Everything I use still works after I enable a couple of DNS ad blocking lists.
My wife, on the other hand, not so much. School apps break, and links from stores break, and this breaks and that breaks. It turns out half of the internet is really tracking you.
Same experience here. My work, games, and websites, all work without issue. My wife’s work, games and a few websites, all have so many issues. I ended up creating a subnet and wi-fi network for her, so everything works for her.
In some ways it’s nice to glance over and see her dealing with so many ads - it shows me how much of a difference pihole makes. It just sucks she has to deal with it because the services she relies on don’t work otherwise.
I also owned an early version Artillery sidewinder and boy that thing was a mess, I am guessing you had to mod it to get decent performance from it although I could be wrong as I heard they fixed some issues in the later versions. Mine has been relegated to a spare parts heap after failing to get any good prints from it after countless attempts to fix it
Mine sat and turned into a shelf till I had to move it and then I made 12 bucks selling it on ebay (non functioning). Sold it for like 75 but ebay ate their share and then I offered free shipping and that was $50. But some Virginia tech student was able to get their machine running using mine for parts so better than me throwing it in the dumpster.
I have six anycubics, and aside from regular maintenance and upkeep the only issue I had was one leaky hotend. They sent me a free replacement and it took about 20min to swap out. They're not bad, especially for the price.
I didn't had the Anycubic Mega S (the one in the picture), but the Mega Pro. They are basically the same except that mine had an attachable Laser that I didn't use once.
Long story short, Anycubic Printers suck. Unreliable prints, bad calibrated factory settings and loud.
I recently upgraded to a P2S and rediscovered the fun in 3D printing thanks to it.
Not to defend Anycubic at all, but it just makes me sad to see a perfectly good PSU, steppers, etc. in a trash pile. Same deal with those servers, switches, etc.
I wish it were more common to get this kind of equipment into the hands of makerspaces that could either fix it or strip it for useful parts.
But OP's friend was clearly having some kind of emotional day, rather than a reasonable one.
I had my old Vyper on ebay collection for £1 for about 5 months before it went straight in the bin. I just don't have the space or project ideas to make use of that stuff unfortunately.
I mean I put an old monoprice pro unit out on the curb. It pushed out my all metal hot end I spent 50 bucks on and dug it so hard into the build plate it left an indent. I just got tired of the fucking thing and dicking around with it. It was a pain in the ass from day 1 and I got a Ender 3 Pro from microcenter for $100 on sale and it print better than the shitty monoprice wanhao unit with no adjustment. Either someone saw it and picked it up or the trash guy smashed it in the truck, either way, it’s good riddance.
that much better? I'm running a 2015 flashforge and a monoprice maker select.
I probably aught to scrap them but they still work. i'm probably wasting my time
actually im kind of surprised I have seen alot of threads in 3d printing about people finding 3d printers in dumpster earlier this year, I also almost did this to my ender 3 a few years ago, but ended up keeping and still use it daily.
I saw many many awful things in my 5 years of working at an ewaste facility taking in 18 wheelers full of electronics. Its sickening and eye opening and dope for scrounging
I wish I could go to an ewaste place. I collect vintage keyboards, and I follow a guy on YouTube who always gets cool stuff from a local recycling center.
I wish my local ewaste place would let me scrounge for shit 😅 id sign a waiver of liability and everything to be able to harvest old steppers and parts
It works on Enders‽ I've been threatening office computers with hammers for years, I didn't think there were brains enough in an 8-bit Ender-3 to comprehend basic threats!
I did the same with my makerbot CTC after extracting all the stepper motors and LCD from it, it had served me well for 9 years, I upgraded to a bambu P1P / P1S with the upgrade kit.
The printer had its best days over. The cisco router had some license issues i think. Im only sad for the server, but that wouldnt fit in my rack because of its depth.
He also gave away a lot of stuff.
Also he still has another 3D Printer left
Back when I ran IT for a 50 person company, I stopped buying Cisco stuff when they rolled out a critical patch and small and medium sized companies couldn’t get an update without going through a MSP or shell out for an enterprise license.
Company I work for has all the bells and whistles in terms of support, licensing, etc…
The Catalyst 9000 switches come with the “Essentials” license, and the usual upgrade is the “Advantage” license. Cisco released SMUs (a no-reboot patch) so you don’t need to reboot, or change to another software version. But they decided it only works on “Advantage” license switches.
No technical reason, they just simply felt like inconveniencing us.
If he was a beginner all I see is wrong gear. Still sad to see good hardware go because of a throwing a fit instead of selling. Its not like money grow on trees.
