Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 4

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I've watched "Cosmic Princess Kaguya!" on Netflix. It has some nice vibes but the plot is brain dead. It tries to be clever but doing so it is hand-waving so many things that put too many questions into my head that everything falls apart.

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Today's D&D session I did again a cardinal sin: a boring session. I created too many fights. The players are in a dungeon crawl beneath Candlekeep where they were avoiding traps and fighting Nothics, Spectators and a group of Koa-Tua imprisoning the spectral dragon. Not much variety this time. My players weren't keen on going outside the direct path and didn't want to look for treasures or anything alike because their main mission was to rescue a high-ranking person of Candlekeep who was threatened by evil wizards to seek an artifact beneath Candlekeep.

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I feel so unfulfilled at my job lately.

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Cool. Once I had 4 D-Link DIR-615 wireless access points that I bought many years ago and were extensively used. Now I have only one working. Either they are boot looping or just blinking or cannot turned on. Luckily I haven't paid much. The working one is just fine and has been put into work again as a wireless bridge from the cellar to the top floor because the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W antennas are not good enough to go reliably through thick rebar concrete. It's a little too flaky and I plan to add a tiny wireless camera which will definitely struggle as well, so the bridge bill be needed regardless.

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Bike paths still not really cleared. Today a huge snow fall was announced for tomorrow. Yeah... My city is incapable to not cater to cars.

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My city is incapable of clearing snow from bike paths. 3 days ago was the last time it snowed and yet one of the most busiest streets has still a thick layer of snow. The house owners have no obligation to clear them, however the foot paths they have to clear. BUT they are also very much covered in compacted snow with sand and stone chippings.

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I'm so close to build a cobbled together Frankenstein-esque Prusa MK3S. Found a very cheap power supply (good quality Meanwell), the frame with other parts arrived today, the mainboard will arrive this week, and the only part that takes the longest to arrive is a clone heatbed which will be in a few weeks because it's shipped from China.

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Another year another Chaos Communication Congress and watching their videos they posted on youtube. So far I've watched about IT security incidents, hacking of the AMD CPU of a PS5, hacking Nazi dating sites and uncovering their network, and many other.

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It's only a matter of time until there is something like a Staufenberg incident with Trump. At some point the boot lickers have to turn against him. Hope so.

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I've spent 2 hours to remove the LED connector off the Prusa enclosure board and figuring out how the current flows in order to replace it with a standard barrel jack for an ordinary LED strip. Still half the price of the official Prusa LED strip AND a 2m strip evenly lights up the print area. The original is only a 0,5m. I had also a ton of issues with the adhesive strip of the LED strip I bought. It didn't stick to the LED strip and the surface I wanted to stick on, however adhesive held firmly to the protective film. In the end I had to remove the adhesive and use zip ties.

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I semi-automated the transformation of my local garbage disposal company's collection schedule, that is downloadable as CSV, into my own LaTeX calendar. I still have to copy&paste the result into the tex file but the time I used to program was about what I would have spent manually editing everything into LaTeX syntax with my own functions. It's handy to have it hanging in the kitchen to remind myself when to put out the trash.

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With the power of over-engineering and 3D printing I repaired my mother's ironing board's height adjustment. The original mechanism slipped and I had to break the main components in order to make it repairable that I replaced with my prints. Otherwise I would have been a new purchase. 50€ new vs 50cent in printed plastic and a few nuts and screws.

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Been playing Megabonk the last days and I have beaten the final boss of the forest stage with Sir Oofie by focusing a lot on armor, shield, lifesteal and a lot of big axes. Luckily the game is not addicting.

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Finally I brought the 3D printer to the school. The teachers (one of them is a friend of mine) were ecstatic that they have something usable, with potentially someone (me) to fix it whenever something happens. The previous printer was just garbage. At least with that one I can do something. The repair guides are excellent and the manufacturer offers printable replacement parts and the other stuff is still purchasable, with the possibility they can fix the printer themselves. I really hope it will be rocking without incident until they retire it. Given it's a school it means at least 10 to 20 years.

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Also the intro's guitar riff slaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQbRi400_k

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Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake Season 2 is great. It feels quite disjointed at first but it slowly puts itself together towards the later episodes.

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Was with friends at the Christmas market. I bought some over-priced food. It was good but also quite lacking for the price.

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Today's D&D session was received positively by my players. I've leveled up as a DM.

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TIL that it's possible to stream videos from VLC to Chromecast. In the 'playback' menu under 'renderer' there is a Chromecast option.

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I tried to repair a school's 3d printer. Despite my best efforts a FrankerZty printer remains Fluffle Puffty. The replacement parts I used weren't 100% compatible resulting in other parts interfering. In this case it is the part cooling fan shroud that's quite a bit too high making the cooling basically nonexistent. Right now I'm printing a few different lengths of the fan shroud since I didn't think of measuring and record the current nozzle position.

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All dignity left my body when I had to put my arm elbow deep into my clogged toilet in order to remove the blockage.

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RIP my Jalapeño plants. I had to throw them into the trash because they were infested by aphids. Instead of salvaging them I decided to that drastic decision because I determined the trouble isn't worth for a 1-year plant.

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By accident I discovered that my comic shop has a pre-order for a figure of Akiyama Shun. Of course I had to get it. On the same stroke I saw a Ichiban Kasuga figure from Kotobukiya with Nancy but it's waaaay out of my budget. I ain't paying 280€ just to get Nancy. There is also a Pirate Majima figure for 210€ that I won't get. The regular Majima I already have must suffice.

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Stranger Things Season 5 part 1 was quite good. A lot happened but it didn't meander as much as some other season. It had a tight direction and the editing cuts were at time creative, maybe a little too much in a short time. 8/10

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If I hadn't this Humble Bundle Image Comics bundle is fire https://www.humblebundle.com/books/image-comics-in-10s-books About 17€ for bangers like Saga, I Hate Fairyland, Papergirls, and Curse Words. Moonstruck is neat, as well as Plutonia. Ice Cream Man I read only an issue and it's also intriguing as it's an anthology. Sex Criminals got me annoyed and stopped at Volume 3. Maybe it gets better but the characters were grating. mango Planet is a trash fire in my opinion despite the intriguing premise. I can't say anything about the other comics except most have fairly good reviews.

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https://www.printables.com/model/60564-armored-regular-giraffe #giraffe