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- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 6 days ago:
Standard pcb board is about .15mm .2mm flush mount screws are fairly common.
To be honest you are most likely better getting a new device.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 6 days ago:
I’d fix the mechanical with epoxy and then use a small conducive screw tapped into the exoxy as a bridge.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 6 days ago:
Yup the wire is going to be more tolerant of flexing than the glue or a solder joint.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 1 week ago:
Beep
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Gimp doesn’t have UI standards. That’s part of the problem.
- Comment on Do it 2 weeks ago:
There’s no one like you in my ass.
- Comment on ZeniMax union "overwhelming" votes to authorise strike if Microsoft contract negotiations break down 3 weeks ago:
Probably their in house sysadmin drew it.
- Comment on Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible 3 weeks ago:
Best president of my life (started with Carter). I’d give him a C- if not grading on a curve.
- Comment on Canadian parliament on lockdown amid large police presence: ‘Lock all doors and hide’ 3 weeks ago:
Looks like the man has been arrested. I can’t film find any info about why he did it.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I spent a week in south east France. Best trip I have ever been on. People were so nice. Paris was the only unfriendly place and It wasn’t bad.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 4 weeks ago:
Great expression.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 4 weeks ago:
To be fair a lot of human translators don’t bother to be accurate or capture wordplay. Some of the translations for netflix are so bad.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes. Land Skyranger, open door, sectoid throws grenade into Skyranger. Evac with one survivor. Good times.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 5 weeks ago:
There is a lot of truth to this old commercial. m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5DpaCvoCn0
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 5 weeks ago:
I cut my teeth on Space Quest 1 and Kings Quest 3. Not only was the very spefic vocabulary a pain but so many solutions were a dead end trap.
I remember in Space Quest if you typed use [item] it would give you a message about not being a simple 2 word game and tell you to say use [item] on [thing]. It required that format.
Then halfway through the game the solution to one puzzle is use glass. Not use glass on laser. I has figured out the puzzle right away but it took me days to get the right wording.
Those games have not aged well.
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 1 month ago:
So on 9/11 the fighters scrambled to intercept United 91 had no weapons installed. There were no orders but one of the two pilots sad the plan was to ram the cockpit bringing down the both their plane and the passenger plane.
I’ll add that very few fighter pilots will ever scramble a plane. There is a large checklist pilots go through before taking off particularly a fighter. When a fighter is scrambled that’s all skipped.
- Comment on Marco Rubio reveals that what Zelensky did before cameras started rolling is reason why he should apologize 1 month ago:
The Daily Mail song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
- Comment on Why don't states in the US come up with their own health insurance program? So people can pay into it prolly less then what they pay now and the state put the money in a bank and use the interest for 2 months ago:
Partially. ACA is mostly based on the compromise plan to appease republicans when Clinton was trying to do health care reform in 1993. It failed and led to the Republicans taking control of the senate for the fist time in 40 years.
It set the stage for the pattern of Dems ignoring the left portion of the party for a compromise proposal with the Republicans. The Republicans bail on the compromise and nothing happens.
Voters are pissed at the Dems for not doing anything and put the Republicans in power the next election. Basically the template for the pattern we still see today.
- Comment on Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep. 2 months ago:
Pocket. A closed source binary blob in a “open source” project.
Orbit: AI productivity tool.
Anonym: Ad server.
Locking down extensions.
Cutting 250 jobs while raising executive pay 400%.
In 2021 the CEO made 5.5 million. They got about 7 million in donations that year.
80% of their revenue is from google. But google encourages them to waste the money on stuff not related to the browser because it’s competition to chrome. Their job us to look like a viable competitor but not be good one.
The browser is constantly getting worse on performance, user experience, and customizability.
They have gone from 34% user share to 2.2%. So clearly I’m not alone in my opinion of the current state of the browser.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 months ago:
There are two main inverter approaches. One big inverter that takes the DC from a bunch of panels and converts it into AC and micro inverters where each panel gets it’s own small one placed directly under the panel.
The micro inverters cost around $150 each. So you need around 10 panels before the single inverter becomes a good choice.
Installers love the micro because the install is easier. However as a owner with say 30 panels you now have 30 points of possible failure instead of the 1.
- Comment on Electric cars took 89% of Norway market in 2024 3 months ago:
I was in Norway last year. There were a LOT of Teslas on the road.
- Comment on USA | High-speed passenger train collides with firetruck in Florida, injuring 15 people 3 months ago:
People here are always ignoring the rail signs. This time it was a fire trunk. Sunrail is a Orlando light rail that has regular deaths and accidents.
- Comment on Pope slams 'cruelty' of strike killing Gaza children 4 months ago:
Because everything up to now was fine. /s
- Comment on duhh 5 months ago:
ATP in the corner. “Am I a joke to you ?”
- Comment on [Clip] A Quick Getaway - Dan Da Dan 5 months ago:
Ghost steals a guys penis and balls. He and psychic friend try to get them back.
Episode 7 turns into a real tearjerker.
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 5 months ago:
I’m going to regret this but what is a gunt?
- Comment on Where to start? 5 months ago:
TNG season 3. The first two sessions are pretty rough. Start with 3. If you ever do a rewatch then try starting with season 1. Then try DS9.
TOS is good if you can handle the very low budget look.
- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 5 months ago:
The cool water can improve solar panel efficiency. Hotter panels produce less energy.
- Comment on burden of knowledge 5 months ago:
They keep growing until they die. If they live long enough they get so big they either can’t get enough food or oxygen and die.
They have urinary ducts in their eyes and when they meet other lobsters they piss on each others face. If they have fought in the last week or so the loser backs down. If not they fight.
The biggest male lobster knows where the others live and once a week visits the other lobsters. Pisses in their face and then beats them up.
When a female enters estrus she goes to the biggest lobster’s den. He then beats her to help her molt. When her shell is removed they mate.
She is allowed to stay for a few days during the vulnerable period when her shell regrows and hardens. Unless another female comes by. The he kicks her out and the new girl moves in after mating.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 5 months ago:
Recasting one actor for a character that race isn’t an important characteristic isn’t white washing.
The problem with Into Darkness is how bad the writing and acting are. They took one of the most popular Star Trek movies and remade it badly.