I don’t know a general approach, but in one particular print with low infill I paused the print to pour in some sand just to make it more bottom heavy. While it worked great in that case, I don’t know how well it’d work in other circumstances. Great cost/weight ratio, though.

Hej, söta bror. I think you meant to post a reply to OP and not me.

Might be true there as well. I’ve only met, like, two french people who may or may not be from Paris.

I know quite a few who moved here (norway) from Texas, as they didn’t like how the state overall went from being traditionally conservative to radically regressive.

One of them recently got his Norwegian passport and I of course had to accuse him of forgetting the Alamo.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from working with Texans, it is that they’re Texans first, american second.

I’m 42, and I feel like I’m cosplaying and LARPing as an adult. I’m able to convince everyone but myself.

Mortage, kids, and a pretty nice career is my equivalent of a fursuit - something to hide behind in an effort to find acceptance from likeminded.

What you can do is to register with a bogus email and reach out to the admins for manual activation.

That’s what I did, but with three important caveats:

• I used all the charm I could muster.
• The admins in question are exceptionally hoopy froods.
• I had (and hopefully still have) a reasonably long track record of being active on Lemmy with little to no scumbaggery.

I’m sure I could still put on a pretty good foundation, white powder, and eyeliner, and then “misc additional black colors”.

Source: I’ve worn corpse paint to many concerts. It’s been a while, though.

Are you saying Jordan Capri lied to me during a very formative period of my life???

Note: farm-to-blackjack-table and free-range hookers. No big farma here.

Kinda random. I create new accounts from time to time (you will never guess my previous two usernames), and this time I ended up on SJW because the admins were OK with activating my account despite using abbogus email address during signup.

Years ago we tried Karate-Chess at my Dojo. It was fun as hell.

Does chess count?

Any chance what you have is not an EPIRB, but a SART? SARTs are only registered with beacon ID and doesn’t require programming. Shows up on radar and sometimes AIS also. No sat comms involved.

Yes, except no plugging involved: It’s some sort of inductive way of programming it via a USB dongle. The info is written into this “programming program” which can read and write data to the unit, it’s written, and then you read it to make sure all the info was applied.

Then you label the unit physically with ship name, callsign, and MMSI. In addition to this there are two stickers that come with the unit, denoting the expiry date of the battery and the hydrostatic release. These go on the unit so that’s it easy to check if it’s time to replace them.

It’s been a while, but off the top of my head: MMSI (which is basically the radio installation identifier. Same number is used for AIS), and an ID digit (0 in wheelhouse, 1 on starboard bridge wing, 2 on port, etc)

For those who didn’t know: EPIRB = Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. Sends an emergency signal via satellite and terrestrial RF. They can be triggered manually, but they also trigger automatically if salt water shorts two exposed pads for a certain amount of time (a minute, I think).
Once triggered it will get a GPS fix and transmit a distress signal via satellite as well as terrestrial VHF. It is programmed with the MMSI of the ship it belongs to.
Works all over the world, although they take a bit longer to successfully transmit the signal in the polar regions as they then have to rely on LEO sattelots in polar orbits.

Source: I have a GOC, and I also used to work with marine electronics. I’ve programmed hundreds of these. Mainly Jordan Jotron TR60 (Ducking autocorrect). Some from McMurdo too, don’t remember the model name.

Fun fact: A coworker did have to make the phonecall of shame to the coastal radio after accidentally dropping one overboard.

I’m a 7.62x51 kind of guy

Don’t need, don’t own, kinda want (because I like shooting), but I can’t be arsed. Besides, I really should not pick up another expensive hobby. Plus I take firearm safety very seriously, and I don’t have a practical way of keeping it safe and secure.

Probably around the same time I managed to find a used 386 for sale cheaply, and I bought it. I could play some of the early greats such as Dune 2, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, while others were playing CD ROM games such as Red Alert.

But I didn’t care because I was still having fun, and lack of too many distractions allowed me to dive deeply into the fundamentals. When they moved on to the next cool game, I taught myself turbo Pascal and played with the serial ports and an old AT modem.

A few years later I got myself a 166MHz (MMX!) and got properly online (IRC, ICQ, etc) along with the rest and they had a hard time understanding how I was immediately so much better at understanding “their” stuff from the start than they ever would be.