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North, 3 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Curious what I spent on the PSA Oxygen Concentrator project?

So was I! So I made a spreadsheet! With links and everything!

Looks like I came in right around $1300 (not counting a few tools here and there and not counting the hand-truck I commandeered)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aup7dRoues8VByoosj6Lw7rQc62g294cMPfDwpVJaqw/edit?usp=sharing

North, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

Hell yeah, it's Trans Rigs Day.
The Drawfee crew are driving across every state currently available in American Truck Simulator on stream to raise money for Trans Lifeline. It was a blast last year, and I look forward to having it on today.

EDIT: They raised like $170k. It was awesome.

https://m.twitch.tv/drawfeeshow?desktop-redirect=true

North, 6 days ago to random

I have extremely dangerous copy and paste hotkeys on my mouse and the funniest thing is when I bump my mouse into my keyboard and accidentally paste into a chat window.

Very nearly sent my partner "calcium carbonate" with no context

North, 6 days ago to random

love everyone at exok and find celeste64 extremely charming but I would like to say one (1) slur please to whoever made this cassette stage.

3D gameplay of a character jumping between falling blocks to collect coins. Once all coins are collected, the character collects a strawberry to win the stage.

North, 6 days ago to random

Another dream where I have long hair and androgynous features. Probably nothing

North, 7 days ago to random

Fuck me I love muting people

North, 7 days ago to random

I've been thinking about a rig to let me test VFD construction techniques without having to make a sealed device every time and I've come up with this: A cheap KF16 feedthrough made from PEEK with steel wire through it, pot sealed with Hysol 1C. Stick that on the end of a glass tube and put that on the vacuum rig. A tiny vacuum chamber.

Rendering of a beige colored plastic fitting with a circular array of wires sticking through it

North, 7 days ago to random

Me: "I do worry a lot about whether I'm breathing correctly, or getting enough oxygen, or if the air is good... but I can often overcome that with a pulse-ox. That's my security blanket when I'm having a bad day, I just wear the little lanyard so I can check my O2Sat whenever..."

Therapist: "That's a good strategy, that works?"
(cont.)

North, 7 days ago to random

Printed a nice little bracket for an hour meter to put on the oxygen machine. I did make it slightly too tight, and it cracked, but it's fine. It'll last this way a long time.

North, 7 days ago to random

My 1/4" ball valves arrived closed, and when I opened each one for the first time, some trapped pressure was released from inside the ball gate. I'm not at a particularly high altitude, so that explanation seems unlikely. Does this imply that they were all tested on a compressed air manifold before packaging? I'd be impressed at like $3.50 a piece. Anyway, it was fun to do my Steve1989MREInfo impression every time I cracked a new valve.

North, 8 days ago to random

Parts are beginning to come in for the torch manifold!

The two rows of parts here represent the oxy and fuel manifolds respectively from left to right. The fuel manifold has a pair of needle valves for Bunsen burners. I'm going to use cheap aluminum compressed air manifolds to tie everything together. The outlets are only 1.5" apart, so I'll use short pipe nipples to stand off alternating valves so that they're staggered as shown.

North, 9 days ago to random

Last month I ran out of my SSRI medication for about a week and that turned out to be quite a good week. After going back on, I started to feel pretty grim again, so last week I went off just to see if I would feel better. Sure enough, I am still quite anxious, but my brain seems to work much better. There's a sharpness to the world that wasn't there before, and I feel more capable. I still spend most of my day afraid, but no longer afraid AND hopeless.

North, 9 days ago to random

Please enjoy this recreational Fusion360 exercise :rainbow_heart:

Close up rendering of the model described previously emphasizing the hexagon pattern on the grid and the bright phosphor colors
Rendering of several copies of the device described previously without the wooden base. They are laying is a messy pile next to a small box labeled "Integrated Thermionic." A piece of masking tape attached to the box has "P. Pride" written on it in permanent marker.
Close up of the previously described scene

North, 9 days ago to random

✋ Cleaning my desk so there's room for my breakfast

👍 Arranging microscope objective containers as stilts to support my breakfast

North, 10 days ago to random

Celeste Hacks are called like "Forest Path," "Rose Garden," "Strawberry Orchard"

SMW Hacks are called things like "stick mice in my head and then beat my head in with a hammer and let them back out"

North, 14 days ago to random

The argument against nuclear power is ridiculous on a planet with this many nuclear weapons. We have a loaded gun pointed at our heads 24/7 and we can't use it to scratch behind our ear?

North, 14 days ago to random

The anti-MIC screed today was probably brought to you by the fact that I was awakened by about 8 to 10 extremely low, extremely fast flyovers this morning.

North, 15 days ago to random

You should know that anything you tell me that you've "learned from an LLM" is instantly thrown on the trash pile of things you might as well have not said out loud for all the water it carries.

North, 15 days ago to random

Instead of posting more invective, I'm going to sleep

North, 21 days ago to random

Doing illustrations for my O2 Concentrator blog post. Tried tracing a photo on my reMarkable for the first time. I like how it turned out!

North, 25 days ago to random

My oxikit-style PSA oxygen concentrator is finished, and it looks appropriately serious. I'll start writing up part 2 of the blog post soon, and then when I finish my torch manifold, I'll be making a video for the YouTube channel.

Side view of the contraption from the previous picture.
Rear view

North, 25 days ago to random

Two ion gauges for double the fun

North, 1 month ago to random

Far SWVa, just barely visible green and pink glow on the northern horizon. No ribbons of light, nothing spectacular in person, but night mode on the phone captured these at about 130am

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North, 1 month ago to random

A monument to the gods of cooling

North, 1 month ago to random

If anyone has a few million$$ hanging around, you could make a brief splash by starting "Bandcamp for Generative AI"

Set up a service that lets artists form collectives that can train a model together and also includes a marketplace that allows users to prompt these models in exchange for a fee that goes to the artists who trained it.

Ideally, the actual GPUs that your GANs are running on are being powered by solar or wind only.