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- Comment on ZeniMax union "overwhelming" votes to authorise strike if Microsoft contract negotiations break down 1 day ago:
I absolutely disagree. That’s a fantastic reference for a union logo to make.
- Comment on 3D Printed Art: Alice in Wonderland 1 week ago:
Per your suggestion, I went out and took a new photo. The blog post has already been updated, but here’s the image.
- Comment on 3D Printed Art: Alice in Wonderland 1 week ago:
I agree. I really struggled finding good light once the acrylic was on. It was just too shiny. Maybe I’ll try a daylight photo outside or something. In the article there are better pictures of the individual components though. It’s also hard to get the 3D effect in a photo. I thought about trying to embed a short video/gif of it, but didn’t have any handy.
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- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 1 week ago:
Disasters do happen. Hurricanes are a big problem that often take out everything you mentioned except for starlink. And starlink has several problems, being owned by a Nazi is certainly one of them.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 3 weeks ago:
Roku started as a streaming media box. You paid them money, they gave you a box that could play Netflix and Youtube. It was a simple transaction. Unfortunately, at some point they decided to start selling/giving their OS to TV manufacturers. This was actually nice at the start. You got a smart TV who’s “Smarts” were designed by competent people. A revolution at the time. But the drive to drop prices lower and lower meant that there was no margin on the TV, which means Roku had to investigate other ways of making their revenue, AKA Ads and selling data.
Of course, the stand alone box probably would have went that way anyways, but at least with selling a dedicated box, there is a clear financial benefit without the need to get invasive.
- Comment on Customer is mistakenly accused of text spamming for repeatedly replying STOP to political texts 3 weeks ago:
Same on Android.
- Comment on Share your 3D prints! 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty proud of this. It’s for a gift. Disney Classic #8 Cover. I didn’t do the design work, Disney did that many years ago. But what I did do is worth through Hueforge for the background, and my own custom process for Alice.
- Comment on openscad is pretty great 4 weeks ago:
OpenSCAD lends itself to be treated as a function/stand alone program for generating models as well. Some of the 3D modeling websites even have OpenSCAD integration that runs it in your browser to generate the model based on the flagged configurable parameters. That’s powerful for basic functions like the mentioned adapters, because you can have a page that just spits out adapters of any size and shape.
Theoretically, a more standard CAD program like FreeCAD can use OpenSCAD for a standard parts library like threads, screws, bolts, sprints and allow for custom creation of those outside the standard. FreeCAD has some OpenSCAD support, but I’m not sure if it uses it in that way.
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 4 weeks ago:
That’s a real stretch. 3B is basically stating the size of the model, not the name of the model.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I’m a fan of ARM. github.com/…/automatic-ripping-machine
I run it in a podman container, passing my BluRay drive though. It rips automatically, and attempts to even lookup the metadata for the disk to file it properly. It’s not perfect, but it does work quite well. The only issue I have with it is it does a poor job on TV shows, but I’ve found nothing better, so it is good enough for me.
- Comment on Photo Finish 1 month ago:
If it works, then great. I recommend getting a kitchen sale out so you know when you need to chump it up for sure.
- Comment on Photo Finish 1 month ago:
I’ve been trying to get better about using the full roll. I’ve taken to weighing the roll to see if I have enough. Thankfully most rolls will list the weight of the spool itself. I’ve gotten similar close results, I feel a lot better about throwing away like 2 foot of filament instead of like 20 turns. The tough part is finding prints that are so small.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 month ago:
My Palm Pre people. I loved that phone. It was under powered, buggy, and felt like the future.
- Comment on Because I couldn't give straight spoons to my gay friends 2 months ago:
Oh, you could fake eating poison soup with those things.
- Comment on FreeCAD Gridfinity Drawers - More Configurable Tomfoolery 2 months ago:
Thanks for posting this. I, too, have a FreeCAD model on Printables that I was using an embedded spreadsheet for, but I never noticed the “alias” text box. That will pretty up my model so much. I’ve been doing cell number references like “B8” and it is both ugly and painful.
- Comment on FreeCAD Gridfinity Drawers - More Configurable Tomfoolery 2 months ago:
It’s getting a lot better. It reminds me of how Blender took off. I’ve been messing with it and just updated to 1.0. I think it has a lot of work left for casual user onboarding, but the bugs are less and the crashes less common than ever. It’s getting there. Hopefully the foindation they set with 1.0 will propel them into the future.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 3 months ago:
you can’t brick my cat
Have you tried putting socks on it?
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 4 months ago:
Its uses are way more subtle than the hype, but even LLMs can have uses, occasionally. Specifically, I use one to categorize support tickets. It just has to pick from a list of probable categories. Nice and simple for it. Something humans can do just as easily, but when you have a history of 2 million tickets that need to be categorized, suddenly the LLM can do it when it would drive a human insane. I’m sure there are lots of little tasks like that. Nothing revolutionary, but still valuable.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 4 months ago:
Of course everyone’s ears are different, but for me, my Jabras lock in. They aren’t going anywhere. They are designed to be twisted into place, causing a literal lock into your ear. I can force them out without touching them, but it takes work to do it, they aren’t falling out on their own, and if they start to come loose, I’ll know instantly because the seal is broke and I can hear that they aren’t settled in right.
- Comment on Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military 4 months ago:
LLMs aren’t it, but AI, as in the computer science field, has been helping the medical industry since it has existed.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
Nag, if you are racking computers, and they don’t have built in lights out management, you open them up and connect remote triggers to the power button leads, allowing you to remotely start them if they get shut off. I’m sure lots of companies do have Mac farms for Mac and iOS development, but I doubt Apple give a crap one way or another about them.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 5 months ago:
Careful, some tech bro will take that and get a billion dollars in venture capital for “eScorts: Uber for hookers”.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 5 months ago:
Stockholm syndrome was made up by the media to discredit women who criticized them. It’s not a real thing.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 5 months ago:
Another fun fact: On the backend, Teams uses SharePoint to store files, and Exchange to store message. The whole M365 stack is a house of cards built on ancient tech. It’s a wonder it works at all.
