Wonderful day! Looks not bad, but doesn’t look perfect, sorry. Yet, there’s progress it seems!
Generally:

1. Clean both platforms for the join, and the soldering iron;
2. If the solder does not come with flux, apply a proper flux to the both ends (flux must be compatible with the metal);
3. Heat and apply a solder to the first fluxed end;
4. Heat and apply a solder to the second fluxed end;
5. Heat and join to ends together;

I’ve been into electronics for almost two decades, and I relatively recently noticed the following video that you may find interesting. It is more modern than books and quickly summarizes the principles to be researched manually further if required (e.g. in books):
- Do This Before You Solder Anything

I believe it mostly comes with practicing, and experiments with an iron that has a temperature indicator should support it.

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Oh! It does look like a Psychodidae (aka Drain fly)! ✨

Indeed, hence, “environment”.

It must be the ephemeral or almost magical Rule 3! ^^"

I am sorry, but just in case, the supposed “beans” are likely different in clients/environments.

The character code: 0xf0 0x9f 0xab 0x98

Yet, regardless, the game/idea is sure interesting!

Wonderful day!
Have you considered to cross-post to !newcommunities@lemmy.world , too?
Music, song, sound, art…? Infinity…

Come and go, please…
And watch it swallow me…
I bleed…
Toe the line… Toe the line… Toe the line…

~ Lean Into It - Wayside

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As far as you can set your sights on…
Take a good long look at that horizon…

~ Solar -Northlane

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Into the fire you fall, only you can make it right…
Stand up and fight for resolve if only you can make it right…

~ Make it right - Alter Bridge

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Holy gracious smokes… Why don’t people read… and the call people “liers”? How indifferent and echo-chambered you must be to act as these people who “heroically reveal” already known, proving that they have no idea what they are talking about, sorry?

The “Secret Chat” encryption has been known for at least a decade and more…

Secret chats are meant for people who want more security than the average fella. All messages in secret chats use end-to-end encryption. This means only you and the recipient can read those messages — nobody else can decipher them, including us here at Telegram. Messages cannot be forwarded from secret chats. You can also order your messages to self-destruct in a set amount of time after they have been read by the recipient. The message will then disappear from both your and your friend’s devices.

One last difference between secret and ordinary chats in Telegram is that secret chats are not stored in our cloud. You can only access messages in a secret chat from their device of origin.

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20141026204847/https://telegram.org/faq#secret-chats [2014-10-26]

Please… please, dear authors of these “reveals”, as @archipc@lemmy.ml… please consider you being tricked by competitors of Telegram who also “reveal” nonsense just for people like you…

And please… check your sources… make personal researches… stop believing the first “news” you read…

Meanwhile, please do indeed reveal some respect and self-confidence, and check:
- https://core.telegram.org/mtproto#general-description
- https://core.telegram.org/bug-bounty

# Jolla Phone (Sep-II 2026)

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it…

- Sailfish OS community members voted on what the next Jolla device should be. The key characteristics, specifications and features of the device.

Source: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026

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Sailfish OS is an open platform based on Linux and over 500 open source projects. Licensees get full source code access to the OS, tooling, and infrastructure… 22 APIs… 31 policies…

…is compatible with the Android ecosystem, and so able to run Android apps and support Android device hardware. However, it’s fully independent, and not a derivative or a fork of the Android codebase…

…has great developer offering with fast cross-platform builds using Docker, a powerful command-line interface, improved coding assistance with Clang Code Model, 64-bit builds, C++14, Rust, CMake…

Source: https://sailfishos.org/

Related: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-lights-on-technical-bits-and-the-schedule/27821 ✨

But… why? And the comment came from the generation raised… So incredibly… sorrowful…

This is not just a Linux distro. It’s a satellite drifting through the universe of code and possibility - for you, for everyone, forever free…
Built with ❤️ by one developer, for the entire world.
Source: https://vostoklinux.org/about

I believe that the developer must be: https://github.com/davidivashevich

Thank you! Fixed!
It had a redundant character > in the URL path I accidentally added during the formatting.

There are numerous options to choose from already existing… Yet, some should just consider that the recent “age verification” were initiated for another purpose than a general age verification process. Have you checked out the recent Persona source code exposed?

Regardless, some civilian approaches to be mentioned is how the verification is handled in Baltic countries, that is Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, for example:

Smart-ID is the easiest, safest and fastest way to authenticate yourself online, register in e-services and sign documents…
Smart-ID can be used to log in to e-services, for online banking and for signing documents.

Source: https://www.smart-id.com/

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Smart-ID itself has no age restrictions for its users – but age limits have been set by identity providers and depend on the Smart-ID account type and authentication method chosen…

Creating a Smart-ID account for a minor requires a parent/legal guardian to authenticate their account…

Don’t just click “continue”: read the instructions on the screen carefully and double check that all the information you enter is correct, and the whole process will be easy and stress-free… The child cannot continue with their registration until we’ve got one parent approval…

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For the API, for instance:

# Where can I find users date of birth?

Birth of date is encoded into personal identity code. Latvian new personal identity code format is exception though. Special birth of date field will be added to Smart-ID certificates in stages and only for Qualified accounts.

