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naevaTheRat, do edc w A slightly eccentric physicist's EDC
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

you know it wasn’t till I enrolled in a physics degree that I met another human using a fountain pen. My first year prof.

Why are we so fucking weird? It’s obviously superior not having to exert normal force on the page to write (fuck you ball points) but why isn’t that more widespread.

merde,

because we have to fill or change cartridges, buy or make ink, clean the nibs, carry our pens carefully… too much effort just to write

ballpoints are efficient, sturdy and effortless. There are situations when we have to write/mark quickly while standing or outside under the weather

it’s not a question of “superiority” but practicality. when i’m writing or drawing on my desk i use a fountain pen. outside i carry a small zebra ballpoint

naevaTheRat,
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

you have to do that to ballpoints to. Unless you use them disposably which there are disposable fountain pens too if you are a paper plates sort of person.

Felt tips share most of the advantages of ballpoints and fountain pens so are a defensible choice. They tend to work upside down too which fountain pens and ballpoints don’t. Although pencils, soapstone, or pressurised paint markers are better in those applications generally.

merde,

space pen works upside down and it’s a ballpoint

naevaTheRat,
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

it’s also a space pen which is designed to work in an environment with no upside down so it would obviously have to.

etuomaala,

Ah yeah the felt is actually my preference for writing, because they never jam . . . (unless you leave the lid off like an idiot lol). But they’re not refillable and the tips aren’t replaceable. Usually. I have seen refillable felt tip markers. It’s definitely something I would be willing to try.

naevaTheRat,
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah I had one ages back but you did need to replace the wicking material and tip periodically, filling also involved slowly infusing with a syringe and drawing needle.

In the end it was about as much hassle as a solid fountain pen and I couldn’t use archivists ink so I went back.

etuomaala,

Interesting story, @naevaTheRat . Why do you use archivists’ ink?

naevaTheRat,
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If I write something down it’s usually because I want to remember. Sucks to lose notes/journals/data to sunbeams, coffee spills, rain, leaks, or time.

etuomaala, (edited )

Well, I can comment on water damage. My printer ink is totally immune, and so is the Platinum carbon black. I don’t trust the black in felt tips, but the printer ink would be fine. Probably. My printer ink has a curious property of being perfectly water soluble until absorbed by certain materials including paper and fabric, after which it becomes pretty darned permanent.

UV damage, well, if my ink dyes are the same as in the UV faded inkjet printouts I see taped to the windows of abandoned storefronts, then that will be a problem if I decided to put the pages of my notebook on display in direct sunlight. I’ve never done that or have been compelled to do it, but never say never, I guess.

That’s a good question, though. Have you lost data to sunbeams before, or is this more of a hypothetical?

naevaTheRat,
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah I’m in Australia and I left my lab notebook by a window over a holiday break. It was probably getting over 50 C daily and the ink all faded. I don’t think it was UV, as multiple pages were damaged, I think the ink wasn’t hugely temperature stable.

It wasn’t like magically gone, but faded enough that my chicken scratch was hard to read. Between that and water damage at various points I figured I’d just switch before something got fucked up beyond salvaging. Besides, you never know what’ll be interesting to future generations. Whether it’s a grandkid paging through something to get a sense of who you were or some researcher going through archives. Archivists ink is non acidic, so it doesn’t destroy paper over time. Idk whether printer ink is.

etuomaala,

Wow, that’s awesome! I mean yeah I’m sorry to hear your ink faded in the heat, but at least some good came out of it: that’s a whole new mode of failure I didn’t know about. Hey, maybe I’ll try putting a test page in the oven’s warming drawer or something.

naevaTheRat,
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah might be worth a test. I assume most modern pigments are probably pretty stable, this was 10 years ago using ink that was 40 years old even then. At a certain point we all just develop idiosyncratic neuroses as a result of experiences :)

youngalfred, do gaming w My first playthrough sitting at 32 hours...

Wow sounded interesting so I checked in steam - the new one needs minimum 12GB ram???!

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

That’s not unusual. Or do you mean vram? Still not surprising with the detail level in the game.

