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 Another one for today 8 hours ago:
That’s okay, you won’t have any rights soon.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 4 days ago:
Likewise. Don’t expect it from China though.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 4 days ago:
China has no need for open source because they steal everything anyway.
- Comment on my crush when they finally see me naked 6 days ago:
We don’t cotton to freaks around here.
- Comment on YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water 1 week ago:
How many months do you leave them in the water? 50? 60? Or do you ever take them back out?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Found the microbrain.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 2 weeks ago:
Yeah if 4 people uninstalled the program last time, and 6 people uninstalled it this time, that’s a 150% increase from last time.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 2 weeks ago:
I accept your reality and add it to my own.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 2 weeks ago:
Pixelfed I think? Though it’s developed by the same guy as whatever the Instagram clone is called so it’s been kind of slow to become usable?
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 2 weeks ago:
I will assert that, again, for most people, instead of computers remaining at the same TDP but increasing vastly in processing power, they would have been fine with the same processing power at vastly decreased TDP. Look at how long people held onto Win 7, and how long they held onto Win XP before that. Because they were fine, possibly better than the new offering, especially since you already owned it. Some time around 2012, anyone who wasn’t a power user ran out of reasons to get excited for new computers.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 2 weeks ago:
Don’t we have that?
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 2 weeks ago:
That tracks.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 2 weeks ago:
I’m 100% okay with how my Samsung Galaxy handles it: You access the Developer mode by pressing on the phone info screen in the settings for several seconds, and then there’s a switch that allows execution of random .apk files.
“Yes, do as I say.”
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 2 weeks ago:
For most people, computers became powerful enough around the year 2005. A machine from late in the Windows XP era could run 3D games, CAD software, edit video, communicate with the entire world through broadband internet. What abilities have PCs taken on since? So much processing power filled up by doing the same tasks less efficiently for no reason.
- Comment on Absolutely all of it 2 weeks ago:
The dreaded Wii U Fit.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 2 weeks ago:
In aviation circles they always called it “standing water” here meaning “the surface is liquid not a wet solid” Airplane tires also have very simple or no tread at all, so that isn’t a factor. There’s also the fact that during the landing roll, the airplane is partially or even mostly supporting its weight on its wings still; so at any significant airspeed you don’t have 100% of the ship’s weight on the wheels.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 2 weeks ago:
An airplane tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to nine times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. The real trick is undoing the little cap on the tire valve and reading the tire gauge while turning left base.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I built a MK4S from the kit, and I would recognize it, even without having printed it it’s a memorable part of the build. You’d basically have to have built or upgraded a Prusa printer in the last 2 years to recognize it for what it is. If you hadn’t been introduced to it, do you have any hope of guessing what that’s for?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure this has absolutely nothing to do with ghost guns. “Ghost guns” is just another way of spelling “protect the children.”
When was the last school shooting that used a ghost gun? No, they use Bushmasters, Rugers, Smith & Wessens, Glocks. Because you can just…buy those. In a store. When’s the last time a serial number stopped a shooting?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There’s definitely a little bit of this going on.
I wonder if Nvidia is leaning on them a bit. Like, create a regulatory requirement for something for one of their bullshit datacenters to do now that Microslop has said “we need to find something useful for AI to do or we’re not going to be able to live the lie much longer” out loud almost verbatim?
I outright don’t know if this is even possible. I mean…
What’s that? I bet 60% of people who have touched one of those couldn’t identify what it is by sight. Should I be allowed to print that?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take your filthy upvote. Not from a big truck, through a series of tubes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yep. The way that is accomplished is that practically all governments that issue paper money add a specific pattern of five circles to it somewhere, often in numerous places. American 10, 20, 50 and 100 bills use repeating patterns of those numbers to disguise it, others hide or celebrate it in various ways. Any scanner, copier or printer is looking for that pattern, and if it sees it, it refuses to print it.
The problem to solve there is “is this 2D pattern present?” It’s like asking if the word “soup” is printed somewhere on a page in Courier New, in terms of the computational power it takes to solve; it’s just optical character recognition.
Prusa is evidently stupid enough to bake a bitmap image of the object to be printed in their G-Code file, but that could be stopped. The printer doesn’t get to see the model file, only the hundreds of thousands of lines of G-Code that it is expected to obey as perfectly as it can.
There are still printers for sale today that run on Arduino Mega-based control boards; you want them to try answering “is this G-Code going to make a part of a gun” as a function of the firmware? Psh.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I bet HP would try to have you jailed for it if you threaten their ink racket.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
When was the last time a legislator understood the legislation they were passing?
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
Once again I say, “Oh no!”
- Comment on Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all? 3 weeks ago:
The part that really upsets me is that, when I say “I don’t like PEI, what are other, non-PEI build surfaces?” People respond with walls of text about how to print on PEI which isn’t the god damn mother fucking question I asked.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 3 weeks ago:
It is my understanding that sh.itjust.works is hosted on hardware that is in The_Dude’s physical possession, so I think we could manage.
- Comment on Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all? 3 weeks ago:
I’m a CFI, I used to teach flight school. I went to A&P school. Haven’t flown since.
- Comment on Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all? 3 weeks ago:
ABS is a well-known bastard plastic. I avoid it when I can. I print in PLA or PETG almost entirely.
Printing on glass with glue stick, I could soak the build plate in engine oil, wash it with Gojo, rinse it with tap water, dry it with the T-shirt I’ve been wearing all day, smear it with glue stick and anything an E3Dv6 will melt will stick to it.
Meanwhile y’all are out here cautioning against drying PEI with anything that has ever been in my washing machine because it might transfer trace amounts of fabric softener to the plate and I don’t have time for that mickey mouse bullshit. I ordered a power tool not a clean room experiment.
- Comment on Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all? 3 weeks ago:
So to that wall of text, I’ll say:
I’ve been 3D printing on glass with glue stick for a decade. The procedure for cleaning the glass has been rinse in the sink with water, wipe dry on shirt, put on printer. You can touch it with your hands, it can exist in Earth’s atmosphere…
PEI plates can’t. One fingerprint and it’s destroyed forever unless you clean it in a way the manufacturer says will destroy it forever. PEI is stupid.
