BigDanishGuy

@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When he carries it away afterwards, is that sex trafficking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 3D-printed objects waterproof?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My approach would be to combine pretty much what everyone else has said, and add annealing to the process:

  1. More walls, higher temp, bricklayers (the usual wank when you’re more into 3d printing tech than design). Test if watertight and proceed to #2 when it obviously isn’t
  2. Can I just buy the container?
  3. No? The annealing could be a solution. Take the print from #1 and put it in a baking tray. Fill out every bit of air with sand to support the print. Bake the print at just above the glass temp for the filament for a enough time for the sand to get up to temp. Turn off oven and let the entire thing cool down slowly. Test the dimensions and watertightness.
  4. Realize that I didn’t do a good job of supporting the structure and I spent too much material printing extra walls. Others have suggested coating the print, which will add material in a somewhat unpredictable manner. Is it acceptable in view of my tolerances, can I alter the design to make it acceptable? Print with minimal material and coat with epoxy.
  5. Get tired of the project and start comfort printing cute stuff for people you like…
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My main reason to get a new phone the last 20 years have been “oh shit, phone’s broken, I need a phone”

  But I understand people who buy from shit companies with shit support and 5 days of updates. They didn’t take updates into account and suddenly they find themselves vulnerable…

  But flagship phones? GTFO! There’s an order to what stuff should cost ie. a home > a car > a months rent/mortgage > a months groceries > a phone

  When phones jumped groceries I shook my head, and now where flagship phones are in the rent/beater car territory… Wtf?!? How are people getting this kind of spending money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No matter where the site is operated from, as long as EU citizens can access it from their home countries?

  Because I doubt that even fb marketplace can muster that with plausible accuracy. Especially the sales. When you take something down on marketplace it will ask if you sold it or not, but you can just tell it to mind its own business and say “no I totally just changed my mind”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the unreleased prequel to that bowling for soup hit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PETG is just as stringy as I was told⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First rule of petg is “dry your filament”, second rule of petg club is “dry your filament”… Thrid rule? Nope, it’s “store your filament dry”

  Jokes aside, other things you could look at:

  • nozzle, how worn is it?
  • calibration tests: did you do a temp tower? Calibration cube? Retraction test?
  • The vertical surface doesn’t necessarily have that appearance as a result of wet filament. In my experience, wet PETG will result in more random variations than that. It looks too regular IMHO, is everything that should be tightened actually tightened?
  • have you calibrated the extruder steps?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When trying to find differences between virgin and recycled scap plastic all I get is AI crap product comparison sites and various companies trying to sell their recycling system…

  What downsides is there to recycling your own plastic scrap, which you have had full control over the entire time. I would imagine trying to color match with consumer waste plastic is a nightmare, same with moisture (at least that’s an issue when printing). But if you have a bunch of plastic in an homogeneous color and you grind it up to make something of the same color, and you’ve had the scraps in a controlled environment, then what more issues are there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the recent Cisco security flaws are just so brain-dead stupid you wonder if they have any internal quality control at all

  At the super budget prices Cisco charges, do you really expect quality control to be included? You’ve got to buy a quality control subscription for that. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there softwares to simulate enough electronics and microcontrollers to learn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think tinkercad is a great place to start. It’s browserbased and doesn’t cost money. It may not have a lot of components, but it still have quite a few more than just resistors, caps and inductors. And it is aimed at newbies and hobbyists, which is reflected in range of the available components. Being able to drag an Arduino into your sketch and have it run your program is neat.

  We used to use yenka, when I taught electronics. It was OK for teaching, but I don’t know if I’d recommend it for self-paced learning as a hobbyist. It costs money, requires software installation and is so much more than just electronics that navigating the program can be difficult. And default settings explodes components when you put too much current through them, that alway annoyed me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH shooting a rat with 5.56x45 would leave you with more cleaning up than dissectable rat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because under communism you’d get a redistribution of wealth to everyone. In Trump’s case the redistribution is the inverse. The methods differ a bit too. During a communist revolution the redistribution is done by the people, and sometimes quite violently. Trump’s redistribution is more subtle than that, and is going to involve marketing, laws and last, but certainly not least, government procurement contracts.

  I’d bet that if mcdonalds sucked the old cheesepuff enough, they could get a lucrative contract for MREs. Or an exclusive contract for restaurants in military installations.

  Get ready to see big corporations lining up outside the Whitehouse with knee pads and a box of tic tacs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *trafficked teens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: you can fault McD for a lot of things. You can argue that the products aren’t to your taste, or subpar in regards to nutrition. But food safety is something that the clown takes extremely serious.

  I’ve gotten sick from burger king. Once I had to decide what I’d rather whipe off the floor, because it was coming out both ways after eating Carl’s Jr. But I’ve never been poisoned by McDonald’s, nor have I talked to someone who has either.

  Last time I went on this rant, a former McDonald’s employee commented about food safety practices. They told how if you went to the bathroom and came back multiple people would ask you if you remembered to wash your hands. Not like this specific commenter, but that was just what they did to everyone. If you came in sick, you would be sent home with pay (I believe this was in the US, so it was actually extraordinary).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I urge everyone to look up the book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. The cultural patriarchy is crazy.

