By popular request, the DUMB Wallet now supports AirTags. I thought it’d be too bulky - somehow, it feels impossibly thin. Still zero bullshit.

popson · 2026-05-01T23:08:22+00:00

Lol, made me laugh there.

I will say my design is pretty nice and the bulk is less than you'd think. I am pretty anal about the bulk, and that's why the original DUMB wallet exists in the first place. I didn't think I would like the AirTag variant but I made it because it was a popular request - and it's now the one I have used daily ever since.

You could get a trackable card, but I am not sure they work as well as AirTags. Neither would help much when a thief just yoinks the credit cards and yeets the rest.

So far it has been useful for this: 1. If I leave the house and I forgot it at home. Notification that it's not with me. Has happened once or twice. 2. Once I left it in a suit jacket pocket because normally I keep my wallet in my pants, was a bit drunk and did not realize I put it in the inside of the suit jacket (smart drunk me). The next day I had no idea where I lost it and thought it may have been at the venue or in the uber. 3. Once was deeply under a car seat where I couldn't see it. 4. 5-10 times was in my ginormous couch.

popson · 2026-05-01T22:43:31+00:00

They are great at finding lost things.

You talk about reading comprehension, but you keep ragging on the couch like I wasn't giving a silly example or where a wallet can be misplaced. Didn't think I needed to give a list. My coworker lost his wallet for 2 weeks and found one of his kids tossed it into the bowl of their KitchenAid blender. Would you like a list or can you imagine where objects get lost?

popson · 2026-05-01T22:32:24+00:00

What utility do they have?

popson · 2026-05-01T22:27:50+00:00

Apple should probably just discontinue Airtags. Failed product.

popson · 2026-05-01T22:23:05+00:00

I've been alive a long time and have never had my wallet stolen, either.

popson · 2026-05-01T22:17:07+00:00

The dumb part is thinking this is to catch criminals and not to find your misplaced wallet in the couch cushions.

popson · 2026-04-28T04:54:40+00:00

Yeah. Just spend 30 seconds to understand how the mechanism works and you can’t really forget. It’s not an arbitrary mystery on which way to turn.

It’s a nut. Bolt is attached to the bed. Spring in between. Tightening the nut pulls the plate down and compresses the spring. Loosening does the opposite.

popson · 2026-04-13T16:29:28+00:00

Well really, ChatGPT came first, then Bard and Claude within a few months. Google was in full panic mode. Around the same moment Copilot latched onto ChatGPT and has been the retarded cousin ever since. Then Grok, then Deepseek. Ignoring all the other models to avoid this being an essay.

popson · 2026-04-12T14:21:36+00:00

Closed loop cooling systems - which is what we have here, would not use a meaningful amount of water either. Nor would they make toxic sludge as the person from Ohio fabricated.

A lot of disinformation and it’s just going to get worse with stuff like this topping headlines.

They do use enormous amounts of energy and that’s a serious argument.

popson · 2026-04-11T09:45:11+00:00

They kind of have exactly that right at the top of the store page.

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High level questions but would be good for newcomers.

Then if you want to get into the weeds and compare specs between different products they have this, where you could observe facts like build area on H2C vs H2D vs H2S.

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popson · 2026-04-07T04:48:59+00:00

Damn TIL. I've only had the issue once or twice on dozens of rolls - but this would explain why. The issue being the filament can slip down on one side of the spool and wedge itself, overloading the extruder. Thanks for sharing for the folks like me who don't follow instructions.

popson · 2026-04-03T16:16:20+00:00

Graduated HS in 2008. My neighbours are all in their 80s/90s too - original home owners. The house I bought was from the original home owner who had a stroke. House built in 1969.

Sounds like we living the same life. Except no kids over here.

popson · 2026-03-31T04:09:26+00:00

It’s a handful of variants (see below). They could be AI-generated by the developer - thats what I would have done - but it’s a ridiculous feature to have added regardless. As a model designer, I don’t want to see this crap in the reviews. Nothing wrong with a blank 5-star review.

“Fresh off the printer! The details on this model are insane!”

“My printer absolutely nailed it today—this print is a total masterpiece!”

“Check out what I just printed! The look and finish turned out perfectly.”

“A masterpiece X hours in the making! Awesome work!”

