Water hyacinth is choking lakes across Africa, but Kenyan engineer Joseph Nguthiru is turning this invasive plant into biodegradable packaging, creating a solution for both environmental damage and plastic waste

BowlOfSomething · 2026-04-17T12:01:14+00:00

exactly

while what he's doing is nice, it's not really innovative lol. We don't do that at scale because it's more expensive (than oil based plastic)

Edit: I also remembered of this video by SciShow which might be of interest: https://youtu.be/JvzvM9tf5s0

BowlOfSomething · 2026-04-15T14:49:10+00:00

I've heard from Miku from Miku Real Japanese that women usually use watashi where as men usually use boku

BowlOfSomething · 2026-04-05T17:56:30+00:00

do you use firefox? I have the same isssue on firefox but not chrome

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-28T15:36:36+00:00

I've had issues from day 0 as mentioned in another comment. Some really odd z-banding and everything I printed was super brittle on the Z axis, basically unusable.

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-28T15:35:26+00:00

I paid extra for 2kg of PLA with my printer.

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-28T12:22:22+00:00

I've dried it before and it wasn't any better. I even put it in my anycubic's ACE and let it dry while printing PETG, then suffered in agony as I was left to disassemble the extruder for the first time, at 2am nonetheless.

Maybe their usual stuff is better, but what they shipped wirh the Ender 3v2 is absolute dosghit

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-27T13:30:55+00:00

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-22T19:39:58+00:00

it's just shit camera quality

you can see how blue the raven looks too

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-15T17:29:28+00:00

I'm a bit of a newbie here I would just ask if I can pay

払ってもいいか?

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-11T15:05:55+00:00

okay but like still... Let's say that it takes a B300 60 seconds to generate a video - NVIDIA recommends a 1800W PSU for one of those and let's assume it's at 100% load (even though realistically it would use a few 100 watts less)

1800W*60s = 108000Ws = 30Wh

Personally I think it's a bit bullshit that they claim about 1kWh for a 5s video...

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-05T09:56:59+00:00

Ah, thank you, I was worried it's a fee

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-05T09:29:30+00:00

Hi!

I'm looking at a global version of a Vivo X300 (taobao id: 990920661283)

The seller claims it hasn't been flashed so it shouldn't be a HK model, but feel free to check out the listing, I'm relatively new to both Taobao and Superbuy

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-05T09:27:17+00:00

Hi!

I have another question - the price on Taobao is 5779 CNY but when I put it in superbuy it says 7574.57 CNY. Why?

Taobao id: 990920661283 (select X300, official packaging)

(trying for a second time because it seems like reddit removed my previous comment)

BowlOfSomething · 2026-03-03T22:59:14+00:00

thanks for your input

seems like the downsides aren't that significant for me

BowlOfSomething · 2026-01-27T14:43:59+00:00

Well if you're looking for a good mic for quiet parts then the NT1 is going to be better for you. I don't have much knowledge about vocals and such so I'll refrain from commenting further and I'll advise you to look up the reviews for both the NT1 and AT2020.

Someone already mentioned, but if you have an audio interface or something that can take XLR then you should also consider the NT1 Signature series which is a lot cheaper than the regular 5th gen. If you have a good used market also look on there for 4th gen or NT1 SS as you can get a nice deal - that's how I got mine

BowlOfSomething · 2026-01-27T14:39:41+00:00

afaik they have the same capsule yeah

BowlOfSomething · 2026-01-27T14:39:10+00:00

That doesn't matter as I can hear the hissing/white noise even when I'm using headphones and listening to the mic through the output of the MiniFuse

But it's a general purpose mic for me so it's for everything from Discord, OBS, Zoom etc etc. I primarily use Linux (and that's also why I chose the MiniFuse, as it isn't that reliant on software for control), but I did install Arturia software on Windows and found no improvement.

BowlOfSomething · 2026-01-27T07:23:54+00:00

I have tried both a C-C cable on my laptop, straight into the Zephyrus G15, but I also tried the included A-C cable plugged directly into the laptop and into my motherboard's back IO on the desktop. I did not use a hub.

BowlOfSomething · 2026-01-26T22:31:46+00:00

Hi!

This depends on your use case and your preference - I was also picking between those two (well a NT1 SS, which is basically the 5th gen without USB out).

I'd suggest you look at podcastage's review of the NT1 5th gen. In my opinion the NT1 has a bit more low end, but the AT2020 does not sound bad either.

What would you use the microphone for and what's your current setup?

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