sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
- Comment on Not sure where to ask this but why do some wall powered usb-c hubs refuse the charge anything until they are plugged into a computer? 6 hours ago:
Apple, Samsung, all the Chinese phone brands with their proprietary fast charging standards, HP, Bambu Lab, Nintendo, Xbox, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, etc. etc.
There’s a lot of terrible companies, actually.
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- Comment on How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky? 2 days ago:
several can mean 2-5 years, right? Or are you one of those people who insist on a distinction between couple, few, many, and several?
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- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 6 days ago:
driving bleach? I assume you mean drinking (which for obvious reasons is not a good idea). Also, what the heck is a horse de-wormer?
- Comment on Guide recommendation for absolute newbies? 6 days ago:
it’s bambu connect, right? that’s what the thing is called?
- Comment on Guide recommendation for absolute newbies? 6 days ago:
One thing is for sure, their “security” that is Bambu Connect was compromised almost immediately after it was released (not very secure, is it?)
- Comment on Guide recommendation for absolute newbies? 6 days ago:
Bambus do print great, but Sovol, Qidi, Prusa, etc. also seem to print great while not doing any of the Apple/HP-esque anti-consumer practices.
- Comment on Why do I need a domain to access my Funkwhale library but not SyncThing? 1 week ago:
As some others have said, you could use a VPN like Tailscale to connect to your local network remotely. Alternatively, you could simply not deal with all the faff and only use your services locally, which is what I do with Nextcloud and Immich. Syncs when I get home but doesn’t when I’m not, and I can always use Tailscale to remotely access my server if there are any issues.
- Comment on Why do I need a domain to access my Funkwhale library but not SyncThing? 1 week ago:
The cool thing about SyncThing is that it’s peer to peer, meaning you don’t need a central server for your files to sync. They can go between your laptop and phone, for example.
Something like Funkwhale does need a server, and to talk to that server outside your local network, you need a domain name.
- Comment on Guide recommendation for absolute newbies? 1 week ago:
As an owner of a Bambu A1, I would not recommend any of Bambu’s printers. They print great, but they have been locking down their ecosystem for no good reason (at least, no good for us consumers). They are blocking both third-party software and hardware (stuff like the Panda Touch display) for “security reasons”, and you have to enable a special Developer Mode to continue using third-party slicers.
I have my printer stuck on v4.0.0.0 with LAN only mode, using Tailscale to remotely access, as I prefer using OrcaSlicer. They are really pushing to be the Apple of 3D printers by locking down their printers and restricting you to their software ecosystem. They already have tags to identify first-party filament, what’s stopping them from blocking non-Bambu filament like HP and 2D printer ink?
I would recommend any other brand over Bambu, I know the Ender V3 is a popular option. Sovol and Qidi both have good value options too. Prusa if you have more budget, lots of people love their printers. Haven’t used any of the other brands though, so I have no idea about how well they perform.
- Comment on Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes 1 week ago:
Personally I use Joplin as it’s super customizable and I like sorting my notes in “notebook”. I am syncing my notes with Nextcloud, but you can also use anything that’s WebDAV, OneDrive (ew), or anything that uses S3 (like Backblaze)
- Comment on Are you sure there aren't any ... ?? 1 week ago:
lemmy.world -> An instance of “Lemmy”: it’s like if Reddit could be hosted by anyone in the world rather that one big server, and all these mini-servers can talk to each other! Also, Lemmy is part of the greater “Fediverse” (kind of like if Instagram users could see posts from Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. The Fediverse is a collection of different platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Frendica, PeerTube, etc.). lemmy.world in particular is one of the larger instances of Lemmy.
lemmy.world is used like Reddit, you can create posts in “communities” (subreddit equivalent) and comment on them. There are thousands of communities on all sorts of topics (discussion, sciences, movies, games, asking questions, various hobbies, etc.)! You are also able to upvote and downvote (but there’s no “algorithm” like on something like Reddit). That’s the main gist of it, I think.
Perchance is an AI image generator, so I don’t think it has much of a connection with any of Lemmy’s instances. I will say that competitions usually give you extra entries if you subscribe to their social media and such on the various platforms, so that’s probably why you had to make an account on lemmy.
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 week ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 week ago:
Yeah, surface area!
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 week ago:
I thought area was for 2D things, and volume is for 3D things? Or does he mean surface area?
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
A clean reinstall would certainly ruin my dual boot (Windows loves occupying the entire drive), and I have already spent many hours waiting for the disk partitions to reshuffle and resize when reclaiming that ~180GB of space. Also, things like Tiny11, being repacked versions of Windows, could easily be compromised and have all sorts of nasty malware. Having about 87GB of space for Windows is fine right now, and since my laptop has 1TB of storage, Fedora gets over 900GB of space. Much better than the ~700GB I started with.
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
Well that was the problem, trying to use the ISO image (with both Ventoy and balenaEtcher) simply didn’t work, and I was unable to reinstall Windows for god knows why. I looked at the site of balenaEtcher and apparently they don’t do Windows ISOs.
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
I am not running a minecraft server, we are just playing via a LAN connection!
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
Actually, do werewolves have regenerative abilities like Wolverine? Is that why Wolverine is called that, after wolves???
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
Teeth would definitely hurt more. Another question, how slowly would a wolf teeth bullet need to be fired to not kill someone? (I remember reading something about how bullets, even those of “non-lethal” materials like rubber, can still be lethal)
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
Autocorrect can be a thing…
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
If werewolves did in fact exist and they had the ability to turn other people into werewolves through their saliva, using their spit in a gun would probably turn them into werewolves. It would be kind of like using snake venom in poison darts. I am unsure why one would want to turn someone into a werewolf though, that seems like a terrible idea for the target, the shooter, and the rest of the world.
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
If I’m reading this correctly, this is a fixtional question on whether you could store werewolf spit into a dart and use it in a gun to turn people into werewolves. Autocorrect I assume
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
unfortunately that would almost certainly ruin dual boot (Windows loves overwriting the entire disk…and I don’t have the option of using a second drive since it’s a laptop…)
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
It’s crazy how much crap Windows preinstalls, I was able to save over 100GB just by removing unnecessary programs and files…
Also just to note, I’m very surprised that messing around with the order and size of the partitions didn’t break my computer!
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
cutting Windows down from 200GB to just 87GB gives me loads of space, nice!
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
I mentioned that I disabled hibernate with the powercfg command, so it should be deleted.
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
around 2.5GB it seems
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
Checking using Windows settings, there is a ~3GB “eSupport” folder (seems to be used to store drivers and other stuff from the laptop manufacturer) and a ~1.3GB “AdwCleaner” folder (a malwarebytes thing, is this used by Windows Defender or something?). Are those safe to delete?
Also, it seems that I had Cinebench still installed (portable, so I didn’t see it) which took about 3GB. After uninstalling that, Windows still takes up over 100GB…