i could use tinker… but i’m trying to learn freecad. i found a model for a gearbox that turned out to be very badly optimised and to use waaaaay too much filament, so i’m trying to recreate it. hopefully that will learn me enough.

i probably could yeah! that’s clever.

probably, 608 skate bearings are pretty commonly used as weights. i’m not good enough at designing stuff yet though, i’m just browsing for other people’s stuff.

i’ve tried finding one i like for a while now, ever since i got a 3d-printer… i feel like i need something with more heft to it. weirdly the thing that has worked best so far was a cylindrical pill box which opens with a spiral motion. flicking the top makes it spin all the way open and it’s smooth enough to close on its own.

no, it’s literally all in service of sending notifications. but there’s a lot involved. android doesn’t have a way to receive them natively for example, you need to go through google’s services. so ntfy has to emulate the firebase api. then there’s the “exactly once” requirement, which is basically the two generals problem turned up to eleven because every platform syncs differently and you need some way to store messages that are in the process of transmitting. then there’s the matter of punching through NAT, so you need a STUN/TURN setup on the server.

and that’s on top of the fact that every platform requires different build options, manifests, certificates, etc.

if you want to send one notification from your desktop to your phone, it’s easy. but from any device to (m)any other, with guaranteed delivery and no doubles? shit gets complicated.

personally, it means i’m allowed to build hardware. not that i could, because nobody wants that so i have no experience in it, but i’m allowed to.

unfortunately as others have said, any redirection of the air flow will cause extra noise.

you’re looking for a radial fan, as opposed to the normal axial kind.

be warned though, they need to spin faster to move the same amount of air and so tend to be a lot louder.

oh cool that’s less than half of sweden’s gas price from mid-pandemic when it topped out at 25kr/l. we’re back down to 16 now, after the government removed the requirement for environmental additives. last time i saw 11kr/l must be at least 20 years ago.

i linked the junket in question.

everything after w2k is NT. by kernel version, its

• NT4: 4.0
• 2000: 5.0
• XP: 5.1
• Vista: 6.0
• 7: 6.1
• 8: 6.2
• 8.1: 6.3
• 10: 10.0

haven’t checked 11 but i bet you they bumped the major again.

it was from a press conference where they said they were done with version numbers and that windows 10 would basically be supported forever. that’s not mischaracterisation

that is exactly what hey said.

whoof. i still don’t understand what makes an npu different from a vector coprocessor (except the proprietary api) so if they’re smart about it they’ll fall back to gpu use. they will not be smart about it.

vista was great on compliant hardware. w11 is very much not.

god i hope they fuck this up

wasn’t advertised as such though

remember when windows 10 was supposed to be the last os they ever made