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dusty citrus
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oh also you can exploit aliexpress, they give like new user coupons

gusty torrent
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Try using the new user coupons though, most vendors cancel your order if you actually try to use them.

dusty citrus
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even if you change name of the card it works anyway

azure grove
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Oh, I didn't know that Ladyada is the founder of here! I only knew her as the frontman frontgirl of Circuit playground...
I guess the name Adafruit makes sense then, because it's the fruit of Ada's ideasšŸ˜„

And to you, @viscid folio, I really like you! You're so awesome!šŸ’—

steady dove
delicate stream
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I believe the technical term for someone like LadyAda is "the best"

steady dove
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I will agree to that. The website is crazy good too.

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Also šŸ‘‹ @delicate stream

delicate stream
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Everything about Adafruit is 11/10

delicate stream
steady dove
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Well shipping is expensive. Otherwise yea.

delicate stream
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They do offer free shipping for large orders, which I try to take advantage of... Bigger orders less often. But the shipping isn't something they can really control

steady dove
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Yeah. I donā€™t know how shipping works, itā€™s just pricey there. I try to wait to have a bunch of things on my list before I order.

delicate stream
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Shipping companies have a whole bunch of math on sizes and weights and speeds -- and for Adafruit to offer free shipping, the profit of the products needs to exceed the cost of the shipping by some margin

steady dove
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I did have to emergency order some specific leds I forgot to order. That was painful. Shipping I think was twice the cost of the product. Lol.

delicate stream
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Oof... yeah, even the cheapest shipping isn't super cheap. But I usually do USPS

steady dove
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Yep. USPS ftw

delicate stream
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Just slower and no tracking or insurance XD

steady dove
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Adafruit and digikey are tops.

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I went to a couple maker events just to see ladyada. I never said hi though. Lol.

delicate stream
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One day I shall go to a maker event...

steady dove
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Iā€™m not super techie, but I think they are fun.

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Battlebots are cool!

delicate stream
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Especially when they explode :D

steady dove
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Yeah. Love that.

delicate stream
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That was declared the nastiest KO in BattleBots history

steady dove
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Hah

delicate stream
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He did not expect that XD

steady dove
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Me either!

delicate stream
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Nobody did!

steady dove
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I feel like weā€™re about to invoke Monty Pythons Spanish Inquisition skit.

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There. I did it.

delicate stream
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Nowhere to go but down now

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Channel comedy has peaked

steady dove
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Pack it up folks. Channels over.

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I canā€™t type straight anymore. Sigh.

delicate stream
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Typing is hard

honest jolt
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Computering is hard

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lol

delicate stream
spice moss
edgy apex
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There's going to be a local maker faire for the first time since 2019, I've done a lot since the last one so it's going to be interesting. One of my better displays will be home assistants on a monitor with a home assistant yellow and it's pi 4 equivalent then a few diy sensors and their cots counterparts.

rapid geode
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i wonder what youtuber has been launching balloons into the jet stream? :x

dusty citrus
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ha

delicate stream
rapid geode
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if you launch balloons with gopros etc to space are you supposed to file a flight plan?

crystal ore
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I think there may be weight limits determining whether you have to or not.

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On Loon we had to do stuff like that, but I don't think everyday weather balloons need to.

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(This is not legal advice yada yada yada...)

delicate stream
azure grove
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@viscid folio? Can I ask you something?

delicate stream
delicate stream
azure grove
crystal ore
delicate stream
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EdLoon internet when? šŸ‘€

crystal ore
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Heh heh, I was working on the laser communications stuff, so if EdLoon internet comes, you'll need a little telescope on your roof. šŸ˜

solar ridgeBOT
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Desk of Ladyada - Sunday Evening
JP's Product Pick of the Week - 4pm ET Tuesdays
3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
John Park's Workshop - 4pm ET Thursdays
Deep Dive w/ Foamyguy - 5pm ET Fridays
FoamyGuy's CircuitPython Stream - 11am ET Saturdays

olive dome
azure grove
delicate stream
azure grove
delicate stream
azure grove
delicate stream
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Hmmmā€¦ probably Feathers? But I can ask this week for you! Most of the time we see her doing stuff like developing new boards

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Not sure how often sheā€™s actually doing projects like us mortals :P

azure grove
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This is what I need it foršŸ˜…

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delicate stream
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Gonna replace the little flying chip with her favorite board? Hehe

azure grove
delicate stream
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Ohhh, hehe. Drawing robot friends takes practice! As does designing themā€¦

azure grove
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Anyway, meet my trio! Still don't have names for them, though...

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delicate stream
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I only have two and I havenā€™t named eitherā€¦ or decided what to do with them XD

grizzled raptor
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The Bing image of the day is epic today! I always love a good booby.

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delicate stream
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Give that booby some nOOds

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The ultimate breadboardā€¦ featuring what appears to be some flavor of Feather

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steady dove
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Yum šŸ˜‹

delicate stream
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Dunno how it tastes, might be too crunchy XD

steady dove
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šŸ•¶ļø

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@delicate stream is that you in your thumbnail? That red hair is so cool! Looks great.

nimble hill
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does somebody has a moment for a friend?

delicate stream
steady dove
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That color is gorgeous

delicate stream
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Hehe, I love it so much~

steady dove
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Yeah. Def.

azure grove
# delicate stream I only have two and I havenā€™t named eitherā€¦ or decided what to do with them XD

I'll tell you what happened last year to me...
That time I only had the two V1s... We had computer science in school and I was way forward than classmates, so I was bringing them to school every lesson, and programming, while my teacher was explaining Word, Excel and PowerPoint according to her plan... Until one day she had nothing planned...
That moment I took the opportunity and introduced everyone to my microbits... I showed them the "anatomy" of one, and taught the class to make simple programs, like light on, wait a minute, light off, or mapping movement... When the lesson was ending, the teacher asked me for where I got them, and I gave her the link...
Next class I noticed she bought a whole bunch of microbits to play withšŸ˜†

delicate stream
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Thatā€™s how you turn a teacher into a Maker! Hehehe

azure grove
delicate stream
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Hehe

azure grove
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Also that's why my V1s have that white dot on their covers... I marked them so they don't get lost in the class...

delicate stream
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Smart :3

umbral phoenix
uncut trench
neon phoenix
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okay, im frustrated there has to be a better way to develop for SBCs than developing on them directly or transferring a package back and forth with a usb drive.

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any hope of an emulated environment? ie a VM but with emulated GPIO?

night crescent
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LIVE! around 9pm ET! Desk of Ladyada - PiCowbell silk & Toy Hacking proto https://youtu.be/lY6355eiP5Q

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Desk of Ladyada - PiCowbell silk & Toy Hacking proto

Desk of Ladyada - PiCowbell silk & Toy Hacking proto

This week at the Desk of Ladyada we also are getting ever closer to releasing the PiCowbell adalogger board, and worked on the silkscreen and demo firmware. We also put together our I2S BFF prototype which allowed us to A) test a cute new BFF that could be very handy for audio projects and B)...

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steady dove
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@delicate stream are you watching superb owl?

delicate stream
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I watched a bit of the first quarter, but my head hurts and my parents tend to get loud so I left XD

steady dove
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Oh geez, I remember those days. Glad Im the adult now. lol

fiery quarry
delicate stream
grizzled raptor
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I mean, what is it with this Superb Owl anyway? Why y'all always throwing a party for it? I mean, i know its superb and all, but its just the superb owl.

steady dove
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Well, I meant the adult and my kid is the one who has to leave when I get loud -- but we're not watching the game, so nothing is happening. @delicate stream

delicate stream
delicate stream
grizzled raptor
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I suppose so, lol.

It's awesome to see others calling it the Superb Owl as well.

steady dove
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I care absolutely zero about football.

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šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

delicate stream
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I just want the Eagles to win

grizzled raptor
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me too. I'm a hockey fan.

delicate stream
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I don't really care about sports, I just want any Philly teams to win whatever XD

steady dove
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Lol! Are you from philly?

delicate stream
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mhmm

grizzled raptor
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You think, lol.

delicate stream
steady dove
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hah

grizzled raptor
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Its like that with alot of the people from Philly i've talked to. Don't care about the sportsball, but still love when the teams win.

