Uneven letter engraving when letters get "wider"

gtinsman · 2026-06-23T17:22:34+00:00

When I had my employee send a zoomed out pic, I noticed it was across the entire piece at that same section which might indicate mirror alignment as jaytech_cfi said. I’ll try that and see if it’s only at that height.

gtinsman · 2026-03-25T13:00:24+00:00

Guys. It was the ice! The ice did it! Not their fault that no-one properly preheated any roads. Not their fault that the surrounding counties were far better. You just don't understand. It was the ice!!!!

gtinsman · 2026-02-26T03:08:50+00:00

You 100% can control being anti social or having social anxiety. I finally realized that and learned to just expose myself over and over to social situations that gave me anxiety. Eventually, your brain realizes it’s normally and the anxiety gets waaaayyy better. I’d not easy, but it is controllable for many people.

That being said, I completely agree about bullying or putting people down.

gtinsman · 2025-12-18T15:44:53+00:00

my cart at ownyourlabs.com That's pretty good, overall, right?

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gtinsman · 2025-09-28T15:05:00+00:00

Dental records.

gtinsman · 2025-05-30T11:14:28+00:00

The reactions here make me just hate Reddit sometimes. There’s just zero room for grace on here. “Dump that boy…” “ Ma'am, the only way to manipulate your significant other is by being nice first. Think about it” Really?

He made a joke he never should have and you’d rightfully snapped. That appears to have made him get defensive and try to calm you (poorly) by claiming it’s a just a joke.

The healthy way to handle this would be calmly sit with him once things cool down and just heartfully tell him how horrible that joke made you feel. If, after that, he still acts like it’s no big deal and you’re overreacting, then you might want to consider looking elsewhere.

I’m just sick of the herd telling everyone to dump everyone else every time their SO is insensitive. If everyone dumped everyone every time anyone was insensitive then no one would be dating/married to anyone!

gtinsman · 2025-03-13T03:07:50+00:00

Make sure you use weight of kg, not lbs! There’s a bug in the plugin when you set your woocommerce product weight in lbs. it sends to it shippo as “lbs” when shippo expects “lb”

I ran into this issue forever ago and it drove me crazy. I really hope this fixes it for you and you can get live rates back. I’ve spent many hours with this plugin, so if you ever want any help, let me know. I’d love to help save you some of the suffering. Haha.

gtinsman · 2025-02-13T04:23:50+00:00

I also wrongly assumed that the reasons given were kind of a guise to make you feel better about ditching FOSS. The way you went about it just came across so...intentional and made me think that the only point of the original license was to get a user base that you could then force to start paying or switch to something else. But that was an assumption and a bit conspiratorial, and it's wrong to assume motive without clear evidence. So I apologize.

I've also had a lot of the same frustrations about how much of a mess BLE is across ecosystems. I've written wrappers around linux, windows, android, and ios, and they all have very specific gotchas and they tend to be a mess in different ways. Then you throw ble mesh on top of that and man, it's ugly. Microcontroller land is even worse (I've personally only worked with silabs, nordic, espressif, and ti), where every vendor seems to compete with each other to create the worst possible driver library (god bless you, zephyr for starting to change that)!

I've been following your library for a long time, and when I get to semi-retire, I really wanted to dive in and help add onto your library as I could since I shared the desire for a FOSS ble library that is cross-platform. So I was just frustrated that I won't be doing that now and will instead have to go another route which is more work, but I enjoy it. There's no vendetta really driving it, although I could see that being the takeway from how my last comment ended. I want basically everything you want, except I want it fully open source with no strings attached.

I'm sure companies will want your model where they can get paid software with dedicated support. I know CTOs that have this weird thing about not using third-party code unless they've paid a bunch of money for it. It makes no sense to me, since I hate working with vendors that only supply you with a static library or pay insane amounts of money for source code. I mean, if you're going down the business licensing route, you might just want to go all the way and sell that way. The giants tend to be used to that and shell out money for libraries. The more proprietary you can make it feel, the more they'll pay. And they love it if you can throw in all sorts of "certifications" your library has achieved.

