no healthy adult should feel the need to take any drug

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

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

please reconsider again, some of them are tasty

from cody’s lab

a fun fact about this, by the way

the reason we scavenge steel from old shipwrecks is because all modern peoduced steel is contaminated with a miniscule - but still present - amount of radioactive isotopes, incompatible with some incredibly precise scientific instruments and other nieche, but essential applications, that not only require old steel, but old steel that wasn’t exposed to all the radioactive fallout during the nuclear tests in the cold war, hence why the sunken ships.

wikipedia article

adding a personal note here, if some nuclear tests around the world contaminated everything THIS MUCH, what will we say about microplastics in a couple decades? just food for thought

instructions unclear, i’ve been reading this in a loop for the past 7 hours

unrelated, but the USA uses the same drug on human beings for lethal executions

as someone who has tried to make a furnace to melt metals, I envy iron age people who could do it successfully (unlike me) with no fancy tools or materials

Life’s tough for everyone

-Grandpa

now put the stepladder inside a room with a door, make the chimps beat up anyone who opens the door, and you’ll have a next gen security system

cups, glasses, bowls, anything that doesn’t have a spout and makes a mess every time you transfer liquids

Every time I spill something I’m reminded how much better lab glassware is (beakers etc)

I don’t get it

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=125770

at least it’s not yellow!

After receiving blowback he tripled down and then started lashing out at customers using official channels.

damn, i only followed the dramma for the first couple posts, do you mind posting a link to read the third one?