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After hearing about his gamble, hearing any more without results is irrelevant poisoning the pot.

So the trick to sanding longer with abrasives is wet sanding. In addition, in automotive work, a drop of Palmolive dish soap is added to a bucket of water. This addition makes a huge difference.

Overall, the principal of like polishes like is important. In abstract, polish is just fine abrasion. Like your finger prints are around 5k-7k grit equivalent. Rub something long enough and you will both polish and abrade it the same as this grit. The oils in your skin are the polishing agent.

I have played around with 10k grit wet sanding and then machine polishing with a light compound where places I rested my hand showed minor variations after stripping any oils and fillers with wax and grease remover (solvent).

I can think of several aspects to increase the complexity here. One could add inserts into the outer vibrating shell. These could be any materials.

I think the bigger issue will actually be the distance between the object and the shell. You see, the size of the random orbital action is the product of two concentric circles. In the pro automotive world, these are pneumatically driven. There are several models available with different properties related to this motion and the internal balance of the mechanism. Within this range of actuation, it is critical that abrasion does not follow a path of repetition. I think this likely means the shell must be larger than the radius of the largest of these two circles or maybe a more complicated size larger than the combination of overlapping radii including their central connection point. This should enable the part to move within the range of random sanding action. That range means the sanding is over a larger area.

The best shell is likely one with gaps similar to a DA sander with ports for dust collection.

Very little of any fiber touches the actual nozzle during printing. The actual fiber size used in filament is far far smaller than what most people imagine. It is only the waste dust from the production and processing of carbon fiber. All actual fibers of any useful length are sold in industry for use in composites. There are continuous fiber printers, but that is not at all related to what is used in 3d printing. If you actually look at the data from people testing materials, fiber infused materials are always weaker. They print better because they are breaking up the polymer bonds. Lots of people jump on the buzzword thinking it is technomagic mor betterer but do not pay attention to the details. If the fiber had any length to it, it would clog like crazy because a long bunch of fibers distributed in 1.75mm crammed into 0.4mm is never going to happen. It is just like a dust additive that happens to be available and is compatible. So it should be well distributed throughout. With ABS a wipe of acetone should help too, if left to completely flash off the solvent for a week or more. That needs to be super limited though. Acetone tends to get retained in bad bad ways with ABS. It is a massive no no to use in automotive applications.

Not in terms of kernel supported encodings and long term kernel support, from what I have seen. I have not looked into this in depth. However, looking at git repo merged pulls, issues raised, and the lack of any consistent hardware commitments or consensus, implies to me that the hardware is very unstable in the long term. When I see any hardware with mostly only base Debian support, it screams that the hardware is on an orphaned kernel and will likely never get to mainline. The same applies to Arch to a lesser degree. Debian has the primary tool chain for bootstrapping and hardware hacking. When it is the primary option supported, I consider the hardware insecure and unsafe to connect to the internet. I’ve seen a few instances where people are talking about the limited forms of encoding support and the incomplete nature of those that do exist. It is far more important to have hardware that will be supported with mainline kernel security updates and is compatible with the majority of encodings. It would be terrible to find out the thing could not support common audio or video codecs. IIRC there was an issue along these lines with the RISC-V PineTab.

I know the primary goto for RISC-V is SiFive, but I have not seen a goto LTS processor from them in terms of third party consistent use.

Plus, while more open is mor betterer, RISC-V is not full proof from a proprietary blob either. The ISA addresses the monopolistic tyranny and extortion of players like Intel, but there is nothing preventing the inclusion of 3rd party proprietary module blocks. The entire point is to create an open market for the sale and inclusion of IP blocks that are compatible with an open standard. Nothing about these blocks is required to be open. I don’t know if such a thing could be set to a negative ring more privileged than the kernel, but I expect this to be the case.

Most people’s routers are already up 24/7.

We should be able to do our own DNS. Who cares if it is on the wider clearweb. You are paying for an IP address with your internet connection. If you are running a server with verified hardware and signed code, all we need is a half dozen nodes mirroring our own DNS. There must be a backup proxy for the few terrible providers that cause issues with IP. The addresses are not static, but they do not change very often. At worse, you hit a manual button to reset or wait 10 minutes before the DNS updates.

Pipe Pipe is better than Newpipe. I use F-droid’s VLC front end for local music because the built in android back end is VLC. For everything else, in browser

Rπ is proprietary. You really need a hard drive for storage. The point is a TPM based encryption with no user configuration or worry about securing the thing. It just works with no excuses.

Your slice of life is funny. At least you don’t get: …(news: “terrible shit is happening”) …the bible says…the sky is falling…the end times…Armageddon… Come back to (sadistic masochism where everyone goes through the motions and no one is intelligent or real or cares about anyone as evidenced by their actions) kingdom hall. (be like the rest of us that never paid any attention to the conspiracy level nonsensical explanation of the reason why Jehovah’s Witnesses exist in the Revelations book.)

I don’t know, it might be fun to improvise against some fresh hate materials. The same thing all the time gets old but polished responses.

It is not about the people that already host. It is about enabling many more by giving them an option to buy a path of least resistance. In exchange, it creates a potential revenue source in a completely untapped demographic. The subscription/donations demographic is like a very unique and niche market. The vast majority of people do not exist within that space. Most people do not have the financial stability to engage like this. It is not that they are unable to accumulate adequate funds, it is that their pay fluctuates over time and their baseline constraints are far more stressful than spending from times of surplus and opportunity. Catering only to those with such surplus and gatekeeping the complexity of self hosting is massively limiting adoption.

