@DemBoSain@midwest.social it masses the same as 555.9 grams of bananas.

Please note this is only a prototype banana. Production models will sport a trendy yellow anodized finish.

I did not consult that site, the ASME Scaling Banana™ measures 214mm. It was made from a composite 3d scan of 4 different bananas bought from 3 different retailers. Your banana may vary.

The Scaling banana contains no Potassium-40, but it does probably have some Aluminum-26 in it. Further testing will be needed to ascertain the actual B.E.D.

I put the pic in the comment, it loaded on my side so idk whats up. But basically, I did it in 2 sides. The back side had its roughing and finishing pass done while clamping the billet. The front got its roughing pass again clamping billet. It was supposed to leave .020" thick tabs to keep it in the billet for the finishing pass but they ended up breaking off. So I used the cad drawing to cut an exact pocket of the banana in a piece of wood. The banana fit pretty snuggly into the pocket so I just used some silicone sealant I had on hand to keep it from lifting out during finishing.

I have not seen one of those before, it would make a good companion tool.

Just a 3 axis and a custom fixture.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee thanks, I try my best.

@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com that’s the plan. I gotta pay for that M.E. degree somehow.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee I’m not an actual machinist, just self taught. Also my machine isn’t particularly nice/precise. It’s an 90s bridgeport with a 3 axis cnc kit. So I try and use whatever tricks I can to make it all work out.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee thanks. The fixture wasn’t initially planned for, but the last pass on the roughing cut for the front went too deep and thinned the tabs holding it in the billet a little too much for comfort. So I just used the cad file to make a negative that I cut into the wood. The Scaling Banana™ fits quite snuggly into the fixture, the grey silicone was just to keep it from lifting out during machining.

@givesomefucks@lemmy.world you’re the one missing the joke, this has nothing to do with banana radioactivity. I’m aware that bananas are used as an equivalent dose measurement of radiation. This has nothing to do with that.

It’s also worth noting that in its final form it will be anodized yellow.

@KingJalopy@lemm.ee The wood fixture was only used for the finishing pass and engraving for the top. The rest was just held in the billet by leaving a .020" layer around all sides.

@Zachariah@lemmy.world its made from a composite of 4 3d scans of bananas purchased from 3 different retailers. So it’s the average size of your average banana.

@givesomefucks@lemmy.world This is not in reference to the radioactive potassium content of bananas. This is in reference to the internet trope of adding a “banana for scale” to uploaded pictures.

Don’t stick your tongue in crazy.

You actually have to implicitly install google services on GrapheneOS, but if you do install it then it is sandboxed.

I think the point the author was trying to make is that the “personal” part of PC is what is dying. the profit model for modern tech is no longer about supplying the best or most useful product but instead exploiting users, either to manipulate them into buying more crap or harvesting their data to sell off to someone else who wants to sell them more crap. Even many of the products we buy these days we don’t really own. Steam just released a policy statement saying that users don’t actually own the games they’ve purchased, but are merely buying a license to access them. If Steam decides not to support a particular title anymore than poof, it’s gone forever from your account. For the most part it seems that if you aren’t running strictly FOSS software or pirating, you can’t really own anything on your PC aside from the hardware. I think the gist of their argument is not that computing has gotten worse, but that while software, hardware, and user experience have massively improved, the exploitation of the user has greatly tainted that progress.

This guy gets it.