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Last time I asked about the inability to eat solid food was a couple of months ago if memory serves. He said he was doing well after the move to the UK, but the food situation had not changed. Also he was in desperate need of finding a job and was really struggling on that front.

I hope all is okay.

The bacteria known as The Cult, took control of its victims in mere minutes; a most insidious plague. One minute you're having lunch with your mom, the next, she stops mid-sentence and leaves without a word.

(As a mod) Sorry, it must have happened right as I went to bed. So it was the worst timing for a maximum delay. I have removed the duplicates.

I'm not sure why it happened but it probably has something to do with LW being on a very old version of Lemmy and not updating.

dyakis

If not aRyAn with Swastikars they won't keep a green card to stay in Greenland

Setup a co-op for fair loans outside of the criminal banking norms

Tit4Tat will result in the USA always getting hurt worse than everyone else

As your fada, I'll have you know... neither did I

Narcocissists

Thanks. The main thing with paint is to be absolutely obsessive about the prep details and sanding. I've trained two apprentices. The hardest thing to defeat is one's internal expectations of time. It is only right and ready when it is perfect even when redoing that primer for the fifth time feels like murder and the issue is only the size of a dime, it simply does not matter. That dime will cost two days to fix when it shows through, and that knowledge must come first. I told everyone that ever worked for me, "sand it until you think you are done, then take a break, come back, and acknowledge you are finally halfway done. Then repeat this until I cannot find a single issue with the panel."

The cool thing about ABS and ASA is that you can sand it to a polish. Just treat it like a metal polish job but use automotive polishes instead of rouge like for metals. There are usually no inclusions from the print lines in my tests and it polishes to a remarkable finish that looks like extra shiny Lego's. In fact, if you take a fully polished part and break it, you will likely find that the surface is changed for nearly a millimeter down. It happens even when the polish is done meticulously by hand with no buffer to heat up the surface. I'm not entirely sure what is happening with that one, but based on how it sounds and feels I bet there are better mechanical properties as well.

From my time around automotive racing, polished ABS/ASA feels like parts that are finished to reduce stress risers like how pistons and rods feel different after a similar polishing operation. I haven't tested it, but that is how the parts felt to me. That might be one to try out, even with mechanical and functional prints. If you happen to snag some sandpapers, it only takes a sheet of 600 or 800, as a baseline where this has removed absolutely everything below regardless of what was below, then use 1500 to knock this down. Finally, toothpaste can nearly replace an automotive compound. No joke I have used it on cars in a pinch with a heavy cut pad. For a mirror it will take an intermediate cutting stage before the final polish. For something like a print that is already sitting at 1500 grit, toothpaste will get more shine than a typical new Lego. Just use an old sock and let the compound do the work just like with a buffer and pad.

The little Proxxon pen sander is also a must have device for print sanding in general. It is worth the spend. You only really need the sander without the power supply though. The supply is the scam. Just clip the wire and add a DC barrel jack to any old 12v 1A wall wart. Their sandpaper is really high quality and worth it, but some decent double sided tape will work to make your own. You can also make your own sandpaper holders to get into awkward places.

I don't know that I could actually finish a Voron build now. That is the real underlying truth of it. I am physically declining and my up time is very limited over the last coupe of years. That has kinda quashed my EDA and circuit etching projects too, sadly. Even my riding is suffering. I did 26m every day for ~8 years after the broken neck and back, but now 16m every 2-3 days is all I can do and still sleep 4-6 hours at most. It is what it is... "Ya get what ya get and ya don't pitch a fit."

I've only gone through 2 rolls of the cheap Matterhackers house brand ABS and maybe a quarter roll of Prusa ASA. My primary curiosity was if ABS/ASA is an effective alternative to Prusament PC Blend. In my experiments, my primary use for ABS/ASA is for refinishing and polishing. I'm super familiar with ABS in pro auto body work I was doing before RepRap was even a thing. I actually specialized in plastics and small repairs in addition to airbrush and graphics work as a painter; liked the art, but work out of used car lots paid the bills.

