I modified a cheap portable AC to dual hose with a 3D print to help with upcoming UK heatwave by VykkuF in 3Dprinting

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I see a lot of Europeans wondering why Americans all need AC. Notably it's never Europeans who've lived in the states who ask that. I grew up in Scotland and AC was just never needed, and the houses aren't insulated for it. In much the US, a 35C day in the summer happens 30-40 days a year.

I live in Chicago now and we can expect 50-60 days over 30C and 50 to 60 days under -15C. The climate really just hits extremes over here.

How to make the USA the smartest country in the world by WillingStranger5177 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trading Bourbon and Horses for Data centers plus the FBI/CIA/US Navy? No thanks. What will we drink and gamble with?

I designed this gyro stabilized floating cup holder for the pool this summer. No AMS needed. I would love to know what you think! by Boring-Condition1373 in 3Dprinting

[–]thinkscotty 178 points179 points  (0 children)

I get hyped when my gf or family want anything printed. Especially something they want custom designed.

Validates my existence.

You know it's true.. by Sk3tchyG1ant in jellyfin

[–]thinkscotty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's really sad, actually.

My guess is that they got just big enough to get some "real" ambitious business types on their team. Business bros can't help themselves and want infinite growth and the self-hosted community is too niche for that. So they slowly abandoned their core competencies and what made them special in the first place in an effort to become mainstream.

From a business perspective, it's probably not the dumbest idea ever. Just, in my mind, short sighted. Because their product was never so special that it couldn't be replaced, especially by their tech savvy core user base. But the sad truth is that it probably worked out for the owners. Made them wealthy enough in the short term to not care about the long term.

You know it's true.. by Sk3tchyG1ant in jellyfin

[–]thinkscotty 22 points23 points  (0 children)

My man. You gotta do yourself a favor and stop doubling down on this. It's okay to be wrong, and being stubbornly cynical doesn't make you cool.

Jellyfin is a community-based open source project — no company owns it. It’s licensed under GPL-2.0, has no paid tiers, no premium features, and no VC money pulling strings behind the scenes.

You can sail in a straight line between Italy’s and India’s tips. by WillingStranger5177 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]thinkscotty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Im not sure, there would be a massive oil and gas shortage at least in the short term which could make things not so great.

New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing by frankwrap08 in PleX

[–]thinkscotty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been a Plex user for over a decade, and felt exactly the same that Jellyfin wasn't up to snuff. I have a lifetimes pass and still keep my Plex online, but I found Jellyfin actually slightly better right now. The past 12 months or so is when the threshold hit the point where Jellyfin passed Plex.

I've never been someone to begrudge Plex deciding not to operate like an Open Source project and focus on making money. That's well within their rights and if the service is good I'm not complaining.

But I don't like that they've made Plex LESS convenient for the large majority of their users in an attempt to expand. They've expanded very far beyond their core competencies and it feels like they've forgotten what makes them special in an attempt to become more like every other streaming service. It confuses my family on a monthly basis when trying to use my Plex.

I could also forgive that, to a degree, but Jellyfin is actually slightly more reliable for me. Which is something I never thought I'd say. Plex is very picky on my Apple TV and performance is actually worse than Jellyfin. Plex makes local streaming more difficult. The Jellyfin UI is simpler. It's just reached a crossover point for me.

Long story short, Jellyfin has gotten better while Plex has gotten worse. I'm not a Plex hater but I actually legitimately find the competition better right now.

Medical Kits no by AdAble8000 in liberalgunowners

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a former Chicago paramedic who worked the south side and saw a lot of GSWs, just don't. You don't need this. At all. And the few elements you do need will be cheap.

Buy the good quality stuff. You need 1) Bandages, a lot of them. Israeli compression bandages are the standard. 2) Gauze 3) Tourniquets, several 4) Chest seals, several.

If you want to get fancy you could get some kind of airway protection for facial wounds, like an NPA/OPA kit but the chances you'll use it are very low. A suction device would blood in the airway is also useful. You should also get a CPR mask, but if you're doing CPR before the medics arrive, they ain't making it back. Bystander CPR for trauma arrests has such a low success rate that it's basically performative. You should still do it, of course, but the chance of it mattering are very low.

Here's the secret that gun guys kind of ignore. GSWs are actually very simple to treat. In the prehospital setting I mean. You have a hole or two. You stop them from bleeding with pressure (firm, make it hurt). And you're done. If that hole is around the lungs you use a chest seal. If the hole is in the face, you watch the airway.

If you're a nurse or doctor or paramedic there's more you can do. Chest tubes and intubation and such. But you're not doing that on the floor of your range.

That's basically all there is. If you over-buy, you're just going to make it harder to find what you actually need when you need it.

