Arduino and hobby electronics. It started out as a continuous loop pad dye machine to save me having to dye fabric by hand, strictly mechanical, but then I wanted to automate adding the chemicals at the right times. Then it was keeping the dye liquor a consistent temperature. Then it was draining the trough automatically. Then I figured out I could design my own PCBs and have them fabricated. It just keeps going…
Best piece of advice I can give about learning anything (that doesn’t involve risk of injury): don’t try to learn everything there is to learn. Decide what you want to do and learn what you need to do that. Tell me something you’d be interested in doing…
It’s logically dishonest to say “There are no gods.” How do you prove there isn’t something? Maybe you just can’t see it right now. Agnostic atheist is the only logical position one could take.
I have no problems saying excuse me in a loud clear voice and blasting right through the center of those conversations. Being a performer at the local Renaissance festival for 30 years teaches you how to blow right through crowds with people in the way.
I’m going through all of my company’s apps replacing jquery with vanilla Javascript. I don’t like that Javascript is much more verbose than jquery but I do like not having to be dependent upon a library.
Where exactly does the Bible say that abortion is wrong? Have you read the Old Testament? There are so many dead babies there you could use them for the foundations of the tower of Babel. There’s even a method described for inducing abortion.
I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free....
I like lemmings but it might be a bit derogatory. Even with that I still think it’s better than ‘redditors’, which always sounded/looked goofy to me....
Not a fan of lemmings, since everything we know about them in popular culture is incorrect - they don’t commit mass suicide - and is suicide really the image we want for ourselves? @Lemminary has the right idea.
I should buy a lottery ticket (startrek.website)
Time to ditch Amazon Prime? (www.bbc.co.uk)
This will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me.
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Making the pixels change on my screen so that the pixels on someone else's screen look the way they want. (startrek.website)
How to prevent cats from shitting on my lawn?!? (lemmy.world)
Neighborhood cats shit right in the middle of my lawn. It stinks and the robot lawn mover makes it even worse....
What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough....
Do you believe in God?
18+ (CW: A Nauseatingly Large Sperm) (hexbear.net)
Requiring ink to scan a document—yet another insult from the printer industry (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/3vfmc...
OMG (lemmy.world)
vscodium, vscode without spyware (github.com)
What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like?
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Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?...
Advice for a middle-age, moderately pc knowledgeable person to finally switch to or become proficient with Linux?
This is my third attempt. Partly to rage quit Windows, and partly to gain utility and control with some professional AV software....
Texas woman traumatized after being forced to carry an unviable pregnancy to term (www.npr.org)
How to Install UserScripts: A Comprehensive Guide for Chrome and Firefox (Guide by ChatGPT)
Table of Contents...
How are we going to pay for all this?
I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free....
Lemmy, what do you call users of Lemmy?
I like lemmings but it might be a bit derogatory. Even with that I still think it’s better than ‘redditors’, which always sounded/looked goofy to me....
Getting "pin feathers" on my print (lemmy.ml)
Ender 3 Pro, Slicr, retraction: 6mm; temp: 215; PLA+....