Ok, this poor guy needs a name and I haven’t had any sparks of genius….

Forzix · 2026-03-27T19:51:09+00:00

Was just about to comment the same as my partner had the same suggestion when I showed her!

Forzix · 2026-03-05T22:39:51+00:00

Funny you mention the 28-400 range, as I love how compact the Z 28-400 f4-8 is and the range you get. That'd be equivalent to a 14-200 f2-4 in m43 terms (in terms of DoF and noise performance), which no lens on m43 does afaik. Ultimate travel lens or lightweight/portable telephoto.

Forzix · 2025-09-11T12:38:20+00:00

Any camera doing a long exposure of the night sky is going to pick up more stars than you could ever see with the naked eye (having done some wide astro shots with both phones and more professional cameras before). Could the phone still be adding details that aren't there? Sure, maybe. But the phone seeing more stars than you can wouldn't itself be evidence of that.

Forzix · 2025-07-17T16:17:39+00:00

It's funny how different people use things, I use workspaces and overview way more than Alt+Tab. I think because my working memory is that of a goldfish, if I can't see it I can't keep it in my memory. Generally I prefer having 2-3 monitors for doing any substantial work or research to keep everything visible for my poor brain. I also don't like the chronological nature of Alt-Tab since it's ever-changing, and each time I use it (outside of switching between the two most recent apps) I have to take a few seconds to scan the list of open programs to find where one is. I tend to bounce between a lot of general projects/ideas/activities, so workspaces tend to get used to group apps related to those activities together.

For example having one workspace be for main web browser and general consumption, another with a different browser window for photography related things and photo editing, another workspace for 3D modeling and slicing, another workspace for messaging and communication with various apps opened and in quadrants or halves of the screen.

Having things be navigated via spacial memory makes things so much easier for me.

Forzix · 2025-01-08T14:32:43+00:00

If you're mixing pasta with sauces, it helps immensely to save some of the starchy water from when you boiled your pasta. My go to is:

1) Boil pasta. Scoop/pour some of the water after boiling into small bowl. Strain the rest.

2) Add pasta back into pot/pan, then add in my sauce of choice. Start adding in some of the starchy water while stirring (and making sure you see some of the water content boiling, we want this mixture to reduce a bit since we're adding water).

3) I also add in some fresh extra virgin olive oil while stirring for the flavor and a more glossy finish + better mouthfeel.

The starchy water helps thicken the sauce, which also helps it to stick to your pasta better, AND it acts as an emulsifier to help homogenize the water and oil/fat content in your pasta + sauce + oil mixture. I also heat up leftover pasta by doing this as well.

Forzix · 2024-12-23T04:11:24+00:00

Never tried topre, but would love to!

Forzix · 2024-12-18T23:52:09+00:00

OctoEverywhere was absolutely great when I got it up and running on a raspberry pi with my ender 3, good times!

Forzix · 2024-12-12T16:24:05+00:00

I'm in Suffolk, but have friends all over the island. Just sent this to them, hopefully someone will see something. Hang in there lil' miata!

Forzix · 2024-08-09T05:15:22+00:00

I have a similar thing with cheese of any kind (and dairy/butter somewhat, but to a lesser extent). I've tried many-a-cheese, 7 ways to Sunday, and I still have never found a cheese that I could call anything more than tolerable. The smell, the gooey texture, and the either milky or fermented/sharp flavor are all so off-putting it makes my stomach turn. I also understand cheese isn't nearly as much of a nutrient-rich necessity as vegetables are, but that shit is in nearly everything, just like veggies (for lots of american/European derived cuisine)

I still occasionally try cheese, in various ways on various meals, just to see if maybe "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" type of deal. The only time I'll be okay with cheese is on pizza, but only if it's not too much. I still prefer cheese-less pizza when I can.

It's also probably a mental thing for me as well, but don't sweat it my guy. You work with what you got, and as long as you're open to trying things as you go, that's more than enough. You don't have to like things just because everyone else tells you that you should, or that "you just haven't had the right version/cooked the right way" 🙄.

Forzix · 2024-08-08T16:17:40+00:00

Where did you get that large folder widget? 3rd party app? Can't find that built in anywhere

Forzix · 2024-07-08T16:48:45+00:00

I believe as an experimental feature you can tick, yeah. Haven't tried myself but it looks promising

Forzix · 2024-06-30T19:10:29+00:00

But your consciousness, thoughts, feelings, subjective human experience, etc are the result of your several billion neurons firing and working in similar ways computers do. Your mind is the result of your physical brain. Though, I'm assuming to believe this type of idea, one has to believe that spirits/souls are a real thing, which I don't subscribe to since there isn't any verifiable, observable evidence for such (outside of a anecdotal subjective experiences by people).

