Sure you can use btrfs restore to a network share like Samba

But you will probably get errors.

The next try, will be a fake loop device, after the giant img file is made. It’ll be formatted to btrfs, which will be much better for using btrfs restore.

I think my OWC enclosure finally shit itself, and corrupted data or something. No worries, I’ll be getting another Insignia dual bay drive dock to replace it. At least those seem to work fine. Most of the stuff on Amazon is junk, so won’t test my luck there again.

dd if=/dev/zero of=backup.img bs=1G count=3000, it’ll be a while till the img file is done.

Too lazy to reboot Orange Pi 5, so the drive will mount, and I can see how much space is being used. Hopefully not more then 3 TB. If so, I’ll need another drive I guess. And the price of those slow ass 8 TB drives went up. Buying refurbished drives may or may not work. Perhaps the bigger the refurbished drive, the less likely it’ll be fine.

22 GB written so far.

Instructions for creating virtual block devices.

I wonder how slow it’ll be to mount it though. I know Time Machine on the Mac can make an image file to backup to. And that’s over Samba.

You could use qemu-nbd or whatever instead of losetup. I’ll do that, if there’s no losetup installed, should that be installed by default? No idea. Too lazy to install it, and QEMU crap is probably already installed.

41 GB, well maybe in the morning it’ll be done. The drive is shared from my Mac mini, and it’s a rugged portable drive. It has the most free space of all my drives.

I will never buy OWC anything again. Waste of money. Should have known better, I had a OWC drive that died, but putting a new drive in it, didn’t solve everything. So the drive may have been dead in it, but the enclosure is junk too. Just look at bad reviews on Amazon, and you’ll buy nothing. Better then taking a risk, I don’t want my drive to die, or get corrupted.

I should have bought another 8 TB drive, when they were still cheaper. Just wait long enough, and you won’t be able to buy it at all. Ahh all the UrBackups might be lost.

But if World War 3 is happening, data won’t be that important anyways. You’ll have bigger issues.

Not dreaming doesn't work

I don’t usually like my dreams, so keep telling myself not to dream. Well, you’ll just wake up, cause you’ll be completely aware of everything. It might be like being paralyzed and not being able to move or do anything.

Not sure that’s what being a vegetable would be like, as your brain might not even work. Or not good enough to think.

What about in a coma? Are you dreaming, or not aware of anything?

On another note, I need to move.

Thanks backup

Deleted the wrong folder, luckily I have many backups.

Only around twenty minutes to go to finish print.

This site wasn’t made for anybody, and reading old posts, that I don’t even remember, makes you a troll. I don’t interact with trolls.

A thought dumpster isn’t reality. Luckily, I know what reality is still. I also have more commonsense then some people. There was nothing positive posted about somebody, not the person who laughed at me, that is somebody I never knew, and will never know. Apparently you really have to tell some people to fuck off, or they won’t get it.

But do trolls have commonsense? Maybe not.

Spending a shit ton of money on a cheaper printer is better

Cheaper then replacing most of the parts on a more expensive printer. If you spend $600 on the printer, and break it, then you’ll be out more then if you bought a cheaper printer.

So if you don’t know what you are doing, get a cheaper printer.

I could probably handle a better printer now, doesn’t mean I’ll ever get one, as mine is pimped out.

Thanks to Amazon, I get to wait even longer to use printer. I can’t fix it with a shower curtain. I ordered the entire sensor on eBay for $10 less then Amazon. I’ll be mostly avoiding Amazon now, I don’t appreciate a shower curtain instead of 3D printer parts. I’ll make sure to remove my debit card too, I’ll keep the PayPal one on there, in case I need something only Amazon has.

Haha Amazon doesn’t know difference between shower curtain and 3D printer parts. I can see why people buy from smaller places now. They like getting what they ordered. Amazon doesn’t care, in fact, you have to send shower curtain back, so spend your own money and time to do so, gas costs money. The UPS Store isn’t close enough to walk, not to mention it’s cold.

Good job Amazon

I didn’t pay $13 for a fucking a shower curtain. I bought parts for a 3D printer, not a fucking shower curtain. Last time I use my debit card to buy anything online, and last time I buy from Amazon.

I thought the printer was going to get fixed, nope, now I have to return a fucking a shower curtain, which they will say doesn’t match what I ordered. So good luck. I don’t give money to receive something I didn’t order. A $2 shower curtain for $13 huh? Fucking idiots.

At least with PayPal, you can dispute it easier.

Fucking printer

My auto leveling sensor stopped working, unplugged it to plug back in on the sensor side, and the cable either broke while doing that, or was already broke. No worries, I found replacement cable on Amazon.

If that doesn’t fix it, then I need to replace the entire sensor, which I probably won’t do till the 1st. Maybe that’s why my printing hasn’t been working great.

I got it to over 40C in the enclosure, but then when I tried to print, it got an error because of the auto leveling sensor. And it was working fine yesterday.

