Knitting MxRemy • 4 weeks ago • 100%

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/MxRemyWay/whats-this

FreeCAD MxRemy • 3 months ago • 100%

Hi c/FreeCAD, totally newbie here! I'm having a ton of fun learning FreeCAD, but I have a small question. I know the toponaming problem is going away soon, and maybe that makes this kind of irrelevant, but I'd still like to know. Sometimes when I'm watching or reading guides on avoiding the toponaming problem, the person will say something along the lines of: "actually this technique is also more professional/proper/correct anyway, real engineers do it this way." Basically that the methods that avoid the problem are also just best practices in general. But they always say that as kind of an aside, and I wish they'd say more! What makes those methods better? Does anyone have any suggestions for articles or videos about this? For one example, there was one guide that suggested you should use a datum plane instead of referencing one of the object's surfaces. I understand the toponaming problem well enough to get why referencing a surface can cause it. However, the person in the guide used the same surface that *would* have been referenced, as the attachment point for the datum plane. Why does that not produce the same issue?

Vegan Food MxRemy • 4 months ago • 100%

[These were delicious](https://pxlmo.com/p/MxRemy/702379594995588094) and so simple! Split peas are really cheap, we mostly just wanted to test out how they would do as a flour. The only ingredients here are pea flour, water, salt and seasonings. It's not even leavened at all and it's still super tasty. Plus the color is just really novel and fun. I think it would be amusing to use this to make a zucchini or cucumber bread. Peas seem to be less common as a flour than some other legumes, i.e. chickpeas, lentils, soy, etc. I figured maybe try looking for Indian recipes instead, since legume flours are more popular there, but even then peas seemed pretty under-represented compared to like urad, moong, etc. Anyway, I dunno where you'd buy the flour itself, but if you've got a cheapy hand-crank grain mill these grind up pretty easy. 10/10, would reccomend.

Music MxRemy • 4 months ago • 100%

So about [half a year ago](https://beehaw.org/post/9587891) somebody posted about [Faircamp](https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/), a self-hosted open source alt for Bandcamp. It's really awesome, but I thought people might also want to know about a new one called [Mirlo](https://mirlo.space/). This one is also open source, so it could ostensibly be self-hosted if you wanted, but the main thing is that it's got this flagship hosted option. Very similar to the Bandcamp experience, from the musician side. No techy stuff required at all, so I think this one might be way more user friendly for non-tech savvy folks! AFAIK, neither Faircamp nor Mirlo have integrated ActivityPub support yet, but it seems entirely possible. Both do currently support subscription via RSS. Honestly I kinda feel like both platforms should collaborate, if they aren't already! Maybe they could even get hooked up with [RadioFreeFedi](https://radiofreefedi.net/) and do like featured artists and stuff. - Faircamp [repo](https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp). - Mirlo [Repo](https://github.com/funmusicplace/mirlo).

Official Bookwyrm.world Community MxRemy • 4 months ago • 100%

books.theunseen.city

EDIT: it's back up!!! ❤ Maybe they're doing maintenance or something, I hope. I should have thought ahead and followed whoever maintains it on another platform, so I could find out what's going on in situations like this. Oops lol

I wish I'd taken a picture... I saw a ditto just chillin' totally undisguised, so I caught it. You know how with a disguised ditto, it does the whole *"Oh, what's this? It was actually a ditto!"* thing? Well after I caught this undisguised ditto, it did that and turned into a Zorua instead! I tried briefly googling this phenomenon and found a single mention of somebody seeing an untransformed ditto in the wild, but they didn't catch it, and nobody in the comments had an explanation. What in the world just happened?

Wizards MxRemy • 5 months ago • 95%

yewtu.be

Can't believe none of these have been posted yet lol.

The Bug Menagerie MxRemy • 5 months ago • 100%

This time of year, there's a zillion of these loudly and clumsily zooming around right outside my backdoor. They're very curious about everything that moves; they'll just like *stare you down*, hovering a foot in front of your face. Too cute!! They are also kinda eating the landlords mudroom... but so slowly that I'm pretty sure it hardly matters? You just can't be mad at these little fuzzballs! Worth it for the pollination anyway.

