EvilBit
@EvilBit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 2 days ago:
With current sales, the AnkerMake line is quite inexpensive and my experience with the M5 has been incredible. No 3D printer is truly no-hassle, but I think this is as close as it comes. Tons of QoL features like auto bed leveling, magnetic PEI plate, streaming video, and so on. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen to plug in and go as far as 3D printers go (some very easy assembly required though).
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 4 days ago:
Technically it would be suck-sectional.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 4 days ago:
I agree that there’s a ton of good stuff coming from the indie scene and also some amazing modding of existing games out there (check the Flat2VR discord - they just modded full VR support with motion controls into Silent Hill 2 Remake), but despite all the complaints about the PSVR2 library, there is more than enough gold in there to keep a lot of people entertained for a very long time, and some of it is truly AAA stuff. The headset itself is extremely well designed and easy to pick up and play, and the amount of tech you get is pretty nuts.
I’ve heard it’s pretty minimally supported on the PC because they’re kind of trying to get away with building half of a bridge (spoiler: it won’t work) but even without features like haptics and eye tracking, it’s a reasonable baseline headset. There may be some Bluetooth inconsistencies for some though, if I remember correctly.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 5 days ago:
I will echo some of the other sentiments.
Meta sells a lot of their tech at a loss. You are not buying a VR headset with just your dollars. You are taking a huge kit of cameras and sensors hooked up to the world’s most advanced internet-connected telemetry and strapping it to your face. The data it gleans is how you’re covering a large portion, if not the majority, of the cost.
In my opinion, a PS5 and PSVR2 is the best way into VR for most people right now. I have that and a Valve Index and while the Index is awesome, it’s pretty dated and fiddly and while my computer runs it pretty well, catching up to more modern tech will cost me $2000 in upgrades and the fuss associated with building/upgrading/buying/migrating a PC.
I’m hoping Valve releases their rumored standalone headset sometime before the end of the world.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 weeks ago:
Same thing happens with social security numbers!
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- Comment on ‘Oregon Trail’ Action-Comedy Movie In Development at Apple (Exclusive) 3 weeks ago:
Instead of watching whatever the hell this ends up being, just read this ancient and hilarious screenshot Let’s Play. I guarantee it’s more entertaining, especially if you remember early 2000’s internet, before it turned into <gestures at everything>.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 weeks ago:
Check it out, it just shows up as asterisks when I type it.
- Comment on Day 103 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
It’s like Max Payne 1, only better in every conceivable way. It’s the perfect sequel.
- Comment on Day 103 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Max Payne 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. It’s the only game I ever finished, then beat 2-3 more times in succession on increasing difficulties just to get a different ending.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely. It definitely takes some delightful liberties with WHY Blackbeard takes a liking to Stede and why Stede leaves his family in the first place, but the overall arc is based on a true story.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 4 weeks ago:
Stede Bonnet was a wealthy landowner who walked away from his family to buy a boat and become a really bad Pirate of the Caribbean. Blackbeard took his ship, decided for some reason he kinda liked the guy, taught him a few things about piratin’, then went his own way. Bonnet did better after that, but he was eventually captured and hanged.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stede_Bonnet
Were you looking for a story of inspiration and success instead of history’s worst midlife crisis? If so, oops.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. The writing is on the wall, I think. Between Valve and Microsoft, I think the line between console and PC is about to blur, hard.
Valve starts selling a new generation of Steam Machines, Microsoft develops a handheld and pivots the Xbox brand to be a PC gaming label standardized to a handheld and set-top form factor, and suddenly Sony and Nintendo are swimming in a much smaller ocean. The PlayStation 6 not being PC-compatible suddenly makes it “a weird non-PC” instead of a category leader, and the Switch 2 by all accounts just becomes an echo of the previous generation, treading water on Nintendo franchises.
- Comment on Consume 1 month ago:
Sorry for sucking!
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 1 month ago:
they are turned on
Ooh, violate my privacy, daddy.
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 1 month ago:
Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks!
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 1 month ago:
But I’m just asking, naively, is 10% a “buyout” by any reasonable definition of the term? I thought that was just a “stake”. I thought a “buyout” meant buying all of someone’s stake.
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 1 month ago:
I’m not a finance person, but selling equity capped at 10% isn’t a “buyout”, is it?
- Comment on Consume 1 month ago:
You’re misreading the diagram. It’s showing the volume taken by the food. So assuming a similar density, owls being lower caloric value per gram means the owls would take a greater volume, which the diagram shows.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
- Michael Scott
- Comment on DOOM can now run on a quantum computer with Quandoom port — seminal FPS blood and gore mixed with spooky action 1 month ago:
Aww, Floridian?
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
I was actually thinking of hinging it the other way, having the screens fold to the outside.
- Comment on DOOM can now run on a quantum computer with Quandoom port — seminal FPS blood and gore mixed with spooky action 1 month ago:
But what if Ron DeSantis steps through?
- Comment on Legendary gamer gear. 1 month ago:
As soon as I see a grid mat in a YouTube video I immediately feel 87% more optimistic about the creator’s skills and intention. I feel like I’m about to see some real shit.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
Interesting idea. Bezels have been made pretty thin and there have been curved display edges, but I don’t know if anyone’s ever tried a one-side zero-bezel design that you could hinge together. Bezels in the other sides are fine, but could we create a flush edge with no gap to click two screens against each other?
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
Only Apple has the courage to give you a crease.
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
Nice! Congrats and I hope you enjoy it!
- Comment on What is your favorite retro console? 1 month ago:
I’m just going to come in here and say the Neo Geo Pocket Color will always have a place in my heart.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro console? 1 month ago:
Leonard Nimoy was the narrator, not the fish. Alas.
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
I’m not the OP but I went ahead and bought his file and sliced* it and with 20% infill, it will require about 77g of filament. So with one normal spool, you could print 12 of them.
I can only vouch directly for the M5, but looking into the differences, it looks like the M5C would be a solid option. I would miss the onboard camera and the ability to check my prints and get notifications of suspicious issues, but the printer itself is more or less the same otherwise.
- Slicing is the process where a program takes the 3D model and turns it into layer by layer instructions for the printer and where you configure lots of settings such as infill, which is how much of the interior of the model is printed with a lattice for structural support. Prints are rarely 100% solid material but rather a hull with infill.
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
I have an AnkerMake M5 and it’s gloriously painless. There are intrinsic unavoidable challenges to 3D printing, but this thing has been incredible for casual creation.