Love my deck … Kind of got side tracked gaming

You sound like me lol: Side tracked by the device’s primary purpose.

Nice. A lot more than RPis, too.

This is actually for a Banana Pi but it’s in the Pi Zero form factor so should be easy to modify.

If you have any coding experience, I recommend giving OpenSCAD

That’s certainly an interesting way to go about it lol. That said, I read through the tutorial and honestly I’m gonna give it a try. The syntax doesn’t look too awful and doing it in code seems like it would allow for easy precision and also eliminates having to learn the UI of FreeCAD which I agree is absolutely horrendous.

Thanks.

I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Yeah, the prologue and the interspersed bits with Bowerbird (I think that was her name) and the future people was a little weird, but not too jarring. They come into play toward the end of the book with the gift box nanotech thing, so I guess it was necessary to frame them in. It took me a while to figure out how they sent it from the future, but it was time dilation the whole time so no time travel.

House of Suns is my absolute favorite of Reynolds’ work. It’s the least “hard” sci-fi of the bunch but still follows the rules and basically takes all the ships and tech from his other works and cranks them up to 11. Such a fun read.

“Terminal World” is another fun standalone book from him if you come across it. If you feel up for a trilogy, the “Revenger” series is a fun space pirate adventure I quite enjoyed.

Fantastic book. I’m a big fan of most of Reynolds’s catalog, but Pushing Ice I think is the first one of his I read.

Wow thanks! That’s actually super helpful. Gonna save this and probably throw it in a text document for later reference. I was 100% trying to do an all-in-one-go single project like you described because “that’s what i wanted it to look like”. The result was predictably frustrating and just awful.

I’ve watched a few tutorials but a lot of it went over my head or talked in terms I wasn’t familiar with yet or started in the middle of an existing project. Will definitely try breaking things down into smaller, simpler primitives. I’ve not done CAD work before so this is all brand new to me, so things like the actual workflow are things I need to learn (and you’ve described very well).

These are project cases for a Pi Zero clone, so FreeCAD would probably be the most logical choice. Though someone else commented a plugin for Blender that adds a CAD-like workflow to it.

Well, switching the mouse navigation mode got me further and less frustrating than before, so progress I suppose! The default “CAD” navigation was hell to use with my trackball since the DPI button is right below the wheel and wheel + button to free rotate the model was just awkward on so many levels. OpenCascade seems to be the sweet spot.

I’ll stick with it. Was just hoping there was something more for dummies like me lol.

She’s only got a minor recurring role in the later seasons but she plays the hell out of it.

But that show’s awesome so yeah, definitely watch it. It’s the US version of La Reina de la Sur which I haven’t seen because I can’t find it on home media here.

I recognized her from Queen of the South lol

Sounds about right. I held onto my 16:9 OnePlus 3 until the battery completely gave out in 2023 or so. It was the perfect size, and I hated the 2:1 ones that came after. Tried a OP Nord N200 for about a week but returned it.

Daily driving the Minimal Phone now. It’s not the highest resolution by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s 4:3 and makes current phones look even skinnier than when I was used to 16:9.

The only thing preventing me from looking into this further is it’s yet another tall-skinny phone. I don’t know which manufacturer popularized that ridiculous aspect ratio, but I hate them and everyone who followed suit.

That’s assuming OP tags it as AI, though. I don’t have that much faith in the people who would spread AI slop in the first place. It’s a nice feature, and I’m not shitting on it, but it’s less impressive to me once I factor in the human equation.

Or can mods apply the “AI” tag to it? I still need to at least try Piefed.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks. I guess I’ve just always thought it was the grounds that were freeze-dried and somehow that made them dissolve-able.

https://github.com/marytts/marytts

I’ve used MaryTTS semi-recently. It’s older but works well enough for my cases. I have it running on a server (locally) and my endpoints make a call to it and playback the returned audio file.

On Android, I use SherpaTTS which has good voices, but I’m not aware of a desktop/Linux option. It mentions using voices from Coqui which you linked, so I would guess that would be the way to go for desktop.

My personal record is ~17 sneezes in a row. Hashtag “allergy life”.

Nedry was literally a computer scientist and systems designer / programmer from Cambridge. Arnold was a theme park engineer (designing rides and control systems; some programming involved but a whole different paradigm than developing large systems).

Source: Have read the novel 50+ times.

Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he’s no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.