Zack's Gridfinity vids were the reason I bought a printer in the first place so Thangs was my first stop, and I love that their search also indexes Printables/Thingiverse/Cults3D/etc.
Printables has the best UI and community engagement though. Seriously, in 2023 there's no excuse for your website not having a dark mode option.
In 1996, Independence Day became the highest grossing movie of the year, cementing Will Smith as a leading man, turned director Roland Emmerich into one of Hollywood’s top names, and solidifying the alien invasion movie as the ideal summer blockbuster spectacle. But another alien invasion film came out in 1996, one with the...
Hook to hang stuff from on the garage shelves from Bunnings or where ever These have lasted me over a year. Printed versions in PLA or PETG on X1C & Ender3 both are fine for hanging tools. Working on shelves with holes of about 12mm upper hole, 7mm lower hole and 1mm metal thickness.
Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...
More visible promotion of active magazines would go a long way too. Almost every suggested magazine across the top of my nav bar is an empty ghost community, probably made on a whim during the Reddit kerfuffle and then abandoned.
It could be something from today, the past week, or whatever. All things big or small are welcome too. I'm sitting outside today as a a part of my daily routine--it's nice and sunny out, and there's a gentle breeze which feels very relaxing. Doing so is pretty nice between the time I spend at the computer.
I'm super grateful right now that my shoulder mobility is returning after a nasty fall at the bouldering gym last night. Still aches like a mofo and probably will for a week or two, but at least I can wipe my own ass :)
Just got home from two weeks in Bali, we had a filter/dispenser there so at least we weren't generating plastic waste, but it's SO nice to be able to just drink/brush my teeth with tap water and not be afraid of opening my mouth in the shower.
Federal Labor has binned hundreds of millions of Kyoto “carryover” carbon credits, permanently removing the option for them to be used in to shrink Australia’s emissions reduction task and shirk its climate responsibilities....
Even aside from the temptation to use offsets to kick the can down the road for reduction targets, the rampant abuse of carbon credits make this absolutely the right decision.
My eyesight is getting shot by looking at a monitor for so many hours, both at work and off work, so Doc said to switch to analogue - if I have to read something, let it be books....
I'm currently halfway through Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt series and I'm enjoying the plot but finding his writing style a bit tedious at times - excessive rehashing of events that happened like two chapters ago, overembellished emotional dramatics, and painstakingly spelling out every single character's internal monologue like it's a Jane Austen novel.
I know CoT was written later, so I'm wondering if his tone/style has developed a bit? He has cool ideas, I'm just wishing he'd trust the reader enough to get a bit more 'show, don't tell' with his writing...
My last scuba dive was about 6 years ago, cut short when my newly-serviced regulator exploded out of my mouth. I grabbed for my backup but missed (for the best as it turned out the service shop had screwed that one up too), and my buddy was too far away to go for hers, so I wound up doing my first ever slightly panicky emergency ascent from (thankfully only) 10m without any ill effects apart from being severely shaken up by the experience. I always meant to get back in the water but anxiety and procrastination and life happened and I just never got around to it.
Four years ago I had the bright idea to try freediving - if I could go to depth without equipment then maybe I'd be ok trusting the equipment again, makes sense yeah? Signed up with a local PADI shop in Sydney, bought the gear, and it was going great until we actually had to dive, and then it turned into an absolute shitshow. Final requirement was getting down to 10m and I was the ONLY student to fail the course, maxing out early around 8m and only getting worse on every attempt while verging on panic attack every time. I'd managed a healthy 3m30s static hold in the pool the day before, but my brain just wasn't having it.
Finally, after a few casual snorkelling outings earlier this year where I managed to get down around 6m-ish without any issues, I felt ready for another attempt. Booked in with Apneista in Bali for their Molchanovs Wave 1 course last week and absolutely smashed it :) My deepest dive on the course was only 13m but it was almost effortless. I was just hanging out, upside down, in the ocean, deep enough that I literally couldn't see the surface, and for a few moments there I couldn't for the life of me figure out how this was ever something I'd struggled with.
A whole world that I thought I'd lost forever has come back to me, and I am SO FRIGGING EXCITED. I can't wait to explore it :D
@Nepenthe Thank you so much! The ocean is a bit scary and definitely warrants respect and caution. If there's one thing I've learned about working through anxiety/panic with stuff like this, it's that you're better off pushing the boundaries of your comfort zone gently, from the inside :)
I am not here to make the case that cats should be kept indoors for the sake of local wildlife – that case has been made over and over and over and over again. Cat owners know these arguments, and if they have not been persuaded by the fact that cats kill more than 6 million native animals in Australia a day they will not be...
