mathiasx

mathiasx, 24 days ago to random

@rasterweb have you ever used lace as a spray paint stencil? Just curious, have a project where I might try it.

mathiasx, 8 months ago to 3DPrinting

Having upgraded my Ender 3 v2 to its almost final form with a Creality Sonic Pad (I know about the licensing issues, you don’t need to tell me), I’m now debating going from the direct drive extruder upgrade back to a Bowden tube extruder. I’ve had issues with locating a filament dryer box near the printer and then getting the filament to the printer without it going across and entering the extruder stepper at an extreme angle. Any binding causes the print to get ripples.

#ender3 #3dprinting

mathiasx, 7 months ago to random

Has anyone used https://kiwix.org/ ? I’m particularly interested in using it to scrape large websites into an offline “neighborhood server” that can provide some reference without full websites.

mathiasx, 7 months ago to 3DPrinting

Multi-material printing on the Bambu is incredibly wasteful, it turns out. Using a cheaper plain PLA as supports for PLA-CF. I didn’t think about how it needs to change filament every layer and how that’d mean another little bit of each filament in the “waste bucket” and another layer on the “waste tower.”

I’ll measure after but I think I’ll have used just as much waste filament as the mass of the print and the supports. #3dprinting

mathiasx, 7 months ago to RSS

What are some good making-related blogs/RSS feeds that I should check out subscribing to?

#rss

mathiasx, 6 months ago to random

Is anyone working on a version of ActivityPub that’d allow fediverse servers to communicate with something more efficient than JSON? Just curious.

mathiasx, 7 months ago to random

What other little computer kits / homebrew computer kits are out there besides the RC2014? Just curious, want to learn a bit more. #rc2014

mathiasx, 7 months ago to random

Gancio

A shared agenda for local communities.

https://gancio.org/

#oss

mathiasx, 6 months ago to solarpunk

On the same thread of the question about more efficient serialization between fediverse instances, I think we need: options for low CPU (de)serialization, lower bandwidth protocols, markup that takes less CPU to render.

For networking, I keep thinking of the “polite” wireless networks in Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway that jumped frequencies to avoid current usage and used a mesh to route.

What is the hashtag for #solarpunk live-within-our-means computing rather than the dystopic collapse computing?

mathiasx, 6 months ago to 3DPrinting

Printing a big design for cable organization in my drawers! Both pieces of https://www.printables.com/model/274250-ikea-alex-cable-organizer , which will take about 16 hours on my Bambu printer — a relatively fast printer — at 0.2mm layer height.
#3dPrinting

mathiasx, 15 days ago to solarpunk

In #solarpunk news, there’s someone locally on our Craigslist selling used 315W solar panels for $80 each. They have 30 of them — that’s 9.4kW! I just don’t have the space to store them, nor a vehicle to move them; and we already filled our roof with solar. I don’t think our tiny urban lot can host more large panels, just some small accessory lights.

mathiasx, 20 days ago to random

Big downside of the new Ozlo sleep wireless earbuds (which were spun off the Bose sleep headphones) is that the iOS app eats battery with background processing for no apparent reason. My Battery app says it user 20% of battery in a day. Likely just needs more optimization?

The hardware is great though, and doesn’t need the app once paired with the phone. Two nights now, I’ve used them, and they very comfortable. Most importantly, they actually get quiet — other sleep headphones are too loud.

mathiasx, 6 months ago to random

Do I know anyone who is using #bookwyrm? Do you want to friend me? Missing the social component of a social reading tracker. https://bookrastinating.com/user/mathiasx

mathiasx, 10 months ago to random

Air quality is bad from wildfire smoke again. My allergies are out of control. Achoo!

mathiasx, 1 year ago to random

Sitting in the sun on the back porch (with noise canceling headphones to keep out the city sounds) is one of the real perks of working from home.

Just imagine, I could be sitting under fluorescent lighting in a cubicle instead right now!

mathiasx, 8 months ago to random

Before I go off trying to forge my own path, does anyone know if there’s also a set of projects along the lines of “you have a 3D printer, now you can construct these other tools to build a little makerspace”? I’m thinking in particular of a smaller scale version of Open Source Ecology’s “Construction Sets” idea (from https://www.opensourceecology.org/development/ )

mathiasx, 8 months ago to random

What’s the current state of the art for self-hosted “tools for thought” (knowledge base / notes.) Particularly, looking for the server component and a backup story, that then can work with some frontend mobile app like Logseq/Roam/Obsidian?

#ToolsForThought

mathiasx, 9 months ago to Milwaukee

I wonder if I tag both #milwaukee and #bikes or #cycling, if we could get enough people local to Milwaukee together here on the fediverse to arrange a group ride?

I haven’t used Facebook in years and some people used Reddit or Discords in the past, but I’m trying to avoid those completely too. So, who wants to ride?

mathiasx, 6 months ago to random

@bcshort Since you ran the feed reader poll -- do you have a list of RSS feeds worth following? I keep asking but not so many people using RSS feed readers these days, so I don't get a lot of answers.

mathiasx, 29 days ago to random

Google says cats can have a little piece of jazz as a treat.

mathiasx, 1 month ago to guitar

I don’t know why I keep letting myself get pulled into replying to mostly-beginners on the #guitar subreddit, but a lot of people there aren’t patient enough and I am trying to explain things in a non-condescending and thorough way — what I wish other people had done for me when I was starting out. My replies must sometimes help, because I get up votes. Still, I’m tempted to fully block Reddit on my phone.

mathiasx, 1 month ago to random

Re-reading Jeff Tweedy’s How to Write One Song https://openlibrary.org/books/OL30180106M/How_to_Write_One_Song lately, and not only is it fun to hear from one of the musicians that has been in my life for a long time, but I kept coming back to the several times he said if he wrote a song, it was important that he “wasn’t hurting anybody.” And certainly music could be used to hurt. But I think it’s far more important to use it to heal, help others, or share. He’s clearly thought about this and it’s one of his ethical choices in life.

mathiasx, 10 days ago to eink

I need to work on an eink display editor/terminal theme that uses font weight, italics, underlining, highlighting, etc. rather than colors for syntax highlighting. #eink

mathiasx, 8 days ago to random

Making software that runs repeatedly or continuously, like CI jobs, more efficient also means less energy. If you’re working on OSS or internal projects at work that you can make similar changes to, please look into it! It’s not exactly #permacomputing but it feels like a tangible computing thing that we all can help with in corporate jobs.

https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/09/improving-ci-test-execution/

mathiasx, 2 days ago to random

Never read the comments now includes a thread started by anyone on Mastodon with more than 200 followers. I don’t make the rules.