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I would not.

If you want to publish, please do 2 things - find a publisher which does not necessitate exclusivity (as in, you do not necessarily have to just publish something on there portal) - and secondly, make a portal of your own, and publich a duplicate copy there. This serves 2 purposes, if someone really wants to follow your work, they can just follow your website, and in case a future bait and switch happens, you have a backup of all your work.

If you want to publish, please do 2 things - find a publisher which does not necessitate exclusivity (as in, you do not necessarily have to just publish something on there portal) - and secondly, make a portal of your own, and publich a duplicate copy there. This serves 2 purposes, if someone really wants to follow your work, they can just follow your website, and in case a future bait and switch happens, you have a backup of all your work.

I did try, but they are not that, lets just say helpful, because I am switching my specialisation, and they say what i currently seeking is more of a fad (it is not, but the are relatively old school folks)

Do not overthink simple things - one spends a lot of time finding answers to things they were already sitting upon. If you are not happy with who you are today - then try to find what is it that makes you unhappy, and try to fix it, that is, if it is something fixable. Somethings can not be fixed, and sometimes are better left as is, or sometimes, you can learn to embrace them.

You can make “khichdi” - It is a Indian dish, but not really, it is more of a procedure - basically get anything you have (rice, pulses, any other grain, just see if they are too hard, give a wash before, and let them soak for some time), add vegies(almost anything works, my favorites are potatoes, onions, tomoto, carrots, basically whatever is available in season), add spices to taste (I mostly just add salt and pepper, but anything is fine, just add a bit more, since all stuff previously added in a taste profile sense is bland) - then cook in pressure cooker (pressure cooker is not necessary, just accelerates cooking). Depending on how much you put - this can serve you many servings. If after cooking, it is dry for you, either have it with curd or youghurt if you want something cooloing, or just add a bit of vegetable broth and warm it up. Just store it well. It is cheap, not necessarily very nutritious (it is mostly carbs, fibre, and plant protien, which is not bad, but could be better). It is easy - no culinary skills required other than knowing how to wash and cut stuff, and operating your pot.

*80% of humanity

touche

sorry to tell you(maybe not, may make you feel better depending on how you take it), but almost no body makes an earning by language studies, not even professors (only very small amount of them make something reasonable with respect to their effort)

very well put

Is redlib working for you? for me, if I host for me, I get rate limited after 1st post, and have to use the public instances (slower, but they work).

I never had a account - I had 2 uses for reddit - 1 was memes (and a few other communities (commandline and localllama)) - this I did with rss feeds. And searching for things with reddit added, to get opinions by humans.

commandline and localllama still stay as rss feeds, but for memes, I just use my local lemmy feedd. Can’t replace searching, though I try to not use search engine’s at all these days (can’t eliminate them, but using them for the cases where I have not yet found a particular source to direct my searches) but for the reddit results, I use redlib frontend.

I don’t feel bad - because there is definitely good stuff there that was posted by humans (alongside a ton of trash, which probably outnumbers the good stuff 1:10), but I hope that lemmy eventually has enough stuff.

I currently don’t do that (can not replace the treasure trove in reddit yet) but you can edit default search engine url and add something like

site:lemmy.world/ site:lemmy.ml/ site:lemm.ee/ site:sh.itjust.works/ site:lemmy.dbzer0.com/ site:lemmy.ca/ site:programming.dev/ site:lemmy.blahaj.zone/ site:discuss.tchncs.de/ site:spouli.xyz/

and make a seperate search engine shortcut for this. But as others have said, google is not great for this.

If you use searxng, then you can also include instance searches in default results . There is a seperate social media page(just like you have image or video tab), enable lemmy and mastodon stuff and use that.

why and how did that work, how hard were you slamming it, I am presuming not hard enough to break glass, but than, what would such a slam do? I am going to presume these were LCDs, and maybe the the liquid crystals would have gone too cold, and maybe by smacking, you somehow freed them or something. I would like to know more.

last one got me

A(dissolved) + B (gas) -> Delta (energy released) + C(precipitate)

since a was dissolved - there was some eenrgy of dissolution, now that there is a precipitate (and lets for simplicity assume K_sp = 0) then there is some energy required to create this surface.

