AliasVortex

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is now live⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m partial to isthereanydeal.com for a more platform agnostic view of historical lows (it’s also super handy to see if a game gets frequently bundled or is perpetually on sale).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the problem here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ender’s 3 price point is tricky, because the initial machine is so cheap there isn’t a whole lot else in the same sub-$200 bracket that’s particularly great. Realistically, if you can step up to $300 (which you’d probably spend in upgrades for the ender anyway), you’ve got the Bambu A1 and Elegoo Centauri Carbon. I’m not personally a fan of Bambu, but they are very set and forget folks that don’t mind being in an ecosystem seem to love them. Centauri is on the newer side, but from everything I’ve seen, it seems to be a very strong contender for best budget printer (also worth noting that there’s rumblings of a version 2 coming out early year, so you might be able to snag a clearance sale or some shiny new features).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamers Nexus did a piece on this, but short of a crash or bubble pop, it’s not expected to recover any time soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing on a keyboard is kind of like sign language⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I see the play on words, since each key is a “sign”. In practice though, Sign Languages tend to be a mix of logographic language where each sign represents an idea or concept and segmental language where you string a bunch of letters/ sounds together to make words. I can only really speak to American Sign Language (ASL), but generally you only finger spell to super short words/ acronyms (like ASL) or as a fallback for when someone might not know a sign / when something might not have a sign (like proper nouns).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego Marvel Superheroes is probably one of my favorite Lego games! It’s not without its faults (it kinda bugs me that free play just sticks you back in with pretty much the same cast of characters), but it’s just so much fun to wander around the over world map causing wanton chaos and being a general menace. Plus, I love that the characters generally voice aced by the same people that voice/ play them in live action or other shows, so when Iron Man talks it sounds like Iron Man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seasoning is just oil baked onto cast iron through a process called polymerization. It gives your cookware that classic black patina. Seasoning forms a natural, easy-release cooking surface and helps prevent your pan from rusting.

  - Lodge (as I understand it, they’re the gold standard for cast iron cookware)

  In the case of non-stick stuff, it’s less that they’re seasoned with PFAS and more that they don’t need seasoning because they have PFAS (at least in theory).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know your jewellery...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  us-east-1 then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww schist, here we go again!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3144: Phase Changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  113 times a second

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You donkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit post aside, I had a friend with a background in the restaurant industry (did a bunch of time in various restaurants, went through cooking school, that kind of thing), who put on a work sponsored barbeque. When someone asked why the folks helping him got promoted to Chef, my friend explained it as “everyone in the kitchen is addressed as Chef, it doesn’t matter if they’re calling the shots, cooking food, or doing dishes. It’s a show of respect.” Grain of salt and all since cultures vary between restaurants, but it’s stuck with me because it was such a genuine moment of “this dude loves to cook and got a chance to share something he’s super passionate about”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Broke the law" is such a weird phrase; it implies you made it so the law no longer functions. The law doesn't change because someone disobeyed it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine it more along the lines of breaking a promise. Law is more or less a social contract, so it’s less that the law no longer functions and more that the person in question is breaking the agreement.

  But also yes, one who repeatedly breaks the contract with no consequences, definitely calls into question the value and validity of the contact, and that’s when things really start to, erm… Break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing my first printer is driving me mad.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t let multicolor be a barrier for entry for you. It’s something that can technically be added later*, but it is much more difficult to convert a printer to be able to work with engineering materials. Personally speaking, I also wouldn’t mix multicolor and engineering materials ABS is pretty cheap but anything that would need a hardened nozzle (like glass or carbon fiber reinforced filaments) is almost too expensive to waste purging. Plus, if I’m remembering correctly, color swapped prints aren’t quite as strong structurally as monofilament prints.

