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punkfungus

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  • bye bye processes, you go sleep now :)))

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  • I've found it to be very dependent on the distro and the hardware it's running on. Back when I was playing around with distros I definitely tried some that felt like you snapped your fingers and had a desktop. But I settled on Fedora and that takes longer to boot for me than Windows. Not that I mind, 30 seconds once a week or so just isn't important to me.

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  • It's possible, I'm just wary because mushrooms seem to be a very popular topic for AI slop generation. The picture you linked shows the stipe looking more like I'd expect so it could be the particular combination of lighting and macro lens making it so gold and reflective in the post here. Very rare indeed to find any kind of mushroom totally clean of any dirt though, particularly in such a wet environment. I can't really look any deeper because I don't do Instagram.

    Fungi are indeed magical and sometimes quite alien. I do some of my own macro fungi photography.

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  • I suspect this isn't real. For one thing it looks nothing like Gliophorus versicolor, and for another it looks far too perfect for any mushroom found in the wild.

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  • My cat loves to eat the fluff that comes off my socks. I actively have to hold him back while I pick it up, he wants it so bad. He's also partial to the little strings of plastic that come out of the carpet underlay.

    He'll then turn his nose up at little bite sized chunks of fresh meat. What's this, delicious organic free range meat which I evolved to eat as my primary food source? No thanks, sock fluff and plastic for me.

  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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  • I went with the Qidi Q1 Pro and I've been very happy with it. Orca Slicer's built in profiles for it have worked great so I didn't have to tinker. It runs Fluidd so once it was connected to the local network I could monitor and control it that way (and it will display directly in Orca Slicer).

    There is a setting in the printer's interface to restrict it to local network only (and just to be absolutely certain I blocked it in my firewall as well). There are no penalties for not connecting it to the internet.

  • In the 33 months since Baldur's Gate 3 launched, it's hardly ever fallen out of the top 5 most-played games on Steam Deck

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  • It continues to have strong player numbers in general, which is probably why it never goes on a decent sale. Best I've seen is 25% off launch price. My patient gamer ass is not paying that for a years old game, no matter how good it is.

  • After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

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  • Canon does make Linux drivers for at least some of their printers (like mine), but they can be hard to find. I can't remember exactly how I got to mine but I know it took a few attempts.

    Maybe you're particularly unlucky though, because my Canon works perfectly with either the built in CUPS driver or the one from Canon.

  • Catch 22 vs. Rosenhan

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  • If you average out the low precision, high accuracy shots you will get a single point as your result. If that point is not already in the dead centre, then increasing accuracy is simply a matter of shifting that point closer to it. You can do that without increasing precision by moving the entire shot spread in that direction.

    I've found this analogy often confuses people because in the shooting world the terminology is a little different. There the high precision spread would be considered high accuracy, with it only being a matter of adjusting the sights to get it on centre. And nobody is winning a shooting competition by arguing that the average of their shot spread is in the centre.

  • The Sounds of Silence

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  • I was watching live when Trump called in, and the astronauts were clearly trying to emphasize the benefits of diversity and co-operation, and I'm quite sure none of that sunk in. Trump was too busy mispronouncing names, not knowing the difference between the name of the mission and the name of the craft, big noting his own role in funding NASA (while his administration has been actively attacking NASA) and generally waffling on because he likes to listen to himself speak.

    The next call after that also had the NASA director comment something like "I'm sure this call won't be as special as that last one" whereupon commander Wiseman burst out laughing so I'm pretty confident those involved in the mission are not in Trump's camp. Which is to be expected, because their jobs require them to be humans with functioning brains.

  • Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time (note: percentage is questionable)

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  • I'm curious if the particular setup they have at those cafes results in their PCs being surveyed repeatedly, which might help explain why they have an outsized effect on the dataset. Because I can't see 75% of all 5070s in existence actually belonging only to Chinese gaming cafes.

  • AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

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  • It's great being in a time zone where it's already April 2nd when the Americans start pulling this shit. You think you've made it through the nonsense and then BAM, here's another day of it except ramped up to 11.

