remotelove
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I hate myths, even ones with good intentions. Things like "Santa" are just teaching kids to be disappointed and that their parents are full of shit.
As a side comment, what in the actual fuck is the tooth fairy?
None of this stuff makes any sense to me, whatsoever.
remotelove
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I am totally going to trust all Microsoft AI stuff now!
They can take that bullshit blog post and shove it. The only goal Microsoft and AI is to make money off you faster, steal more data from you while up-charging you so it can.
remotelove
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Hey now. We aren't that old and we also gave birth to this internet thing. I used to have dreams that all the stupid shit in the world would go away once people could actually communicate and see all the wonderful things in this world. Whoo boy, was I wrong.
I remember flashbulbs clearly from when I was a youngster back in the 80's. There was a lot of weird shit back then, actually.
remotelove
2h ago
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You can get an electrified sounding kit if that is what you are really after. But yeah, the regular crap just sounds boring, so I wouldn't try it either.
remotelove
23h ago
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Before the disease takes its toll, I have found alcoholics and addicts to be genuinely smart people. Priorities are usually a bit out of whack, but other than that, I usually can't say anything too bad unless there is some serious criminal activity at play.
While I don't go to AA anymore due to some core philosophical disagreements, there is still some good content to be found. Mainly, that alcoholics and addicts are simply sick, in the context of this discussion.
Once you get past the outward issues usually on display, there are real people behind the mask of addiction. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before the brain-rot kicks in and most hope is lost. (I have seen some really cool recovery cases though.)
remotelove
23h ago
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Consoles made sense when they required specialized hardware. The $700 for a PS5 is probably better spent on a much better GPU for a PC, IMHO.
It's cool if you like consoles! They still have a specific allure, so I get it.
remotelove
2d ago
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You literally launched into a "bUt thE lIbrUls" line.
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Lol. "A study." A guy who wrote a book on it disagrees with your 2/3rds number.
- Look harder.
remotelove
3d ago
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Did you really just use the "It's fake, but it's not really fake, so blame someone else", line? Holy fuck, you're cracked.
Hate crimes have been on a rapid increase since (surprise) 2016, which aligns perfectly with trumpisim giving racists permission to come out of their closet.
Even in this community, rhetoric is amplified with the number of anti-immigration posts during election cycles and anti-muslim posts for filler. That is very on-brand.
remotelove
4d ago
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Let's entertain your idea that this was staged. This event would be just a blip on the radar and is still conservative branding, even if your politicians have to deny it when pressed for public statements.
It's still doesn't change that the Republican party coddles white supremacy and their behavior aligns with that ideology. One could say it has been a consistent trend.
So, it's not really a "false flag operation" if that is actually the real nature of the right and far-right. These events just just help "Unite the Right", as it were.
remotelove
4d ago
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He seems to have lost weight as well and the timeline for that happening seems short to me. If that is the case and you couple that with an apparent loss of grey matter, he is probably not doing great.
While I don't wish harm on anyone, I am absolutely not going to shed a tear if he is in a sharp decline. (The GOP will spit him out the second he fails to be useful, so that will be fun to watch.)
remotelove
4d ago
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Those are good printers. I put about 6 different resin types through them, and did get my optimal settings for fine detail because I was curious. It's just pointless for what I do, s'all.
But yes, depending on what your goals are for printing, there is a fuck ton of room for speed improvements.
remotelove
4d ago
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I have a pair of Mono 6ks's and yeah. Their settings are even across most of the resins in their slicer. I use the same settings between ABS, nylons and clear resins but just for functional prints. (Precision only matters in key spots for me.)
I will say this though: Their base settings work for me, which is super different than what I was used to with FDM.
Lift speed is determined more by the plastic sheet type, and "8k resin" may or may not be a little thinner and that is generally the only difference, if at all. (+8k resin is almost always marketing wank.) nFEP is the most common way to go for the detail/speed tradeoff.
