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I remember trying RIF way back in the day. I think before the official app was even rolled out. I can’t even tell you why or how I quit RIF as it’s been so long ago.
I personally didn’t have much of a problem with the official app, even though it could be wonky at times. I was more of a lurker and not a mod nor any kind of power user or anything. I left Reddit more on the principle of not wanting to support a greedy company anymore.
There is a whole lot of desktop and laptop users who couldn’t care less about APIs, but some of them have begun to notice that Reddit just isn’t the same anymore.
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/.
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