  * technically speaking as long as your printer can run Klipper, there are community projects like Box Turtle or Enraged Rabbit that are meant for more general use (if you’re okay tinkering with things) if Elegoo never gets around to releasing their multicolor unit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adhered so hard it delaminated the glass.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heads up, PEI sheets are great because you can take them off and flex them a bit to pop parts off, but it is worth noting that PETG (and TPU) can also bond too well to PEI. It depends a bit on the kind and quality of the PEI, but you may still want to use a release layer (I’m partial to washable glue sticks, but everyone has their own personal preferences) just to keep your plate safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was content to let the other comments address the history since I’m not particularly well versed there (and there’s already enough confidently incorrect bullshit in the world). I mostly just wanted to interject on why there aren’t more chip companies beyond just hand waving it away as “market consolidation”, which is true, but doesn’t take into account that barrier for entry in the space is less on the scale of opening up a sandwich restaurant or boutique clothing store and more on the order of waking up tomorrow and deciding to compete with your local power/ water utility provider.

  The answer also gets kind of fuzzy outside the conventional computer space and where single board/ System On a Chip designs are common, stuff like Raspberry Pi’s or smart phones, since they technically have graphics modules designed be companies like Snapdragon or MediaTek. It’s also worth noting that computers have gotten orders of magnitude more complicated compared to the era of starting a tech company in your garage.

  If it helps answer your question, according to Wikipedia, most of the other GPU companies have either been acquired or gone bankrupt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The short concise answer is mostly cost. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all spending multiple billions of dollars per year in R&D alone. It’s just not a space where someone can invent something in their garage and disrupt the whole industry (like, even if someone were to come out of left field with a revolutionary chip design, they’d need to convince investors that they’d be a better bet than literal trillion dollar companies).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been rocking a Framework 16 for about a year now and would happily recommend it. It’s a bit more upfront, but I love knowing that I can fix or replace just about anything on it (pretty affordably too). It’s just so refreshing to not have to worry about dumb shit like an obscure power adapter or port forcing my laptop into an early retirement.

  It’s not the lightest laptop I’ve ever had, but realistically not all that much different from my last gaming laptop. Now that I’m not a full time student anymore I could probably get away with one of the smaller models, but the form factor is pretty nice.

  Overall, no major complaints!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to nitpick, but it’s only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word “said”, is all the dialogue this bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calibrating my E-steps ended up giving me nearly pixel-perfect prints (Creality K1)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Not to burst OPs bubble, but I highly doubt they’re hitting a flow rate that high.

  If I had to guess, Orca is capping their extrusion move speeds at whatever speed the filament_max_volumetric_speed of their filament profile is set to. In other words, if the profile is set to 12 (default for Creality Generic PLA) the actual speed is probably something like 150mm/s (flow / (nozzle diameter * layer height), so 12 / (0.4 * 0.2)), regardless of what the speed value is set to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The blue/ silver is very striking, I’m excited!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. RimWorld - I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game care so much about making the player feel like part of the story; just all around amazing. Damn near everything is configurable and for anything that isn’t the modding community probably has a fix for (and then some).
  2. Terraria - Certainly has its quirks and annoyances, but I like that it has sandbox elements to be creative and do whatever, but also always feels like the game has an objective to work towards. I’ve probably played though at least half a dozen times between solo runs and multiplayer games with friends/ family and I just keep coming back to it.
  3. Stardew valley - it’s just cozy with a slight hit of nostalgia. I have childhood memories of staying up entirely too late monopolizing the TV/ GameCube playing Harvest Moon and this scratches the same itch. Beyond that you can feel the love and attention to detail that the dev has poured into the game. Plus the skill ceiling is pretty low, so even my non-gamer friends/ family can play and have a good time.

  Honorable mentions:

  • Factorio
  • Slay the Spire
  • FTL
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely and more! We also have psychic powers, murder robots, friendly murder robots, vampires, genetic engineering, organized religion, semi-sentient plants, space ships, cannibals, space drugs, drugs in space, rabid woodland critters, eldritch horrors beyond comprehension, giant bugs, orbital bombardments, and also the looming threat of starvation as you watch all that you built burn. That’s all before we talk about things that the modding community has brought to the game.

