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Hot damn I didn't know what was going on in Iran, now I do. Good luck to the protestors. I hope if successful, a peaceful and democratic regime is installed.

The south gave us one good thing:

Y’all.

It’s a based second-person plural pronoun.

Everyone exposed to it at some point consistently, usually ends up saying it for life.

Fun fact: The movie Airplane! (1980) is rated PG.

"Even in the future nothing works!"

Also I refuse to associate it with Teslas I fucking love Spaceballs y'all.

The Bambu Lab P2S has a ludicrous speed mode but it doesn't go to plaid. What a missed opportunity.

@kkarhan I mean, research has consistently shown that the best font is... *drumroll*

Whatever the person tends to prefer. It is often not things like Dyslexie (which worked for the designer and some people, but not everyone consistently; children responded poorly to it).

This has been shown consistently in dyslexics, people with low vision, etc.

I think there needs to be *multiple* choices that help people, not just one, and let them try to figure it out.

Ironically I find this font *less* legible than say, Helvetica. Something just looks wrong with some of the glyphs. I know I'm not the target audience... but still.

Once again, they are trying to chain themselves to queer identity to gain credibility.

This is NAMBLA with modern PR.

"I swear I'll route it better this time" and other lies I tell myself

I forgot how much I missed y'all btw

when a guy slides into your DMs and thinks he's suave but he sounds like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2GUkjyoZU

Ah yes now we play the game

"Is it IBS, is it lupus, or is it food poisoning?"

Hey Fedi,

if you would like hardware of any kind designed or built I will happily do so. I also reverse engineer existing hardware (so I can make new boards or basic housings of things you can’t replace).

I do everything from firmware up to the PCBs and even the external hardware.

My rates:

Estimate: free for most small projects, if it requires more than a few hours of work just to provide an estimate it will be billed at $25/hr. That shouldn’t be required for most projects unless it’s very complex.

Simple circuits (two layers + a couple components like an MCU, connector, and a few passives): $150.

Complex boards: $75/hr for schematic and layout. Will negotiate.

Reverse engineering: $100/hr because it is extremely tedious and time-consuming.

PCB assembly: $30/hr + PCB and stencil cost (or you send PCBs and stencils to me). I’ll use your provider of choice. Note you must provide your own stencils and I can’t do BGA or concave ICs because I lack a reflow oven.

Housings: I’m not super amazing with CAD, but we can negotiate a rate. I can 3D print with FDM and soon resin (small things only on resin).

Product assembly: we can negotiate a rate. I might do it for free depending on what else you’re doing.

Firmware: yes I also do this, I charge $75/hr, will negotiate.

Note: more complex projects may require additional costs, to cover my time and hassle. If additional hardware beyond my oscope + logic analyser + multimeter + bench supply + function generator etc. is required (especially one-off hardware I can’t use on other projects) there will be a charge for that for the cost of the hardware. I am upfront about additional costs in the estimate provided they aren’t some surprise thing you sprung on me with a last-minute big change order. I will also tell you if I am going to charge for an estimate either upfront or say “this is getting a bit long-winded, I’m going to start charging in the next hour.”

Change orders will be billed based on the stage of the process.

@kkarhan it’s gone now, you can use a username now.

@kkarhan they don’t require a phone number now, my main objection is it’s centrally owned.

@kkarhan I despise XMPP and OMEMO has never worked right for me esp with carbons

I use signal. Sadly. Quietly. Because its encryption is actually state of the art.

If they ask to talk to you on WhatsApp there’s an 80% chance they’re a cop or an informant.

“My dealer uses it”

You need to find another dealer.

Guess we could all go back to IRC.