(The Blu nylons are thick as hell though, so the lift speed/dwell can actually matter.)
remotelove
4d ago
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It's generic for thicker resins. A higher lift and a short pause is normal so that resin can flow back under the print where it just separated.
Just tune it down for your particular resins.
remotelove
4d ago
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That's hysterical considering we have been tolerating cheap Chinese garbage electronics for years.
remotelove
4d ago
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If you look past Facebook, the same person was identified by police handing out fliers linked to GDL.
I am assuming your cockiness is because of those rants about antifa on Facebook where the boat owners address was shown. For one, I am surprised that a person who lives in a place like that could afford that kind of boat.
Something-nazis. Neo or whatever, the swastikas give it away.
Regardless, white supremacy is a common underpinning of trumpisim. Fake boat show or not, there is an established history already. If the slogan "America First" didn't give that away as well, you are actually an idiot.
Edit: Oh yeah, there is the common "let's blame antifa" line. Is that not getting repetitive for you? While I have never personally met anyone in antifa, I do know a bunch of conservative nazis/KKK, personally, from where I grew up. This boating event is not really a surprise to me. Still, it's cute watching you react the way you do.
remotelove
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Oh, please continue. I want to hear more about these false flag operations and how neo-nazis and friends aren't actually supporting Trump. I'll "stand back and stand by" while I wait for your answer.
remotelove
5d ago
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This was literally promoted by the Goyim Defense League in FL.
remotelove
5d ago
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Only $6M? What are they doing? Installing a local copy of ChatGPT?
remotelove
5d ago
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Looks like he is going to win over others, too.
remotelove
5d ago
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Found the trump signs!
I have two MacBooks that I acquired through two different startups. Both companies no longer exist and I was basically given the laptops. (They have just been sitting in my closet for a few years collecting dust, and it seems like a waste.) Unfortunately, now that I want to use the laptops as part of a local k8s cluster (or even dedicated music production hardware), I am locked out of wiping the things because they want to connect to MDM servers that no longer exist or have admin passwords that have long since been forgotten. Since these laptops are essentially "bricked" I have no problems opening them up and attempting hardware hacks to get around this stuff. Both laptops are in various states of reset or wipe due to previous attempts to reset. (Funny thing, actually. I was personally responsible for locking down one of these laptops at the time they were in corporate use...) Trash or treasure? I dunno. I am apple-dumb.
Edit: Deleting this post. It's starting to get controversial, but that's OK. Not what I planned on, but whatevers.
I have been attempting to extract the firmware from an HVAC controller board using my Pickit3 and MPLAB X. It seems that many HVAC controllers are PIC based and most are kind enough to include debug/flash pins. Grabbing the firmware images should be trivial once the correct pins are traced out. MPLAB X will see my Pickit3 and the target MCU, but it fails to pull an image that isn't all zeros. (The "bin" file is a text file with each line noting the start address, followed by 16 byte values.) I do get an occasional "Target device ID invalid message" but that is usually due to my janky wiring to the board. Once I get that issue cleared, MPLAB will always warn that the debug bit (byte?) is set on the MCU. (That doesn't make sense as the MCU should be running standalone on the board during normal operation.) Is there some kind of read protection that may be enabled on the PIC? Do I just need to unsolder the PIC and put it in its own dedicated circuit for pulling the firmware?
_The one trick that Big Music doesn't want you to know!_ I was absolutely struggling when I went to do a final mix after writing everything in stereo. For me, it was a whack-a-mole game: Fixing one problem created ten more, bass was unmanageable, highs tended to blare or everything was a midrange soup and I constantly struggled with frequency cancellation. Above all other problems, music was not _portable_. It would sound great with headphones, but became a blown out mess on external speakers. Mono. Just write everything in mono. If the track sounds good in mono, even just the slightest bit of stereo separation makes it sound awesome! As a perk, it forced me to learn more about compression and limiting and when it is applicable. If something is inaudible in mono, it's going to sound like absolute garbage in stereo. (It also forced me into EQ'ing nearly every component of a song at first. I am not nearly as aggressive with that now, but again, it opened up new doors that I didn't realize existed.) Why, oh why, is this technique not pushed more to hobbyists and beginners? Is there a shortcoming that I am not aware of? Obviously, this isn't a cure-all and I kinda framed this post as a magic trick. Its one hell of a teaching tool, if nothing else.
