The Official Status Thread
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Delivery Distortion Field status: One order; two packages. Both "expected" today.
For one, the shipping label was created yesterday, but the physical box wasn't given to FedEx until this morning. It's only an hour or two away, so maybe FedEx can deliver the same day?
The other was shipped by a method with no tracking number, so .
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@Benjamin-Hall It took me a long time to get used to a second monitor. Then when I did, I took a terrible job with a tiny laptop (fuck everything about laptops) and went back to programming at home where I have one big screen. There are times I think it'd help to have two screens but I can do just fine with one. Now, going back to full frame (not widescreen), that's a different story...
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Status: I can't find the undersheet for my camping bed.
It may well be on the bed. I can't check the bed without unfolding the tent trailer, which takes more room than I have immediately available. So now I'm hoping my neighbours take the car to work tomorrow so I have the space I need.
On the upside, this will allow me to also put the rest of the bedding on there and save space in the luggage hold.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
(fuck everything about laptops)
They're great for reading while you poop.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
(fuck everything about laptops)
They're great for reading while you poop.
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Status:
Object with 27M tris make computer .
Edit: I expect exported STL will make slicer , too. I will find out eventually.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Object with 27M tris make computer .
Edit: I expect exported STL will make slicer , too. I will find out eventually.
The hell you trying to print? A millimeter-accurate statue of liberty? 🗽
TIL there's an emoji for the statue of liberty...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
(fuck everything about laptops)
They're great for working on while commuting.
Unless you're driving, that is (excluding using California 101 or the DC Beltway in rush hour, when working on a laptop while commuting is perfectly safe).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The hell you trying to print? A millimeter-accurate statue of liberty?
No, just applying a displacement texture to an object that would otherwise have <100 tris. The textured surface has to be subdivided into stupidly small faces for the displacement modifier to actually displace the vertices so the texture can be printed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm really interested in what kind of flipping phone the end up sending me.
None. Probably not folding either.
And...
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And whether they'll deactivate my actually-supports-4G one I'm using now...
... they'll turn that off too. Of course.
You should have called it!
Status: oh, it actually did arrive, it was just set aside because assumed not needed. No, I'll need to steal the SIM card from it TYVM.
Was reminded about the involuntary movement via SMS. So I swapped it in and...
Hey, two connections!
I can't wait to see what happens. In theory it will switch to the new SIM I put in slot 1,nothing to see here, but I'm exorbitantly curious what Att will do.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Delivery Distortion Field status: One order; two packages. Both "expected" today.
For one, the shipping label was created yesterday, but the physical box wasn't given to FedEx until this morning. It's only an hour or two away, so maybe FedEx can deliver the same day?
The other was shipped by a method with no tracking number, so .
The package with no tracking info arrived. Airbrush compressor go "brrrrr". Next step is figure out if either 1) my airbrush hose fits the compressor, or 2) the supplied hose fits my airbrush. I'm fairly sure 1) is false, although I haven't checked yet; not at all sure either way about 2). I might have to print an adapter.
As for the other package, the last update, 5 hours ago, was that it had traveled in the wrong direction, to a distribution center that is 1.5 hours further from me than where it shipped from. The Walmart warehouse that shipped it is in a city halfway between two metropolitan areas, and the FedEx distribution center is in the metro area I don't live in.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it had traveled in the wrong direction, to a distribution center that is 1.5 hours further from me than where it shipped from. The Walmart warehouse that shipped it is in a city halfway between two metropolitan areas, and the FedEx distribution center is in the metro area I don't live in.
It now has you surrounded, and can safely be delivered.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Next step is figure out if either 1) my airbrush hose fits the compressor, or 2) the supplied hose fits my airbrush. I'm fairly sure 1) is false, although I haven't checked yet; not at all sure either way about 2). I might have to print an adapter.
Who bet on option 3? If you bet on option 3, you are winner.
My airbrush hose has an unknown (to me) smallish-diameter fitting on the airbrush end and a 1/4" NPT on the compressor end. I'm not sure what the thread on the airbrush is, but it's smaller than the compressor's hose.
The compressor hose has the same fitting on both ends. It's neither 1/4" NPT nor whatever the airbrush uses, so adapter it is.
I was able to find an STL file of a 1/4" NPT male thread fairly easily. After tinkering with creating a custom thread to (I hope) fit the compressor, my son did a little googling and found that the compressor has a 1/8" BSP (and based on my measurements, it's BSPP, not BSPT), and with a little more searching, he found a model with a 1/8" BSP female thread. (In fact, it's (allegedly) an exact copy of the chinesium airbrush company's own 1/8" to 1/4" adapter, which would be exactly what I need, except its 1/4" thread is BSP, not NPT.) A little slicing and dicing, and I have a 3D model with the right threads, which is now printing. It may take a couple of tries to get the threads to print correctly, because resin printing tends to print objects oversize, with holes undersize. The slicer can compensate for this, but I don't know if the amount of compensation I added is right. I should know in an hour and a half, or so.