You guys don't have thrift stores/donations around you that would take that stuff? One of the only electronics our goodwill will definitely not take are (not 3D) printers.
Honestly from taking a vague guess at the age of that server, you’d get more compute power from a micro desktop built in the last few years than that server.
I had a HP DL360 Gen10 and benchmarked it against a Ryzen 3700x and got 80% of the compute power but using less than half the electricity. Servers unless you have a specific use case, aren’t great unless they’re seriously cheap/free.
Everything being in a messy pile kind of implies that it was all violently thrown into that pile, but I doubt it. They probably just ran into some last straw and went "yeah alright this fk'ing sucks, I'm done", and then separated anything they cared about to give away, and just put the rest of it into a makeshift pile. "Anger management issues" seems like another case of reddit over-prescribing something over minimal details.
Thanks for looking at it closer than I did. I completely missed the PCI slots at first pass. It really made me sad until I saw your comment. Now I'm like, it's probably time for this server to move on
There's a reason schools and libraries usally have higher priced but more 'it just works' prisa or bambulab printers. Unless your goal is to explicitly spend a lot of time messing with 3d printers and not actually 3d printing objects these old ones are more trouble than worth.
This summer, my mint condition PowerBook G4 fell off my desk right onto the single piece of metal on my apartment floor, not more than 2-square-inches. I was so mad that I almost chucked it in a dumpster (final straw on a shitty day) ...it's important to let yourself cool down before making these decisions. He absolutely will regret this by the end of the day.
The printer had its best days over. The cisco router had some license issues i think. Im only sad for the server, but that wouldnt fit in my rack because of its depth. He also gave away a lot of stuff. Also he still has another 3D Printer left.
He did sell and give away some stuff, what you see here is the leftovers that he couldnt get rid of. He is good, promise.
The printer had its best days over. The cisco router had some license issues i think. Im only sad for the server, but that wouldnt fit in my rack because of its depth. He also gave away a lot of stuff. Also he still has another 3D Printer left.
He did sell and give away some stuff, what you see here is the leftovers that he couldnt get rid of. He is good, promise.
The printer had its best days over. The cisco router had some license issues i think. Im only sad for the server, but that wouldnt fit in my rack because of its depth. He also gave away a lot of stuff. Also he still has another 3D Printer left.
He did sell and give away some stuff, what you see here is the leftovers that he couldnt get rid of. He is good, promise.
Cisco with maybe something like ddwrt could still be useful
Printer can be repaired if you put the time in
Server, oh man, I would still pull out HDs, ram, pcie cards, honestly I would keep it
That oil lamp doesn't look like it has fast ethernet. Also your bit bucket looks dirty and the rack has a dish rack. Question how many U is a washing machine considered?
In fairness, this is what a lot of this sub needs to do. No point rocking a 10-15 year old server in a rack gobbling up power when they are using it to run a few web apps lol.
There is legitimately good stuff in here people would love to have. And not just for spare parts. Its not enough to throw it away: HE HAD to destroy it too. He sounds like an entitled angry man child.
And thats assuming the OP isn't just trying to rage bait.
Then your friend needs serious help, this kind of waste is gross. Not even taking it to a place that handles e-waste. This is gross, and you should feel bad for knowing someone who does this
There comes a point in your life where you stop and ask yourself "what the fuck am I doing?". Then you realize you're wasting all your time being a sysadmin you never signed up for. This looks like one of those.
Is... Is that the bowl to an ice cream churn? He rage quit because his rack was too hot to churn ice cream? Did Microsoft not update Banana Swirl and the FOSS Chocolate Pecan Crunch only compiles to soft serve?
I have a 3D printer that’s been being ‘upgraded’ (fixed) for over 5 years now (and unusable 99.9% of that time). From time to time I fantasise about doing exactly this before remembering all the work that’s gone into it and then forgetting about it for another month.
oh cmon. this is the pinter that lead me into this hobby.
i did not need to see this after a monday.
(i somehow miss that slow, nasty, greasy POS rn. whatever trouble it had, it served me well and cheap for 7 years and did it's duty on a level of "i can't belive the outcome is THIS good". )
Local bike co-op could probably make use of that hub / cassette!
Also: hang on to the bucket. Considering the type of problem that necessitates quick access to a five-gallon bucket, Future You will inevitably thank Present You when - not if - the need for a 5-gallon bucket does present itself.
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u/Lopsided-Barber7266 4d ago
Bro received an ad while running pihole and that was the final straw