captain_aggravated

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This Lemmy comment will be performed in the voice of that fat British guy on Youtube shorts that talks about marketing

You see, the problem with marketing it as a "second phone" is that you're implying that it's too shit to be someone's first phone. Or that you've chosen to do something to it that would make it impossible to live with.

I remember in 2018, Verizon started offering a tiny little Android phone branded as a Palm of all things, and that small but vocal minority who insist they want small phones started clamoring for it only to be told that it's a "companion device" and you still had to have another device active on that line. It cost $350 plus $10 a month on top of another device and plan.

There was essentially no one on earth who wanted a special phone they only used to take to the gym with them, they refused to sell it to people who specifically wanted it, and so it didn't sell well, to say the least.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It is my understanding that iOS does not support Syncthing.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I installed an optical drive in my computer recently, and I was playing with my old CDs, and found that Poodle Hat has a data partition, or whatever the hell you call them on CDs. On which is a 6 minute .mov file that takes up about an 8th of the disc's space, in which Al thanks the owner of the disc for buying the album "instead of downloading it like some HOOLIGAN!" And then proceeds to joke over some of his own home movies.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My father's toyota will do that when it senses you're approaching traffic too fast. It will start beeping and flashing indicators on the dashboard. Which I think should be banned, because at a critical moment the vehicle takes your attention off the road because you instinctively look down to see what the car is mad about.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Cider production requires very sweet apples, because you're looking for sugar.

I built a MK4S from the kit, and I would recognize it, even without having printed it it's a memorable part of the build. You'd basically have to have built or upgraded a Prusa printer in the last 2 years to recognize it for what it is. If you hadn't been introduced to it, do you have any hope of guessing what that's for?

This statement is technically correct, the best kind of correct.

I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with ghost guns. "Ghost guns" is just another way of spelling "protect the children."

When was the last school shooting that used a ghost gun? No, they use Bushmasters, Rugers, Smith & Wessens, Glocks. Because you can just...buy those. In a store. When's the last time a serial number stopped a shooting?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

There's definitely a little bit of this going on.

I wonder if Nvidia is leaning on them a bit. Like, create a regulatory requirement for something for one of their bullshit datacenters to do now that Microslop has said "we need to find something useful for AI to do or we're not going to be able to live the lie much longer" out loud almost verbatim?

I outright don't know if this is even possible. I mean...

What's that? I bet 60% of people who have touched one of those couldn't identify what it is by sight. Should I be allowed to print that?

I'll take your filthy upvote. Not from a big truck, through a series of tubes.

Yep. The way that is accomplished is that practically all governments that issue paper money add a specific pattern of five circles to it somewhere, often in numerous places. American 10, 20, 50 and 100 bills use repeating patterns of those numbers to disguise it, others hide or celebrate it in various ways. Any scanner, copier or printer is looking for that pattern, and if it sees it, it refuses to print it.

The problem to solve there is "is this 2D pattern present?" It's like asking if the word "soup" is printed somewhere on a page in Courier New, in terms of the computational power it takes to solve; it's just optical character recognition.

Prusa is evidently stupid enough to bake a bitmap image of the object to be printed in their G-Code file, but that could be stopped. The printer doesn't get to see the model file, only the hundreds of thousands of lines of G-Code that it is expected to obey as perfectly as it can.

There are still printers for sale today that run on Arduino Mega-based control boards; you want them to try answering "is this G-Code going to make a part of a gun" as a function of the firmware? Psh.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When was the last time a legislator understood the legislation they were passing?

 

I've had a MK4S for over a week now, and 100% of the prints I've tried to make on the textured sheets have partially or totally failed. PLA prints beautifully on the smooth sheet, but PLA, PETG and ABS, I think I could print on the surface of a 10 inch tank of oil with more success than the textured sheet. Plastic doesn't stick to it. I've wiped it with isopopyl, I've washed it with dawn...it's a bad print surface and I want my money back.

 

Have you ever decided to do something truly devious with your Linux computer? I'm talking the elite hacker shit. I'm talking the stuff they don't dare talk about at Defcon. I'm talking crossing a line you can't uncross, the things that get your civil rights revoked and summon the black helicopters. Things like watching a DVD or inkjet printing a photograph you took with a digital camera.