Also,
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:For one, the shipping label was created yesterday, but the physical box wasn't given to FedEx until this morning. It's only an hour or two away, so maybe FedEx can deliver the same day?
No.
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Status: Cox is stupid sometimes. After an hour of "what do you mean WiFi channel?" they just gave up.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Cox is stupid sometimes. After an hour of "what do you mean WiFi channel?" they just gave up.
Tried again, this time via voice chat. Got to someone who could actually set the channels!
Too bad the stupid supervisory routine that checks if you're a bad user and changed your settings (i.e. like turning on the MoCa adapter or, I guess, changing your WiFi channel) kicked it back to the bad defaults.
I now have (after spending an hour with Tier 1 and 30 minutes with Tier 1 supervisor and another 15 with Tier 2) a backend ticket to see if they can unfuck things (unlikely).
Time to set my mom up with some of my old shit that I can actually control...
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Wait. You mean you need to call tech support just to switch the WiFi channel?!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait. You mean you need to call tech support just to switch the WiFi channel?!
Well supposedly you can do it from the gateway's admin interface. EXCEPT YOU CAN'T because Cox is managing it for you, and you need to go to wifi.cox.com to manage it. EXCEPT YOU CAN'T because they removed that feature (presumably, because "only a small percentage of users" used it).
So, yeah. Can't change any of this without calling in to support.
And no, I've tried hacking the form to actually submit values again. They thought of that too and it blocks it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well supposedly you can do it from the gateway's admin interface. EXCEPT YOU CAN'T because Cox is managing it for you, and you need to go to wifi.cox.com to manage it. EXCEPT YOU CAN'T because they removed that feature (presumably, because "only a small percentage of users" used it).
So, yeah. Can't change any of this without calling in to support.So… they have remote administration enabled for all of their devices and have local access locked out? And have made it so that there's lots of features you can't administer there? You realise what this means? The Internet of thread is
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Status: Good Jorb Edge, you didn't know where your own icon was...
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@Tsaukpaetra No, no. It wants to be pinned down a second time, over there.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It may take a couple of tries to get the threads to print correctly, because resin printing tends to print objects oversize, with holes undersize. The slicer can compensate for this, but I don't know if the amount of compensation I added is right. I should know in an hour and a half, or so.
It fits. I haven't tried pressure testing it yet, but the threads engage and don't seem either too tight (after cleaning up the flash where it was attached to the build plate) or too loose.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No, no. It wants to be pinned down a second time, over there.
Seems perfectly cromulent. Edge is already pinned on the left, but here's all this space where you can pin your favourite sites
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No, no. It wants to be pinned down a second time, over there.
How to pin Edge:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No, no. It wants to be pinned down a second time, over there.
How to pin Edge:
You forgot to lock it in a chest and throw it in a lake.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No, no. It wants to be pinned down a second time, over there.
How to pin Edge:
You forgot to lock it in a chest and throw it in a lake.
More pins is cheaper, and we're already spun up for pins.
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Status: More packages for the DDF to delay, lose, or (maybe) deliver early.
I just bought supplies to light a whole bunch of model train buildings: 500 warm white LEDs, a few hundred resistors of various values to set current between 20mA and about 4mA (different brightness for different things) assuming 5V supply, 200m of optical fiber for putting the light in the desired places, and enough generic prototyping circuit board to theoretically mount 2448 sets of LED+resistor+power wires.
I'll have to 3D print something to hold the fibers in front of the LEDs, but that's not a problem, and it's not even a not-problem I have deal with until the DDF is done doing its thing with the packages.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: More packages for the DDF to delay, lose, or (maybe) deliver early.
I just bought supplies to light a whole bunch of model train buildings: 500 warm white LEDs, a few hundred resistors of various values to set current between 20mA and about 4mA (different brightness for different things) assuming 5V supply, 200m of optical fiber for putting the light in the desired places, and enough generic prototyping circuit board to theoretically mount 2448 sets of LED+resistor+power wires.
I'll have to 3D print something to hold the fibers in front of the LEDs, but that's not a problem, and it's not even a not-problem I have deal with until the DDF is done doing its thing with the packages.