for reaction to be energetically favorable (Gibs free energy, so entropy is also accounted)

abs(Delta) > abs(dissolution energy) + abs(surface creation)

this is going to maintained always. Now if Delta is very large reaction will almost run to completion (provided activation energy is given, lets say in form of temperature or mechanical agitation to increase the reaction probability of A and B)

there is also energy released in reaction, that can cover for decrease in surface energy and also the energy of dissolution (think of copper sulphate crystals forming). Energetically it is possible. Problem is find the particular system which checks all boxes

Sorry, but I do understand this stuff, my bachellors is in materials science, I do not master this domain, but I at least understand the thermodynamics and solidfication okay enough. I know of bayers process, and I know it can not be used for 3d printing. What I am saying is

• If something has very high enthalpy of formation, then end prouct is very stable - something I want for the end product (most ceramics have good enough stability for our needs).

• usually activation energy required is very high - one of the best way to give activation energy is raise temperature. Problem with very high temperature is now the nucleation rate is very high (nucleation rate is rouply proportional to temperature difference between equillibrium temperature and temperature of process). If nucleation rate is very high, we will form snow like crystals - fluffy (not dense), so we can not really use it to build layers above.

• If we find something with very low activiation energy (which the CaCO₃ formation has (reasonably low compared to other ceramics, that is one of th ereasons why we use it as a primary test for verification) then we can perform reaction at very low temperature. And growth rate is exponential decaying with temperature (the mobility is exponential with temperature) so growth would be prefered and we will form large crystals.

• another thing to control is directionality - if we can have direcctional solidification (something like silicon manufacturing) then we can perform 3d printing, otherwise things will grow accordingly to minimise the surface energy (everything technically does, but what I mean is, if there is significant anisotropy in growth rate along particular direction we can use it))

I may be wrong here, I definitely have not given it much thought, but I don’t think I am absolutely off the track. It doesn’t also help that these days I am not pursuing Material processing at all, so I may have forgotten a few details, If I still have something wrong please correct me

ceramics kinda don’t shrink. They do shrink, but CTE is very low (generally due to very deep potential wells). And assume we are at low temperature crystal growth range, we would see big crystals, with relatively low internal stresses.

that is also a problem i thought (last line of last issue). What I was thinking was that if some research group has already taken this, where for example the crystal structure has really high enthalpy (something like Al₂O₃) but also low enough activation energy, then at very low temps, the reaction will drive itself, and we can use fans to evaporate. I am sure there must be some goldy-locks zone somewhere

I know about this, and this is the very source of my idea - basically thinking why dont we 3d print cement. Then realised cement or concrete are way too complex structures, lets just consider slaked lime to lime

yes and no, turning sand to glass requires temperatures in ball park of 1600 C (close to glass transition temperature of Silica), even with mixing of stuff that will go to down to something like 1200, and the ones I found online were not going to that temperature. At lower temperatures, free silicates start to grow the existing silicate chains, knocking water out. Any glazing observed would be because now we are moving towards a more smoother surface (as in, due to solidification). There plenty other side reactions, but basically at low temperatures, we can only have chain growth or initiate (at this low temperature, initiation is also very slow, and growth is the dominiant mode).

what kind of ceramic prints? the clay kind or the kind I am looking for?

yes i did think of that, but that is (i think) a smaller overall effect. If tip has solidification, the edges will grow wider, and drop will get a much larger surface to form, and if i remeber correctly, for a drop to stable, it has to be basically be like a hemispherical dome, and base radii growing means a larger drop.

I just gave it up 1 day. No life changing event, no bad experience, just a shift in perspective happened, and I basically realised that I did not really need a god. I still practice some things which were part of my religious activities (donating, or serving others), but that is more of general good citizen thing rather than being religious

no, afaik kilning of clay is basically baking clay (I think that is why we have “brick kilns”) that is basically drying of silica (or some secondary or tertiary silicate chains, or aluminate or borate chains) - removal of water, which is techinically a chemical reaction, but the boring kind. What I am thinking of baiscally making the silicate chain

You can do 2 things - install a custom rom or de-enshittyify

From what i got from checking - there is not any rom already present, you can try to make one yourself, but that is a hard process

to de-enshittyify - you can start with UAD https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation.

