Jasper (so named for her jasperite like patterning, my daughter likes minerals) adopted our family as a skinny little street cat. My daughter begged us for a cat for months and she just kinda showed up which was perfect. Shes got what we think are siblings that come by but shes the runt of the litter as she has remained small...
That was how me and my friends would get around the Foolproof software on the macs in high school.
Put a bootable os 9 system folder on a zip drive, boot from it, open the Foolproof control panel in resedit, delete all the resources, reboot into regular os 9, open quake3arena, profit.
I've inherited all my grandfathers radio and telegraph equipment. I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing. He passed away in the mid 90's and I think he would have loved this modern world and all its tools for...
Ensign Sonya Gomez over here thanking the replicator
TNG "Q Who?"
SONYA: Hot chocolate, please.
LAFORGE: We don't ordinarily say please to food dispensers around here.
SONYA: Well, since it's listed as intelligent circuitry, why not? After all, working with so much artificial intelligence can be dehumanising, right? So why not combat that tendency with a little simple courtesy. Thank you.
GIMP is great but it definitely needs its own Blender 3.0 moment where they just completely overhaul the UI.
I've used it as my primary raster app so I'm way used to it now, but I totally understand the people who just never even bother to learn it because they are so turned off by the absolutely bonkers design decisions.
We had a black cat once that jumped in a preheating oven when a back was turned and we didn't see her. We heard her crying before she got hurt but it haunts me what could have happened.
Here is Denise Okuda in front of her Quadra 700. She used it to make all the wonderful LCARS and other alien UI panels on DS9. This was her taking a break while working on the DS9 pilot in 1993.
my guess would be it was the smallest/fastest mac they could get and the scenic design team used macs almost exclusively and probably had no interest taking a chance on a different platform. Just a hunch tho.
Agreed. I also see them all over youtube videos and stuff and I just can't keep reading/watching. Its not like an ideological thing, i don't hate generated art. I just find it so distracting.
I've been working on this scene off an on for about 4 years now. Its become a sort of log of my progress learning blender. From subsurface modelling to node texture creation, volumetric effects, etc....
I feel like such a fake fan. This is obviously one of his most personal and sincere artistic offerings as a film maker... but I was just bored the entire way through. It was beautiful and whimsical, but the story left me so cold and unsatisfied. Nothing resolved, nothing really mattered, nothing felt like subtext. And I know I'm wrong, it MUST be something I missed.
I guess I'm just basic, but hit me with that Porco Rosso or Wind Rises or Laputa vibes. But thats art, there's no accounting for taste. I'm going to watch Heron again and see if it takes a second viewing for it to hit home.
Regardless how I feel about it, I was so happy to finally catch a Miyazaki film in theatres with my kids. That was great.
Got this design and was asked to produce an outdoor riverside rendering. Im not fully happy with it yet but I'm liking how its going. It needs more refinement and stochasm to help drive the realism, but for my first real blender archviz attempt with all assets and shaders my work I'm pretty happy with it so far.
In Babylon 5 an alien race destroys their enemy's homeworld with "mass drivers". Ship mounted mechanisms that accelerated captured asteroids towards the surface of the planet, completely decimating it. In the show they are regarded as heinous weapons of mass destruction for their merciless destructive power.
Recently started rewatching babylon5 and man is it great but also wow can you totally tell each Babylon 5 EP is like half the budget of a DS9 one.
Cardboard sets, bad lighting. But the acting and writing totally make up for it. You get a scene with g’kar or londo and it’s easy to suspend your disbelief. Definitely a great show that still holds up.
Recently I’ve been having feelings about moving away from Fusion 360. The combination of cloud app / filesystem and their demonstrated willingness to remove features and add arbitrary limitations (eg. 10 editable model limit) makes me feel uneasy about using it. To be clear I’m grateful that AutoDesk provide a free license...
Im not going to try and convince people who have already made their mind up, but I ditched Fusion for Blender ages ago and haven’t looked back. Its completely usable for CAD and precision design for 3D printing or what have you. Its not built for it, but its capable if you learn how.
The lack of pure CAD focus is a drawback, but it is largely made up for in blenders absolutely amazing general purpose tool set. Its not just mesh manipulation, with geometry nodes you can create complex intricate shapes that are also precise to your requirements. There are countless workflows and plugins that allow you to make blender adapt your needs. You can remix existing STLs and bring in reference photos/models/etc. Simply put IMO there is no need to use any other program for almost any aspect of 3D design, and so it has become my go to.
I don’t recommend it for beginners, but it really is an incredibly powerful tool if you put the work in. Is it better that FreeCAD or Fusion? I am not qualified to say, but I’m pretty confident there are few features either package has that blender does not.
I grabbed a beepy a little while back (if interested BE ADVISED: they’ve since gone dark and left a bunch of people holding out for one, I got really lucky and ordered super early) so I could work on some python stuff on the go. I didn’t like having all the parts exposed, and the cases available seemed too flimsy for my...
