adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

@gbwust @stylinstainless my wife asked this and 144F is 62.22C!

vintage canadiana

@khird also, i think i have been conflating plexiglass and fibreglass in my head

did y’all know plexiglass is just a brand name for acrylic? they’re the exact same thing? who knew my kids were painting with “plexiglass” this whole time.

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@levisan well, maybe not! @khird’s given me some advice on what i could do to mend the acrylic base, so i figure on at least giving it a go!

@khird oh wow, no way! well the more you know! the cube base does seem like a much more rigid material than the flexible monitor base, but now that i know plexiglass IS acrylic it makes sense they’d just use tweaked formulations of the same thing if they could. they do seem well matched in terms of clarity, sheen, etc.

pretty impressed with the cursor code editor so far! https://www.cursor.com/ basically its VS code, but with a bunch of AI autocompletion/autocoding stuff baked in.

so far i’m being super boring with my edit requests (just asking it to do stuff like switch uppercase to capital case for example) but anyone else tried it?

@khird wait, is this what you're suggesting for both the plexiglass cube base and acrylic monitor base, or just one of them?

@khird very cool! wonder if anyone’s written a laypersons guide to this stuff. maybe you should! :) not wanting to use the wrong stuff on the wrong stuff is a huge barrier to tackling tasks like this usually — for me and for many others, i’m sure. for good reason, it seems!

@khird yep, the monitor is on its side. ok thanks! acrylic + shear means i should prob look for something like tensol 70, eh? https://cutlasercut.com/drawing-resources/expert-tips/bonding-acrylic/

@khird here’s the break in the base

@khird how do you know so much about what works with what, btw? very cool, i’d love to have this sort of in-depth knowledge on physical properties of things and what works well for what

@Clementulus @khird have never heard of adding a heat pump to a water heater! our water heater is rented from the natural gas company so i expect we arent allowed to mod it, but now i'm curious how this would work!

@khird ah, i do recall folks selling replacement bases on ebay were calling them acrylic. overall it is pretty strong stuff — the way the base got the break in it was because a bunch of boxes were inadvertently piled on top and put a ton of extra weight on the already-heavy monitor, so likely wouldnt have happened normally. i'll try to remember to take a photo so you can see the way it broke.

@khird the monitor base is just one clean break (unlike the shattered cube casing) but it does look like maybe a spot with multidirectional force. this post suggests it’s made of polycarbonate: https://www.applefritter.com/node/5273

@khird plexiglass! hm well then i wonder if that’ll work for the CRT monitor base which is also cracked. wonder if it would be a strong enough mend for the weight

huh. never noticed how similar the vent holes on the bottom of the #mac #g4cube are to the mac pro vent holes from 15yr later!

think the g4 cube is repairable? epoxy maybe… not sure if it’ll be strong enough though. thing is dang heavy. still don’t know where most of the shards went