO without a PSA using the control panel by the doors.
Its also worth remembering that 8 tube lines are also fitted with ATO (Victoria, Jubilee, Central, Northern, District, Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan) and the drivers on these lines have a similar role during normal service (except they sit in the cab and they’re officially known as “Train Operators”).
If you’re interested in the role of the PSAs, heres an old training video showing how they’d rescue a failed train, things will have changed since 1988 but its still interesting to see.
Hahaha. In Germany many people put their not used anymore items just outside of their houses with signs: “to give away”. I’ve found furnitures, books, washing machine??? :D
I’ve heard stories about people putting out old appliances and furniture out on the curb with a “free” sign. It sits out there for 4 weeks. Then they put out a sign that says “$20. inquire within” And an hour later it was stolen.
That’s true. I did it too when I moved out from our apartment. We have things away serially, like every week days there would be new items, and I got “scolded” by another person living in the building. He/ she (suspect she’s a she) said that I am creating a trash problem in the apartment, and asked me to throw the things away after 24 hours of no one taking them. I discussed this with my wife and we decided not to throw the things away onl after 24 hours. We decided to throw them away after a week.
CR user here. One time we were taking some items out of my house in order to have them recycled for parts. I was taking out an old washing machine we had replaced some time ago, needing some major fixes to go back to usability… it had already been taken away by someone in the five minutes it took me to return back to the front of my house with another batch of things, and I couldn’t help to chuckle at the speed in which things got recycled in my neighborhood
We have actual FB groups in many cities in my country where people tell others where there are skips usually accompanied with image. Even my own apartment building allows people to leave things they don’t need for other people to take. My rocking chair, hallway table, and a lot of other stuff were found in one of these ways. I think I have bought maybe 5 furniture pieces in my life, the rest are someone’s cast-offs although some could be classed as antiques. My dining table was my great grandma’s. People don’t really leave stuff at the curb here though.
I live in a rural town and people put items like this in front of their homes all the time. I have fixed washers, dryers, etc and had things picked up. If it’s there on trash day it gets hauled off.
That happens a lot here too. Except the trash part, if it's not in the trash or recycle container, it will still be there later. Anything large you have to take yourself to the community waste dump.
Depending on your trash service you can leave larger items just sitting by the cans and they'll throw it in the truck.
That's pretty standard in my area if you're on a route with the guys riding on the truck and not the robotic arm. Also even on the routes with the arm they'll have "large trash pickup" a couple times per year and a seperate "brush truck" after large storms or hurricanes.
Anyway when you set items by the curb if someone wants them before trash pickup they'll take them. If it's metal at the very least a scrapper will take it.
My town has a “bulk pickup” day where they pick up large trash. Practically, that means that four days every year, there are literally thousands of free items available to take, so long as you beat the garbage collectors. One time I salvaged a whole-ass fridge from the trash. I’ve gotten so many valuable items from other people’s “garbage”.
The city the image is from likely has a similar concept. It’s not at all surprising that someone threw out a perfectly good printer. If not, then they probably tacked a “free” sign on it and left it out for people to take with a tacit understanding that someone might still benefit from it.
Now personally, I’m more of a “repair it until it explodes” kind of guy, but especially with printers and their intentional annoyingness I could understand others’ desire to just be done with the thing.
It’s commonly understood, at least where I live in the States, that if you are getting rid of something that still works you can leave it out on the curb for somebody else to take for free, sometimes with a note saying “Free” but usually without it.
When I was young and struggling I got most of my furniture that way. I still even have some of it
Just beware what you grab this way as it’s a great way to spread bug infestations. A friend of mine kept having to deal with bed bugs and cockroaches in her apartment because a guy living down the hall liked to refurbish free furniture he found on the street and kept bringing new infestations in after they cleared out the last one.
I grew up in a college town and the day after the students left, a huge number of people, myself included, would go to the part of town with all the frat houses and get all kinds of awesome stuff they left behind. We got a mini fridge and a bunch of wine coolers one year. My wife got a necklace she still wears 20 years later.
It is sadly extremely common for people to dump their broken or other unwanted goods on the side of the road or a street corner. This is especially true for large items. People do it because they are either too lazy to dispose of them properly (taking them to the dump or scheduling bulk trash pickup) or too cheap to pay for it (you have to pay to dispose of trash at the dump and some places charge for bulk trash pickup).
It's shitty, trashy behavior which taxpayers end up paying for because the city or county will have to send someone to dispose of the garbage.
I wish people in my city would stop doing it. We've got transfer stations (the dump) strategically located throughout the city so that it's never that hard to get to one, and people still dump their trash on the side of the road.
The town I live in now has 2 bulk pickup days for heavy items, up to 5 items, a box of stuff counts as one. They usually don’t care if you go a little over either. Then theres the pickers, who go absolutely nuts right before. Antiquers fighting over furniture like dogs over a bone, metal scrappers, etc…
Then theres my parent’s town, which will pick up whatever you leave as long as it isn’t hazardous. And if they won’t take it, you leave a sign that says “free” and someone else will!
That’s how I built my first pc back in the 90s. I cobbled one together from pcs people junked in my old neighborhood.
I’m guilty of this. If the .com doesn’t auto fill it’s just as fast to get there from google. Especially if I’m trying to get to a homepage/landing page instead of my bookmarked page
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