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 Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 1 day ago:
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with my old one…I think there may be an update in the future for the Prusa to the MMU, and I might keep my old Folger around for TPU parts and other things. Don’t know where I’ll put the old machine, is the main thing.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 1 day ago:
I’ve got a Prusa Mk4S on its way; I won’t be in the geezers club much longer.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 2 days ago:
I know, right?
- Comment on No contest 3 days ago:
My favorite is Death Star vs Borg Cube. A couple years ago I wrote this whole big thing about which would win, but it boils down to:
Death Star victory, IF they hit the cube with a full turbolaser shot, and then jump to hyperdrive immediately before any surviving drones slap into the Death Star’s hull.
Borg victory if the cube is only mostly destroyed and they stick around long enough for surviving drones to get a foothold.
Tau’ri victory when SG-1 rings aboard with three men, one woman, four P-90s and a kilogram of naquadria. They take out the death star by dropping a couple of hand grenades down the power core, and then they hijack a TIE fighter over to the Borg Cube where they blow up the queen. Daniel Jackson is killed a couple times but it’s okay he gets better.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 3 days ago:
Let me ask you a question: What does the pro version of Zorin get you?
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 3 days ago:
Yeah that’s why I hate Gnome, they have ideas about how you should use your computer and those ideas aren’t yours.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 4 days ago:
You are correct; the point of gold plated contacts is anti-corrosion and long service life not for absolute highest conductivity.
I’m a ham radio operator; I have some silver-plated antenna connectors, because antenna feedlines are dealing with extremely weak signals on receive, so any loss you can eliminate in the connector the better. Problem is they corrode to hell everywhere they aren’t tightly screwed together. For consumer AV equipment the signals are basically never weak enough to bother with that.
I would think most audiophiles know this?
They’re not marketing to audiophiles. They’re marketing to dudes and dads. They aren’t trying to get the guy hooking a manual turntable up to a tube amplifier, they’re trying to get the guy attaching a PS5 to an LG TV to a Sonos soundbar. They’re going for the guy who is spending middle class money on AV equipment without bothering to understand it.
Wish I’d thought of it.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 4 days ago:
I remember hearing something about Ogg vorbis being outmoded by some other Ogg? I don’t know I’ve moved from mp3 to FLAC personally.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Some of those belong to the person in the background.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 5 days ago:
Autodesk.
- Comment on AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory 6 days ago:
An AM4 computer is still pretty capable.
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 1 week ago:
They do that with dum-dums, I know. I…couldn’t tell you if they’re actually different flavors, honestly, they all taste “fake fruit” to me, but they’re definitely different colors, and instead of cleaning the machine between batches of flavors they just start making the next batch and some of the candy comes out mixed. Perfectly edible just kinda weird so they put a “mystery” flavor wrapper on it. Honestly I respect the frugality of it all.
- Comment on Praise them 1 week ago:
Hey, that’s a personal question.
- Comment on I'm definitely giggling 1 week ago:
Okay but why is it inherently funny though?
- Comment on Praise them 1 week ago:
So we’re just doing food items with no other context as memes? What’s it gonna be next month? Pasta?
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 week ago:
Believe it or not the first production smart phone was released by IBM in 1989, it was the bastard lovechild of a DOS PC and a car phone; it could do fax and modem over the phone. Blackberry put out a device you’d call a smart phone (runs an extensible OS with an app ecosystem, multimedia capable, mobile data as we know it today) in 2002. But yes the iPhone arrived in 2007 much to the unhealth of society.
The original iPhone did not have an app store.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 week ago:
Amazon sold me a defective planer that had sawdust in it. Ibwas apparently the second to return it under warranty.
- Comment on We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward 1 week ago:
Mostly I have this distinct memory of badly communicating with a Verizon employee when I got my first smart phone, an LG Ally.
I remember asking “Is this a Droid?” Meaning “is the make and model of this handset a Motorola Droid?” And the reply was “They’re all droids.” meaning they all run the Android operating system. I miss LG phones, or at least the state of my personal life back when I had LG phones.
