farting_weedman [none/use name]

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  • Okay, when you said you wanted to print parts I assumed you meant components with nylon or rubber attributes or something like that that needed to be more performant than pla.

    If it’s just “stuff” you want to print but don’t want it to turn out all “fucked up” then get an ender and a cardboard box and some insulation and put the insulation on the inside of the box surfaces and put the box over the ender.

    You won’t be able to see what’s happening, but after you calibrate the printer for use with an insulated enclosure (a cardboard box with old insulation stapled to it) it’ll be able to consistently crank out quality parts.

    When you start getting self conscious about your trailer park ass 3d printer, look up some of the nicer clear plastic enclosure builds and make one of those.


  • I use 3d printers to make parts on a weekly basis.

    The fdm (squirting) ones that are “set and go” start around $2000.

    Most of that is having a controlled environment for the squirt to transition in and having “profiles” appropriate for doing more than making bowsette statues.

    It’s hard to use the information in the diy community to make functional parts because they’re all making bowsette statues.

    The exception is guns. The gun people have extensive information that will allow anyone to produce a functional (?) firearm (?) using a $99 printer and the cheapest pla on Amazon.

    There is little to be learned from the gun people because the properties a functional (?) firearm (?) requires are super specific and don’t really correspond to much else.

    To get a functional “good” diy fdm setup, you need to start with a ~$1000 printer like a prusa knockoff and build an enclosure with climate control around it and set up some kind of sbc that will manage all of that and maybe send commands to the printer to adjust its bullshit to whatever +/- 1 degree variation occurs.

    Everything I just wrote is about fdm with non-basic pla stuff. If you just wanna make bowsette statues and guns then get whatever your files are sliced for (it’s an ender 3) and use that.

    Resin printers can be more set and forget, but you need to buy a good one to start with, have ventilation, have wash and curing stations and it has to be able to handle whatever goofball non-warhammer-figurine material you’re using.

    If you just want to print warhammer figurines then get an elegoo mars (?) and use it.













  • I’m saying this not to belittle or hurt you, but to make my point clear:

    You are not capable of what you’re saying. It is not possible to safely include people in your group while doing what you’re saying.

    If that sounds like too much of an assumption, if it sounds like I’m being hyperbolic, think of this completely not yanked from the local headlines amalgamation of cop activities in the surrounding handful of rural counties over the last year:

    You’re doing something, an opponent shows up to agitate. There is violence, the police show up. Did everyone leave their phones at home? Does everyone’s phone have biometrics turned off? Is everyone trained to resist interrogation? Has everyone changed login credentials from data breaches? If their phones are Apple, do they have lockdown and advanced data protection turned on? are they not carrying the recovery code on their person? If they’re using an android phone, is it running a trustworthy non manufacturer install? Are they capable of figuring out if an android version is trustworthy? If they’re all in some trustworthy encrypted chat, are they treating it like there’s someone screenshotting?

    A vpn wouldn’t help at all if any one of those things were wrong.

    Just recently, a peaceful talk about Palestinian resistance was interrupted by Zionists and violence broke out. Are all your people 100% prepared even when it’s a seemingly friendly environment?

    Don’t organize online. In person or bust. Don’t take computers with you unless they’re wiped clean except for the bare minimum that is needed to do the job they’re gonna be used for. A phone is a computer.


  • There’s two ways to do this:

    The online organizing way is to use a paid vpn to prevent local WiFi attacks and isp snooping, harden all devices and computers that will be used, only use encrypted communications and develop data security practices compatible with the possibility of being jammed up.

    You gotta have real knowledge and awareness to pull this off as an individual, or a huge point of trust/failure in one person who does it for you.

    If you do all that then the cops will just use metadata and inference to get warrants or just have someone infiltrate you or turn a trusted member.

    The other way, the way the bolsheviks used, is to only organize in person and develop a no-trust framework for interacting with your community.

    Then the cops will infiltrate or turn members but you have at least prepared for it and expect it.