>>2966740
What machine?
Merry Christmas lads!

>>2966740
the singer heavy duty 4411 which ive read isnt heavy duty at all but for someone who wants to hem clothes, make curtains and halloween costumes it should be more than enough. i've been keeping an eye out at the 2 nearby thrift stores for months with no luck but maybe some day i'll find an abandoned workhorse

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Dunno where else to ask, but where do you guys buy fabric? Especially if you want one with some elaborate pattern?
I want to clothbind a book and would love to have some nice fabric for that.

>>2966938
Well, I go down to the tiny sewing shop that has good fabric in my neighborhood, or now I'm visiting my parents for Christmas I'm planning a trip to the nice quilting shop in their town with a much bigger selection.

>>2966953
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Unfortunately my town either doesn't have any of those, or (much more likely) I'm unable to find it on google. Maybe I'll ask around at local crafts related shops

>>2964105
this reminds me of the one time i hit a deer. I got lucky and it went under instead of over and I didnt get wrecked. I just drove off after picking up pieces of my bumper cover and the deer was just laying in the middle of the road. id like to think a deer enjoyer stopped and got it

>>2964113
hey hey hey
this is 2025.
3 feet off the gas pedal with the anticanaanite pal

>>2965562
Do you eat meat

>>2966697
post collection

>>2964107
what's the next step once that's over? Do you boil it or something to get the rest of gore off?

>>2966826
In america you can too, but unless you are a business or interfering with emergency services. They won't do anything. The FCC won't fine you in USA unless you have enough money to pay a 10k dollar fine (IE a business) or you have to be actively and regularly fucking with the police or fire department

If I called the FCC on this jammer they'd go "dang" and then hang up lol

I'm thinking of getting an LMR license and a frequency from the FCC to have all to myself. I'd also be able to use encryption as well if I had an LMR license and frequency

>>2966816
They won't do anything.
You'd have to handle it yourself.

Concerning passive repeaters:
Is there any reason to use an integer number of wavelengths of coax between the antennas?

>ctrl-f
>"nvis"
>zero results
NGMI

>>2966816
learn to RDF with a radio receiver that has a true signal strength indicator and a yagi antenna.

Or spend big bucks on a krakenSDR

>>2966134
doesn't have to be expensive. Just get a Quansheng K5 and a boat anchor like TS-940 with a chinese antenna tuner.

>>2966634
That's actually a good way to get practice is finding old leather clothing or Furniture to reuse. I'd recommend clothing though less garbage you have to get rid of

>>2966634
Please don't use leather, the methods of slaughter are often inhumane, with many animals remaining conscious when their throats are cut or when they are skinned.

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>>2966635
This

Check local thrift stores. The ones here toss stuff that's in bad shape and gladly let people haul them off

It's how I got my shop couch, man it's comfy af

>>2966634
>Are old leather jackets and boots good?
Jackets, sure. Even synthetic leathers. You aren't going to have fun with boots.

That said, take a good long look at the jacket to make sure you aren't destroying something good.

>>2966927
>with many animals remaining conscious when their throats are cut or when they are skinned.
just buy from a sane slughter company and avoid anything halal or kosher?

in my country animals are stunned before striking, and they're hung until the blood drains fully before any more is done to them

>>2966749
Is the C code missing the final semicolon on the questionable line?

>>2966841
>>2966844
Wait, I am dumb. I took another look and c++ is doing =, not |=. So it is also technically correct.

`= (0 << bit1) |(0 << bit2)` is a weird way to write 0 though. But maybe it is a common idiom in professional world and shows the bits you care about. but then that is what comments are for

>>2966844
>0<<x makes zero sense
That's "showing your work", documenting that you really wanted a zero in that bit position.
The ">>" is still a stupid thing that just happens to not cause a problem because it's still zero.

doin a smartchair and need to know if MQ5 is a good gas sensor for fart?

