For those of you with an android tablet and have (nearly) all-digital libraries, what is your favorite app for browsing and using catalogs and code references in PDF format?
I'm reconfiguring my printing closet (~6'x6') for a new printer and thought about enclosing the printer in a moderate sized cabinet (~2'x3'x6' - one "shelf" of the closet) for thermal control. Since there will be inevitable opening and closing, as well as just normal infiltration of the ambient air (usu ~65F between 40-75% RH) it would seem like a good application for a Peltier dehumidifier to keep the RH in the chamber low and reduce my need to re-dry filament which has been on the machine during (inevitable) multi-day or -week downtime between projects.
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I've been wanting to try and make a mount for space gaming to go with my office chair - a Steelcase Leap. The organic-ish arms didn't make an easy way to create a clamp system, but in fooling around with it recently I noticed I could remove the armrest pads and they had a nice 4-bolt pattern. Since this is my office chair I need to be able to swap in or out of gaming setup easily.
I added a 30mm tall adapter that lets me slide a 6mm x 30mm (actually, 1/4x1-1/4) bar in and secure at the back, with a plate adapter to mount my old HOTAS4 to the bar, and a pin at at the rear for quick release.
The plates and adapters are eSun PLA+ which is fairly stiff but has some durability/ductility to it. The bar was supposed to be 6061-T6 aluminum but I was lazy and didn't feel like making a mess in the shop, ripping down some surplus plate I have, and I was too cheap to go out and buy 1/4x1-1/4 steel bar stock so I decided to print the bars from PAHT-CF (high temp nylon with carbon fiber). The 385mm bars just barely fit diagonally on my CR-10s.
Banana for scale but, also, the desk is 6' long and the little monitor is 43" (and will be re-purposed elsewhere).
Oh, AutoDesk...you have such a way with words. Honestly, I would rather learn to design in OpenSCAD than send AutoDesk a single penny.
Every once in a while I'm hit in the face with a boomer moment, and my wife and her phone are just the pinnacle of this. My wife is GenX, and not even a particularly old one, but damn she will dig in her heels against technology and progress. She has an iPhone and staunchly refuses to use a passcode. She doesn't need one and doesn't want one. Basic security? Oh, no, not convenient. Tap to Pay? Oh, no, she'd rather dig through her purse for a credit card and get flustered while 30 people que up behind her to get on a bus while she tries to find one that has rfid (which she doesn't like because "I want to insert the card myself").
So we get new phones. eSim phones to replace the physical sim ones. And we spend the better part of an hour trying to figure out why her sim won't transfer. Mine was a simple dialog, as was DDs. What's different about hers? iOS is up to date. Phone is compatible. madly searches internet a dozen links in and buried in a t-mobile help page - "make sure bluetooth is on and the phone has a PIN code". MFer.
I suppose it could be worse. Her mother answers facetime video calls by putting the phone to her ear like it's a normal call and then talking the entire time while broadcasting the top of her ear to whoever is on the other end. 🙄
iPhone 13 Pro Max to 15 Pro - I just transferred all my data yesterday at 6PM and then must have missed the charger when I set it down to go to sleep around 11pm. I've done this before on my Pro max and it might drain 5% overnight. This new 15 Pro looks like I never set it down all night long - that drain curve is linear from my surfing on Chrome from 10-11p straight on till morning. It drained 32% in 8 hours with nothing but a (mostly black) dimmed AOD lockscreen.
I'm told that Apple now does the same thing Windows does and re-indexes your phone when it's new so maybe (hopefully) that's it. My battery page shows Chrome, Gmail, FB, and Memmy in the top 4 spots (70% of all usage) over the last 24 hours so I'm guessing that Apple's own internal iOS usage doesn't show up (how convenient for them).
Does this seem...normal?
I may have the opportunity to upgrade my home office from dual 42" 4K panels to a single 8K panel. Actually, the two 42" won’t fit as my new space is limited to a 72" maximum total width so it's drop to one monitor or go big. I’ll be moving my gaming rig into the office so gaming performance will matter but probably only a couple hours a week vs 50 hours of CAD and office apps.
