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If you’re trying to be true to the “solarpunk ethos,” do you really think this is the last repair you’ll ever do?

I, for one, have never regretted letting a ‘one time’ project be an excuse to get a new type of tool.

You accidentally pasted my quote again where you meant to put the link URL. What video were you trying to cite?

Yeah, that page renders with a single column of lists for me, and is also written in a bit of a confusing way. The author is definitely infinitely better at English than I am at German, but it’s clear it isn’t their native language.

Anyway, I have an Asus KGPE-D16 with a couple of Opteron 6272 (Bulldozer) CPUs in it, but I think that was because Libreboot had problems with the 63XX (Piledriver) at the time (since resolved), apparently, not because Piledriver was off-limits due to the inclusion of a PSP.

My goal was to get the fastest fully-trustworthy computer ever made [or reasonably close to it: IIRC, 6272s were much cheaper than similar chips with a few hundred more MHz], and that’s basically it. The absolute fastest would be a KGPE-D16 paired with Opteron 6386 SEs, I think.

That said, you asked about a laptop or mini PC. Brute-forcing performance with 32 cores of server hardware is one thing, but I’m not sure a 2/3/4-core desktop or mobile Bulldozer-family chip is going to have acceptable performance in 2026.

Why, of all of Batman’s rogues gallery, the Riddler? I feel like the Joker would’ve been the obvious choice.

We should refuse to even talk about “gun violence” in the relation to these 3D printer bans because that’s not even slightly what they are about.

They are 100.00000% about totalitarian surveillance and destruction of property rights. “Reducing gun violence” isn’t even an excuse; it’s an outright lie.

My last pair of lenses cost me 300€.

Ah, see, that’s what I was afraid of: Zenni is stupid cheap; the glasses I’m trying to replace were about $70. Granted, that was more years ago than glasses are supposed to go between prescriptions, but still, I was hoping for approximately an order of magnitude less cost for these DIY-cut lenses.

Hehe sorry, I’m addicted to that shape - not for the style, but because small, round glasses are the type of glasses that sit closest to your face, so you get a huge field of vision with small lenses, and you can rest your head on a pillow without breaking the temples. No other style of glasses gives you that.

I like the idea of pillow-compatible glasses, but I already have a bit of resemblance to Harry Pottery that I’m not exactly looking to enhance. I tend to go for rectangular lenses.

I’m curious about what your costs are in actual dollars, although Trivex isn’t right for me because my R~x~ is so strong that I need a higher refractive index. I also appreciate that your 3D printed glasses link included a video about how the lens edging machine works.

Do you know of any other 3D printed frames that look… less Harry Potter-y?

I haven’t asked a brick-and-mortar shop yet because I had found out that I couldn’t just buy identical new ones minutes before writing the post. I’ll try that, although I’ll have to do some searching to find an optician around here that isn’t a chain.

How does the process change when they’re rimless glasses (so the only things I need to be concerned about are getting the pupillary distance and axis right, and then drilling a few holes in the correct spots – the edge is just flat-ground instead of a V-bevel and can be whatever arbitrary shape I want)? Surely that reduces the need for a fancy shape-copying machine, right?

no more trustworthy than any other autorouter, but at least it’s fast!

LOL

I don’t own a gun, actually. Your assumption is bad and you should feel bad.

I am doing nothing but thinking about ensuring my ability to obtain one, should the political situation continue to deteriorate. That’s prudent, not delusional.

The only one here acting obsessive and unhinged is you.

Clothing with a UPF rating just means its level of protection has been measured; it doesn’t necessarily imply unrated clothing doesn’t protect also. That is to say, I don’t think sun protective clothing has any high-tech coatings or other special sauce the way waterproof/breathable clothing does.

Just wear something made of synthetic fiber and/or with a dense weave, colored a dark color, and that covers as much skin as possible. And most importantly, a wide-brimmed hat.

Sources:

• www.skincancer.org/…/sun-protective-clothing/
• www.rei.com/learn/…/sun-protection.html

Please explain how I can “do literally anything productive with my life” when I’m murdered by MAGA fascists because I had no means to defend myself.

Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.

Neat, I would’ve assumed you’d need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Link to instructions?

Maps you bring with you from the present should still be pretty useful, as long as they’re topographical maps as opposed to road maps. And as long as you’re not going deep into geologic time, of course.

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My screenshot doesn’t prove I downvoted before your comment, but I did. (lemvotes.org should’ve been able to prove it by including the timestamp of the action, but gives a 404 error when I put the link for the post in.)

I think your instance isn’t showing all the votes: either it hides downvotes, or they aren’t federating, or something like that. As I type this, this post as viewed from https://lemmy.zip/post/66851596 shows 93 upvotes and 0 downvotes, while my view from https://lemmy.world/post/48676854 shows 102 upvotes and 1 downvote.

Edit: Now that I think about it, both the 404 on lemvotes.org and the vote discrepancies might also have to do with the fact that the home instance of this post is Piefed, not Lemmy.

Me downvoting the meme because of rare PugJesus historical inaccuracy:

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The fact that this meme is obviously from R*ddit (notice r/historymemes instead of !historymemes) is a clue.

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I love how he was obviously desperately trying not to corpse, but they used that take anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRMrlFRRJgY

I thought this was a political compass at first, and it made no sense.

You underestimate the power of propagan… excuse me, “marketing.”

I don’t understand the appeal of cigarettes, though.

Peer pressure followed by addiction is my guess.

I think it’s an attack on Free Software and property rights (what some people minimize as “right to repair”).

Locally, I’ve not been able to find anything that is certified food safe, only various epoxy fillers and primers for boats.

Call the manufacturer of the locally-available epoxies and ask them what they recommend.

I went looking for contact info for one common brand as an example, but found instead this product support article that suggests, to me at least, that their “limited food contact”-rated epoxies would be good enough for your use-case.

(I never did find a phone number or email for product support, but they do at least have a chat widget, so… 🤷)

“Just as” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I’d say.

Pretty sure he meant something like “not a nonprofit or government entity.”