>>2966881
Use a spark gap and a microphone to detect

>>2964761
you ever hear of this thing called investing? You don't just save money and stuff it under your mattress like a retard. Also, skipping takeout and some other minor things is not
>living like a jeet
This is the type of false dichotomy I expect out of fatties when they get told to eat less

>>2966833
went to a gas station today for road beer and saw a giant line at the lotto station
apparently the nationwide lotto is up to 1.5B or something so all these sad saps on christmas eve are wasting their money on tickets

they'd be better off spending their weekly gambling money on some investing. they'd actuall come ahead
actual idiot tax
it's sad
i thought it might just be a wholeosme christmas eve activity but apparently it's just smhucks

>>2966957
>wasting
You don't understand lotteries.

>>2966958
explain non-jew

>>2966957
> 1.5 billion
I wonder what the incentivization threshold is for the lotto people to just rig/scam/steal it???

>>2964696
Working in a trade usually isn't about doing what you like

>>2964922
not seeing much of a choice, college isnt an option right now and low volt seems right up my alley in a lot of ways. Its office shit or learning a real skill via trades. Trade sounds best in the 10-15 year range
>>2964908
sent some emails over the weekend, but I need a trade school with working apprenticeships/ojt, not simply or mostly class based

>>2964947
If you are applying for trades cast a wide net and apply to several. apply to the low boltage, electricians, hvac, etc.. find a list of trades that you are able to apply or test for. you can try to start working as assistant with a handy man. It can take months to get a call. Your best bet is to know someone. I'm a mariner by trade.

>>2964716
Yeah you wouldn't last a day in the trades, fruitcake.

Try cold-emailing surveying companies to be a rodman (entry level), they'll take anyone who shows up on time. If you actually care about it and study, you can work independently (still under a licensed guy) within 2 years, meaning you can live anywhere you want.

>>2966238
Beer is actually fermented, not brewed.

>>2966918
You didn't take the labels off.

>>2966922
Yeah way too many yellowjackets swarming around it now to do that

>>2966919
Very true.

>>2965324
>used matches
>but not sawdust
?????????????

>>2963185
same idea i've been playing with for years
it's just crazy hard to find people willing to commit to going off grid like that for no immediate return
i'm a plumber, but would love to learn framing/foundations and would pick it up as fast as can be shoved down my throat
i tried to do it with kitchens during covid but everyone 'laid off' was just cozy being unemployed
it's a huge motivational/foresight issue in the entire population
which is also the issue of why we are where we are

>>2966708
>Amanda Tapping
most based post all week
similarly i work for a company with standards and our remodels are outscheduled many many months...
market is just saturated with shit
but anyway you get to meet amanda?!

>>2963173
Those are some tall baseboards.

>>2966782
Quite a number of times. I got to see their house quite a bit while I was under construction in West van. He had my favorite kind of staircase, one of those cantilevered from the wall without any outside support. Right out of a Bond villain lair Also Peter Deluis, Christopher Judge, Micheal Shanks. Shakes lived about a mile and a half where Amanda and her husband lives.

>>2966888
of course she marries someone with good taste :heart eyes:

>>2966701
What city do you live in where there is broken glass all over the place?

>>2963471
how can you appreciate if you tell him its a waste of time
You sound like a hypocrite

>>2966865
dey glass all dem citys all over da street
u wanna pick dis up?
u fucken stupid bitch

I heard Nike’s manufacturing cost from leaked documents was around $2.50 per pair, for Nike Air… that was years ago, they probably go the cost down even further by now.

>>2966863
used tires are thrown away because they're useless and toxic.

>>2966610
Nothing. In fact I just re-downloaded it and this time managed to extrude a solid box before I stopped.

I'm sure it's a perfectly logical UI and workflow, but I'm not familiar with it, and I don't particularly like it. Also it just kinda looks ugly. I know these are me problems but still.I've been using Inventor for free for half my life and I'm just too used to it I guess. Even Fusion's UI and workflow feels profoundly wrong to me despite being virtually identical.