Although the easy answer is to grab the Samsung QN900C, it’s realistically more than I want to pay. I’m curious if anyone can say that there’s any day-to-day difference between the 900C flagship and either the 800C (or last year’s 800B) while I’m out looking for deals this week. I’m currently disregarding the 57" dual 4k gaming monitor due to the curve (it would obscure half my desk).
I looked all over the Golden Circle for some kitschy souvenir shirt to bring home and was hoping for a call back to the 2008 Journey movie with Brendan Fraser. Doubly disappointed as Aníta Briem (Hannah Ásgeirsson) is a native Icelander.
Since I couldn't find one, I made my own.
(I didn't actually make it to the Snaefellsjokull glacier in either of my two visits to the island. Maybe next time, and I wear my new T-shirt.)
I’m starting a couple more herbs from seed as well (not in photo). Static system. Fingers crossed.
I haven't played many (any) mech games and just watched the trailer for AC6. WTF - that looks awesome! How do most people play - kb+m or some kind of controller setup? Also, and I'm probably just asking how fast I can throw up, can this be played / is there a mode for VR?
Thanks, in advance, for humoring the simple questions. :-)
I get it, this is preproduction stuff. But, wow. From the scene selection, to the fake excitement over the weapons and modes, to the in-game voiceover this has B production written all over it.
I know we've all been spoiled by PC graphics and AAA cinematics and production values, so maybe I'm expecting too much. I went back and watched the teaser from the spring. I know, I know, we're looking at handheld console-level graphics, but that teaser is leaning on a lot of jump cuts and cinematic license to try and mask what sounds like George Lucas level dialog and Sega era effects.
I really enjoyed (at least the beginning of) the original Asgard's Wrath and thought it'd be cool to have a stand alone version, but its going to have to be a lot better that...whatever that was. And a shit-ton better if it's coming out at a $60 price point.
I mean, the title is mostly it. I haven’t played DnD for…long enough that I know none of the rules and few of the classes. I didn’t play BG or BG2.
It looks so shiny, but I’m afraid I would just be 100% lost. Can anyone say what it’s like to go in cold?
I did Iceland last fall, solo, as a 6 day whirlwind tour around the loop road (yes, it was awesome). This fall (late Oct) I'm getting 4 days with the wife and am looking for the coolest excursions around the Golden Circle, which I mostly skipped last year. We'll be staying south of the GC in Selfoss with a small 4WD vehicle, but don't intend to go offroad.
Both of us are semi-fit (lol-American) so casual hiking is great, but probably should keep it to 10 km / 500-600m rise for a single hike, and under 15-18km a day total. Free is nice, but for something really cool we could spring $150-200pp for a tour.
Oh, and I'd like to find a hot spring that is not as pricey or as busy as Blue Lagoon; ideally quiet and casual.
Mods - let me know if this is not allowed (there's no sidebar here yet). Asking $410 plus actual shipping costs. Great condition, 3 silicone lens covers (hey, I was paranoid), two 3rd party batteries with 3-slot charger, 3D printed Me Mode cover/cap in thermoplastic polyurethane (soft rubber). For this price I will transfer the remainder of my Extended Damage warranty, which is good for an additional 2.2 years (until ~October 2025) purchased via Amazon/Asurion which covers both defects and accidental damage. Due to the warranty, it has to be a US transaction. DM me if interested, I have both photos of the unit and accessories as well as photos taken by the unit. Obviously real names/addresses/contacts will have to be swapped to transfer the warranty and will be done via email.
Note: I'm moving to the One 360 for better indoor light response as most of my work is the design and renovation of buildings and the lighting when I'm reviewing the as-built structure is usually poor. The X3 is good, but the One is better and, for my work, worth the increased cost. Outdoors the X3 is great.
I might have to look more into my state's right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I'd kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I'd purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is...disappointing.
