I saw a (what now I understand to be a single stage) steam engine at a museum a few months ago. I must understand how this works. Anyone have any good links to information from "concept" to "operation" for steam engines? Thank you.

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    "This isnt exclusive to autism". Okay I said it, everybody shut up now. Lol yeah I do this all the time too. I reply things over and over.

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    What do you like to print? I like making useful things. Currently Im working on a system for mobility aids to attach items like phone charger batteries and cup holders... and my ham radio!

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  • Anyone else travel with a backpack nearly everywhere you go? If so, what's in there?
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    Yes, and I'll include other items I carry on my walker as well: Steam Deck Battery Packs for phones/devices no less then 4 two way radios Ham radio gear Charger cables for everything I own. A change of clothes baby wipes Medication My other wallet. note takeing stuff a laptop? (Sometimes) TI-83+ Graphing Calculator (Gotta have my trusty old guy) Kindle EPI Pens Water Bottle Snacks Other stuff I probably forgot.

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  • Fellow auties, which do you find is a better and healthier fit for you: dating another autistic person or an NT?
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    My wife is ADHD, and I'm Autistic. I think we balence out each other, though we did have a funny experiance one time where someone (A doctor at a hospital I was at) asked her if she was autistic too, and my wife said, "No, why do you ask?" And the Dr said, "Well they tend to find each other". I did date one other person before her, and she was on the spectrum, and honestly, it didn't work very well, because we did not solve each others meltdowns, and when we did, it tended to go badly. On the upside, her ADHD lets her focus on everything that needs to be done at once, while my focus lets me remind her what she was doing, then she reminds me of all the things I didn't do yet, that didn't even cross my mind, such as breakfast, or meds. I get asked the tough questions sometimes even like "Have you had water today?", "Have you eaten?"

    Diversity is good for each other I think.

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    I just bought a compression vest from amazon, its been great.

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  • Cooking
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    What app do you use? I use recipesage.

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    Cooking

    Does anyone else do "Iterative cooking"? I like to make sometime, and then make it again, with a little tweak to make it better. I record all of my ingredients and amounts of everything so I can cook consistantly. It's my dream to make some favorites, and make them the same way every time.

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    Ender 3 Pro motherboard recommendations
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    I use a cheap pc I was not using, and let it do folding@home when I'm not printing... Actually... it does it while printing too. Anyways, Just get another board that handles klipper and just add it? Is there a specific "USB to Stepper" board, or do I just hotwire in another motherboard. I have the Ender 3 Pro with the "magical probably wont burn down your house" power supply, is that enough for another board, if I'm running another stepper?

    Thanks!

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  • I'm considering making some upgrades to my ender 3 Pro, such as one of the multi material upgrades, but that would require more motors. Anyone know of a good motherboard? Thanks!

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    please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site
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    Someone on the internet was wrong. Today it was me.

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  • please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site
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    Well... I visited there site... That's... Ummm... Well... Maybe there servers can cool down by going to hell? That's.... That's not good man. I may even have seen some sort of terrorist activity on the home page. I'm not saying I would be happy about saying this... But maybe we should defederate. Eats Humble Pie

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  • please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site
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    I'm not saying there's no place for defederation. I'm just saying the reasons given seem... Idea driven. Then again my experience with Lemmy has been pretty good so far. The post I saw was a "I don't like these people and that group over there is thinking about blocking them, let's join in". People keep telling me it's not about taste... Maybe I need to go look for myself. I'm just thinking about a conversation I had on mastodon where someone showed me a (hilarious) screenshot of Facebook telling them that they used hate speech.... And it was just talking about a car. I guess... If they "stay in there lane" and leave our instances communitys groups alone, what is the harm in allowing two servers to speak. If on the other hand, they make threats, or mucking up the system (like is the concern with meta on mastodon) then perhaps defederating is the issue. MY PERSONAL CONCERN: Lemmy takes off, mom/grandma makes an account, and starts following content only mom or grandma would like. And boom... I'm horribly confused at the dinner table about those murder parties she's planning to go to... And I'm going "what the hell? what are you talking about." Let's be honest, I want the firehose... I need to keep an eye on those crazies... All of them. Plus... I like to be offended. Keeps me humble to know people don't like me.

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    Illegal and spambots are one thing... I just don't want thought police on sdf. If your reason for defederation is "I don't like them, we should make them go away." Then maybe we are no better then the people who say those things about us.

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  • please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site
  • epl692 epl692 Now 50%

    Additional thought... If the people in the defederate camp just go and post things they don't like... Maybe they defederate with us... Then we don't stoop, and you get your wish? (I assume it goes both ways) 😜

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    I'm confused... We're talking about trying to make two fediverses here... That's kinda weird. I hear your "don't mix bleach with ammonia"... But if I see someone say that on Lemmy... Am I going to do it? How does it actually hurt me? I understand it's hateful and offensive, but this is a free and open internet, and that is one big reason I choose Lemmy/Mastodon over twitter/reddit. It's like the library... Have you ever seen something at the library you don't like. An opposing viewpoint? Do we defund the library and close it because there's a "gay comic book" in it? That happened in my area, very stupid. I come here for all my ideas, and expect to be offended by some. It's the internet. Plan to be offended... By 9am. When you wake up at 8:55a. And it takes you 4 minutes to pick up your phone.

    But then again I could be a crazy conservative or liberal or something... Don't trust me.

    Now where where the memes again.

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  • Lemmy.sdf.org keeps asking for 1.7GB of local storage
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    Why do they ask for anything under 15Eb? I dont want to be asked for anything less then the entire Internet...

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  • Where should I begin?…
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    My old computer had one... Sadly it was destroyed... Not by choice! Need to pick up some more.

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  • Test post. If you see this, it was successfully posted from Lynx thanks to the old.lemmy.sdf.org
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    Okay, on this vibe, is there something like toot but for Lemmy? I'm going to have to try this...

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  • What do they have in common?
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    They all get baked in the shower.

    Thank you autocorrect, I'm leaving it.

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  • The SDF mastodon instance "social" is throwing errors for me, is this a known thing?

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    I enjoy reading, and like to ask random questions on AMAs from time to time, did that make the move? If so, where? If not, why?

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    What is the funniest thing you witnessed/lived thru?
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    My appendix was in a very bad way, and they gave me pain meds. I then got wheeled down to CT and got bumped into a wall. I laughed so hard. I still don't know why it's funny to me... But hey, it came to mind.

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  • Netscape - when web browsing was fun.
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    I recall having to explain to someone that we could use netscape navigator, even though we paid for "MacNet" internet service. There was concern that it was not allowed at our house.

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  • Welcome to Lemmy vX.XX.X-rc.X - The Lemmy Upgrade Thread
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    It's working pretty good for me. And federation is great. But I can't seem to upload photos. Maybe there's a file size cap.

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  • So I had this idea, but did anyone have a better idea? Is there a reasonably priced solar system anyone knows of that can get me around 20-30Ah? Or is it mAh... I'm still trying my units right.

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    So, Last year I lost my vintage computers (most of them a work in progress) in a house fire. I've started rebuilding my collection. I've got my TI-83+ still, I consider that to be one. It was with me when the fire happened, and I have an old windows 95 computer I got my hands on, still not sure what to do with him yet. Ideas on projects/places to go next. Would love to find something reliable that can takes datasets, but is reasonably priced.

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    Eric

    epl692@ lemmy.sdf.org