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it was a cheap kit, i made ten, for a decent sample size, and for practice. thanks for your kind attitude.

am well aware that leaded solder still has some niche applications, but the comment i replied to called lead-free a "clusterfuck" without any regard for the huge public health bene…

You've mis-interpreted why I commented. aerospace is a small part of what soldering is used for, globally. the majority is consumer electronics. keeping lead out of people's homes …

I built a few identical fidget-spinner toy kits using either leaded and lead-free solder to decide which type I should keep buying from then on, the leaded stuff was admittedly a t…

plus the fact that exFAT read/write is cripplingly slow, a MacOS bug for years and years now.

The electronics to drive the right frequency for efficiently heating ferrous metals (about 25KHz) are affordable. The electronics to drive the much higher (at least double?) freque…

A myth. Copper and aluminium won't heat on a consumer-grade kitchen induction stove, which only have a set of coils designed for ferrous metals, but restaurant kitchen professional…

presumably means "error correcting code", to save the next person from looking up jargon.

Good project, but I've always hated the word "blogroll". It's a pun on "bog roll", like toilet paper, isn't it?

What is fenced off for Europeans? Admittedly I've been living outside of Europe for some time, but some of my self hosted stuff is still based there, and a lot of friends, and I ha…

My Kirb. What is this negging "yeah if you're into basic stuff" tone? I'm a fan of the genre, I own quite a few SBCs with various chipset manufacturers, and I use them for all kind…

There are tons of alternative single-board-computers available. The Orange Pi 5 is great for MUCH higher end performance but still under (usd)$100, and there are other options (Ora…

By VPU, I meant the square on the board that eats h.265 hw_enc and hw_dec and things like that, yes. I've been told it's a separate square from the GPU, by someone who is full-time…

Yeah it's the first under $100 system I've tried, (and I'm a fan of the genre) that's truly a desktop replacement in terms of being a snappy responsive desktop even with lots of br…

The RK3588 seems like a beast for performance per dollar, I have one running desktop Linux for emulators and games, but I haven't used the NPU yet, because I haven't taken the time…

Interesting. Could you give a bit more of a concrete, specific example of "good pathfinding hurting the experience"? It's an odd sounding idea, to me. Also, you seem to be deep in …

Hmm. I read the licence.md. Does this mean if I fork the game to try my own patches, I'm forbidden from using the game's artwork in my forked version? If so, that is a serious impe…

Just today, I had a no-https warning from a .so site when I was trying to search for information about some linux library file. libfooblah.so or something like that, i dare not pos…

Get a Pi sbc of some sort, install an OS you trust, run Kodi on it, and only ever use the TV to display that. Streaming services, YouTube etc, are available as Kodi addons. Though …

? magic mushrooms grow all over the world, and have been known in western cultures for all history.

A complete lack of focus stealing prevention, for one. Corner notifications that never go away even though I'm clearly trying to ignore them. Suddenly typing into some random new t…

Last week's David Mcwilliams podcast [1] goes into a good explanation, generally matching your reaction. David is an economist who's regularly been around all the top conferences, …

Like who? Inuit, who live where plants don't grow? Historical Mongolians, until cereal crops were introduced to their lands? Nomadic Masai who don't stay around for crops? Can't th…

It would be useful if headlines said "~$10", "sub $100", "sub $1000" et cetera, instead of vague terms like "low-cost".

Lower OpenGL / GLES version number requirements, so wezterm can run on Arm64 hardware with no hassle.