>>2960966
>AutoCAD is fundamentally still a 2D CAD, it's outdated ancient garbage.
As someone who uses both AutoCAD and SolidWorks, this is like complaining that screwdrivers still exist because they suck as hammers.

>Sketchup is at least 3D.
Unless the super mega ultra deluxe versions are completely different, SketchUp is worse at 3D than AutoCAD, just easier for a beginner to pick up.

>>2966681
>I'm sure it's a perfectly logical UI and workflow, but I'm not familiar with it, and I don't particularly like it.
Not the one you were replying to but that's completely valid. Even if the functionality is the some, UI can make or break usability. SolidWorks vs SolidEdge is a good example; they both use the Parasolid kernel (Dassault licence it from Siemens) but the former is almost universally agreed to be easy to use (when it's not crashing) and the latter to be like fucking a woodchipper. Blender pre- and post-2.8 is another.

>>2966901
>Not the one you were replying to but that's completely valid.
This actually makes me feel better about myself to be honest.

>...the former is almost universally agreed to be easy to use (when it's not crashing) and the latter to be like fucking a woodchipper.
lmao. I was trying to emboss/recess text onto a cube in freecad and it wasn't THAT bad but it was remarkably painful knowing exactly what I wanted to do and how to do it in one environment but in Freecad all I could do was keep putting text on one of the origin planes or sometimes just somewhere that I don't even know where it went cause I never found it.

>>2966901
>SketchUp is worse at 3D than AutoCAD
I've never had issues with Trimble's survey gear (this past year we upgraded from our R2 to an R980) or their field controller and survey programs. But it almost feels like they purchased SketchUp to have a CAD program in their portfolio much like Microsoft bought QDOS. SketchUp makes some pretty pictures for presentations, but for some reason whenever I look at what should be construction drawings the impression I get is that they're still trying to show pretty pictures rather than a construction drawing.

Shoot is there an easy way to import an inventor .ipt into fusion? apparently it cant open it natively.

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Has anyone seen Game of Wool?
If so, what do you think? I have mixed feelings, but it’s a good watch while knitting.

>>2965598
Sewing thread! Did you hold a lot of them together? The yarn looks thicker than thread. It's pretty, whatever it is. I like the fade.

>>2965631
It's a simple two-ply. Don't ask how long it took...I think I bought the fleece in 2021. I uploaded the pattern to Dropbox in late 2022/early 2023. It's a worsted spin, but I wasn't super careful about keeping twist out of the drafting zone (I never am) I probably spun it on the Pocket Wheel (https://www.pocket-wheel.com/), not the Ladybug.

I have a bunch of undyed merino I got cheap a few years ago, but I don't actually like merino so I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it.

>>2965770
Yes I twisted 8 strands together as I wound, swapping the colors out one strand at a time to get the fade.

I followed this tutorial here;
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrtm9V43/

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Screaming crying and throwing up cause my partner got me a yarn winder like I wanted but it’s a way nicer version than the one I was looking at.

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Taking a break from my Josephine top to get started on the Karo Socken pattern by Rogue Edits. (1)

The plan is to knit two matching pairs of bright, punchy socks; one of which being a (most likely) late Xmas gift. This is my first time knitting socks and I opted to use two sets of Chiaogoo circular needles as opposed to DPNs or ML as I find both uncomfortable to work with.

Using Poison Threads’ Lisa Frank collection in colors “Paw Prints” and “Turquoise Tide” dyed from their “sock sparkle” and “sock” bases respectively.

(1)https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/karo-socken

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How do you mark and drill holes accurately? No matter what I do my holes are always off where I want them. Either my mark is off center because I'm looking down at an angle when I mark or my drill ends up walking off center. Pic related is a T nut I made yesterday by marking with a punch and then spotting with a 1/16" bit on a press, the idea is the tiny bit should pull the part into center before it it cuts but this ended up being the most off center hole I ever drilled.

