remotelove

@remotelove@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly by Indian and Vietnamese slave labor: androidauthority.com/where-are-samsung-phones-mad…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How and where should I keep backups of system configurations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what you just got shown: Shove the configgy bits into Git.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Solar panels are more efficient closer to the equator because of the most direct light from the sun. At higher or lower latitudes, there is more atmosphere for the light to pass through. The actual distance from the sun is basically irrelevant without an atmosphere. There might be a measurable difference based on distance alone but not much.

  Efficiency does not generally equate to optimal power generation. There are probably hundreds of other variables that directly translate to maximum power production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my opinion, but yeah. It’ll take some time.

  The biggest issue is that money has moved to safer for investments. Those new investments may take time to mature and/or avoid tax penalties.

  Another component is that hedge funds are likely the ones taking money out of the market in a huge way right now. Hedge funds normally specialize in short selling and there is no better time to close or massively reduce those short positions. (They have other strategies, but their main function is in their name.) They can’t close their positions rapidly, or it will trigger a faux rebound in stock prices. (Short sales are weird like that. It may be one of the reasons you see short bounces in price as a stock price is cratering.)

  Unfortunately, the tarrifs are shifting investment policy against the US now from other countries. This will take years to recover from.

  What will really suck is that I have always speculated that these tarrifs are just the worst kind of insider trading strategy you will ever see. If the intent was to temporarily dump stock prices for the benefit of a few, I really don’t think it’s going to work like it did during COVID. COVID didn’t force massive global policy changes against the US the same way. Even if orange man decides to reverse course and lift tarrifs tomorrow, the damage has been done and there is no reason to restore previous investments. The risk is too high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please do! Success is awesome, but failure is important. Enders are pure hobby printers, after all. Half the fun is tearing them apart, rebuilding components and learning what works and what doesn’t for your own use cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just thought I would add that there is nothing to be embarrassed about having a probe going where you typically wouldn’t want one. The doctors should have a very mechanical view of the human body and they shouldn’t care about anatomy. I am a huge proponent of getting a colonoscopy when needed. They can save your life. Most of all, you need them at regular intervals. Thankfully, they should be a few years apart.

  I actually woke up during my last colonoscopy, to the weird feeling getting poked at from inside my body. (Get your giggles out of the way, kids.) My recovery time from anesthesia is super-quick usually, and will mention that for my next colonoscopy. I’ll be on my feet in about 10mins from when I open my eyes. The experience is always different from person to person. (I also was a serious drunk for a number of years, so operating at 25% was kinda normal, I suppose.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of /c/economics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can jump in as a mod if needed. I am the quiet mod type, but can quickly mitigate any issues that pop up. Was a mod of a couple large subs on Reddit and exist as a mod on 196 to help mitigate larger issues when they happen. For the most part, I don’t deal with user to user issues since voting can rectify those problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally. There is heat from repeated deformation, but I didn’t explain how little heat it was, so I clarified in a later comment. All motion creates heat, etc, etc. (TBH, I shouldn’t have mentioned it. Oh well. I let that cat out of the bag, so it’s too late.)

  But also yes, I have experienced PLA “cold flowing” on some parts as a well so I can confirm that for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind that any heat created from stress on plastic will still be minimal and it will just take lots of time to create visible deformation. You can mitigate this mostly by printing critical parts at 100% infill.

  I always over-engineer parts that are mechanical. That is just my preference. If you look at the original part, it is likely designed to be strong on only one axis. This saves money and time for bulk manufacturing. (Compensate home prints with better materials or bulkier parts is my own rule of thumb. Everything is a trade-off, is my point.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say it was a combination of being too tight and the tensioner being made as cheap as possible. You don’t need the belts “rock solid” and I would check the bearings/bushings on the other end for damage too. Any kind of wobble is going to amplify enough to show on your prints, but if that matters is up to you.

  Also yes. It’s more than possible to print a replacement and I wuld check if there are better designs on Printables. Ideally, you want a metal one unless you print one out of PC or another strong, high temperature plastic. Repetitive bending creates heat and heat will eventually deform PLA or PETG. You will get a lot of repetive motion on a tensioner. However, nothing really needs to be perfect, just temper any longevity expectations based on what you are willing to invest in time and materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could not upvote on another instance [please explain for noob]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Instances don’t have to be federated and instances federate and defederate from each other often enough. The goals of instances may not align, and to keep conflict low(er) it’s better if some instances cut ties.

  TBH, this sounds like a technical issue between ml and nl.

  While I thought it was basically an on/off switch for defederation, I suppose there could be a way to block updates from instances without fully defederating.

  I am not going to get into the drama, but ml is defederated at a little higher frequency, but it’s not as high as some others. It’s because reasons, and is not relevant to this particular thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually like the audio. (I’ll leverage faux tape recording effects and plate reverb on occasion with music I write.)

  And honestly, it was kinda refreshing to watch Charlie Chaplain again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.

  Good try though. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)

  So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some actually movies feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tariff-related layoffs hit five US auto plants that supply factories in Canada and Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait for the mental gymnastics about how iTs waS tHe liBRulS.

  I know a few faceless people that previously worked for a local V.A. office. One of which just got married to a nice lady in Thailand who was about to move here. (Nope. That ain’t happening now.)

  It just amazes me how people can champion for fucking up their own lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia declares Elton John AIDS Foundation undesirable organisation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AIDS doesn’t exist in Russia and is just CIA propaganda.(Someone from ml probably.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of far-right political support among the rich is partly a diversion, so that people start getting more upset at the far right than at being exploited by the rich⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right-wing politics basically requires one or more sub-cultutes to demonize. It’s hate and blame politics, pure and simple.

  As long as the politicians have someone to wag a finger at and blame for all problems, it rallies their supporters. Nazis had the Jews, Republicans have everyone else that they declare different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wanted to share a simple phone stand I designed in these trying times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just by looking at it, this model should scale easily in the slicer. (Scale up by 21.5% if my math is correct.) It may look odd, but even scaling up one axis (Y) may work too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Singer Rick Astley dead at age 59⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is the follow-up post on the joke, btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who created AI will be replaced by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When? That shit is already happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Medications must be taken with a full glass of wine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interest in studying in US dropped 42% in January⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah shit. Missed a word.

  “Studying the US” != “Studying in the US”. Much different context. I thought it was talking about US history classes or some shit. Oops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hehe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A Chevy is still an American brand and the ecotec engines were also used in a variety of European cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hehe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you miss the first bit where it said 2011 Chevrolet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes, when I just barely knock the remote and random show like *Reba* pops on, I can feel cable programing trying to take back control.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Acktually, this is a decent last resort if you have an alkaline battery leak all over a PCB. Hot water is probably not a good idea as you run the risk of warping a board.

  A tooth brush and an isopropyl bath is probably a better option unless you have a good ultrasonic cleaner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI users can match two-person team performance, study suggests.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, AI has the creativity of a turnip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild hogs live in “packs” (“sounders”, actually. Lulz.) as well. On all fronts, the hogs should win. Some of the bigger hogs could easily outweigh a wolf 5:1.

  These creatures are what nightmares are made of and I wish I could say I was joking or being sarcastic.

  Could a pack of wolves separate a hog from its pack and kill it? Sure. Not all hogs are hell-spawn. Regardless, we are also talking about mother nature’s true version of Medusa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I admire your creativity, I seriously doubt that would help. You would only get really pissed off mutant hogs after the dust cleared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give the kids guns too.

  That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)

  While I can’t change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A 9mm would just piss them off.