Native Plant Gardening MxRemy • 5 months ago • 100%

I got these as bare-root saplings a couple years old, and planted them last year. One actually bloomed and produced some berries the same year I planted it! These things sure are prolific. This year, they're all already blooming. I tried a couple things with the handful of berries from last year, i.e. just eating them raw, making juice, jam, etc. Raw was (somewhat predictably) not very good, but the juice and jelly were great. Also, while I don't at all mind supplementing the diets of local fauna, it was nice that the birds actually left us some! Unlike [my elderberries](https://pxlmo.com/p/MxRemy/597614294102479223), which they picked clean so fast we didn't get a single one lol.

This system is really cool, but it seems like not that many people are playing it. I think the name "suited" is probably not helping the matter... While clever, it makes it kinda hard to google. It's somewhat of a "rules-lite" type, with all the pros and cons that come with that. One of those cons being that most things are sort of up to the GM's judgement, and I am very new to GMing. With a lot of other similarly rules-lite systems, there's a community offering their experiences and things they found helpful. Suited doesn't seem to have much of that, but maybe some people here have played it and would like to share?

Trying to get the hang of celtic tatting, just working freehand for now. Real celtic tatting patterns are surprisingly uncommon! There are a lot of cool faux ones, but those won't teach me to use these shuttles. It doesn't look very good at all, trying to keep in mind it's just for practice.

This was a perfect project for getting the very basics of tatting down. Every time I made a mistake I just kept plowing ahead, rather than getting frustrated trying to fix it. Now that the motions feel more natural, it'll be easier to advance, maybe? The pattern is from [Urban Knot Design](https://urbanknotdesign.wordpress.com/free-tatting-patterns/one-shuttle-doily/). Even though it's chock full of mistakes, I still wet blocked it and will find some use for it somewhere.

funkwhale MxRemy • 10 months ago • 100%

radiofreefedi.net

Probably a really obvious question, sorry. I've been using RFF's recommended app (RadioDroid2), but that's *all* I use that for, and generally I'd rather just use one app for music than two.

I keep learning the bare minimum of tatting and then getting frustrated and giving up... This time I'm gonna stick with it! Please forgive all the horrendous mistakes lol. Are Lisbeth and DMC the only people left making cordonnet? I'd really like to try more appropriate thread but it seems to barely exist!

File [here](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6312891). This is almost definitely not the best one that anyone's designed, but at least it's a little unique! The holder parts bend apart to snap brushes in and out, and there's a little shelf above to put your toothpaste on. The shelf has print-in-place hinges so you can print the whole thing flat with no support and it all works with no assembly.

We put this together for my public library's makerspace. I have a bunch of issues with the design, but it does work so what can I say really. Specifically it's [this one](https://learn.adafruit.com/crickit-lab-shaker/overview). Patrons can use it for whatever they want, i.e. melting dissolvable supports faster, culturing bacteria, etc.

Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 MxRemy • 11 months ago • 100%

Sorry this isn't *actually* foraging per se, but the only kind of people who'd grow these are probably foragers anyway. I've been growing them for a couple years, but this is the first year I had enough to bother trying to eat them! From two plants we got about 1/2 a cup. So my question is, does anyone have any tips for actually eating these things?? We tried soaking them for 24 hours and boiling them for 2 hours, and they were still inedibly bitter! I'm thinking maybe brining them, an alkaline soak, splitting them all in half, and/or swapping out the cooking water a few times. At least one of those ought to work hopefully. It'll have to wait till next year though, we wasted these ones lol.

funkwhale MxRemy • 11 months ago • 100%

It went down maybe about a month ago or so, and I haven't heard anything about what might've happened to it. I'm bummed because that's been my main way of listening to music for a while now.

