captain_aggravated

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[–] captain_aggravated 5 points 10 hours ago

Well then you have me, I waited until winter to rip my DVD collection to my NAS, because if I was going to spend several weeks with 2 or 3 PCs blasting at 100% CPU, I might as well wait until it's furnace season rather than air conditioner season.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 13 hours ago

lol @ "the food aisle."

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Prove that capers are food.

[–] captain_aggravated 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

sh.itjust.works has a much funnier name.

[–] captain_aggravated 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, and it outright isn't documented.

[–] captain_aggravated 5 points 19 hours ago

Because common advice isbto use Mint for beginners.

[–] captain_aggravated 11 points 20 hours ago

I remember an ad for Half Life of all games that went "She's smart, has a great personality, and knows that the way to a man's heart is through his sternum."

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 21 hours ago

I really got used to a space mouse with a piece of software called Geomagic Wrap, which we were using to take point clouds from a 3D scanner and turn them into solid models. Part of that process involves turning the model every which way to look for holes and whatnot in it to correct, and being able to use both hands for this really sped up the process. At this point I just cannot stand doing the Click-a click-a click-a click-a required to move a model around with the mouse. And if I'm modeling something large like a building or a landscape in a video game? Forget it. I want to be able to fly the camera around.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 21 hours ago

One of the things I would do if I had control of FreeCAD would be to reduce the number of workbenches it ships with. Why does every copy come with the Robot workbench? Who is A) working with industrial robot arms and B) using FreeCAD to do so? Especially since it's "Currently unmaintained?" there was awhile there where it also came with a "ship" workbench which could generate a container ship hull with one click. For my purposes I end up hiding the BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, Points, and Surface workbenches as I never use them, and it declutters things quite nicely.

[–] captain_aggravated 17 points 21 hours ago

Not sure he does.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I personally see no need to draw the distinction between the two, I mean I know that subcultures are fractal and there's no bottom but I'm okay with one community for text usually signs that isn't clear how it's supposed to be read at first glance.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 22 hours ago

The image above is an animated GIF though, so it would have to have been taken from a video source.

 

Used one of those Affresh pods today. It's the second one I've used. Not entirely convinced it's achieving much but it was a nice day to have several gallons of hot water sloshing around in the house.

Last month I noticed just how crud filled the softener dispenser was, and there's no way to take it apart so I just had to sort of reach into the holes and do what I could, fill it with water and such and just shake it around trying to dislodge everything. Figured I should probably start cleaning the tub as well.

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My air purrifier (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by captain_aggravated to c/cats
 

aka Miss Monochrome

 

Walnut and maple., it's an inch and a quarter thick, 12 1/2 inches wide and about 17 inches long. While it is an end grain cutting board I actually built it with kneading dough in mind, I don't intend to cut on this one, not for awhile anyway. Built it this weekend and baked some bread with it today. Which is why my mixer is covered in flour. I'm really happy with this one.

 

Walnut and maple., it's an inch and a quarter thick, 12 1/2 inches wide and about 17 inches long. While it is an end grain cutting board I actually built it with kneading dough in mind, I don't intend to cut on this one, not for awhile anyway. Built it this weekend and baked some bread with it today. Which is why my mixer is covered in flour. I'm really happy with this one.

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Crash Blossoms (self.fakebandnames)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]
 

I picture them as an all girl hard rock band with a sound similar to Veruca Salt.

It's the name of a grammatical quirk where unrelated parts of a sentence can be mistaken as a noun phrase. Comes from a headline "Violinist Linked To JAL Crash Blossoms."

 

I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

 

Replacing a broken set of blinds in my house and apparently no one sells the old standard kind where you pull the cord to raise them, I guess because kids and/or pets could tangle in the cord? Bit of an education in miniblinds today.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]
 

Greetings buildapc!

I built my current rig during the parts drought during the pandemic or whatever, I scraped together whatever I could find and then stopped keeping up with PC parts for a few years. Looking to build a new rig, PCPartPicker attached, just looking for some double checking for any details I missed.

Use case: Linux and Linux only. It's gonna run some FreeCAD and some LibreOffice and a lot of Firefox and a lot of Satisfactory. I'm trying to build it in time for Satisfactory's launch on September 10, I've heard tell of a Ryzen 7600X3D coming imminently that I don't want to wait for.

I have a Gigabyte M34WQ monitor (1440p ultrawide 144Hz FreeSync) that I'd like to take full advantage of in Unreal engine games like Satisfactory, the upcoming Subnautica 3 and such.

My budget is $1500, I can exceed that but for every $100 over I'm going to read you a vogon poem.

This is to be my first desktop AMD GPU. My current rig (Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080) is Nvidia, it was all I could get my hands on, and the 1080 predates a lot of the whiz bang acronyms like DLSS RTX OMG LOL, I have no idea how well any of that from AMD or Nvidia works in Linux, I don't particularly care about raytracing. Word on the street is AMD is less of a pain in the head to deal with on Linux and Wayland stands a chance of running, so...

thoughts/suggestions/donations?

Update: Sub in a 7700X CPU and a 7900GRE GPU and...IT'S ALIVE:

Everything but the case arrived so I decided to go ahead and test bench it.

 

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I present to you The Tale Of The Cedar Planter Box.

Solid cedar, mortise and tenon joinery, with a nice bead detail on the slats. Garden hose sold separately, pine straw not included.

 

For tweens!

 

I use BackInTime (which is basically a front end for rsync) for backups, and I run one every night at 1 AM. This is on Linux Mint Cinnamon. If the computer is locked/the monitors have gone to sleep (computer isn't suspended), when the backup begins the monitors turn on, and will then stay on all night. I don't want to waste the power or wear out my backlights.

How can I stop it from turning the monitors on, or how can I get it to turn them back off?

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