elucubra

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Germany Denies Reports of Additional F-35 Purchase in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Countries like UK, Italy, and Spain have to get F35B, since they operate non catapult carriers. There is no other choice.

Ancient food are absurdly complicated. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

What really blows my mind is the dude that mixed oil and eggs and decided to beat the bejesus out of the mix for half an hour by hand and got mayonnaise.

A long long time ago... in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

When gmail was invite I got my name, my ex wife's and both my kid's. I also got a couple of regular words, for other uses. I get a ton of mail for other people with the same last name.

A long long time ago... in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 15 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

I really hope that is not your real email

When life was full of wonder in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

I lived in Pittsburgh during my formative years. Pittsburgh has an awesome library system, with world class libraries like the Carnegie library, and each universitie's libraries, plus all the local libraries. I spent quite a bit of time in these. The net adds convenience, and some niche things, but it's not the information, it's having it in your pocket.

Also, you have to sift through a lot of bullshit.

Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
The World's Most Respected 'Made In' Labels in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Not necessarily. Chinese companies are making woodworking hand tools of exceptional quality, comparable to European/US/Japanese quality, for a fraction of the price.

Elon Musk Scrubs X Of Jewish Users Who Made Grok Mad in c/theonion@midwest.social
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The state of the world is such that my standard operating procedure is to always check for the onion at the foot of a post

Gay blessings 'will remain' under Pope Leo, Vatican doctrine chief says in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

"exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman, naturally open to the generation of children"

Gay blessings 'will remain' under Pope Leo, Vatican doctrine chief says in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Being a recovering catholic, from a country that is also recovering catholic, I cannot relate to most of your post.

I respect most faiths, but denounce all organized religion, "churches" if you will.

Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I want that thing where a light "paints" over wounds and they heal.

What is your favorite simulator game? in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

X-plane. Ms flight simulator is drop dead gorgeous, but X plane has a better flight engine.

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New God tier filament for me (sopuli.xyz)
 

No affiliation or anything. I’m simply stoked!

Elegoo Rapid PETG. I like PETG, but with my printer (Ender 5 Plus, slightly tuned; DD, All metal hotend, dual gear extruder, accelerometer…) regular PETG is sloooow. I’m already up to 180 mm/s it prints beautifully. As with all PETG it likes to be thoroughly dry. Once dry it prints like a PLA+. Beautiful definition.

I paid about 15€ per roll, but buying a 4 pack, it comes to about 12,50€ per roll, so about the same as PLA.

I’m just not buying regular PLA, or PETG anymore. The new generation of materials just leave the older ones in the dust. I had a few rolls of standard PETG that I had slowly been using up, but I sold the last 2, I couldn’t bear the waiting times.

I’m going to try a bunch of the new modified materials, like ABS plus and HT, ASA plus, and especially Polymaker’s HT-PLA-GF, a glass fiber high temp PLA that can be annealed in boiling water without deformation to withstand temps like 150º. Nuts! They are basically sold out until August, but once back in stock I’m buying the stuff.

Interesting times to be in the hobby.

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What is your go to email manager? (sopuli.xyz)
 

Bonus points: Multi platform, Android-iOS... I usually use Thunderbird, but I'd like to explore other options. FOSS not mandatory

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Community and comments too close (sopuli.xyz)
 

I use the app in an iPad, a much of the time when I click with my finger on the comments icon, my finger hits the community link.

Anybody else have this problem?

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So, you've found the light. You are now a penguin herder... (sopuli.xyz)
 

We are happy, very happy, that you have joined the light side of the force, but here you are preaching to the choir. Go knock on doors and help others see the light. Oh, and sending some money to one of the thousands of FOSS projects that keep this running would be nice too.

Anyway, welcome again.

