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- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 day ago:
I never used the one on the CD case, I just used all ones. Or 123451234512345, etc. for Windows 98.
- Comment on Sensible wall thickness and infill for tall walls? 1 day ago:
Suggestions here to have no infill on tall structural components that will have large flat surfaces such as large boxes and bins is hilariously bad advice. Unless you plan to use an absurd number of perimeters, you absolutely need to have some infill to connect the inner and outer walls, otherwise they will be prone to warp and collapse in on each other. If your item will be as tall as you suggest, this is likely to happen before the print even finishes. Given the shape of the bottom of most Gridfinity objects, printing it entirely with no infill is impossible anyway.
You certainly don’t need much infill, probably only 5 or 10%. But it’s going to have to be there.
Don’t overthink it. I print these relatively giant Gridfinity drawer shells standing upright, and I use 10% gyroid infill, 2 wall perimeters, and 3 top and bottom layers. It works just fine and they’re perfectly rigid enough to stack at least four units tall (the most I’ve bothered to hook together to far) while loaded to the gills with probably more weight than is wise worth of knives and nuts/bolts.
I tried to print one without infill precisely once, and it collapsed and failed after about 30mm worth of height had been built up. This was with PLA which is the most rigid of the commonly available printable materials; the issue would be even worse with other plastics.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 2 days ago:
All resistive electric heaters have the same efficiency, regardless of their shape, methodology, or what the manufacturer prints on the box. That efficiency is 100%, i.e. all of the electricity put into them gets turned into heat, one way or the other. The same amount of electricity (up to and including the locally specified legal maximum for a standalone appliance, which in the US is 1500 watts or roughly 12.5 amps) becomes the same amount of heat. It doesn’t matter if the manufacturer put “for large rooms” or “for small rooms” on the box, or what. 1500 watts is 1500 watts.
However in ideal conditions and specifically for the purposes of heating, a heat pump can achieve efficiency of over 100%. Which sounds impossible, but only until you realize that a heat pump’s method of operation is not to create heat but rather to move heat that’s already there from the outdoors to inside.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 days ago:
Nobody anymore, but even as of a few short years ago the Windows fanboys would crusade and do battle specifically against the Mac fanboys, for some reason.
I’m not exactly a fan of Apple, but I’m not going to go around automatically championing Microsoft because of it…
- Comment on Logitech BRIO 4K adapter for Dell G3223Q monitor by jokeyrhyme 4 days ago:
Now that is a Very Specific Object. Well done.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 5 days ago:
It’ll work.
I just installed plain old boring Debian on three (3) random decommissioned office PCs the other day and every single piece of hardware in them worked out of the box including the Wi-Fi cards.
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- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
You can’t run it on a Mediatek or a Rokchip or whatever?
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 week ago:
There were decades of development of touch screen devices with UI paradigms designed explicitly for touch. Notwithstanding all of the Palm and Symbian and Windows CE devices, I feel like I shouldn’t have to point out that the Nintendo DS came out in 2004, three years before the iPhone.
It’s just that these were resistive screens and stylus based…
Except for the LG Prada.
- Comment on actual version! 1 week ago:
I suspect that’s because that is your cluster size, so the smallest “size on disk” value this file could be is 4kB.
In reality in the .png format it got served up to me in, it’s 3.45 kB.
Converting it to a four color paletted .gif (!) I managed to squeeze it down to 2,461 bytes, though.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
!pocketknife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Cripes, this argument again. Give it a rest already, people.
I don’t know about you but I’ve never used mine for combat and I’m unlikely to be in a position to try. Despite the inherent ridiculousness I do occasionally EDC mine, but mostly I use it as a folding camp knife.
There are oodles of other perfectly cromulent knives to recommend, of course (just ask me how I know!) but I zeroed in on this one for the sheer perversity of its selling price being near enough to precisely OP’s available figure.
If you’re going to be that way about it, might I recommend a Leatherman Skeletool which is also currently about $75.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
An HOKC Finka-C is almost exactly $75 on Amazon right now.
Apropos of nothing, really.
- Comment on The Internet is for.. 1 week ago:
The interstate is for corn
The interstate is for corn
Sick of looking at, honking my horn at
Corn, corn, corn
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
In Windows 10, you could move it to the top, left, or right of the screen.
In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10. Let’s not sell short the full extent idiocy on display, here.
“Pouring its engineering resources,” my ass. I’m betting it took effort to remove this feature as opposed to just leaving it alone as it was already in the Windows 10 code.
- Comment on the 'wow you're really annoyingly explaining simple items with complex words cause you're a nerd' starter kit 2 weeks ago:
Also known as Spock Speak.
- Comment on Mandarin 🍊 2 weeks ago:
Random Internet pedantry/trivia: In the context of this comic, the apple or whatever it is doesn’t need to be able to speak Mandarin to understand the orange because they live in a comic and everything they say is written. It only needs to be able to read either simplified or traditional Chinese.