Our two cats get supervised time in the backyard every couple of days - we used to put them in harnesses until we moved to a place with high enough fences that they couldn't get out even if they wanted to.
Mostly they just wanna chew grass for 15 minutes and maybe investigate a random plant bed, and they quickly learned that if they come back inside when called they get treats :)
about 2m-ish I guess? Our eldest miiight be able to make it up there if he wanted to, but he's a timid momma's boy with no interest in venturing out of his safe space. His little brother would if he could, but he's built like a kitbull - all shoulders and stumpy legs, not exactly made for jumping :)
Hilariously, LTT's microphone review on the same day featured these glaring typos. Accidents happen, sure, but spelling the same word three different ways within inches of each other on a single slide is a special type of shoddy.
Last week's episode of No Such Thing As A Fish had some wonderful facts about this sport, including that the top competitors can jump high enough to clear the first two fences at the Grand National steeplechase.
I was switching to that Up Bank (by Bendigo), but they straight refuse to let me fund my crypto account, so that’s out because I just want basic control of my own money....
Been with ING for... hell, 20ish years? My only issues with them are:
They're slow to adopt new tech. Tap payments, Google Wallet/ApplePay integration, etc. takes a bit longer than the major banks.
They screwed me over once on what should have been a routine (and totally affordable) mortgage extension to finance some renovations. I'm still a bit salty about it, but it was mid-covid and I suspect their competitors would have been just as cagey and risk-averse at the time.
For day-to-day regular transaction account stuff they've been super chill, and their front-line customer service is surprisingly decent.
My gf got me a custom-printed Frank cup and it's super pretty but it's leaked since day 1 and the lid is a nightmare to take apart and clean properly. They do appear to be selling non-seal sippy lids now though so I might just order one of those to get some use out of it.
'Delighted' is a strong word, but two come immediately to mind:
First was an acquaintance I knew in high school, we had a few mutual friends but I don't even remember his name tbh. The one and only occasion he was ever nice to me was while off his face on molly; the rest of the time he was an erratic, unpredictably destructive asshole who I just avoided. Around age 17ish he wrapped his motorcycle around a lamp post and that was that. Of course there's a chance he might have mellowed out and grown up into a decent human being eventually, but far as I'm concerned he made the world a safer place by removing himself from it.
Second was a housemate who seemed harmless at first but turned out to be a compulsive liar with severe gambling problems - claimed to play poker professionally (he did play at comps, just wildly exaggerated his track record/earnings) and work at a local radio station (total fabrication). Amongst various other fuckery, he ran dipshit scams like selling nonexistent gaming consoles on eBay with our real home address/phone number on his profile, stole and pawned a bunch of our stuff, lied about paying his share of rent/bills while hiding our mail until we got hit with disconnections and eviction warnings, and then skipped town when it all unravelled and we threatened to go to the cops. Last we heard he was still up to his old tricks, and I know wound up serving time for tax fraud.
A decade or so later he was abducted and murdered in some kind of drug-related dispute, and his body still hasn't been found. It's a shitty way to go and I wouldn't wish that end on anyone, but he clearly hadn't learned anything or grown a conscience in the time since we parted ways, so it's a comfort that he won't be able to hurt anyone else now.
I recently got my first 3D printer to my place just a couple weeks ago! I thought it would be really nice to keep a small sample of each of my filaments printed out so that I have a readily-available example of what each actually looks like....
I print a FlexiRex in each colour I load, although tbh they're often a hassle - some filaments behave perfectly while others curl like a mofo on the overhanging bit of each link during the first half. A few times I've resorted to pausing every five layers or so to snip off the curls just so I can finish the damn print 😅
In terms of reference prints I think swatch cards are probably the most compact/useful way to go.
Is the heat pump system continuous/unlimited, or tank-based? I have enjoyed the luxury of never running out of hot water on gas, but weighed against squandering a finite resource and/or destroying the planet it's hardly a necessity for our two-person household.
As for cooking, I've heard nothing but good things about modern induction setups and a rapidly growing body of research highlighting the toxic byproducts of gas stoves/ovens - even when turned off - due to inevitable leaks from imperfect seals and aging equipment.
