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I had my CNC initiation: I uncontrollably plunged the toolhead into the workpiece. I forgot to reset the coordinates before starting the job.
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After several encounters with my most recent enemy (electricity-eating fungi) I've decided to study the damn things and figure out how to eradicate them.
They're not actively harmful, but colonies form in low-current circuits, and cause devices to stop working. Phone lines and tv remotes are the two places I most often find them in, and even though I fully clean the devices, after a while the fungi shows up again.about 3 days ago from web-
@scribus @drinkingpony Sub-zero doesn't kill them, considering they made a colony on the phone line box thing outside despite a week of antartic wind consistently dropping the temperature below 0ºC
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@nerthos Here is a stupid idea... Try hairspray.
Nono, not on them, remove them first and then see if hairsprayed components inhitbit their growth.
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@drinkingpony I'm 100% sure it's not oxydation, copper is intact and copper oxyde isn't gooey and transparent
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It is constructed! However it is too late to power it up. My eyes are tired enough. First impression: It's cheap and it shows at every corner. Despite the "Pro" in its name it feels far from it. The front (and back) plate where the rods and screw rod for the table are attached to is made of bakelite. I expected aluminium. On the other hand it seems to be thick and sturdy. The only real bummers are the plastic spindle holder and the plastic holders for the bushings for sliding on the rods and the plastic screw rod nut holder. I'll test it tomorrow or so before my complaints get any validity. I mean I got what I paid for: A cheap CNC for cheap money. Baby's first CNC. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/874944
about 2 days ago from web-
@adiwan I do not know what bakelite is. Nor do I know what that circuit boards looks like but I guess that is where the pro comes from ( picture please )
Now you might want to check before you begin if the thing is 'smart' enough to not go out of bounds and destroy itself. I did a little bit of reading on them machines.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Bakelite is a type of plastic. Many products were made of bakelite until modern plastics like ABS were invented. And it will destroy itself because it lacks any endstop switches but I will install some that I have laying around. The pro aspect of it is that it has support for lasers and the spindle is a bit more precise. I will test it when I come back from work.
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I cannot stress it enough: Watch "Amphibia"! The first season ended today so there is no excuse.
about 2 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan The abundance of frogs makes it extremely tempting, but the art style is offputting.
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God's teeth, I can't wait for my BlackBerry KeyONE to arrive...
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I'ma just leave this big mood tech flex here....
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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@darkw00d 2D>3D with the sole exception of heterosexual marriage blessed by both church and state, that removes the PD from 3DPD
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@nerthos with full admission that I have absolutely no clue what you mean I'll just reconstruct my point this way: having relationships with people is more fascinating than infatuations with animations. this opinion is brought to you by a user of rainbow pony website
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@darkw00d 3DPD means "three dimensional pig disgusting", however marriage purifies the 3D and it is no longer disgusting or pig-like, 3D becomes pure and handholding is no longer sinful.
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@adiwan So they used VR and 3D printing to help seperate conjoined twins. You do VR and 3D printing... Are you pondering what I'm pondering? https://time.com/5627206/safa-marwa-ullah-conjoined-twins/
about 3 days ago from web-
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Fun fact! My dad's older brother went to Woodstock. . . then saw the crowd and went back home. Anyway, have a larf! https://youtu.be/Mdqv5xIsFLM
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https://www.stormarea51.us/product-page/i-clap-alien-cheeks?fbclid=IwAR3ukIehfdKW1r83oQ5BHJeDgcYnJ0Pae620XkFC4B262ZCvGQQ2TGrXQKo Cue 16.5 minutes of sighing
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Guy who was elected on his promise to make America great again tells congresswomen who want to make America great again to get out. More at 11.
about 4 days ago from web-
@mrmattimation I've had Gary Clark, Jr's "This Land" stuck in my head ever since.
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I couldn't resist any longer and I bought a small CNC router.
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@drinkingpony And you are right. Any cheaper and they always come from China. I don't want to cheap out and pay what I saved in import duties.
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@adiwan Too bad Prime Day seems to be over. But that looks like a lovely machine. Looking forward to seeing your first acrylic cutout of pony :)
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@drinkingpony And on that day, pony will finally have ponied pony
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The VR game Trover saves the Universe by Justin Roiland is, just average. The controls are sometimes infuriating. To match parity with PSVR and one-camera Oculus Rift setups it makes me furious to rotate because when I look backwards my view is blocked by a chair and the view is darkened. The combat is as uninspiring as it gets.
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So, I enjoyed "Stranger Things" season 3, and I think a 4 could work, or this could be a good ending. But I really, really don't want them to try to go forever. I've liked it too much so far to watch it suck for 3 years before it finally just peters out on an unfulfilling wet fart noise. And s3 was showing some of the issues with neverending longform, like more than enough moments of "Well this stupid thing only happened so the plot could exist" and forced drawn-out interpersonal drama based on comically improbable misunderstandings. Not enough to stop me, but it did pull me out of the narrative a bit. But there were far more high notes than low, and damnit they're all just so likable! I didn't feel like the 80s refernces were too forced, but a couple did drag. Overall, a solid B.
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Today was a very unfocused day at work. I did everything but my self-assigned task. I wrote a lot of helper methods (extension methods). Useful for sure but not that useful for the thing I wanted to realize.
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i still have a 2012 edgelord sense of humor but I also care about social justice, guess you can call me Edge JW
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@mrmattimation That was so gorram goodbad.
