Someonelol

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

3d printing, specifically FDM with PLA since I'm not down to mess with the chemicals for a resin printer. Keep printing until you're out of an opened filament roll, otherwise your filament will absorb water and degrade. I often learn filament goes bad when a tiny piece breaks off in the feeder right above the heating element, requiring some annoying disassembly to diagnose and correct the problem. If you're not sure what to build with the last bit of filament, a small square trash can/pencil holder is always useful.

Stick to a maintenance schedule. Putting off a lubrication or dusting can lead to debris getting stuck somewhere and ruining a print when you least expect it. Also learn about every component in your printer and how to get a replacement when it inevitably breaks. That way you can purchase a few of the more commonly broken parts to lower printer downtime.

Start off with a brand name printer that does auto leveling. That cheap CR10 you bought for a hundred dollars sounds like a bargain until you realize it can't print a solid first layer, causing all sorts of other minor annoyances with your print quality. Trying and failing to fix the issues might eventually turn you off on pursuing the hobby.

I was already well versed in Solidworks, but learn how to use a CAD program. You can get a lot of use from the many publicly available models out there but you might eventually have an idea or require something that requires a custom design. Being able to physically manifest your own design ideas quickly was a big drawing point for me to get into the hobby.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Rahm Emanuel and Jon Stewart hurt the reputation of the humble Chicago Deep Dish pizza due to some crass comment about skyscrapers. It's a fantastic pie slathered in tomato sauce with a dough base mixed with corn meal giving it a slight crunch and subtle boost to its flavor. I get not everyone likes the unconventional approach to this dish but in my humble opinion it's well worth having once in a while, especially with a pint of beer. I only wish it were a little more common because damn not even LA has more than 3 or 4 joints that offer it and they're all a pain to get to. Just give the pizza a chance people, it's tasty and filling especially if you like your pie saucy.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've lost all faith in Martin after he's refused to finish ASOIAF. There's no point in taking authors seriously if they choose to let their sagas remain unfinished. There are plenty of other authors who are determined to conclude their work and deserve more attention.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This has to be a fucking joke. Newsom is sucking up to Ben "Israel does nothing wrong" Shapiro?! Well shit Dems deserve another election loss if this fucking assclown gets the nomination.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

The US government is full of unelected positions. The difference this time is one of them was created to have an unprecedented level of power and used it to cripple his adopted country.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

The silver lining to the job notifications is that it tells you which companies are hiring and for what. Don't bother with their "easy apply" option and go to their website to apply directly instead. My success rate is still like 0.5% but at least they send you rejection emails more often.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

It's for ritualistic burnt offerings of course.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's the point of paying for overpriced game cartridges when the software isn't onboard and are just a license to download them? The Switch 1 was still tolerable because you got to own the titles you physically purchased and could access locally at any time. There's no long term argument for owning a Switch 2.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Clearly not enough damage has been done since Nvidia's stock price is still in the stratosphere.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Hello Kessler Syndrome!

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why won't France and the UK state they'd nuke him back if he tried? They're NATO countries too and need to stand by in solidarity with an ally being attacked. Letting the orange Hitler do as he pleases will only embolden him to go after them later.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Or that the other branches of government haven't abdicated their obligations for checks and balances. They've given him carte blanche to be a king in this country.

 

I'm trying to install either a .deb or .rpm driver for a Canon MF212w printer. Unfortunately since CachyOS is an Arch-based OS it lacks a straightforward way to go with the installation. I checked out a few different tutorials on Youtube but they all basically say to not do it their way since it could work but at the cost of messing up some dependencies. Is there a safe way to install either version of this program without damaging any other files or directories?

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/RPM

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.5M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-6.20-1.01.x86_64.rpm

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/Debian

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.6M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us_6.20-1.01_amd64.deb

 

Hi all. I'm trying out Cachy for the first time and was testing an old game on Steam (Anomaly Warzone Earth). The game went full screen but was stuck in a loading loop where I couldn't Alt+tab or Alt+F4 my way out of. The OS was still responsive and I could open up a terminal but as soon as I did, the game's loading screen would block my view. Is there a way to force minimize or kill a program when it's stuck in full screen? I heard xkill could work but I don't see how to use it when I can't even see the terminal.

 

I just finished a preliminary interview for a medium sized engineering company. The interviewer was impressed with my background and asked to proceed with my candidacy but wanted four additional rounds of interviews and a 30 minute technical presentation about how I solved a problem. I turned them down and said I don't work for free, the amount of time it would take to gather my notes and thoughts on a slide deck would be too much. She quickly soured and we ended the call soon after. I feel like I dodged a bullet going through a gauntlet of work for the high chance of ending up with nothing.

What are Lemmy's thoughts on preparing presentations for lengthy job interview processes? Would you have considered going through with it?

 

Just finished installing the under frame. I'm so reluctant to add on the armor and have been taking weeks having the figure sit in the back of the kitchen table while admiring the details when eating.

 

Hello, I recently bought an old Lenovo Thinkpad X130e (ca. 2012) and tried installing Linux Mint ver. 22.1 Xfce edition into the laptop's HDD and received a "Linux Mint unable to install GRUB in dev/sda" error that only let me boot into a GRUB terminal after rebooting. Is there an easily available installation guide/manual for this laptop I could take a look at? I've tried adjusting the BIOS' UEFI/boot settings but haven't had any luck. I figure there's a way to manually configure the HDD to have a bootable partition during installation but I'm not sure what I'm doing exactly.

UPDATE: Finally fixed the issue. I rebooted on the USB stick iso after the latest GRUB install error and ran the Boot Repair utility from the start menu. It automatically fixed the issue and was able to successfully boot without the USB. Hopefully this helps someone if they run into a similar issue later.

 

Back in the 80's, Atari had a monopoly of games and charged absurd amounts of money for titles that pretty much had no quality control. The cost of each cartridge would easily go over $100 in today's money and gamers began to pull back on purchasing anything. This eventually culminated in the infamous E.T. movie tie in that led to pallets of its unsold cartridges ending up in a landfill and crashing the industry.

Now that Nintendo's signaled to the rest of the industry it's okay to sell digital titles at $80 each, how soon do you see gamers collectively hold back on their purchases that will eventually collapse the AAA market? Will the current trade war play a role in the hardware side of things with the collapse? Will all major companies save Nintendo suffer the downturn?

 

I'm planning to go to a rural spot that has a Bortle class 3 night sky around Southern California. Can anyone recommend a beginner friendly telescope with decent magnification for around $200? I'm not interested in using an accompanying smart phone app to go with it either. I'd like to see nebulae and galaxies the most. Thank you.

 

There should be a kind of "sorting hat" personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.

 

 

I followed the maintenance guide and applied belt lube as instructed. Friction eventually caused the motor to overheat. Support said they meant to include using all 4 ounces of lube that came with it at a time. I'll be getting a new drive board to replace the burnt out one soon. Yep.

 
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