The last big argument for gas cooking seems to be wok burners, but I just did a quick google and not only is wok induction a thing now, but it looks sci-fi af so I'm here for it. They're not cheap yet, but I imagine that's only a matter of time as adoption picks up.
Good to know, thanks! Renting atm so we're stuck with whatever we have for now, but I'm keeping a list of nice-to-haves when we eventually buy our own place.
You don't even need the full diamond shape, just the bottom half with a deep enough slotted channel to insert and pull down over the metal to secure it into place. Something like this cleat hanger but with the slot instead of a diagonal wedge.
Hi guys, I am trying to get a new code editor for my projects. Browsing around I found that atom (which is one that i’ve always wanted to use) is still “alive” thanks to Pulsar project. What do you all think?
I've been on Pulsar since Atom retired and I love it. I'm mostly doing AsciiDoc with a bit of HTML, CSS, JS, J/CSON, and OAS/YAML.
Some of our team switched to VSCode but I prefer Pulsar's UI and workflow, and especially the multicursor support. Obviously it's still under active development to tidy up leftover cruft from the fork, and there are a few more AsciiDoc-specific features I'd love to add without resorting to custom scripts, but overall it's my favourite editor by far.
What's something that sounds made up, but is completely true?
I'll start: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are three years older than Guns N' Roses.
Where do you prefer to host your models? Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, ...
Where do folks prefer to host their 3d models and designs? Do you use one site, or multiple?...
You Need to Watch Tim Burton's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie (www.inverse.com)
In 1996, Independence Day became the highest grossing movie of the year, cementing Will Smith as a leading man, turned director Roland Emmerich into one of Hollywood’s top names, and solidifying the alien invasion movie as the ideal summer blockbuster spectacle. But another alien invasion film came out in 1996, one with the...
Garage Shelf Hook by 5tuff (www.thingiverse.com)
Hook to hang stuff from on the garage shelves from Bunnings or where ever These have lasted me over a year. Printed versions in PLA or PETG on X1C & Ender3 both are fine for hanging tools. Working on shelves with holes of about 12mm upper hole, 7mm lower hole and 1mm metal thickness.
"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin
Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...
What's something that you're grateful for?
It could be something from today, the past week, or whatever. All things big or small are welcome too. I'm sitting outside today as a a part of my daily routine--it's nice and sunny out, and there's a gentle breeze which feels very relaxing. Doing so is pretty nice between the time I spend at the computer.
"They’re gone:” Labor bins Kyoto carryover credits, shuts carbon accounting loophole (reneweconomy.com.au)
Federal Labor has binned hundreds of millions of Kyoto “carryover” carbon credits, permanently removing the option for them to be used in to shrink Australia’s emissions reduction task and shirk its climate responsibilities....
OC Can you recommend me a book?
My eyesight is getting shot by looking at a monitor for so many hours, both at work and off work, so Doc said to switch to analogue - if I have to read something, let it be books....
California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Right to Repair Legislation (www.404media.co)
Summary...
Keeping cats indoors is a rare solution where everybody wins (www.theguardian.com)
I am not here to make the case that cats should be kept indoors for the sake of local wildlife – that case has been made over and over and over and over again. Cat owners know these arguments, and if they have not been persuaded by the fact that cats kill more than 6 million native animals in Australia a day they will not be...
Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility (youtu.be)
These Australians are happy to get on their hobby horses — and they're keen for others to do the same (www.abc.net.au)
https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/1e6eed3e-aeba-4e6a-9b5f-05cbd7fbf703.png...
Any suggestions which banks are the least shit?
I was switching to that Up Bank (by Bendigo), but they straight refuse to let me fund my crypto account, so that’s out because I just want basic control of my own money....
Single-use plastic coffee cups are being banned in some states. What's happening where you live? (www.abc.net.au)
Someone you knew well and were delighted to see pass away ?
When someone made your life a mess, it's difficult to be sad about its death. Have you ever lived a such situation ?
Does anybody else do this? (lemmy.world)
I recently got my first 3D printer to my place just a couple weeks ago! I thought it would be really nice to keep a small sample of each of my filaments printed out so that I have a readily-available example of what each actually looks like....
Victoria bans gas connections in new homes from 2024 (www.abc.net.au)
Need ideas for a wall anchor design into this material
Thoughts on Pulsar code editor? (pulsar-edit.dev)
Hi guys, I am trying to get a new code editor for my projects. Browsing around I found that atom (which is one that i’ve always wanted to use) is still “alive” thanks to Pulsar project. What do you all think?