[-] Sparky 2 points 3 hours ago

About 3 years ago, I was looking for emeralds at a closed emerald mine when I had the brilliant idea of hitting a random rock with my pickaxe. Turns out the rock was harder than the pickaxe, so a piece of the metal broke off and flew into my finger. I was 10s of hours away from any hospitals, and the metal curved around the bone of my finger, so I had to take my dad's camping knife and cut the thing out. This was at a camping spot, so I had running water, but it wasn't easy.

[-] Sparky 3 points 3 hours ago

Oh no not the bed sheets

[-] Sparky 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Sparky 2 points 2 days ago

Aren't pretty much all storefronts searchable, or is it a Europe thing?

I shop primarily local and find stores with ddg/Google/Google maps. I live in a country where Amazon doesn't exist, and shipping takes at least 3-7 days, so I've always bought stuff from local stores. Of course not everything is sold in a physical store, for which you'll probably have to use ebay.

[-] Sparky 11 points 2 days ago
[-] Sparky 2 points 3 days ago

I feel this sooo much

[-] Sparky 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I keep forgetting that some people need vpns to torrent.

[-] Sparky 3 points 5 days ago
[-] Sparky 83 points 1 week ago

I love how it has taken this long for media to cover this issue. I thought this was common knowledge for about a decade

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I upcycled some ram (protosparky.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Sparky to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

Idk if it even fits in this community, but here we gooo




This stick of ram has been my emotional support stick of ram for almost a decade. It's traveled with me around the world, and been in my backpack through tough times.
Since it's so old and only 4GB, i can't really use it or sell it, which is why i turned it into a knife. It's surprisingly sharp, and short enough that the airlines in my country allow it in carry-on and checked luggage, so it can still be my travel companion.

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I upcycled some ram (protosparky.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Sparky to c/hardwaregore@lemmy.world

Idk if it even fits in this community, but here we gooo




This stick of ram has been my emotional support stick of ram for almost a decade. It's traveled with me around the world, and been in my backpack through tough times.
Since it's so old and only 4GB, i can't really use it or sell it, which is why i turned it into a knife. It's surprisingly sharp, and short enough that the airlines in my country allow it in carry-on and checked luggage, so it can still be my travel companion

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submitted 3 months ago by Sparky to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

Hey y'all, I've been having issues with gaps forming between the outer layers of the print walls, and I'm not sure how to fix that. I thought it might be because of a clogged extruder, but the issue didn't get fixed when I cleaned it. I tried adjusting the E-steps, but smaller values caused blobs of filament to form on the outer walls likely because lower values overextruded the filament. Apart from the weird top layer and walls, the prints turn out perfectly fine, so it might be a slicer related issue. The printer is an Ender 3 pro with a bltouch sensor and upgraded marlin board + octoprint.

Here are some pictures of the issue, and a screenshot of the slicer settings:

Any help is greatly appreciated :3

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Music rule (protosparky.uk)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Sparky to c/196

Caption: An image of the album cover from Guns and Roses for their album "Appetite for Destruction", which has been modified to replace the skulls of the band members with waifus. The image has a caption that says "So about a year ago, I woke up from a dream, drenched in sweat, with just one phrase being on my mind "guns and waifus". Today, i made the music cover a reality." End Caption

So this actually happened, and "guns and waifus" has been sitting dormant in my notes app until today.

I don't really listen to guns and roses, nor do i watch anime, so i hope i didn't offend anyone :3

Here's the picture without the caption:

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Sparky to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Too bad the desk space sucks...

High res image

Caption: Picture of a giant display in a big event/concert space. The display shows a terminal with the output from hyfetch. End caption

High res image

Anyways here's the real setup that was controlling that big ass screen

Also sorry if the text formatting is messed up (I am posting from mobile)

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peekaboo (protosparky.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by Sparky to c/cat@lemmy.world
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[OC] Bus stop at night (protosparky.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by Sparky to c/photography@lemmy.ml
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[OC] Bus stop at night (protosparky.uk)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sparky to c/pics@lemmy.world

High res image

Norwegian bus stop during the night.

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hmmm (protosparky.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by Sparky to c/hmmm@lemmy.world
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sparky to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de

Hi, my 3d printer psu fan gave up the ghost, and I wanted to replace it. It was pretty noisy, so I thought about upgrading from a 30mm to an 80mm fan. I am designing the top case with mounting holes, and want some input on where to place the new fan. The original placement is the box with the red color. The green and blue box are some options I thought of for the new fan placement. Would placing it over the busier part of the pcb yield lower temps, or is that a bad idea? Does placement even matter for psu fans? The new fan has higher airflow, but lower static pressure than the original one, and the plan is for it to always spin at a low rpm and occasionally speed up when the psu detects a high temperature. The original config runs it completely fanless until the psu reaches 50c and only then does it send voltage to the fan header.

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Consume Saddam (protosparky.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by Sparky to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world I stole your meme mohahaha

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sparky to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hey y'all, today I experienced another push for Linux from our friend Microsoft. 5 minutes ago, I wanted to use the timer app on Windows, so I could manage my work/break schedule, and this fucker showed up. Yes, that's a prompt to sign in with a Microsoft account to use the clock. If you close it, it pops up 30s later. Clicking “Don't sign in” or closing the process responsible for displaying it is useless, and guess what… IT PAUSES THE TIMER WHEN IT SHOWS UP.

I guess this is another thing added to the super long list of things which will eventually make me switch my main workstation to Linux once win10 is discontinued.

/endrant

Hope y'all are having a great day :3

[-] Sparky 75 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Omg that's so cool! Check out this fan website if made for you http://localhost

[-] Sparky 93 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Idk who needs to know this, but in Norwegian "runke" means to jerk off. "runk" is the word you add a prefix to in conjugation to get the different inflections

  • runke - jerk off
  • runker - jerking off
  • runket - jerked off

Etc...

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