The rule in managing a chain of retail stores is that, no matter how you select products to stock in stores, it is impossible to only select products that will all sell on one platform. How you manage the overburden always determines your long term success. You must employ other platforms and demographics to prioritize the mobility of cash flow.

Similarly but inverted, this place has a slice of all demographics. Efforts tailored to the various subsets should tap entirely new potential. A fool imagines they can convert the unstable poor*'r* into a reliable stable income source via donations. Someone like myself has means but not a situation that is compatible. If I have some tangible thing to purchase, I can make that happen. I do not have any subscriptions in life for anything at all. Heck, I won’t even shop on any of my devices I use regularly because I only buy what I intend to go looking to purchase with intent. That is not common, but what is common are spontaneous people that need time to align their finances with their desires. That person is likely to dread paying $5 every month compared to $250 in May when they get a couple thousand dollars on a tax return. Expecting the public to float the stability is stupid. That is not how the real world works. Real businesses always float the overhead. I’m talking about how to free the masses to self host everything for the cost of a nice router spent once with no techno leet filter.

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Because 99.9% of people will never self host. They would much rather just buy a product that is not setup as a scam. The scam part is less important to most people than the lack of effort required.

This isn’t a thing to get into for the money. It would be about the FOSS aspect. Doing something like this would not break even for the time and labor involved. It might be worth doing for positive digital neighbors, but I am not at all interested in doing anything for negative or rude people.

I come from a background of being a buyer for a chain of bike shops where I spent millions of dollars based upon knowledge of how such markets work. The entry level customer is all that really matters. The extra stuff is just to woo them into the store.

In a place like this, if you engage, you’re actually irrelevant. If you want to target growth, get a lurker to engage for the first time. Getting some random lurkers to buy into the hardware to self host because they care about software freedom is far far more effective than the current ecosystem. When servers are not updated, and people shut down because of administration, it says this is not viable for the average person with a life. So make this easy for the individual. It is such an obvious thing to do.

The present system is basically like go compile OpenWRT for your router and people whining about how it is not fucking hard. It is not, but most people just do nor care to try it. They just want to buy a device, plug it in, and be done. Half of these devices are on factory original passwords. This is the real scope of what people are capable of and expect. The mismatch is easily solved by packing the fediverse as a device. The alternates are great for the 0.1%. I am not talking about you all. I am talking about something that could go from 0.1% to 5% of the fediverse is self hosted, and likely much larger. The whole endeavor would be like a coop socialist kind of thing from the ground up.

They better back out of this shit and burn down the Whitehouse before giving in to the fascist monster.

Yeah, fast edges on the buttons. I think the whole design was originally intended to be 2 sided. The third layer has almost a complete ground plane, and the other two have sufficient infill and stitching to be a typical 2 sided design. Stuff would have needed to be moved around some to make room for the button contacts, but there was more than enough space.

From what I recall of the guys doing the software hack, I think the STM32 H7 microcontroller was emulating the original 6502 based ROM. So maybe they were optimising the hardware as much as possible to avoid the typical timing issues present in emulation in challenging parts of the game.

The coolest part of the hardware design is actually that little DC switch mode converter and battery manager. It is crazy efficient. Like, a full charge on the lithium cell will be at around half charged still after a couple of years, and while playing, it lasts abnormally long for such a device. It is not a particularly large cell either.

It is ultimately the fine scratch texture. It is both holding onto some grime, and you are seeing the texture difference. The finish is quite thick in most cases. It will look better depending on the strength of how you clean it. Generally something like a magic eraser is pretty good. However, the best will come from polishing. It does not have to be anything elaborate. A machine polish with a heavy cut pad and compound like I would used to cut and buff automotive clear coat would be overkill, but are an example of what I mean. If I could get a polisher in there, it would take me 5-10 minutes with a cut pad and 3M PerfectIt 2. Toothpaste is technically a polishing compound although only around a medium cut. That with the inside of a sock as a polishing pad for an hour or more by hand will get nearly the same result. Keep the surface wet like a wet clay that feels barely warm the whole time. Never let it get dry or wetter. Keep the patterns random circles and never repeating rows or columns; keep it more random than that. Do something like a puffy cloud that is 2/3rds the total size moving around the surface. That will make it good as new… if you are able to defeat your inner impatience.

Start a business adding proper sliding contacts micro switches to popular devices. Then transition to selling them preinstalled. Simply cut the power wire to the camera module and microphone. I would love to pay a little more for a device with a physical switch and an option for no screen side camera.

I was thinking the other day, if I decide to replace my battery in my phone, I am going to design a TPU phone case that integrates the rear battery cover and not installing the rear glass bullshit too.

Still, that does not fix everyone else carrying stalkerware.

Well, thanks. That means I never want to go to either one Lowes or Home Depot ever again. They simply do not exist for me.

I haven’t seen those, but I do not get out much.

You should contact the stores and tell them you refuse to shop with them while these are present.

How do you know a camera is Flock?

You won’t. It is something inside internal alignment thinking in the QKV layers. Some models have a layer of masking that pseudo blocks access to these layers of meaning. Based on several aspects present in the image, I know the region of alignment thinking that is being triggered here in the embedding model’s QKV alignment layers.