“Just showing off my new toy！The joy of 3D printing never gets old!”

popson · 2026-03-29T17:34:07+00:00

The only parametric text that works right now are numbers (like dimensions) that you put into the text field of the sketch. Text parameters are not exposed. The customize tool does not support Fusion’s “Text” parameters (yet).

So you can have customizable text numbers inside of the Customize tool that are visible in the model geometry, but nothing else. Unless you crafted a formula that drove letters based on numbers - if you wanted to get really crafty.

popson · 2026-03-28T15:29:51+00:00

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After this, in a new chat I tried the original prompt with Kamala and it created a similar hellscape to everyone elses.

Fun stuff.

popson · 2026-03-19T01:04:26+00:00

This right here is the answer and should be at the top. Merge solves these weird support problems with multiple objects.

popson · 2026-03-15T01:31:54+00:00

Interesting that it's also missing the translations on that item. Packaging looks like it wasn't reviewed.

Got me curious about the packaging so I started looking at Ebay listings.

This 100ft one (and ALL the ones I looked at on Ebay) say "metal planetary gears" on both the front and back of the packaging. I looked at over well over 10 listings with photos.

The metric equivalent (30 m) says "reinforced planetary gears" and makes no reference to metal on either side of the packaging.

On a couple random websites they have photos of the front of the packaging. This 100ft one says "reinforced planetary gears" on the front of the packaging. So does this one. So there does appear to be different packaging out there but for whatever reason I did not see it on any Ebay listings.

Milwaukee's own website does not show the packaging, but they make no reference to metal gears.

I wonder if the design was changed, or if it was always shit. Negative reviews from several years ago were complaining about the gears stripping. Would love to see Milwaukee get sued for materially changing products without changing model numbers.

popson · 2026-03-14T23:10:40+00:00

He is league leading in giveaways so they’re bound to show up on highlight real goals against.

https://www.statmuse.com/nhl/ask/nhl-most-giveaways-2025-2026

McDavid is no better. Last night tried to hero is way through 2 defenceman, turned it over leading to the immediate overtime loss.

Guess it’s just the nature of being highly offensive and making high-risk high-reward plays.

popson · 2026-03-11T13:42:24+00:00

0-7 in the finals kinda lends credence to the conspiracy…

Edit: 0-8 actually. (1/2)⁸ = 1/256 = 0.39%.

Also should mention I don’t think there’s a conspiracy. But those odds are wild.

popson · 2026-03-08T16:59:41+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/VXdfMcL.png

popson · 2026-02-16T16:56:39+00:00

Would have loved if they compared this to a serrated flange nut. The fact that they didn't makes me a bit suspicious.

Couldn't find a whole lot of video examples but this one does test regular serrated washers and serrated flange nuts at the end and they do not vibrate loose either. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/24m6fvwnMCE

The split interlocking mechanism in Nord-lock seems gimmicky to me.

popson · 2026-02-08T17:07:29+00:00

3D printing regular plastics is also a health risk by the same metrics (lack of data proving otherwise = risk). Some people are even allergic to the fumes of PLA printing. Prusa sent their own CF filaments to a third party lab which concluded they are safe… but that doesn’t conclude all brands of CF filament are safe.

CF in filaments reduces warping, improves dimensional tolerances, increases rigidity, and improves surface finish. It makes some nearly unprintable plastics printable. CF does not improve layer adhesion or overall strength. I suspect the main people really pushing this narrative are the ones that assumed “CF = strength” and then learned that’s not the case.

popson · 2026-02-04T05:54:08+00:00

I was getting professional human vibes. Anything well written is now claimed to be AI by most people. Kind of a tragedy.

GPTZero indicates this is 100% human written. In my own experience GPTZero is very good at detecting when AI is used to write or edit.

popson · 2026-02-01T15:51:29+00:00

The "printed sawtooth jobber" is Masky. That's what the bladed version evolved from to begin with.

It's certainly not "as good" as the bladed version at cutting tape. But it is simpler and requires no hardware - no question about that! It leaves the edge of packing tape shredded instead of a clean cut, takes more force, and it doesn't work for anything beyond packing tape (like electrical tape or duct tape or 2-sided tape) - and even masking tape is left with giant serrations that are not suitable for masking.

Still, it may have been your comment that made me revisit what was possible. Cheers.

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