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What are some things that you can’t do in a small town that you wish you could?

I live in a town of 4500 in the California coastal mountains. We have a library, a dispensary, a volunteer fire department, and an ambulance. We're open about diversity, and the mountain skinheads (NAZIs) are disliked and can't get a foothold. Internet connections are touchy and max out around 50mbps. The power does go out so often that most folks have backup generators. Mine will handle a two week outage.

The only thing missing is a decent night life. I may be a biker, but the local biker bar is very sketchy.

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YSK: You can use wefwef.app (Voyager) to import your subreddits

Over a decade on Reddit makes this a multi-day slog. It looks quite useful, but I've spent the last month moving into Lemmy. I'm using the same strategy here that I used there: search for the basics, subscribe, read, and if anything interesting mentions another community, subscribe on the fly. (Of course this strategy is probably why looking at Wefwef's migration is overwhelming.)

TL;DR: ADHD makes some things a challenge.

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Debloat Samsung for Pixel like experience?

I limit things to swapping the launcher to Lawnchair, disabling most of the Samsung apps and loading Google equivalents (including gBoard). With the exception of notifications and settings, it's a reasonable experience. Most recently I did this to a Galaxy tab S8. It's close enough to my Pixel that it's not irritating.

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Two men

I need someone (or some two) like this locally. Sometimes the strength is needed. I also need a handy person on call because getting old sucks.

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Are we talking resin, filament, or both here?

I find myself in-between at the moment. I have more experience with resin printers, but I started with a cheap resin printer and a cheap FDM printer. I had a stellar accident with my resin printer this week -- I forgot to bolt down the tray, which got hoisted up and hooked over the build plate, spilling lots of resin everywhere. This particular printer (which will not be named), has a big hole, without a raised edge for the arm that supports the build plate. Of course some of the resin ended up inside the printer. I cleaned what I could see, and even opened the printer to clean inside, but it was insufficient -- the build arm froze on the next print. Currently it's broken into pieces and sitting under a fluorescent light attempting to harden everything. When it's hard, I will disassemble further and attempt to chip all the resin out.

In the mean time, my only fall back is the cheap FDM printer, which has never worked well. I bought cheap printers to experiment with. While I've just effed up badly, I know a lot more about what I need in a printer. I've ordered a larger scale resin printer (Elegoo Jupiter) and have had my eye on Bamboo for FDM. Why both? Each has advantages and disadvantages. Resin handling is a PITA, and fiber has a lot of variety (and easier cleanup).

I haven't upgraded the fiber printer yet. I intend to, but I'd like to recover from this disaster first. ;-)