  Nobody questions how archeology is influenced by contemporary culture. When archeologists find a grave and goes “the body is buried with weapons and a shield, therefore it must be a warrior and thus a man. And they still fucking note how it’s weird that this definitely-a-man is smaller than other men from this culture, and his hips are wide, almost like a woman… But he’s a dude, he’s got weapons after all!” smh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wild seals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just watched a 25min video on half dog/half bag animals, wtf?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back2thefuture_iknowthisone.png

  That’s a song by the police, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the polite way to call someone a lil bitch. Genuinely curious because I wanna be PC but also an asshole. Anyway the creature in the post is a lil bitch ass

  I believe that the most socially acceptable way would be (and remember that it’s an example, and not directed at you):

  “fuck you, and your lil bitch ass attitude. You don’t know your father because he never even liked you, your mother blows strangers for bags of gummy bears and validation, and your ears look weird”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chose the instance because of it being the first one that I found that wasn’t overwhelmed by new sign-ups of refugees from the sub place. Stay because of the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My immediate response was to do the same calc. But using SI units, because I don’t live in Myanmar or the USA.

  I figure that it’s a cube, and judging by the size of the lucky winner, I would guess that the sides are 1.5m. 3.375m^3 at 19.254 g/cm^3 is roughly 65 tons. According to www.metal.com/Tungsten/202212260004 tungsten bars are trading for 49USD/kg. IDK where you got 340 USD/ton, but we seem to differ.

  65 tons at 49 USD/kg is 3’185’000 USD.

  I’d say that a solid homogeneous of tungsten should probably fetch a fair bit more than my price. Casting a cube like that is not going to be easy. Tungsten is rather reactive in the molten form, and has to be kept from air. Just alone keeping 65 tons of molten tungsten under a protective layer of inergen gas is going to be challenging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ever wanted a robot vacuum and w 3D printer hybrid?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This AI thing is going too far. Please don’t actually produce random AI generated product ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pee posting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong community, this is shitposting, you want pissposting. Maybe even vintagepissposting…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best website to get Electronic components for small projects in Europe/Germany?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for Germany, but I guess that it won’t be much different than Denmark where my experience lies.

  Almost all my recommendations has been mentioned before, but I’d like to point out:

  • RS in my experience is reliable about 90% of the time. If you put in an order in can arrive in several shipments. I ordered 50 pieces of something got 46 from a UK warehouse and 4 from Germany. That’s another thing, some stuff ships from Frankfurt am Main, so no waiting for imports.
  • Reichelt is good for cheap instruments. I’ve never used them for components, I prefer RS for that, but for instruments they carry some of the Chinese stuff that you can’t get other than on ebay or ali.
  • Digikey stocks so much electronic components that sometimes you can’t avoid them. Where RS is really fast, their stock and prices are more suited for prototyping than production. Digikey is where you can get the specific series of cap and value you need for your repair project. Digikey will handle all the import and customs stuff as well.
  • el-supply.com is new to the post. They’ve been in business since the 70s, but is primarily targeted towards Denmark. But they do have an international site. Some times they can be extremely cheap compared to RS and Digikey, especially with regards to stuff used for teaching electronics. I’ve been a customer since the late 90s privately, and I’ve placed several orders each year professionally since the early 10s as well. Never been let down.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So bad it was actually entertaining⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this a review of Trump’s first day on work release at McDonald’s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So bad it was actually entertaining⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As in “go kill yourself, but in a nice pleasant way”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And orange is a Chinese apple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If there is no punishment, why would you be afraid to be caught?

  I think the idea is that the thing that stops you in the moment is “I likely won’t get away with it” more than “if they catch me there’ll be hell to pay … but only if”.

  I mean you’re (as in the informal general usage of “you”, not as the second person pronoun) not going to pull out your phone while driving, if you’re next to a cop. But if there’s no one around that even looks like an undercover traffic cop?

  Human brains are bad at thinking in long term consequences, but immediate consequences? Those we understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But should we even punish?

  I don’t mean to troll, so let me explain. Why do we punish? I think it’s two fold, we punish to deter crimes and we punish to exact revenge. But the fear of punishment doesn’t deter crime nij.ojp.gov/…/five-things-about-deterrence and that leaves revenge as the only both intended and actual outcome of punishment.

  Is the current costs of running a complicated criminal justice system really worth it, if all we get from it is revenge? Does revenge make society better? I don’t think so.

  I’m not advocating for anarchy either. There should be consequences for criminals. I’m just not sure what the consequences should be, but punishment is ineffective. I get that we have personal responsibility, and free will. And I’m not trying to excuse criminals, I’m just saying that punishment doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If my bank accepted vomit as mortgage payments, they could smack my ass and call me bulimic, I don’t care what y’all do with my vomit, let’s talk about pool house options and a second car.

  I’d be cool with creaming their coffee twice a week if it meant I got my house for no money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, I also think we should seize the means of production and crush the bourgeoisie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to get published you’ve got to sound the part. No fancy words => no publishing => no grant money => less sciencing and more flipping burgers