Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 7

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Whenever the question comes up if the monster that Doctor Frankenstein created can be named "Frankenstein" I think of the more important question: should the monster be named after all the people from which all of all the body parts come from?

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I only changed the chain guard because I needed to lubricate the chain.

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I've finally changed the bike chain guard with a new one that I have bought years ago. The new one isn't a perfect fit so I had to 3D-print a small ring to close a gap around the pedals. Also the cover needed some holes drilled in order to mount that to my bike. Both things made me delay the replacement and the old one still hanged on, by a thread to be honest. Next time whenever it breaks I completely 3D-print that using the original as a template. I had to use M5 nuts as spacers in order to center the new guard. Sadly the manufacturer doesn't provide replacement parts or information where to buy the exact same model.

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I gave my mother my food dehydrator for a while. I got sick of the whole process and she was willing to try that thing out. Also she has all of the apples we have picked and I have none left.

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Another batch of dried apple slices finished. I made them thin and dried them crispy for 10 hours at 70°C. It's funny to see how much they shrink during the process. From barely fitting on the drying racks to occupying half the area.

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My mother's smartphone died today and we had to panic-buy a new one. She has also witnessed the horror of not having backups. All her stored phone numbers are gone.

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I bought a year ago a fruit dryer to make, for example, dried apple slices. I intended to use it as a filament dryer but didn't go so far to modify it, even if it is simple. However today I used it for its intended use and sliced a hand full of apples to dry them. My thought was to use it at least once the "right" way until I modify it irreversibly. Now my home smells like of warm apples.

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Mixing grapefruit juice and grape juice today in a 1:1 ratio because I felt very daring today. The grapefruit was both overwhelming with its bitterness and underwhelming the grape taste while the grapefruit taste completely vanished.

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I have a strong suspicion that a mouse is munching on my (unripe) tomatoes. Anyway, today I picked a lot of unripe tomatoes and save them from the cold. I try them to ripen them inside. Also I put my Jalapeno chili plants inside. I don't think they will survive 5°C and rain. I don't think that the plants in my tent green house will be good at those temperatures. They already have dark spots on the leaves.

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It's quite the sight to see old cell phones in an old box. It is a bigger sight when there is a bulge on the back from the swelling lithium-ion battery. Thankfully they did not burst and went up in flames. On the other hand they would have been so discharged after so much time that the little bit of energy could barely start any fire.

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The last few days got quite cold and my almost ripe tomatoes were popping left and right, meaning they cracked open, and some were moldy. Not only that some also fell down due to strong winds. I had to throw away about 5 tomatoes away.

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RGG actually did it.... The game fans are screaming about because they were screaming about it for other reasons. Kiwami 3.

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I'm pretty annoyed by the pickiness of SD cards my new printers have. None of them want to read the SD cards that I've bought. Other ones I have are fine, so an obvious hardware defect can be dismissed. I formatted them as FAT32 with msdos partition table and yet they don't work in the printer. The PC has no problems at all with them. Only the printers don't like them.

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After 4 years of use of those small bungee cords as shoe laces I had to replace them today. They were absolutely not good looking anymore because the fabric around the rubber core was shaved off at many spots. But I can confidently say that only ONCE one shoe got loose because of the knot was too loose and that happened near the beginning of my first use. They were rock solid and I was never in danger of getting the shoe laces open and them tangling into my bike chain.

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Another 20kg of picked apples from a relative's garden. My mother will give a lot of them away to her colleagues and neighbors as she is only able to store and make half of that as apple sauce. I also brought a few kilos home but my apple eating is already maxxed at 1 apple every 3 days. I don't mind apples but I have limits. My limits are already tested with tomatoes, I don't need more food challenges to overcome.

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A few hours ago the seller with his family was delivering the 3D printer to me. They were coincidentally planning driving near by me so we agreed on not using a parcel delivery service but I still paid the delivery costs. Also I gave a good hand full of tomatoes to them. Three Prusa MK3S in da house working and printing nonstop sorting bins. Slightly dirty trapezoidal threaded rods but it looks good.

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The smell of Gleichschaltung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung is in the air for quite some time in the USA.

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Whenever I read "coworker" I tend to misread it as "cow orker", like as it was an orc cow.

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Number of working 3D printers is now up to two. It was hellish to reassemble the hotend again for the third time. I'm also thinking about printing a again a whole set of replacement parts just in case.