$40 for a new sensor, not sure it’s worth it. Rather get the Th3D one, but I’d have to pay shipping and wait a week.

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A reason not to use rolling release distros

obs: symbol lookup error: obs: undefined symbol: _Zls6QDebugRK11QDockWidget, version Qt_6

Looks like some openSUSE update broke OBS. No more Zoom on my desktop, using my phone as a webcam. Should switch to the slow roll version, cause waiting for the next update to fix it is annoying.

Or better, put OBS in distrobox, in a non rolling release distro.

Just used my phone, didn’t have time to use my Mac mini. Didn’t have anything to say either.

No idea what update or what day it broke, didn’t open OBS till today. Used it my last appointment too, can’t remember when it was. Maybe last week.

I’m lazy, so won’t do anything, until an update fixes it.

And it looks like it works in distrobox, why wouldn’t it? And all plugins and settings are still there. No plugins with Flatpak, or at least not easily. Updates might remove your plugins. So pointless. Even the Virtual Camera works with Firefox in Flatpak, that isn’t running in distrobox. Wasn’t sure that would work, apparently it does.

Perhaps I should install everything in distrobox, and keep openSUSE at a minimum. Too much work.

Scratches or Z scar or indents might be solved by using slower speed

Apparently 40 mm/s is too fast, so try 30 mm/s, or 20 mm/s. How long am I supposed to make printing take? I might enjoy my crappy looking prints in that case.

Not sure indents is the same as Z scars, but probably is, I just have it worse then this.

And isn’t there a Cura setting to prevent that without changing the speed? Well, it probably will slow it down anyways.

Guess the Z offset is right now. I got a new issue, printing too fast. Maybe the last game controller stand I print, I will print at 30 mm/s. Just to see if it solves the problem.

Not every layer gets it though.

Fast printing = ugly duckly prints, or it does if using TH3D ASA filament. I think everything is on sale, should order some more, cheaper then the possibly better blue filament I ran out of. They only have black. But under $20 for ASA is a good price. But you have to spend $60 or more for free shipping. Don’t want anything else.

Over $11 for shipping, maybe not. Better to buy $60 worth of stuff. What’s the smell? Burning dust? The heater might make the same smell, when it first turns on after not turning on for the summer.

Nothing is on fire, I can hardly smell though. Probably my sheets, that I refuse to wash.

Good idea, get a filament sensor thing.

But where do you plug it into the board? And what do I uncomment in the config for the firmware? A free endstop port you plug it into. Still not $60.

For my board, J1 header, which one is that?

Maybe their bootloader flashing thing, so if I brick it, I can fix it. Maybe an LCD screen, that is better, especially for third party firmware. LCD not really needed anyways. Mine works fine, and mostly use OctoPrint.

That extruder might be nice. But not really worth over $50. And probably need a new motor with a longer shaft too. Hmm, might do TPU, and without direct drive maybe. I have flexible PLA, that I still haven’t used, need direct drive, or take a risk and see if it’ll work with the way it is. I think I just have to loosen the spring on what I have. And motor I have might work anyways, that makes it cheaper. Why is my motor frequently returned? Works for me.

Eh just buy the motor for $13 anyways, the one I have will probably die eventually. And if it isn’t long enough, then I’ll need it anyways.

Says the gears will last years, and probably easier to replace gears then what I have. The reason I had to buy another one, couldn’t reinstall the gear or something.

Not sure I want direct drive with an adapter. The printed adapter may work, but will put more pressure on the printer in that spot. Will it make the hot end sag? And it’s a printed part in ASA, is that really strong enough? Don’t want to buy metal part to do it.

Got two coupons for their firmware, already have it, so probably won’t use.

See this for more info. At least for Z seam. Too lazy to calibrate E steps again. I did once, but forgot the number. Oh wait, might be in notes on my phone. But is it different for different filament? Doesn’t appear to be on there. I’ll calibrate it when the new extruder comes.

But I think lowering the print speed is the best option, it’s the easiest.

Z offset, too far is less work to clean up/fix

If the Z offset is too close, you can damage the bed plate, and clog it up really bad.

If it gets clogged enough, you may just have to replace the nozzle. Luckily it’s a cheap brass nozzle, so doesn’t matter that much.

I don’t think increasing the offset anymore is a very good idea, even though one side is slightly messed up. It’s probably going to be too close on the other side if I increase it anymore.

Warped beds are nice.

It could just be under extrusion, but I was having over extrusion too. But if it’s under extrusion, it might be too close anyways. Luckily just the brim is messed up so far, ASA can be a pain. Over extrusion might be because there’s a bunch of stuck filament in nozzle. Just haven’t changed then nozzle yet, I’m lazy and cheap after all.

The soap dish doesn’t need to be perfect anyways. But the inner circle isn’t a complete circle. I know -1.48 or whatever, was too close. It’s -1.40 now. I should change the nozzle before changing the Z offset again. And maybe check it with a feeler gauge. But I think the firmware is whacky, cause it’s too hard to tell.

