adiwan (adiwan)

  1. Hmm... Depressed spammers. That's a new one.

    about 20 hours ago from web
  2. I love it when there are over 600 broken packages in apt because some dependencies went sideways.

    about 4 days ago from web
  3. I'm low-key considering making an imprint of my butt so I can cast a butt-shaped silicone pillow. The desk seat is not bad but the seat cushion is practically non-existent and lost all its elasticity.

    about 5 days ago from web
  4. A little corner in my head want to see the world burn by angry people over a historic film, where there was an equal amount of white and black people but their roles are played by the opposite skin color.

    about 5 days ago from web
  5. Kung Fu Panda 4 OST doesn't disappoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadG2zToi1s Instant goosebumps.

    about 5 days ago from web
  6. Tried red bean mochi for the first time. Was fine. Not the best. Definitely 1000 times better than the mochi ice cream I tried a longer time ago. There I had the problem with it being both hard and gooey soft.

    about 5 days ago from web
  7. My miniature paint box is finished https://www.tumblr.com/adiwan/744764666193100800/

    about 6 days ago from web
  8. Maybe I'm getting old but I like After Midnight https://www.youtube.com/@AfterMidnightCBS

    about 7 days ago from web
  9. Liquidy and runny cyanoacrylate is superior to thick and gooey cyanoacrylate. I just run out of my bottle of runny super glue and had to resort to those extremely small tubes that have the thicker stuff. I was hugely disappointed how awful it behaved and how awful it was to squeeze it out of the tube: more glue came out of the tube than I needed and oozed out on its own.

    about 13 days ago from web
  10. Haha.... I got a request from a family member to make a Bulbasaur from concrete for their garden. I explained that I never did it and 3D-printing any kind of mold will be expensive and may result in many failures AND it will take a long time. I think I will 3D-print a positive and use silicone for the mold. It'll make it easier to remove the mold from the hard concrete BUT to conserve the extremely expensive silicone I need to create a tightly fitting box that can be reused for the concrete pour. I predict that there will be bubbles galore in both the silicone and the concrete. Nobody I know has a sufficiently large vacuum or pressure chamber for removing bubbles. I ain't gonna buy that. Gonna need to figure out what's the "real" size of Bulbasaur. The size entry in the pokedex seem to be quite off to what I see in screen shots of the anime. I think I'll stick to the smaller anime size.

    about 14 days ago from web
  11. @zeldatra If I were in the US I'd be called a filthy communist. I'm all for universal healthcare. In Germany you can opt-out and be privately health-insured. I'm against that as rich people dodge paying into the general health care fund, making the poorer pay more. I'm also for free public transport (bus, tram, trains) as they are a key part for poorer people to participate in society and make it easier for them to get or maintain a job (also environmental benefits). I think most of the political landscape would burn me like a witch, except is a giant BBQ with a US flag paint job.

    about 16 days ago from web in context
  12. I'm 3d-printing myself a grid inlay for a new box I acquired for my miniature paints. With this grid inlay I can insert compatible tiles that won't shift when the box is moved. I want to print this https://www.printables.com/model/638320-parametric-gridfinity-paint-rack for all my Army Painter paints and generic open boxes for my brushes and other random stuff. I could print specific containers for a few things but it'd be overkill.

    about 16 days ago from web
  13. Buying a proper dial caliper was an excellent decision. I was gifted a digital one but it turned out to be a hassle as the batteries drained way too quickly. Having an analogue dial isn't in any way better or worse in practice. I have to look at two places for number before the comma and after but it's an acceptable trade-off for not having to rely on stupid batteries. I also use another without a dial (cheap 15€) but it's hard to guesstimate the digits after the comma.

    about 18 days ago from web
  14. Cool! KDE 6 is finished and the features look cool. https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/ I wait until Debian releases their updated packages and see if my old Thinkpad X201 still works.

    about 19 days ago from web
  15. Did another thing https://adiwan.tumblr.com/post/743579949596819456/ho-oh-alph-ruins-puzzle-replica-i-was-yet-again

    about 19 days ago from web
  16. Posting my creations online make me yearn for the Like and Reblog high.

    about 22 days ago from web
  17. I just stumbled upon the statistics menu of my 3d printers. One of them (the oldest) has accumulated 56 days of print time. It has probably more because I did a mainboard upgrade.

    about 23 days ago from web
  18. @scribus Haha. For this one-off it took me about 8 hours. As a fresh owner of a house there is much to do to fix up this old clunker. I also got this same suggestion from my friends to make this as a side hustle. But to be honest: I rather invest the time to make something for my friends than for complete strangers.

    about 23 days ago from web in context
  19. It has been finished!
    https://www.tumblr.com/adiwan/743211519247089664/i-finished-a-set-of-magnetic-unown-alphabet-tiles

    about 24 days ago from web in context
  20. I'm somewhat mad that the battery of my DSLR died. Before I wanted to use it I put the battery into the charger. Just as I wanted to snap my first shot the camera shut off with a low battery warning.

    about 24 days ago from web
  21. @scribus I wouldn't get so far. It was competent enough. Netflix will have succeeded doing good adaptations when they finish a whole series without a blunder.

    about a month ago from web in context
  22. The first season of the live-action ATLA series is certainly rushed in some parts. For what it is, it's OK. From what I get is, that it is barely standing on its own, however it is a great companion-piece to the animated series.

    about a month ago from web
  23. The live-action Avatar The Last Airbender is pretty decent. I only watched the first episode so far.

    about a month ago from web in context
  24. @zeldatra I got landline phone numbers with my Internet contract and once in a while I receive calls from random people thinking it belongs to a garage shop. It happens only a couple times a year.

    about a month ago from web in context
  25. Having a proper hot melt glue gun is great. I cannot say it enough. I was attaching 30 magnets with a huge hot blob of glue to the Unown tiles I crafted out of polymer clay. I need to get my old Canon EOS/Rebel 350 DSLR camera (it's now 18 years old) and make some photos for the interwebs.

    about a month ago from web
  26. It's great to have The Bad Batch back. A 3 episode finale is great and all but it means that there is less time until the series finale. Animated Star Wars is given a lot of flak in the past, sometimes rightfully so for crap episodes and the initially jarring art style. On the other hand it is the source for really imaginative and sometimes the best Star Wars stories.

    about a month ago from web
  27. The difference between applying matte varnish on acrylic paint is less noticeable than anticipated, especially when using an airbrush. I'm used to use brush-on varnish and it ended up making the product look a bit more wax-y as the thickness of the varnish was a lot thicker, especially on miniatures.

    about a month ago from web
  28. Exclusive preview! It's not finished but I have nearly completed gift for a friend. The paint is still drying and needs some varnish, as well as a magnet on the back side. Other than that it is practically done. Sadly the colors don't show up well in the photo. The color variations are a little bit too subtle for the lighting and camera. https://i.imgur.com/tZKhdQ5.jpeg

    about a month ago from web
  29. Sometimes I wonder how some things can happen without noticing it happening. One of the screws holding my bike rack vanished, completely gone. I guess it's time to buy a bottle of Loctite or any other screw locking compound.

    about a month ago from web
  30. I got my mail box. It has some questionable design choices. I'm a layman when it comes to designing such things but it made me think. I can unhinge the the top side of the door for the parcel access when I reach my arm into the half-open package door. I can 3d print a fix to block access to that. I wish I had the tools and time to make my own, however it'd be probably 10 times more expensive with a high chance of failure.

    about a month ago from web