I bought a Brother colour laser last year (which on the outside looks identical to the monochrome one I bought 17 years ago that lives with my parents), zero issues, which pretty much has been my experience with printers on linux (also tried a ~5 y/o & 25 y/o HP LaserJet, one being the cheapest thing I’ve ever used, other being old office equipment, think I tried the Epson ecotank and photo printer my mil has as well)
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morbidcactus@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?212·2 days agoBandcamp, I follow a bunch of labels that’ve done releases I like and have set up a bunch of genre tags, I’ll go through every so often and go through releases, see what jumps out at me.
Otherwise, there’s a few reviewers I’ve come to trust over the years, my partner likes angrymetalguy and both follow Rez Metal Podcast. Otherwise it’s forums, Lemmy, reddit or other online community.
I wanna say it was something that showed up on my clipboard from KDE connect, may have been part of an error message or status message, should have kept it for preservation purposes
I have zero idea, apparently I managed to pocket comment somehow.
Oh def give it a bit more time, you’ll appreciate it. It’s usually even easier to work with and gives enough time for some of the more complex flavours to develop (specifically from fermentation).
If you don’t think it’ll last long enough could do a preferment (like a biga) with upwards of half your flour and a fraction of the yeast (had decent results doing like 0.5g or less of yeast for 500g of flour), can add more yeast to your final dough if you want (I’ve done similar things to use sour dough discard because I hate wasting it, adds complexity without relying on it for leavening).
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Finally found a way to get Garolite print beds for my Prusa'sEnglish5·8 days agoSpool3D in Calgary sells sheets of FR4 (the flame resistant version of G10) that are bonded to spring steel sheets. I use with a few drops of the nano polymer adhesive they sell but would probably be fine without (A few drops in IPA seems to do the trick for ABS, lets me spread it extremely thin). I used Buildtak for a while and their surfaces are great, but this was a lot cheaper and extremely resistant, plus I like the surface finish it gives (Also I can source domestically, partly the reason I switched)
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.ml•Canadians are ‘leading’ in LGBTQ2 support amid global declines: Ipsos - National4·9 days agoTwo-spirit it’s (to my knowledge) very much tied to indigenous culture, recognising people who fulfill a traditional third gender, you’ll see 2S included a lot in Canada, official government stuff uses 2SLGBTQI+.
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Derail any conversation by mentioning "microwaving your water" ruleEnglish13·10 days agoPretty much every person I know in Canada has an electric kettle and every single office I’ve worked in has one, my kitchen has 15a outlets which is still 1800W. I have a simple gooseneck kettle that I usw mainly for coffee, it’s only 1kW and holds around 750ml, it’s not blisteringly fast but it’s boiled before I’ve ground my coffee.
The whole “120v is holding us back from having kettles” is way overblown (technology connections has a video on electric kettles).
Same for me, 10mg is what usually do, I’ll sometimes take another gummy but I tend to spread them out over the night, I’ve taken 40+ at once before just to try it,very much not for me, to each their own.
Colour based terms are super cultural too from what I’ve been told, stuff like red being bad and green being good isn’t universal so imo it’s not a bad idea to use more explicit terminology.
Beyond that, if you go into reporting and the like, red/green colour coding for indicators isn’t accessible (colour blindness isn’t uncommon, last job I had a few colleagues with red/green and one with blue/yellow, I was told that making them very distinct shades helps a lot), people also print stuff out on monochrome printers (there’s old data viz wisdom that suggested designing for this) so I prefered symbols when I did more of that work, still suggest it when I get asked to review things.
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato Games@lemmy.world•What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium qualityEnglish3·13 days agoFrom the 360 Era — Too Human
The control scheme is bizarre at first (right stick is melee) but it works once you’re used to it. It’s Sci-Fi Norse mythology, I recall it having a pretty solid art style. I picked it up used from either Blockbuster or EB because I wanted to see just how bad it was, ended up enjoying it far more than I expected, I’ll give it a “Yeah, it’s ok”, disc images are readily available if you want to emulate it, can find a physical copy cheap online too if that’s your thing.This is the game that ended up taking down its studio (Silicon Knights, they developed Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, they tried to sue Epic, who countersued and won, probably added to my initial interested tbh.
It’s not terrible advice tbh, even just hand sketches are solid for getting ideas down, makes it easy to translate to cad. It at least helps me think things through and the like.
Get a few pencils with different leads (some harder stuff like 2-4H and an HB) and some nice paper and you’re good, but really anything works, totally have a mockup of my garage on a whiteboard planning where I want to put stuff.
As for cad packages, freecad, as far as I’m aware there are some architecture workbench plugins, and there’s a tech drawing workbench. Coming back to cad after a while I found it super easy to pick back up (coming from solidworks at least)
I’m still stuck bouncing between 1.7.10 and 1.12.2, the former of which came out over a decade ago (oof) but there’s just so many quality packs from that era (GT:NH comes to mind but I also really dig stuff with RotaryCraft). I do more factorio and satisfactory these days but wow do some of those packs take a solid amount of time to get through.
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What game changing item*s can you buy for $100 or less?5·15 days agoMy partner and I were concerned about that originally but it’s really a non issue for either of us, it’s still way better than not having one.
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato BuyFromEU@feddit.org•Beyerdynamic (German headphone producer) bought by Chinese companyEnglish2·17 days agoI modded my 880s to have removable cables , replaced the pads and the headband as they were getting a bit worn after a decade of daily driving them. I use 1990s as my daily driver these days but I like having options.
Seriously solid headphones, I’m not immediately writing them off because a Chinese company though, I’ve used FiiO stuff for 15 years and it’s been solid, so fingers crossed.
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•They are officially known as string trimmers. Where are you geographically and what do you call them?3·17 days agoThat’s the predominant one in Canada too, at least in my experience.
Goes with a Chipper Shredder (Woodchipper), sure there’s probably other things named the same way.
Just tacking on that box fan filters are really easy to make and do a solid job in my experience. Use high quality filters (like MPR 1900+/Merv13+), duct tape them into a cube (air direction facing inward in my case) and duct tape it to the intake side of the fan, I use 4 filters with the bottom being a cardboard blank, but there’s a ton of designs out there.
morbidcactus@lemmy.cato Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•[Discussion] What Games are you playing on your Deck? - June 20253·27 days agoIf you do it manually, path is something like (if it’s on the ssd at least)
~/.local/steam/steamapps/common/StardewValley/mods
SMAPI has a .sh in their release zip that sets it up for you, and their wiki is pretty solid if you’re wanting to do it through proton instead of the native application. I gave the nexus mod app a try, works pretty well but without premium you need to download mods individually, having an actual mod manager is nice though.
I’ve done rimworld modding running that through proton, but rimworld has workshop support and various mod managers so that was really easy to do (and plays pretty well, but I played rimworld on the og steam controller in the past so was kinda used to it)
I do this, I have a toaster oven that lives in my garage solely for shop use. Have some foil to act as a bit of a heat deflector, seems to work well enough.