Haxe MxRemy • 12 months ago • 100%

Specifically [this font](https://somepx.itch.io/humble-fonts-fantasy), although I've tried a few. Specifically in HashLink. Anyone have any tips or best practices when it comes to fonts and FlxText in general? The default font looks great, but I'm finding that just about every other font I try looks kind of terrible. Like sort of grainy, I guess? The default one looks very crisp in comparison. Also, any non-default font that I put in a FlxButton seems to be vertically way off-center, raised up too high.

Lemmy MxRemy • 1 year ago • 98%

Hopefully this kind of content is ok here. Up until recently, when I would be searching for some kind of technical info, the top (and best) results would usually all be Reddit posts. I was very pleasantly surprised to do that this time and find a Lemmy post instead! ...It did happen to be a post *from me*, so unfortunately didn't answer my question at all, but I still thought it was really neat and wanted to share. Has anyone else seen Lemmy stuff getting indexed and turning up in their search results?

DIY MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

**Hi DIY punks!** I need a little help with something. I've been trying all sorts of ways to home carbonate things as sustainably as possible. Most have not really worked out as intended, but I'm really really close on this latest attempt. This version is to connect a CO2 tank to a whipped cream dispenser. Basically, the path from the *tank* looks like this: - 5 lb CO2 tank → dual gauge primary regulator. - Regulator → 5/16" hose. - 5/16" hose → [5/16" barb to 1/8"NPT male](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087Q8ZFY4). - 1/8"NPT male → [1/8"NPT female to 8mm female quick disconnect](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YQ3CYFQ). - [8mm female quick disconnect → 8mm male quick disconnect to 3/8"-24UNF female](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804642965636.html). ...and the path from the *dispenser* looks like this: - [1Qrt ISI Gourmet Whip](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002NY6PVO) M22 Male → M22 Female. - M22 Female → "mystery hose". - ["Mystery hose" → "Mystery connection" male](https://www.ebay.com/itm/404349729638). So, I need an adapter to hook up the 3/8"-24UNF female to the mystery connection. It seems to start screwing in for a couple turns, but then won't go any further, so my guess is that it's the same diameter with different threading? Note that, in the link for the mystery hookup, I removed the TR21-4 at the end, because that's for directly hooking up to a small tank. The mystery connection I'm talking about is the male threaded part you can see screwing into the TR21-4 connector. It doesn't seem like many people are doing this, or know what most of the industry standard connections actually are. See this thread [here](https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/52673/what-is-the-standard-connector-on-reusable-whip-cream-dispensers) for example. Consequently, I have no idea if the mystery eBay hookup I bought even *works*, despite that being its entire purpose. The interior of the CO2 cartridge puncturing mechanism is a black box to me, so I'm just trusting this M22 connection is all that's required. There's definitely some kind of one-way valve in there, but hopefully it doesn't somehow require being "pushed" by the cartridge itself.

funkwhale MxRemy • 1 year ago • 60%

www.rollingstone.com

I don't know much about this stuff, first of all... maybe this is well trodden territory already and I just missed it. Sorry if that's the case! I'm a relatively new FunkWhale user, but it has completely replaced all other music streaming for me. I'm wondering about the potential for decentralized, federated music streaming to mitigate the environmental issues we're seeing with mainstream streaming. Like... - Potentially we could all be streaming from locations much physically closer to us, if that matters. - FunkWhale hosts might be much more inclined to operate off of solar than the big businesses are. - We might all be using the latest (opus I guess?) in efficient file formats, i.e. low file size, easy to decode, etc. - I'm vaguely aware that huge data centers waste massive amounts of water, right? As someone who doesn't really understand this stuff, it seems to me like distributed streaming would require much less extreme methods of cooling/maintenance/etc. Then again, supposedly there are efficiency advantages to being centralized in other contexts. That seems to be peoples first and foremost argument *for* centralization in most contexts. Do those apply here as well? Thank you for your time, and your patience with a noobie. 😅

