PlutoniumAcid
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 1 month ago:
Hey, don’t diss Fisher Price toys. The old ones from 40+ years ago were solid. So much so that the iconic telephone on wheels and with eyes is still around.
Modern day crap though? Oh I’m with you!
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 1 month ago:
No, that’s what a rake does.
- Comment on How do you build complex shapes? 1 month ago:
I’m with you, and we can make quite cool things in TinkerCad. To translate my question to your shape: if you decide to have larger rotors, or longer arms, you would have to fiddle with groups for a very long time, right? In comparison, with e.g. FreeCad and a shitload of parameters, that would be quick (but you’d need to spend a lot of time defining all those parameters… but only once, though).
- Comment on How do you build complex shapes? 1 month ago:
Lofts and sweeps and pockets FTW! That does look like the right solution for single objects.
What about objects that sit at an angle relative to each other? Can you define workplanes (sketches) at arbitrary angles? Can you later slide those planes up/down, e.g. to add more distance from the face it would sit on? For instance, in the above object, the holders on the blue face are tilted 14 degrees from the blue base, and the little red holder in front is tilted an additional 5 degrees and lifted 6mm from the front of the larger red holder.
- Comment on How do you build complex shapes? 1 month ago:
Yes, tapered in all directions at once. For instance one of the walkies has a rectangular base and an almost straight-up backside, but the front tapers outward. At the same time, the sides taper too, but different angle and height than the front. There are almost no right angles on these shapes anywhere, which is tedious to model.
I’ve looked at OpenSCAD but it’s honestly too much coding for me. TinkerCad is so rewarding because it’s fast and easy to get nearly to the finish line – but I know that any kind of parametric is a win in the long run, because changing one constraint makes everything else auto-adjust rather than having to take apart and build again.
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- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 2 months ago:
stop buying car parts first
Oof. Same, brother. Same. 🤜🤛
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
What about sending sms to other countries though? I have free domestic sms but pay like 0.20€ for international (within EU).
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 months ago:
What happens when you self host email but your home is offline just as someone tries to send you an email?
Will their mail bounce? Vanish?
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 2 months ago:
My brother got a Mac for work. He couldn’t get used to the fact that a simple press of the Home key wouldn’t go to the start of the line; it goes to the start of the FILE.
Why??
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 2 months ago:
The modern software industry is a blight upon this world. I should know; I’m part of it.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 2 months ago:
I said the same thing, until the kids needed to use Office365 for school.
And NO, Libreoffice won’t cut it because the school is deeply entrenched with Microsoft - it’s not just using Word or whatever, but all those OneDrive things that are so tightly integrated.
So they run Windows, and I hate it. My work laptop also runs Windows, and I hate it. But there’s only so far you can take your idealism if you still want to be part of a normal functioning society.
My home server rocks Linux and Docker and whatnot. But work and school? Just accept it.
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 2 months ago:
… London?
- Comment on Shape optimized spoolholder 2 months ago:
I don’t follow you. Look at the photo, the thing is made of triangles. It’s the best shape. So I wonder, why use more than just one? Why make the shape require more than one triangle?
- Comment on Shape optimized spoolholder 2 months ago:
I take it there’s another holder on the other side.
May I ask why the complex shape, rather than just having a triangle with two points on the 4040 rail and the third point being the axle position?
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 2 months ago:
Vimes’ theory of boots!
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
- Comment on My Overconfidence Killed Me and My Immich Installation 2 months ago:
Man, I feel you. I hate Mattermost for its utter inability to run on anything else than port 8065 specifically.
- Comment on Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV 2 months ago:
Trop the cameras, add lidar instead. That’s true 3d vision, which no amount of cameras can replace.
- Comment on The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline 2 months ago:
Fuk Dat Shit
- Comment on Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been? 2 months ago:
Arguably, the time from when a girl is born until she becomes a mother herself is rising significantly.
That time might have been 20 years a century ago but is closer to 25-30 years in western countries now.
- Comment on Finland school shooting: Bullying was the motive for attack that killed boy, 12, police say 2 months ago:
“as much a victim” as a dead child? Hard no.
Yes bullying is wrong, yes being bullied is bad, but killing is worse.
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
Yes, but given the fact that there can we weeks between incidents, that is going go be a long time to be without my services.
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
That’s a good idea, didn’t know Docker had such capability. I will read up on that - could you give me some keywords to start on?
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
You know you are right, and I’ve tried. I can manually monitor but it doesn’t happen just then. I don’t know yet what causes it, I can only assume it’s one of the Docker containers because the machine is doing nothing else.
I am doing this to find out how often it happens, how quickly it happens, and what’s at the top when it happens.
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
Thank you for these ideas, I will read up on systat+sar and give it a go.
Also smart to have the script always running, sleeping, rather than launching it at intervals.
I know all of this is a poor hack, and I must address the cause - but so far I have no clues what’s causing it. I’m running a bunch of Docker containers so it is very likely one of them painting itself into a corner, but after a reboot there’s nothing to see, so I am now starting with logging the top process. Your ideas might work better.
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
thank you! 🤩
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
Nope, haven’t. It says I have 2 GB of swap on a 16 GB RAM system, and that seems reasonable.
Why would you recommend turning swap off?
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
This issue doesn’t happen very often, maybe every few weeks. That’s why I think a nightly reboot is overkill, and weekly might be missing the mark? But you are right in any case: regardless of what the cron says, the machine might never get around to executing it.
- Comment on Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems 3 months ago:
This insane torture is why there are post-it notes under the keyboards.
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
I see these posts everywhere, and they are friggin’ annoying :-(