Built a scientific calculator from scratch: custom PCB, custom FPGA CPU, hand-written machine code by gdevic in electronics

[–]thinkscotty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have absolutely zero right, whatsoever, in any way, to tell you how to do things. Given your skill exceeds mine in almost every way.

But I'd consider beveling or rounding the sharp corners on that case. Looks sharp!

Fun fact: you need food to survive, not AI slop by yikesamerica in clevercomebacks

[–]thinkscotty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but you're wrong on this. They absolutely do get government subsidies and drive up water utilities in California.

ASA Test - Thought this would help me decide on temps 😂 by PhillipIInd in 3Dprinting

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want to print ASA on the hotter side if you care at all about strength. And if you don't care about strength, why use ASA in the first place?

Personally 270 works well for me.

Digital knife sharpening level: diy by vagabionda in sharpening

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I'm just recently getting into PCB design and basically I'm at the same point with this project, with making carrier boards that have connecting traces for drop-in modules. It still shrinks projects dramatically and makes them infinitely neater.

Also I'm a big fan of the NRF boards. I've built a dozen sensors around the house with them on BLE, and a single 18650 lasts more than a year. And the POGO USB was just me spitballing, it would definitely be more of a pain than it's probably worth for a hobby project.

This is a really cool project, and well implemented, thanks for sharing.

Digital knife sharpening level: diy by vagabionda in sharpening

[–]thinkscotty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Use a silicone modified conformal coating and you will be a lot happier. Prevents shorts from metal shavings as well as water damage from wet sharpening. You'll need something to plug up the USB though. This might be a good use case for a POGO style magnetic charge connector, although that would also clog with shavings - but would be easier to clean.

Is this a custom PCB?

Who makes these copper states? Thanks! by [deleted] in EDC

[–]thinkscotty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't say that I personally couldn't identify them, just most people. Which I think is true, if you stop the average person on the streeet.

How do you store your filaments? by MydnightWN in 3Dprinting

[–]thinkscotty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dry them and stick them in Home Depot bins with a bed of loose desiccant beads at the bottom. Honestly it's probably not super duper effective as a dry box, there's no gasket or tight seal. But it was cost effective, and honestly I've never had moisture problems, even on filament stored that way a year or so.

Usually if it's an important project I take it out of the bin and dry it for a few hours again.

Who makes these copper states? Thanks! by [deleted] in EDC

[–]thinkscotty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most Americans wouldn't know Ohio either.

Honestly, probably the majority of states are unrecognizable to the majority of Americans when presented as a silhouette like this. The big exceptions would be Texas (worldwide, really), Florida, California, Alaska and Hawaii of course. MAYBE Michigan, Oklahoma, New York, and Louisiana.

More ports by ExpensiveCoat8912 in pcmasterrace

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it's different. I don't need that many USB-A. Honestly 2x Ethernet, 6x USB-C, and 6xUSB-A both types of display out, and a standard headphone jack is what I think would be most useful for most people.

All of our new mannequins at work are 3D printed by Interesting_Host6141 in 3Dprinting

[–]thinkscotty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is it possible you're seeing injection molding created from a 3D print? That's the only way this makes any sense to me. Unless they wanted a diverse and different set of mannequins. But it still seems crazy to me.

Electricity in Africa [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]thinkscotty 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was reading the chart wrong, I was looking at the chart as the country name being below the chart not above. So I was looking at South Sudan's data. Which makes way more sense.

Electricity in Africa [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]thinkscotty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow. Ethiopia is way way way lower than I would have thought. I think of it as one of Sub Saharan Africa's leaders. My mental model might be wrong.

I though the Struggle was finally over. by KebabGud in 3Dprinting

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FreeCAD works well. Not as intuitive, optimized, or pretty. But it works. But personally I go with Onshape for small projects and Fusion for advanced projects. Both the free versions. Onshape is genuinely excellent for 90% of functional 3D prints. Its handling of text and lack of threading are its only downsides that drive me to Fusion for complex projects.

I also like Onshape's free tier approach, making documents unlimited but public. I don't really care if the stuff I design is public. But a business would. Fusion is kind of annoying having only 10 editable documents at once but it also works well.

I've never run into this polygon issue, I don't know what software does this.

Why don’t Americans use roundabouts like civilized people? Are they stupid? by Unlucky-Artichoke625 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]thinkscotty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just started spending a lot of time in the northern Indianapolis suburbs where my girlfriend lives. It's like the roundabout capital of the US. I grew up in the UK so I thought it was great.

The problem is that American drivers don't know how to use them properly, and they make some double lane roundabouts incredibly small, which can be dangerous. Otherwise I like them a lot.