The PLA soap dish finally broke, the top broke off. PLA isn’t water proof. I can still use it though, until the new one is done. The bigger part is done, and ugly. The funny thing is, the bigger part printed with an even lower Z offset. But I didn’t use a brim. Just support and a skirt, I think the skirt wasn’t perfect though. And it warped.

The brim might have warped on this print, will probably increase the z offset by 0.02 or 0.04. Baby stepping isn’t enabled, so can’t do it that way. Apparently I like doing it in the pain in the ass way.

And -1.48 isn’t too close, almost close enough. It was under extrusion, cause the nozzle was clogged, I changed it. So maybe -1.52 or -1.54. This print might work much better though, even not at the perfect Z offset. The lines aren’t perfect on one side.

Good thing it has UBL. Well, I know -1.70 is too close, that’s why it got clogged.

If the Z offset isn’t as good as you can get it, you’ll get warping. I prefer to do big increases, like 0.04 instead of 0.02. Or decreases since it’s negative. I don’t like waiting for printer to heat up. The reason baby stepping would be nice.

I must have a good printer if I can print ASA with a bad Z offset, even though it warps. Probably the expensive bed plate. And UBL. But if it’s too bad, it won’t stick to the bed good enough.

And -1.54 is too close, lowered to -1.50, got to wait for it to cool down before I can remove the bad print. Didn’t let it complete, canceled it. I’ll try lower temperatures too, might be too high. At least it will finish better with the Z offset not close enough, too ugly if it’s too close. Then again, -1.48 might be fine with lower temperatures. But -1.50 is only 0.02 more.

Think there was a slight gap in the brim, on one side.

The filament I already dried again, that wasn’t the problem. The problem is mostly the bad offset. Hopefully I don’t need a new nozzle already.

Looks like it’s mostly fine now, just a possibly dirty nozzle, from being too close. So it was -0.20 too much, or too less. It started at -1.70.

Some low income buildings aren't a great place for those with anxiety

They can’t accommodate your anxiety, without moving you to a safe building.

Also, not good for kids either. Surprised there’s kids in the building.

And a safe apartment building is probably non existent, anyways. Too many people. Maybe if it costs too much for most people, and they don’t take housing vouchers. And have strict policies.

A cave would be safer, at least safer from people.

And since low income = lots of uneducated people, they don’t know the relation between anger and anxiety. Maybe not everybody is uneducated, but the majority is. There’s a relation, but I’m not writing anything more, as they won’t understand it anyways. A therapist couldn’t explain it to them.

If you like gossip, this is the building for you. That’s apparently all they do. I heard the guy say something under his breath, no idea who either of the people were though.

And I heard the person who doesn’t hold their dog’s leash too, something about me not being able to hear them, I heard that. I assume they said something rude/unpleasant before that. Not that I care. Butt hurt because they read or somebody told them, that I was pissed about their little dog charging at me. The ironic thing, is I’m pretty sure that was an old post. So digging for crap on my site, that would be bad intentions, or malicious intentions.

If they were angry cause I left my apartment, well tough luck, I’ll leave it whenever I damn please.

It does prove my point about online dating as well, the kind of people that use it. At least some of the people.

I don’t think uneducated know the difference between a thought and reality. That’s how you get Trump supporters, they don’t know what reality is either.

And delusional people are too delusional to know what’s real and isn’t.

Delusional people don’t even know what they did, if they bothered somebody. Too delusional to know anything.

And if you take the effort to search for somebody’s last name, or name, and then find something, that is called doxing. It’s doxing, once they share the information. Even if just one person they share it with. I don’t recommend using your first or last name on a dating site.

Actually, I don’t recommend using a dating site.

But doxing yourself isn’t that bad, then you can see how many people you don’t want to interact with exist.

Clearly nobody in this building is a therapist, that’s for sure.

Get a therapist, or get a life, or maybe both.

Oh and thanks paranoia, for keeping me away from the world.

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Anti vaccine is anti life

Anti your own life and everybody around you. Not following doctors recommendations is foolish.

Fake News aka Fox News, isn’t a doctor, maybe they have fake doctors, or lying doctors on it, but it ain’t reality. I’ll take the vaccine, and possibly not get as sick and die.

Sucks for the people who can’t get the vaccine, thanks to all the people who just simply don’t care.

But if they don’t follow vaccine recommendations, they shouldn’t follow any recommendations. Hypocrites is what life is. I never said I wasn’t one btw. I also never said I was nice, good or anything positive.

You can’t have a public journal with everything public, because of uneducated people.

Some ASNs blocked

Data center ASN IPs, that are consuming a bunch of bandwidth, have all been blocked.

Google wasn’t blocked, as they aren’t using as much bandwidth as say Amazon and OVH.

Not sure the VPS will be too happy if I block all the data center ASNs.

Waste of resources, either bots indexing from those IPs, or who knows what. Either way, it’s blocked now. I could care less about indexing.