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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • This is the first graduation that has hit me hard. I’ve been a long time fan of Fauna, but last year I was going through an extremely stressful time. Fauna and Ironmouse were a source of a lot of comfort for me during that time.

    This is actually devastating for me. I hope she makes another debut in some capacity, but her model was one of my favorites in Hololive.

    I would have expected this from Gura, but Fauna just came out of nowhere.

    Fuck, this hurts.




  • The lack enclosure is a DIY enclosure that Prusa wrote an instructable on how to make. You use two IKEA Lack tables to create the frame and then print some parts to hold it all together with some acrylic panels to help keep the heat in. I think my total cost of materials was like $180-$230 for the whole setup. The price includes the filament used to print the printed parts. (I’d upload a picture, but I keep getting errors when I try to share my setup here).

    For me the $850 was worth it. Especially because we use Prusa printers for our print farm at work, we even just got the Prusa XL.

    They’re definitely a lot more expensive, but the fact that everything is open source is highly valuable to me. They’re also like the Toyota of the 3D printer world (or old Toyota, the reliable kind), they’re just absolute workhorses that tend to not give you too many issues. For me, I wanted to spend my time printing, not tinkering with the printer trying to get it to work.

    The kit was worth it for me, but be prepared to set aside an entire day building it when it shows up, maybe even longer if you’re not technically savvy.


  • I have a MK4. I elected to get the kit for $850 and build it myself, I’m an electronics technician so it was pretty easy to justify getting it as I knew I could build it.

    I built the Lack enclosure for mine and have had great success with it. I’ve also added a different buffer for my MMU3 along with a Nevermore filter as the latest additions for my enclosure.

    It definitely takes up more space than the normal enclosure, but I’m very happy with it. I’d recommend the lack enclosure just because cost savings is so worth it.


  • Yeah my mom convinced me to trade-in my 8 and just get the Pro model.

    I have/had a 6, but the battery became extra spicy and I haven’t gotten around to getting a replacement.

    My Pixel 2 is still happily kicking though, no swelling and still turns on. Though the battery doesn’t last long at all.

    They quoted like $450-$490 for my Pixel 8, but I imagine it’s going to be even less as the screen is still flashing green. Even though they’re doing warranty replacements on the P8 because of that, I’m betting they’re going to use it as an excuse to slash the value off the trade-in.



  • Agreed. I desperately wanted a Pixel phone with 1TB, when I saw that not only is the Pro available in a normal size model this year, BUT with a 1TB option I got excited…until I saw that it adds $500 to the base price of the phone, bringing it to a whopping $1499.

    I’m gonna wait and see what the pricing looks like on Black Friday. I was originally wanting to keep my Pixel 8 until support ran out, but I’m already over half full on my 256gb, and my screen is having the green screen issues. I know I can get it warrantied, but the 1tb normal sized Pro is just a tempting option.