• first boot into phone (and dont connect to internet) and enable dev mode

• then connect to desktop and open UAD, and it will give a long list apps which you can consider from removal (with deifferent degrees of recommendations)

• you may also disable remove google play services at your risk (google apps, and banking stuff would not work, but better battery life and privacy)

• after doing this, also remove any xaomi skin apps (can be done with UAD, in case it does not find anything, check the unknown section too) (phone, sms, message, …) these are usually forked from aosp, but with added “features”

• replace these apps with fdroid equivalent (a good family of apps is fossify https://www.fossify.org/, and also use newpipe)

I am a bit experienced, so I can do it all in 1.5 hours, if you have not done this before, maybe 2-3 hours, and you will have a clean phone, largely devoid of closed source apps

Sorry, I don’t have any advice or anything, but can you please mark the post nsfw (though there isn’t much explicit stuff, but still)

a fun fact: for the most efficient mass energy conversion, you need a huge spin black hole (preferably naked). Then you can get about 42% conversion. (there was a minute physics video about it i think)

i know, but i in my right mind can’t give any money to google

i don’t even need good specs or sd card, just a good camera, foss rom and good battery

yes, but that is a separate investment

Going for 6-7 years - you need to keep a few things in mind

• depending on usage - battery would have to replaced once or twice - so machine has to be somewhat repairable.

• a subset of above - 2 or 3 cleanings per year

• also try to find repair guides for your device, the harder it is to repair, less good of a deal it is. For my old laptop, i have to not only remove all of the motherboard, but then de-rivet a back plate, and then replace keyboard and re-rivet. This forced me to buy a external keyboard.

• go for a good display - at this price, tn is very common, my old laptop was tn, and it sucked. go for IPS. (difference in price would be $10)

• if you are flexible with budget, don’t buy really old stuff. Anything from last 3-4 or even 5 years is fine, but any older is definitely not. since you want to future proof, going for maybe $100 more for a better cpu may even pay well, if you amortize the cost over 4-5 years

• go for something not plastic body - my last laptop was plastic body, and in nearly 2 years of daily commute and medium to heavy usage, all edges broke, and in 1-2 falls, i even had display bleed. Unscrewing and screwing back made plastic bits fail over time. If you can find a metal body, then great, if not, try to get something which has parts of body metal reinforced (my current one is this)

• whatever hardware you get - please check linux compatibility beforehand. for laptops this will include keyboard - touchpad, wifi cards, and so on

• do not go for a gimmicky device

Don’t be overwhelmed by linux. These days, operating systems are anyway glorified boot loader for browsers, where people do everything. If you need any help, post in communities and you will find help. You can also message me if you would like that.

what is your budget? for hardware, I would either recommend a used laptop, or some entry level laptop. For a scale, I bought something for 500$ USD (did not buy in US, converting pricing to it) and for that I got - a recent-ish 8 core cpu, with a good (relatively) igpu, 24 GiB Ram, 1 TB storage, and 50Whr battery. If you want to target for 300$, you can roughly halve these specs, and get reasonable deals.

For distro - Anything works. If you want something to set and forget - pick a immutable distro like Silverblue. All distros essentially will act same, don’t try many. What you may want to try is Desktop environments (you can either check youtube videos, or project webpages). If no windows is installed, manufacturers either put opendos on it, or just plain blank, in either case you would prepare a installer media (instructions available on all distro websites, it is easy), go to bios, allow usb booting, then plug the usb, while booting select the media, and start. Then most installers are guided enough to help you.

Best of Luck.

the battery thing is real. I basically can not find a laptop with weak/low power cpu and igpu, but a huge battery. I get that we can not do more than 99whr, but for weak stuff, I can not find anything above 50 practically.

i don’t know how the /s in the middle looks, if you just want it to appear verbatim, use the code mode /s, to use it, wrap whatever you want to keep verbatim between pair of 3 back ticks ```hello```

for those who did not get it, this statement was sarcastic and written without /s

no (yes), i prefer no sarcasm marker ideally, but if you have to, i prefer /s over some others (i dont like /jk or lol). If you can’t tell sarcasm from not sarcasm, you really should not be using internet.

i like /s