farting_weedman [none/use name]

Would it help if there were a Linux comm for all the Linux posts?

Do you still have to install some guys weird shell hack to move the taskbar over to the left side of the screen?

The defense distributed people/communities are better places to ask those questions because they’ll have more up to date and detailed information.

As of like 5 years ago all the gun stl files were sized for the ender though.

If you do go the t480 route: max ram is 64gb, you can put a shorty b or b+m keyed nvme drive in addition to either a 2.5” or full size nvme drive in the sata bay. Buy for display/processor and don’t get the discrete gpu.

They’re great computers.

Have you considered not doing what you’re asking and instead doing what only one person in the thread so far has suggested and getting a simple cheap old laptop and a steam deck or desktop pc?

If you’re hard on shit you’re gonna fuck up the laptop. It’s okay, I am that way too and that’s why learned how to fix em.

Don’t spend a bunch of money on something you’re gonna break.

“But farting_weedman, if I don’t spend a bunch of money I won’t be able to play video games!”

I know.

By not spending all your money on a laptop which you’re much more likely to break, you have 75-80% of your money left to buy something you can game on.

Like a steam deck or some psychogamers 2-3 year old build.

So what should you buy?

I like the t480 thinkpad. It will work fine for your needs and can accommodate a decent amount of ram and storage. Shop around, but you can get a goodass laptop for like ~$200.

Now you can either get a steam deck, the easy and “smart” choice, or you can start trying to figure out what parts you can pick out of the local dump for free to maximize the amount of your remaining $800 you can spend on a video card.

There’s much more capable people at combing pcpartpicker on this site, but I will leave you with this one thing: reduce your target resolution and frame rate to maximize your dollar.

Yes?

You gotta practice and set one up right for it but I never had a problem with trackballs and gaming. The biggest difference is that you’re using a different set of muscles for coarse/fine motion.

To me the best satire is no exit. People are all like “uhh, what about critique of dialectical reason” and that’s fine I guess.

E: the thing I’m trying to say is that satire is best when he’s just making shit up for fun, not trying to be serious.

Alternately: have you considered converting to trackball?

Most games are widescreen. There’s pinball tables and scrolling shooters, but those aren’t really genres that you use the mouse much in, so people get by with normal horizontal gaming mice.

People got used to the user interface assumptions and behaviors involved in smartphones and tablets so now what the gnome people are cooking up is lookin appetizing.

Same thing as windows 11 interface or the back to the numbered releases macos.

Deluge on the server and qbittorrent on the laptop. Might move to rtorrent this year.

Yeah if you can’t get to gloves then that’s the best option.

One of the pcb places I worked at had a training where they went over the statistics on gloves versus hand washing and it seemed dire.

At the same time I’d believe 100% that came from a nitrile glove distributor cutout.

It would be cool to drive some kind of classic style Chinese sports car around a bunch of cities and country roads on vacation.

Even holding old parts in your mouth by the leads is bad because sometimes they’re tinned instead of aluminum coated copper or whatever.

There’s genuinely a like “thought pattern feeling” that I’m scared is oral heavy metals exposure. Waiting on the blood panel to come back…

It’s not my intention to be fighting all over this thread, but if you’re worried about lead exposure because of the crazy crap you work on, like old radios and stuff, wear gloves at all times.

If you don’t wanna use disposable nitrile, use dishwashing gloves.

You probably won’t get 70+ bidenbrained from using the “blow the smoke away” fume extraction method as a hobbyist.

You will absolutely get 40+ bidenbrained from touching all over your leaded solder and leaded joints then touching your face/mouth.

Don’t do what farting_weedman once did and straighten a curled solder strand straight with their mouth like one might when wetting a thread and threading a needle.

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Standing up openvpn especially is pretty well documented.

Maybe. I’ve never seen anyone do rework or replacement of fine pitch connectors with shrouded leads on big multilayer boards like video cards and stuff without low melt.

A factory I worked at would sometimes place replacement components on masked pads and run the assembly through the heater again, but that’s uh, not recommended for a lot of parts now…

Alternate solution: use atop sorting by fs access and kill the process doing it.

Stop the service that’s doing the thing causing you a problem.

Fix the thing you screwed up

Restart the fixed service that was causing the problem

What could possibly go wrong?

In this case, and I’m making wild assumptions because I don’t have a peertube instance to play with, stop peertube, connect your local system up to it with a vpn to traverse your nat, mount some volume in the local system as the remote systems target for the file system move, then start peertube back up and see if it starts filling your local drive with some data.

Nah. Multilayer boards and smd stuff with tiny little plastic parts need leaded to safely desolder and clean up.

If you’re talking about through hole and some larger pitch smd soldering then yeah, you can get away with lead free especially in paste form.