TotallyTerry,

Definitely doesn’t need 12gb of vram so they mean ram which 16gb should be the minimum for anyone’s system nowadays.

fiah,
@fiah@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

sir this is 2023

CMahaff,

I somehow read this as 128GB and was ready to share your shock.

UsernameIsTooLon,

16GB is the new 8GB of 2014. Even so, we’re starting to see top triple A games use upwards of 20GB.

Psythik,

Dude you’re seriously still stuck with 8GB?

If you’re still on DDR3, I have a spare 8GB 1600MHz stick in my old PC. I’ll sell it to you for a good price.

JoeBigelow,
@JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s not worth the shipping!

Psythik,

It’s a stick of RAM. Wrap it in bubble wrap, shove it in an envelope, stick a couple of stamps on it, and send it on its way.

UnRelatedBurner, do piracy w got the disk space and the bandwidth to spare so

I sometimes do the same when I spot something new and high demand

kindenough, do gaming w The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise
@kindenough@kbin.social avatar

Some good references too, like that poster on the wall in episode 5, 'a man and his dog ',

Todd produced something that’s actually good‽
Probably a mandatory credit thing, he is too busy fixing Starfield

Midnitte,

They also reference it during Cooper’s party and he mentions that they used his actual dog for the “in universe” version of the movie.

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

Todd isn’t busy fixing anything. Let’s be honest.

There’s enough diehard Bethesda fans that will buy anything he shits out. Even F76 has a playerbase now.

vext01, do edc w A slightly eccentric physicist's EDC
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Computer scientist here. I also write with a fountain pen.

Tier1BuildABear,
@Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world avatar

Me too, is this a thing?

vext01,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Maybe, maybe not. Of the people I work with, only a handful even have a notebook. One other uses a Kaweco Sport FP. So for my sample, it’s a mixed bag.

thantik, do edc w A slightly eccentric physicist's EDC

Nice, I’ve got the OG PinePhone. It had some circuit board issues, but I loved helping at the ground floor. Is the PPPro good enough to daily drive yet?

I also keep a USB, but with my Keepass database so that it’s an offline carry. I keep 2 copies additional to that, 1 in my fire safe, and 1 in my mothers fire safe.

etuomaala,

If you don’t mind living without a camera, yes. I think I might be able to get the camera working, but it hasn’t been a priority, because I never used my phone’s camera that much even before I switched to the PPPro.

thantik,

Nice - I never really use my camera anyways, so that’s great to hear.

etuomaala,

Now, though, people want a picture of the rock, and I’m like …shit.

Vaginal_blood_fart, do edc w A slightly eccentric physicist's EDC

You carry all this shit on rounds? I carry a pen.

transientpunk,
@transientpunk@sh.itjust.works avatar

Why would a physicist go on rounds?

Vaginal_blood_fart,

Because I’m a moron and misread this. Hahah

Empricorn,

To square things up.

fleg, do parlamentarna w Czy afera wizowa będzie miała wpływ na notowania PiS, czy nie? [United Surveys]

Mam wrażenie, że wielu wyborców konfy z definicji musi mieć bardzo dużą wprawę w unikaniu słyszenia o rzeczach 😉

harcesz,
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Były badania na “republikanach” w USA; to nie jest tak, że oni nie wiedzą, albo wierzą, że jest tak jak mówią partyjni liderzy. Oni świadomie akceptują i powielają ich kłamstwa, idąc za realnym, nie deklarowanym wprost przekazem partii.

Glifted, do gaming w My first playthrough sitting at 32 hours...