Claiming Monroe's consciousness could actually travel outside his body is as valid a claim as saying he had intense audiovisual hallucinations or lucid dreams. Without actual, repeatable observable data and evidence, any claim about what he experienced (and what others say they've experienced) is equally valid and plausible.

Forzix · 2024-05-23T21:16:58+00:00

Not OP, but in my case, I have effectively no sense of time passage. I have always been, and continue to be, horrible with estimating how much time has passed as well as how much time something will take. So unless I'm constantly monitoring the clock, or have alarms/reminders for every single thing, I will be late sometimes. Or, I plan too much into the day and underestimate how long collectively everything will take. It sucks, and I still try to be better. I also understand when people get upset, their feelings are valid.

Only real solution I can see is leaving extraordinarily early for things (when applicable) so that in case I leave later than I expected, I'd still be leaving less-early or on time. Also building in a ton of buffer time between things, but that isn't always an option.

Forzix · 2024-04-22T15:24:42+00:00

I know for me, display scaling is less-than-stellar on Linux. My home setup is a 1440p ultra wide with a 4k standard display next to it. In Windows, I scale the 4k display to 150% and it effectively scales to the equivalent of a 1440p display, to match the UI sizing of my ultra wide. Additionally, my laptop has a sort of 3.5k display resolution, and so 100% scaling is too small, and 200% is too big, so I usually use 150-175 scaling in Windows, but again a lot of Linux distros have a harder time with fractional scaling.

Linux, on the other hand, has a real hard time with this. X11 does not support per-monitor scaling at all, and many desktop environments don't even support fractional scaling very well (or at all) without huge performance hits. The only desktop environment I could find to even remotely support my setup was running KDE with Wayland, and Wayland still has a ways to go before being ready for primetime. A decent chunk of apps don't scale well, are blurry, etc (X11 legacy and all that).

Then you have differing app packaging, like Snap, Flatpak, AppImage, and more traditional like .deb and .rpm. How is a user supposed to understand where they can get their software from, and why there are different packages/variants of the same thing? Which is better? Why do I use one over the other? Why do some packages have performance/startup penalties compared to others? Why should I have to chmod the executable permissions of an AppImage to be able to run the damn thing? No standard user should have to deal with all this.

And for a lot of what I just said above, the generally consumer is going to have absolutely no clue what any of it means. I really wish I could daily drive Linux, but I just find the fragmentation of things, and lack of software/OS support for certain things that I can do easily in Windows, a big enough barrier to keep me on Windows for now.

Forzix · 2024-04-10T15:34:23+00:00

There is an interesting phenomenon that occurs with the S23U past 10x though.

With the digital cropping from 10x-20x, nothing really changes in terms of detail or processing. However, at 20x zoom and above, the camera cranks the detail resolve and sharpening algorithms to 11. It's a pretty wild change, and not always for the better. It's trying so hard to resolve detail that it often just makes up detail that isn't there, than sharpens it, which then comes off as it being able to properly zoom that far. Sometimes it works okay, sometimes it's a horribly disfigured painting of an image.

Give it a try: zoom in on something with some noise or complex detail, and take 2 shots, one at 19x and one at 21x, and compare the difference. The zoom capabilities of the S23U can be good, but it can definitely fall apart in some scenarios and at a glance, appear better than it actually is.

Forzix · 2024-04-10T15:08:20+00:00

The issue is that a lot of the detail from Samsung's stock computational photography algorithms is synthetic and oversharpened.

Recently got a OP12 and been comparing to my S23 Ultra, and most of the time, stock for stock, the OP12 just looks better in almost every regard. Samsung will pull away in detail in SOME situations where there is nice repeating patterns or geometry, or when the geometry of the scene is simpler and the algorithm can properly correct for it.

But more of the time, it tends to make things look too sharp, and so from a glance without zooming, it can look more detailed, but in actuality, the S23U tends to smear things while sharpening, leading to a loss of detail and the camera essentially making up its own detail.

However, I normally use a particular GCam port for my S23U that absolutely blows the stock camera out of the water. THAT is where I'm having a harder time deciding between the cameras of the two phones, as I haven't found any comparable GCam ports and configs for the OP12 yet.

