Hyacin (He/Him)

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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • iirc - I learned the whole thing from Analog Resurgence’ video on the subject - he recommended something for practice… I can’t remember if it was, the ends of rolls, or, like, already developed strips (seems kinda dangerous so probably not) … or … maybe it was in the bulk loader video he had the suggestion and I adapted it to practice the development rolling process too or something …

    I feel like I can remember sitting on the couch with my hands under a blanket or something (I’m sure it wasn’t real film so no concerns about spoiling) and just doing it over and over without being able to see …

    I really wish I could remember, but it was a couple years ago now. I guess the long and the short of it though was that practice did indeed make, well, ‘better’, lol. Honestly not sure how much luck I’d have if I tried today as it has been so long, but at the time I was banging out at least 1-2 rolls per week for a good 3-5 months and got pretty ok at it.

    Helped of course doing the bulk rolls, because I could literally just spool up a 12 shot roll or whatever, go for a five minute walk and shoot the whole thing with no remorse of waste (as I may have with 24 or 36 shots) and then do my thing!



  • I’ve got the robot vacuum of Theseus here… early, 2nd or 3rd gen Roomba I guess it is, I’ve probably had since 2009 or so I think. I’ve replaced damn near all of it, and I’m ALWAYS shocked when something new breaks, I check online, and I can get a part and replace it! And often times the replacement ends up being an upgrade too. I think it must have come from the Twilight Zone or something, I don’t know.




  • This. I know ‘nicotine’ is already here, but it’s not the same.

    Confused the hell out of me when I was trying to switch to vaping that I’d keep going back to cigarettes - “I’M GETTING THE NICOTINE, WHAT THE HELL?!”, and it wasn’t just habit, it was overwhelming need to smoke.

    I finally figured some of those other 2999 or whatever chemicals in there must be addictive too, or something, I don’t know.

    I’ve quit drinking, when I was a daily drinker at risk of a seizure because my body had grown so chemically dependent on it. I’ve quit countless other ‘behavioral’ addictions.

    NOTHING, was as hard as trying to quit smoking. Until, thank the powers that be, I met vaping, and after a couple months of back and forth, was able to transition to it entirely. Haven’t had a cigarette since, and it’s been at least 10-11 years.

    Eventually lowered my nicotine to 0 mg, then gave up the vaping. Haven’t done either since. That was, probably 8-9 years ago now.

    I still get the odd craving to vape. Zero cravings to smoke up until last year, first trip in my life to Vegas (and two more since). The casino environment with everyone smoking, I don’t know what it is. Got me looking at it with the rose coloured glasses occasionally while there - but then I quickly remember how hard it was to shake, and how happy I am without it.











  • Hyacin (He/Him)@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlLiberal Democracy
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    2 months ago

    Yeah I really don’t understand these posts, and there is a LOT of them. It almost seems like propaganda from the right to help them win again.

    “Don’t bother voting! Your only solution is full on revolution!” revolution does not happen “Oh shit, he got in again”

    Like fine, if you want to plan a revolution, go plan a revolution - that does not mean you stop participating in this system entirely while you’re figuring it out. People NOT voting is how we got into this damn mess (again) to begin with. We don’t need to discourage even MORE people from voting.


  • Proxmox.

    /thread

    Anything else you want to run, you can run in Proxmox. If it’s too much hardware for what you’re doing, all the more reason to run Proxmox. You can build an Arch VM, and NixOS VM, and whatever else you want in it!

    If you go with just one of them right on the hardware, that’s all you can do with it, you’re done, you’re stuck.

    When you have Proxmox on it, you can try every OS! And then some! It is a superpower for learning.




  • Made by Meta - hell no.

    Made by someone else - possibly.

    My main interests are navigation guidance on a HUD, real-time translation, and to a lesser degree teleprompting for speeches or presentations.

    Wouldn’t even really care if they had a camera or not - though what I’ve seen from the ones that do, being able to look at something that is in another language and ask it to translate it for you is pretty seriously cool. Can’t imagine I’d use cameras for much else - but honestly with how uncomfortable they’d make everyone around me, I’d be quite willing to just forego them and pull out my phone to snap a pic and translate something that is text.

    I was looking at the Even G1 pretty hard but then read some reviews that say the real-time translation is TERRIBLE, and to make it slightly less terrible you have to pay subscription fees, so I unsubscribed from their mailing list pretty quick.

    Saw one on a Kickstarter recently that also piqued my interest, but they have cameras and were pretty bulky … I may wait a generation or three for them to shrink down a bit more.