dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️

Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word?

I make knives now, too. Why not buy one at flightlessforge.com?

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Cake day: July 20th, 2023
  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldMtoPhotography@lemmy.world•My first camera is on the way, what accessories do I need?English
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    5 days ago

    I use a cheap UV filter and I still don’t notice it. My Chinese knockoff set also came with a pair of ND filters which I haven’t used much. But so far, so good.

    I dunno. Looks a’ight to me.

    I’ve definitely been grateful for the times when I’ve had crap flung me or my camera by the wind, animals, or often enough also nearby inattentive tourists. It’s also nice to be able to just unscrew the thing in order to handle it when you need to give it a thorough cleaning. Walking around with your lens cap on all day to “protect” your lens is mostly just a great way to miss the opportunity for shots.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and moreEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I freed up a couple of spare brain cells on that sort of thing back in the day once it was discovered around the schoolyard that Windows 95 (in addition to Office and a couple of other M$ products) would happily accept a CD key of all ones: 111-1111111. I don’t think this was applicable to the OEM versions, though. Windows 98 meanwhile would take a key of 12345-12345-12345, etc.

    I still have the Windows 2000 MSDN CD key memorized. From XP onwards, the… alternative… activation methods did not require knowing license keys anymore.

    One wonders what it was like to be a member of mankind in an era when all you had to memorize was actually useful information.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•what printers do youlike?English
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    10 days ago

    So far I’ve been getting the most use out of my Qidi X-Max 3, although it appears they’re no longer producing or supporting it. It predates the current multi-material schemes but it’s been able to print every funky high temperature engineering material I’ve tried to throw at it thus far. I’d really like to get some kind of tool changer machine to replace or supplement it at some point but it doesn’t seem like any of those are worth a damn for high temperature materials.

    In the meantime I’ve just been using it to make stuff like this and driving myself bats with manual filament changes instead.

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