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• Post #4429215

  In case you ever wondered, the lifetime of a #Fairphone 5 battery is 16 months, apparently. 😐 I guess that's a need to repair now. Kinda disappointing. I even used their battery life enhancing options for the better half of that time. Overall, I had this impression after a couple months and it looks like it's still true what some people say: With a Fairphone, you actually do get a rather mediocre phone for the price of a good phone. I really hope it does make a positive impact elsewhere.

• Post #4104441

  Print bed leveling still is not automated enough to satisfy me. Even with ABL, you still always start with manual leveling because ABL will do a better job then, and manual leveling still relies on the "make nozzle touch sheet of paper" process which is just absolutely wild. Not the sheet of paper - the "touch" part of it. That is just zero reproducible. I want this pressure sensor to put below the nozzle that a Youtube made somewhen but I think it's no longer available....

• Post #3529604

  TIL the term "Pokémon exception handling" 🤣🤣🤣 (Gotta catch'em all...)

• Post #2661844

  Look who crawled out from under the stone, it's #Couchsurfing! I didn't even remember I had still subscribed to their blog (thanks feed readers). I had subscribed years ago because I wanted to see if they apologized for or explained their last dick move somewhen. There were no posts until yesterday, when they pulled their next dick move. Summary: You can login, click through their new onboarding with fake data, then export your data and delete your account, at least this much was...

• Post #2661843

  Hanacon in 13 h! I mostly go because it's local and to support friends, but I found a note I had buried under other stuff that said "fix Lightning's coat" and now the coat has an additional seam that prevents the foam I use as weight from popping out. I'm still amazed this works at all. There's an asymmetric piece of foam sewed into the bottom that makes the coat both stiff and fall in the right angle. Also, I like that unlike painting, sewing wo...

• Post #2661842

  Well that was quite the spectacle for the last day of Lightning Returns. One WTF 🤦‍♂️moment but overall pretty good actually. Very welcome after I spent some time with some of the worse side quests and then decided to just skip ahead (you can go to sleep, which never makes sense unless you really don't have anything to do anymore). It's late and I saved the last fights for another night, but then it's finally over and I finished the Lightning trilogy after over 3 years. #Fin...

• Post #2661841

  Whoa there are so many fake "in the style of" "DJ sets" on Youtube that I almost didn't believe it, but there is a freaking B2B set of Sara Landry and Amelie Lens. Holy shit. My calendar says Eurovision but I guess I have better things to do now #Techno

• Post #2661840

  The HanaCon cosplay contest tries to target all experience levels and specialties and they at least succeeded in attracting a very wild mix of characters and a lot of contestants!

• Post #2661839

  HanaCon was nice. Not that much larger than NiCon, the other convention in Hannover, but it felt better organized. I enjoyed watching the Cosplay contest, the games room, talking to other cosplayers and unexpectedly meeting some people I knew from volunteering at other cons. I also finally figured out how to fix my wig and wig cap so that it doesn't hurt, looks good and doesn't move. Lightning needs some re-styling though. #cosplay

• Post #2661838

  damn tuned into #ESC and missed Look Mum No Computer, literally saw him walk off the stage #Eurovision

• Post #2661837

  TIL that there is an international fireworks contest and I am currently seeing the Danish entry from my living room window. Wild. It's kinda far away, but it's LOUD. This is not the normal sound of fireworks you get to see at city festivals etc

• Post #2661836

  Seeing some pieces of Pragmata here and there and it looks like I might like it. I immediately liked the characters, too. For the last year or so I've often been overwhelmed by the amount of games I could play just because I already have them in my library, so I avoided looking at new games much, but Pragmata looks so fresh, I'll keep an eye on it.

• Post #2661835

  The half of #ESC that I saw was kinda boring. So here's a banger instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQyRS_czmgc (I picked up #Homestuck again tonight, probably unconsciously inspired by a Homestuck cosplay entry at the Hanacon contest. Thankfully, I stopped at the first year recap.)

• Post #2661834

  Yesterday's HanaCon came with unplanned 5 min of con crunch / stress: 10 min before I had to leave, a glued-on part of the gunblade fell off since the temporary bag is a little too small. Connected hot glue gun to power directly because I couldn't find the base fast enough, continued to get dressed while it heated, glued part back on, caught bus in time. What I did not have was my con ticket, but the friendly staff found a way to verify I actually paid for one and let me in. :) #...

• Post #2661833

  I figured out something new with the gunblade: I don't actually need the safety pins to be metal nails. A piece of ABS filament is enough. It's not as stiff, but it prevents the thing from falling apart or out of position, at least in sword form. Hmm. I will think about this. Maybe this opens up new options so I can have a more elegant lock after all. (Either way, this is good, because nails are usually forbidden at cons.) #cosplay #propMaking #FinalFantasy #FFXIII

• Post #2661832

  Hahahaha I still did not finish Lightning Returns. Took three attempts at the final boss, didn't beat it yet. Feels doable though and also the fight actually feels pretty good, unlike one of the optional bosses right before which just felt plain unfair and cost me way too many of my good healing items. Also, the spectacle! Whoa! The ending clearly got more polishing than the beginning. Story coming together, fights going crazy, visuals delightful, fantastic music. #FinalFantasy #FFXIII

• Post #1342137

  Here's Valve's official statement regarding the "data breach". Some mobile phone numbers were exposed. Turns out the "2FA keys" were some one-time codes that were already useless at the time they were stolen. tl;dr You do not need to change your password or anything else, it would not be of any more use then on any other day. However, since you are now already thinking about security, it's a good time to use a better password if you use...