Normal people can't just do heavy shit like that, man. A lot of them won't even make it through installing VLC, watch them try to grok the difference between Fedora repos, Fedora Flatpaks and Flathub. Then, how many of them do you think will figure out how to go to File > Open Disc. Your uncle that hunts and pecks at 2 words a minute can't fit that idea in his head because "Play DVD" is taking up too much room for "Open Disc" to fit.

Then it bombs out with a cryptic error message that doesn't even display in white text in dark mode, because your Linux computer doesn't have the DRM shit required to play a DVD. That is going to require one of these:

sudo dnf install libvcss libvcss-data libvcss-common libvcss2 ffmpeg ffmpeg-common ffmpeg-dvdcss

and if that was an APT command, that'd be the end of it because it would work. NOT ON FEDORA. I've never seen one of those "install seven packages" commands work on Fedora. Ever. Because DNF is more pedantic, it's libvcss-common4.2.2beta now, stop deadnaming the penguin flavored DLL.

Oh and your inkjet printer? No we don't do that anymore. We do driverless basic bitch document printing now, we removed the drivers from any repos out there and made it so that DNF won't install the ones offered by Epson themselves, because this shall not be done. You want to put a glossy photo of your house cat, in a frame, IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME?! I mean, CUPS+Gutenprint supports like 5,000 printers by name and model number, and your perfectly functional Epson XP-830 is extremely not on it because we saw what you did that one time and we won't forgive you.

Seriously, software management on Fedora is goddamn unlivable.

 

This part attaches a Raspberry Pi in a slightly stupid case I have to an external hard disk. There wasn't really a way to print it without at least some kind of support material...except leaning back at a 45 degree angle. This printed entirely without supports.

 

Before we kick this off, I was enmoderated on this community a few months ago, and I haven't had to do a single bit of moderation in that time. Not a single user banned, not a single comment deleted. This community has been absolutely excellent to each other, and I sincerely thank each and every one of you for that.

Without further ado, let's have one of our community sidebar picture contests!

It's the holiday season, and I'm sure a few of us woodworkers have hand built some wooden gifts for our friends and loved ones. To enter the contest, please leave a comment on this post with a picture or two of your gift project along with a brief description. The project with the most community upvotes wins.

The prize will be your project displayed on the community sidebar until the next contest (where the New Yankee Workshop sign is at time of writing) and the choice of topic for the next season's contest.

Votes will be tallied on the evening of Dec 24.

Let's see the wonderful stuff y'all made!

 

I've got a NAS. I've got a Music folder on the NAS. I've shared it with SMB.

I've got two users on the NAS, an admin account with read and write, and a guest account with only read privileges.

I used Dolphin on a KDE box, I clicked Network > Shared Folders (SMB) > The_NAS > Music. It threw a login window, I logged in as the admin.

How the fuck do I log back out to switch to the guest account? I know SMB is Microsoft's doing so it's pure weapons-grade gonorrhea but...why is this extremely obvious usability feature missing?

 

Abstract: I installed an 18 year old sound card in a modern-day Linux PC and the damn thing just worked.

Shit talking my dad

My father is an IT professional, AS400 class, "I remember when it was called the System 38" rank. When it comes to PC hardware, he can usually identify a PC when shown one. Doesn't really give a shit. He buys Dells because they gave him a line of credit. He shops by buying the second most expensive XPS they offer. He's been doing that since Core i7s had three-digit model numbers. I know because I've got one of his old machines in the other room. And I'd like to beat the teeth out of the four-flushing worm-headed sack of monkey shit that sold it to him.

This machine was surprisingly full of option cards for a PCIe-era box. Graphics card? Fine. USB 3.0? Was new in those days, that's a reasonable cost option. Gigabit ethernet NIC? You mean like the one built into it's motherboard? Soundblaster X-Fi? Huh. See, the bottom section of the motherboard IO shield has this curious plastic blanking plate. Pick that off with your fingernails and it pops free, revealing six 3.5mm jacks. The motherboard has functioning built-in surround sound. And yet they sold my father a goddamn Soundblaster. They did this enough to manufacture blanking plates specifically for that job. Corporations are bullshit.