FoodPorn MxRemy • 1 year ago • 77%

For the first time, I had a lot of Illinois Bundleflower seeds to harvest. I've never cooked *or* eaten them before, and information online is pretty slim unfortunately. So, I just took a stab at something random. For the filling: - Desmanthus illinoensis seed/grain - Manoomin - Dried crushed rockweed - Black bean miso - Vegetable stock - Cheddar ...all stuffed inside a white scallop pattypan squash. It was... about as okayish as it looks, not fantastic, not terrible. Honestly I thought about posting it to c/ShittyFoodPorn instead 😅 More importantly than the quality of the dish, it turns out Illinois Bundleflower seeds are easy to cook and have decent flavor and texture! So, task failed successfully I guess? Thank you for your time!

The Bug Menagerie MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

It was chilling on a Paulownia tree in Southeast Pennsylvania, U.S. I post more critters on my [Pixelfed](https://pxlmo.com/c/599040433521473124) if anyone's interested.

Native Plant Gardening MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

I post a lot of edible plants native to (roughly) the Northeast U.S. on my [Pixelfed account](https://pxlmo.com/i/web/profile/576144498109009876).

Haxe MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

So, the FlxG collide method knows how to tell which tiles in a tilemap are walls or not walls, but the overlap method does not. If you write a simple custom collision with the overlap method and tell it to `.separate()`, your sprite will collide with every tile in the map, not just the walls. This is expected behavior, as there's a note in the FlxG [documentation](https://api.haxeflixel.com/flixel/FlxG.html#overlap) that says: > this takes the entire area of FlxTilemaps into account (including "empty" tiles). Use FlxTilemap#overlaps() if you don't want that. On the other hand, the [documentation](https://api.haxeflixel.com/flixel/tile/FlxBaseTilemap.html#overlaps) for FlxTilemaps.overlaps() says: > Checks to see if some FlxObject overlaps **this** FlxObject object in world space. If the group has a LOT of things in it, it might be faster to use FlxG.overlaps(). In my scenario I have a lot of tilemaps and just one object to collide with them, the player. The way this is written, I'm thinking I have to call this method for EACH MAP, i.e. `map1.overlaps(player)`, `map2.overlaps(player)`, etc. Whereas with the FlxG method I can pass it the entire FlxGroup of maps as one parameter and the player as another parameter, which seems way better. I guess I could write a function with a loop that iterates through each map doing this one by one, and then call that in `update()`, but I'm getting the impression that it might be really inefficient. What's the best approach here? Am I missing something obvious?

Haxe MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm back with another noob support question, despite me being a moderator and this being a very small community atm. As far as efficiency/optimization is concerned, what's the best approach to making a really big open world, and then *how do I actually implement it*?? My stack: - OS: Windows 10 - IDE: VSCode - Game engine: Haxe Flixel - Pixel art: PixiEditor - Map making: LDtk I know how to just make one huge level, that's easy enough, but I've heard that might be inefficient memory-wise? I tried setting up multiple levels in LDtk, and importing each level into its own FlxTilemap. But then I couldn't figure out how to get more than one tilemap to actually display? Only the first one I add shows up. Maybe the second one is loaded but just hidden underneath it, but if so, how do I tell a FlxTilemap where it should show up? They seem to default to (0,0) and I didn't any method to change that. Or maybe you can just only have one tilemap in any given scene at a time? Would it be better to use the render method of the LDtk api instead of a FlxTilemap? I heard FlxTilemap is more efficient because it batch renders everything, whereas the LDtk api renders each tile as its own sprite. One last question. When I switched from Ogmo to LDtk, suddenly I couldn't compile to Neko anymore. I get an `Uncaught exception - std@module_read` erorr. I can test the game in HTML5, but it's slower, and also for some reason the browser keeps caching old versions of the game so I have to clear everything to see any changes. Places I've looked for answers so far: - A guide from [Ohsat Games](https://www.ohsat.com/tutorial/flixel/using-ldtk-with-flxtilemap/index.php) - The [LDtk documentation](https://ldtk.io/docs/game-dev/haxe-in-game-api/) - The [Flixel documentation](https://api.haxeflixel.com/flixel/FlxG.html#worldBounds) - This question on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38547514/how-to-implement-a-continuous-world-based-on-flxtilemap) - This issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/openfl/openfl/issues/1160) - The example projects in the repo for the [LDtk Haxe api](https://github.com/deepnight/ldtk-haxe-api/tree/master/samples) - ...and some discussions on the [Deepnight Discord server](https://deepnight.net/go/discord) Maybe the answer is actually in these sources, but I'm too much of an amatuer to see it? Either way, I'd really appreciate some advice!