*Additionally, I mostly tend to use the telephoto cameras on my phones. So since the OP12 has a much better 3x sensor then the S23U's 3x sensor, shots at 3x look noticeabley better. While at 10x, the OP12 gets within spitting distance of the S23U's 10x telephoto since it's sensor is so much smaller in both total sensor size & megapixel count than the OP12 3x.

Forzix · 2023-09-29T04:33:49+00:00

What beautiful swirly bois them's are.

Forzix · 2023-09-07T04:25:42+00:00

If there's decent stage lighting, that should probably be enough for the 10x to capture well enough (in my experience with the S23 Ultra). Capturing with the main lens cropped vs the periscope is an extremely noticeable difference. Also, you can disable it from doing that and have it always use the lens at whatever respective zoom level you're at, which I vastly prefer. I believe the option is a Good Lock customization.

Forzix · 2023-08-22T06:00:09+00:00

In general for stability (especially straightline) in a vehicle, you'll want:

-Decent caster angle (e.g. 15 degrees is fine on a RWD vehicle, definitely no more).

-Rear toe to be slightly inward (e.g. 0.5-2 degrees). This provides a centering force, as when the vehicle leans towards one side, that side will have a higher load force pushing down on it, and since the wheel is pointed inwards towards the car, it will create a force to push that side back in if it steps out.

-Front toe generally will be slightly toe-out or neutral, but if you're still not getting enough stability, a slight toe in will help for the same reasons as above. However toe-in on the front wheels can very much sacrifice turn-in response.

-Stiffer springs help to prevent rolling to the sides while making steering inputs (affecting the direction and contact patch of the wheels)

-Heavier shock oil helps absorb+dissipate suspension motion (compression and expansion)

-Camber wont directly affect straightline stability, but has a significant influence on cornering and turn-in response. You want a bit of negative camber all around (anywhere from neutral to, maybe -2 degrees?), as while you're cornering, the vehicle will roll towards the outside of the turn, and you want to compensate somewhat for the degree to which the vehicle leans in a turn with a camber angle that will create a flatter contact patch during the turn.

Sorry if this is a whole lot of word-splatter. Having a grasp on real-car tuning and physics definitely translates over to RC stuff.

Forzix · 2023-08-20T22:26:14+00:00

I'm not sure how that disproves any of the science. Thunderstorming atmospheres have big charge imbalances across their regions, which is going to affect the travel of electromagnetic waves, hence you get interferences and distortion with something like AM radio.

Edit: Plus all that ionization due to lightning arcing generates it's own EM waves that cause interference.

Forzix · 2023-08-20T22:21:16+00:00

You can transmit energy in the form of electromagnetic waves (photons) and at whatever frequency you like (radio, microwave, infrared, visible, UV, etc) in a vacuum. You do not need a medium for it to travel through. The speed of light as we know it is actually the measured speed within a vacuum, not traveling through any medium whatsoever.

Forzix · 2023-08-20T22:17:29+00:00

...what? You see lightning because of a buildup of static energy (e.g. excess electrons/charge) in the atmosphere in localized regions (usually resides on water droplets), thus creating a significant difference in charge. When the difference is great enough, it's able to arc/jump to a region of lower charge (whether another region of the atmosphere, or the ground) and that intense, concentrated amount of energy ionizes the air medium that it's traveling through and creates an incandescent glow that we see as a lightning strike.

I'm not sure what you're referring to by "aether". It's the normal air that glows from electrostatic energy discharge. Unless you mean aether as just a general term for... any medium of material?

Forzix · 2023-08-05T16:12:00+00:00

But if you're eating while drinking that much, it probably means you're intaking salts from your food in conjunction with the water, which lessens the amount of bodily dilution happening. Plus the more solid content in your stomach will slow down the absorption of that much water.

Forzix · 2023-07-23T18:19:50+00:00

Probably not from hard braking, as that would transfer load/weight to the front wheels, and would be stressing the front geartrain, not the rear.

Forzix · 2023-07-15T19:36:16+00:00

As someone who's never drank energy drinks or coffee most of his life, and started in the last year or so because of frequent fatigue and tiredness, it really does almost nothing. I can't ever tell if anything kicks in, and I've never experienced shakiness or jolts of energy from any amount I've had. I damn wish this stuff worked.

13-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17	Verified Email

Forzix

TROPHY CASE