- Comment on We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward 1 week ago:
was it Verizon or Motorola?
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
They keep re-implementing things.
Just the Start menu. You can see how 95 evolved into 98 evolved into ME, then they changed it for XP, and they never stopped making big pointless changes. In many cases, those big pointless changes have been lengthening the process of going from the bare desktop to the thing you need by adding pointless screens and dialogs. Or, like the Start menu, they just drastically redesigned it such that a user used to Win XP tries to use 7 and they just…stare at it because it’s not what they were expecting. Windows 7’s Start menu might even be objectively better, Microsoft’s software engineers could very well produce good research documentation about UI design based on observing or polling users about what features they wanted and then they made the thing people seemed to want, but to people who got used to how it already worked the new thing was bad because it’s different.
I could be convinced Windows 8.1 is a mental unwellness simulator. In Sierra’s FMV horror game Phantasmagoria 2, the player character goes insane at work, and this is simulated by the paperwork he’s working on flashing scarier words for a split second. You’re reading this document and then near the bottom of the page an ordinary word like “recommended” turns to “murdered” for a few frames. Win 8.1’s animated tiles reminded me of that. Plus the whole “The desktop and all normal Windows apps therein is itself just an app that can be run in split screen next to special phone-like single tasking apps which pretty much only we will develop for and we won’t include desktop versions of so you have to deal with this.” I hate Windows 8.1.
What’s real fun is you can tell when they abandoned work on a project by which drastically different UI it’s encrusted with. The modem dialer looks like Windows XP, the fax program looks like Vista, some things have the flat purple stank of 8, some things have the dark glass look of early 10.
- Comment on Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform? 1 week ago:
Same reason she did a show with a gigantic toilet. Ridiculousness is all she’s got.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 week ago:
So there hasn’t been any RAM manufactured in Europe in nearly 20 years? Is that the point you’re making?
- Comment on xkcd #3181: Jumping Frog Radius 1 week ago:
This, I think, is related to where I draw the line between a ‘moon’ and a ‘sattelite.’ If an average human can hit escape velocity under muscle power, it’s a satellite. If you can strand someone there, it’s a moon.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 week ago:
Mainland Europe has never had a culture of computer hardware development or manufacture. They’ve been coasting on the United States and Britain since WWII. Name me a CPU architecture developed in the EU. There’s one, ARM. British.
Furthermore, Europe just doesn’t have the work ethic to run a chip fab. You know those attempts to bring fabs to the United States? They’re running afoul of American labor laws, turns out American citizens won’t work 14 hour days like the Taiwanese. You lazy ass Europeans with your 51 weeks of vacation a year don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of making your own CPUs.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 1 week ago:
not that I’m aware of; I designed the part with this shenanigan in mind and used PrusaSlicer.
- Comment on Word. 1 week ago:
Three. Wordpad also existed.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 1 week ago:
It is in fact a fairly old, homemade budget printer.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 1 week ago:
I built this printer around 11 years ago, it’s a Folger 2020 i3, the company folded years ago. This is back before flexible PEI coated steel build plates were common; the bed assembly is a simple aluminum plate with a PCB heater suspended above it at the four corners by spring-loaded screws, and then the glass is binder clipped onto that. Glass was pretty much the meta for 3D printer build plates at the time because it’s a perfectly flat material that’s cheap and easy to source. The choice of a mirror over clear glass was mostly an aesthetic choice, though sometimes it can make it easier to manually level the bed, it makes it easier to see the gap between the nozzle and the bed.
This machine is pretty legacy by now and it’s starting to show some signs of wear but it does still work.
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- Comment on Got my first printer, what else do I need? Any tips on setup? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I just about forgot: One of the best things you can do is sit and watch it print, even as it’s going slightly wrong. That can be instructive. Watch it do things like overhangs, bridges, small features, etc.
