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Someonelol

@ Someonelol @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Solid Plan 🧓

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  • I've heard stuffing your pockets with coins and walking into the sea is a thing. The sea's not going anywhere and with the way things are going it's likely gonna get a little bigger.

  • Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’

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  • The rest of NATO needs to step up and make a military exercise off the coast of Canada as a show of force that it shouldn't be messed around with even among allies.

  • Restaurants say big chains pretend to be independents on apps

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  • They do it on Google Maps too. Denny's calls their restaurants "The Meltdown" if you're searching for a sandwich shop. Pissed me off when I got there and realized what an asshole move they pulled.

  • Challenge accepted

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  • The injuries will be spectacular.

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    NordVPN Expands Virtual Servers to 79 Locations for Censorship Bypass

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  • It's been working just fine for 4 years. Never had an issue with it as long as I configure my torrent client settings to only use NordLynx in case it drops off.

  • bor-gee-oi-see

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  • So did the teacher get back to them? Was a secret communist club started? They can't just leave the story thread hanging like that.

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  • It works quite well. A lot of sites I visit can detect if a server I'm using is from a VPN and block it but it's quick and painless to hop to a different server the site doesn't recognize and passes me through. Using it in Linux is fine and all but it has the annoying habit of blocking my subnet so I can't download torrents directly to my NAS drive.

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’

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  • California's already suffered plenty under the dipshit's leadership of ICE. I got to see the aftermath of an ICE raid in a busy commercial Latino street. The place was dead when it should've been bustling with delivery vans, people, and opened businesses. It was devastating.

  • Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California

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  • Curious. The N91790 tail designation on that sculpture doesn't quite match up with the Cessna that's still in use in Florida. I wonder if the FAA recycles their numbers.

  • a bit of advice

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  • There's no right answer to that question. The only winning move is not to play.

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Elementary is a great modern day Sherlock Holmes series. Way better than BBC's contemporary counterpart IMO.

    Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans, King of the Hill, The Man in the High Castle, Hot Fuzz, Gattaca, Office Space, Star Trek TNG.

  • It's Friday night, I'm getting drunk on Danish beer and eating German pizza

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  • As an American I envy Canadian's choice of beers with higher alcohol content. Most breweries around here only offer IPAs if you want anything above 6%.

  • Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

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  • Because they're the ones with the monopoly on violence. Might makes right for those brutes.

  • It's probably too late to change, lol

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  • Well crap my username announces my age.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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    • What do I do to make it more than a trinket printer.

    CAD is just a tool. You can use it to make more trinkets yourself or create a special bed basket, custom camera bracket, etc. If you see something at work or home that could benefit from a product that doesn't exist yet, you might be able to design and print a fixture for it.

    • Why should I get a printer.

    Unless you're constantly coming up with things to print then you don't. Plenty of libraries offer free 3d printing services but keep in mind you get what you pay for. If you're lucky, some universities or hacker spaces might let you use their printers and are of generally higher quality.

    • Should I skip the owning part and just use commercial 3d print shops?

    It gets expensive very quickly. Most commercial places I've dealt with for work will rip you off because they're targeting industries that have more money than common sense. I once needed to print a few simple boxes with ESD safe filament and they wanted over 400 dollars for just one. A lower end prusa costs the same as 3 of those prints so it made more sense for us to purchase our own printer and filament and make it ourselves. The cost of making additional fixtures plummeted too once we considered avoiding some traditionally machined parts in favor of printed ones.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • 3d printing, specifically FDM with PLA since I'm not down to mess with the chemicals for a resin printer. Keep printing until you're out of an opened filament roll, otherwise your filament will absorb water and degrade. I often learn filament goes bad when a tiny piece breaks off in the feeder right above the heating element, requiring some annoying disassembly to diagnose and correct the problem. If you're not sure what to build with the last bit of filament, a small square trash can/pencil holder is always useful.

    Stick to a maintenance schedule. Putting off a lubrication or dusting can lead to debris getting stuck somewhere and ruining a print when you least expect it. Also learn about every component in your printer and how to get a replacement when it inevitably breaks. That way you can purchase a few of the more commonly broken parts to lower printer downtime.

    Start off with a brand name printer that does auto leveling. That cheap CR10 you bought for a hundred dollars sounds like a bargain until you realize it can't print a solid first layer, causing all sorts of other minor annoyances with your print quality. Trying and failing to fix the issues might eventually turn you off on pursuing the hobby.

    I was already well versed in Solidworks, but learn how to use a CAD program. You can get a lot of use from the many publicly available models out there but you might eventually have an idea or require something that requires a custom design. Being able to physically manifest your own design ideas quickly was a big drawing point for me to get into the hobby.

  • Heavy Is the Crown: George R.R. Martin on His Triumphs and Torments

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  • I've lost all faith in Martin after he's refused to finish ASOIAF. There's no point in taking authors seriously if they choose to let their sagas remain unfinished. There are plenty of other authors who are determined to conclude their work and deserve more attention.

  • Gavin Newsom’s sticking with the podcast formula that drove Democrats crazy

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  • This has to be a fucking joke. Newsom is sucking up to Ben "Israel does nothing wrong" Shapiro?! Well shit Dems deserve another election loss if this fucking assclown gets the nomination.

  • New Tarot deck just dropped

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  • The US government is full of unelected positions. The difference this time is one of them was created to have an unprecedented level of power and used it to cripple his adopted country.

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  • The silver lining to the job notifications is that it tells you which companies are hiring and for what. Don't bother with their "easy apply" option and go to their website to apply directly instead. My success rate is still like 0.5% but at least they send you rejection emails more often.