The various dialects spoken throughout China are variously divergent, but the written language is by and large the same across the board. Denizens of different regions may pronounce what’s written differently, or even very differently if you’re in a Cantonese vs. Mandarin situation, but the underlying meaning behind the written words is still the same. This is as it was explained to me by my boss when I worked in a Chinese restaurant, anyhow.
As he tells it, when traveling even as a native “Chinese” speaker to remote corners of China (he primarily speaks Cantonese) you’ll find that you and the locals are completely unintelligible to one another if you try to talk. Always carry a pen and paper with you; if you write down whatever you’re trying to get across pretty much everyone can magically understand it.
…Also, based on what the orange is offering the apple might want to learn to read Chinese in a hurry.
- Comment on I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result 3 weeks ago:
The goal of your offset is not to be zero. Actually, in a perfectly ideal world that would be impossible because it would result in your nozzle touching and dragging along the surface on the first layer. Your Z actual final Z offset figure will be arbitrary based on the vagarities of your particular machine including the total overall length of the nozzle and thickness of the build plate, etc.
The actual goal is to achieve an accurate first layer which results in a thickness of 0.2mm or whatever your first layer’s height is, with minimal inaccuracy. You have to set the offset of the nozzle from the plate via Z axis adjustment such that there is a (literally) paper-thin gap between the tip of the nozzle and the plate. That doesn’t mean just setting it to zero. If setting it to zero actually worked, there would not actually be any reason to calibrate it…
- Comment on I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result 3 weeks ago:
Wiping the bed with alcohol doesn’t really remove any contamination from its surface, it more or less just moves it around. Wash it thoroughly with dish soap and running water as others have suggested and give it a real good rinse afterwards. The goal is to get oils and other contaminants off of the surface and to wash them down the drain, whence they will trouble you no more.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 3 weeks ago:
Chip bags are full of air to protect the chips from being crushed in transit.
Your corn is full of… uh, whatever it is that’s in there with creamed corn in order to protect your corn. Obviously.
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 4 weeks ago:
Right above Dat Boi is the Distracted Boyfriend meme.
Given the look on its face, the owl may be an O Rly?
I’m drawing a blank on the egg and its army, and the guy in the group of four with the nice hat.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 4 weeks ago:
It’s also an incredibly stupid bureaucratic clusterfuck of the magnitude that only customs and border people can achieve. Surely there should be some mechanism wherein you can send a letter or something to the Russian authorities to inform them, “Hey, we’re trying this stupid stunt and here is our plan, let us make our declarations now and we’ll pick up all the paperwork on the way once we get there.” But there probably isn’t, and then you wind up with crap like this.
The tinniest of tin-pot jumped up little dictators are never to actually be found in your nation’s capital. Instead they’re all lined up along its borders acting like these various lines in the sand were laser-etched there by god and aren’t ultimately just arbitrary and, indeed, historically much more fluid than they’d like to pretend.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 4 weeks ago:
They also undoubtedly want to develop it into a gargantuan pattern recognizing spy network so they can sell it to authoritarian fuckwits in various governments, ours and elsewhere. That sort of thing is terribly fashionable nowadays.
- Comment on I haven't seen anyone talking about the Anycubic Kobra s1 Max. 350mm3, 350c nozzle, active chamber heating. 4 weeks ago:
If you have more than one toolhead you’re not limited to just ramming different colors of the same material in there, either. You can run otherwise incompatible filaments that even require different temperatures from each other in the same print. Plus the ram-cut-and-purge brigade rarely work well with soft materials like TPU.
Multiple toolheads is the way to go if you actually want to get work done and not just slowly poop out multicolored low poly Pikachus, or whatever.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
“Calls.”
There’s only one call, and it’s coming from Tim Sweeny at Epic. It’s just more of his usual yelling at clouds, because he’s got a pathological hate-on for anyone else who runs a storefont, including Apple and Google but especially Valve. He hasn’t made any positive contribution to the world since about 1998, and at this point we can all safely discard his opinion with nothing of value being lost. He wants to allow AI slime on his own platform because he thinks it’ll make him free money, but maybe he ought to worry about the smell coming from his own house before he goes around trying to dictate at others how they should run theirs.
- Comment on Dealing with an old sink and looking for help. 5 weeks ago:
Another fine idea. I’ve got a soap dispenser pump in mine.
- Comment on Black Friday, more like buy stupid shit day. 5 weeks ago:
I’m more of a Magnetbox bird, myself.
- Comment on THE ULTIMATE GAME tm ℠ ® © Pat. Pend. 5 weeks ago:
You yadda-yaddad a homie stock? You can’t yadda-yadda a homie stock!"
- Comment on Dealing with an old sink and looking for help. 5 weeks ago:
…And get one of those filler plates for the now empty hole in your sink. They’re cheap. Get a real stainless one, not a chrome or “satin nickel” or whatever the hell, which will rust in short order.