3DPrinting MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

Sounds pretty good! It's printed out of PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates). This is a food safe naturally occurring material synthesized by bacteria, and it is fully biodegradable in a reasonable time span, in any biome, with no microplastics. Design from [SolidZone](https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/dual-chamber-ocarina-instrument), material from [Filaments.ca Regen collection](https://filaments.ca/products/regen-pha-compostable-biobased-filament-butterscotch-1-75mm-0-75kg). Once the world figures out how to get sustainable pinene resin working, I want to try running a vacuum resin stabilization on it as well.

Haxe MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

Working on a text-based game in HaxeFlixel, and I'm wondering if there's a best practice for dealing with the text itself. There's a lot of it, and it's full of newlines and quotes and such. I imagine putting it in the actual Haxe script is probably not the best way, since you'd have to use a zillion escape characters? So like maybe a Markdown file where you could tag each text block something appropriate, and then parse it from Haxe? EDIT: I ended up just keeping all the dialogue in a simple .txt file. I wanted to make adding dialogue as accessible as possible for people with limited computer skills, basically. And it actually turns out that Haxe's string parsing will handle alllll the escaping for you, so they can pretty much use any characters they want! Except colon (:). They just have to give the dialogue a title inside colons like :this:, and I have it set up to parse the .txt into a dictionary where the titles are the keys and the dialogue is the corresponding value.

Haxe MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

Has anybody managed to get this to work, using any version of Haxe or any OS? Every one I try has various errors and won't load. 😅 If anyone has, I'd LOVE to see your yml file/etc for it!

Programming MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

Some friends and I are trying to learn Haxe together by working on a simple game. We're all like pretty much total amateurs at this stuff. For collaborating I set us up a repo for it on Gitlab, and I've been trying to run the actual code through Gitpod, but I can't get it to work... Has anyone else done this successfully? Just to focus on ONE error at a time, here's this: I get a workspace loaded up seemingly successfully, with Haxe installed. But when I try to run haxelib setup for all the requisite libraries, it asks me for an install directory, and I apparently do not have write privileges?

Gardening MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

Just some of the ones that happen to be doing anything interesting right now: [1](https://pxlmo.com/p/MxRemy/578290025026574373) [2](https://pxlmo.com/p/MxRemy/578294164305422804)

Fediverse MxRemy • 1 year ago • 94%

Is there a Fediverse option for hosting fanfiction, or maybe web novels/serials/etc? Like an AO3 alternative, basically. I looked around but couldn't find one, the closest thing that kinda works are the blogging platforms like writefreely. If there isn't, do you think fanfiction would be a good candidate for federation?

test MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

Trying to see if linking *directly* to an externally hosted image will make it show without clicking through. I want to reduce the load on Lemmy instances by externally hosting images, but it's annoying for the image not to show up in feed...

Chat MxRemy • 1 year ago • 100%

I saw somewhere that, instead of attaching images directly to Lemmy posts, you should instead post them to a Pixelfed instance and link to it. If a lot of people did that, it should reduce the load on Lemmy instances. I made a Pixelfed account so I could do that, but I don't like that people have to click through to see the image. For some ridiculous reason I kinda thought the image would show without having to do that lol. Are those the only two possible options, or am I missing something?