  • FreeCAD 1.1 is out

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  • I've been able to freely export .step files for anything I've made in Onshape. As another commenter said there are catches, like all your files are public if you're using the free version and there are premium features that require payment. But it's currently not locked down like it seemed Autodesk were preparing to do, where all your files live on their cloud only and can never be exported. For sure there is potential for the same enshittification with Onshape though, which is why I hope the freecad devs soldier on.

    Also if you're worried about your files being public, just name them with codes indecipherable to anyone but you. It doesn't seem like the public file repository actually gets searched that much in general, and with a meaningless code the odds of someone finding and stealing a specific design are probably near zero.

  • FreeCAD 1.1 is out

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  • Time to give it another try I guess. I used Fusion almost exclusively until I switched to Linux (and have also used Solidworks in the past), and I found freecad 1.0 to be an exercise in frustration.

    I gave it a very solid shot, but after many hours messing with it and watching tutorials I decided to try Onshape instead. I was able to become comfortable and productive in Onshape in less than half the time it took me to lose my cool with freecad.

    The 1.1 update looks to be addressing some of the pain points, so they seem to be on the right track. I hope they keep that momentum going.

  • Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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  • What about all of the site-to-site VPNs?

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • That seems odd. I'm on fedora KDE and from memory (excuse the pun) I sit at about 1.7GB usage at startup, and that's with a few autostarted apps like joplin and pcloud. I don't think I've seen Windows 11 that low ever, though I've hardly ever booted into it in the last 2 years.

  • lightbulbs

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  • It's curious seeing people equate warm lighting with old people and old homes. Maybe it's just my region but everybody (especially boomers) switched to CFLs when those came out and then to the cheapest, nastiest cool LEDs with cornea-melting levels of blue light after that. Sometimes I feel like the only sane person when I'm walking around and seeing the insides of houses lit up the same color as you'd get from a $5 flashlight 15 years ago.

    I have 4000k in the kitchen and bathroom and 2700K or 3000K everywhere else. After reading this thread I'm considering finding some high CRI adjustables because I also find the 4000k lights pretty harsh at night.

  • Proton Experimental updated to fix the EA app again on SteamOS / Linux

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  • Some EA games on Steam come with it, and won't launch without it. For example Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which it so happens I am playing currently and so I was affected by this bug.

    In case it's useful to anyone in the future there is a workaround to get playing again without waiting for a Proton update. You download the .exe of the current version of the EA app from EA directly, then use protontricks to uninstall the EA app version in your game's wine prefix. Then again with protontricks you install the version you downloaded to replace it, after which the app should launch and you can sign in again and play the game.

    If I'd known Mass Effect LE was forced to go through the EA app this way I'd never have bought it, but alas I got it on an opportunistic deep discount and didn't play it until well outside the refund window. Live and learn I guess.

  • What's a good entry level printer these days?

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  • The Ender was good when it worked, which it did really well for a year or two after I spent a lot of time and energy getting it sorted. But then things started to go downhill. In the hot end I had the heater cartridge, thermistor and cooling fan all fail separately but fairly close together. I had Z screw runout issues and had to replace the brass nut. The extruder housing cracked and had to be replaced with an aluminum one. Limit switches failed. V rollers failed. It suddenly developed adhesion issues with the glass bed and glue stick I'd been doing for years. Scuffing up the bed didn't work, replacing it with a new glass bed didn't work, scuffing the new glass bed didn't work. I switched to a magnetic PEI bed, that worked but it conforms to the horrific banana shape of the Ender's factory bed and I can only print on a single quadrant of it at a time because of the massive dips in between the screws.

    This is just the stuff I remember from years ago. I enjoyed tinkering and upgrading the Ender in the early days but I'm older now and have other stresses on my time. I just want something that works.

  • What's a good entry level printer these days?

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  • Thanks for the advice everyone. I've been researching the suggested printers, though options are somewhat limited in my area and pricing varies to US retail. I'd hoped the Ender 3 price tier had approached a more turn-key experience by now, but it seems pretty hit or miss with the Ender 3 V3 SE as far as I could tell. It looks like out of what's available the Qidi Q1 Pro gets me what I want and is the best bang for buck in local pricing.

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    punkfungus @sh.itjust.works

    What's a good entry level printer these days?