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Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #56
falcolas wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing it's a reference to GlowForge, which can cut based on pictures or drawings on the material itself.

And a bunch of the inexpensive Chinese laser cutters, some of which provided a pirated copy of Corel Draw to do your designs in.

CorelDRAW is a vectors graphics program.

I often use Inkscape for text I'm going to laser cut because it does a proper job of creating text outlines compared with Draftsight which manages to bork the text when I run explodetext command.

What I don't understand using a vector graphics program to generate CNC cut items is how do you specify dimensions? CAD files have dimensionality inherent.

How does that aspect work?

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

jordache wrote: post #42
kadal wrote: post #32

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I have this one and the thing that sticks up pokes my wrist all day. I don't think a human tested it for any amount of time.

huh? I use it while using the laptop in clamshell mode. What else do people use stands for? Surly it's not to elevate the screen to eye level and still type on it? That's just awkward.

I've got a stand I use to lift up a 15" macbook pro retina screen while I use an external keyboard.

I use this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007CYBY5C

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by jeroen »

xab9 wrote: post #11

I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)

Source for the Ikea stand: https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/making-a-laptopbook-stand-o...

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by jeroen »

ralfd wrote: post #96
xab9 wrote: post #11

I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)

What is that ikea thingy?

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/making-a-laptopbook-stand-o...

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by dawnerd »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #95
dawnerd wrote: post #83

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Youtube-dl? I mean I get your argument but op isn’t wrong. YouTube is reallly easy to rip content from.

And the point of that argument is that youtube-dl only works because Google doesn't care, and the need to patch it regularly is only caused by the incidental changes in the service. When Google starts caring for some reason, it'll be a difficult battle.

I haven’t updated mine in ages and it still works...

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by knolan »

todd8 wrote: post #99
knolan wrote: post #93

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So you printed it in pieces and assembled it? I’m sorry to be harsh but this is the kind of thing we get undergrads to do on day one of an internship. Why do you feel it was worthy of posting on HN?

But I like the simplicity of the design, the poster’s first hand experience, mentioning other designs, and the idea of leaving usable room underneath the laptop. Further, it’s nicely illustrated with a photo. Not, perhaps, a mathematical tour de force but useful information. Just like the numerous reports on HN of IKEA products used to prop up monitors. These ideas won’t win a Turing Award but are often clever and gi…

I see your point but from my experience this is closer along the spectrum to ‘hello world’.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by akoncius »

dawnerd wrote: post #83
glenneroo wrote: post #64

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Do you mean downloading using unsupported 3rd party tools? Because those have to be regularly updated to ensure they even work and could some day stop working entirely if Google decided to care about blocking such tools. In comparison, GitHub offers a simple clone button (among ways) which gives you everything.

Youtube-dl? I mean I get your argument but op isn’t wrong. YouTube is reallly easy to rip content from.

it could be easy to rip, but exact word "rip" is indicating that you are going against service provider's SLA. Meanwhile GitHub is providing tools (git) to get, share content which fits in their SLA.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by pvdebbe »

Faaak wrote: post #12
exhilaration wrote: post #2

That looks kinda flimsy... I'd be a little scared of putting my (employer's) $3000 Macbook on that.

Seriously, are you afraid that your macbook can break falling from 10 cm ? I'm worried when my thinkpad falls from 1 m high.

Apple makes nice but brittle bodies.

Re: DIY MacBook Stand

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Post by dmd »

amelius wrote: post #97
dmd wrote: post #60

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I'd consider Youtube to be one of the top easiest sites to get one's data (or someone else's!) out of. Why do you think it's not?

1. It's not legal (see ToS). 2. Google can block it any moment, or inject ads. 3. You don't get the original data, but a transcoded version. And/or a watermarked version. In contrast, GitHub is intended to download data from, so above points will never apply.

1 and 3 are incorrect. I'm talking about Google.com/takeout not YouTube-dl.
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