clif
@clif@lemmy.world
Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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. 2 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? 3 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 3 months ago:
Good info, thanks bud
- Comment on EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support 3 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. 4 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. 4 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 4 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” 4 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 6 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? 6 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 7 months 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 7 months 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] 7 months 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 7 months 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] 7 months 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 8 months ago:
Thanks bud. I was just talking to some friends who aren’t in the path but wanted to see it.
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 9 months ago:
This is a fan-fucking-tastic article! Thanks bud.
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 9 months ago:
But is there a dedicated app for organizing your porn?
That was meant to be a joke but I’m pretty sure I saw a project posted on lemmy awhile back for that exact purpose : D
- Comment on My AC drain gets clogged every so often. Any trips for a more permanent fix? 9 months ago:
Not exactly a “fix”, but a water alarm can ensure an overflow doesn’t go unnoticed… but then you’ve got a battery to remember.
That said, the ones I have under my sink and near my water heater have been running on the original 9v battery for over 8 years now
- Comment on PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion 9 months ago:
I tried to recover my Mojang account and migrate it three times. Each attempt gets a stock response asking for certain info (receipt, email, username). When I provide this, I get a response from a different support user asking for the same thing I just provided. After three to five back and forths (with the same questions and the same answers) I get busy, frustrated, and leave it for a few weeks.
Once I have time, I start over and the exact same thing repeats again.
I wrote it off as a loss last year with an asterisk of “another reason to fucking hate Microsoft”
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 9 months ago:
100% agree. Great description that dives into particulars of what I hand waved at.
- Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine 9 months ago:
I teach a programming class to young adults (18-25, usually) and was flabbergasted last semester when I realized that a couple of them didn’t know what a directory hierarchy/file system was.
My suspicion is that the ease of use angle of “just tell me what you want and I’ll find it” led to this. Not saying ease of use is bad, but I expected more from people wanting to learn programming.
And I’m over here meticulously organizing my music library into folders by band, album, year, etc…o the humanity.
- Comment on NodeJS vs Go 10 months ago:
This is a great answer. Bumping it as someone who got forced to move into Node/JS around 8 years so and came to love it. It’s primarily what I work in and I teach community classes on it these days.
I’ve been dabbling in Go lately for lower level server side stuff and, while I don’t dislike it, it’s a big shift in thinking. There are a lot of niceties to the Go ecosystem.
- Comment on Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say 10 months ago:
- Comment on What pen & ink are you using today? 10 months ago:
Safari AL-Star, M nib, Diamine ox blood.