/Not_a_Rant

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Please explain this to me. Are consumers that dumb?!? (sopuli.xyz)
 
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Voyager browser. (sopuli.xyz)
 

Is there a way to have Voyager use an external browser to display web links? In iPad I’d like to use Brave, to minimize ads

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Happy coincidence (sopuli.xyz)
 
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Synology with hybrid RAID alternative? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.

Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.

What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?

I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future

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Alternative for Synology with hybrid RAID? (sopuli.xyz)
 

I currently have an HP micro server gen 8 with Xpenology with hybrid raid, which works fairly well, but I’m 2 major versions behind. I’m quite happy with it, but I-d like to have an easier upgrade process, and more options. My main use is NAS and a couple of apps. I’d like to have more flexibility, to easily have an arr suite, etc.

Considerdering the hassle of safely upgrading xpenology because of the hybrid raid (4+4+2+2 Gb HDDs) I-d like a setup which I can easily upgrade and modify.

What are my options here? What RAID options are there that easily and efficiently these these disks?

I don-t have the spare money right now to replace the 2Gb disks. Planned in the future.

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Since people have asked: SMART Recovery and resources. (sopuli.xyz)
 

DISCLAIMER: I'm a SMART volunteer, a meeting facilitator, among other things. I do this to give back. SMART is essentially run by volunteers.

SMART Recovery US website: https://smartrecovery.org/

There are others world wide. A web search with SMART Recovery (language/country) should give you the right result)

https://smartrecoveryglobal.org/

has resources for countries without an established branch

Also, a link to a non-official recovery server, (there are also other program rooms) that leans SMART: https://discord.gg/6YGQFR3b where 1000s of people with addiction issues hang out, as well as many experienced volunteers. We call it "the support group in your pocket"

SMART is the leading science-based addiction peer self-support organization world wide. Non-profit. Meetings are free and confidential, with thousands of online and face to face meetings. There are 1000s of meetings weekly world-wide.

There are publications, like the participant handbook, which are a paid, but very affordable resource, not necessary but very helpful. That said, most of the material is available free of charge on the website. The handbook simply provides a structured way to understand the concepts and tools.

Spirituality, like higher powers, is not needed, that is left to the individual.

The program is is based on self empowerment, behavioral training, how to learn to cope with what leads us to addictive behaviors.

The program is not strictly abstinence oriented. It's about identifying goals, and help you achieve them. It supports therapy, professionally prescribed meds, it's not adverse to moderation and harm reduction, as current addiction treatment research supports.

SMART doesn't shame, doesn't stigmatize, doesn't do labels. We are people with an addiction management problem, not alcoholics, or drug addicts or whatever.

There are no steps. It's a 4 point program. Points (or areas) can be approached individually or at the same time:

  1. Build and maintain motivation
  2. Cope with urges and cravings
  3. Manage thoughts, feelings and behavior
  4. Lead a balanced life

The program is oriented towards the addictive behaviors, and doesn't focus on the substance or maladaptive behavior , but how to deal with it. It works for Alcohol, nicotine, drugs, and for things like porn addiction, eating disorders, gambling...

The program is considered one of multiple pathways to recovery, does not claim to be the only way. Many combine it with 12 step, or whatever helps them also.

I hope this helps. If anybody has any questions, please ask.

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Am I welcome here? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by elucubra@sopuli.xyz to c/stopdrinking@lemmy.world
11 comments fedilink
 

I'm a SMART Recovery Facilitator. We support informed choice. SMART provides tools, and you do you. I'm personally abstinence focused. Am I welcome here, or should I GTFO?

What I mean is: Is Stop drinking is a 12 step only sub, or is it a Stop drinking sub

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Is there a way to watch YouTube without ads in iPad OS like in Android (sopuli.xyz)
 

I’m usually an Android/Linux user, but also use an iPad. In both Android and Linux I manage to have a mostly ad free experience, with Piped, for example, or with a plugin combo in Firefox. Is there a way to have this on the iPad? The whole no plugin thing in iPad Firefox is quite maddening.

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