I only made a little disk sander thing out of a box fan motor with a housing constrained by print bed dimensions, also some dremel drill press tooling, and some BB30 bicycle parts.

The disk sander thing was not very useful overall. The level of integrated design was extreme and impractical in most cases, but it proved to me that I could technically do it. That largely helped me avoid the desire to build a Voron. Plus I spent years huffing ABS fumes already. The bicycle stuff showed me that PC blend is still quite a bit better at holding a load in the real world. I designed a couple of parts with threads that hold the bearings in tension on the spindle of the bike crank. I'm certainly not in race shape any more, but I am still quite hard on bike stuff. Plus bikes are a great test bed as leg forces are unbalanced, the vibration is inconsistent, contaminants are random, and UV exposure is harsh.

Anyways, the prusament ASA doesn't have as many issues as MH ABS, but the difference is not huge. If I was going to do automotive class finishing, that is the only time I would go out of my way to use ABS/ASA. I could make it perfect on another level entirely than anything else I have played with.

I blocked NSQ bc of an active bot as a mod.

Lemmy in general does not handle conceptual abstractions well at all. I think it is great to question the seemingly obvious subjects, and to poll user depth and intelligence regularly. I hate getting blindsided by someone asking stupid questions like this in real life and having to take the time to think out which of many angles I would like to address the issue from. I find it useful and healthy to see how others address such a question and how people respond to the various approaches. This is fundamental to the intuitive usefulness of NSQ and when that utility is hampered it effectively renders the community useless.

I rather ineffectively volunteered to take over the community myself when I encountered poor moderation from a bot with no accountable individual to address. Instead I block the community and consider it an embarrassment to exist.

"Oops, I must have forgotten to use the torque wrench."

"Forgot to calibrate mine."

"Shit. I am always getting mixed up about exact compression fitting interface angles and tolerances in CAD..."

remember kids - the broken cross stays broken

Banks reordering transactions to maximize fees. That is closely contending with the nondeterministic fees that US contract cellular companies charged in the past (and may still). I got on prepaid in 2007 and never looked back. I view both industries as extortionist criminals.

I am only able to continue riding a bicycle after the crash that broke my neck and back 11 years ago because I was in race shape at the time. Fighting two SUVs on a bicycle was rough. I'm certainly not able to put in 400 miles or more per week on a bike any more. I can't physically do much else other than ride a bike, even walking is hard, but I don't think I'd still be around if I didn't have my hour a day to escape the confines of a bed and get out of the house. I am a shell of my former self, but still enjoy the real freedom of a bicycle untethered to any real corporate tax for a right to exist on my terms.

I get functional code snippets for around 3 of 4 questions in any major or most minor languages from a local model. I also get good summarized information about code functionality if I paste up to around 1k lines into the context. I also get fun collaborative story writing in different formats using unique themes from my own science fiction universe. I have explored smaller models in hopes of fine tuning before I discovered the utility of a much larger but quantized model. I never use anything smaller than a 70B or 8×7B because there is no real comparison in my experience and uses. On my hardware, these generate a text stream close to my reading pace.

Gamers Nexus went over some available numbers and the 9070 is small scale compared to others. It is also massively overpriced relative to MSRP numbers. I wouldn't touch anything under 16GB now if you want to play around with AI more seriously. I have 16 and it is capable, but I really wish I had more and can only barely run the ones that are both good enough to be broadly useful and have source I can hack around with a lot. I almost got a machine with a 12gb GPU and am very happy I did not.

They are in a lot of IoT devices that are not hobby and dev related too. Like my folk's smoker grill has one that is also on a ridiculous AWS connection and designed to try and stay on 24/7 like proper stalkerware nonsense.

Renaming extensions is a common thing in Unix/Linux