Mine has worn in enough to start jamming up, but I've mitigated that by pressure washing it at our water park almost every day. That helps a lot, but I've been reluctant to actually lubricate it, not like I want oil on my hands every time I tinker with it..

Advice very welcome, as the puzzle you see above, I can solve it blind and single handed, but the thing keeps jamming up..

Update: I figured out where the main wear and tear is coming from. I used a cloth wipe to clean all the crevices of plastic dust. Then I noticed circular grooves worn into pretty much every piece internally.

Turns out, it was caused by plastic burrs from the clips on the covers of the center pieces. If I had realized that to begin with, I would have flattened those out and cleaned them up when I first had it disassembled.

Anyways, now it's already pretty well worn in, no reason to bother now. Still, if I knew in advance, I would have trimmed, smoothed out, and lubricated those manufactured plastic burrs before even using it much.

Based on my modified Rubik's Cube/Die.

Yes obviously it's not a proper die as far as the dot pattern goes, but it's fun figuring out patterns like this.

Reference post..

https://lemmy.world/post/21009190

I know this would basically be a useless feature, except for scientific curiousity. I think it could be interesting to some people to see first hand what sort of errors that old faulty CPUs would produce.

Emulators for other faulty platforms might be interesting too. Not like I'd expect any programmers out there to deliberately write faulty instructions though, except as stated, something of a scientific exercise.

Just curious honestly.

Yes, totally random silly question 😂

What's your preference of grammar?

Neither attempt worked LOL!

Like seriously, time is money right? I'm sure most people can relate to wasting time on numerous applications before ever landing a job. If they set that into law, employers will probably be much less likely to reject applicants, and even when they do, you still get paid for your wasted time.

Edit: I'm not particularly referring to the application part alone, I'm referring to application + interview = rejection. People should get paid for someone calling you in, only to end up wasting your time. Hell, I could have spent that time better at the sperm bank.

For anyone interested in my modified cube/die, this is the dot pattern I laid out. Sorry but not sorry for pixelated image, it shouldn't matter.

Reference post: https://lemmy.world/post/21005772

Yes, it's a proper (though cheap) mini cube. I added proper dice dots to it for the hell of it. Fully solved, it's a proper die. Also, the red/white/blue pattern here is a proper and easily solvable die-cube. The opposite sides are autumn colors yellow/orange/green.

I also discovered a Christmas color theme proper die-cube.

I've found it very fun and interesting to play with, as obviously it's now a dual puzzle.

Thoughts?

Edit: Another post from I Made This, showing the autumn colors corner from the fully solved cube..

https://lemmy.world/post/20039223

I dunno, but I drew this out in ink from actual tidal and lunar data at the end of September, in ink, to half-ass program my Casio WS-1300H wristwatch tide predictions. Way easier said than done.

The data is very region specific, but I noticed a pattern for the month of October, and assumed that there might be an eclipse sometime during October.

Apparently I was right. Today, October 2nd, Easter Island had a solar eclipse.

I had no idea that it was 'Inktober' when I wrote and drew all this out. It's just meant to determine timing data. I don't even do things like this in ink, but I felt it necessary this time.

If the right column doesn't seem to make much sense initially, I totally understand. I know what numbers I stuck where.

Sorry this isn't exactly artwork in any conventional sense, but if anyone wants to better understand my chart, I'll try my best to answer any questions.

Mods, I hope this post is okay here, but if not, I understand.

Yes, these already exist, usually without the colors though. I just thought it would be fun to make a dual purpose cube by Dremeling and coloring the dots in myself, while still keeping the colored decals.

Sorry for poor contrast, it was actually worse with the flash on. Look inside the roll, zoom in if necessary.

Ours apparently expired in July of 1823 😂

The phone models shouldn't matter should they? One is on Android 11 and the other is on 13. I can only get them to connect for about a second, then the connection drops out. And yes, they're right next to each other.

And where the hell am I supposed to enter the 'pairing code' thing? No entry box pops up on either device..