captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on These mugs are getting out of hand 1 hour ago:
Or would a metric gallon be 4 liters?
A “metric ton” is 1000 kilograms, or 2200 pounds, which is a shade more than a short ton at 2,000 pounds.
A US gallon is 4 quarts, which is about equal to 3.8 liters. So if a metric gallon was 4 liters, it’d be just a shade more than a US gallon.
- Comment on These mugs are getting out of hand 1 hour ago:
Now there are two of them?
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 500+ puts the Pi, 16GB of RAM, and a real SSD in a mechanical keyboard 1 day ago:
Given Raspberry Pis ran from SD cards for most of their history, legitimately yes, as opposed to a fake SSD.
- Comment on They're coming. 1 day ago:
Possum on the half shell. Dillo power!
- Comment on They're coming. 1 day ago:
My inner tarheel is screaming the solution to this problem. We’ll have the mother of all pig pickens!
- Comment on There's a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that spacesuits sit right in the middle of 2 days ago:
Do the Apollo era EVA suits count as vehicles, or do you have to have an MMU like what Bruce McCandless wore?
- Comment on This pasta is creepy 2 days ago:
Specifically a haunted copy of Majora’s Mask.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 days ago:
People don’t buy them because they don’t fucking work.
- Comment on A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side 2 days ago:
I’m gonna start calling my scratch awl a “trocar” just to be a little dark.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 days ago:
I think my cat felidomorphizes me a little bit but she doesn’t think I’m a cat.
- Comment on Ah, ah, ah, yeah! 2 days ago:
My first word every morining is usually “Izzy!” likely followed by “Shut up” or “Calm down.” Because she’s going ballistic that I’m not 45 minutes early with her breakfast.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 2 days ago:
Desert Strike was my last.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 2 days ago:
You know, I didn’t doubt that for a single second.
- Comment on Peak male performance 3 days ago:
It’s a rabbit, I bet he’s still fast as fuck.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 3 days ago:
It’s getting Jung up in here.
- Comment on Is it possible to 3D scan a motorcycle helmet and make smaller replicas? 5 days ago:
I once ran out of contrast spray on a job, ended up using Tinactin. No shit, it produces a very scannable white matte surface.
- Comment on Is it possible to 3D scan a motorcycle helmet and make smaller replicas? 5 days ago:
I used to work for a company that would have been your best chance to get this done, but the business didn’t survive the pandemic.
3D scanning is perfectly plausible; hell it’s not that difficult to rig up an old Kinect (from an Xbox) to do it. Bespoke 3D scanners can get expensive but you can probably find someone to do it. Some 3D scanners will only catch the shape of an object, some can do color as well. The tool I would want to use for this is a structured light scanner, like an Artec Eva.
Most 3D printers would be up to the task of making a little helmet shaped object, but not get the color, especially the signatures. Common FDM or SLA machines aren’t up to that task. The only tech I know of that’ll get you a full color 3D print with the signatures and such will be a color SLS machine.
Selective Laser Sintering is a process where a thin layer of fine plastic powder is laid down, and then a laser shoots the plastic to melt some of the grains together to form a solid object. If you hear about 3D printed metal, this is how that process is done, just hotter. Some SLS machines can also either spray ink or drop colored powder in order to form a more or less full color model. These machines aren’t user friendly, so you’re really only going to find them in professional settings. We didn’t even have one, so when we used one we contracted with a service that had them.
Back when I was working for this company, I would have done the 3D scan and the prep work to turn the raw model into a printable model in-house, and then sent the file out to the fab shop. I’d expect this to run at least a thousand dollars maybe more. And I don’t know who I’d send you to these days, especially not in Canada.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 5 days ago:
Rifles.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 6 days ago:
imminently stackable borzoi.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 1 week ago:
The first thing that leapt to mind was Age of Empires.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I haven’t seen this fuckery, but the Gmail account I log into Youtube with was created in 2006, so from this they might deduce the user is at least 20 years old.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 1 week ago:
This is why I’m sure spoken English and written English are two different languages. Information is carried through vocal emphasis that the standard alphabet doesn’t contain symbols for. Online we often resort to bold or italics or allcaps, whatever is available.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 1 week ago:
Yeah, and it’s almost certainly some Baptist prosperity gospel preacher with nineteen children.
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 1 week ago:
The Apollo 15 crew got in trouble for something like that, postage stamps I think.
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 1 week ago:
There’s also an astronaut currently in jail for, I think, manslaughter? Killed someone while drunk driving? Question mark?
- Comment on Can we consider degenerating from maga.place and hilariouschaos.com? 1 week ago:
Yeah it seems lemmy.ca is flipping their collective toques over one dingleberry.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
I’m not convinced acetaminophen is a drug. It might just be my problematic caffeine addiction but a can of pepsi is usually a better headache medicine than Tylenol.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
Winner of the thread.
- Comment on Can we consider degenerating from maga.place and hilariouschaos.com? 1 week ago:
Call for a vote in the Agora.
- Comment on Early access periods should ideally be around six months, research suggests - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
I’ll allow it for smaller studios that have a big, offbeat idea. Games like Factorio, Satisfactory, Kerbal Space Program and Subnautica. All of these games had multi-year early access campaigns that were very successful, Satisfactory in particular. I think it’s appropriate for weird games like these that have uncommon mechanics like factory building, space flight or scuba diving.
Thinking about Satisfactory, I imagine their sales weren’t spectacular on launch day last year, but a lot of their customer base had already bought the game, so they got their $30. Maybe another way to phrase it is, who cares if it sells before or after launch?