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Ooops

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hahahaha

steady dove
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We moved around so much I have no idea where I'm from so I have no team to cheer for I guess.

delicate stream
grizzled raptor
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i saw the its a philly thing flash for 1 hz of 60 there

steady dove
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@delicate stream will do!

grizzled raptor
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that bots quick

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I

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I

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darm fat fingees

delicate stream
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Lol

grizzled raptor
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i tried to say that with a different word. It said no

delicate stream
grizzled raptor
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i've talked to alot of people who aren't sportsfans from other cities. It's not like with people from Philly at all

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dam

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it doesn't like the n

delicate stream
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Beaver construction is family friendly

steady dove
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Beavers are adorbs.

grizzled raptor
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As a Canadian, thank you for the epic ads during the superbowl.

solar kindle
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Spouse was watching the superbowl. The way they were yelling at the screen was a lot like how I react when reviewing someone else's code. šŸ˜„

grizzled raptor
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Those Tide ones from a few years back were probably some of the best in recent time

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Asking every time..... Is it a Tide ad or not?

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Steve, I woke the wife up last night screaming at the tv during the puckyslap ice game.

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It was a scream of amazement though. That Connor McDavid is something else at the puckeyslap ice game.

delicate stream
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Puckyslap ice game XD

steady dove
grizzled raptor
delicate stream
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Everybody loves beavers

grizzled raptor
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Here's a couple more cousins.

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There's a beaver lodge where we go walking with the kid and dogs.

steady dove
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that sounds cool

grizzled raptor
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Say the swans that stay there all year the other day chilling in the warm sun.

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steady dove
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I would accept more pictures of such things, just fyi when you're out šŸ™‚

grizzled raptor
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Saw not say. Fat fingers in the phone and not a keyboard.

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Yes, that's swans curled up on the ice by the same beaver lodge.

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It might look like garbage bags, but they are swans

steady dove
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Swans are pretty aggressive, are they not?

delicate stream
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One time I saw a swan kill a snake

grizzled raptor
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Yes. They can be. But it's the cobra chickens you gotta watch out for

steady dove
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cobra chickens?

grizzled raptor
delicate stream
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Hybrids of a cobra and a chicken ā€” released by accident from a lab

steady dove
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yeah, like some cobra-headed hydra.

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that's totes what I'm imagining too! A whole pack of them.

grizzled raptor
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Thats a cobra chicken.

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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cobra-chickens

Know Your Meme
Cobra Chickens

Cobra Chickens is a slang term for Canadian Geese that grew popular after a tweet describing a scene where a man who did not speak a lot of english called a Canadian Goose a "cobra chicken" went viral. The term was celebrated on Twitter and Reddit in June of 2018.

steady dove
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haha

grizzled raptor
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Try invading Canada. We will send the Geese.

steady dove
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def.

delicate stream
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One time at my college, there was a cobra chicken (content warning gross) that ||had gotten its neck broken, and the head was dangling and flopping around, and it still was running around trying to attack people||. COBRA CHICKENS DO NOT GO DOWN

steady dove
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aww, poor thing.

delicate stream
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Poor everyone it attacked!

grizzled raptor
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Poor thing, yes. But they are literally an unstoppable force.

steady dove
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I think I'd be angry too if my neck was broken!

grizzled raptor
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Try when theres like 15 of them with like 35 of their babies just chilling by the parking lot at the grocery store....

delicate stream
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It flew home with the others when it was time to leave!

grizzled raptor
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You don't make eye contact and just go inside

steady dove
delicate stream
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On the kind side, there was a sweet duck named George who lived on campus. He couldnā€™t fly, so he couldnā€™t go anywhere far; heā€™d hang around where people ate outside and people would feed him. He lived there for years and a professor cared for him in the winter

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I pet him once

steady dove
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I have a bunch of ducks around here. They get into fights with the crows.

grizzled raptor
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There was an awesome swan at a job we did a few years ago. It was right on a lake in the peak of the heat of summer, so we swam every break, and at lunch, and at the end of the day, and sometimes when you were just to covered with sand from the SandBanks. His name was also george. He would let you pet him, and he would swim with us when he was around.

delicate stream
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George birds are always nice

grizzled raptor
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ummmmmm.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wUhtjBeTpE

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ShortCircuit
Donā€™t step on this keyboardā€¦ - MelGeek Pixel Keyboard

Check out Jackeryā€™s Solar Generator 1000 Pro at: https://geni.us/aL7Ys

Well, we all know Plouffe loves keyboards, but did you know that he loves BRICKS too? Yeah, I don't think we can say that word here in the description either. Anyways, Melgeek is here with a new brick-compatible keyboard that means you can fully customize it with the old toy...

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Well, that's certainly interesting

delicate stream
half plank
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Does anyone have the link to the screen that is used in the Round TFT display.

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DK Link

ebon dew
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dunno about a dk link but the round tft is the gc9a01

static flare
delicate stream
delicate stream
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Superb Owl spoiler ||Eagles lost, I cry now||

ebon dew
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That was a great game though.

delicate stream
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So close

steady dove
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@delicate stream

delicate stream
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The city slumbers for another yearā€¦

half plank
ebon dew
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that's something to contact Adafruit about. I have no idea if they have distributors in germany.

tardy badger
half plank
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what is with germany is that where the diplays come from

tardy badger
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Are you wanting to buy the display without the PCB?

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If so, Aliexpress is where you will likely need to go

half plank
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Ok thank you do you know what it is called

half plank
ebon dew
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oops denmark not de, derp.

tardy badger
delicate stream
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Communication. It is difficult, even when all parties speak the same languageā€¦

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Itā€™s amazing any of us understand anything anyone else wants to get across XD

tardy badger
delicate stream
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Yes! Especially with how rare complex communication seems to be in the animal kingdom ā€” lots of communication, but usually thereā€™s only a handful of concepts to be shared about specific things; generalized ā€œlanguageā€ isnā€™t something most species come up with

late fulcrum
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There are some fascinating hypotheses about how the whole process got started

delicate stream
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Indeed

tardy badger
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And itā€™s amazing that those language skills we created lead to the acceleration of science and discovery

delicate stream
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We live in an amazing world

frigid tiger
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Do you think we'll get to eliminate written language when Brain computer interfaces take over

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I'm imagine there will be a better way to communicate information

static flare
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Oh I'm absolutely terrified of that idea

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just in general

delicate stream
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One of the benefits of written language is that you can leave it somewhere and it can be collected without the need to keep some system powered or maintained

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Especially for basic thingsā€¦ like street signs

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Or ā€œpushā€ on a door

steady dove
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šŸ™‚

delicate stream
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Talk hard

steady dove
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Me know.

static flare
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Brain braining very unbrainlike

delicate stream
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Brain go brrrrr

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Or goā€¦

tardy badger
steady dove
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Mine is stuck. Need ā˜•ļø

delicate stream
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Mine is

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Need retirement

static flare
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I mean, i'm dead tired right now :/

steady dove
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@delicate stream do you watch much anime?

delicate stream
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I even work as staff at an anime convention!

steady dove
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What are some ones you like? Iā€™m working through Bebop now.

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And I have like no experience with anime.

delicate stream
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Bebop is a classic favorite that Iā€™m current rewatching! If you like cute stuff, Little Witch Academia is super cute and fun

steady dove
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I do like cute stuff! I will add that to my list.

frigid tiger
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bebop is very accessible

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chainsaw man might work

delicate stream
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Thatā€™s on my list

steady dove
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I watched grave of the fireflies. I think I cried for days. Ugh.

delicate stream
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If someone watches that and doesnā€™t cry, run, theyā€™re a monster and will consume your soul soon

frigid tiger
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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Is also accessible

steady dove
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Good movie but awful. @delicate stream

delicate stream
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Komi Canā€™t Communicate is also adorable

steady dove
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Sounds adorbs

delicate stream
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^ Komi, being adorable

thick wind
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Blue lock is pretty hot right now, even among non-sports fans.

