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dual_sport_dork , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Do people vape in cars?

It's also significantly easier to clean off the windows/plasticwork than cigarette residue. Vape juice and its byproducts are literally water soluble. Just, like, use some Windex.

Tobacco crud is nearly impossible to remove, especially from cloth upholstery. I inherited my truck from a smoker and despite thoroughly cleaning it multiple times you can still tell when you sit down that it was owned by a smoker, despite the fact that no one has smoked in it for at least a decade. I've decided it's just my beater truck and I don't care. (Crank windows, manual transfer case, AM/FM radio, no CD, etc.)

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Games in Nintendo DMCAs Yuzu forks on GitHub

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dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to 3DPrinting in How do you build complex shapes?

Yes, you can.

You can set up datum planes in arbitrary orientations but in all honesty, I've never bothered. You can position a sketch in any orientation, at any angle, at any position in 3D space. You are not confined to right angles of the X, Y, and Z axes.

Sketches used in a loft don't even have to be oriented on the same plane relative to each other.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to 3DPrinting in How do you build complex shapes?

I can't comment on other software since my experience with the commercial options is near-zero. However, specifically in FreeCAD you can do some incredibly tricksy things with sweeps and lofts. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of them.

You could create your shape there almost entirely with lofts. A loft takes two or more sketches and you can think of them like "keyframes" in 3D space. Typically you would stack them on top of each other at the specific locations you need, and at the location of each sketch the 3D solid have a cross section of exactly the shape and dimensions of that sketch, and then the shape will be interpolated in the space in between in various ways you can select. The dimensions of each sketch can, of course, be completely parametric and as dimensionally accurate as you need them to be.

The pocket tool is also extremely powerful if wielded creatively. You can knock holes of arbitrary shape and complexity through things, not just circles and hexagons, to any depth. You can create complex three dimensional curves by making a solid of some shape or another, and then making a pocket all the way through it at right angles or indeed any angle. Think of it kind of like a milling machine pass.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

?

The NACS connector is the Tesla connector. NACS was entirely their doing; Tesla won this format war. So what's for them to be salty about?

The only wrinkle is that older Teslas require a reflash to work with the new (or rather old, same as CCS) communication standard that would be used by NACS equipped non-Tesla charging stations.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to memes in When the next Gathering of the Juggalos is in your backyard

This is the exact opposite experience I've had. My area has (had, at least) an unusually high Juggalo population in the mid 2000's.

I have never met a more violent, bigoted, ignorant, petty, and hypocritical bunch of people in my life. For all the talk about being "all family," they sure do like inventing trivial shit to beef about constantly, and then accuse each other of not being "real" Juggalos. If you get more than two of them in one place, a fight is guaranteed to break out eventually. If it's not over drugs or somebody's girlfriend, it's some manner of asinine doctrinal shit, like their taste in shitty music is an actual religion or something. And that's before they even start fucking with outsiders.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Ask Lemmy in Just saw this while getting gas. Why is it illegal to get less than 4 gallons?

archaic and inflexible.

No, it's working precisely as intended. There are so many layers of byzantine laws and ordinances in the US on multiple levels -- federal, state, county, municipal -- that anyone who really wants to is guaranteed to be able to find something to harass and/or arrest you for, no matter what. Probable cause can be rendered meaningless by making a humongous array of trivial things technically illegal.

Does your window tint meet the specific requirements for this county? Is your stereo 0.01dB louder than our municipal maximum? Are your license plate and registration sticker acceptably clean? Do your tires have the correct tread depth? Do you have a radar detector installed? Do you have an air freshener hanging from your rearview? Are you carrying your written prescription around with your pills? Is your pocketknife blade too long? Do your cigarettes have the wrong state's tax stamp on them? Did you remember to sign the back of your registration card? Whoopsie doodle, this state passed a law mandating minimum headlight height from the road, too bad your car left the factory out of compliance. Could you step out of the vehicle for me, sir?

Etc., etc., etc.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Ask Lemmy in Just saw this while getting gas. Why is it illegal to get less than 4 gallons?

Fuck you if you own a motorcycle, I guess.

My RV200's tank only holds 1.7 gallons, and my CH50 will only take one. I guess I'm meant to just dispense the remaining three gallons onto the ground, then...?

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Technology in Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?

As your attorney I advise you to buy a motorcycle. Bikes and bike parts are cheaper. And then you can have more bikes than cars, and more bikes to buy parts for. Wait, where was I going with this again?

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Technology in Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained

Gigabyte (remember them?)

Sure do! Both my board and the board in my wife's computer are Gigabyte. So's my video card. The only issue I've ever had with their stuff has been a bad stick of ram a few years ago, which they exchanged without argument.

Brands in this sphere I definitely have had trouble with: MSI, Razer -- so many problems with Razer -- and ASUS.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Android in If it works, kill it.

You’re not rewarded for maintaining or finishing products.

No kidding.

It is 2024, and here is your yearly reminder that you still can't create a new folder/label in the official Gmail Android app despite the online documentation implying that you can.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Technology in Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle'

This horseshit again? Physical product available for independent analysis, or it didn't happen.

It's not like the Chinese are famous for lying about the specs on things they manufacture or anything. Every week we hear about some Chinese company poised to "revolutionize" the EV with pie-in-the-sky range figures and yet the market continues to remain resolutely un-revolutionized.

And as usual, this article harps on "range" as if that's not an easily fudged figure. The real numbers we need to see are watts per volume, or watts per mass. And number of charge cycles tolerated, and how many before it loses what percentage of capacity. Any idiot can claim to make a 1,300 mile, 2,000 mile, 5,000 mile, 1,000,000 mile battery pack -- just make the pack bigger, or the vehicle lighter, or both. That tells us nothing meaningful whatsoever about the battery chemistry itself. Advertising us what hypothetical ranges someone thinks a pack made of these "could" build is meaningless. We could build a 1300 mile battery pack right now with LiFePo cells if we wanted to, via the simple expedient of filling a dump truck with the things.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Technology in Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon

FWIW and for anyone else reading this, I am running Win10 Pro in the US on my work machine and it let me uninstall Copilot just now when I tried it.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Android in Small phone lovers... our era is not over. Yesterday I discovered the Unihertz Jelly Star. I fell in love. I will be reporting back.

And like all of these novelty phones, it has no 5G support and extremely narrow 4G band support, which means this will be nearly worthless for users in North America. And it will quickly become even more worthless as carriers are actively discontinuing their existing 3G and 4G bands.

This'll work great for most people who don't want to actually use it as a phone. I.e. it'd make a killer media playback device, remote control, or tiny PDA.

I was interested in their Titan a while ago but it, like all of their phones, has the same problem. There is no sense whatsoever in buying a new phone in 2024 that has such piddling network support.

dual_sport_dork , 2 months ago to Not The Onion in Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms

I was exposed to quite a few teachers and administrators throughout my public school career who clearly shouldn't be trusted with a pencil and compass, let alone a firearm.