Get yourself a junk flush cutter and then trash the hell out of it. This one started life as a fancy and relatively expensive Hakko which was used for soldering work, until I did something stupid with it and the blades got nicked.
I replaced it and this one became the “JUNK” tool. And I use it ALL THE TIME, precisely because it’s not sacred. It’s particularly useful for flush cutting zip ties.
@ariadne I once spent a bunch of time in line at a Raising Cane's before getting to the window only to be told "it'll be about 10 minutes while we cook the chicken".
Their entire menu consists of chicken strips and fries.
Currently under a Tropical Storm Watch, first time I've lived in an area subject to that... and I live in the desert in California.
To put things in perspective, this is the first time the National Hurricane Center has issued such a watch for Southern California since... uhh, ever, since its founding. And the last recorded instance of a tropical storm making landfall was in 1939.
Background: Grew up in Green Bay, WI, moved to the SF Bay Area for 2 years, then lived in Reno, NV for 20 years, now I live in SoCal.
I actually studied a decent amount for the written test when I moved to SoCal, because I originally failed the CA test with no prep.
It was all for nothing. Turns out I was still in the DMV system, so they treated it as a license renewal with a 20 year gap, no test. I even have the same license number as I did 20 years ago.
So, like, did every local TV market in the 80s have a MST3K-quality show with a personality (probably the sports announcer by day) in makeup showing licensed-broadcast-grade horror movies, or was that just a thing locally?
Does DDR4 automatically clock down to the least common denominator? I just got an old cheap HP 1 liter PC which has an i5-6500T (ARK says max 2133MHz), but all of the cheapest DDR4 available these days is 3200MHz. Will that Just Work if the BIOS doesn't have fancy memory overclocking options?
@mlinksva@evan Good times. I ended up sniping dent number 10,000 on 2008-07-03, and dent 10,000,000 on 2009-09-14. There was hidden functionality where, instead of "@foo", you could do "T FOO" (and it had to be uppercase) to link another user, after a meme in an IRC channel we were in.
With #johnmastodon, I'm reminded of the YouTuber Raysfire, who refers to Jonesy (ostensibly the mascot of Fortnite) as John Fortnite, enough that it became a meme. And turns out, John Fortnite has his own alternative universe lore page. https://flobbies.fandom.com/wiki/John_Fortnite
Hey, I should do a proper #introduction ! I’m known as “oh, that guy who does X stuff”, but “X” is different from each person, which is a good feeling. @finnix developer (the world’s oldest current LiveCD), Debian, Ubuntu, various open source. I’ve worked at that place you’ve heard of. River says hi #caturday . I own too many Raspberry Pis (that is to say, not enough), I live in the desert, and I drive a boring car.