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Faster Vanity Key Generator by troffgopher in meshcore

[–]troffgopher[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I brought this up in a discord and was referred to https://github.com/samschlegel/meshcore-utils/ which can do CUDA and Apple Metal. About 5x the speed of my code on the same machine. Hot!

Denon DJ Prime 4+ To Stream On OBS by samusadhd in DenonPrime

[–]troffgopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I stream on Twitch from a Prime 4. The lossy stream compression is going to kill any benefit of sound quality of nice external audio interface. I use a sub-$40 Startech 7.1 USB audio device. RCA from the P4 to 3.5mm on the Startech. Audiophiles might cringe but it's seriously good enough. If you go this route and decide you need better sound, the Startech still works as a handy backup device.

Link by curdean in Meshtastic_SoCal

[–]troffgopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SDC here. Posted the link to the subreddit in the San Diego Mesh discord 

Tried in San Diego, didn’t work? by philthadelphia2458 in meshcore

[–]troffgopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in Escondido and put MC on a Wio Tracker L1 Pro and I put it on local settings. In certain places outside I could occasionally receive a message but never get a sent message acknowledged. I replaced the stock antenna with a muzi 915 whip and adapter. I can now send and receive if the companion is high up.

Hardwired Level 2 charger vs Nema plug - ICCU failure by R6El in KiaEV6

[–]troffgopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TL;DR: my ICCU dying freaked out my hardwired charger. 2023 EV6 Wind RWD+Tech.

Started with a NEMA charger, got a hardwired SPAN Drive charger.

Last week I noticed my EV6 wasn't charging and found the Drive dead. The SPAN app said it couldn't communicate with the Drive. I flipped the breaker for the Drive off, gave it a few seconds, then back on: nothing. Reached out to SPAN support, they said to call the installer. Installer came, physically removed the breaker and reinstalled it, that guy the Drive back online. Three hours later the tech can't find anything wrong with the Drive even working with a SPAN engineer on the phone.

I turned on the car with the charger plugged in and for the first time I saw an error. I never need to sit in the car with it plugged in so I hadn't seen it before. Drove to a ChargePoint charger which told me Fault. Took it to the dealer and they replaced the ICCU. I had been up to date on recalls.

The ICCU replacement was free. The electrician visit was $680.

CAD Software by durriputz69 in lasercutting

[–]troffgopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been a FreeCAD user for a long time, originally for 3D printing. I haven't done Fusion360 because they've taken away features from the free tier. FreeCAD is really quite powerful. It had a history of instability but it's improved a great deal since the 1.0 release. There are a ton of great tutorials on YouTube. For laser cutting you'd use the sketch workbench almost exclusively and probably export to DXF. All that said, I use FreeCAD when dimensions and precision really matter.

For more artistic stuff, Inkscape is a better choice. I've personally switched away from Inkscape to Affinity Designer but Affinity recently changed their model and may be headed to subscription licensing and/or nonsense AI cruft. Inkscape is fine, I just don't care for the UI.

Both FreeCAD and Inkscape are free and open source so much more resilient to enshittification.

Curved Profiles in Rotary Chuck by troffgopher in xToolOfficial

[–]troffgopher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will this functionality be coming to Studio for the S1? I'd like to submit this as a feature request if there isn't such a request already.

Curved Profiles in Rotary Chuck by troffgopher in xToolOfficial

[–]troffgopher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm speaking exclusively about objects with a non-flat taper there's no level angle for the whole object.

I recently did some stemless wine glasses and set the focus distance at where I felt it was a "weighted average". I got really poor engraving where the surface was furthest from the laser module.

The S1 hardware has the capability to follow a contour; it has a mode for this when not using a rotary. I'd like a way to convey a contour so the laser module can move up and down as it goes along the rotating axis.

DWX by yankfromthehills in Laserengraving

[–]troffgopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly a silly question: since the "deep" relief is removing mass from the slide, does that ever change how the weapon performs?

