Damn, made me chuckle

Anyways, going by

, i have had multiple people (2, which is not a lot but it’s weird it happened more then once) say that they couldnt solder just to discover that they were using their soldering iron wrong.

When you press the solder against the iron’s tip, it should get wicked by the tip, and remain there until you press it on some wire/component leads.

If the solder beads up and slips away from the iron, or beads up and forms a blob at the end of the solder wire, it’s oxidised and you probably need to get a new tip. It needs to be shiny and metallic.

The tip needs to be regularely cleaned while soldering by brushing it on a wet sponge, and never let the iron cool down without some solder on the tip to prevent oxidation.

also, FLUX FLUX FLUX

wasnt the whole point to be able to solder one yourself?

founder is a bit hard to bear sometimes. He banned me from all channels over a the tiniest little argument and so I can’t interact with and get any support from the community

i have seen the harsh takes on the valetudo website but thought it was a joke, what happened to deserve that

I’m just a little disgruntled because I like treating my Pi’s as headless servers, often with a single purpose, and I don’t want to have to erase the SD cards to upgrade versions.

sounds like a dietpi usecase! (sorry for the shilling, i just really like the project)

but hey, if debian works don’t touch it

I kinda understood half of the things you said, but i run DietPi on mine.

It has 64-bit support, you can update the os without resetting everything, still based on the original kernels for the closed source optimizations, but removes all the clunky and slow parts, leaving a very lightweight and fast os.

Plus, for newbies (like me) it has a decent built-in installer for various software with minimal ulterior setup required.

So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser

adding to this, some sites set the difficulty way higher then others, nerdvpn’s invidious and redlib instances take about 5 seconds and some ~20k hashes, while privacyredirect’s inatances are almost instant with less then 50 hashes each time

i meant that whatever you show them, if you’re white they’re gonna say it’s a real account, if you’re black you’re gonna get accused of showing them a fake second account

like they’ll belive that

release notes and app documentation:

memes aside, are they blaming the coders or the ai on the slower project turnout?

except programmers are gonna continue with what they were already doing, at most putting a script on copilot to get the metrics

don’t forget that if you don’t turn in the project in time you’re fired, the issues always get thrown at the coder, it’s never the company’s fault

I mean I can still drive faster then allowed if nobody is watching. Should we stop enforcing speed limits because of that?

I think i explained myself poorly, the regulations you proposed are very good and should be enforced, but especially with old people, smoking everywhere will be so much ingrained in their brains that they won’t care and tell everyone who points it out “what, it’s just a cigarette”

put BIG warning labels on packages and every single cigarette

already done, even with images of lung cancer, addicted people don’t care and kids think it’s “cool” and “taboo”

put quit smoking programs onto every package

same as above.

• prohibit smoking in ALL public spaces
• prohibit smoking while driving
• prohibit smoking while near vulnerable groups (kids, pregnant women, ill) even at home

how are you going to catch them? who is gonna enforce the law, the chain smoker cop? you directly, going against an highly aggressive person who’s in the middle of nicotine withdrawal?

Remove vending machines which provide this drug 24/7

• move dispensary to drug stores

i mean sure it cooould teeechnically work

a bit of an unpopular opinion, but as someone who almost chokes on second hand smoke, i’d personally say just fuck it and outlaw cigarettes and vapes entirely, they’re durgs after all, no? (this might open up another discussion about legalizing drugs, but whatever. Also shrooms and LSD don’t stink up the whole place and actually have fun effects unlike cigs)

on the last plane i was in a couple in front of me vaped the entire flight while trying to hide it. and that’s only the people i could see…

username checks out

vsauce music kicks in

or does it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

the rate at which i’ve been referencing slaughterbots has steadily been increasing…

Autonomous warplanes

heyyyyyy… i’ve seen this before…

get a lawyer and see if you can exit the hoa agreement because of some caveats

wha wha what

no, it’s an organic solvent like ethylene carbonate/propylene carbonate + some other stuff, which have a boiling point of 230+°C ( 446°F)

heating up batteries is (mostly) fine (under controlled scenarios with known good batteries, spicy pillows can always happen with bad batches) as long as the plastic holding them together doesn’t melt

you physically CANNOT make a lithium ion battery with water because lithium reacts with water

from the wikipedia page

Lithium reacts vigorously with water to form lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and hydrogen gas. Thus, a non-aqueous electrolyte is typically used, and a sealed container rigidly excludes moisture from the battery pack. The non-aqueous electrolyte is typically a mixture of organic carbonates such as ethylene carbonate and propylene carbonate containing complexes of lithium ions.[45] Ethylene carbonate is essential for making solid electrolyte interphase on the carbon anode,[46] but since it is solid at room temperature, a liquid solvent (such as propylene carbonate or diethyl carbonate) is added.