Installing an 18 year old Soundblaster in a modern Fedora box

So, I've got a reasonable self-built gaming PC, I run Fedora KDE on it. It's got a Realtek 7.1 something something chip built in, but only 3 plugs in the rear. I happen to own an old Dell 5.1 surround sound speaker system. You can attach these things together, in Linux you have to use HdaJackRetask to reassign the rear jacks to put out the rear, front and subwoofer channels properly, and once you've got that done you'll be treated to these eardrum rupturing pops as the sound chip turns itself on and off to save power. Changing a couple files somewhere in /etc can fix that...until you reboot the machine, to make that change permanent you have to change some other file somewhere else...

Then I had a thought. I own an old but functional PCIe Soundblaster designed specifically to drive surround sound PC speakers and an open card slot in my machine. Why not?

I go to extract the card from the old Dell, noticing a cable is plugged into the front edge of the card. Memories of old sound cards of yore having passthrough cables from the optical drives went through my head before I realized it was the HD audio cable from the front IO panel. Oh yeah. So when I installed it in my new PC, I made sure to move the HD audio cable from the motherboard to the sound card.

Booted into Fedora, open the audio settings, select 5.1 surround, and it works. The driver is built right into the kernel, nothing to install or configure. Then I thought to test if the front IO worked. I plugged in a headset, and I got audio out of the headset and the speakers.

Nothing I could do would get it to detect the plug and mute the rear IO. I dug through alsamixer and such, no dice.

I tried a bluetooth headest, that worked fine. Because a Bluetooth device is kind of a whole other sound card, it just...stops sending audio data to the sound card.

Head tilt.

Shut down, switch the HD audio cable back to the motherboard, boot.

With no headset attached, audio is sent to the Soundblaster and out the 5.1 speakers. Plug a headset in the front IO, it auto-detects and switches to the onboard Realtek chip. The speakers go quiet and I get stereo out of the headset. Turn on my bluetooth headset and sound goes there.

It...works. I got audio to just fucking work. In Linux.

 

I was watching Randy Feltface with my cat sitting on my lap (not pictured, you degenerates will never see my lap), and I started just belly laughing at the bookshelf on gumtree skit, and I'm drunk enough to start wondering if my cat enjoys the sensation of my laughter as much as I enjoy the sensation of her purrs. A human is a ball of anxiety that can't purr to soothe itself and a cat is an utterly ridiculous creature that can never laugh at its own silliness. We'd be entirely screwed without each other.

 

A lot of the laws of physics I've studied, like Boyle's Law and Charles' Law, describe the behavior of "An ideal confined gas."

I've had to tell several flight students to unlearn what they've learned about that in the meteorology chapter, because, for example, in a confined gas, increasing the temperature causes an increase in pressure while the density stays the same. In the Earth's atmosphere, increasing temperature does nothing to the pressure and decreases the density. Because the Earth's atmosphere isn't "confined," there's no lid, the air is relatively free to change volume. Heat the entire planet up and the atmosphere will just get a little taller.

But, I think, even if we put a magical vacuum tight shell around the planet 200 miles up, making the volume finite, I think the atmosphere would still act like an unconfined gas, because 1. it's so vast that it never homogenizes, parcels of different temperatures, pressures and moisture content take days to slosh across the available space, and 2. the Earth's gravity will cause a pressure gradient; most of the air is at the bottom and if you heat it up, it may not change volume but the pressure at the top will increase.

So I guess there has to be an upper limit to the volume and/or mass of air that can be "confined" and it's somewhere below planetary scale.

 

Put together a little box for the accessories that go with my dovetail jig. Out of poplar and of course with dovetail joinery.

 

Walnut and acrylic.

 

Something written had to exist in order to be read, so writing is at least a second older than reading.

 

I've posted the lower cupboard before, but here we have the (almost) finished hutch attached. I'm going to let the urethane cure for a day or two before I install the glass.

That's this dining room cupboard project finished. I learned quite a lot with this one.

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