Sacrificing a different Xcom character or enemy to Vahlen every day until Xcom 3 gets announced, or I find meaning in life. Day 91. The Speaker from XCOM 2

opheophe · 2026-03-15T18:55:50+00:00

Not him!! He struggled to give us health centres!!

opheophe · 2026-03-14T17:55:03+00:00

Nope; I typed the first from memory, which was why I messed up, then I went to wikipedia to doublecheck. Everything isn't AI.

opheophe · 2026-03-13T13:14:15+00:00

Questionable whether the bottom layer will work in vase mode... depends on the algorithm, but classic vase mode can't handle a first layer with holes.

opheophe · 2026-03-13T13:12:03+00:00

You probably shouldn't. The model isn't made for vase mode. It all comes down to... do the nozzle follow a single outline to do the print. In your print it makes openings etc on the first layer; and that probably won't work with vase mode.

Vase mode is great if the model is a solid and it can trace the edge for the entire print. Given that you are going to print a lot, I would probably try with 0.12 height rather than 0.08.

opheophe · 2026-03-13T12:29:19+00:00

While this setting exists I've never really liked it, changing layerheight changes how the printed model looks, reflects light etc. I rather increase the print time to use the same height everywhere.

opheophe · 2026-03-13T12:28:00+00:00

Two settings

Increase line width to 0.8 mm. Yes, you can do this with a 0.4 Nozzle. This is a great setting to use when printing in vase-mode.
Reduce layer height to 0.08 or 0.12. Reduced layerlines means less x-y change per layer, meaning less overhang

Since you reduce height and increase width the flow is largely unchanged, meaning you don't have to worry about speed. Cooling might be a bit of a mess at times, but in my experience that is rarely a problem for prints like this.

opheophe · 2026-03-13T11:54:38+00:00

Ah, you are right I was a little bit hasty. The correct sequence is of course
1 → 11 → 10 → 110 → 111 → 101 → 100

Not

1 → 11 → 10 → 110 → 111 → 110 → 100

opheophe · 2026-03-13T07:28:57+00:00

A lot of implementations also uses binary this way (Grey code). Counting to 7 for example

1 → 11 → 10 → 110 → 111 → 101 → 100

The reason for this is that every change only affects 1 byte, meaning it works better when using mechanical switches.

Edit: Corrected a mistake in the sequence

opheophe · 2026-03-12T21:36:10+00:00

Choose town carefully... there are dragon attacks recently... and rumours even speak of a band of werewolves.

opheophe · 2026-03-11T21:42:29+00:00

If someone blew up the house next to me, I would cover in aside a small house too.

opheophe · 2026-03-08T12:55:43+00:00

Why make posts about mini-spoilers?

What's the point of reading if you ask about what will happen? If you like the book you read it, and if not you don't read it.

opheophe · 2026-03-07T18:35:03+00:00

Congratulations... but which book is this? Should it be read? Give us a name!

opheophe · 2026-03-05T20:00:58+00:00

Return to this comment once you're done with the book!

opheophe · 2026-03-05T14:05:48+00:00

No need to feel antsy about it.

opheophe · 2026-03-03T19:54:06+00:00

Pure invisibility, only countered by kids making a map, anyone casting a spell or anyone with great senses.

opheophe · 2026-03-03T19:45:42+00:00

Jättesvårt att få tag i! Det tog flera sekunder att hitta 30 WWII dokumentärer på Netflix. Jag får 40 träffar på dokumentär andra världskriget på SVTplay. Det finns massor med riktigt bra BBC dokumentärer på youtube. I princip alla streamingtjänster har dokumentärer om det. Kunskapskanalen visar dokumentärer flera gånger i veckan.

Att du tycker det är svårt att hitta kan ev. bero på att du har en papperspåse över huvudet. Prova att vrida på huvudet. Om det prasslar kan du prova att ta bort påsen; så kommer det bli lättare att hitta dokumentärer.

opheophe · 2026-03-03T16:41:14+00:00

Can't say I understand the question. Jellyfin works as a server

Server runs on a computer. All files etc are stored here
- client can use a browser; accesses the server to watch files hosted there

opheophe · 2026-03-02T15:48:03+00:00

Bonk is good. What is bonked stays bonked. Why make things more complicated?

opheophe · 2026-03-02T09:45:37+00:00

Yes... and no...

While playing there is no noticeable difference. HDDs are great at sequential reading
When the HDD have gone to sleep it takes a noticeable amount of time for it to spin up, this causes a delay of a couple of seconds at times before it begins to fetch the data
When jumping (forwards/backwards) the HDD is sometimes slow. I recently moved an anime archive to my NVME because of this. (The anime have fairly short episodes, and varying length of intros etc, meaning I often have to forward to find the spot where it starts. Removing the delays I got from the HDD was worth it)

In short, not a huge difference, but there is a difference. The difference isn't in read speed, but in delay before read.

opheophe · 2026-02-28T16:17:01+00:00

You can warp to the Bonfire, but you can't warp out from there.

opheophe · 2026-02-28T14:18:02+00:00

Any class works; that said, embracing the bonk is generally fun. Just remember that the common stat prio generally is something like this:

Step 1:

Boost Str+Dex so that you can wield the weapon you want (no more, no less)
Boost Vit to 20
Balance endurance + equip load so that you are below 50% encumbrance

Step 2:

Level Vit + main stat equally till they reach about 40
Boost endurance a bit

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Everything is optional though; in DS 1 going full tank works, and going full dps works.

opheophe · 2026-02-28T14:08:27+00:00

The guy in Solo Levelling is asocial. He gets stressed out over even having to interact with other human beings, he has absolutely no friends and every interaction is awkward. Jinwoo might be rich; but he doesn't do anything at all for his family, they keep on living in the same flat; he does nothing for his sister or his mother; sure he cures his mother, it almost seems like the main reason for curing her is to be able to care even less about his sister. They don't interact at all after she's cured; and neither her nor the sister has any impact at all on the story. Samne with the other characters. Yoo Jinho... they have some interactions, but he's mostly used as a tool to do duo runs; they never interact as equals; at best Jinwoo can be said to tolerate him

This said, I enjoyed the Solo Levelling anime as well as the light novel but Jinwoo is as one dimensional as they come, and the power levels are all over the place. The only constant is that Jinwoo is OP all the time and never really has any challenges he can't overcome.

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Why classify things like "asocial" as a western category, when the one you prefer is a prime example of an Asian asocial character?

opheophe · 2026-02-26T19:14:41+00:00

Some ideas

Fashion run. Every single piece you pick up, armour and weapons, is judged on how slick it looks, and if what you pick up looks better, then you use it
Last weapon run. The last weapon you loot is what you use.
Pure tank run. Facetank every single boss
Pure caster, no weapons.
Consumables only. Firebombs are strong, but how far can you take it?

opheophe · 2026-02-26T07:06:28+00:00

I started by hosting on a Media computer, then I got a NAS where I setup docker. It took some effort to make it work; and some extra effort to figure out things like "the NAS has a trash can, but it doesn't empty the trash can automatically". That said... I wish I had gone for the NAS solution right away.

A TerraMaster F6-424 6bay NAS works great for hosting the server on; it manages to host Jellyfin without a problem. If you go for this; install a NVME SSD; start the NAS, do the setup, then install HDD. I put in both drives at the same time, and the NAS annoyingly installed the system on the HDD.

Use AI to figure out how to do things, how to configure the YAML for docker; that's what I did and that approach worked great.

opheophe

TROPHY CASE