@adiwan
Germany
http://adiwan.deviantart.comMaking some pony art.
Computer science student.
Retro gamer.
Linux user.
Loves epic soundtracks.
Just a typical Geek/Nerd who loves new things.
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adiwan (adiwan)
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Yet again a fantastic round of Andor episodes.
about 2 days ago from web -
Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.
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I've disposed of my jalapeno plants. They were not in good health, floppy leaves and all-around yellowed and had a silvery layer (mildew?) on the leaves. Despite having flowers in bloom and some growing fruit I went to the decision to get rid of them in case they spread mildew to nearby plants.
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Ooof. I'm exhausted after another D&D session being the DM. I had to reshuffle and rework my prepared stuff to make sense with all the content my players have skipped. This time I really tried not to hinder the players with stuff that makes only sense to only me at the time. I tried to avoid hidden mechanics. Anything that only makes sense when knowing all the machinations in the background. If it is not presented to the players or convincingly told to the players it robs them to make an informed decision and thus agency. On the other hand it makes me do more work before the start of the adventure and also between the sessions. Practically I threw out half of what I did months before.
about 5 days ago from web -
@scribus One thing he did was good: kill off the Adobe Flash plugin. It was a lot of trouble security-wise and performance on PC and especially mobile was atrocious. My HTC Desire Z could run Flash but more on paper than in practical terms. Also this move has eradicated Flash websites. They work now as good as they did back then, not at all.
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@nerthos I am not that bothered with a cable. I throw it over the shoulder and it mostly works out. I rather prefer power tools with cables. I am annoyed by batteries not performing as long as I want and by the need to charge them at the most inconvenient times. The only tool I accept being battery-powered is a drill and even that sucks. I have two batteries and at times I was using one while charging the other and constantly swapping them back and forth.
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I've operated an electric chainsaw today for the first time. It went easier than thought. I wanted to use it weeks earlier but the fuse in the electrical box always triggered because the starting current of the motor was too high. I bought a current limiter for this case and now it triggers only half of the time instead of always. The current limiter is just on the limit of the fuse's limit at 16A. At least I can use the chainsaw. Also I have a miter saw that also is kinda trigger-happy, so the bought current limiter is useful for more than the chainsaw.
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Andor is back. It is stunning that they release the series in batches of three episodes at once. An entire movie so to speak. Peak Star Wars.
about 9 days ago from web -
I have already used my 4th 1kg spool of PETG filament. I have only two spools of PETG left, one very old and one 1 year old. Already ordered 5 more spools. printing bins for oranization is taking its toll. Still cheaper than buying something off the shelf. I don't have Adam Savage money to buy racks worth of Sortimo cases.
about 9 days ago from web -
@scribus Me too. I shave once a month and wait until it gets itchy. I only have a simple safety razor and an electric shaver. It is sufficient but I like neither of those because my skin is easily irritable. I'd like to permanently remove my beard with lasers but I fear it'll destroy my skin.
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Who knew that wooden skewers are hard to find. I went to 4 stores and only one had some. I needed a bunch of them for propping up my tomato plants.
about 10 days ago from web -
@zeldatra They are sponsoring a ton of youtubers I watch. It is insane. I guess they want to spread their net as much as possible. They are still thousand times better than the average scammy mobile game or shady finance service or esotheric crap. In comparison sex toys are more trustworthy than those.
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Delving into smaller youtube channels. The sponsor segments are definitely weirder than the ones of the bigger and more established channels. It surely shows the desperation the creators have. A furniture modification/restoration channel that is sponsored by a LED beauty face mask? Questionable meets desperation.
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Today I was the D&D Dungeon Master and my players were skipping half of my content I prepared. Good that I had had enough to get over that without a lot of juggling around. I pushed the first big encounter I have prepared to the place of the second big encounter where they ended up due to excellent planning and circumventing my obstacles. The problem now is to fill out two more sessions with appropriate content.
about 12 days ago from web -
@nerthos The whole series is a delusion of Twilight Sparkle. She does not have friends or got any new. She was sent to the Ponyville Asylum after she was hit with a book on the head in the first episode. After that she got extreme into the believe of the Elements of Harmony and that other ponies of the asylum are 1) her friends and 2) that they are representations of those elements including herself. It is obviously a constructed coincidence born of Twilight's deranged mind. All the episodes we have seen are ways to cope with the fact that she cannot and will not have any sense of normalcy which are represented as villains and social problems that her *fictional* friends solve for/with her. This culminates in the deranged belief of becoming a princess and the belief of being able to fly. That is a classic when it comes to insane behavior and mind. Anyone thinking else is plainly wrong and should sent to the moon marked as a lunatic.
