clif
@clif@lemmy.world
Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 4 days ago:
I’ve never met a mason that didn’t watch TV and listen to the radio but my sample size is only a few hundred.
- Comment on Votes won’t be counted for Arkansas medical marijuana ballot measure, court says 4 weeks ago:
This is accurate.
They pulled similar tomfuckery with the abortion amendment ballot initiative.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
Generally speaking, programmers like to program (many do it just for fun), and many dislike review. AI removes the programming from the equation in favour of review.
This really resonated with me and is an excellent point. I’m going to have to remember that one.
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
The one I remember from school was phrased slightly differently (but same concept) :
Poor little Jimmy is lying on the floor, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
- Comment on Never do it with greedy alcohol, that attacks both! 2 months ago:
It has to be human liver though. The alcohol will know if you try to trick it with other types.
- Comment on What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security? 3 months ago:
I’ve been carrying around multiple little baggies of pills in my backpack for years and over 20+ flights, several international, they’ve never asked.
Some are separated but loose in the bag (ibuprofen, cetirizine, diphenhydramine, from a bottle), and some were trimmed to minimum size from a blister pack and placed in the bag.
They focus a lot more closely on my headphones, charging cables, battery packs, etc.
So whatever is most convenient for you, in my opinion.
- Comment on Bet y'all are very familiar with this 3 months ago:
I’ve spent too much time slamming that lil guy around
- Comment on Anyone take a Bluetti solar panel apart? 4 months ago:
I have no useful info to add but posting to follow since I’ve got one of their 220s that’s kind of flaky and have been debating poking around inside.
Full sun in the fall and it was waffling between 0w and ~18w while feeding an AC200P. But the next day with almost exact conditions and location it was getting around 180w for awhile at least.
Then life got busy and 9 months later I haven’t retested. It was “free” with a promotion though.
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 4 months ago:
When I got mine, the doc said I should wait about two weeks then “ejaculate as frequently as possible” before returning for the scheduled checkup/semen test.
Doctor’s orders! 🫡
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 6 months ago:
I’ll join this.
I commented on a motorcycle thread a few days ago where the poster said “bike from 1982, over forty years old” (or something to that effect) where I had to do the math and realize… Shit… That was forty years ago.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
I’d been looking for the nudge to cancel and the last round of ads did it for me.
- Comment on After printing ABS almost exclusively for about a decade, I'm rediscovering PLA and its fancy variants 6 months ago:
Same. I go through periods of printing a lot then getting busy and not touching it for months. I’ve noticed my PLA and PLA+ get really brittle as they age even when stored in a dry box and drying again before use.
I can usually get it to print but I have to be gentle with it.
- Comment on What's a now "obsolete" technology you miss? 6 months ago:
Luckily those types of communities are now sequestered in private places like discord so they’re unsearchable from the general internet. /s
… Though there was that big discord scrape leak recently so maybe we’re swinging back.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
I mean… Expiration dates are mostly a lie anyway. Just do the sniff test, probably fine.
But, on topic, I do appreciate the post since that’s weird.
- Comment on The vasectomy was a good idea. 7 months ago:
Vas team high five.
I just don’t like kids and the spouse has a genetic disease so it’d be 50/50 if the kids had it.
- Comment on What's going wrong with my prints? 8 months ago:
Other recommendations are great but you could also try some type of adhesive AFTER you’ve eliminated any other potential problem sources.
It does look a over extruded. Have you calibrated your esteps? I always need to do that when changing filament types and sometimes even between rolls of the same filament type (especially bargain bin PLA from amzn)
My ender 3 with a glass bed sticks perfect with PLA. For some reason PLA+ tends to lift. Glue stick helped with PLA+ but I hated dealing with because it REALLY stuck so I switched to masking tape. That does the job and is easier to remove.
That said, I don’t recommend “extra” adhesives unless you’re fully sure you’ve solved any other potential problems. They can be a help/bandaid but if the root cause is something else then you’re just masking it.
Some materials and beds need some help, some don’t. I primarily use PLA and PLA+ with the occasional PETG and TPU.
- Comment on EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support 8 months ago:
Good info, thanks bud
- Comment on EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support 8 months ago:
I did see that there was a new “update” available. Need to see if I can disable update checks
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing. 9 months ago:
I’ve noticed over the last few years that you can always find new releases but “old” material is increasingly unavailable. .
Want the new super hero movie that released last week? Easy.
Want 1984’s “The Last Starfighter”? Good luck…
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 9 months ago:
I’m going to go with “banana phone” by Raffi … No one will ever forget it.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
“when pigs fly: the death of oink, the birth of dissent, and a brief history of record industry suicide”
Look it up if you haven’t read it, I never miss an opportunity to post it but it looks like the original demonbaby host is now offline. The are mirrors though.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
I dropped prime after the announcement… Who’s next?
- Comment on 23andMe is updating its TOS to force binding arbitration with a limited opt-out window 11 months ago:
Note: limit of 500 “sorry” cards and 75 kisses for the entire class action suit. You may also opt to receive a free “DNA protection plan” from the same company that fucked everything up in the first place or 75 cents discount on future products (your code expires in 45 minutes).
- Comment on What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? 11 months ago:
“American cheese”. I searched fire an image and conveniently Wikipedia shows one with the clarification that it’s an “American cheese single”.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese
But, imagine ten or twenty of those individually wrapped sides wrapped together in another bit of plastic.
You can hit an image search for “American cheese singles” and find a lot more examples.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege 1 year ago:
I’m also a big digital privacy nut and I can’t begin to fathom just broadcasting all my shit to the entire internet… Particularly through a company that is actively analyzing and monetizing it
- Comment on Good career advice 1 year ago:
I’m on vacation so I’ve been posting comments up a storm. Yet I’ve never seen…K …blue ball… Other letters? Before.
I’m just here to I see Lemmy grow and I like what I see
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Hah, yeah, measuring the power usage of everything you need to power and doing the math is part of the fun.
I’m in the same boat - primarily a backup for the fridge/freezer in case of power outage. They’ve also come in handy for running AC power tools when you’re nowhere near an outlet. It made life a lot easier when doing work on a remote cabin that isn’t grid tied… Really makes you appreciate how nice it is to have electricity as a labor and time saver.
- Comment on Why Git is hard 1 year ago:
I had to check and make sure I didn’t type the comment above because it sounds exactly like me.
All UIs do things slightly differently, the CLI is always exactly the same… Everywhere. UI for non trivial conflict resolution? Definitely. For everything else, CLI.
And, I’m also reticent to use rebase unless I have to. Gimme that good ole FF :)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m a fan as well. I got into the Bluetti brand ecosystem and I’m pretty happy with it. Ecoflow is nice too. I wanted it to be self contained and (somewhat) portable which they do well… Way better than I could DIY without spending a lot more.
I think all reputable brands have switched to LiFePO4 batteries but if anyone is just getting into it - that’s the hotness. They last much longer than lion and are less 'splodey.
Pay close attention to the input limits. You can have 2kW of solar but it doesn’t matter if your device can only take 200W for charging :)
- Comment on 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse Broadcast - NASA Science 1 year ago:
Thanks bud. I was just talking to some friends who aren’t in the path but wanted to see it.