IMALlama

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[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

A random orbit palm sander, or really any other sander that's round, will do just fine.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Glad to hear it!

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you want to try to counterbalance the desk you're going to want to add the weight as high as you can. Extending the legs out further in front of the desk with a stringer on the floor will likely help more.

Think leaning forward over your toes. You'll tip over when your center of mass passes your toes. If you could somehow grow longer toes you could lean forward even further. On the other hand, extending your heels isn't going to help much.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

You can add a horizontal span where the legs meet the floor to help make it a bit more stable thanks to a wider base. Think something similar to the upside down Ts on some standing desks, but instead of one vertical riser you would have two.

It could be as easy as screwing some scrap wood at the base of your existing legs that produces out the front 5-6". Depending on where the desk is and if they would be a hazard you could go even longer.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

"His" DLC for borderlands 3 was one of the high points of that game. I'm currently replaying 1 and while it's fun 2 is just so much more engaging with Jack.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Assembly is relatively straightforward, but sourcing all the components locally is likely getting harder and harder. Granted, for DoD contract reasons there's likely a cottage industry that relies on government rules to keep things onshore. That's part of the reason why we still have some made in the USA clothing.

This is worth a listen or a watch if you're interested.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not sure how up to date this is, but synthetic fibers are the #1 source of micro plastics, followed by car tires and city dust. Car tires are absolutely a contributor and we should cut our reliance on personal transportation for more reasons than just micro plastics. In addition, we need to move away from polyester, nylon and a slew of other materials.

Most household furnishings used to be made of natural fibers. These days carpets, couch covers and filling, curtains, clothing, etc are often derived from a petrochemical. I suspect oil companies will continue to pivot into these areas to continue as we very slowly ween ourselves of gasoline.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I still have a sweet spot for canned corn, especially creamed, as well as canned green beans.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. It's very true that a lot of plants have... older software setups that likely require a bit more of a human touch than should be necessary. I don't work in a plant, but that's basically been my career arc - "the poor humans have to hop between how many disconnected systems to accomplish what now? Let's write some better software to address that."

Using AI as a replacement to human glue seems reasonable if you have decent data to traverse. The "data" at my employer is often bespoke to each system, which results in a lot of gray matter mapping names and attributes across systems. Our IT org is working on rolling out glean, but so far it's basically a better internal search than offering real insights.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Agree with the addition of a low and high setting. I don't care what the target cabin temp is, if I just got into my car after braving some crazy wind chill I want to be air fried for a bit.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Used parts! Junkyards, eBay, whatever. Odds are you'll be able to find a replacement unless the factory knob was super fragile or your vehicle is exceedingly rare.

If your vehicle is vaguely popular it'll probably have a stl (think exported 3D shape) available. In that case I'll print/mail you one assuming you're in the US. If you're not in the US hop over to !3DPrinting@lemmy.world and I'm sure someone will help you out.

 

Title basically.

One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can't upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it's an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).

Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn't been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced...

 
 

The coaster is shivering timbers at Michigan's adventure.

 

We saw a pretty good amount of them in our yard this June. It was nice. I can't remember seeing many lightning bugs for years.

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Bath time (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by IMALlama@lemmy.world to c/birding@lemmy.world
 

I've seen Robbins around our lawn sprinkler before... I'll have to keep my camera more handy in case they show up again

 

Moths need love too!

 

This is a vaguely arty shot I took with my A9ii when I was renting the 70-200 f/2.8.

200mm, f/3.2, ISO 100, 1/800

 

I have a cheap/quick/dirty deer and rabbit fence around our vegetable garden. The doors are simple PVC squares with deer netting that used to attach to the fence via hooks at the top. This design turned out to be very fiddly. The new design seems much easier to manage - simply drop the door section into its slot.

 

/old man

 

So close, and yet so far

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Brr (lemmy.world)
 

I took this a few months ago through one of our windows. I have a small backlog of photos to get through and hope to do one a day, but some of them might show up on !photography@lemmy.world.

A9ii w/ Tamron 150-500 @ 374 mm, 1/250, f/5.6, ISO 200. Cropped some.

 

No idea what's going on / it's the first time its flowers have ever looked this way. I personally think it's kind of neat.

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