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Spy x Family is also super adorable and a lot of fun

steady dove
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Thanks, Lots of good suggestions to keep me busy!

thick wind
steady dove
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Blue lock looks interesting. I donā€™t do sports, but soccer is fine.

delicate stream
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Anya is the cutest thing in all of ever

thick wind
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Ugh so tempted to spam Anya gifs now

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Mustā€¦ resistā€¦

delicate stream
steady dove
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šŸ˜‚

delicate stream
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I just tried to sudo apt-get update on my work computer. Itā€™s not a Linux machine.

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Brain no worky

steady dove
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Brain hard.

delicate stream
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Brain mush

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Liquid even

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Brain soup

spice moss
steady dove
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ā˜•ļø

spice moss
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if you know pinky and the brain anime

delicate stream
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Classic anime

steady dove
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Holup. pinky and the brain is anime?

delicate stream
solar kindle
steady dove
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Ok so the next question I have for the experts, what defines anime?

tardy badger
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One thing I hope takes off in the coming years is AR movies

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Movies that are enhanced by AR

steady dove
tardy badger
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Nah, more like helping bring physical depth to films

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Or perceived depth

steady dove
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Ah. Still, either is cool.

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How would you envision that being different than 3d or 4d theatres?

tardy badger
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Well, theoretically it wouldnā€™t require anything more than a good stock of headsets and a more robust network to deliver the AR content

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If you wanted to be super detailed, you could tie it to Bluetooth in the seat so you get a viewer specific angle of the environment

steady dove
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Do you ever wonder if in a decade or two we will live nearly entirely in a virtual world? The real world becoming increasingly irrelevant.

tardy badger
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Eh, the VR world still is insufferable

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It just shows you how incredible the real world is

spice moss
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one of the ar things

delicate stream
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I wish I had depth perception to enjoy 3D movies

thick wind
# steady dove Ok so the next question I have for the experts, what defines anime?

Anime is a style that originates from Japanese animation. Though some may disagree on where the line is drawn, there isnā€™t a really clear demarcation between ā€œtrue animeā€ and ā€œanime-like,ā€ though one could make an argument for anime being specific to those of Japanese origin.
RWBY is one such borderline case, where the art style is inspired by Japanese animations, but every part of it is made by Americans.

delicate stream
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I would say ā€œtrue animeā€ is Japanese in origin, and if itā€™s styled like traditional anime, itā€™s (origin country) anime

thick wind
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I should probably have used ā€œtraditional animeā€ over ā€œtrue anime,ā€ as I think of traditional vs modern by how itā€™s made rather than its country of origin.

late fulcrum
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Sometimes I'll tease people by referring to "animated manga"

delicate stream
thick wind
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In a tangentially related thought, I should also recommend all of the movies by studio ghibli. Each and every one is a hand-drawn masterpieceā€¦

late fulcrum
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"mƦn'-gə"?

delicate stream
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I donā€™t know how to parse those symbols XD

late fulcrum
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"ļæ½ćƒžćƒ³ć‚¬"?

delicate stream
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ćÆ恄

crystal ore
thick wind
crystal ore
tardy badger
delicate stream
thick wind
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Ah, Hayaoā€™s son is trying to open them up to newer animation tech

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Guess I should change my recommendation to all of Hayao Miyazakiā€™s films, only on the premise of me not having seen that one yetā€¦

tardy badger
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I donā€™t know what Iā€™d do without depth perception

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Probably wreck my car

delicate stream
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I grew up without traditional depth perception

tardy badger
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At least you gained another form of it

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Cultural

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The best kind really

delicate stream
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Mhmm, my brain does magic maths on size comparison to calculate distances

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Also I shift a little left or right to get more parallax data

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But if Iā€™m sitting still, I canā€™t tell the difference between 3D and 2D XD

tardy badger
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What if the AR visual experience gave you a scale in the bottom corner

delicate stream
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Thatā€™d be useful

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Something in real units instead of my internal brain units XD

tardy badger
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ā€œObject 10 brain units awayā€

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ā€œSwitching to American unitsā€
ā€œCalculatingā€¦ā€
ā€œObject is three school buses awayā€

delicate stream
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Something like that XD

tardy badger
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I never thought comparing the size of something to another relevant thing was bad until I saw all the memes of other countries making fun of Americas for doing that.

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But that skill is a huge part of understanding. Size correlation is easier for known objects than arbitrary measurements

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It can be hard to visualize something that is say, 8ā€x6ā€x4ā€ but if I told you it was lunchbox sized, you could probably imagine how big it was.

delicate stream
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Mhmm. Most of my estimations are based on my own height; being close enough to 6ā€™ (6ā€™1ā€) it makes it not too hard to mental math sizes

late fulcrum
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The classic question once was "is it bigger than a breadbox", but these days, not very many people use breadboxes

delicate stream
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But where do they keep their bread

tardy badger
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The fridge I guess

delicate stream
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Why would you put bread in the fridge???

tardy badger
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Which from a shelf life standpoint is actually smart

delicate stream
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Cold bread???

tardy badger
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Slows down growth of unwanted furry friends

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I personally donā€™t do it because same on the cold bread part

delicate stream
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We put extra bread in the freezer but thaw it when needed

frigid tiger
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How many commodore 64s is that

tardy badger
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But I do put bagels in the fridge though because I donā€™t eat them as fast

late fulcrum
tardy badger
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Ohh interesting

delicate stream
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ā€¦ I just realized our breadbox isnā€™t used ā€œproperlyā€because itā€™s just full of bread in the packages

tardy badger
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I wonder why people fridge their bread

delicate stream
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Because they donā€™t know the above linked things

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And the logic ā€œfridge makes things last longerā€ is default

tardy badger
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Martha Stewart said if you wrap the bread up tightly that the fridge will help slow staling

delicate stream
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Maybe also people not understanding and spreading things john_think

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Someone is probably wrong

tardy badger
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But someone is definitely making money

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And it ainā€™t me

delicate stream
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The bread people

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No matter what, they winā€¦

tardy badger
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They donā€™t disagree that refrigerating can cause it to stale and dry, so they offer a way to store it in the fridge to avoid that. Something I doubt most ā€œbread in the fridgeā€ people are doing.

crystal ore
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Down with the bread people! I want lower-calorie stuff to make sandwiches from. Like... weave me a fluffy flat fiber thing out of indigestible carrot skins.

delicate stream
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But I like bread

umbral phoenix
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typical household forms of plastic aren't a barrier to air though... use foil if you want an air barrier

tardy badger
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Foil is great unless youā€™re wrapping up tomatoes or other acidic foods that react with it

umbral phoenix
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true

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I keep in-use bread in the cabinet, medium-term inventory in the freezer in the original packaging, and longer-term bread goes in foil in the freezer. Foil is highly recyclable too, and potentially reusable.

delicate stream
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Wait, the bag bread comes in isnā€™t an air barrier???

umbral phoenix
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nope

delicate stream
umbral phoenix
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it reduces air, but doesn't block it

delicate stream
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How does air go in and out???

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If I squeeze it it holds pressure!

