Sparky

joined 8 months ago
[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

About 3 years ago, I was looking for emeralds at a closed emerald mine when I had the brilliant idea of hitting a random rock with my pickaxe. Turns out the rock was harder than the pickaxe, so a piece of the metal broke off and flew into my finger. I was 10s of hours away from any hospitals, and the metal curved around the bone of my finger, so I had to take my dad's camping knife and cut the thing out. This was at a camping spot, so I had running water, but it wasn't easy.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Oh no not the bed sheets

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aren't pretty much all storefronts searchable, or is it a Europe thing?

I shop primarily local and find stores with ddg/Google/Google maps. I live in a country where Amazon doesn't exist, and shipping takes at least 3-7 days, so I've always bought stuff from local stores. Of course not everything is sold in a physical store, for which you'll probably have to use ebay.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago (9 children)
[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I keep forgetting that some people need vpns to torrent.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Please charge your phone

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago

Whoa that's a super nice way of telling the user how different parts of the drier should sound. A+++ for this execution. I can see that they take right to repair pretty seriously (at least for diagnostics)

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can't belive how this is a screenshot from Facebook containing another screenshot from Twitter. How much deeper can we go?

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how it has taken this long for media to cover this issue. I thought this was common knowledge for about a decade

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

omg the nostalgia

 

Idk if it even fits in this community, but here we gooo




This stick of ram has been my emotional support stick of ram for almost a decade. It's traveled with me around the world, and been in my backpack through tough times.
Since it's so old and only 4GB, i can't really use it or sell it, which is why i turned it into a knife. It's surprisingly sharp, and short enough that the airlines in my country allow it in carry-on and checked luggage, so it can still be my travel companion.

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I upcycled some ram (protosparky.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/hardwaregore@lemmy.world
 

Idk if it even fits in this community, but here we gooo




This stick of ram has been my emotional support stick of ram for almost a decade. It's traveled with me around the world, and been in my backpack through tough times.
Since it's so old and only 4GB, i can't really use it or sell it, which is why i turned it into a knife. It's surprisingly sharp, and short enough that the airlines in my country allow it in carry-on and checked luggage, so it can still be my travel companion

 

Hey y'all, I've been having issues with gaps forming between the outer layers of the print walls, and I'm not sure how to fix that. I thought it might be because of a clogged extruder, but the issue didn't get fixed when I cleaned it. I tried adjusting the E-steps, but smaller values caused blobs of filament to form on the outer walls likely because lower values overextruded the filament. Apart from the weird top layer and walls, the prints turn out perfectly fine, so it might be a slicer related issue. The printer is an Ender 3 pro with a bltouch sensor and upgraded marlin board + octoprint.

Here are some pictures of the issue, and a screenshot of the slicer settings:

Any help is greatly appreciated :3

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Music rule (protosparky.uk)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Caption: An image of the album cover from Guns and Roses for their album "Appetite for Destruction", which has been modified to replace the skulls of the band members with waifus. The image has a caption that says "So about a year ago, I woke up from a dream, drenched in sweat, with just one phrase being on my mind "guns and waifus". Today, i made the music cover a reality." End Caption

So this actually happened, and "guns and waifus" has been sitting dormant in my notes app until today.

I don't really listen to guns and roses, nor do i watch anime, so i hope i didn't offend anyone :3

Here's the picture without the caption:

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Too bad the desk space sucks...

High res image

Caption: Picture of a giant display in a big event/concert space. The display shows a terminal with the output from hyfetch. End caption

High res image

Anyways here's the real setup that was controlling that big ass screen

Also sorry if the text formatting is messed up (I am posting from mobile)

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peekaboo (protosparky.uk)
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[OC] Bus stop at night (protosparky.uk)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

High res image

Norwegian bus stop during the night.

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hmmm (protosparky.uk)
 
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
 

Hi, my 3d printer psu fan gave up the ghost, and I wanted to replace it. It was pretty noisy, so I thought about upgrading from a 30mm to an 80mm fan. I am designing the top case with mounting holes, and want some input on where to place the new fan. The original placement is the box with the red color. The green and blue box are some options I thought of for the new fan placement. Would placing it over the busier part of the pcb yield lower temps, or is that a bad idea? Does placement even matter for psu fans? The new fan has higher airflow, but lower static pressure than the original one, and the plan is for it to always spin at a low rpm and occasionally speed up when the psu detects a high temperature. The original config runs it completely fanless until the psu reaches 50c and only then does it send voltage to the fan header.

 

@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world I stole your meme mohahaha

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hey y'all, today I experienced another push for Linux from our friend Microsoft. 5 minutes ago, I wanted to use the timer app on Windows, so I could manage my work/break schedule, and this fucker showed up. Yes, that's a prompt to sign in with a Microsoft account to use the clock. If you close it, it pops up 30s later. Clicking “Don't sign in” or closing the process responsible for displaying it is useless, and guess what… IT PAUSES THE TIMER WHEN IT SHOWS UP.

I guess this is another thing added to the super long list of things which will eventually make me switch my main workstation to Linux once win10 is discontinued.

/endrant

Hope y'all are having a great day :3

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