NaevaTheRat

Veganism is seitanic. Or at least it was before the celiac split. Now pan glutenism has given way to a variety of fractious sects.

e You're fine, it's practice.

Some of those wires are quite thick which will pull heat away fast making soldering with shitty equipment hard. A good soldering iron* set to the correct temperature will help massively. Flux gets you then last 20% of the way. Most solders are flux cored, but a little pot of rosin flux you either dip the end of a wire in or dab on (i use a sharpened chop stick because no static and cheap) and suddenly the solder flows like water.

Remember not to heat the solder and instead heat the joint. My favoured technique is to "tin" both sides individually and then put then against each other and a quick touch with the iron to make the joint. Ensures you have good contact and doesn't require growing extra fingers although it is slower.

Hobbiest electronics don't need perfection, some failure is fine you can always repair it since you made it.

Never be embarressed to learn a new skill!

• don't worry about crazy expensive name brands tbh, there's some pretty great stuff coming out of China quite affordably if you're willing to trawl through reviews. Not the bottom dollar stuff but usually about ~30% cheaper than the Japanese brands or Weller

edit: here's my impatient soldering of the last couple of days:

Some of the joints are garbage (had to rewire some, lost patience) but if you look at the joints in the foreground you can see how much neater tinning each side and joining can be.

Hierarchy is ok if the scientific and economic establishment at the time endorses it as normal and unproblematic.

I cannot think of a single time this backfired.

Hi, Aussie here. Entirely expected and unsurprising. I mean Hitler learned from the USA.

Been watching the usa destroy everything nice about Australia for my entire life and waiting for the other shoe to drop. Good luck, please don't our government again if we elect another socialist.

Yeah that's where I'm at. Finding the time to read fiction while I was alert enough to really chew on it had been hard. There's a million and one things to do around the house that need my hands more than my brain though so it's when I get my self indulgent fantasy nonsense in :D

If they want to read a silly series about "bonermancy" (immature brain rot drenched necromancy) written by a pretty funny and well educated woman the Ninth Tomb is decent. Some bits drag but come on, you've got to admire someone that writes a series going through the different grammatical persons just for the hell of it. That's china Mieville levels of madness.

Alas her brain seems to have been damaged by covid and she's having a hard time finishing it :(

Those prelubed long grey fingers just do it for me mate.

All the blokes I've met that are happy in love are just gentle and respectful, especially of consent.

Turns out, and I know this is a shocker, we're not fucking aliens we just want to be treated as equally valuable and interesting people.

Don't judge me (also audiobook because I have lost the ability to read fiction rip) but harrow the ninth. Purple prose Catholic school lesbian angst. A bit complex, a second person book is quite challenging and Muir floundered a little pulling it off. She stuck the ending though, solid.

Started Nona the ninth and enjoying it a lot more because Harrow is a joyless ghoul but Nona is extremely sweet and cute.

I'm curious where Tamson Muir is taking the whole thing. It's all very gnostic with John as the demiurge, crossing the river/true lictorhood both stand ins for gnosis. Anyway, good stuff. If you want less angst but also complex plots and purple prose Catholic mysticism gene Wolfe's book of the new sun is a good read too.

Intervention for people falling down into the propaganda? Sure. Once you declare yourself the enemy of almost the entire human species idk how much tolerance you deserve.

You don't accidentally decide that killing everyone who isn't a straight white cis man or a subserviant straight white cis woman is a good and worthy goal.

Like I don't care how lonely you are, that's fucked. Join a stitch and bitch don't plan a race war.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s174002280900312x ;-)

Yeah black screen with mouse cursor is the thing. If I check the logs it'll complain about errors trying to get display foo. Can switch to a TTY session and kill shit and get display back if I restart X.

nfi why the mouse cursor still works.

Fair, that's defs breakage that would trip up a novice computer user.

I've been around enough to know that everyone ignores "have backups". Although I think pacman can do rollbacks because it keeps a cache by default? I've never had to and I use snapshots so /shrug.

Still a novice computer user would probably not feel comfortable reading manual pages, and even an expert would be annoyed if this happened.

I tried to run linux on a mac once (work supplied) and it was very annoying compared to a think pad. I can't remember specifically why, maybe the touchpad had low level drag scrolling I couldn't overrule or something like that. How do you find it?