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Strongly heating up the remaining red jalapeno made them bearable. Beating heat with heat. I put them on a pizza and they were not so bad. Degenerating capsaicin with heat is the key. The sauce I made a little while ago was never heated so much or long to break down the hot stuff. Fresh and uncooked will never enter my digestive tract ever again.
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Spent the last few days cleaning up my cellar. https://i.imgur.com/SdJfZVj.jpeg I bought some wall-mounted shelves for all the mid-size items that are too small for the big shelves and too big for the drawers. The drawers have mostly small parts like screws, bolts, and small tools, all neatly organized in 3d-printed bins. I put a countertop on the three containers to make this a small electronics workbench. The small parts organizers on top of the workbench have all my micro-controller stuff.
about 16 days ago from web -
@zeldatra Soo... In essence I think it is pretty much like this: "This outrage is outrageously outrageous! Meanwhile, the truly outrageous thing is nothing to worry about. And now to our outrageous sponsor who profits from outrage with this new outrageous product for a new outrageously expensive price! Now buy that thing to fight the outrage!"
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@scribus BuT rEd OnEs LoOk BeTtEr! Yeah... I have currently a hand full of green ones on my plants at this moment. I'll harvest them tomorrow. Hopefully they won't stab my tongue with a hot dagger like the red ones.
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One jalapeno in my salad got me the wrong way. I cut it too small to remove it, too much salad to toss out. I ate through all of it and with enough ranch dressing it got less of a sting.
The current Jalapeno plants are dying, so this season I will plant only one or two and give them more care. Currently my 4 Jalapeno and 1 Cayenne are putting out weekly one or two ripe deep red chilis. Maybe I should collect them when they are still green. -
My tomato plants are not that well developed as anticipated. I guess keeping them in the kitchen at the window towards the north side wasn't the brightest idea. My mother has some tomato plants of her own growing and planted them a little bit later than me, but hers are looking healthier all around. She kept them towards the south window.
about 19 days ago from web -
Cleaning up my cellar is not easy. So many little things, randomly thrown into boxes. They need to be sorted, somehow. Because they are so randomly thrown together it takes way too much space, twice or thrice more than it'd be sorted. For example a half-sorted one was stuff for my bicylces. I used small foldable plastic basket to seperate a few items to make them more accessible. One basket for brakes and inner tubes, one for bells and attachmets, one for reflectors and lights, one for bicycle tools like a 13mm wrench for the wheel hub nuts or a chain separator.
about 19 days ago from web -
I'm waiting for a possible release of a new Sony Xperia 10 phone in May. The Xperia 10 VI was close to what I want. I could buy last year's but rumors are a new one will be released soon. I guess I can live a month or two with a dying battery. It is my best shot of getting a decent phone with a headphone jack, no camera punch-hole or notch, and a straight-forward UI, and a somewhat OK long software support period with updates. I hope it'll be about the same price and actually worth it.
about 20 days ago from web -
@scribus Just to be clear: Lower German is not that common, however in casual conversation it has some foothold in everyday use, especially common expressions and traditional stuff like in food or handiwork or hunting. In comparison the Bavarian dialect is 20 times more common. It is not dead but there is definitely a dying trend. A local broadcaster has a one hour news block that uses lower German throughout.
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@scribus East Frisea up to Hamburg is the main turf of lower German also called "Plattdeutsch" but it is also "common" up north along the coast of the North Sea. Some words are also heard in south Lower Saxony to the Harz mountains. I use sometimes "moin" because it is universally applicable at any time of day and it is short.
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Working for a project in northern Germany. Every morning it begins with everyone greeting with "moin". It is not a abbreviation for "morning" but it is an old lower German word for "good" and "pleasant".
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I wanted to finish my 3d printer repairs but NO, the self-designed part cooling fan ducts had to be redesigned 6 times because of some dumb issues. On top of that I had some print failures.
about 23 days ago from web