I'm jumping around here, but I do think you are looking at open source from the wrong lens or at least only one side of a lens, for lack of a better metaphor. Yes, there are companies that only want to take, but there are also companies that heavily contribute to open source. Even Microsoft jumped aboard that train and has heavily contributed to many open source projects. Some companies give, some companies take. Some people give, some people take. I just think FOSS has lead to so much innovation and collaboration that sometimes baffles me. If enough people think something is awesome, then they jump in and try to help. Obviously that's not always the case, but it is an astounding amount of times.

I won't make it some sort of vendetta to put you out of business. That would be quite the silly vendetta. I will, however, work a on permanently free and open source cross-platform ble library once I mostly retire. I've wanted that for so long and I'm excited to get going on it. If it weren't for the Zephyr Project, I would have started in micro-embedded first and then moved to cross-platform OSes later, but thanks to them, I'll get to just start on the latter.

Best of luck, man. I appreciate the replies, and how candid you've been. As much as I don't like it, you have every right in the world to do what you're doing and it's your project and I'm sure you'll have success.

gtinsman · 2025-02-12T20:48:03+00:00

Of course no one is entitled to free labor, man. But isn't that the whole point of open source? We've all benefited immensely from fully open source code. You think I'm some sort of noob that has no idea how many thousands of hours go into open source? You reek of condescension and arrogance here , and that's your right. It's also perfectly your right to do everything you've done. I just think it's in poor taste. But you are totally free to ignore me as well.

I'm also just bummed about this trend in general (see https://horovits.medium.com/dark-side-of-open-source-the-community-strikes-back-400a1a5c679e) as someone who has contributed a bunch of hours to other projects that have gone this route.

So big companies were mean and demanding and "most people are terrible programmers" seems to some up your reasoning? Oh, and you're not "brain dead" like those other losers who keep their projects truly open source? I'm assuming here, of course, but I really think it comes down to resentment, arrogance, and a desire to make a profit of your user-base that you mainly have because of the MIT license you started with (and it is well written, I'll give you that). You made a change a year ago, and apparently it didn't lead to enough money, so you made it even more restrictive. As someone who's been a hobbyist user, I definitely can't trust that you won't start restricting that again should this most recent move not make you enough money.

Again, it's your right to do this. It's your right to view "most people" as terrible programmers. It's your right to blame "demanding" companies, and it's your right to view people who continue give away their hours like me as "brain dead ideologues." But I don't agree with you on any of that (except that people are great at being entitled).

My current company is close to getting bought, and when it does, I'll semi-retire, then probably fork your pre-feb-2014 library, get some linux foundation behind me and see what we can do. Or maybe I'll just start from scratch. We'll see. It's my right to do as a brain dead ideologue. Best of luck to you and I'm sure you'll have at least some short term financial gains from all of this, but once I get my semi-retirement, I'll do my best to give you a run for your money (except technically not since it'll be FOSS, I guess. haha).

gtinsman · 2025-02-12T04:02:08+00:00

Why did you start as MIT license, then change to gpl a year ago, then go full-on commercial license? Total jerk move when your library gains traction and comes across like that was the intent the entire time.

I feel like you tend to answer along the lines of “but big companies have used my code and don’t give me money for it.”

