TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@midwest.social
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 hours ago:
I 3D printed my phone case. I had considered going without a case, but the Snap 4 Luxe, which I absolutely love, adheres better to cases than the bare phone. That could be my fault, maybe I didn’t clean the phone or adhesive properly, but if I have the phone on a magnet sometimes the Snap stays behind.
So I found a case design someone else made, brought it into Blender (because I don’t know CAD), thickened the back to the same distance as the Snap, then made a hole for the Snap and made sure to include a lip to cover over its curved bezel. I printed the first few layers in a tough 68D TPU, then switched to a 95A TPU for the rest. The tough layers and the lip keep the Snap held to the phone even when the adhesive fails, and the softer TPU makes the case easy to put on and remove.
(This is like, my seventh iteration of this case, and it sure seems flawless for the past few weeks.)
This lets me use the Snap with as little wireless charging distance as possible. I found that some cases added to the inherent 2.5mm of the Snap are just too much distance to reliably charge using weaker qi chargers. With this setup I can wirelessly charge much more reliably! And since I thickened the back of the case, the magnets on the Snap now sit flush with the rest of the back, making qi2-based external batteries more manageable.
- Comment on Floodlights P1S with relay 2 days ago:
Oh I totally get it, and probably would’ve gone that route if my DIY skill level was higher. My benefit of maintenance lighting is a lucky accident. 🤣
- Comment on Floodlights P1S with relay 2 days ago:
Well I can certainly send you links to the brilliant work of others that inspired me. 🤣
This is the base slider I use for the glass, with these risers for the AMS and this addon for an LED strip.
The LED strip I purchased is this one. I did have to use a dremel to widen the wire way on the slider/riser system, and (of course) had to cut off a good length of excess LED, but there was a very convenient cut point that means most of the back edge isn’t covered by light, but it still works great.
- Comment on Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York 2 days ago:
Pass around schematics on flash drives like its cod3 in your computer class in high school.
Why would you infest your fellow classmates with that Treyarch nonsense? Give them CoD2 or CoD4MW like a good Infinity Ward fan.
(This take on Treyarch/Infinity Ward brought to you by the year 2008 or so, when I last cared about it. 😅)
In my class it was Unreal Tournament. Or a version of the open source Cube 2 where I had replaced all gun models with fists and rockets with couches so our teacher couldn’t complain about us shooting one another. 🤣
- Comment on Floodlights P1S with relay 2 days ago:
Oh those look great!
I have a COB LED strip plugged into a USB port on the same power strip as the printer, installed on a riser/slider system for the glass top and AMS, with the wire running through said riser.
At first I was frustrated that I wouldn’t be able to use the printer’s light control with this, but it has actually turned out pretty nice since the lights stay on for maintenance work and nozzle changes, when the printer is turned off.
I like your solution though!
- Comment on Don't Look Up 2 days ago:
In Nate Bargatze’s recent standup special he talked about how he, a water meter reader at the time, was tasked with protecting his town’s water tower after 9/11. With a flashlight. He did a much better job making it funny than I can, but I remember that level of fear. “It’s called terrorism because they make you afraid they can hit anywhere!” I remember hearing.
Which is silly in retrospect, Al Qaeda only hit major, symbolic targets in the US and never did “hit anywhere.”
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 5 days ago:
Yep. I understand it, being able to stream my physical Xbox to my phone or tablet when I’m away from home is awesome.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
There are a staggering number of varieties of plastics, and an insane number of uses for them that aren’t easily replicated with other known materials. Some of those plastics are much worse than others.
Plastic is not inherently “pollution.” That’s not to say that plastics don’t make up a significant amount of the world’s pollution, but like literally everything in life, it’s not as simple as a black-and-white.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
Plastics aren’t inherently bad. Just like anything else, it’s the misuse that makes them bad.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
Largely done already, as I understand it. Most use zinc now.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 6 days ago:
I kind of love that about his videos. I scoff at the time, but then start the video and next thing I know it’s a half hour later and I’ve learned something in a surprising amount of depth.
