I've been saving glass bottles and jars to recycle into utensil containers, paint rinse cups, vases, candle holders, windchimes and whatever else. At this point i could break half of them and still have plenty. I have a glass bottle cutter and the stuff to sand down the cut rims afterward. (I read somewhere that the sanded rims are fragile and it's best to heat the glass rim with a propane torch, but i dunno if i'm up for that.)
I'm thinking about how to turn these plain containers into nicer items, ideally so i can keep saving my bottles and recycling them into gifts. I've read about engraving glass with a rotary tool (which i own, with plenty of diamond bits, and i've engraved on metal), and the only other thing i know of would be using armor etch, but i'd have to hand cut the stencils and it sounds tedious and messy.
I don't know how concerned i should be about the glass shattering as i am engraving. I have glass cutting oil, or do i need to rig up some kind of tub with a water drip to engrave in? I know glass dust is a problem, too. I've waited until summer to start this project so i can work outside, at least until i get the feel for it.
Has anyone engraved on glass or done a similar decorative project with recycled bottles and jars? Or just a project with cut down containers? How'd it go? What did you make?
It's reasonable for the early adopters who built the house to be salty when they get a flood of noobs tracking in mud on the clean carpet. But everyone's a noob at some point in their digital life, so that's why it's important to try to take cues from the culture you are joining and be willing to learn. Don't get insulted - just chill a little and try to engage with the community on its own merits. Give it a few weeks before you decide you know what it should be and what it needs.
I didn't hear about lemmy until the reddit dustup so i'm a noob too. I picked my instance by going into a bunch of instances, looking at the communities list and applying to the one that had the most content that interested me. It's not rocket science to find where you fit. If you can put together a couple coherent sentences, you shouldn't fear a mild application question. Now i'm getting annoyed by the flood of subreddit dupes, pointless memes, reddit-centric chatter and such, so i imagine it's way worse for the OGs. Reddit is dead. Let it die. Make better comunities, don't resurrect the zombie corpses of subreddits that were just pointless repost karma farms anyway.
Things will settle down in a few weeks once we get into mid july, i reckon. People with short attention spans will complain and then wander off. People who find a better instance fit will shift, or even start new instances. Bugs will cause problems and get patched, and then there will be new bugs. There will be defederation drama. It's all good. Don't be insulted, settle in. Then in a few months or years when we get a fresh flood of inconsiderate noobs with "rebuilt the thing we left" energy, you get to be the OG yelling about all the mud on the carpet.