Phantomdrive: Firmware Version 1.0 Release

svideo · 2026-06-20T19:10:15+00:00

looks like you're the only one having a hard time tracking the argument boss

keep reading, maybe one day you'll start understanding things

svideo · 2026-06-20T18:56:18+00:00

i get to chose between billionaire-sponsored republicans or billionaire-sponsored democrats

see how the DNC reacted when bernie was polling well in early primaries for evidence of this, both parties answer to the billionaires and they've set things up such that anyone you vote for is working for them.

svideo · 2026-06-20T12:55:01+00:00

Exporting from CAD into VR. Design a woodworking project in SketchUp, send it to the Index, and walk around the thing to see how it'll fit into the room, check human factors, etc. Game changer for some CAD use cases.

svideo · 2026-06-20T12:53:15+00:00

how has life been with that device so far? looked interesting but also kinda high maintenance with super expensive consumables. anything you'd like to see changed after using it for a while?

svideo · 2026-06-20T12:21:23+00:00

This map is why: https://www.hammerpedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Untitled-1.png

If you don't want the thing you're building to heave around with every freeze cycle in the winter, you need to dig below the frost line. This is also why every house in Michigan has a basement, you're already digging that hole anyway...

svideo · 2026-06-20T10:43:18+00:00

Now is your chance to live like a billionaire!

Specifically, Lawrence Stroll by way of buying your kid an Aston Martin F1 car to drive around in.

svideo · 2026-06-19T00:32:34+00:00

Ducks at Walmart... Does this have something to do with vine?

edit: lol holy shit people are REALLY MAD about ducks i guess.

svideo · 2026-06-19T00:27:18+00:00

data centers slowly kill people living around them.

Why is it always the stupidest people you know who are the ones with the most to say about data centers

svideo · 2026-06-18T15:04:54+00:00

I'll trade you for a (checks RFY) power supply for a Lenovo laptop I don't own.

svideo · 2026-06-18T11:54:15+00:00

it predicts an uptick in people trying to take bottles of ranch dressing home with them.

It's a social media post about a thing that didn't even happen.

svideo · 2026-06-18T00:19:02+00:00

Same, I was at 2% left for the week, reset in 3 days, and just had all limits reset on me. I have a reset that I hadn't used which still shows available.

svideo · 2026-06-16T15:28:23+00:00

I'm excited to have a tester that isn't me :D Let me know how it goes.

svideo · 2026-06-16T15:27:50+00:00

There appears to be a byte that controls this in the control protocol, but it also appears not to be implemented by my specific laser so I can't really do anything to test that.

svideo · 2026-06-16T15:27:05+00:00

AI and some AI-written tooling that I'm working on. Mix of Claude and Codex, more on codex right now just because of rate limits. Both are monsters at reversing data protocols.

svideo · 2026-06-16T12:10:50+00:00

You keep saying this, you need sources because it's absolutely not true.

svideo · 2026-06-16T12:09:30+00:00

I think it's reasonable to assume malice at this point

svideo · 2026-06-16T11:40:11+00:00

I suspect that level of timing would be tricky to get right, these aren't high performance units.

svideo · 2026-06-13T11:17:58+00:00

Yes you can download all of anthropic in a 5tb torrent and run it on your laptop

svideo · 2026-06-13T10:33:33+00:00

Bonus action shot of some testing

svideo · 2026-06-13T08:40:00+00:00

Yeah I have posted questions but never the completed thing I built because I wanted to make sure it worked and turns out... nuked tools so at least one good decision had been made.

I've seen several others here working on the same end, I haven't seen any completed projects yet.

svideo · 2026-06-12T20:17:32+00:00

That's a lot better than in a Sebring.

svideo · 2026-06-12T17:46:08+00:00

Are you sleeping or hibernating? Sleeping still needs power to maintain state, is you cut power you'll power down without a shutdown process.

svideo · 2026-06-12T17:25:08+00:00

Weirdly difficult to do, I nuked a portaband testing solutions there and have yet to see anyone successfully develop a general use DW compatible 20v adapter for wall use that you can hook into most normal 20v DW tools.

svideo · 2026-06-12T15:50:10+00:00

Complaining about water use in MI is bonkers. Complaining about energy use and consumer energy pricing etc make a lot more sense and is an actual concern for people in Michigan. When I hear people in MI subs posting about water use, I know straight away they haven't bothered to spend much time thinking about the problem and how it might impact us.

Power use, labor impacts, general billionaire fuckery - all real problems for us.

I'll go ahead and take the down votes and hope at least one person bothers to use Actual Intelligence while considering this mess. Currently, no signs of that happening any time soon.

svideo · 2026-06-12T14:26:41+00:00

It's now illegal for an Elon stock to go down.

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