elucubra
@elucubra@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 3 days ago:
Nice try mr. dipwepie
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 4 days ago:
There is no cure for baldness, else Bezos would have a mane.
- Comment on How to dry silica gel 4 days ago:
While pure silica gel should not be very toxic, colored silica gel has compounds that produce that color change.
You’ll notice that silica gel is not sold as “pure”.
The thing is that none are food grade, so it’s perfectly legal to have impurities, and from what I have read, the coloring agents are toxic. Usually not worrying in the amounts used in the hobby, but still, what I warn people is about heating, breathing, etc products or materials which produce suspensions, aerosols, vapors for which we have little research or data.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 days ago:
Yes I remeber Deathstars. However, these past years I perfunctorly peruse Backblaze’s yearly drive failure reports, and have noticed a trend, which is that most drives are fine, but every year there are a few that stand out as very bad, and they usually Seagate/WDC.
Exceptions yada, yada
- Comment on egg 4 days ago:
Not to be confused with the ping pong ball eater snake, or the larger basketball eater snake
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 4 days ago:
Pixel has a market share of 1.5%, so they kind of stand out. Also, there is no such thing as “federales” in Spain. Spain is not a federation. If they are talking about National Police or Guardia civil, they go through a pretty hard entrance exam, and then have a minimum of one year instruction. Executive ranks must have a university degree. Generally reasonably competent. Mossos (regional) and local police are another story. They are quite a bit less competent.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 4 days ago:
Precisely what I do
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 5 days ago:
Makes me shudder. I have to replace a drive in my array, because it is degraded. It’s a 4TB. Imagine having to replace one of these. I’d much rather have a bunch of cheaper drives, even if they are a bit more expensive per TB, because the replacement cost will eventually make the total cost of ownership lower.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 5 days ago:
Edge is also killing Ublock
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 5 days ago:
That’s my general attitude, but I need these for work.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 5 days ago:
I’m more inclined to blame gremlins.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 5 days ago:
It’s missing the mistery of why it’s necessary to try three or more times to insert an USB A, when it only has two possible positions.
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 5 days ago:
If you get the pay wall, the Rticle is kind enough to let you know about removepaywall.com
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 5 days ago:
I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 1 week ago:
What really blows my mind is the dude that mixed oil and eggs and decided to beat the bejesus out of the mix for half an hour by hand and got mayonnaise.
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 1 week ago:
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
I want that thing where a light “paints” over wounds and they heal.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
I’m downsizing and have a lot of stuff in marketplaces. I generally price at about 50%, plus 10-15% for haggling. I won’t go lower. When someone lowballs, I don’t waste a minute replying.
- Comment on How to dry silica gel 2 weeks ago:
For the love of God, or whatever, people!
STOP recommending that people use food preparation things to heat up material you have no clue about how safe they are. It’s likely you are recommending people to poison themselves!!
- Comment on How to dry silica gel 2 weeks ago:
Great advice! Use two food preparation appliances to heat a material you have no clue about what it offgases in addition to water.
Enjoy your food.
- Comment on How to dry silica gel 2 weeks ago:
I do something similar. 1st- Never use something that will be used for food again. There are 15€ used microwaves listed in my local secondhand app, but I live in a small apartment, and I don’t have the spare space.
2nd. - I don’t do this stuff in the kitchen.
I have a small induction plate, which can actually be set to temperature or power level, and wich is surprisingly accurate! I spent a morning doing testing, and the damn thing would be within 5°C everytime.
I use an enameled pan, which has been retired from food use, and do this in the balcony. I shake it around every so often, with the temp set at 110°C.
It really irks me how a bunch of Youtubers ignore basic safety measures, like using your oven, microwave etc to dry silica, filament, anneal parts etc. We normally have no clue as to the modifiers, additives, etc, or even the actual effects of fumes of the base plastics (maybe there is research, but I haven’t seen anybody looking for it)
I’m working on a cheapo enclosure, and already have designed and printed a cheap and cheerful filter, to use EVERY time I print, no matter what the filament. If I don’t have hard data about the toxicity of a material heated in my breathing space, I’m going to treat it as toxic.
Safe by default.
- Comment on 7 year old PC. CPU is getting WICKED hot (up to 100 C) while playing games. is there any software that can underclock/undervolt it? 2 weeks ago:
Many phones need a charging port clean-up every so often
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using tablets since the first generation (Galaxy tab), and I must say that it kind of veered to that side after a while, since getting a convertible laptop. A few years back I got a Huawei tablet with a pen and keyboard, that had impressive battery, and it took the place of my convertible. While I’m a Linux-Android-occassional Windows guy, I now use an ipad (As much as I hate to admit, in the tablet space they are vastly superior), with keyboard and pen, for most of my away needs, and for general around the house stuff. I do a lot of graphic design and photo stuff, and thanks to Affinity’s suite, I can actually do real work on the thing.
- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 3 weeks ago:
Have you taken a look at Sovol? Their SV08 is essentially a Boron. As for multi color, Bondtech is releasing their INDX tool changer later this year, wich in my opinion is far superior to an MMU. I don’t know if it can be installed on the SV08, but if it is, it would be my choice.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
Don’t wearables cause autism?
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
Mine runs on me. It especially likes me waking.
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 3 weeks ago:
What arrrr we looking forrrr?
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if that is still the cae, but many electronic stuff in th is had warnings, with pictures like “don’t put it I the bath”, and the like .
People are dumb, and you should take that into account.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 3 weeks ago:
Remeber, If it’s “free”, you are the product.
- Comment on Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time. 3 weeks ago:
Not just a wig, a cheapo Aliexpress wig. I had an employee who bought a quality hairpiece, and it was uncanny. He paid through the nose for it, but it was worth it for him, as he was quite bald in his 20’s.