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Vs foil which canā€™t seal pressure

umbral phoenix
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slowly

delicate stream
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But how does foil block better??

umbral phoenix
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it has no holes (or very few tiny ones)

delicate stream
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But it canā€™t hold pressure at the seamsā€¦ air can move in and out

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The plastic bag doesnā€™t have holes (aside from the opening that gets sealed)

soft hound
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i can see how it could work, soda/food cans are made of metal and they just have really tight folds to keep out not just air, but also hold in tons of pressure

delicate stream
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Cans are a whole different ball game than foil, those I understand

soft hound
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i picture the foil being used like a pouch and sealing the three open sides in the same folding-edge way that cans are sealed, it wouldn't be able to handle pressure but i could see how it could seal the things inside it from outside air

delicate stream
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And I guess for gas permeability foil would win, but unless itā€™s sealed up tight (which can be impossible to do) it isnā€™t really air tight

umbral phoenix
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if you wrap in foil, and roll the ends well, there's no pressure difference, and you have effectively sealed the contents

delicate stream
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Wrapping a whole loaf of bread would be hard

umbral phoenix
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it's degrees rather than all or nothing

delicate stream
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We just need smarter bread

umbral phoenix
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SmartBreadĀ®

soft hound
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depends on the size of the roll of foil lol, at my job we use 36" wide rolls

delicate stream
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AdaBread

azure grove
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I'm so in a good mood today... I got an 1 from biology (it's the highest mark) so I'm just two marks away from my Arduino (my dad said he buys my one, when I finish all the leftover homework from last semester (I was sick and missed a lot))šŸ™‚ and also like three classmates from different classes told me "you have a nice watch!" and they meant my noise-detecting microbit bracelet (I don't wear watchesšŸ˜†) so this day was really fun...

delicate stream
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Yay good day! I just want a nap XD

tardy badger
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Do you ever think about how if you look at a sine wave graph as if the leading point was coming towards you, if you graphed each point as you observed it, it would still be a sine wave.

delicate stream
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I never really think about it, but yeah, just plane transposition

soft hound
tardy badger
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Itā€™s one of those cool things about 2D graphs

delicate stream
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I guess I donā€™t think about it much because 3D is just multiple 2D planes to meā€¦

tardy badger
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Itā€™s just stacked 2D planes for everyone

soft hound
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it's layers, all the way down

tardy badger
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Thatā€™s kind of how you get 3D

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Sure some people forget that

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My dyslexia doesnā€™t though

delicate stream
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I mean I donā€™t see 3D the way everyone else seems to due to my eyes

spice moss
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yeah layers stacked you get to 3d sure

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openXR could be nice guidance

tardy badger
urban arrow
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Not sure where to ask this... Is there, or maybe LadyAda is planning a cowbell for Pico with onboard OLED (like FeatherWings), or is this impractical? I have a TFT with EyeSpi breakout and ribbon hooked up now...

tardy badger
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Like looking at cabinets and being to take the object in my mind and separate the components

tardy badger
soft hound
delicate stream
tardy badger
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3D thinking is what causes dyslexia interesting enough

urban arrow
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thanks

tardy badger
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But we donā€™t know what allows some people to think in 3 dimensions and others to think in 1 and 2D spaces

delicate stream
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Thinking is complicated

tardy badger
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Braining is hard

delicate stream
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The oddest part of that is that brains are jelly

tardy badger
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Just a blob of fat that shoots electricity around

delicate stream
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Wrinkly fat blob goes bzzt

azure grove
delicate stream
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nD can always be mapped to many planes chaos

acoustic pawn
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4th dimension can just be imagined as time I guess, 5th is another time perpendicular to 4th, and 6th is another time dimension. So you have 3D time. Then you can go to other dimensions by putting that time space (with 3d space in it) into another time-like space I guess. Makes sense, but rotation is hard thinking about it that way.

azure grove
delicate stream
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You can have multiple temporal dimensions too

acoustic pawn
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Itā€™s just a way to think about it. You move through the 4th dimension like you move through time, and a 3d object changes as you move through it. Since our brains are used to time, it starts to make sense as an analogy

delicate stream
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4D space != 3D space with time

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4D space still has a temporal component thatā€™s different than that 4th spatial dimension

acoustic pawn
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Yes

tardy badger
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I think theyā€™re saying movement of 3D objects through 4D spaces in linear

acoustic pawn
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Maybe my analogy is wrong, but it seems to make sense

tardy badger
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I mean, yes in a way itā€™s correct. The only difference is you still get directionality and movement magnitudes are not observer specific

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Itā€™s fun to think about the fact that our lives, our existence is but a shadow of the fourth dimension

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Could it be our own consciousness is derived from a higher plane??

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Lol

delicate stream
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Human consciousness exists on dimensional planes 7 and 1846 with reference to temporal planes 1, 5, 17, and 1681

steady dove
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@delicate stream Little Witch Academia is a Netflix series! That'll be easy to watch.

delicate stream
steady dove
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yasss

delicate stream
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Feel free to DM me if you want to discuss :3

steady dove
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I already tried that and I got told to buzz off. I think we'll need to be buddies first.

delicate stream
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Hmmm, I never got a request

steady dove
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I didn't send you the request, just tried to dm you. I'll send it now!

delicate stream
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I mean a message requests, lol

steady dove
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woot

grizzled raptor
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Woah, I walked into some Nth dimensional talk there before I scrolled down.

Ever read "The Number of the Beast" by Heinlein?

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They touch on the ol' Pantheistic Solipsism in there.

If enough.people.understand = concept
Then concept = true

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John Carter's Mars shows up, a little Emerald City from Wizard of Oz, and even the fact that number of the Beast is a book so Lazarus Long knew where in space and time to run into the folks in the book.

delicate stream
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Existence is a book yet unwritten, and a tale told long agoā€¦

tardy badger
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Nothing like taking a personally inflicted blow to your own pride and emailing your professor to say you is the struggling and are trying but failing

dusty citrus
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I have no idea of what are you all talking about...

rapid geode
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thinks in 4D

solar kindle
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Meh. Cats exist in 13 dimensions. It's why they can fit into containers half their size. It's a fact. (nods)

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delicate stream
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Pour one out for the 2nd major networking death in my household... The other of my two HP Proliant switches. Installed in like, 2005... They're older than some of the members of this server, and the other one bit the dust today.

tardy badger
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Positive news: my Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro is going on its 2nd year strong

delicate stream
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Thankfully I had another switch literally on top of it with enough ports for what was on the Proliant, lol... Was just keeping gigabit traffic separate from 10/100 for better performance. I wanna get Ubiquiti...

wanton thistle
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O_o C# is so odd

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You cant do if (A==1) if A is a boolean. Nope, you have to do if (A==TRUE)

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Complier wont accept 0s or 1's

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what an odd language that defies all logical expectations of...well, logic.

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to be fair, this is like..day 0/1 of just messing around. Im using visual studio to make a GUI for my coffee roaster

tardy badger
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C++ is also weird in that you can dereference pointers before using them by checking if their not 0 lol

wanton thistle
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But atleast C..transfers over to different embedded versions of C and even basic is logical.

#

why would someone do this? this seems painful lol.

tardy badger
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Kind of, plenty of C++ nuances donā€™t correlate. But theyā€™re usually really nuanced parts of C++ that donā€™t make sense in C

wanton thistle
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lol

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Im just trying to get things to work how I need them/want them too. Im hoping some C knowledge transfers over but it looks like logic is just out the window

#

šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø

tardy badger
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Define a bool called ONE and another ZERO and set them to the Boolean value you want lol

wanton thistle
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lol

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thats funny that I even have to do that haha

late fulcrum
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#define BEGIN {

hushed cave
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so graduating the spring before the pandemic has been awful for my job search

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learning about electronics has been great for adding some recent projects to my resume

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just like

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the timing was not great

tardy badger
hushed cave
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how'd you land that first job? had any internships?

tardy badger
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I had one internship

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Barely landed my first job

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I had to go defense

hushed cave
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that's where I'm spending most of my time looking

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no internships but I'm trying to make up for it everywhere else on my resume

tardy badger
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Look at L3HARRIS, the organization I am under is apparently trying to grow by a few dozen heads by years end in engineering

hushed cave
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aerospace is the dream, will do thanks

tardy badger
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We do mostly communications based work in my organization so not terrible on the morally objectionable scale

hushed cave
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also if anyone's in the oddly specific mood to watch an engineering flick The Wind Rises is on youtube and it's another great Ghibli movie.

delicate stream
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I havenā€™t held a single job related to my degree >~>

hushed cave
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another pandemic grad?

tardy badger
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Probably not a real degree but how cool would that be to have for your career

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Choreographing all the major anime dances

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Coming in like:
ā€œIā€™m Pavlova, world famous anime dance choreographer! They hired me because the others were too weak! They break the ankle!ā€

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Also if you get the Pavlova dancer reference, let me know what show šŸ˜‚

delicate stream
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Lol, my degree is in IST, specifically programming... Most of my jobs have been like, basic IT or natural gas meter repair technician or Micro Center

tardy badger
#

Industrial Systems Technology?

