ShepherdPie
@ShepherdPie@midwest.social
- Comment on How can you bypass a Reddit site ban? 2 weeks ago:
Ban evasion. I had literally this same exact situation happen and lost my 10 year old account. I talked about piracy in /r/Movies and got banned then sitewide permabanned for accidently commenting there from a different account.
- Comment on what floor lamp would you recommend to play a grand piano? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, dad! 😆😆
Time to get you back to the old folks home and to find out how you keep getting out.
- Comment on Many smaller drivers or fewer larger drives? 2 weeks ago:
I think it depends on what you’re storing. If it’s video then you’ll want bigger drives because you’ll fill your array of small drives up quickly and trying to manage 10 or 15 1TB HDDs will get out of hand quickly. Backing up isn’t super critical with large “Linux ISOs” since you can just torrent most everything again to replace missing files.
For fast throughput of small files, I think smaller drives in an array win out and if these are important files, it probably wouldn’t be too expensive to buy a couple of large HDDs to backup the entire array.
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 1 month ago:
Trying to force people to use a cloud account just to get functionality of the piece of hardware they already paid for with no technical reason behind it whatsoever is ludicrous.
There is a technical reason behind it which is integration with MakerWorld and being able to browse files from there and send them to the printer remotely from your phone or other device.
Again, I won’t argue against the whole privacy aspect as I get it, but I just don’t really think it’s a big deal or something of consequence if we’re simply talking about 3D prints. They do have the option to use them locally now, but apparently this doesn’t include all their models (which you may have mentioned already or it was someone else).
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 month ago:
Grrr! English strikes again!
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 1 month ago:
“Deepfakes” are edited pictures of real people. I’d be more inclined to agree with you on completely AI generated images but not something specifically intended to deceive others into thinking they’re viewing a real person’s image.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
This isn’t something you’ll be able to determine in the moment. It will only be clear in hindsight.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
The true fight for our democracy by the working/middle class hasn’t even started yet.
Seems like we’ll need to form our own political party if we want any representation because we’re certainly not getting it from either one of these two dominate parties.
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 1 month ago:
There’s nothing to say that they can’t prevent your slicer from slicing some object the CCP has deemed should not be printed, or remotely brick your printer, or just simply refuse to allow their slicer software to connect to it anymore.
Seems like it’s at least somewhat related to being a Chinese company since you’re mentioning the CCP. I won’t argue that these aren’t things to be conscious of, but I think these fears seem overblown.
I do support open source projects, but I don’t feel like they really enabled me to do anything I can’t do now with the X1C in the 3.5 years of printing prior to owning this thing and the performance/experience has been so much better.
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 1 month ago:
Qidi is also a Chinese company so what’s the difference? Most printers come from Chinese companies outside of companies like Prusa.
- Comment on What do you create? 1 month ago:
“AZ” in the username meaning they might work at one of the fabs in Phoenix
- Comment on If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt? 1 month ago:
It doesn’t matter because they will just spin it, ignore any relevance to their own actions, and repeat it enough that it becomes the narrative. This is the standard M.O.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 months ago:
With blackjack and hookers?
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 months ago:
It looks like it’s just using an SR04 ultrasonic sensor too which isn’t even that precise.
- Comment on Anyone know why my extruder is vibrating 2 months ago:
I had a similar issue and it was a bad stepper motor. The bearings on these are just wide open and a bunch of filament dust had worked it’s way into them. Turning the motor shaft by hand you could feel it get tight at certain points in the rotation. I just swapped in a new motor but you may be able to clean it out if you want to save the $9.
- Comment on Dull Men's Club: a place to share your dull life experiences. 2 months ago:
It’s so weird that I just started seeing posts from this group on Facebook a few days ago and now there’s a lemmy community for it.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 2 months ago:
Just use the TV as a display and try to dink around with some open source media player box if you want to create your own custom OS.
- Comment on Glow Filament Quickshot 2 months ago:
It’s interesting to hear that there is a new style as I’ve done several prints using the old style and it’s so lame that it only works for a few minutes after being exposed directly to bright light especially with how rough it is on the machine. It wore a groove through the hotend on my old Sidewindet X2 after using about a Kg to print a giant Lego skeleton.
- Comment on Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 2 months ago:
How would you know if it’s hidden?
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 2 months ago:
Also wouldn’t the argument apply to subscribing as well? Consumers may not understand the consequences of subscribing to said service. Therefore, “click to subscribe” should also be banned.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 2 months ago:
More recently, they throttled Netflix until they could extort them to pay for the traffic being used by their own customers, who were already paying Comcast for the very same data ussge.
- Comment on Intel & Samsung Are Reportedly Inking A "Foundry Alliance", Sharing Production Facilities Along With Process Tech 2 months ago:
They didn’t name the node size after the guy they named it after the unit since it’s approaching sub-nanometer node size.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 2 months ago:
You’d have to flash new firmware for that to change. In the old days each phone was carrier specific and had to have the exact right firmware but now they’re fairly generic and are cross compatible (do your own research). You could check XDA Developers for the process.
- Comment on Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago 2 months ago:
It is better. Better than it would have been. Better than other countries did.
What did you steal this quote from a Trump speech? How interesting that I’m hearing more and more Trump rhetoric from Democrats as of late.
Funny that if things are so much better now, why are you getting so defensive over someone criticizing some politician that doesn’t even know you exist? It sounds more like you’re desperate to bury any criticism of your team and their terrible, ineffective policies.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 2 months ago:
That’s true it was excellent and an outlier for the franchise.
- Comment on Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago 2 months ago:
Wow how quickly you dropped the argument about things being “better.” How about you stop carrying water for people who aren’t serving our best interests and stop acting like politics is a team sport for starters? You can’t even handle legitimate criticism of the party without getting upset because it doesn’t “sound right.”
- Comment on Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago 2 months ago:
You’re right when your definition of “better” is a month where you only have to choose between a roof over your head and food instead of a roof over your head, medicine, and food.
What a disgusting response to the current state of the country and our decades long decline into serfdom.
- Comment on Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago 2 months ago:
Democrats care about the poor about as much as Republicans care about babies once they’re born. It’s mostly lip service and a few scraps so the majority of people don’t realize we’re getting fleeced regardless of who’s in charge.
- Comment on Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago 2 months ago:
That’s only 900k union employees in a country with a population of 330 million
Inflation slowing doesn’t undo the damage caused by the previously record high inflation unless everyone got a raise to wipe out the price increases.