beastlykings
@beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 10 hours ago:
Neat!
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 1 day ago:
That’s good to know, thanks! I’m still just learning to touch type. I spent a few decades typing fast enough but always looking at the keys. This year I’ve started learning touch typing, I’m only a half dozen hours in, so still pretty new.
But when I get good I’ll take this into consideration! Thanks!
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 1 day ago:
Interesting 🤔 why? Just curious
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 1 day ago:
Oh now this is different than I’ve heard, some others have had issues switching back and forth. So maybe I will give it a try, once I’ve got qwerty up to a decent speed and I feel comfortable with it.
Right now it’s a problem because if I’m in a hurry, I’m tempted to type the old way, or a broken mixture of the two that messes with what I’ve learned. Not good. Gotta slow down and do it right, bah…
Thanks for the recommendations, I’m gonna put a 3d printed split board on my list of things I’ll definitely get to some day and totally won’t get pushed off the back of the furthest back burner lol
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 2 days ago:
Very cool!
Honest question, does using a keyboard like this make you forget how to use a standard one?
I know op did it for the pain, so it’s a moot point. But if I did it just because it’s cool, and to avoid injury in the future, would I mess up my normal keyboard abilities?
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 4 days ago:
Sweet summer child…
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 6 days ago:
I’ve definitely pulled my hair out with docker too. Banged my head against the wall for a couple days before finally giving up.
I’m not ridiculously tech savvy, but I’ve tinkered with Linux since I was young, daily drive it on my laptop. I’m not afraid of the command line, and I’m smart enough to search for help and guides when I need it.
But something about docker just breaks my brain. Maybe I’m too old and there’s too much abstract thought required, I don’t know. But I can’t figure it out.
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 2 weeks ago:
They did not nest properly on boost. But I guess that’s not surprising, we only just recently got them at all
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 5 weeks ago:
I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on the 1.0 of freecad.
I don’t use CAD professionally, and even my hobby usage is less than it was, and it was only a dozen or two small projects.
I had never used freecad, always fusion 360. I’ve been away for awhile, and also switched to Linux in the meantime. I needed to make a simple object, and tried freecad 1.0, and I literally could not intuit how to begin. Not a single shape, I was so lost, it was very frustrating.
I tried onshape and got a bit further, but still don’t like the corporate nature of it.
I’m not trying to slam freecad, I really want it to work, and when I have more time to sit down and study it, I want to try again. But in the meantime I went back to fusion 360 in a VM, which was very sluggish, but at least I knew where everything was.
- Comment on The crossbow 😭 5 weeks ago:
This actually got me into a car accident as a young driver.
I had just gotten on the highway heading home, rural towns. The gas gauge was broken so I had to count miles on the odometer to know when I was low, and I realized at that moment that I was desperately in need of gas.
So I took the first exit, and started looking for a gas station. I’m driving the speed limit, 55mph, and coming around a very large slowly sweeping curve I see what looks like a gas station up ahead on the left. There are no other businesses on the road. It had a tall sign out front. I didn’t recognize the sign, I was trying to read what it said, to see if it was a gas station or not. But I couldn’t read it. I was struggling to make sense of what I was seeing, honestly. A Martin Glass? An olive? I don’t remember all the things on it. But the point is, it was items, party items, that spelled out the word… party? It was a party store… and then I hit the guy in front of me who was stopped dead in the middle of the road waiting to turn left into a driveway.
I was so distracted trying to read that stupid sign, I didn’t even see him until the last second. I had time to swerve a bit, and I locked the brakes. I ended up hitting his back right bumper and crushing it in, a glancing blow that didn’t even touch his trunk. Just the bumper. He drove away no problem.
My car was a different story, it tore my lower control arm and snapped my tie-rod. Took out the front left quarter panel, hood, bumper, and headlight too. I had to get towed home, like 2 hours.
Technically my fault, and I got the ticket. But dang it if to this day, I don’t still blame that stupid sign. The Martini glass was the Y, I think the olive was the A? I don’t remember, I should try finding it again.
- Comment on NonPlanar Interlocking Walls for Stronger 3D-Prints 1 month ago:
Please report back!
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the information!
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
What filter would you use? I’ve never played with abs because I didn’t want to have to vent an enclosure outside, especially in the winter. But if it could all stay inside that’d be great.
I have a cat. Cat tax: Image
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 1 month ago:
Just bought my FW13 last month. USA. It’s either perfect timing, because tariffs. Or terrible timing, because tariffs. I haven’t decided yet.
Love the laptop though!
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
That’s good to know, maybe I’ll give it a go then 👌
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
Maybe I’ll take a crack at it then, thanks!
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the recommendations! PLA and PETG are all I’ve ever printed with.
Maybe I’ll look into buying a replacement one, I’d rather not worry about it 🤷♂️
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 damage? 1 month ago:
Hmmm, I don’t remember it being this way when I bought it. I suppose it’s possible someone dropped it, I’ve had people watch my house over vacation. But then again, I didn’t align anything or even level the bed before I used it after storing it, you’d think it’d be at least a little out of whack?
- Submitted 1 month ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
This is a minor issue compared to the security risks. See the other comment in this thread for a good explanation.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Definitely you should look into Linux, it’s really gotten quite good. Especially if you don’t need games with anti cheat.
But if you just want to use Windows 11, it’s super duper easy. Just Google “download Windows 11 iso” and grab the iso file from Microsoft website.
Then download Rufus.
Then pop in a thumb drive that’s at least 8gb. Open Rufus, select your thumb drive and the iso, then choose the option to remove windows requirements, then click start.
Backup your files on Windows 10, save them somewhere. Then pop in the thumb drive and install windows 11 fresh.
The requirements aren’t actually required. Win 11 runs fine on all sorts of hardware. Support stops at 8th Gen Intel, but I’ve installed it on 5th Gen. My work laptop is 2nd or 3rd Gen. It’s fine 🤷♂️
Technically less secure? Yeah, in some ways. But it’s miles ahead of running unpatched windows 10 after September.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Got a new laptop about a month ago. Put Fedora Bluefin on it immediately. Couple other computers/server have been running Debian flavors for year or two.
My main desktop is still Windows, but I literally never use it, especially since getting the laptop. I’ll switch it over when I get time.
I’m still tied to windows for three apps. I’ve found a Linux replacement for one, I just haven’t done the work to convert the database.
Another one I’m trying to run it’s Android version in a waydroid docker, but I’m hitting walls, no time to dig deeper.
And the last one has no replacement, and it’s too delicate to try emulating, I don’t want to nuke the shared database it’s attached to, it’s not worth the headache. So I keep a Windows VM around for the once a month I need to use that program for 🤷♂️
I’m purposely being vague about the programs, they are very identifying, but trust me there’s no alternatives.
Even with all that, I’m not looking back win11 sucks.
- Comment on Elianscript! A fun artistic way to softly encrypt your handwriting. 2 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Elianscript! A fun artistic way to softly encrypt your handwriting. 2 months ago:
That’s fair, wrong word used. The idea is that someone casually looking at it will not know how to read it.
Thanks 👍
- Submitted 2 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Sunday Puzzle: Big Name in Healthcare 2 months ago:
New York Times
- Comment on Just discovered Mini Metro, a puzzle game where you have to create metro lines. Very addictive, but also chill, and currently 50% off on Steam 4 months ago:
I remember. I was like, wait, people paying for this? Good times though, definitely fun.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 months ago:
Finally started horizon forbidden West, I like it so far