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So like an AAS or bachelor level?

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My dad has an AAS in Construction Technology

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In other news: Iā€™m trying to clean up my kitchen to bake cupcakes for my daughters birthday tomorrow and the system service light for my body is on.

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The redneck in the recesses of my brain say just put tape over it.

hushed cave
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cupcaaaakes peepoFat

tardy badger
hushed cave
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my god

tardy badger
#

They were absolutely divine

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White chocolate creameux filled

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I cheated on the cake mix and used Duncan Hines strawberry supreme mix

hushed cave
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it's not cheating if it's delicious

tardy badger
#

Homemade cake is hard if you donā€™t have the right flour

hushed cave
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yeah baking's really finnicky

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I tried making sourdough once

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only once

tardy badger
#

We make sour dough semiregularly

rapid geode
#

baking is easy

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its just science. you need to know the "why" and you can then make anything

tardy badger
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My issue baking bread is that I am impatient and put it baking too soon to eat it faster

hushed cave
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bread's just hard for me and I don't pray to any of the bread gods so my loafs end up like super dense

rapid geode
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ha

hushed cave
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yes it also takes forever

rapid geode
#

brioche is worth the 3 hours

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šŸ˜›

tardy badger
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When I make French loaves that I let rise the right amount of time are magnificent

rapid geode
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last bread i baked was over xmas

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garlic loaves

hushed cave
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maybe pizza dough would be a good place pick back up

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I think I saw an adam regusea video about cast iron pizza

rapid geode
#

those garlic loaves are basically pizza dough

hushed cave
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looks really good tho

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what did you do for your dough?

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got a recipe?

rapid geode
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2.5 cups flour, 8g yeast, 1 tsp salt, 2tsp oregano (in the dough), 2 tbsp sugar (to feed the yeast). mix up. then add 1.33 cups of skim milk. combine. then ad 2tsp olive oil. kneed. put in olive oil coated bowl, cover, let rise til double ish (45 mins to 2 hours depending on yeast type and temperature).

tardy badger
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I use the Bobby flay pizza dough recipe on food network

rapid geode
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you can use it then, or, stick in the fridge overnight. tastes even better overnight.

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for the garlic loaves all i did was add in rosemary into the dough.

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and them made a garlic butter drizzle

dusty citrus
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Looks better than the average pizza that you can find here in Italy

static flare
rapid geode
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my pizza is a bit more fluffy. origianly i was attempting some sort of pizza hut copy, but it became its own thing. i do it on a pizza stone in the bbq, or in the oven in a preheated skillet

tardy badger
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Itā€™s really simple:
3-4c flour
1ish Tbsp yeast
1 1/2c hot water (not boiling of course)
2 Tbsp olive oil (in the dough)
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
Olive oil for the bowl afterwards.

Proof yeast with water, sugar, oil for 5 minutes (nice and frothy). Start mixing with dough hook and add salt. Slowly add flour until the dough is well combine, is tacky but not sticky, move to oiled bowl and proof for at least 30 minutes. Bake 450F (230C) for up to 12 minutes

rapid geode
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yeah thats more conventional. pizza dought is super versatile too, your usage can dictate a lot in the end result

tardy badger
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The key to good dough texture ultimately comes down to baking temp which is why pizza oven pizza tastes so good

dusty citrus
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There are variances, like the pinsa, they use a mixture of flours

steady dove
#

Job searching is the worst. ugh.

rapid geode
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my oven has a "pizza" mode. 525f. my bbq hits closer to 600. hotter is better

tardy badger
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I will usually start out with the crust shaped to a pan, cook it enough to hold its own form, decorate it and then cook it right on the rack

dusty citrus
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Something like this

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steady dove
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that looks way more appetizing than the crappy Dominoes pizza I just ate.

rapid geode
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when i do it in a skillet i heat the skillet, then put the pizza dough it and it starts cooking the bottom while i lay on the top[pings. then into the oven for 5-6 mins, and mmmm

tardy badger
#

I want to get a formal pizza shovel as I affectionately call them

rapid geode
#

but that is easy to burn your fingers

dusty citrus
tardy badger
#

Makes sense

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looks at kitchen, glances at time

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This isnā€™t getting cupcakes made

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Lol

rapid geode
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cupcakes!!!!

tardy badger
#

I was thinking solid aluminum so the handle would have to melt off to fall off

rapid geode
#

i had crepes (ish_ earlier

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O_o

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brioche buns mm.

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need to make those again soon

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they take hours

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but, worth it i think, cause buns in the store are $1.25 each and nowhere near as nice

dusty citrus
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Hm I wonder if there's any opensource robo arm cooker sort of thing

rapid geode
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cooking robot?

dusty citrus
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Yeah

rapid geode
#

not everything should have a robot šŸ˜›

dusty citrus
#

I know that there are some industries that use them, so they definitely exist
But they likely will cost a kidney

rapid geode
#

have you seen the pizza vending machine?

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it is hilarious

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i saw it in real life and a restaurant trade show once

dusty citrus
rapid geode
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yeah. theres a "how its made" video on one, i think thats the original.

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the point is it genuinely makes a real pizza inside the machine, with dough and toppings etc. (not just nuking a frzen one)

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making fresh pasta is fun too. with red basil from the garden. it was purple before being cooked, but then turned green after cooking. sad.

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tardy badger
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Relevant image stolen from LinkedIn

rapid geode
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ha

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da robots be stealin ma jorb

grizzled raptor
tardy badger
#

I know it comes from the culture, but the pictures of some representatives for Chinese fabs and parts brokers look like they were created through nonstandard means

#

Bright white sterile background and them just staring dead into the camera

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If I did that all you would see is my shirt, my head of hair and beard. No distinguished face or body parts otherwise

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Not that Iā€™m actively accepting many if any request from foreign based accounts. More or less working to prevent any potential social engineering on that front targeting my employer

rapid geode
#

they are all ai generated people

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nothing is real

tardy badger
#

Good point, Iā€™ll phase myself out

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I feel like with AI image generation you should have to show both hands in the profile picture so people know youā€™re real and not a bot lol

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AI canā€™t draw hands right

umbral phoenix
rapid geode
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ha

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as someone who has a job analyzing every pixel of vfx work, we are a looong way away from not being able to tell the difference between ai / vfx and an undoctored photo

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there's also a chain of custody for security footage to reduce the chance of fake footage

tardy badger
#

Unintended side effect of getting sick, I lost 10 lbs

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Just 10 more to go until Iā€™m back at the top of my target weight lol

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I wonā€™t be getting sick again to do that though šŸ˜µ

soft hound
#

any time i've come down with something, i always end up down 5 lbs lol

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usually slowly creeps back up

tardy badger
#

Iā€™m going to attempt to take advantage of the smaller space in my stomach to get back on track

rapid geode
#

ha

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just shovel 8 tonnes of gravel off your driveway. easy weight loss

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.... and chronic back pain

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trade

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ha

lusty fossil
tardy badger
rapid geode
#

pizza elbow?

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pastry kidney?

