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That iPhone 8 (plus) was like 750. So like a hundred a year. I literally am the person than spends less on phones out of my entire social circle.

Edit: also I’ve had three android (not so) cheap phones—one handed down to me, previous to the iPhone 4, that I had for a few months. And my current and former work phones, provided by my company—and hated (still hating the current one) the hell out of them, utter trash full of ads and uninstallable spyware.

I ain’t no apple fan, but my old iPhone 8—which is now my sister’s work phone since one year ago—just received a security patch a couple months ago, eight years after it was bought. And yes I went with an iPhone 16, because only two phones in 14-15 years (iPhone 4, 8, and now 16) is something no other brand can currently compete with. Unpopular here, I know, but I don’t care about a jack port (my android work phone has one and its only function is to build up pocket dust), or sideloading (I don’t even ‘sideload’ much in my laptops, almost everything comes from the official repositories).

I really hope the phone landscape changes and, in six years or so, I can buy a proper FOSS phone, but I’m not holding my breath.

Tin-lead solder is what you use to solder electronics. Don’t use it for pipes, tho, for that you want tin-silver.

I recognise their username. It’s half sane takes, half absolute wankery with them.

Bit rude. When I’m visiting family or friends and the time to leave comes, it costs me nothing to be a polite guest and take some trash with me on my way out.

It does. I’m posting this comment on the Mbin pwa on my iPhone, works pretty well.

IIRC the forever chemicals are not the coating that stays on the pan. The Teflon coating is inert, the toxic part is the water soluble PFAS they use to apply it that would go away (away meaning everywhere, each and every corner of the planet) while or shortly after manufacturing, or with the first uses.

So if you already own non-sticky pans don’t get rid of them, but look for another alternative when you buy a new one tho.

Interesting. What is it?

This is not a military budget problem, the thing is Spain, or France, Germany… have already powerful enough militaries to have ended the war twenty times over. But wars, as Ukraine has showed, aren’t fought or won with money, but with lads being killed and killing the other side lads. The members of the European militaries live pretty comfortably, a pretty good wage just to play boyscouts, try telling them they have to go to die bleeding in the cold Russian steppe…

I just did a bit of research and it seems they do it with a printer! The company says the colour extracts are odourless and flavourless, the brown ones are made either from coffee or malt extract which would be a similar flavour profile than Guinness, and (a bit of educated guessing from the top of my head) I would put the quantity of ‘ink’ in these prints in the tens of micrograms, like 0.01-0.1 mg. I think the flavour and aroma wouldn’t be affected.

Newlines mean nothing in c. You can literally write any program in three lines of c, if you don’t give a crap about readability.

Small correction, the article doesn’t say he was going to therapy. It says that his mother was a therapist, I had to reread that sentence twice:

Neither his mother, a social worker and therapist, nor his friends

The mother, social worker, and therapist aren’t three different persons.

I’m pretty sure the Crown of Aragon wasn’t part of France in 1507 so I wouldn’t trust the rest the map either.

Remember kids: personal property IS NOT the same as private property.

I mean, ai bad and all but people have been doing this dumb cringe shit since always. Nobody remember the Snape wives

Don’t know about the glue thing, the smds were put by a machine, but they would move like the one in the picture if you didn’t set the machine right. I can’t say for sure with that resolution but I think those white things are the shiny reflections on the pins/solder. I will look into these smd glues tho, that could come handy.

And about the tape I have to say that my experience with wave soldering is not very vast, literally just one place, but they used painters tape, of the cheapest kind, and it worked just fine—no melting (it’s paper?), and no burning since the solder doesn’t get that hot (~200°C), the tape might stay a bit wet from the flux also idk.

To the second and third issues, I think they happened because of bad settings in the wave soldering machine, and/or not prepping the board beforehand. Maybe the wave was to high, or the speed too slow. Many times you have to cover the smd components with a bit of painters tape. Even the orientation of the board on the frame can matter.

An organized, disciplined military is more effective at defending against an organized, disciplined military.

That’s true. The thing is: defending what? The country? The government? The king? Going to war is trading my (relative) safety for theirs, and I’ve never been too fond of them really.

Defending myself and going to war sound like complete opposites to me.

Be my fucking guest! You and your children can go enlisting, I just have to do this thing and will be right behind you…