What about firelight? How are you going to simulate planned or unplanned blackouts / brown outs? Especially the hunting around with flashlights part. You'd need probably 7+ dimmable white, and nearly as many flickering yellow, per house.
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My company is requiring all employees to provide proof of vaccination.
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Status: Added tombstoning of key records to the service I'm writing. And dealt with a whole pot of cream getting spilt over this week's groceries…
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
You'd need probably 7+ dimmable white, and nearly as many flickering yellow, per house.
There are only 2 or 3 windows in a typical model railroad house -- they're more like actual houses than the MegaMansions of today -- and, as a chip designer, I'm sure he has a spare microcontroller to epoxy to the protoboard and bit-bang PWM a bunch of GPIOs. It'll be fine.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Added tombstoning of key records
It'll end in tears. Is there hopefully an eater of the dead?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Added tombstoning of key records to the service I'm writing. And dealt with a whole pot of cream getting spilt over this week's groceries…
I confess: I don't see the relation.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Added tombstoning of key records to the service I'm writing. And dealt with a whole pot of cream getting spilt over this week's groceries…
I confess: I don't see the relation.
It's pretty obvious.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
You'd need probably 7+ dimmable white, and nearly as many flickering yellow, per house.
There are only 2 or 3 windows in a typical model railroad house -- they're more like actual houses than the MegaMansions of today
It so happens that the particular house I am modelling at the moment has 7 rooms on the ground floor, 8 rooms upstairs, and an attic. 25-ish windows, according to the floor plan (including the attic, which isn't shown on the floor plan, but I think it has one gable/window on each side of the house). However, the guy who modeled it didn't follow the plan exactly, so I think there are a couple of windows missing.
I'm sure he has a spare microcontroller to epoxy to the protoboard and bit-bang PWM a bunch of GPIOs. It'll be fine.
You actually anticipated a question I was going to ask in the general help category. Microcontrollers generally don't have the number of GPIOs that I want, and ones that have a fairly large number of GPIOs tend to command a hefty price premium. (IOs are relative expensive to put on a chip — take up a lot of area compared to logic — and expensive to package. And there tends to be a correlation of lots of GPIOs with expensive, high-performance CPU cores.) Also, I don't have any spares — it's been a long time since I did any electronics as a hobby — although that's easily remedied.
I'll ask my actual question over in the Help Bites thread — wouldn't want @blakeyrat's ghost to have a conniption because someone got help in a non-help topic.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
wouldn't want @blakeyrat's ghost to have a conniption because someone got help in a non-help topic.
This would never actually happen. I only help in non-help topics in an unhelpful fashion, and surely my behavior is representative.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No, no. It wants to be pinned down a second time, over there.
How to pin Edge:
You forgot to lock it in a chest and throw it in a lake.
Also the step.
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@Luhmann ?
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Ordered 15 pcb's , 3 designs x 5 pcs, timeline:
Tue, Aug 17, 11:12 PM (2 days ago) Thanks for placing your order on JLCPCB.COM
Aug 19, 9:57 PM (1 hour ago) We are pleased to inform you that the items listed below have been shipped via DHL International Express.
:happy_penguin: That was fast.
Now for the slow part: Shenzen to Miami by DHL, then Miami to Buenos Aires, ar with another courier, then Buenos Aires to $Small_Town with a national courier.
If like the prev operation, maybe friday next week, or near that.
OT: not even one :happy_<something> nor :fa_: ?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
🥳
no one includes 'happy'
To add insult, no :firecracker: no :firecrackers:
edit: good jorb in the quote.
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Status: A supplier sent me three parcels by UPS on Tuesday for next-day delivery.
Two of them were delivered on Wednesday, as expected.
But the third parcel didn't turn up, and the tracking website claimed it didn't exist. Today it switched to "shipping label created".
This is starting to look like early symptoms of Delivery Distortion Field, and I don't like this at all.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
(fuck everything about laptops)
They're great for reading while you poop.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No, no. It wants to be pinned down a second time, over there.
How to pin Edge:
I am not so sure which version you mean:
- some kind of voodoo
or - some kind of collecting small animals like insects
- some kind of voodoo
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@BernieTheBernie I meant stabbing the voodoo doll, but I thought of the other one, too, after I posted that.
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I dreamt that I dreamt that I got my cock pierced. They put me under local anesthesia in the dream-dream, so I guess I was unconscious a third level deep.
Inception dreaming is getting old. The time dilation aspect is, apparently, a lie.
Also, pretty sure most piercing places don't have an anesthesiologist on staff.
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@error Since you haven't posted this in the "Don't Interpret My Dreams" thread, I can only presume you're okay with us interpreting it.
I personally will not.