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croissant lung?

delicate stream
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Sometimes they get it right XD

dusty citrus
#

You can paint the section and regenerate, waiting till someone automatizes even that

tardy badger
delicate stream
#

I donā€™t know of any generators that can do good hands with any consistency. Just occasionally they get it right

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Today, Discord canā€™t display stuff properly, lol

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tardy badger
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Lol

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Discord borked

#

Holy moly, 3k+ notifications?!?!

delicate stream
#

ā€¦ Yiss

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I have many notifications

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tardy badger
#

stares at empty notification

delicate stream
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(This is only a few)

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I have nearly a million unread messages in my one email inbox

tardy badger
#

My wife criticized me once about my 32k unread emails and it created a whole new anxiety for me so now I hate seeing notification bubbles lol

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She was just trying to be funny but boy did that mess me up

delicate stream
#

Lolā€¦ I have anxiety about trying to reduce the numbers so they just pile up because Iā€™m afraid to look at some thingsā€¦

tardy badger
#

I used the bulk ā€œmark as readā€ function

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Or I deleted them all

delicate stream
#

I canā€™t, I literally can not do that

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I am physically, mentally, and emotionally unable to just ā€œmark as readā€ everything

blissful roost
#

I prefer "empty folder" myself..

tardy badger
#

Well, you literally could. But you can not mentally force yourself to endure that agonizing journey. You know once it starts, it becomes a whole new issue in your life to deal with šŸ˜‚

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Itā€™s not that my mailbox is empty (itā€™s not) I just delete any unwanted email as it comes in

delicate stream
#

Itā€™s much less stressful to just ignore it

#

No spoons available for parsing ā€œwantā€ vs ā€œno wantā€

tardy badger
#

You know you can turn the bubbles off

delicate stream
#

ā€¦ I also like big numbers. My brain works against me

tardy badger
#

Lol..

delicate stream
#

coughs in 180 day Windows uptime

spice moss
#

more you say

blissful roost
#

coughs in 0 days uptime

delicate stream
#

I do not like this CPU frequency

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tardy badger
#

Coughs in idk how many days uptime

spice moss
#

unlimited uptime

tardy badger
#

Your CPU: ā€œIā€™m just gonnaā€¦ gonna take a quick nappy napā€

delicate stream
#

Yup

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Took 6 minutes to log inā€¦

blissful roost
#

Kelly RIPa!

delicate stream
#

Lol

#

Troubleshooting is hard when it takes an hour to open anything

steady dove
delicate stream
#

Except I canā€™t leave it DX and my coffee maker is upstairs in my office

steady dove
#

poor child. you need a Keurig in every room.

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I might have an unhealthy obsession with coffee though.

delicate stream
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lol

blissful roost
#

Don't insult people with bad coffee, please..

dusty citrus
#

A digikey or panellook (with pricing) for motors?

delicate stream
#

I like my Keurigs

blissful roost
#

Oof

delicate stream
#

Reusable pods FTW

blissful roost
#

I'd much rather have a cafetiere

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*except I ordered the wrong replacement meshes.

delicate stream
#

A wha?

blissful roost
#

Coffee press.

delicate stream
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Oh, too much work, lol

blissful roost
delicate stream
#

Wooooork

blissful roost
#

Best result.

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Drop in a little cinnamon and nutmeg, all good.

delicate stream
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Orā€¦ Keurig, add hazelnut creamer. Mmmmm

steady dove
#

I have a regular coffee maker and a Keurig. On weekdays when the kid goes to school, the Keurig is the clear winner bc it's faster and everyone can choose whatever flavour they want.

delicate stream
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In my house we just have the Keurig because volumes of coffee we consume is highly variable, and I just use flavored creamer

tardy badger
#

I think Iā€™m going to start referring to WCH chips as cheese chips. On the grounds that all their products start with ā€œCHā€

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Plus, like cheese. WCH chips are widely consumed

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Lol

delicate stream
#

Mmmm, cheese

solar kindle
#

I've got one of these for making cold brew concentrate. I typically start a pot first thing in the morning, let it sit on the counter for the day, then refrigerate overnight. In the morning, we either have it cold (mixed with water and/or creamer), or diluted and microwaved to drink hot.

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steady dove
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huh, yeah. My spouse does that too. šŸ™‚

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but I'm a firm believer coffee is supposed to be hot.

delicate stream
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Coffee should be hotā€¦ but iced coffee isnā€™t coffee (proper)

gusty torrent
delicate stream
#

If you let coffee get cold itā€™s usually disgusting XD but iced coffee is made to be cold

steady dove
#

To be fair, my coffee is always room temperature because I forget I made a cup.

delicate stream
#

Lol, you should get a mug warmerā€¦ keeps your coffee hot for hours

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steady dove
#

would you believe I ask for one of those every christmas and I never get one. Bad Santa!

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Though I did get the Uggs I wanted, so now my feeties are nice and cozy. So, I won't complain.

delicate stream
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Lol

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If I do have coffee get cold, I just microwave it

steady dove
#

I forget and leave it in the microwave. I have terrible ADHD. I just can't win, so I'm fine with room temp coffee now.

tardy badger
dusty citrus
delicate stream
delicate stream
steady dove
#

I have a yeti mug! I would take coffee with me to work and dazzle my coworkers about warm coffee nearly all day.

delicate stream
#

Lol

dusty citrus
#

But I mean they are passive

delicate stream
#

This is true

#

But I also like drinking from open mugs at work XD

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Insulated is a must for traveling tho

dusty citrus
#

Maybe there's some china thing with a water heater embedded in it lol

delicate stream
#

There are some dubious heated mugs from Chinaā€¦ with 120/240VAC coils directly in the liquidā€¦

steady dove
delicate stream
#

Get one of the Adafruit heater pads and wrap it around your mug, give it a LiPoā€¦ bam

steady dove
crystal ore
delicate stream
dusty citrus
steady dove
#

Possibly so, I can't remember the details now

dusty citrus
delicate stream
# dusty citrus Well in their defense its market is better and wider Safety restrictions in the ...

Safety is a tricky thingā€¦ safety regulations in the US definitely do add to cost and complexity, sometimes to the detriment of the product. There are definitely competent engineers who make Uber-cheap products in China that while they donā€™t meet US safety regulations, theyā€™re not inherently dangerous. But someā€¦ some are just barely technically functional things that are scary unsafe

tardy badger
#

Like environmental dangers from dumping chemicals right into water ways rather than treating them to a point where they have no affect.

delicate stream
#

Definitely both

gusty torrent
tardy badger
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Lol

gusty torrent
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Name dates back to the late 80s or early 90s

tardy badger
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Replace chip with cheese and youā€™ve got a proper midwestern wisconsonite

gusty torrent
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they used to make chipsets for PC ISA serial/parallel boards. Like 18650 uart equivalents and things like that.

delicate stream
#

Worsherchestershire Cheese Hoagie

gusty torrent
delicate stream
gusty torrent
#

The first time I took a Sonoff esp8266 switch apart I was expecting something super dangerous, but the two halves of the board were surprisingly well isolated.

delicate stream
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Itā€™s definitely a mixed bag. Some manufacturers are always great, some are always bad, some put out a mixā€¦

gusty torrent
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And nice thick pcb traces on the lines level side.

tardy badger
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Unfortunately itā€™s hard to make electronics fit in classic songs

steady dove
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@delicate stream ā¤ļø

crystal ore
delicate stream
lusty fossil
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I ordered some stuff that I decided to return before it arrives today. The return policy specifies unopened. Does that mean I don't open the package?

delicate stream
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Usually that refers to the product packaging, not the delivery packaging; but Iā€™d just throw a return label on it

stray wind
delicate stream
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Watching LadyAdaā€™s ā€œMy Little Hackerā€ video, she shows off her deskā€¦ how does she keep it so clean

tardy badger
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Like maybe years ago

delicate stream
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I have many many bins and still my desk isnā€™t that clean XD

tardy badger
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Mine, same

delicate stream
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Sheā€™s got everything within a good arms reach it looks like.m

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PT is super minimalist (plus baby to boot)

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My work desk is half cleared because I had to clear off my old desk and just build this one a couple days ago XD

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tardy badger
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Nice Apple sticker lol

delicate stream
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Hehe

tardy badger
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Makes any computer feel expensive

delicate stream
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I have many dozens of them because the school has many dozens of iPads, and I saved ALL the stickers

tardy badger
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Ah yes, the rare Apple ThinkPad

delicate stream
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Still fighting this stupid Surface

tardy badger
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Never been a huge fan of Surface tablets

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Repairing them was urghhhhh

lusty fossil
stray wind
lusty fossil
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I have never gotten the wrong thing from adafruit

