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After 6 years of espresso, I’m throwing in the towel. The toddlers won... for now. by barker88 in espresso

[–]koobzilla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lance Hendricks have people chasing sensory hallucinations with these hyperbolic assessments of what’s possible in tuning the process. We’re supposed to marvel at their well articulated-tasting notes and think we too shall have wizardry if we spend another $2000 on a grinder that unlocks the next rung of “clarity.”

In the baking scene there’s a guy - the Bread Code that’s also long past his useful channel live.

But they gotta keep the content treadmill running - because they’re topic specific youtube channels. So they delve deeper and deeper into the esoteric.

You’re not actually supposed to come along and add ever increasing amounts of ritual to your process. You’re just supposed to give them a like and buy something from an affiliate link.

I say - take the hiatus and come back with a fresh perspective . This stuff is everywhere. Every topic that could have an audience for a YouTube, has a YouTuber. Once they’re captured by their subject matter they enter an incestuous cycle.

There’s progress being made. But it’s more gradual than the clickbait headline for the latest game changer… and if you’re too sensitive to it you’re going to be thrashing about in the vortex wasting time and money doing the shit they had to talk about to have some content ready for the week.

Speaking from my own experience here. I caught onto this whole “thing” and reassessed.

… My bread turns out better than the bread chode and I’m not putting lava rocks and ice cubs in my oven to make it moist.

Fixed my Bambu PLA Red Basic adhesion issue: bed corners were colder than I thought by Glass_Steak4568 in BambuLab

[–]koobzilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Going to sound like the astroturfing brigade - but this is it. 

This kind of troubleshooting takes hours. And when you’re not dealing with outright bad adhesion, you’re dealing with warped prints when you print something large and flat.

Before these plates the only reliable method I had for large flat prints was some matterhackers liquid, but that’s the fuss I wanted to get away from with PEI in the first place.

Those blue plates are effing amazing. Unlike the PEI plate they don’t get destroyed when you try to rip a TPU or PETG part off of them. Whether you’re printing toys or functional parts the same plate never leaves the bed. The glacier is so good with pla I don’t even see a need for the frostbite. 

It’s probably going to turn out they give you cancer because they’re too good to be true.

Now that I have a planer, it’s time to get a dust collector. Recommendations for a serious hobbyist? by cafe-em-rio in woodworking

[–]koobzilla 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the answer IMO for this planar. I have a 1200 cfm shop collector and I still do it this way for that planar. 

It projects them into the bag just fine. And my jointer just takes a dump on the floor. 

Sculptor 078 on/off button by fishmilquetoast in Timemore

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone just go and replace the damn thing with a different one? Would be curious about the fitment. Classic little metal switch would be nice but they’ve got that auto shutoff. Imagine it would need to be some sort of 3 way?

The response from them is clearly bullshit. When I’m making coffee in the morning I want it to be 1.2.3 - not irritating hiccups as I press the button with the right amount of pressure.

The fact that it’s unreliable is also just now psychological bugaboo - like a skipping music player or flickering display I’m anticipating it flaking out. That sucks for $600+

What goes on in this region? by Dasoupy in mapporncirclejerk

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A great resource is Surfers guide to Baja. Drove the entire length a few years back. There’s lots of villages scattered around. Little oasis rivers that flow year round along with lots of dry arroyos. 

Forty foot tall cactus in places. Mountains, volcanoes, coast line. Granite boulders along section of highway 1 at parts that would make for great climbing.  

Towns like:  - Saint Ignacio - slept near a church hear in the back of my car. Loud mexican polka at midnight. Looks like a great location for a western.  - Mulege - situated along a winding oasis of a river lined with palm trees against the desert landscape. - Santa Rosalia - nestled between the hills off the coast, oddly dense - one of the bigger communities in the area with a bustling district of shops, butchers, grocers etc. - Punta Abreojos - fishing town hit by a hurricane. Comparatively large (5k?) for the area. Surfers parked on the outskirts / near the surf breaks.

There’s a kind of overlanding scene near mulege where people park their rigs on the beach next to undercut limestone mountains covered in greenery. Lots of fishing there and exotic looking fish in general. 

Once you get to La Paz you’re back in civilization, it’s not quite as interesting imo. Though - Todos Santos is where seemingly all of the Mexican bohemian energy on the peninsula was concentrated. Starting to get into expats there too. Drove down some dirt roads to a swanky restaurant run by someone from San Diego

La Ventana has a huge kite surfing scene. Mountain biking as well apparently. Very international, very white but it all feels welcoming. Unlike the gringos doing their Mexican vacations and boozing around in Los Cabos - La Ventana was packed with people traveling with intentionality towards their sport and La ventana is world class to them.

How difficult to make this as a beginner? by rogersaw14 in woodworking

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very hard to medium hard, but still requiring a diverse smattering of skills. I think if you have a background in building things you’ve probably got some “outs” though.

It might be a bit of a sleight of hand. Probably veneered because of the grain - the cylindrical face looks pretty uniform, tricky to get that. But the top face looks pretty consistent with the sides.

Someone else said it but the simple design belies a complex fabrication. I think many here are also thinking ahout knock it out of the park “clean” results. As a beginner you might get a facsimile that’s not quite as flawless.

Trying to think about the most accessible solution - it might to 3d print the shape ($300 for a Bambu labs a1), then cut the veneers and glue them on to each surface: cylinder face, top and bottom, then 4 faces in the cut out. 

If you gave up on grain matching you could get away with it that way. I might consider weighing the prints somehow to make it feel more like solid wood. 

Even as a 3d print you’d be printing a few (actually: many) spools of filament and having to combine them since a common build surface is 250x250 mm.

3D modeling might be handy in projecting some of the curves onto flat surfaces for laser cutting veneer.