It's impossible to find information like this on the net now, back in the day there would be entire blogs dedicated to autistic topics like this and now all I get in search results are stores trying to sell junk.

What can I make that people will buy? Literally willing to make a $1 profit on my minimill CNC as long as it’s something I made instead of money through a job. Do you think someone would buy a custom engraved brass belt buckle?

>>2966711
Dildos.
Dildos and some weeb figurines.

>>2966687
Drilling holes on the mark with a center punch alone, trusting that the hole will "align itself" will never be that good. I went down that rabbit hole a number of years back. Even back then (when as you say, the net was better), the people who supposedly showed you how to scribe, punch, and drill accurately would showcase their holes clearly out of center with the scribe lines.
Bottom line is that the punch mark is there to prevent your drill from wandering, not to bring the hole into alignment. If you're truly a turbo-autist insistent on drilling holes to .001 position tolerance on manual tools, look up "Precision Hole Location for Interchangability in Toolmaking and Production" by Moore. It's basically a long ad for a jig borer, but it shows you the ridiculous lengths that people would go to in the manual days to get really good location tolerances. They would wind up drilling the same hole like five times with five different tools.

For your situation, I'd say get an x/y table and a center finder or something pointy that you know runs true, then get a magnifying glass and align it as close as possible in x and y with scribe lines. You'll get something like +/- .005 easy as long as your scribe lines are good.

>>2966204
Print a hub with a hole for a set screw and grind a flat on your shaft.

>>2966687
I would always make sure I had a sharp scriber and sharp center punch/spotting punch. Slide the center punches point along one of the scribe lines, at the intersection of the two lines it will "click" into the center point. A light tap first, then check if the little prick is actually on center. Then a heavier tap to make a good guide for the drill bit. If the first light tap is not right you can adjust the position slightly with further light taps, but only once or twice.

Pilot drill then should be thin enough to flex itself into the center point, take a light peck and visually check its position. Very light pressure at the start, sharp drill bit with the correct tip angles will help it to not wander.

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>>2966702
Show me a layout of the place.

Building a set of 32-in high cabinets with sliding doors and 8 ft bookshelves on top of that with a rolling ladder. There's a lot to be said about doing full 8-foot height ones because with books in there and then you Chicago bolt them together, you can use them as a wall partition

>>2964839
Bro this is disgusting. You're wasting materials. Considering you keep fucking up, you should first assume you have no skills required to make a humanoid head and delay making a timeline because it's obvious you're going to encounter endless issues along the way and won't do your plan in time. Since you're working on the skin, learn first how to cast the silicone you're using. Make a simple mold, sand it properly if it comes from a 3D printer, use the release, pour the material. When preparing the mold you should keep in mind the air goes up, add a vent or two to prevent the air bubbles, pour the silicone in one place with a small strain and let it flow down and fill the mold. Don't cut out the eyes like a fucking ape - you'll never get it right. Design the mold to have eyeholes already done.
>>2966755
I think you're in deep belief you're going to show the world your successful journey but in reality you're scaring the hoes and disturbing people who happen to see your works. There is no community to tag onto your project in it's current state, except the kiwi farms.

>>2966768
Not every community needs women this is a tech project after all haha plus i dont think they like the idea. My mother doesnt.

I got a bone to pick with engineers.
Where were they when they pointed out the inmoov couldnt walk?
Where are they are they now?
The guy who created the inmoov was a sculptor.
Youre expecting for an engineer to come snd bail you out they wont. Theyre domesticated.

>>2966851
you gotta remember, engineers are the guys who are stuck upkeeping these things.
the sculptor created the thing, but i'm sure he's not going to be the one stuck making sure it STILL walks in 20 years because some multibillion dollar company relies on the timing of one of these guys walking across a hallway to keep their systems running.
a lot of the time the issue isn't "it wont work" its "it will only work for long enough to become a problem"

its like helping a friend with a project instead of letting them figure it out, now you're stuck helping them every time because in their mind the solution has been found.

>>>/soc/