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Ok thanks. That makes sense

delicate stream
tardy badger
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Thinking about buying 1000 buttons

delicate stream
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Iā€™ve had 2 order mistakes with Adafruit in my years of ordering; one time they didnā€™t send something in the packet, so they just sent it separately. Another time they sent double the number of spools of 38AWG magnet wire so I just have 20 instead of 10, lol

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And the couple times Iā€™ve had issues with products they just replaced them

dusty citrus
delicate stream
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My desk is a mess with things falling off DX thus the casualty of this OLEDā€¦

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tardy badger
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So anyways, there I was ordering 1000 buttons

dusty citrus
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nice fingerprints šŸ™ˆ

tardy badger
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Ah yes. $190 in FPGA

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delicate stream
fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Field Programmable Gate Array

fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Yup

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Itā€™s a huge array of lookup tables (LUTs) that are configured into anything you can synthesize into a bitstream

fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Yeah

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If itā€™s synthesize-able, then you can do it

fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Cons is they can be hard to work with if youā€™re not familiar with at least digital logic, k-maps, basic computer architectureā€¦

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They use hardware definition languages

fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Examples like VHDL, Verilog, Amaranth

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No, FPGA need you to describe the hardware youā€™re trying to create. So itā€™s not really programming rather youā€™re writing a recipe.

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Itā€™s design to allow you to deploy customized hardware without having to spend hundreds of thousands or more on a custom ASIC

fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Well, thereā€™s actually plenty of work being done to interface with FPGA from circuitpython

fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Dev boards can range from $50 to over $100k

fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Yeah, markets tough

dusty citrus
fierce prawn
tardy badger
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Oh upduino is $30 still

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I thought it went up

dusty citrus
tardy badger
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Xilinx for cheap? Iā€™d be verrrry skeptical

dusty citrus
tardy badger
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Xilinx FPGA are heavily export controlled right now because of their use in high speed communications. There might be a handful that are legitimate newer SoC, but doubtful.

late fulcrum
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The ColorLight boards are another way you can sometimes find a cheap FPGA board (with bonus 5V level shifters)

tardy badger
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Oh yeah ColorLight is a great option

tardy badger
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That and FTDI

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I mostly buy displays, LEDs, and such off aliexpress

dusty citrus
tardy badger
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Lattice is a lot more prolific overseas and itā€™s much cheaper so thatā€™s very possible to be legit.

dusty citrus
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Ah what madbodger mentioned

dusty citrus
late fulcrum
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The "RISC-V" mention amuses me. There's nothing RISC-V specific on that board, but I suppose you could theoretically load a RISC-V core (or any other core) on to the FPGA

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I don't think those boards were used for mining (that would be a bizarre choice), but probably takeouts from LED walls and the like

tardy badger
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But I also typically build the hardware I want rather than buy it because Iā€™m stubborn and like doing things the hard way

tardy badger
dusty citrus
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Uh btw I was also interested in xyloni fpga, but they have some weird licensing on their software, but hardware is cheap

Like you can get the license only if you buy their dev board or something? But they won't say if the software is limited in any way

late fulcrum
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I eventually decided all the vendor software is bogus, so I just use open source FPGA software now

frigid tiger
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why can't we make plastic displays

late fulcrum
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We can and do

tardy badger
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They just have to be specific plastics because many plastics create strong voltage differentials as theyā€™re great dielectric materials.

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Static-y plastic is really weird feeling too, especially if you have a lot of hair.

crystal ore
tardy badger
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Also parts

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So much money on this mat

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Also board graveyard on the back portion lol

urban arrow
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General comment... some broadcasts ago, I heard The Lady saying she had all these black cables (which I do also), and can't find what end goes to what... Well, I've wrapped colored stranded wire (had a bunch on hand) around both ends. So yellow goes to yellow, etc. Sure made my mess of a work area at the PC easier to find the right cables ends...

delicate stream
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Colored electrical tape works well too. Or labels on one end

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BigClive blowing up his desk with some of the dangerous products from China I talked about earlier... notably, fake products tend to be the dangerous ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENFxBLoQjIM

YouTube
bigclivedotcom
eBay fake product explodes and goes on fire

This video left me "shaken but not stirred" in a good adrenaline rush type of way.

Two more completely fake products being sold via eBay and circumventing formal safety test channels. Not just fake though, but stupidly and very dangerously fake. They could have made a safe fake product, but instead chose to make one that can injure and cause ...

ā–¶ Play video
tardy badger
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Wow

delicate stream
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Yeah... Scam products are terrifying

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Well, some of them. Some scam products are safe -- like "fuel savers" that are basically just an LED, resistor, and some capacitors, and just... capacitate? And glow? Don't do anything harmful

delicate stream
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Playing with ChatGPT-3 again; here's a good example of it just not getting things. Asked it to write code to give a random 256 character string; it gives me a few lines of code. Try it, get an error, tell it the error, it proposes a fix, but the code is exactly the same

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Tell it to try again and it gives me the same code a 3rd time, lol

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honest jolt
# delicate stream Playing with ChatGPT-3 again; here's a good example of it just not getting thing... 
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19044.2486]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\ckyiu>py
Python 3.10.6 (tags/v3.10.6:9c7b4bd, Aug  1 2022, 21:53:49) [MSC v.1932 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import secrets
>>> secrets.token_hex(128)
'65c259cc35f0940a1460cab903226d840d7b5c9abd08a4ebb505ec5d6ea265b34874d3f32648d481d8cb4665d47530488248a3c63021485b9750ff021e9649ed929194f571ecdb8d2b3b99fac4aaefe25663bb30ecef81c1d10f97999f90850df00d9c6b4705d7629fe74c696883f447d17a139a869a92a4854395ba39efedc5'
>>>

wOrKs oN mY mAcHiNe

delicate stream
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Hmmmmm

honest jolt
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No clue why there would be a circular import error on a standard library lol

delicate stream
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I just tried it like you did, I get the error on import, maybe a Python config thing?

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Or maybe my slightly older Python lacks that attribute?

honest jolt
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No clue, never heard of Python needing configuration

honest jolt
delicate stream
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First I need to figure out why Google is blocked on my main workstation XD

honest jolt
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bruh lmao

delicate stream
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... actually it's working now, lol

honest jolt
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Windows is very weird

delicate stream
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Indeed

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"New in version 3.6"

honest jolt
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Maybe a reinstall/update will work, but that's annoying

delicate stream
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... wait, I had just tried doing the import secrets but it ran the random.py?

honest jolt
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Try running python interpreter outside of Documents/

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if you do import random files in the cwd take priority then the syspath, stdlibs, etc.

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so if you have random.py in your cwd

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lol

delicate stream
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weird

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Yeah, that worked, lol. [ignore forgetting it wasn't BASIC for a second]

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honest jolt
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Lol. It trips me up occasionally

delicate stream
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Getting old makes it more common XD

honest jolt
delicate stream
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Brain reverting like 25 years

honest jolt
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To compensate, time travel 25 years into the future before that moment happens

delicate stream
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Then it'll be a 50 year reversion, lol

honest jolt
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Then time travel 25 years into the past so your brain is in the correct moment

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lol

delicate stream
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There we go XD

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Got it to make a gradient script :D

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honest jolt
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noice

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huh Discord doesn't render BMPs

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lol

delicate stream
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Apparently not XD

#

Asked it to make a script to make an image of an apple...

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honest jolt
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Lol

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A single triangle as a leaf

delicate stream
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Asked for a realistic apple, it's writing

honest jolt
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If you squint hard enough it is one XD

late fulcrum
delicate stream
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Ok, now it gave me error code; I told it to fix the error, and it described why that type of error might happen, with an example, but derped

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I think they changed something -- I explicitly asked it to fix the code it gave me, and it did. Then got a new error, asked it generally to fix that error, and it gave me an unrelated example again. But explicitly saying "fix X code" that it was working on before it'll do it

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HAHA

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OK THIS IS HILARIOUS

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IT GAVE ME CODE TO MAKE THE APPLE "REALISTIC"

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honest jolt
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It heard me šŸ‘€

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yum Windows just changed the serial port for my Arduino again

delicate stream
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After having to do some work to get Blender and Python to talk, I got it to make a sphere... but there are errors. Too sleepy, will try more tomorrow

burnt tendon
#

I guess this means you'll circle back to it tomorrow.

fierce prawn
red prairie
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does anyone know how many i2c spi and uart buses the pico has

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im trying to connect a tft lcd via spi, sd card via spi, pn532 module via uart and a speaker and infared protocol via thatevers left

ebon dew
red prairie
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oh sorry

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thanks

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sick as

thick wind
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I2C and SPI buses can also be shared to some extent. I donā€™t think speakers generally use either, though.