For convinience smart-id-java-client and smart-id-php-client have special function getDateOfBirth… for that. For getting that info directly from certificate see getDateOfBirthCertificateAttribute and getDateOfBirthFromCertificateField.

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Similar to Latvia, the number of Estonia and Lithuania has the date of infinitely magnificent event as someone’s date of birth, too!

The ways in which such a system is implemented vary among countries, but in most cases citizens are issued an identification number upon reaching legal age, or when they are born…

In Estonia, a Personal Identification Code (Estonian: isikukood, abbreviated as IK) is formed on the basis of the sex and date of birth of a person…

In Lithuania the Personal Code (Lithuanian: asmens kodas) consists of 11 digits, and currently is in the form G YYMMDD NNN C, where G is gender & birth century, YYMMDD is the birthday, NNN is a serial number, C is a checksum digit…
/* ... */ C = lt_nin_checksum("3840915201");

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Therefore, there should be an option to verify the age without the personal identification code. And if not, just a personal number got within the age verification scope, transferred within secure government session channel, should be enough. The government, in turn, won’t share such information with untrusted services - access to the API.

Related: Age verification online (…can be done safely and privately. Here’s how…)

The origins of my 20-year art career were not that different from many other artists. I started learning the craft by seeking out inspirational artworks, and it is something I continue to do…

Inaccurate reproductions of art can betray the intentions that artists had for their works. Inaccurate reproductions of art can betray the intentions that artists had for their works. Artists use their passions to create original art, with the intention of offering the viewer a unique vision and experience.
As an artist, I spend a good deal of time determining the best way to approach my work. Coming up with the original idea is just the first step. I also have to consider which medium would be best to explore the idea, materials to use with it, and the size of the work. Imagine how insignificant a landscape would be on a postcard, or how ridiculously terrifying a wall-sized closeup of a single human eye would be. I also consider if I want to paint in a lot of detail, or leave the brush strokes more open.
All of these thoughts, and many more, are planned in an effort to get a reaction emotionally from the viewer…

A reproduction can show the general idea of art, but it can not offer the unique experience of reflecting on the full story that an original piece offers. Original artworks feature textures, lighting differences, and environments evoking the emotions that the artist intended.

Seeing an original piece of art in a museum is a unique, transcendent experience, substantially better than any reproduction could possibly be. With reproductions being produced with the wrong resolution, terrible and inaccurate colors, and of bad quality, the experience of seeing reproduced art betrays the emotion and intent that the artist wanted to create.
The original artwork can educate about techniques, colors, and even movements within art history. Original pieces offer admiration of the artist, and reflection for the viewer, in unique and environmental ways that simply are not possible online or with printed reproductions.

To truly see artwork, to find the experience that the artist wanted the viewer to have, finding the original piece of art is the best way to live through artwork.

Source (Original art is always better than a reproduction…)

Related:
- The Problem with Gaming’s Remake Culture
- My first video game experiences
- My First Video Game Memories

Holy smokes! Have you tried enabling “Blizzard” mode in “Black” theme, in the settings? ❄✨
Ineffably… M-M-M-Marvelous… lous… lous… lous…
No words…

Considering the recent “third-party” data breach cases…

Holy gracious smokes… These are ineffably magnificent…
Thank you very much for the marvel, art you do…

One of the most interesting parts is that it’s absolutely safe! It’s not dye or another edible ingredients, but a physical microstructure on the surface! They likely used forms (e.g. molds) of some sort with microscopic shapes where chocolate fills up, crystalizes, and voila! The micro shape on the surface of the chocolate now is able to diffract light, relatively similar to how CD/DVD do, as in dear miracles…

Previews (GIF)

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To be frank, I don’t know any case when Valve forced these rules, and even when someone reported such cases to Steam support directly. The response was just - “Thank you. We will check it out.”, and that’s it.

Self-published developers I am aware of have been considering these “rules” as fair suggestion from Valve who point out that it’s important to Valve stay afloat in competition, where many developers will just follow these getting the point, which is straightforward.

A few developers I know do find following this “rule” a respect towards the platform in general even.

Have you checked out the following issue case:

- FYI, I spun up an instance of 4get since I needed an alternative. It has worked flawlessly with all included search engine sources, including Google.
- Thanks, 4get is also good…
- I was using it for the last couple of days and I didn’t get any captcha.
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Hosting your own is optional.

SearXNG can be added to your browser’s search bar; moreover, it can be set as the default search engine.
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This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours…
Public instances listed here may yield less accurate results as they have much higher traffic and consequently have a higher chance of being blocked by search providers such as Google, Qwant, Bing, Startpage, etc. Hosting your own instance or using an instance that isn’t listed here may give you a more consistent search experience.
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