engineering.berkeley.edu
(Wait, what? This is from _2022_??? I have known about CAL for a while, but this glass stuff is new to me.) 3DPN video: https://youtu.be/pkBP_eO-Pug?si=l4__tZwrNDB4qNlU CAL: computed axial lithography _Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new way to 3D-print glass microstructures that is faster and produces objects with higher optical quality, design flexibility and strength, according to a new study published in the April 15 issue of Science._
I am fed up with resin slicers. Chitubox is about as stable as a drunk on a tightrope, Lychee is bad for engineering models and over-priced if you just want some basic support functions and PrusaSlicer is under-developed. All of these solutions work for different things based on the goals of the user. (For some, Lychee is an excellent value so my distaste is likely not universal.) What really pissed me off is that support painting shouldn't be a paid feature. You hold the mouse button down and drop a support at specific distance from the last. It doesn't take massive cloud computational clusters or huge storage requirements but yet, money. Fuck. That. I want a completely FOSS tool that is stable and includes functionality for auto-positioning models and has a full set of knobs and levers for support generation, support painting included. So, I spent the morning getting a dev environment setup for PrusaSlicer to use as a base for resin-only tools. Over the next month or so, I'll take some time to strip out all the FDM support and get the slicer into a bare-bones state with only the existing resin features. Of course, it'll be on GitHub. Back to the main subject. I was hoping that y'all had references in regards to anything resin printing: Support placement methods, model rotation optimization, resin strength data, FEP peel force data or anything that could be coded and implemented into a slicer. Hell, even discovering different methods for hollowing an STL would be nice. Data and strategies for various tools would be nice to have at this point to at least start forming a roadmap for development. (One of the first goals is to integrate UVTools as a snap-in, somehow.) FDM tools are plentiful because of wide spread adoption. Resin printers still seem niche so printer manufacturers naturally gravitate to writing their own tools for their own hardware in their race to the bottom. With all of that said, I am actually curious if others would even want to see a project like this kicked off.
I have been using FL Studio for years. It was easy to pirate when I was younger and broke, and it's still flexible enough for anything I want to do now without hassle. (The license these days is "meh" for clips and plugins. However, I am designing and beginning to record most of my own instruments now with a core set of plugins.) I would like to experiment with an open source DAW, but not sure which routes to take there.
Spinner shows while thumbnail is being shown _after_ upload and thumbnail is being generated, but not when actually uploading. (I am attempting to attach gif to this post, but not sure if upload has failed, still going or just not possible.) I am mobile while I am creating this post, so uploads are laggy anyway.
Search is fine, but there have been several cases where I have wanted to manually enter a community name and instance. Search can be odd at times and being able to have connect at least attempt to jump to a community would be a nice to have.
Edit: I can now post and view cat pics. Yay! Searching for "cat" or "cats" yields cat@lemmy.world with Connect, but not from web. "cat" is an invalid community. cats@lemmy.world should be correct community and listed in search results.
I mean, I still do some stupid and brainless things but I can own that stuff without fear. The absolute worst is only being able to half-remember most of the stupid shit I did. That stuff still kinda haunts me, but in some ways, that is a necessary evil of sobriety. This was just a random thought that I needed to write. Maybe it gives someone else something to hope for. Maybe it reminds others of why we choose not to drink. Regardless: IWNDWYT
A few hours later, I just discovered how long this cheesy noodle trend has been going on for. Also, this idea was already taken by a previous poster who likely started this trend quite a few days ago, I see. My mistake!