New to AC myself. Having a lot of fun with it. I don’t get why people are upset about it. Like it isn’t the greatest game I’ve ever played but I’m definitely enjoying it

daq2, do edc w Today’s tools and skill toys

Do you have some kind of carrier/pouch in the background? I’m always trying to look for better ways to carry my stuff too

wren,
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I do! It’s an edc wallet from Dickinson Trading and can definitely recommend

daq2,

Thanks for the link!

obywatelle, do ciekawe w W koszyku wydatków podstawowych 1/5 to wydatki na wódkę i piwo
@obywatelle@szmer.info avatar

Ja to rozpoznaję po stanie rowu melioracyjnego po drodze na pociąg w mojej wsi. Jest tam betonowy ekran akustyczny, miejsce nieoświetlone, więc zwłaszcza zimą ludzie notorycznie wyrzucają do niego butelki. Co jakiś czas PKP to sprząta, ale butelki wracają. Kiedyś w okolicach peronu zawsze były butelki po piwie, bo na ławkach były małe imprezy, teraz w rowie leżą głównie małpki. I to małpki pite właśnie w pośpiechu, w drodze na pociąg. Widziałam nie raz jak ktoś wychylał jedną, wyrzucał do rowu a potem szedł na poranny pociąg do pracy, jeździłam z tymi ludźmi i dalej z nimi jeżdżę więc mniej więcej ich kojarzę, ale oczywiście mało kogo za rękę złapałam. Już pal licho sześć że śmiecą, bardziej mnie niepokoi czego to jest objaw. Zaczęło się mniej więcej w czasie covida, to znaczy wtedy zaczęło przybywać małpek, teraz przybywa ich tak dużo że nawet po wysprzątaniu rowu ten zaraz znów jest zajebany. Ludzie wlewają małpkę przed pracą, żeby dzień wchodził lepiej, i po pracy żeby szybko się odstresować, a co najważniejsze nie robią tego w domu więc nikt nic im nie powie i sami nie czują się alkoholikami, no bo co to jest małpeczka co nie.

Dhar, do edc w A slightly eccentric physicist's EDC

That pen isn’t inked, you can see right through the ink window

etuomaala,

Yeah, I know. Like I told the other guy, it’s a stock image. An image of the real pen wouldn’t add anything except ink in the window, and I can’t take a better picture than whoever did the stock image. The ink in the window looks entirely unremarkable.

/me looks at ink in the window for five minutes with a bright light backlighting the window.

Yeah, the ink in there is entirely unremarkable. It’s just grey air bubbles and black water. IDK, you want a picture of the ink window anyway?

gregorum, do gaming w The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise

Personally, I’ve found it pretty great. I’ve watched the whole thing and am going in again for another binge. The ending is great. Knowing that it’s already been greenlit for season 2 gives me a lot of hope.

It would have been really easy to fuck this show up, but they really managed to pull it off!

curiousaur, do edc w A slightly eccentric physicist's EDC

I’ve used the same Lamy Vista, the clear acrylic version of this pen so you can see the ink color, for maybe 18 years. Absolute workhorse.

etuomaala,

OHHHH, I want that pen. I noticed it the week after I got my Safari, and was like, “NOOOOOOOOOOO!

curiousaur,

Especially with the converter with the red twist cap, it looks awesome.

obywatelle, do ciekawe w Media społecznościowe jako źródło wiadomości
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Chętnie poznałabym pytanie wyjściowe. Na grafice jest napisane, że przedstawia ona procent użytkowników, którzy wskazują czytanie wiadomości jako główny powód siedzenia na social media. To trochę zmienia optykę. Jeśli pytanie było w stylu “po co ci social media?” i były różne opcje do wyboru, to być może że ta opcja po prostu dominuje w Polsce. Dajmy na to w Korei Południowej użytkownicy wolą używać SM do rozmów, albo na przykład do konsumowania treści rozrywkowych, a w Polsce czy w Grecji traktują je jako źródło informacji. Trzeba też wziąć pod uwagę to, jakiego rodzaju informacji ci ludzie szukają, czy są to wiadomości o wydarzeniach w kraju i na świecie, czy może jako “wiadomości” ci ludzie traktują informacje o tym, gdzie dorwać fajny mebel za darmo na lokalnej “śmieciarce”. Trzeba by to porównać z udziałem innych opcji i pogłębić, spytać np. jakiego rodzaju wiadomości ludzie poszukują na SM. Bez tego to takie mocno czątkowe, wyrwane z kontekstu wyniki.

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