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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Thank you. Why am I doing it: I re-discovered Blender a couple of months ago and followed the famous Donut-Tutorial. After that I made some minor things, then I modelled and animated my Laptop, and now I’m challenging myself with a bigger project with more complex shapes. And boredom.

    I’m working in the Architecturial field, so I know how to work in 3D in general. In architecture, however, I need to consider all kinds of measurements correctly - that is someting I dont’t need to do in Blender for an extent. I just enjoy the build.

    I tried Blender before (I think it was Version 2.x) but in the end it didn’t work out for me. Meanwhile the software got better.

    Back when I still studied (couple of years ago) I did some renderings using Cinema 4D, since we had it on some universities computers. But I didn’t model anything in C4D. I had a CAD Software, which wasn’t that capable of 3D back then, but one could draw precicely. For the 3D stuff I used Sketchup. I could interchange the files (mostly dxf files) between the programs. For renderings I imported a 3DS-file into C4D and put textures on it. Our software at work is capeable of creating rendered images.

    My goal is to import the car model into our architecture software at work and sneak it into a rendering.


  • I’m currently modelling my car using Blender. The screenshots show the progress of approximately 2 weeks (entire weekends and a few hours after coming home from work). Some parts are created rather fast, and some parts take hours to get the shape correctly. Worst part in that matter ist the front bumper with its fog light. It took almost the whole weekend. The hood was made within an hour, since it has a simpler shape, compared to others.

    For reference I use photos, where I do the details by eye measure. To get the general shape I traced the views (front, back, side, above) from drawings of the cars manual using Affinity Designer beforehand. This alone took me over one week, beause I only could do it after work.





  • What stood out the most to me was when everybody left Reddit and came to Lemmy that everyone helped each other to get settled into Lemmy and the Fediverse - at least where I settled. Knowledge was passed down. More tech savy users answered the questions of new users patiently. Everybody was (and still is) polite in general and it is a pleasure to participate in such an enviroment.

    I experienced (and I still do) much more “adult” behaviour within Lemmy, compared to Reddit. I barely have to downvote comments due to bad/ malicious behavior. I think I have had to downvote 3 times within the last 8 months - and one downvote was dedicated to a bot which summarized some news content wrong. Here you can have nice discussions and most comments actually contribute. Less “This”-comments.

    I like that Lemmy in general is more left leaning, and also more tech savy. Also, I experienced less gatekeeping than on Reddit - at least, within my home instance. Your experience, however, may differ.







  • “At the same time, I think we really need to understand the fact that we are living in a different era and animals are making use of what is available to them.”

    They just adapt. If the supply of snail shells is declining - probably because of the pollution of their enviroment - those shells become scarce. When there are plastic garbage shells availiable, the hermit crabs will utilize them instead, since it probably is easier to obtain them. They serve the same purpose to them.

    Since the lifespan of a wild hermit crab can reach up to 30 years, it probably will effect their health. When plastic disintegrates and becomes micro- or nanoplastic, those particles will cumulate in their bodies. These plastic particles are suspected of being silmilar to hormones, which can have effects on the ability to reproduce, among others.

    It should be rather concerning than cute.


  • Er setzt sich halt für die Bauern ein:

    Er findet, und seine Kollegen aus anderen Parteien auch, dass Bürgergeldempfänger zu viel bekommen. Deswegen soll der Bezug von Bürgergeld so scheiße wie nur irgendwie möglich augestaltet werden. Es soll vor allem mehr Kürzungen geben, z.B. wenn man Arbeitsangebote immer wieder ablehnt.

    Bald werden wieder Ernehelfer benötigt, und weil die Helfer, die sonst bei der Ernte helfen, abgeschoben remigriert sein könnten, wenn es nach den Plänen einiger gewisser Parteien geht, dann müssten halt die Bürgergeldempfänger ran, nachdem denen die Bezüge gekürzt worden sind. Natürlich können die Landwirte auch nicht so viel zahlen, oder soll der Spargel etwa noch teurer werden?

    Es ist einfach widerlich, wie die Armen gegen die noch Ärmeren ausgespielt werden. Und auch, mit welch plumpen Populismus die Zustimmung hierfür eingeholt wird.

    Edit: Rechtschreibung





  • Despite not answering your question correctly, I have something where Windows is superior to macOS:

    When you start a Windows program and want the program window to fill your screen completely, you just have to drag the window towards the upper edge of the screen and the window fills the whole size of the screen.

    On macOS there is not such an option. You have to drag the program window manually to the full size of the screen. Although there is a full-screen mode (green button in the upper left of the window), when activated, the window is in full screen, but the menu bar at the top of the screen is hidden. However, at least macOS remembers the last size of the program window, so you don’t have to drag it to full screen size again.



  • A cheap phone last about as long and does 90% the same stuff

    This is true. You can get an almost equal performance out of a cheap phone. But I learned that more expensive or high-end phones recieve more software updates than cheaper entry-tier phones.

    For instance, I own an LG K8 (Model LG-M200E) from 2017. The battery still holds enough charge (although it is designed to be replaced), the camera works, the touch display still responds properly - but it only recieved one update (Android 7 --> Android 8) in 2018. I wouldn’t consider it secure and I certainly don’t have my online banking on the phone. Meanwhile it gets very hot and slow when I use Google Maps. Unfortunately, there is no way to replace its operating system with an alterntive OS, linke Grephene OS or Lineage. None of the many alternative operating systems offer suppert for this specific model.

    My next phone will propably be mid-price ranged.

    Edit: typos




  • Diese Art des Protestierens - also das direkte Bedrängen und Einschüchtern von Politikern - werden wir in Zukunft noch häufiger zu Gesicht bekommen.

    Gerade die Bauenproteste um die Abschaffung der Subventionen für Agrardiesel in Verbindung mit dem Einknicken der Regierung, diese Subventionen statt mit sofortiger Wirkung nun zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt und in Abstufungen auslaufen zu lassen, bestätigt die Protestierenden in ihrer Verhaltensweise.

    Normalerweise wäre ein solches Verhalten Grund genug, die Subventionen, wie ursprünglich angedacht, sofort zu streichen. Was kommt als nächstes? Wenn nun den Bevölkerungsschichten, die keine Lobby haben, die Gelder gestrichen werden, gehen diese dann auch auf die Straße und bedrohen und schüchtern die Politiker ein? Sollten wir mit einem Aufstand der Bürgergeldampfänger rechnen?