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So China is winning at science now https://time.com/4854718/quantum-entanglement-teleport-space/
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@scribus Only a matter of time before we start to throw words around like "Transporter Psychosis" ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/874913 )
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Time to play "Is that the melatonin kicking in, or am I just exhausted from a 13 hour night shift!?"
about 6 days ago from web-
@scribus Wait, Melatonin or Melanin ?
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I'm really thinking hard about buying a cheapo CNC router (30cm x 18cm x 4.5cm volume) for 190€
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I wasted half a day on fixing my mother's PC. More precisely Firefox. It opened every few minutes an error message that its profile couldn't be loaded. However it was all caused by Kaspersky Anti Virus. Deactivating it made it not complain again.
about 7 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Desktop Linux distros are fine but after a while but I got tired of FrankerZing with them. I'd rather use my computer to make stuff than have tinkering with it be an end unto itself, because it makes me crazy.
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@thismightbeauser I know. ChromeOS lacks the customization and the hardware itself is too expensive for what it's worth. My mother doesn't need to configure it, I need it whenever there is a problem.
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@adiwan I guess being shunned has put me out of practice with fixing family computer problems.
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I'd rather use Ubuntu.
about 7 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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i can't sleep when i'm depressed
i don't sleepabout 7 days ago from web-
@mrmattimation My whole life, pretty much, I've not been able to sleep without some kind of medication, or being drunk or stoned, or on 36 hours of exhaustion (and sometimes not even then). Our last live show for #SageAndSavant I got maybe 6 hours over the 4 day weekend.
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SITH TROOPERS !?! You are going to take something out of the old canon you made un-canon and pretty much make it look like someone dropped a Duck-Helmet Storm Trooper into the wrong vat of paint ?!?
Go home Disney, you are drunk !
That advice is coming from ME ! Someone with both a really positive deposition towards the hard stuff, and also someone who painted the first Ork ( W40K ) with the wrong primer causing him to look ruggid, badass, awesome, and of African descent.about 9 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Oh, ehmm, by the way, skip to the 3 minute mark unless if you want the salty unrestrained super right 'funny' opinions of a sock-puppet that was intentionally made just to be all that.
Though if you want to go in knowing that, the more power to you. Mostly because... Lord of the Rings... Yeah Chuck Wendig went "That thing is bad for I can not read it T_T"Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony As a consumer of the new canon (having all the comics that came after the switch) and having only glimpses of experience with the old canon I'm heavily biased. As far as I have gathered the old canon is guilty of several stupid things like clones of Palpatine and Luke and such that appears to be fan-fictiony as well.
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@adiwan You forgot the clones of Luke named Luuke and Luuuke ( no really ).
But yeah, fair point. All movies have severe faults and cracks in them. However it took Disney only 2 mainline movies to break the fandom. The two biggest sides seem to be those who absolutely love it and defend it so hard till their mind seems to break ( warning, 2 hour podcast of someone whose mind seems to break defending the movie https://youtu.be/bXs0LXqK2SM ). Those who still come out with movies why it all sucked and why it is all going to hell. I am not even sure if that 'side' is actually truthfull when they shout 'Please make Brie Larson a Jedi, let it all die !' or not.
Meanwhile I like to see myself as in the middle and heavily in the minority.
Imagine a kid creating a beautiful sandcastle on a beach only to come back the next day to find out that there is now a squatter playing with 'your' sand castle. Surely you can share, right ? But part of me still goes "You know, this could have been better
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I wonder if my eggs are still good?
about 10 days ago from web-
@drinkingpony Good to know, I shall attempt this!
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@scribus They say you should freeze them if you're not planning on having kids before you're 35, but supposedly that's a myth... idk
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@thismightbeauser Well, I just hit 36 last month, anyway, so... lol
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the bot that just followed me is in my area should i be scared
about 8 days ago from web-
@scribus worse: MC Ride
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I'm glad that the new MLP episodes got released early.
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I need to use hot sauce more often. My taste buds are not as tough as they used to be.
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@adiwan Yeah you really should. I am pretty sure they are a staple to the food pyramid.
If not they should.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Starting to contemplate a Diaspora or Friendica server, and a Pleroma one. Long as I'm getting in over my head, may as well go deep!
about 9 days ago from web-
@scribus If you can wrap your head around Docker there may be some premade images that make your life easier.
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Also, I probably need a toaster.... Be easier to make toast with one.
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You know what I would appriciate ? for when I turn my computer to sleep and start meditating or sleeping or something you normally do in silence that my computer does not randomly decide "Hey you know, this would be a great time to do my updates"
Then after the updates it goes back to load all the things that were previously open, such as YouTube tabs I had put on pause to listen to / watch later. But I guess getting shocked to wide alert on http://rainbowdash.net/url/874866 while Angry Joe rips some game a new one, while at the same time ERB's "Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock" and Luis Rossman does a RIP&TEAR on a poor piece of electronics, all together fight for dominance of my speakers.
By Celestia's beard I loathe Windows 10. >_<
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@drinkingpony Uh, maybe? Windows 2000?
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@scribus Yup, that is the non dev name of the same beast that haunted me in my dreams for so long I do not even care to remember.
Worst time to do a study/school in IT.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I just recall it as a more or less bright spot between the troubles of 95, 98, and everything past 7. It just worked for me, in a way the OS hasn't since. Well, XP didn't completely suck. But I liked 2000 better. Wonder how Free DOS is holding....