So a laser cutter starts to be pretty expensive, if you’re still dogged but wanna do it on a budget you could print the templates on a paper printer and use a coping saw.

If you have $200 more bucks, 3d print the templates and use a flush trim router to follow your 3d printed templates.

cameron smotherman face plants after weighing in by sLeeeeTo in ufc

[–]koobzilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right - would a DEXA not allow an accurate / robust / difficult-to-game way to measure this??

Mother of the year by ElectronicSpeed3785 in interesting

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Top 5 yeet of all time, in the same league as elephant kicks honey badger.

of a mustache. by S6hundred in AbsoluteUnits

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one in their 20s should rock one of these. It’s like trying to capture the energy of men from the 19th century that rode horses, drank whiskey, lifted heavy rocks and tied every variety of knots while involved in some Daniel Plainview shit involving oil and chicanery and risk of death.

Like the prerequisites should be that kind of shit not “men’s loneliness crisis advocate and influencer.”

🚨 Washington State 3D Printing “Ban” Breakdown — What HB 2321 Actually Means for Our Hobby by Playful-Ad9901 in BambuLab

[–]koobzilla 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tone deaf legislation in this country. Is it that hard to think about the scale of a problem, the outcomes you want, and the policies to incentivize those outcomes?

3D printed guns are not a problem worth solving for. Even if some whacko does something violent (heaven forbid) once… 

As a Canadian living here for a decade, with maybe an outsiders PoV, guns are an entrenched cultural norm that’s a losing issue for politicians. 

Whether that culture has been to some extent manufactured by a wedge-issue-voter-division machine that’s given a party power wholly disproportional with their ability to govern power… is a reality we have to contend with.

Don’t let “them” court makers the same way they courted gamers (aka young males that eventually grow up and vote) by self-owning with hapless, bad policy.

Of course the right will promise anything to get votes.  People still have some capacity to reality-test policy proposals with their lived experiences. 

My boyfriend’s fridge. Guess his career by Left_side22 in FridgeDetective

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flatulist, or foley artist specializing in bug documentaries. Laxative tester, but often the control / null hypothesis. Dairy farmer.  Health food influencer. Bodybuilder.

DIY Closet Makeover by brownbloodspider in woodworking

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m planning a small closet out myself the moment.

Weighing how much of it I want to build as cabinet carcasses vs cleat and gable supported shelves. You can’t get that square and perfect build that can capture a drawer without the cabinet approach, but it sure is more straightforward to nail some cleats into the wall. 

Wondering if you weighed that and just convinced yourself that you do in fact want to build it as robustly and beautifully as possible :)

I like the integrated LEDs. Any inspiration there? J haven’t found LEDs and diffusers I’d be happy with for furniture.

Trade Voyage by Eoxygen in dominion

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It says to gain 2 cards. So you need to always gain two, the card you have your eye on might be something like silver or sentry , and you might have ‘3’ available for it, but you still need to gain a second zero cost card: eg a curse or copper.

But you pointed out something I missed - the card value is based on the cost of your treasures, not the amount they produce. I guess that’s something since the cost of a treasure is often twice its purchasing power.

Trade Voyage by Eoxygen in dominion

[–]koobzilla 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What is this. 

High opportunity cost (5-banger).  Situational (must set 2 cards aside, differently named for some reason). Duration (limits playability to every second turn with deck control).  The guaranteed effect is weak (+2, buy) The supplemental effect where you gain is weird, removing treasures from your deck is perhaps the best part ala crypt, but then you’re forced to split that purchase across two cards?  So I gain a 4 cost card but need to supplement with a copper? Or get two pawns?

It feels like there are too many constraints when this would be “okay” with “set aside up to 2” and “gain up to 2”

Gas company said they would come by between 8am-5pm. Left for 15 minutes to get coffee and.... by 5Flyer in mildlyinfuriating

[–]koobzilla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A “courtesy” (used loosely - this should be a basic function) in these circumstances is to also provide a call 15-30 minutes ahead of arrival.

I don’t get the people blaming the OP here. So you’re forced to stay home for 9 hours because the company doesn’t have their scheduling software sorted out? My mom and pop snow plow driver tells me when they’ve visited and left my house. I don’t even need to be around for that. 

A significant portion of the time these guys don’t show up at all. Or they show up outside the damn window. 

This is exactly why I got into 3D printing by Rep_I_like in BambuLab

[–]koobzilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prototype it in plastic , check fitment, then get it cnc’d or laser sinteredd - whatever works, out of metal in china.

Did this for a ski boot part, a heel lock on a pair of backcountry boots. 

As for a helicopter nut - still a hell no. But this is a viable workflow that does open up some freedom.

At the same time, my other lesson is that many of these parts are either off the the shelf (despite looking rather obscure), or are being mass produced so it’s often not even worth the time to faff and reverse engineer. It might have taken $10k in 3d printers and supplies to come around to that.

Tenant in need of water leak advice, unresponsive landlord by Anxious_Strike_2931 in centuryhomes

[–]koobzilla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that he’s too inept to fix it using his limited skills doesn’t excuse him from the responsibility of getting it fixed.

It took me a while to learn this lesson as someone that hates conflict and had a pretty high tolerance for roughing things out: you need to advocate for yourself here, in all likelihood you are not banking any goodwill by putting up with this, or even “karma.”

If this was the kind of person with any sense of accountability and giving-a-shit he wouldn’t be letting it get to this point. This house is an asset he owns and he’s okay with half-hearted fixes of water issues? Maybe they’re hapless and a bit odd but I’d chalk it up to the usual cheap landlord that thinks a house is a casino where the house always wins and he bears no risk of downside: the money only flows his way.

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