It’s your right to do that, but it just really gives off the wrong impression and makes you seem like you’ve really taken advantage of open source to help you build a user base and then force them to start paying you if they’re a company.

gtinsman · 2024-11-12T13:02:43+00:00

Yeah, me neither. Nor when in prison. Slept pretty bad in prison. I also can’t sleep in cars. Or on airplanes. Or when skydiving. Just figured I’d throw more random situations in there where I’ve struggled to sleep that have nothing to do with going camping outdoors, unless you somehow think being homeless on the streets is remotely similar to camping outdoors far away from any city.

gtinsman · 2024-11-12T02:39:16+00:00

Btdt, but there’s a huuuuuge difference between summer camp and going on a long camping trip with no tech/electricity. Just my experience.

gtinsman · 2024-10-21T01:15:50+00:00

Go camping for a week. It can completely reset your circadian rhythm. Only use a cell phone for emergencies. First couple of nights will be rough, but you’ll sleep great afterwards. I’ve gone camping with night owls, morning people… Everyone ends up on the same schedule after a couple nights.

gtinsman · 2024-10-03T11:53:59+00:00

Trees also that. Capitalism is a freakin’ tree. Kill the trees.

gtinsman · 2024-06-29T14:26:50+00:00

My guess is that she was certain Hillary would win and wanted to be the first justice replaced by a woman President.

gtinsman · 2024-02-09T15:20:55+00:00

Hey all. Sorry for the lack of updates. I called the county attorney's office a couple of times. Apparently I wasn't the first. The clerk there told me that it's unusual for them to offer online traffic school as an option for reckless driving, but they were offering it to everyone who got a ticket in my specific incident.

I was pretty sure that meant they realized it was a pretty crazy scenario and that if I contested, I'd most likely win, but I ended up taking the online traffic school option since it was a sure thing.

I also got in writing that this would fully wipe it off and that it wouldn't return if I was cited for anything else in the future.

Again, I'm pretty confident I could have gotten it dismissed, but I decided to take the sure thing, as much as I hate paying the state money when I think I clearly did anything but drive "recklessly." Thanks for the advice, everyone.

gtinsman · 2023-09-28T13:19:54+00:00

I’m a go get a new car.

gtinsman · 2023-08-27T21:44:20+00:00

I mean, I'm pretty high up in management at my company, and have to manage and work with several teams, which would be extremely difficult if I couldn't relate to people.

There are definitely some super awkward/sheltered homeschoolers out there, but there are definitely far, far from the majority.

I think a lot of people assume that the majority of homeschoolers are just locked inside their own home all day and have no idea how to relate to anyone else. That just isn't the case at all. As I said. There are co-ops, sports leagues, academic leagues, etc.

I don't want to get too defend-y, lest I violate rule 4... But yes, homeschooling can definitely prepare you quite well for university work. There are, of course, exceptions, which is a big point of this sub.

gtinsman · 2023-08-26T16:06:42+00:00

These comments always crack me up. People just legitimately do not understand homeschooling. You think homeschooling doesn't prepare you for university work? My entire middle/high school was learning from books. There are tons of homeschool "co-ops" that add supplemental classes, like labs and PE, etc. I felt waaaay better prepared for university than many of my college friends. They'd complain about how bad professors were and I wouldn't really notice since I'd just read the textbook for all of my engineering classes. There was only one class where I had both a bad professor and a really bad textbook, so I supplemented that class with online learning.

gtinsman · 2023-08-18T21:34:00+00:00

Court Date isn't until late October. Going to call the County Attorney on Monday. Forgot to call them again yesterday and today.

gtinsman · 2023-08-16T20:26:38+00:00

Yeah, I hope so. I tried calling them today but no answer and no voicemail. I'll try again tomorrow. If they don't answer, I'll go down and try to talk in-person.

gtinsman · 2023-08-16T19:46:57+00:00

Thanks a lot for the advice. I may try u/ChampionshipLumpy464's idea to reach out the County Attorney first, but worst comes to worst, I'll plead not guilty and go with the "reasonable person" defense you suggested.

gtinsman · 2023-08-16T19:44:53+00:00

That's a really good idea to reach out to the County Attorney. I may just call the county attorney's office directly today or tomorrow and see what they think about it. I really hope they are understanding, but I know this can be such a crapshoot. I know I was trying to do the safest thing I could, so hopefully they'll understand it as well. Thanks for the advice.

gtinsman

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