I like a world where not everything needs to be 5 minute videos. Some things can be longer form.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
Remarkably, it has happened. People suddenly decide to pay attention to authority when they’re in a terrifying situation they’ve never experienced.
- Comment on Pooping with friends 1 week ago:
I’m not your buddy, guy.
But I am also poopin’.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
I guess “love” is a strong term. It does everything I need it to and I have very few complaints, the same experience I had with my Android phone.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
so many apple shills here… why not upgrade to an adult phone?
So this makes me laugh because when I was younger and had more time to spend with rooting and custom ROMs, I used Android phones. And I loved them!
Now that I’m older I use an iPhone (for a number of reasons) and I also love it!
It’s almost like smartphones are tools that fit their use case, and not something else up be tribal over.
- Comment on The fact that some dogs are used to the groomers and some aren't is wild. 1 week ago:
We have a very reactive pup and have had a couple sessions with a dog trainer to help us curb that reactivity. She taught us some neat methods to redirect his attention and eventually get him to a point where we treat him (with very high value treats) when he sees another dog and then lets us redirect him.
Over time he’s learning that the emotion he should feel when he sees another dog is excitement! It’s slowly working.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s fantastic. Crazy soft. Softer than cotton.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
It’s a type of rayon fabric made from beech tree cellulose. Some underwear manufacturers use it. Very soft, very comfy. It’s the reason podcasters successfully sell MeUndies. 🤣
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Not a regular bra, never a regular bra. But a stretchy, breathable micromodal bralette.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Is okay to choose A simply because B is quite literally orange hitler?
Obviously yes. Doing so isn’t saying A is fine, doing so is saying B is worse, and bad is still better than worse.
If you tried to say that there was no reason to be concerned with A because B was worse, that’s a fallacy. But acknowledging that one of two options, while still bad, is LESS bad, isn’t a fallacy. That’s just being realistic.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
One I see people use frequently and I’m not sure they realize it’s a bad argument is the fallacy of relative privation.
“X is bad. We should do something to fix X.”
“Y is so much worse. I can’t believe you want to fix X when we need to fix Y.”
Both X and Y can be bad and need to be fixed. Fixing one doesn’t preclude fixing the other.
An alternate form of this is:
“A is bad”
“B is worse, so A is fine.”
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
I was going to recommend this very thing.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Occasionally my wife has slept in a bralette instead of a shirt. Apparently she thinks it’s comfy.
- Comment on Never forget 2 weeks ago:
The levels are fine.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 weeks ago:
or even win 11 since it involves a ton of audio plugins, etc. and my projects would become unsable.
Have you looked into this? Because Windows 11 is so much Windows 10 with a UI change that they didn’t even update the NT number.
Like, Windows 2000 was NT 5, and XP, which was very similar to 2000, was NT 5.1.
But Windows 11 isn’t NT 10.1, it’s still NT 10.
At their core they’re very similar. I’d be shocked if something designed for 10 wouldn’t work with 11.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
Our YouTube experiences are vastly different. Their algorithm frustrates me because it consistently serves up interesting videos I want to watch when I open the app to seek out something specific. My Watch Later playlist has become huge.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 3 weeks ago:
what he did for electric vehicles with Tesla cannot be understated
I think you meant to say “cannot be overstated.” “Cannot be understated” means the opposite of the point you’re trying to make.
He definitely lit a fire under the asses of the traditional automakers, no doubt. But then he consistently threw away every advantage his company had, one after another.
Had they developed a normal-ass pickup truck they could’ve beaten the Lightning F-150 to market. But no, because Musk wanted to make a car as stupid and ill-advised as the DeLorean DMC-12 it resembles, design time took so long that by the time the thing hit the streets it wasn’t what truck owners wanted or what Tesla owners wanted. There was already an EV version of the best-selling pickup truck in the world. And he had, by that point, thoroughly torched his image among the people most likely to buy his cars.
Tesla definitely accelerated the development of EV models and infrastructure, but I personally think it’s easy to overstate Elon’s impact.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I 3D printed some Crocs, does that count?
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 4 weeks ago:
It was remarkable how much fake Weird Al music there was. Someone maintained a helpful “Not Al” list.