Its basically a metal flatish sort of cylinder with a central chassis that slides in and out. I’ve used this technique a lot for printed enclosures because it feels pretty strong to me, and usually pretty easy to print, even with overhangs, since its such a regular shape. You also dont have to worry about applying components to the inside face of the case, since the whole things just slides in.
the keyboard is definitely “fine” to type on, its just a blackberry keyboard. The driver for the keyboard is also in development so theres not much support for using the trackbutton as a mouse. The display is difficult for practical use, its a monochromatic screen, there is no backlit, and the pixel density isn’t amazing so you can’t see full lines of code, lots of wrapping. It’s better than having NO display in the field though. I actually really like it, its quirky, but with some struggle it is very usable.
I think we take for granted how much predictive magic is happening behind the scenes on capacitive touch keyboards like on smartphones. I often find coding on a smartphone kind of challenging because it starts autocorrecting natural language, but on this its pretty easy since its just what you type is what you get. Lots of mistakes still, but having modifier keys available is also helpful.
I’m not trying to say its great, its just… very fine? Very okay.
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Writers telegraphing their fetishes ( slrpnk.net )
*Troi
This is Jasper, she is our chief of security. ( lemmy.world )
Jasper (so named for her jasperite like patterning, my daughter likes minerals) adopted our family as a skinny little street cat. My daughter begged us for a cat for months and she just kinda showed up which was perfect. Shes got what we think are siblings that come by but shes the runt of the litter as she has remained small...
Either that, or Sam was simply uncorruptible and should have been carrying it the whole time ( lemmy.world )
Remember zip drives? ( i.redd.it )
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My Grandfathers pre-war Signal Electric MFG Co. Morse Key ( lemmy.world )
I've inherited all my grandfathers radio and telegraph equipment. I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing. He passed away in the mid 90's and I think he would have loved this modern world and all its tools for...
Antybooties ( mander.xyz )
[The Sign Spoiler] Well, no... ( lemmy.world )
This episode tore me up.
"prompt engineering" ( lemmy.world )
I try to pretend like I dont care. Who can compete with Adopt Me anyways? ( lemmy.world )
When I want to use free software to make memes: ( feddit.de )
Sure lady, you bet. ( lemmy.world )
"The Border", my newest render. Let me know what you think! ( lemmy.world )
All made in Blender 😊
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What's the worst scam you've fallen for (or gotten close to falling for)?
Star Trek Behind-the-Scenes Pictures Thread ( lemmy.world )
I'll start things off with this effects shot from Star Trek IV....
James Burke's Connections, Ep 1 | A series of how discoveries and inventions through history are oddly interconnected, such as how Ancient Monks are related to the invention of the Computer [49:30] ( odysee.com )
Minimal Phone: Low-priced smartphone with E Ink display and complete keyboard ( www.notebookcheck.net )
Advanced git commands every senior software developer needs to know ( optimizedbyotto.com )
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Sam Spades Office - Maltese Falcon - WIP ( lemmy.world )
I've been working on this scene off an on for about 4 years now. Its become a sort of log of my progress learning blender. From subsurface modelling to node texture creation, volumetric effects, etc....
Studio Ghibli's "The Boy and the Heron" has won the BAFTA award for Best Animated Film! ( lemmy.ml )
Starting to get the hang of exterior renderings ( lemmy.world )
Got this design and was asked to produce an outdoor riverside rendering. Im not fully happy with it yet but I'm liking how its going. It needs more refinement and stochasm to help drive the realism, but for my first real blender archviz attempt with all assets and shaders my work I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Jim Carrey Returning for "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" ( variety.com )
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May I say that this my first post on this community? ( lemmy.world )
Did I do it correctly?
How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?
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Morn, quit spawn camping! ( lemmy.world )
The name of the place is Deep Space 5 ( programming.dev )
I can’t get enough of these familiar spacefaring faces!
PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!) ( lemmy.world )
Recently I’ve been having feelings about moving away from Fusion 360. The combination of cloud app / filesystem and their demonstrated willingness to remove features and add arbitrary limitations (eg. 10 editable model limit) makes me feel uneasy about using it. To be clear I’m grateful that AutoDesk provide a free license...
Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing ( lemmy.world )
I grabbed a beepy a little while back (if interested BE ADVISED: they’ve since gone dark and left a bunch of people holding out for one, I got really lucky and ordered super early) so I could work on some python stuff on the go. I didn’t like having all the parts exposed, and the cases available seemed too flimsy for my...
Stanley Kubrick is a magician ( pixelfed.social )
There's an anomalous power signature in the neon FTL ramscoop. ( i.imgflip.com )
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Star Trek: Bridge Commander (2002) ( startrek.website )
I mean Sulu flyin' a Huey? 😚👌 ( lemmy.world )
I don’t even care that none of it makes sense.
"The tricorder says this cave is old, crusty and barren. Is that right?" ( lemmy.world )