directive0
@directive0@lemmy.world
Human.
- Comment on Prusa slicer 2.8 UI changes 1 week ago:
To my knowledge the only way to “turn off” the menu bar is to run a program in full screen mode on a mac.
- Comment on The FPS That Paved The Way For Wolfenstein 3D & Doom Is Getting A New Big Box Release | Time Extension 2 weeks ago:
Some of us never forget. And the path it paved for the greatest trilogy in gaming (for Mac users anyhow).
Somewhere in the heavens they are waiting…
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] 4 weeks ago:
Videos like that I’m always amazed the creator even bothers uploading. I’d be so fucking embarassed it would never see the light of day.
But I guess its sunk cost fallacy. Gotta get that content out there I spent a week working on. I guess I can appreciate that. Theres also something to be said about being honest about your fuckups. I was so embarassed for him I noped out of that video so I dont really know how it ended, but I dont recall there being much humility about it?
- Comment on The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC 5 weeks ago:
I dunno what everyone else is using pis for but for me it’s not media centers or servers. The pi has a full gpio header with i2c and spi. I can hook up LCD screens, sensors, servos, etc without much additional components. It’s like an Arduino except I get a real file system, network stack, multicore performance.
It’s more than just a single board computer it feels like an ultra microcontroller.
I feel like this whole “micro PCs are better than raspis” is coming from the group of people who never really used pis for what they were intended? I don’t know. Maybe I’m out to lunch here, I’m not trying to defend the pi because it is definitely a really bad choice for a lot of things but honestly despite all the bad blood they’ve accrued there still isn’t an sbc that can really match it’s utility and community support at least that I’ve seen.
- Submitted 2 months ago to risa@startrek.website | 2 comments
- Comment on Writers telegraphing their fetishes 2 months ago:
When they made it a major part of nemesis I was so annoyed.
- Comment on Antybooties 2 months ago:
Maybe its less like a number as we know it, and more like an ant poem or other mnemonic representation?
- Submitted 3 months ago to risa@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on Someone has registered www.bellriots.com it's counting down. 6 months ago:
That reminds me I need to buy some land in bozeman montana.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 6 months ago:
Yeah you kinda nailed it.
Lemmy taught me that I wasn’t just running away from Reddit, but from the kind of content sites like Reddit engender.
- Comment on Morn, quit spawn camping! 7 months ago:
Facing Worlds too. Solid map.
- Comment on Morn, quit spawn camping! 7 months ago:
I was that dude who brought his iMac g4 to an all PC LAN party
Big time loser, but I regret nothing!
- Comment on The name of the place is Deep Space 5 7 months ago:
Recently started rewatching babylon5 and man is it great but also wow can you totally tell each Babylon 5 EP is like half the budget of a DS9 one.
Cardboard sets, bad lighting. But the acting and writing totally make up for it. You get a scene with g’kar or londo and it’s easy to suspend your disbelief. Definitely a great show that still holds up.
- Comment on PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!) 7 months ago:
Im not going to try and convince people who have already made their mind up, but I ditched Fusion for Blender ages ago and haven’t looked back. Its completely usable for CAD and precision design for 3D printing or what have you. Its not built for it, but its capable if you learn how.
The lack of pure CAD focus is a drawback, but it is largely made up for in blenders absolutely amazing general purpose tool set. Its not just mesh manipulation, with geometry nodes you can create complex intricate shapes that are also precise to your requirements. There are countless workflows and plugins that allow you to make blender adapt your needs. You can remix existing STLs and bring in reference photos/models/etc. Simply put IMO there is no need to use any other program for almost any aspect of 3D design, and so it has become my go to.
I don’t recommend it for beginners, but it really is an incredibly powerful tool if you put the work in. Is it better that FreeCAD or Fusion? I am not qualified to say, but I’m pretty confident there are few features either package has that blender does not.
- Comment on Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing 7 months ago:
It was $79.00 USD before shipping/etc.
- Comment on Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing 7 months ago:
For coding I almost prefer it?
I think we take for granted how much predictive magic is happening behind the scenes on capacitive touch keyboards like on smartphones. I often find coding on a smartphone kind of challenging, but on this its pretty easy. Having modifier keys available is also helpful.
I’m not trying to say its great, its just… very fine? Very okay.
- Comment on Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing 7 months ago:
the keyboard is definitely “fine” to type on, its just a blackberry keyboard. The driver for the keyboard is also in development so theres not much support for using the trackbutton as a mouse. The display is difficult for practical use, its a monochromatic screen, there is no backlit, and the pixel density isn’t amazing so you can’t see full lines of code, lots of wrapping. It’s better than having NO display in the field though. I actually really like it, its quirky, but with some struggle it is very usable.
- Comment on Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing 7 months ago:
I got the general idea from the iPod Mini
Its basically a metal flatish sort of cylinder with a central chassis that slides in and out. I’ve used this technique a lot for printed enclosures because it feels pretty strong to me, and usually pretty easy to print, even with overhangs, since its such a regular shape. You also dont have to worry about applying components to the inside face of the case, since the whole things just slides in.
- Submitted 7 months ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Comment on Stanley Kubrick is a magician 7 months ago:
This skit always summed it up for me.
- Comment on There's an anomalous power signature in the neon FTL ramscoop. 7 months ago:
Whatever. Treknobabble is great, you’re all just command division slouches who dont know anything about engineering.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 7 months ago:
I dont get the hysteria, personally.
I came here to escape the crowds, not migrate with them.
- Submitted 8 months ago to risa@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on "The tricorder says this cave is old, crusty and barren. Is that right?" 8 months ago:
I think it’s happened enough in Star Trek that we can say most hand tools are ambidextrous and can be held in any orientation… especially phasers.
- Submitted 8 months ago to risa@startrek.website | 28 comments
- Comment on Ransomware 8 months ago:
Got a question for ye. What weighs more: an isogram of dilithium, or an isogram of melicium? Take your time.
- Comment on This one goes out to all the pipettes I dropped. 8 months ago:
No he meant Sisko. As in Joseph Sisko. Of Earth?
Makes a fierce Jambalaya,
- Comment on Columbo investigates Star Trek. (source: cursedtrekedits on tumblr - more in comments) 8 months ago:
This rules!!!
- Comment on One thing the fandoms can agree on. 8 months ago:
Beyond was actually kind of dope, IMO.