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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I recently re-did my kitchen floor with 1' square peel-and-stick vinyl tiles. After buying four boxes (30 tiles each at $45 a pop), I ended up exactly one tile short. I was sorely tempted to go back to Home Despot and slip one tile out of a box - obviously people do this a lot there since there are always open boxes in the tile section. In the end I just pieced the last tile out of scrap bits, in a spot where it really wasn't obvious. I don't need a fucking shoplifting charge at this stage of my life.

[–] bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

if everyone is confessing: Back in my first year in Uni, I and buddy stole a cpu and monitor from storage, not from computer lab, just from storage which was scheduled to get replaced. It was a HP business desktop set from 2009. Fairly spec'd

Buddy wanted a second monitor and I wanted to host some fun sfw websites on lan. Some years later, it now works as my home server with some cheap upgrades.

Oh I also nicked stuff from e-waste dumps: psu's, routers, switchs, electronic trinkets from the labs(I asked lab attendants and they said they don't care)

My uni didn't allow us to use the labs in our free time, and I learned a lot!

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

Always fun drawing them up in Tinkercad.

[–] JamonBear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago
[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Ahhh priceless

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can dip it in shiny paint too. Its not stainless steel but its good enough

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No worries, the OEM ones aren't stainless steel, either. They're "stainless appearance," i.e. plastic with a thin veneer of cheesy chrome plating that's about one molecule thick.

You can electroplate 3D prints by using a basecoat of conductive spraypaint, and then the limit of the thickness of your plating is only really limited by your patience. Nickel is quite easy to do at home.

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 3 months ago

Deluge of personal stories:

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I need to figure out how to do cad/3d printing, cuz I'm begining to lose control! Well, I've already lost CTRL on both sides of my keyboard because the keycap sleeve broke and it constantly falls off the switch (cherry mx red).

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