Having used BookWyrm and NeoDB, it’s definitely very comparable to GoodReads vs IMDB, at least in terms of interface/user experience/aesthetics/etc. BookWyrm being specifically for books, it has a ton of fields that wouldn’t be applicable to anything else, i.e. “publisher”, " ISBN". It can pull data automatically from some outside book databases. NeoDB seems able to do that same thing, except for any kind of media. Not sure where all they’re pulling the data from. They also seem to have fields for just about anything, from tracklist to director to author.

It’s really nice! Great UI, not particularly buggy, feels great on the user end. Honestly pretty darn polished for a fediverse platform I’d never heard of until like a week ago. Also, the flagship instance (where I’m at) seems to be mostly reviews in Chinese, and it’s always nice to see parts of the fediverse that aren’t dominated by English. I am somewhat confused by the difference between a comment and a review, since both terms are used but everything seems to wind up in the same place? That said, I also haven’t tried very hard to figure it out either.

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If you do go the mycelium brick route, there’s something I’ve always wanted to try with that. Assuming you have access to a vacuum/pressure setup, what would happen if you ran the resulting brick through the whole wood stabilization procedure? I’ve seen people put some pretty wild stuff through that process (like a slice of bread), and it always seemed like this would be a good fit. Eventually somebody’ll probably figure out some kinda α-pinene based alternative to PMMA for infusion too

Ooooh you’ve reminded me that i never found out if it ever officially ended or not! They were on hiatus when I first read it through long ago. Great comic

WAAM printing has its limitations but i still feel like it’s probably the lowest barrier to entry as far as pure metal printing goes. That’s got to be doable for under $10K by now, right? If you janked it together yourself? Plus below that there’s still always lost PLA casting, or sintering composite metal/plastic filaments. Maybe I’m way off base though, who knows.

Maybe Loops, for shortform portrait aspect ratio stuff?

I convinced one person to make an account but they don’t use it. I do know another person IRL who uses Mastodon, so i send them Lemmy stuff there

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I get a “you are not invited” message on the Matrix?

I’ve been doing that exact thing, but only as long as the images would be Instagram-worthy in the first place. Not just temporary junk. I figure it’s probably more optimized for picture storage, since that’s the whole point right? Plus then I get it two places instead of one!

If you use the raw media link itself instead of the link to the post, it displays on Lemmy exactly the same as if you’d uploaded it here in the first place. So that’s nice.

While I generally disapprove of resin printing, this seems like a good use case for building a Lumibee. They’re open source resin printers that run off old cellphones.

Something about fractals generated from generalized random Fibonacci sequences

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Oooh thank you for linking this, I hadn’t heard of it. Super cool!!

Sure, why not? I don’t eat meat currently but I’d prolly throw in a lab burger or two occasionally if they were available

It doesn’t seem to be, or if it is, it’s in a very different way. A lot of other materials seem to get more brittle in humidity, but I haven’t noticed that with PHA.

I couldn’t resist nibbling on it as-is because it smelled wonderful, but I’m not sure eating it straight is a thing people do? I used it to make a ludicrous amount of black bean miso lol

We’ve tried every brand I can find, like Colorfabb AllPHA, Beyond Plastic BioPHA, and Bosk Regen. We usually order directly from them since it’s hard to find in a distributor, but we’re in the Northeast U.S.A., so it’d be really nice if anyone was making it around here.

That’s just if you’re having too much trouble with warping, which we generally don’t, and it doesn’t apply to perimeters or top layers, just bottom layers and infill. We’ve printed plenty of parts near solid with no issue at all. In addition, PHA is inherently more durable than PLA anyway.

Depends on how thick it is and what biome it degrades in, but in my compost it seems pretty comparable to wood?