Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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7 mo. ago

I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

3w ago

QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

Source

Looks pretty pocketable (and gorgeous) to me.

3w ago

QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

I've been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.

just plain boredom with glass slabs

This. So much this. They're all boring, too tall, and too skinny with about as much personality as a used up dryer sheet. It's like they're designed solely for scrolling an endless feed of mind-numbing slop. I remember being able to actually do things on my older smartphones (RDP, SSH, editing documents/spreadsheets, etc). You can still do those things now, but you basically have to break out a bluetooth keyboard to do anything more than the most basic things and it feels like trying to look at a panorama through a keyhole.

3w ago

[Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

Love my deck ... Kind of got side tracked gaming

You sound like me lol: Side tracked by the device's primary purpose.

3w ago

Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard

Nice. I'll look into that one.

My ultimate goal is getting a decent-sized touchscreen, putting an LCARS-themed HomeAssistant UI on it, and hanging it up as a functional MSD for my house.

4w ago

You can choose any celebrity's facial hair and make it yours. Who do you choose?

Apparently I said "Joe Dirt" sometime earlier in my life and my wish came true.

4w ago

old.reddit.com is overrated and 2021-era "new" Reddit was better

I'm talking like 3 years ago before we all moved here, so work with me here.

4w ago

Why did you decide to join Lemmy?

Every other post being "Promoted" bullshit, the slow-ass web UI, my former favorite app no longer working, and the bloated and track-y first party app. I was never a fan of "old reddit UI" , so that wasn't a crutch like it was for others.

4w ago

Good FOSS design software for beginners?

Nice. A lot more than RPis, too.

This is actually for a Banana Pi but it's in the Pi Zero form factor so should be easy to modify.

4w ago

Good FOSS design software for beginners?

If you have any coding experience, I recommend giving OpenSCAD

That's certainly an interesting way to go about it lol. That said, I read through the tutorial and honestly I'm gonna give it a try. The syntax doesn't look too awful and doing it in code seems like it would allow for easy precision and also eliminates having to learn the UI of FreeCAD which I agree is absolutely horrendous.

Thanks.

4w ago

Good FOSS design software for beginners?

I'll check it out. Thanks!

4w ago

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

Yeah, the prologue and the interspersed bits with Bowerbird (I think that was her name) and the future people was a little weird, but not too jarring. They come into play toward the end of the book with the gift box nanotech thing, so I guess it was necessary to frame them in. It took me a while to figure out how they sent it from the future, but it was time dilation the whole time so no time travel.

House of Suns is my absolute favorite of Reynolds' work. It's the least "hard" sci-fi of the bunch but still follows the rules and basically takes all the ships and tech from his other works and cranks them up to 11. Such a fun read.

"Terminal World" is another fun standalone book from him if you come across it. If you feel up for a trilogy, the "Revenger" series is a fun space pirate adventure I quite enjoyed.

4w ago

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

Fantastic book. I'm a big fan of most of Reynolds's catalog, but Pushing Ice I think is the first one of his I read.

4w ago

The forbidden fourth leche

The "Cuatro Leches" is like the jackasses on The Price is Right who, seeing you've bid $500, bids $501.

4w ago

The forbidden fourth leche

They should be. I have never seen them anywhere in my neck of the woods, but I did find a vape juice that's "Tres Leches" flavored. It's pretty amazing.

4w ago

Good FOSS design software for beginners?

Wow thanks! That's actually super helpful. Gonna save this and probably throw it in a text document for later reference. I was 100% trying to do an all-in-one-go single project like you described because "that's what i wanted it to look like". The result was predictably frustrating and just awful.

I've watched a few tutorials but a lot of it went over my head or talked in terms I wasn't familiar with yet or started in the middle of an existing project. Will definitely try breaking things down into smaller, simpler primitives. I've not done CAD work before so this is all brand new to me, so things like the actual workflow are things I need to learn (and you've described very well).

4w ago

Good FOSS design software for beginners?

These are project cases for a Pi Zero clone, so FreeCAD would probably be the most logical choice. Though someone else commented a plugin for Blender that adds a CAD-like workflow to it.

4w ago

Make your own Bajoran Airpods