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 Recommendations 16 minutes ago:
Prusa is the obvious recommendation and have really god quality printers. Another option would be Qidi, they have some great value options (I heard the Q1 Pro is decent?) or recently Elegoo with their Centauri Carbon.
However, I would advise that you don’t get a Bambu Lab printer, as someone who owns the Bambu A1. They print fine, but they are locking down on their ecosystem by blocking third party software and hardware (e.g. PandaTouch display), and it won’t be long until they go full Apple/HP-like (they already have RFID tags on their filament, what’s stopping them from dropping an update that blocks non-Bambu filament like HP did with ink?
- Comment on Is Maduro our generations Norega? 1 day ago:
Wait what the hell Trump actually went ahead and captured Maduro today? Holy shit I did not keep up with the news.
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- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 days ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 days ago:
One more thing, for PSUs, is the Seasonic Vertex GX1000 better than the Focus GX1000 in any way aside from 2 years extra warranty (10 vs 12 year warranty)
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- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 3 days ago:
Both the U.S. and the Soviets supported countless proxy wars across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Carribean, with weapons, training, manpower, and a lot of propaganda. So many small conflicts were blown up to huge ones by massive amounts of funding and support from the two nuclear superpowers. They both had numerous spy operations involving the CIA and KGB respectively. Both sides were aggressive, there was no side that was not.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 3 days ago:
both can be true
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- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 5 days ago:
It’s a nice ideacin theory, but that requires all the humans to be super altruisitic and just give stuff to everyone for seemingly no benefit to themselves.
As the other person said, bartering would only work if you both have the thing you need. If Allen is a woodworker and doesn’t have any bacon, and Alice wants some bacon in exchange for X thing, then a transaction can’t happen. It worked well when different tribes of humans could sustain themselves (hunt their own food, gather their own resources, etc.) and when people had very few needs (no technologies, no nice furniture, less mass produced plastic, etc.)
In other words, humans are selfish, and the promise of future benefit in the metals and paper (and now 0s and 1s with stuff like PayPal and plastic cards) we call “money” is necessary for people to trade effectively in the modern, interconnected world.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 5 days ago:
There’s this neat laptop by Honor (the “MagicBook Art 14” I believe, I think it has the option of either a Snapdragon X Elite or the Intel Core Ultra series processors…) where the webcam magnetically attaches and can be flilled both ways, and tucks in to the side when it is not needed, so the display doesn’t have a notch/hole.
It’s a gimmicky feature though, most people don’t need something like that, and the people that do have other ways to go about it (e.g. document scanner, smartphone, mirrorless/DSLR camera). Most laptop webcams aren’t very good anyways
For PCs, I guess you could mount a webcam the other way? For most people you would only see wall.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 week ago:
Oop, yeo, they do. But it’s optional I think since I never used it
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 week ago:
RSS feeds are incredibly useful, I use them to keep up with all sorts of news. Most feed readers also let you group different feeds into categories. I have mine divided between science, technology, world news, etc.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 week ago:
Many RSS feed readers let you create an account to sync your read items and such (useful if you have multiple devices, also useful for bad actors to see everything you’ve read…) but there are plenty of readers where it’s not a thing/is optional. On Android, there’s “Feeder” and “CapyReader” (I use the latter) and on iOS there’s NetNewsWire
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
Nope
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
I don’t think anyone needs more toenail pictures
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
When I was little, I think I kicked something really hard and bent my left little toe (pinky toe? Why do people call the little finger a pinky anyways? It’s equally pink as the rest of the fingers…) where the toenail now grows way off to the right, it’s bent to the right permanently it seems, which is kind of interesting.
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
He’s asking why, after you cut your toenails, it gets pointy in the middle. It’s a fair question, I just think nobody likes to see toenails in their feed, it would have been better if that was omitted
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
I think I understand what you’re saying. You are wondering why the middle of the toenail (not body, feet are clearly on the very end of that) grows a bit faster than the bits on the side, leading to a toenail that’s a bit pointy in the middle, which could be quite annoying to you.
I think it’s because, when you cut your toenails, you almost always cut from the corners, not straight on, leading to a toenail that is more pronounced in the centre, since you usually make the edges of the toenail shorter than the middle.
Another theory is that (pulling this from a hat, I didn’t take Biology), since toenails are essentially just dead stuff that’s growing from the corpses of alive stuff underneath the toenail, there was some evolutionary advantage to having extra alive stuff in the middle of your toenail. (perhaps to better protect that alive stuff, as it could be more vulnerable out near the edges or maybe to make the toenails sharper and pointier for better grip)
There is more alive stuff in the middle, I know this from experience that when cutting too far into the toenail, it’s far easier to touch the alive bits in the middle (it’s painful!) compared to the edges.
- Comment on Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area? 1 week ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure the question described a sphere
- Comment on Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area? 1 week ago:
sphere != circle
Sphere is like a ball (3D), while circles are like those round coasters for drinks (flat)
- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 1 week ago:
I think you would drown first. Wait, would you be able to float in spit? Depends on how salty/contaminated with gunk it is. Assuming you don’t drown, I don’t think you would dissolve in spit, as your skin is pretty tough. If you stick a chicken leg in your mouth for a bit, sure it would get gooey and yucky, but it wouldn’t just dissolve. That’s what your stomach acid is for. I think saliva softens up the food, but not dissolve it, but I didn’t choose Biology, so what do I know.
There’s also a very high likelihood that you get really sick though, who knows what’s in that spit? Not to the mention it’s probably from hundreds, if not thousands people given that there’s enough to fill an entire pool.
- Comment on Recommendation for Android File Manager 2 weeks ago:
It saves the file and it works. I think there might be a permissions issue with some images (are the images part of a particular album/folder? Are they all from a certain app? etc.)
Double check the permissions of Material Files, maybe you have it set to something like “only allow images I select”
- Comment on Recommendation for Android File Manager 2 weeks ago:
I still have the option to save stuff as a file with material files, so not sure what’s wrong.
- Comment on Recommended email providers? 2 weeks ago:
Of note, PurelyMail sounds pretty good, I might have to check that one out. Looks like it’s based in the U.S. though, so that could be a problem for some.
- Comment on Recommended email providers? 2 weeks ago:
Disroot (Netherlands) is pretty good, that’s one that I have used before, and I’ve also heard that Fastmail (Australia) and mailbox.org (Germany) are good paid options but have never tried either.
- Comment on My led lights suddenly turned dim. Why do they break like that? 3 weeks ago:
Like hollow out a light bulb casing and put your storebought LED and controller inside
- Comment on My led lights suddenly turned dim. Why do they break like that? 3 weeks ago:
Do you think it is possible/a good idea to DIY you own LED bulbs with off-the-shelf components?
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 3 weeks ago:
If the world was some simulation, if you feel that you are a real bag of flesh and are able to feel conscuous, free will, etc. then it doesn’t really matter if the universe is a simulation in my opinion It would explain a lot though. Sometimes I completely forget what I was going to do/find in a room right after I entered it, which could easily be explained by someone high above pulling a funny prank on the flesh bags.
