morbidcactus

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[–] morbidcactus 3 points 1 hour ago

Mass Effect is one that while every game is independent enough, I'd still say it's best experienced as the trilogy. You will miss out on stuff in later games

Spoiler for a game old enough to voteWrex apparently dies on Virmire if you don't. My partner started at 2, that was her experience. She played me1 shortly after and yeah, was upset she'd missed out even though he's not a companion in 2 or 3 outside of Citadel DLC.

Wrex is a solid character, Krogan story just wouldn't be the same without him. If I recall he's a part of the reason Mordin changes his view on the Genophage. If you betray the Krogan and pretend to cure it (which I've never done, nor will, there's a limit to how I'll play renegade), Wrex will see through the deceit, his brother won't.

There's also a small misc quest with a certain recurring character in 3 that has an ending idk I've ever seen before that requires you to have done certain things in ME1 and not got that person killed in ME2.

[–] morbidcactus 4 points 15 hours ago

This is from a Zehrs, it's Loblaws so not even remotely the cheapest place in town

With exchange, that pack of 30 organic eggs is ~11.90 USD. I usually just buy no name.

[–] morbidcactus 45 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Lots of metals as well, TD has an analysis if interested.

Canada and Mexico are the 2 largest trading partners. Cusma review is next year, didn't he do the exact same thing going into the NAFTA 2.0 negotiations? Just wish we'd do a united front with Mexico on this.

[–] morbidcactus 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some of these have been around for a while or remind me of some, my crunchy new-age grandparents were hardcore into the NWO order stuff. Some others I recall

  • NWO stuff: North America would become the North American Union and forcefully adopt the Amero as currency. This was the pretext for the eventual merging of the EU and NAU to start total domination, pretty sure the UN was involved in this one.
  • Stargates are real and the the US has bases on the moon as well as Mars
  • Some water alignment thing, that you can put a logogram or something under a glass of water and that changes its properties to be better (‽??)
  • The Philadelphia Experiment
  • Roswell is responsible for technological leaps, and the powers that be have been slowly releasing things to evade suspicion
  • Mayan calendar stuff
  • Hardcore distrust of medical doctors and hospitals
  • Fluoride - mind control, it's a neuro toxin!

There's others but those stick out.

[–] morbidcactus 1 points 2 days ago

Oh man I've heard of that pack, I'm going to have to check that out proper, Rotarycraft packs are still some of my favourite.

[–] morbidcactus 2 points 2 days ago

Mine are a bit more recent (2012-202*) but same thing. Old hardware gets used for something, my "server" is just my old i5 11500k with as much ram as I could throw at it and as many drives as I can fit in the case. Oldest is a laptop that's my bench computer.

Helps me justify upgrades, hardware's been capable for a long time, always impressive to me just how capable things are, and sometimes it's part of the fun (if you enjoy problem solving) to work around limitations. Off-lease enterprise stuff interests me, would need to figure out where it lives though.

[–] morbidcactus 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He's an Economist who's run the central bank of what, 3 countries? Makes sense to me if his entire focus was long term stability that he'd be anti inequality and climate change.

Really looking forward to everyone dropping platforms.

Edit: Carney has a book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, might be worth looking at, probably going to give good insight into his views.

[–] morbidcactus 5 points 2 days ago

Really interested in seeing how the curds in the second recipe turn out, they look pretty close from the pictures, saving it to come back to thanks!

[–] morbidcactus 5 points 4 days ago

I've been using powertools for this, has a lot more functionality than I use for GPU/CPU limits, but the charge rate limiting is nice to have as well.

Glad charge limiting is hitting the os though, assuming most people don't go for 3rd party plugins

[–] morbidcactus 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Was looking at Carney's wiki page, he's at least come out against income inequality in the past, viewed stuff like occupy as constructive, pro sustainable economy.

Hoping they all drop platforms if they haven't already, LPC registration looks to be free, considering registering to vote in the leadership election (cut off is the 27th), not the party I align with (decidedly NDP), but they're the ABC choice for a lot of people.

[–] morbidcactus 1 points 6 days ago

It's going to depend a lot on your design and flow, but I recall the free convection coefficient being an order of magnitude smaller, but it's a linear relationship between energy transfered and the coefficient.

Anecdotally, I have 4 5015 blower fans that move air under the heated bed of my larger 3d printer, easily saw a difference of 10-15c chamber temperatures with those compared with free convection.

[–] morbidcactus 13 points 6 days ago

We have a land border with Denmark and France has an archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland.

Obviously that's enough!

 

Bandcamp Metallum

New album out, this album is stupidly catchy. It's a mix of medieval folk and black metal, it's cheesy and I've been loving it.

 

Bandcamp for the album, Metallum for the band I'm not usually the biggest modern tech death person, but there was just something about this album that did it for me. Entire album is just under 28 minutes, definitely recommend a listen.

 

Planning on finishing an ercf this year and going can for that so figured good opportunity to swap the hotend over, saved a substantial amount of wiring even compared to the hotend PCB I had, saved the wiring harness just to compare went for a usb can device over running can from the octopus pro, did want to swap the pro over to can as well but ended up keeping it the same instead of messing with reflashing firmware. Hotend has a little 3015 fan and a heatsink on the arm chip so cooling should be fine, looked up the datasheet and it's got a tjmax of like 120c and rated for ambient -40-80c so don't think I need to worry about it, if it's an issue I'll run a fresh air feed to it, will see how it likes abs in the summer shortly.

All in all, super easy swap over, definitely cleaned up my rats nest (though I still should cut the stepper wires to length, they hide in the imitation panduit I printed, it's neat enough to be serviceable and not be a hazard), used katapult (formerly canboot) and then flashed klipper onto the board, only minor issue is it uses these tiny jst connectors, like really small, btt ebb sb2209 and btt u2c usb can device, was a good resource to follow for any of the network interface configs that I needed to do and gave some good details on diagnostics.

 

Quick question to the community, does anyone have some good tools to sculpt stls or step files?

Context, I'm working on some decorative keychains and have a vector image and text I want to add to the base object. I've used aolidworks for both in the past with alright results but I've switched over to freecad this year, haven't had a lot of luck adding in there, vector image is a tracing of a dog that I was provided, it's simplified but still has a lot of components.

I did look into blender but be honest I'm totally lost using it and have no clue what I'm doing coming from parametric modeling, I'm not an artist at all, my comfort zone is functional parts usually, but was approached by a friend. I did do some mockups in prusa/superslicer where I've added my image and text as negative volumes and merged into a single part. It works but it feels like a really hacky workaround (relevant XKCD) and would prefer to do it right. Any suggestions or resources would be appreciated!

If interested, here's the mockup that I've done a few test prints on, found I needed to change the line width of my vector a few times and made some features exaggerated so they'd come out more. I've (poorly) covered some identifying text on the back, left the rest as to get a feel for what I'm trying to do, did do some rough sanding on the below pictures. There's a pocket on the top edge that accepts a keyring, it's kinda chunky, about the size of a pog slammer or a thicker poker chip.

Rough Sanded Front of keychain with image of a Bernese Mountain DogBack of keychain with some details obscured

 

Just as an FYI because it's saved me grief in the past, both klipper and octoprint can be setup to exclude certain objects while printing. You need to setup your slicer to provide gcode that enables the feature, but it allows you to stop printing a bad object, can reduce wastage in the case where only one part has failed but the others are ok.

Prusa/Superslicer are what I have experience using it with, I used a preprocessing script to output compatable gcode but apparently there's a label objects option directly in both slicers, the klipper link below goes over enabling that feature.

AFAIK Octoprint needs a Plugin
Klipper has native support

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