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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • grue@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do any of you have... China Cabinets?
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    1 day ago

    (Speaking as an early Millennial)

    I have a gigantic cabinet in my dining room/kitchen (not much wall between them so it’s kinda the same space). It’s 8 feet tall, solid hardwood except for the glass doors, and was originally a built-in from a house in the next neighborhood over. They put it out on the curb and I saw it, hitched up my utility trailer, brought it home and installed it. Best curb find so far.

    I use it as a pantry because my house small and doesn’t have a closet-style pantry.

    I also have a set of fine china that a friend gave me as a wedding present (even though we didn’t have a gift registry), but the pattern isn’t really our style and I’ve never taken it out of the box. I don’t have plans to buy other fancy dishes, either. I’m very happy with my cheap Corelle (except for the fact that they discontinued the pattern and I wish I had more sets of it).

    So, technically, I “have” both china and a china cabinet, but it is very much just a Boomer thing anyway.

  • grue@lemmy.worldtoPhotography@lemmy.world•Color parity between screen and printer
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    2 days ago

    The colors of those renders make me think OpenSCAD.

    I particularly like your railing and the screen wall next to the stairs. The bar cabinet has a neat design too, although I feel like it should be a little taller (counter height). As it is, it looks a little more like a TV stand, except for the rotating stemware storage part.

    The house itself looks a little too vertical to me, but I guess it wouldn’t work very well as a dollhouse if it were a ranch. Maybe lean into the elevation changes and make it a split-level or put in a conversation pit?

  • grue@lemmy.worldtoPhotography@lemmy.world•Color parity between screen and printer
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    2 days ago

    Oh, you poor bastard. I don’t know enough to actually solve your problem, but I do know enough to know it sounds like a perfect storm of every possible way the problem could be harder:

    • random monitor that isn’t even IPS, let alone designed for color-calibrated professional work
    • a laser printer, which is much, much worse at producing vivid colors than other printer technologies (I know from personal experience as the owner of an older Brother color laser. The prints are crazy washed-out compared to even a cheap inkjet. That’s fine for my use, but not your mom’s)
    • trying to help an elderly parent that not only struggles with the mental model of what the computer is doing (e.g. the bit about recalibrating the monitor and expecting the print colors to change), but can’t see well to boot
    • not having the professional graphic design/print shop background to understand how the workflow is supposed to work

    For what it’s worth, my wife is a professional graphic designer who designs stuff to be physically constructed (not “printed”, per se, but built from pre-colored materials and/or painted) and even she apparently doesn’t work in a color-calibrated workflow. She just deals with the actual product being different from what’s on her screen.

    Frankly, this is the kind of subject that gets exponentially more complicated the further down the rabbit hole you go. Pantone built an entire business on trying to get it right, and charges a lot of money for their stuff. I’m leaning mostly toward the “maybe we’re just being unrealistically picky about color parity” option for your use-case.

    That said, I think you could do better on the printer. Even inkjet ought to be better despite the glue issue, with judicious choice of paper and/or ink, but you might also want to look into more unusual printer technologies, like solid ink, thermal wax, or dye-sublimation.

    Or maybe say “screw it” and have your stuff printed at a print shop. Let the trained employee handle getting it to come out the same color as it shows on screen.

    (By the way, where are the pics of the MCM dollhouse??)

    Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot:

    I also tried taking a photo of a printed page next to the monitor to show the color disparity here, but the difference in color on the photo is basically imperceptable (but in person it’s not).

    That just adds yet more layers of complexity, LOL! Lighting, white balance and other camera settings, software post-processing of the image, etc.

  • grue@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.world•British politicians awaiting election results
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    2 days ago

    As for being able to stand where you don’t live, yeah, it’s just a feature of the UK system that we don’t require residency. There’s probably a rule about you must have a registered office in the constituency, but that’s about it I think.

    What stops every district from ending up represented by some rich asshole from London or wherever, who doesn’t give a shit about the people who live there?

  • grue@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.world•We are regressing as a species.English
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    4 days ago

    Sony could have imposed a fee to unlock Other OS

    No, that’s extortion, which is also a crime.

    First of all, I think every “pay to unlock the capabilities of the hardware you already bought” is literally criminal (and by “literally” I mean “actually literally, not figuratively, and the FTC is failing to do its job by not prosecuting it”) no matter how much it gets normalized. Second, in this particular case it was unlocked from the get-go by default, so Sony would’ve had to forcibly lock it first and then try to charge for it, which would’ve been somehow even more blatantly criminal!

    The real alternative here would’ve been for Sony to take the fucking L and comply with the law. They could’ve revised future units to not support OtherOS (as they, in fact, did), but forcibly removing it from units that had already been sold was absolutely beyond the pale and should’ve been stopped.

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