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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I really hate the word "scope" I don’t know why, I just do. Maybe because it’s misused in programming. Idk.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wow. The stock market does not like Apple’s product price increases today. $-14/share

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D. @handle.invalid · 03/04/2026

updated backblaze terms be like "you're not allowed to review us if it would be bad" wow www.backblaze.com/company/poli...

Use the Service to access, review, or analyze the Service or its performance for the benefit of any competitor, or to perform competitive analysis for publication, without prior written authorization from Backblaze.

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Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com · 14/04/2026

Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇

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Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese's Website

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’ve seen A LOT of scams lately selling all sorts of things "new" for half (or less) of retail price. Scammers (the ultimate greedy people) have figured out how to weaponize the greed of naive people (getting something for nothing.) Be weary of deals that are too good to be true.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

At the first rumors of the X2D with the 2nd nozzle being a bowden extruder, I had no interest in the machine. Now that all the details are out, most importantly the price being only $100 more for a number of improvements over the P2S, I'm interested.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

As much as people complain about AI, I’ll take it 7 days a week to hold my hand when dealing with seldom used Linux commands vs the bad old days of posting a help message to a online forum, waiting, only to be told "read the instructions" "asked and answered, search before you ask for help!"

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Proud of myself. Finished off 6 mostly empty filament spools of random colors, including two oversized spools that don’t fit in an AMS. Only 400 spools left now…

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is interesting. Creality might be getting into the home filament recycling game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gY-...

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Did Creality Solve the Filament Recycling Problem? The Creality M1 First Look

YouTube video by Steve Makes Everything

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Turned on the 3d printers for the first time in 6 months. Now updating firmware, drying filament and desiccants, cleaning build plates. Let’s see what decided to self-retire while in storage.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/02/2026

What’s also great is reading the dialogue with Claude where it stops and says “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important” and reveals it deleted every single photo. Software built for dunces

This idiot’s convo with Claude:

desktop for easy navigation
Great, I have a clear plan. Let me get to work!
Attempted to delete Office temp lock files from Desktop >
I need to request delete permission first.
Updated todo list with Office cleanup and folder organization tasks >
Now let me create the folder structure and start organizing. I'll create the main folders first, then move files in parallel.
Updated todo list with completed file management tasks >
Now let me move all the screenshots — this is the big one. I'll use a script to parse the dates and route them to the right year/month folder.
Organized and moved screenshot files from Desktop >
All 755 screenshots moved. Now let me handle photos, documents, and the garbled folders in parallel:
Updated todo list with completed file cleanup tasks >
Now let me consolidate the remaining folders into the organized structure:
Checked Desktop directory contents and verified file organization >
I need to stop and be honest with you about something important. I made a mistake while reorganizing the photos.
When I tried to merge the lowercase "photos" folder with a new "Photos" folder, I didn't account for your Mac's case-insensitive filesystem - where "photos" and
"Photos" are treated as the same folder. My script ran rm -rf on what it thought was a separate empty folder, but it actually deleted your existing "photos" directory and its contents.
Opus uses your limit faster. Try another model for longer conversations.
Reply....
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Opus

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Apple was stupid easy to cancel a subscription for something I haven’t been using and I replaced it with a subscription at Apple for something I needed, so I’ll call that customer service done right.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Trying to cancel a subscription with a VPN company. They have replaced customer service with an AI chatbot. This has doubled my resolve to cancel and never do business with them again.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

After 12 years, finally cut the cord on Adobe. Took a long time (far too long) to find a replacement for Lightroom, but Photomator finally hit 80ish% of the feature set (good enough for my needs) and I took the leap. If Adobe hadn’t got greedy and upped the monthly charge, I’d still be a customer.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Your puny walls can’t contain me!!!

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Used up some garbage silk filament to make a tray to hold spools of garbage silk filament. This is AFTER I dried it for hours and hours. This new slicer "fuzzy skin" is amazing!

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Finally made an improvement to the @bambulab.bsky.social A1 that it should have shipped with: a Y adapter for one of the filament input ports. Now I can use the AMS OR manual feed with zero changeover. Good for printing one color prints with all the nonstandard spools. *cough* Printed Solid *cough*

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Had to order some replacement parts for my @bambulabglobal.bsky.social original AMS. Added some build plates I’ve been wanting to get that sweet sweet free shipping. I think I’m in love with the SuperTack PLA/PETG Cool Plate.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I wonder if @prusa3d.com would consider selling the Core One as a two piece kit (frame and motors as one kit, electronics and hotend as another) so they could be ordered separately to avoid tariffs on orders over a maximum value. 🤔

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Got tired of having way too many bambu build plates always in the way so I finally broke down and printed a holder for them. Really impressed for how well this design turned out. (and how much filament it used. Each side piece is 250grams!)

