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  • I'd never realized how convenient/natural a joystick is for adjusting your side mirrors. I'm not even sure my wife has the reach to both press a touchscreen in the center console and have her head in driving position to adjust the mirrors with real time feedback. Even I'd hate to have to tweak a mirror while driving with a touchscreen.

  • The implication is that it's your own blood, but I like the planning/forethought. I think you'll be going places. Probably at a run.

  • There are a lot of never-maskers out there, but I’d say that I’ve seen at least an order of magnitude increase in general usage even years after the lock downs and mandate have been lifted.

  • And, unlike engineers in manufacturing whose deep-pocket corporations bought an exemption, Engineers in the A/E/C field are licensed. And if you screw up you can lose your ability to work in your field…forever.

  • Trick question. The answer is that no party has a majority in the senate. Two independents caucus with 49 democrats to form the leadership structure, but that is not a party majority - merely a ruling coalition.

  • Oh, I didn’t mean to come off as dissing Prusa in general. I ponied up for an XL and it’s night-and-day better than any previous printer I’ve owned.

  • If this was during an auto level, it's my humble opinion that this is a manufacturer's defect in the machine that caused the damage. There should be proper coding to ensure that any increase in sensor pressure by (delta p) halt that machine and that there should be a pressure offset in the sensor such that a loss of signal or anomalous zero reading or lack of reading is done prior to levelling to ensure that a sensor failure has not occurred. My XL freaks out if a fan isn't spinning at the right speed, so they clearly know that a nominal operational check before the print starts is proper engineering design.

    Of course you won't get anywhere. Unfortunately, a lot of 3D print failures really are user error so I suspect that's their default response and it takes them a good deal of proof to push them of that mark.

  • Indeed, I'm not sure even testing is sufficient. My family recently got it (my wife and I visiting my parents), but thought nothing of it for a week. My father had a sore throat, my mother had watery eyes and some nasal congestion. My father masked indoors (because I don't want a regular cold either) and chalked my mother's symptoms to seasonal allergies (the cars were covered with Pine pollen all week). Then, on the drive home, my wife felt off. 10 hours in the car together. She slept in the guest room that night and, just for grins, tested for Covid the next morning. She was positive. We called and had my parent's test - both positive. I tested negative so I packed my things and rented a hotel room for the week and worked there alone. I tested every other day and was never positive, but I cancelled all my client meetings.

    I still never "got it" but...is it really feasible I didn't have some low level? This is my second trip in a car for multiple hours with someone who tested positive the next day. Granted, I'm about 4 vaccines in (2xOG, 1 updated, 1 XBB variant), but so is my wife. I have to think that I had some sub-clinical level of viral load, or at least below the antigen test threshold, but I'm thankful I escaped symptoms.

  • Wage is worthless wording. Most ultra rich don’t have wages - at least not relative to their change in worth. We need to change how taxes fundamentally work.

  • Yeah, right. I wish I still had that much hair.

  • Not to defend them or minimize the corporate stupidity, but it sounded like there were less than 100k people affected out of tens of millions (100m?) accounts. I get that it was a big deal for those affected, but a 0.1% outage doesn’t seem “major”.

  • checkmate

  • The miracles never cease!

  • There’s a lot of red in the state. Unfortunately, that’s also where much of the most beautiful (and affordable) areas are. There are blue enclaves, though. All in all it can be awesome.

  • creates environmental damage, tons of space debris, and ... wasting fuel.

    So, pretty much, the things that humans excel at.

  • Unclear? They're putting it on [aka: holding it] wrong. User error.

    Lets hope, for Apple's sake, that this isn't a Q2 Elite Strap debacle.

  • This is buying into the Republican way of thinking, which is that you criticize someone's performance for any shortcoming you feel. A progressive stance is to elevate other people (There is more than one person in Government) who are doing things correctly without tearing down the current leader. It s the difference between a collaborative government and a competitive one. Within a (generally speaking) unified political block which values diversity of opinions, a collaborative approach is much more productive than a competitive one.

    The strength of a movement is in the sum of the effort.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    Is anyone using a peltier dehumidifier in a drybox?

    I'm reconfiguring my printing closet (6'x6') for a new printer and thought about enclosing the printer in a moderate sized cabinet (2'x3'x6' - one "shelf" of the closet) for thermal control. Since there will be inevitable opening and closing, as well as just normal infiltration of the ambient air (usu ~65F between 40-75% RH) it would seem like a good application for a Peltier dehumidifier to keep the RH in the chamber low and reduce my need to re-dry filament which has been on the machine during (inevitable) multi-day or -week downtime between projects.

