If you bought a 3D printer for personal use, was it worth it? by Kanzar in c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ahaha that's real cool. I had ear moulds taken professionally and what you did is pretty dang close. Nice work!

If you bought a 3D printer for personal use, was it worth it? by Kanzar in c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

When you say you printed IEMs and ear protection, are you able to elaborate?

In my case I've only just gotten into FDM, and I'm having a lot more fun with it than my resin printer, but I might have made enough things for the resin printer that might make that a lot less of a chore.

So far, the FDM has been handy with quite a few functional prints around the house (certainly not yet enough that I can say it's cheaper than just buying the items outright, but we're getting close!), and that's been an enjoyable process.

Germany’s doner kebab becomes symbol of angst over rising costs by Kanzar in c/world@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago

Maybe the article was made up with an LLM?

Deranged Politicians Are Trying to Ban Wearing Masks by Kanzar in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago

I can just imagine how awkward dentist appointments are going to be...

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Opening Garage Door Options (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by Kanzar@sh.itjust.works to c/motorcycles@lemmy.world
10 comments fedilink

I figure I might as well post some stuff to the Fediverse.

I have a Meross MSG100 to add "smart" connectivity to my otherwise dumb powered garage door. To my pleasant surprise, Meross can be hooked up to Samsung SmartThings, and you can set a routine for when you arrive within a certain radius of home (100m is the smallest), it can then open the garage door. It can even be set to note if you've been gone long enough (I have mine set to 10 minutes).

For more precise location detection, you have to do a little finangling to get it to be hooked up to the Modes and Routines app where you can then also set a location setting that includes connecting to your home wifi.

The finangling involves setting up a virtual switch in SmartThings (as garage door openers aren't "supported" by M&R, but a switch is), and having a routine in ST linking the switch's state to the garage door.

If you don't have ST Labs (only available in USA and KR), then you can make a virtual switch using Samsung's own web ui: https://my.smartthings.com/advanced/devices

Anyway, we tested it this afternoon and it worked fine.

For those without a Samsung phone, this will be a lot harder to set up (if not impossible).

My backup options were:

  1. Getting my Cardo set up (whenever it arrives) and yelling Hey Google open the garage door, waiting for it to go 'sure, what's your pin', and yelling that at it... from like two roundabouts away from home.
  2. Buying and installing a Riders Magic Touch
  3. Buying and installing a Mo-Door
  4. Buying and installing the Garage Door Opener from Vizi-Tec (hooks up to brake line), apparently you do a zip-zip-zip-braaake on your brake and it activates it?
  5. Taking apart a garage remote and making my own version of any of the above, including like the FlashToPass/FlashToOpen (they don't exist anymore sadly) which activated when you flashed your high beams
  6. Tucking a remote into my tank bag and smashing the shit out of it
  7. Do what I've been doing which was stopping, glove off, open jacket pocket, fish out remote and press button, shove it back into pocket, glove back on, roll into garage

Anyone got any other unique ways of managing their garage door whilst on the motorcycle?

Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days by Kanzar in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

They did something similar with some transformers here in Australia, and unfortunately there were some possibly associated traffic incidents where people might have not been going the right speed and got rear-ended. One man died, even.

Please avoid the route, even when it is pulled over to "rest", as your fellow motorists may not be able to resist rubbernecking.

Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality is sentenced: 'This is a breach of my human rights' by Kanzar in c/world@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

There's a lot of gay men who don't even consider that these laws will apply to them. It doesn't help that a lot of people will say "oh those laws only apply to locals, they won't enforce them on international people".

Nearly 80% of Americans now view fast food as a luxury by Kanzar in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

Used to be able to get $1 cheeseburgers. The loose change menu was a huge thing here, you could actually wander in with some coins and walk out with some food.

At $1 a burger, in less than 3 minutes, that's way cheaper, "tastier" (subjective), faster, and no cleaning up, than having a pot of lentil curry.

Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet by Kanzar in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago

Iirc the increase in people driving instead of flying due to 911, lead to more accidents and deaths. :(

Ubiquiti Users Somehow Being Fed Access to Strangers' Security Cameras by Kanzar in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 43 points 8 months ago

Eufy users: first time?

I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue." by Kanzar in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

Think op means the steam deck, not switch.

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British couple died on holiday after adjoining room fumigated for bed bugs (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Kanzar@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world
25 comments fedilink
What "frugal" tricks have you found to just not be worth it, either in time or money? by Kanzar in c/frugal@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

In Australia there are apps that show cheapest prices near you, so at least there's not too much time and effort involved.

Women are less likely to receive CPR in public than men: Study by Kanzar in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago

The instructors advise you to speak aloud your actions as you do them. Also helps if you have already levelled out instructions to the rent a crowd to perform specific tasks like send for help and get the defib and you three who said yes to cpr training let's line up and take turns doing cpr.

...of course, the training to be comfortable giving these instructions is not really done.

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British anti-trans rights activist issues John Pesutto and leadership team with defamation concerns notices (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 11 months ago by Kanzar@sh.itjust.works to c/australia@aussie.zone
9 comments fedilink

The context:

The British activist, who also goes by pseudonym Posie Parker, spoke at a "Let Women Speak" event outside Victorian parliament in March that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis, who joined the anti-trans rights demonstrators and repeatedly performed the Nazi salute.

MP Moira Deeming's involvement in the "Let Women Speak" rally led to her suspension and eventual expulsion from the Liberal party.

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