ProdigalFrog
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- Comment on Making a 3d-printed Underwater Dive Helmet With A Floating Air Supply 10 minutes ago:
How would it blow up your lungs?
- Comment on Making a 3d-printed Underwater Dive Helmet With A Floating Air Supply 28 minutes ago:
I’m assuming you didn’t watch the video, but this particular helmet design has a completely open bottom, and it needs weights attached to it to keep it from floating (he attached just enough weight to keep it neutrally buoyant). If it sprung a leak, you would easily be able to remove the helmet either by lifting it up off you, or tilting forward or to the side and sliding it off. it is not strapped to the person at all.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 3 hours ago:
These aren’t really that effective compared to a hollow point. They create a big visual in ballistic gel, but in a more realistic medium they act more like an improved FMJ, but still over penetrate badly (which isn’t a good thing in most cases).
They tend to be recommend as a bear round, where over-penetration is actually valuable and desired.
The same manufacturer actually makes a deeper cut version that doesn’t over penetrate called the xtreme defender, which is generally still worse than a good hollow point in standard calibers, but can be a good option for weaker calibers like .380, where hollow point under-penetrate.
however, for 9mm and above, you’re better off with a standard hollow point, which is more effective and far more affordable than the all-copper xtreme rounds.
- Comment on Making a 3d-printed Underwater Dive Helmet With A Floating Air Supply 1 day ago:
His helmet is essentially a diving bell helmet with a pressurized feed of air from an air compressor, so the lungs don’t have to overcome breathing through a snorkel. He plans to use it in shallow areas around Florida, he was only testing it in his pool.
- Submitted 2 days ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 2 days ago:
Ah, my bad. Thanks for letting me know!
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 2 days ago:
From what I understand, Piefed instances will have better support for Mastodon posts, and I believe it supports subscribing to Peertube channels already (something that Lemmy still doesn’t support…)
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 2 days ago:
This article is confirming the extreme merit of Citizen Controlled Media, which has only become more and more important as form an essential form of prefiguration as time goes on.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 3 days ago:
It’s definitely a taste thing too. Unripe avacados have very little flavor.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 3 days ago:
Related to Movim; it just received Discord-like spaces a couple days ago! So it’s now a pretty effective decentralized Discord that can do group audio/video calls, screen share, and even has blogging built in.
Highly recommend anyone thinking about ditching Discord to give it a shot. It doesn’t even require an email to use, just a username and password :)
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 4 days ago:
Traditionally, the business class T-series thinkpads were always easy to take apart and replace parts. All of the used lenovo thinkpads I’ve ever owned had marked screw holes on the bottom for the keyboard, which would let me slide it out without having to remove the case or anything.
The consumer Lenovos that weren’t based on the older IBM thinkpad designs were more standard designs like you describe.
- Submitted 5 days ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
Oh, right. Sorry, easy to confuse the meaning in this case 😅
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
I still think that it is important to standarize a canonical Linux core
If you’re not aware, Ubuntu Touch is no longer operated or developed by Canonical, they abandoned the project in 2017. UT was then picked up by UBPorts, a community effort to keep alive what Canonical left behind.
Personally, I don’t have a very high opinion of Canonical due to their use of CLAs, which also appear to be present in some fashion with UT and UBPorts as well:
I agree that some standardization would likely be beneficial in some areas (such as focusing on a single Phone UI and polishing it up). PostmarketOS is making the most progress on getting real Linux on mobile, so if I had to pick one project to support monetarily, and one that could become mainstream, or partner with a manufacturer like GrapheneOS, I think that would be the project to back, IMHO.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
It is certainly not usable for the average person in it’s current state, hence why I suggest donating to it to help with developing it.
With proper funding and full-time devs, it would be able to focus on adding proper support to more phones, or potentially partner with a manufacturer like GrapheneOS just did with Motorola to get first-class support on a smaller handful of devices.
Postmarket is our only long-term mobile option that will remain FLOSS and in the users best interest, we just have to support it and help build it up into something we can all use :)
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
The issue with Ubuntu Touch is that unfortunately it’s not a genuine alternative to Android, as it actually relies on Android quite a lot to function as well as it does.
It often uses an outdated Android kernel (which is also usually not receiving security updates) and a Halium abstraction layer to access the closed source binary blob Android drivers for the phone’s hardware. It also requires that it be installed on top of an existing Android install, so in all it’s more of a Linux abstraction layer on top of Android, which means it’s not truly escaping the control of the Android ecosystem.
PostmarketOS and Mobian are genuinely Mobile focused Linux distros that run on the mainline up-to-date Linux kernel the bare metal, meaning they are not subject to any influence from Google.