    3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    $1200 chair, $60 HOTAS, $15 filament = Spaceflight Commander

    <- gallery of parts

    https://imgur.com/a/dkILl03

    I've been wanting to try and make a mount for space gaming to go with my office chair - a Steelcase Leap. The organic-ish arms didn't make an easy way to create a clamp system, but in fooling around with it recently I noticed I could remove the armrest pads and they had a nice 4-bolt pattern. Since this is my office chair I need to be able to swap in or out of gaming setup easily.

    I added a 30mm tall adapter that lets me slide a 6mm x 30mm (actually, 1/4x1-1/4) bar in and secure at the back, with a plate adapter to mount my old HOTAS4 to the bar, and a pin at at the rear for quick release.

    The plates and adapters are eSun PLA+ which is fairly stiff but has some durability/ductility to it. The bar was supposed to be 6061-T6 aluminum but I was lazy and didn't feel like making a mess in the shop, ripping down some surplus plate I have, and I was too cheap to go out and buy 1/4x1-1/4 steel bar stock so I decided to print the bars fro

    PC Master Race @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    You vs the Guy She Tells You Not to Worry About

    Banana for scale but, also, the desk is 6' long and the little monitor is 43" (and will be re-purposed elsewhere).

    3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    Rebalancing the price to represent the value...

    Oh, AutoDesk...you have such a way with words. Honestly, I would rather learn to design in OpenSCAD than send AutoDesk a single penny.

    PC Master Race @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    Anyone gaming/working on a Samsung QLED 8k?

    I may have the opportunity to upgrade my home office from dual 42" 4K panels to a single 8K panel. Actually, the two 42" won’t fit as my new space is limited to a 72" maximum total width so it's drop to one monitor or go big. I’ll be moving my gaming rig into the office so gaming performance will matter but probably only a couple hours a week vs 50 hours of CAD and office apps.

    Although the easy answer is to grab the Samsung QN900C, it’s realistically more than I want to pay. I’m curious if anyone can say that there’s any day-to-day difference between the 900C flagship and either the 800C (or last year’s 800B) while I’m out looking for deals this week. I’m currently disregarding the 57" dual 4k gaming monitor due to the curve (it would obscure half my desk).

    Movies @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    It's tragic that Iceland doesn't have Journey to the Center of the Earth swag

    I looked all over the Golden Circle for some kitschy souvenir shirt to bring home and was hoping for a call back to the 2008 Journey movie with Brendan Fraser. Doubly disappointed as Aníta Briem (Hannah Ásgeirsson) is a native Icelander.

    Since I couldn't find one, I made my own.

    (I didn't actually make it to the Snaefellsjokull glacier in either of my two visits to the island. Maybe next time, and I wear my new T-shirt.)

    Armored Core @lemm.ee
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    Newbie q - controllers?

    I haven't played many (any) mech games and just watched the trailer for AC6. WTF - that looks awesome! How do most people play - kb+m or some kind of controller setup? Also, and I'm probably just asking how fast I can throw up, can this be played / is there a mode for VR?

    Thanks, in advance, for humoring the simple questions. :-)

    Gaming @lemmy.ml
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?

    I mean, the title is mostly it. I haven’t played DnD for…long enough that I know none of the rules and few of the classes. I didn’t play BG or BG2.

    It looks so shiny, but I’m afraid I would just be 100% lost. Can anyone say what it’s like to go in cold?

    Reddit @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    Power Deleted...but shadow posts are apparently a thing.

    I might have to look more into my state's right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I'd kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I'd purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is...disappointing.

    Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    A Classic

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    What makes Philips Hue lights so great?

    I don't get it. They're colored lights. I think of my self as a pretty tech-savvy GenXer, and I'm kind of a lighting geek, but I can't for the life of me figure out why I would want a lamp to be a particular color (other than 2800/3000/3200K) .

    Note: I have 95CRI 3200K LED lighting in my kitchen and office where I spend most of my time and I have Caseta programmable/networked lights in the house. I've never felt the need to actually use the networking feature. What am I missing with Hue?

    Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    Does this count?

    Edinburgh @sh.itjust.works
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    Since it seems the Fediverse doesn't collect identical communities across instances, should we put a link to [email protected] or invite them/the mod over here to try and consolidate?

    Memes @sopuli.xyz
    Overzeetop @lemmy.world

    It's happened more than once, for sure