overview for _thebrain

Finally, a Linux finder tool I can use in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 2 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I always just use

find | grep -i <partial file name>

US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 23 points 3 days ago

How long until we deploy troops to Russia to help in their invasion of the Ukraine?

'Stupid beyond belief': Trump shredded for mistakenly firing bird flu experts in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When it it the third or fourth "mistaken firing" it isn't really a mistake.

What game do you consider to have the best music for study? in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 3 points 3 weeks ago

Stray has a great soundtrack

Super Bowl fans whine over Kendrick Lamar's halftime show - 'DEI only goes one direction' in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I found this somewhere and thought it was a pretty good explanation for all the symbolism in his performance.

And even tho I'm not super familiar with his music, I do respect him and an artist and really enjoyed the show.

Edit: and Serena crip-walking on Drake getting called a pedophile on international TV was just the icing on the cake for me.

creating problems and then "fixing" them because he knows his supporters are stupid enough to fall for it in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My boss, who as far as I can tell, still supports Trump, but is getting super pissed off. One of our suppliers in Canada wrote us a very earnest letter in mid January about how the upcoming tariffs were probably going to destroy his business, but he still wanted to be there to provide is excellent made in Canada parts. He said he would be forced to raise costs 25 percent on February 2nd. My boss got worried and put in 40-50 grand worth or orders that day to several of our Canadian suppliers, just for the Feb 2 to some around and Trump to say "sike!". Now he is pissed that Trump is going to the Superbowl "how much is it going to cost us in taxes?". His decisions to support trump are biting him where it really hurts: his wallet. It's hard for me to remove the grin from my face.

USAID is gone. in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 8 points 1 month ago

Have you watched the news in the US in the time period since the original post? Has any news media even mentioned this? A post on mastodon is great. I would venture that 99% of the population from the US doesn't use Mastodon, tho I don't really know for sure the numbers . Of the percentage that do, how many are going to see this person's post?

USAID is gone. in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 38 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Probably not. Sooner rather than later most free press will be shut down by trump and the only news that anyone will get is whatever there government wants you to hear. Stories like this will disappear.

Doctor tells you you have exactly 31 days left until you drop dead, what do you do? in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 4 points 1 month ago

I appreciate that. She was an amazing person. I told her she was just dying so she didn't have to suffer through another Trump presidency.

Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 9 points 1 month ago

When I took my pixel 8 pro to ubreakifix they told me they don't fix them there at all... They just send it to Google. Why would I ever go there if I could just send it to Google myself? It's such a stupid place to have as an official warranty provider

Doctor tells you you have exactly 31 days left until you drop dead, what do you do? in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

31 days of perfect health and then drop dead? Or 31 days of slow, debilitating, crushing agony and pain and then death? I just lost my best friend to perotineal cancer, from diagnosis to her passing was 97 days. She made plans to travel with her daughter, spend time with friends, write a will, etc. but she ended up spending a majority of that time in the hospital on heavy duty narcotics and offer her nut because of them. I don't think anyone would plan on spending their last 31 days like that but it's more realistic.

Tldr: do the things you would do with news like this now... Don't wait until it might be impossible.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] _thebrain_ 8 points 1 month ago

It's the pyramid scheme of religion: you only get saved if you brought a bunch of people to the ~~religion~~ cult. Only 144000 people will be saved. At a certain point there are no more people to bring to the cult and the bottom ones/newest initiates won't have anyway to ~~make money~~ get saved

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Stripey bands printing in vase mode (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by _thebrain_ to c/[email protected]

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I have a printer I have basically built. It is a tronxy frame (and corexy motion), but over the years I have added linear rails, a duet 3d control board, quad zscrew independent leveling, a zesty nimble extruder, and other things.

My printer was down for 6 months or so, a new kitten we got ate some wires and it took me a bit to get the motivation to rebuild it. It turned out just a couple of things got unplugged and I was quickly back in business.

Ever since starting printing again I noticed that my tolerance has been off and it seemed to be over extruding quite a bit. I tuned my steps per mm, and driver power on the extruder motor to no avail. Eventually I replaced the motor and the nozzle (which was perfectly in check but if I was going that far I figured why not). It seems to have solved the problem... Sort of.

I have been using the prusa procedure to test and tune extrusion multiplier: print a 40x40x40 cube in vase mode, and measure the wall thickness. My extrusion width is .45mm, and until today I was getting a width of .52-.54mm. the replacement parts have cured this, if I measure in the right spots with my micrometer I get .45 exactly. But I have these bands. If I measure the high spots on the bands I get the same .52+ mm.

I looked at some of my old test boxes:

I have the same bands but different patterns.

A little googling and someone suggested (for a similar problem) that belt tendon was unequal. From what I can feel my tension seems to be the same.

I'm printing a tolerance test now to see if my issues are fixed, but I only feel 50% confident. Does anyone have any advice as to what might be going wrong? My belts have been on the printer since upgrading to linear rails and could probably use changing... But hopefully someone else has an idea?