[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago

I use mineral spirits, and have not had issues. Some folks recommend this stuff, But I have not tried it: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/crown-psc-1000-parts-cleaner-5-gal

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago

There is room for a lot of good faith debate here, but FWIW I reckon It is a mistake for the left to prematurely roll over and telegraph an inevitable Biden vote (whether on this or any other issue) just because Trump would be worse. The time for that utilitarian calculus is much closer to November. Right now, if you want policy change — you have to raise hell.

As much as you love to hate ‘em, this is what the Tea Party and their ideological successors got right about wielding power within their own party. When the time comes, by all means circle the wagons and vote pragmatically, but during primary season you have to come across as a credible threat to the party power structure.

I’ll personally be willing to (attempt!) to shame my progressive friends into voting blue, say, around October. In the meantime, I am proud of folks for speaking their mind and standing up for human rights.

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

This is wild. Mine would be raising a racket at 3am playing in the tubes. Is it relatively quiet?

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

This is really cool.

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Let’s hear all about your progress. Don’t disappoint your judgmental internet buddies!

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t know why this is such an appealing project, but it is. Adding an LED and a switch so it can be used as an emergency flashlight would be cool too.

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. I also think the ham-fisted way they are rolling this out is a projection of how they think the ‘libruls’ are brainwashing the kids.

Rather than educated people coming to educated conclusions on their own across vast segments of society, it is almost as if they think there is this secret committee of hooded Illuminati that generates Disney princess woke coloring books to turn little Billy-Bob away from Jesus, and the rest of the country just marches unthinkingly in lockstep with those orders. So of course, that is the playbook they want to follow.

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 50 points 1 year ago

I somehow feel this will backfire spectacularly. Younger kids can be dumb like the rest of us, but there is one thing they are exceptionally smart about: spotting and mocking lame-ass adults.

There is already little tolerance among (a lot of) younger folk for climate denialism and general right wing jackassery. Adding a cut-rate Donald Duck screeching about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or how windmills are dangerous is just gonna’ cement the lameness for them. Now, if we could just do something about the grown-up idiots on Facebook, we’d be cooking.

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Awesome game so far and remarkably well-polished due to the early access. My only real gripe is that the camera control is a little fiddly. It may be that I'm just not used to it, but a click and drag to rotate the camera would be chef's kiss

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Making any progress, you slackers? Tell us about it!

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Let's hear it. No project too big or too small.

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Developing user cliques around fish names.

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Crazy good DIY mechatronic skills.

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Build Your Own CNC! (www.youtube.com)
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I know there are a few out there who are interested in subtractive CNC (there are literally dozens of us!) but who may be a little bit intimidated by it. We've all seen our calendar app or Netflix account or some other piece of software go haywire suddenly and without warning -- imagine if it was connected to a razor sharp cutter spinning at 20,000 RPM. Yikes.

I won't lie, building a working CNC machine isn't exactly a cakewalk, either. But reassuringly, neither is it rocket science. 3D printers, which we all know and love, are just dinky little CNC machines with an extruder on the business end instead of a twirly metal thing (the endmill in the case of a CNC mill).

Component-wise, stepper motors, ball screws, and control interfaces have evolved to the point you can get quality parts that fit together in predictable ways for commodity prices online. And once you have your machine up and running, you'll be able to make just about anything - it is the ultimate DIY rush to be able to visualize, design, and create something new, robust, and beautiful out of a solid chunk of metal. Building that project and need a funky bracket that has to stand up to heat and torque? No problem. Decorative hat hook for Aunt Mabel? Get outta here.

"But Circularfish," I hear you say, "that sounds great but I don't even know what a 'stepper motor' is". Never fear, popular machine tuber This Old Tony has created a series of videos demystifying CNC. He is fairly entertaining and, even if you have no intention of building a CNC mill, it will help you understand what is going on with your 3D printer when it decides to crash itself at 4am. Enjoy!

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Nice. Is that PETG or PLA?

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Thought I'd share a recent build for an ongoing CNC milling machine project. The Mill needed a solid base as well as storage for the liquid coolant pump and oiler, and some drawers for tooling.

I've found that you can get nice looking results welding up a frame from 2" square tube and then use bog standard melamine panels for the sides.

3/4" angle can be welded in to hold the panels and hide the melamine edges.

Add some simple box drawers and Ebay slides, and voila...

The drawer pulls are leftover continuous aluminum extrusion. Again, they hide the edges of the melamine.

Anyway, not rocket science, but thought I'd pass the build idea along!

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

In a strange parallel to the current Russian political situation, can one at least hope that Meta drives a stake through the heart of the bird site before this effort implodes?

Probably not, I guess. If the Lizard King actually gets to the point that he poses a real threat, it is probably because he has eaten us first.

[-] circularfish@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or condemned to sociability.

Heed my blue check mark.

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