Both projects often collaborate and benefit from each other, they just use a different base distro (Alpine for PostmarketOS, Debian for Mobian), but that doesn’t result in any wasted effort, as ultimately any new developments, drivers, or new phone support are mainlined into the kernel itself, so both projects benefit.
They’re not as usable as Ubuntu Touch is right now, but they are ultimately the better solutions long-term to ensure that all the code is under community control so we aren’t reliant on outdated unsecure Android components.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
For anyone reading thus, please consider donating to PostmarketOS or Mobian if you have the means, as it will help us escape the Android ecosystem which is getting more and more anti-user due to google controlling it.
- Comment on PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME 1 week ago:
This driver will work with any motherboard that’s newer than the 915 chipset (which uses single core Pentiums). So if your motherboard supports dual-core CPUs at the very least, it will be compatible. Ivy Bridge for sure.
I haven’t personally attempted to install 98 or ME on more modern hardware, so I’m unsure if there’s any special steps to do so, or if it just sorta works like it would’ve on an older PC.
- PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / MEgithub.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 7 comments
- Comment on Even ‘microwave safe’ plastic containers can release microplastics into meals, new study warns 1 week ago:
Pyrex can often be found used in thrift shops too ^^
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
Whether or not XMPP is a Signal or a Discord replacement is dependant on the client.
For a Discord replacement, there is the Movim XMPP client, which has group audio/video calls, screen sharing, supports for gifs and videos within the chat, and very soon Discord-like servers with rooms, after which the dev plans to work on drop-in voice chat rooms.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Glad to hear you’re all set up ^^
If you’re interested in Solarpunk, my instance’s sysadmin hosts solarpunk@chat.slrpnk.net on XMPP, and there’s a cool little DIY project community at craftmanship@muc.loqi.im :)
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 week ago:
I feel a little ashamed that I can’t understand this…
Nothin’ to be ashamed of, we’re all newbies to this at first. I had to learn it too :p
Part 1: How XMPP servers differ from XMPP Clients
Okay, so: Movim and Conversations are both clients that can be used to login to any XMPP account. Those two clients in particular are a little bit more confusing than normal, because they also offer free XMPP accounts on their own XMPP servers (which are independent of the client software).
To try to liken it to something familiar, it’d be like if the Thunderbird email client (which you can login to any email account with) also happened to offer a separate email hosting service too, so you could login to your SomeReallyCoolUsername@thunderbird[.]com from the Thunderbird app.
Or to liken it to how lemmy works, if you’re familiar with the Photon front-end, it can access any lemmy account, even your blahaj account, as it’s just an independent front-end, it’s not actually hosting the lemmy server itself.
Part 2: How it works in practice
So in practice, if you create an XMPP account on Movim’s server, you can login into that same account right from your Conversations App too. The same would apply if you’d created an XMPP account on the Conversations server; you could login to it right from the Movim client.
Let’s say you had a friend using the Conversations client, and you were on the Movim client; you could talk to each other no problem through text, or even call each other 1 on 1 with audio or video.
Part 3: The complication :(
But, bit of extra complication; the Conversations client hasn’t yet implemented some of the features Movim is capable of. Specifically, it cannot yet do group audio/video calls or screenshare. So if you’re in a chat room with your friends, and everyone is on Movim except 1 person using conversations, if you started a group call, that one friend won’t be able to join it.
However (‘But’ part 2); that limitation would only crop up if someone is using the Conversations client/mobile app. If that same friend happened to have a Conversations XMPP account, they could still open Movim in a browser tab on their PC or phone, and then use their Conversations XMPP account login (if they created one there) to login to the Movim client, and then would be able to join the call no problem.
Sorry if I didn’t do the best job explaining that. I’m very much looking forward to the day when Conversations gets those missing features and I only need to explain the first part about how clients and XMPP accounts are separate 😅
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
Yes, many games implement that. More famously The Crew (which was mostly a singleplayer game with a large campaign with some multiplayer tacked on) became completely unplayable after Ubisoft shut down the multiplayer portion of the game due to always online DRM. They only later patched the game to become playable in singleplayer again after the extreme backlash from the SKG campaign, which focused on The Crew as an example.
There are many more singeplayer games either already killed, or currently at-risk of being destroyed. SKG keeps an up to date list of them here: stopkillinggames.wiki.gg/wiki/Dead_game_list
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 1 week ago:
Especially with the Movim client :)
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 1 week ago:
and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world
Yeah… I think we dodged a bullet when Linus didn’t let his filesystem in.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Yep :D
It has full searchable room history, can upload memes (gifs from either links or directly uploaded), images, video files (playable within the chat), and audio messages.
There’s also a built in paint-like thing that lets you draw directly into the chat, or annotate documents, pictures, or memes.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this article was written for you, based on your last paragraph (the author definitely relates).