I am simply on a quest to find an effective non-distillation method for purifying isopropyl alcohol used for rinsing resin 3D prints. I have seen some elaborate systems for curing and then filtering resin that is suspended in the isopropyl by running it through standard carbon water filters. That just seems a bit over-complex and does a poor job of removing dyes. In some cases, the filters are not fine enough and the isopropyl will eventually get "sticky". It seems to me that a finer filtration system would work much better. Carbon and celite should catch most of the monomers and oligomers, but I am not sure about the photoinitiators and other additives. Distillation is obviously the best method for purity, but there may be a worse cleanup and a higher fire hazard risk. Are there better materials that I could use for filtering besides celite and carbon? IPA is tiny compared to the rest of the molecules I am dealing with so filtration seems viable. (I should note that I would bulk develop the used IPA in clear plastic containers in the sun for a day or two first.)
Before I get into my comments, I just want to ask that if you haven't bought the dev a coffee, please buy him a coffee. Personally, I have bought several with the intent of covering for those who cannot. Our dev has earned it. I am just going to say that Connect is awesome. Even through early development, when there were huge issues, it progressed at a good pace. And yeah, it has gotten super stable and functions great as a simple and easy to use Lemmy client. I would also like to make clear that I respect this app as the sole devs creation. He/She is 100% able to direct this project as they see fit. Period. However. One person development teams can be a serious risk to the longevity and stability of an app. People get tired and burned out. People have actual lives outside of working on a single app. People can just vanish from dev work. _That is all normal_. With the recent Lemmy instance updates and some subtle bugs that are showing, my concern is that it may become a much larger challenge to keep this app up to date. In my limited dev experience, core API changes (or API bugs) are a royal pain in the ass to deal with. A person could spend more time just keeping their app functional instead of developing new features or working on minor bugs. I was hoping that people in this community that have experience with the development of large open source projects, can contribute ideas for our dev that may make it palatable to open this project up to additional contributors. I think the biggest things I would like to call out is that if this project is opened, it may damage any revenue that is being generated by this app for the dev and I don't want to see that happen. (People gotta work and people gotta eat. ) What open source licenses are available that would keep full control of this app in the hands of the original dev? (Is that even a viable option?) Quite simply, other than opening this app up fully, I don't quite know exactly what I am asking for. It would be nice to keep full control of this app in the hands of the dev, while also allowing community development. Just to reiterate, this post is not meant to be rude or pushy. If _anything_ I said came off that way, it was absolutely not the intent and offer a humble apology if it did.
Edit: Just copy the original filename, Chinese and all, to a custom RERF file. It tested fine with the factory tests and also custom test parts I made. I didn't test with only "R_E_R_F.px6s" as the filename as I proved the original filename works fine with custom models. Edit2: I had the motivation to check the file today without that Chinese and it works fine as well. Just got a new Anycubic Photon Mono X 6Ks and the RERF file on the included USB has Chinese characters in the name. ("R_E_R_Fchch.px6s" / ch being Chinese characters...) Does the printer require those characters for custom RERF test prints, or is it actually just "R_E_R_F.px6s"? The documentation is unclear and online searching is jumbled with several issues regarding this filename across different printer models.
I am business dumb, but I have a very unique mix of skills I would like to turn into a side hustle. Needless to say, there is going to be a huge learning curve for me. Sure, I could just sell 3D prints on Etsy, but I would rather focus on B2B type work with a more hands on approach than the Chinese print farms/PCB manufacturers. (I'll start an Etsy shop for practice, but that particular market seems extremely saturated.) So, if you have started a business before, what are some basic things that you wish someone had told you before you did? Are there good books or other references I could use?
Update: Not a Connect issue. Strange. I don't see this as a pinned post on that community, but yet, there it is. Did an admin pin a post from another instance on .ca somehow or is this a bug with Connect? (Strange things are happening like this since the last Lemmy update. I can't tell if it's a Connect issue, or a Lemmy issue.)