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IR transmitters and receivers can often be implemented with a single GPIO pin, as well.

sterile walrus
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the cyberdeck discord is having some contests where we're giving away a raspi4 4gb and a few other really cool prizes
is there a channel where I can drop a link to the contests?

tardy badger
sterile walrus
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it's a discord link

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but to another server. not sure how you all feel about that

tardy badger
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If itā€™s a discord link, it wonā€™t let you post and youā€™ll want to ask in #help-with-community to see if the moderators believe itā€™s worthwhile.

sterile walrus
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awesome ty!

tardy badger
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Yup!

delicate stream
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Hmmā€¦ downloading the same update at the same time in the same place, but wildly different download timesā€¦

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tardy badger
delicate stream
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Faster time is an 8, slower is an SE

tardy badger
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I think the SE has a less capable modem is why

delicate stream
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The SE is 5G

#

Itā€™s basically the 13 in the frame of an 8

thick wind
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It is easy to forget that the 8 used to be a flagship phone at one point.

delicate stream
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Now itā€™s my antique XD

thick wind
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The SE is nowhere near the performance point of a 13, though.

#

Which SE?

delicate stream
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The newest one

thick wind
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Oh there is a third gen

delicate stream
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Theyā€™re very close

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thick wind
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The only aspect of the old 8 that should be superior to the latest gen SE should be the storage?

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It might have to do with how full of files your SE is compared to the 8; if there are already a significant number of files and applications, the SE might be doing some rearrangement of physical storage to download your update haha

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iPhone 8 iirc has more storage so it likely doesnā€™t need to do as much reallocation work to fit your download.

tardy badger
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Itā€™s interesting that weā€™ve not figured out a way to easily automate storage defragmentation without significant cost to write cycles

delicate stream
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The only thing the 8 has to compare to the SE is display and Bluetooth ā€” everything else is better on the SE. the SE has less junk on it, and the 8 has more apps. Both 64GB

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SE has a faster modem, faster processor, faster storageā€¦

thick wind
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Weird. Maybe the SE hit a weird snafu that borked the download estimate haha

delicate stream
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Itā€™s already rebooting and updating while the SE keeps downloading, lol

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BRB gonna let my main phone update

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Hmmā€¦ the 8 suddenly went from 50 to 47% battery within like 30 seconds after restartingā€¦

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And has now recharged to 56% in 3 minutes

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I have a feeling the ā€œ85% healthā€ the phone reports may be inaccurateā€¦

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Also, phone, I typed ā€œinaccurateā€, why did you try to correct to ā€œin accurateā€

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The 8 is showing signs that the battery is failing, so Iā€™m debating what to doā€¦ bleh

tardy badger
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Replace it?

delicate stream
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Debating if I want to replace the battery, or try to sell/trade it

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I have my Pixel 6 Pro in my bag that hasnā€™t been used at all since the 13 Pro Max took overā€¦

tardy badger
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14 Pro is really nice

frigid tiger
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I have an SE2 which I'll run until phones become obsolete

late fulcrum
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I don't like the keyboard on the 14 Pro

delicate stream
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If I do replace the 8 with another iPhone, itā€™ll probably be whatever the cheapest current one is; itā€™s a secondary device, and the 13 Pro Max has been fine for my main. I donā€™t want to make it secondary right now

delicate stream
late fulcrum
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No, it's the same...

delicate stream
late fulcrum
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I like mechanical keyboards.

delicate stream
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Soā€¦ you donā€™t like the iPhone keyboard?

frigid tiger
#

How are the blackberry bold keyboards

delicate stream
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Lol

late fulcrum
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No, I don't like keyboards with zero tactile feedback or alignment

delicate stream
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Fair

late fulcrum
#

Waiting for my Astro Slide 5G

frigid tiger
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I'd like a phone with a sliding keyboard and analog sticks

delicate stream
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I do kinda miss physical keyboardsā€¦ I canā€™t type behind my back with a touch keyboard nearly as well

late fulcrum
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Analog sticks? Sounds like my old Sidekick 3. That was a nice phone.

delicate stream
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I can type in my phone without looking, but I think thatā€™s largely because thereā€™s autocorrect, lol

frigid tiger
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ya I really hate touch screen controls for anything on a phone

delicate stream
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(I typed both of these sentences without looking)

tardy badger
late fulcrum
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Or a car. I loathe the push to touch screens. I like buttons and knobs I can adjust without glancing, I think it's safer while driving too.

tardy badger
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A firm press feels tactile

delicate stream
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Haptic != tactile?

frigid tiger
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iPhone has good haptics imo

#

Their phones used to have 3d touch which works like MacBook trackpads

tardy badger
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Idk, I fat finger my keyboard all the time

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I get periods instead of spaces, Oā€™s instead of Pā€™s

delicate stream
tardy badger
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I got a bigger phone thinking it would fix the problem andddd nope.

frigid tiger
tardy badger
delicate stream
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I could type a bit faster on a good physical phone keyboard than I can on touch keyboard, but honestly not by muchā€¦ always about half or less of full keyboard typing

delicate stream
#

EVEN CRUISE CONTROL

frigid tiger
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great for cost cutting

tardy badger
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My 21 outback has touch radio (fine because I use car play) and touch vehicle controls

late fulcrum
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It was a little tricky to integrate my steering wheel controls to an aftermarket stereo, but I did, and it's so nice. And yes, cruise control and climate control too. Maybe I'll just keep that car.

tardy badger
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My 23 Impreza on the other hand has only a touch radio console and mechanical controls for climate

delicate stream
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I can understand having touch for things you really shouldnā€™t be doing while driving, like pulling something up on the GPS or some audio functions like YouTube music and playlists and stuff, but all the basics ā€” play, pause, skip, volume, climate controls ā€” should be physical. Steering wheel should have media and cruise control

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And CLEAR SEPARATION between buttons. No continuous plastic strips you canā€™t feel the position!

tardy badger
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I can manage my playlist just fine from my steering wheel, cruise control, lane helper

delicate stream
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I wish my car had cruise control

tardy badger
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Volume

late fulcrum
#

The cat here is like the cheapest RC model, has "stop" and "full speed", nothing in-between.

delicate stream
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I actually donā€™t use the radio in my carā€¦ I just have my AirPods Pro in all the time. No media controls on the steering wheel, no cruise controlā€¦ no Bluetooth or navigation or power locks or power windows

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Which is insane when itā€™s a 2005, and my first car was from 2000 and DID have power everything, cruise control, media on the steering wheel (CD and tape)ā€¦

tardy badger
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There was one point when it was illegal to drive with headphones on if it wasnā€™t like a headset for a CB or whatnot

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Not sure if that ever went away

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But AirPods can be used for calls as can most headphones these days so that line is very muddled

late fulcrum
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I have been known to use the AM radio to track down failing power line insulators, but mostly I just listen to my ancient iPod.

delicate stream
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I know some states have thatā€¦ my AirPods are in transparency, so itā€™s no different from listening to the radio

tardy badger
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I use Apple Car play

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Itā€™s nice for hand free

delicate stream
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I just start my ā€œlikesā€ playlist on shuffle, and skip or pause on my watch or pods

tardy badger
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I use steering wheel controls because itā€™s safer than tapping my ear every time

late fulcrum
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I just use good old fashioned speakers. It feels weird having things in/on my ears, especially while I'm driving.

tardy badger
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Yeah