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Trying to decide what to do with my first 3D printer, a Prusa Mk3S. Bought it in April 2020 during the pandemic to have in home hobby for the next year or two. Bought some newer printers and the speed increase is stark enough to never power this on.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Finally got all the little magnets in the AMS filament sensor back in place. Was surprised to see one of the PTFE tubes had worn out. Ordered a new set of tubes and decided to get a new spool plate and some rollers for the @bambulabglobal.bsky.social AMS to fix the broken one. (it’s an original!)

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Whoever designed the filament sensor on the @bambulabglobal.bsky.social AMS filament sensor deserves to lose their engineering license. One of the little magnets flipped and it’s near impossible to get this thing reassembled.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Well, I was planning on switching over to and standardizing most of my filament usage to Bambu, but no thanks to the economy killing tariffs, that won’t be happening. Already missing those $13/spool refill holiday prices.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

One more stupid pet trick Gemma 3 can do locally… image analysis:

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Playing with LM Studio (run AI text models locally) using the new Gemma 3 LLM model:

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Gabe @ Lucky 13 @lucky13toys.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Lukewarm take at best but Bambu does not need to be doing kickstarters at this point

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PapaPhil @phillipforbes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Some days are just like that 🤣😅😭

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A thread of the things I’ve learned about my MacMini M4 Pro: 1) Apple waited way too long for 16 gig RAM. I thought 8 gig was enough on a Mac. I was wrong, 16 gig should have been the minimum since the M1. I’m NOT bothered that the RAM is soldered on.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Looks like Creality turned on their photocopier and xeroxed the BambuLab A1 with AMS, with no cost savings whatsoever. Not impressed with this printer or it’s price. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ4c...

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Creality Hi Multi-Color 3D Printer – Worth the Hype?

YouTube video by The Real Sam Prentice

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

M4 Mac Mini Pro runs noticeably warmer than the M2 Mac Mini. Not sure if it’s less aluminum in the case for heat dissipation, or intentionally not running the fan (it’s louder than the M2 fan) but either way, the case isn’t cool to the touch on day-to-day normal usage.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am that Apple "saw" AI coming... local AI coming for privacy, yet shipped the M1/M2/M3 with 8/256 instead of 16/512 all so they could save $12/unit. They will work fine for cloud AI, but it's becoming obvious you should not trust cloud AI.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Apple Intelligence on M1/M2/M3 Macs with only 8GB of ram will be the early death of them due to page file swapping to get the AI models loaded. Excessive writes will kill the internal SSD! Hopefully Apple with switch to the DeepSeek 1.8B model to drastically reduce RAM usage.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Decided to upgrade my M2 Mac Mini to an M4 Mac Mini Pro today to continue working with local AI. Order online and picked up at the store an hour later. The migration assistant made moving to the new Mac effortless! What a difference 24GB vs 8GB RAM makes! Went from 15min/image to 30 sec/image.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Seeing the smoke really highlights what 3D printing is doing to our indoor air quality.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I’ve been thingking alot (overthinking perhaps) how to move forward with local AI testing/using. I want to do it on a Mac, but Apple’s gouging for RAM prices exceeds the value of their CPUs.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Experimented with running a local DeepSeek AI instance to rewrite paragraphs of fiction I’d previously written. It was brilliant at adding detail and vivid imagery to each rewritten sentence, but dropped the ball on the plot and context. So I’d say it’s half handy as a writing tool.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Odd... everything I say anytime facebook is open on my phone leaks into a ad sales database.

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Sir Michael @sirmichael.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Okay, I know you guys have a lot of questions at the moment about Deepseek and AI in general so thought I'd jump on here and do a quick Q&A. Hopefully this clarifies some things

DeepSeek A.I. - Your Questions Answered

Q: Why is everyone talking about DeepSeek AI?
A: I don't know. I didn't have time to do any research before I started this Q&A.

Q: What effect will DeepSeek have on other AI companies like OpenAI?
A: Very hard to say.

Q: Is DeepSeek more efficient than ChatGPT?
A: I think I might have heard of that but I don't know what it is. I'm now slightly worried I'm not as prepared for answering questions on this topic as I thought I was.

Q: Who makes DeepSeek?
A: No idea. It's not me, though.

Q: Does this bring us closer to AGI?
A: I don't know what this is so I'm going to ask my dad. Hang on.

Okay, just asked my dad and he doesn't know what that is either. Sorry.

Q: What are the next developments we can expect to see in AI?
A: Not sure but my bet is we can probably expect some things at some point.

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MakerTater @makertater.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Watching DeepSeek AI try to write a haiku is my new favorite thing:

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