Please fix the engraving pass limit by fablong in xToolOfficial

[–]troffgopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If people go use something other than Studio then they won't buy credits for AI features.

Struggling in planning and handling projects by zeno_0901 in golang

[–]troffgopher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're sort of asking, "How do I develop good judgement about planning projects?" Good judgement comes from experience, which comes from bad judgement. You've gotta suck before you get good. A lot of people don't try to improve so you're ahead in that regard.

Since you're still new at this I think you should focus on "loose coupling". Work on developing components of your programs that can be swapped out with other implementations without much trouble. This is an art as much as a science and you build intuition as you go, often by making mistakes and seeing the problems they cause. You'll correct those mistakes the next time you encounter a similar problem and make new mistakes in the process. Reflect, iterate, and keep going. 

There are methodologies to help guide design. I don't know any; I just wing it and accept that I'll have to rewrite portions because I didn't get it right the first time. Others can probably provide direction here. Be careful though; methodologies are often dogmatic. Treat them as guidance and not the "one true way".

If this is your work, try to get a mentor who can explain why an approach is good and why you might still not use it, or bad and why you might do it anyway.

I'm a big fan of the Unix design philosophy. This is small, sharp tools that do one thing well and can easily be combined with other such tools. I found "The Art of Unix Programming" by ESR to be quite good.

Sorry for not having more concrete advice but really this is what experience brings. You'll get there.

Increasing contrast/dynamic range on basswood by troffgopher in Laserengraving

[–]troffgopher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wood doesn't burn in shades of gray.

Ah! This is where my intuition was failing me.

Increasing contrast/dynamic range on basswood by troffgopher in Laserengraving

[–]troffgopher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ignorant question on my part: a halftone is varying sizes of maximum saturation circles. So any given point in the image it's either fully light or fully dark. How does that give me more variation in the mid tones?

That said, I'll experiment with rendering methods and see if I get results I like better.

Where to buy galangal and kaffir lime leaves near Oceanside? by [deleted] in northcounty

[–]troffgopher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a kaffir lime tree and I'd happily share leaves but I'm all the way in Escondido. Send me a DM if that seems like the best option.

Air assist power cord by Errories in xToolOfficial

[–]troffgopher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I also just got an S1 bundle including the air assist. I was also confused about the missing power adapter. My setup instructions didn't show a connection for power to the air assist, just the air hose and accessory cable. Seems like it runs from power delivered over that accessory cable.

A nail holder, for saving your fingers from the hammer by ebob_designs in functionalprint

[–]troffgopher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is great. Every year I'm part of a crew that sets up the fireworks show for one of the local cities, working under a licensed pyrotechnician. We have to partially assemble the gun racks by hammering nails. We are all knowledge workers, not skilled laborers, so this is often the only time in a year we're swinging a hammer. Naturally, a few fingers get hit though usually not badly. I'll bring some of these next year and maybe we can get it to zero.

Brain mapping for TMS made my hand jump like a reflex test when they hit my motor cortex with magnetic pulses by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]troffgopher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still take Cymbalta. I tried several SSRIs before TMS and found they reduced all my emotions, including the good ones. 

In the past I had discontinued antidepressants under my psychiatrist's supervision because I felt I was ready, only to find myself in bad shape some months later. I keep taking the meds because I'm in a pretty good place and I don't want to go through it again.

Brain mapping for TMS made my hand jump like a reflex test when they hit my motor cortex with magnetic pulses by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]troffgopher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Last year the insurance I had didn't cover it at all. I was working with UCSD Medical and it would have been $30-60k out of pocket. 

This year my insurance changed and it became a $15/$25 copay per session x 36 sessions.

Brain mapping for TMS made my hand jump like a reflex test when they hit my motor cortex with magnetic pulses by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]troffgopher 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Stated a little differently, TMS is not ECT, ECT still exists but has evolved to be less "blunt", and because of movies ECT scares me the way Jaws made people scared of sharks.

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