  To be clear, the RimWorld doesn’t force you into any one play style, and most of the things listed above can be disabled or avoided if that’s not your jam. At its core the game is trying to tell a story, it’s up to the player to help shape that story. It’s absolutely fantastic; quite literally the best $30 I’ve ever spent on a game (if we’re talking hours played, I’m just about to turn the corner on 2,000 hours (in the spirit of disclosure, a chunk of that is also spent making mods for the game)).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cura is making cracks in the z seam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That or a wall wipe distance maybe? It’s been ages since I’ve used cura though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mainly use my printer as a tool to solve problems, so my decision process is very much grounded in arriving at a solution as opposed to just finding something to keep the machine busy.

  My usual approach is to cast a wide net and go through all the models that might do what I’m looking for. If I’m lucky, I’ll find something that I like enough to print. If not I’ll use it as a brainstorming session and either pick out a model or two that I can adapt (or at the very least pull critical dimensions) or get a feel for what I’d like to do differently. From there, it’s off to CAD where I’ll fire off slivers and prototypes until I’m happy with the fit and function of my part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say so, my understanding is that lasagna is just a dish made from layering wide flat noodles, sauce, and other fillings.

  My mom makes a white lasagna with ground chicken, spinach, Alfredo sauce, and cheese. It’s amazing! I prefer it to a traditional lasagna, but I’m biased since I’m not a huge fan of tomatoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds pretty similar to how I have my network setup:

  • PiHole has conditional forwarding configured (true,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.1.1,lan note: .lan is optional here, I uss it for my internal TLD) to get device names from router
  • PiHole uses Unifi as the upstream DNS and DHCP
  • Unifi uses cloudflare as the upstream DNS
  • Unifi hands out the PiHole as the DNS via DHCP config

  That way I get stats in all the places and can use Unifi for DHCP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently slogging my way though the late game (or at least I was until more pressing things came up), there’s some slight automation towards the mid game that helps a bit, but the grind doesn’t really go away. Mostly due to the fact that you end up spending Faith/ corpses/ gold way faster than you can get them. I find myself in a waiting pattern fairly often- there’s still things to do, but progress on major quests feels super slow (and almost unrewarding). The DLC is mostly regarded as filler, but if you’re a completionist (or like what they offer), it’s not awful at the current sale price.

  Note: there are achievements that are gated behind having the DLCs if that’s your thing.

  It’s not strictly a bad game, but I’d almost rather play Stardew for the farming/ story or Factorio for the automation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of awesome! I have a bunch of home lab stuff, but have been putting off buying a domain (I was a broke college student when I started my lab and half the point was avoiding recurring costs- plus I already run the DNS, as far as the WAN is concerned, I have whatever domain I want). My loose plan was to stand up a certificate authority and push the root public key out with active directory, but being able to certify things against Let’s Encrypt might make things significantly easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping Snap And Crackle Under Control With Prunt Printer Firmware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconding the confused Voron noises. I mean, I’d be really curious to see the 3d printer firmware market share beak down, but I feel like anybody building a custom printer is going to have a far easier time with Klipper, just because of how much easier it is to get dialed in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? I tried to switch my primary computer (framework laptop) to Linux earlier this year and ended up going back to windows after I had absolute nightmares with my type-c KVM. Coupled with performance issues while gaming (and the absolute hassle of having to force games to use my graphics card). Add in whatever random issues I was getting trying to remote into other windows machines on my domain (for CAD work). My day job is in software engineering/ programming, so I’m not exactly a stranger to digging through documentation and fixing computer issues, but spending time fixing my computer instead of using it got old pretty quick.

  Perfectly happy with Linux in my HomeLab and on my steamdeck though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will rice fix it?!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  papyrus!