Shinji_Ikari [he/him, they/them]

Love my manual transmission. Toss er in 4th, hold slight pressure on the gas, cruise at the speed limit without any interference. If you let off you even slow down instead of coast.

That’s great and all, but this is a federated comm, it appeared on my home page under active. I don’t know if it matters if I personally shared my XMonad config and custom volume widget or commented on yet another custom tiling wm. I always exclusively lurked on the subreddit. I lurk on this one too. Discussion isn’t usually that insightful besides “wow!” and “theme?”.

This time, there was actual discussion and I decided to join in. Much more interesting than the 900th i3 gaps with an 18 pixel gap and 15 lines of code visible in the terminal.

Instance has comparatively high and active userbase with a very high percentage of Linux users

Is this brigading?

Damn had to call both my senators. I always hate calling because I have no doubt that it wont do anything.

I watched a lot of youtube before I dove in. There’s a LOT more content on watch repair now after covid so it should be easy. Pay specific attention to how the seasoned watchmakers use their tools. You should never have to force anything in a watch. Go as slow as possible and really savor each movement.

If you don’t have a camera with good macro abilities, grab some of those cheap clip on macro lenses for your phone.

Take a pictures at every step until you don’t need them anymore. I specifically was interested in 2-3 movements but you start to see the commonality between them if you’re just working on a simple hour/minute/second/calendar watch without extra complications.

I really suggest buying one of those little plastic trays with a clear dome on top that have dividers. With that, I divide the parts and screws by the aspect of the movement. ie I’ll use one compartment for the automatic winder components, a compartment for the stem and winding mechanism, one for the main drive, and another for the date complication. I repair a lot of misc things so I have a decent memory for where parts/screws go. If you dont, take pictures of the screw next to the hole you took it from so you can compare scale. Screws inside watches are usually at most 2-3 sizes, if not all the same but its good practice to ensure you put the right screw in the right hole.

Also check out the forum watchrepairtalk. Its an international group of old men who love to help out. It has a completely different atmosphere to watchuseek and is an endless fountain of knowledge.

God the sovteks. I also like soviet watches and two of my interests are directly fucked from the war.

I mostly play acoustic stuff now, I have an alright manouche style guitar that I play more than most of my guitars now.

I struggle with frontend too, it was a super basic jinja templates with html and a plotly js applet that I just fed data to. Its ugly but functional.

I Started to re-write the server in Go, I have like 90% feature parity with postgres instead of mongo, but I need to figure out vue when I have a chance to make something a little nicer. I have an old obsolete ipad with a bunch of touch deadzones I’d like to load up in kiosk mode for a nicer data display.

I really liked the ESP32 ecosystem. I figured out the ESP-idf and really liked the build system and freeRTOS. The examples given are really exhaustive and super useful. I basically did format strings into static HTML headers to send the data to the server since it only has like 3-4 readings.

Interfacing with any common hobbyist sensor is mostly a matter of finding a basic C driver and adapting it for the ESP build system.

History doesn’t occur in a vacuum though.

Why is it also present in Indonesia, a Muslim nation colonized by the Dutch

Please read the Jakarta Method. Indonesia was trying to build up some kind of socialist system after Dutch rule. The democratically elected leader was a member of the Communist party but overall was not forcing a hard revolution. The US manufactured a right-wing military coup that would go on to execute nearly a Million members of the communist party, imprison over a million more, and lead the country down a right wing reactionary path. Indonesia pre-coup was is almost unrecognizable compared to modern Indonesia.

Iran was never directly colonized

The 1953 coup strengthened the shah and changed power to be far more pro-west interests, imperialism in a mask. The later Iranian revolution was again, a reaction to the more or less puppet regime. I don’t think anyone on the left has more than a critical support for Iran to self govern. Of course not all changes or revolutions are a blanket good.

Generally the support for Islam on the left is a counteraction to Islamophobia in the west, where Muslims are written off as terrorists due to the multiple decades of war waged in the Middle East.

I personally know non-muslim brown people called “Terrorist” in predominantly white school districts in the early 2010s. This racism didn’t go away, and it won’t go away by demanding people to surrender their religion in the name of anti-homophobia. Doing so, claiming they’re generally homophobic is the same as generalizing them all as terrorists.

Do you ever have odd volume behavior? For example, I’ll turn it on one day with the clean volume around 2, it will be loud. Then another day I’ll turn it on, settings unchanged, and it will be half volume and I’ll have to bring it up to 3 or 4, which normally is enough to shake the drywall, just to get a normal level.

I have so many old tubes, I’ve considered turning them into Christmas ornaments by soldering a hook onto the feet. They’re too cool looking to toss but are no good in the amp.

Life is also a lot better with an attenuator between the power out and the speaker.

Absolutely, I’ve decided to accept my amp is just haunted when i hear reverb with the knob turned to zero.

I’ve had to reflow connections, replace load resisters, replace all the tubes and re-bias the amp. Broke out the schematics and went through test points and everything.

Its an awful little goblin amp and weighs 50 pounds but it was the very first big thing I bought when I started working as a teenager and I cant seem to let it go.

Its really relaxing after a couple drinks. My #1 tip is don’t cheap out on the basic tools like tweezers, screw drivers, and oils. A lot of things you can find cheap, ie pith wood, finger cots, a little squeeze blower, etc. The tools you use to manipulate the pieces are basically an extension of your hand and makes a worlds difference.

What kind of home automation?

I recently rolled my own environment sensing, from the ESP32 C code up to the web front end. I basically got it functional and have been using it daily.

I love fixing watches. I used to do full disassembly and servicing on old soviet watches until I moved somewhere 100% carpeted.

Also several factors absolutely fucked my supply of cheap Russian watches. Between COVID and the war, all my sellers are MIA on both sides.

I think you helped me with camera advice so message me if you need any amp repair advice. I’ve got a HRD III that is constantly trying to end its own torment and I’ve done a bunch of little things to it.

Computers are more or less the sum of their parts.

For the longest time, and even now I think, the “Linux laptop” companies mostly sold re-branded quasi-generic laptops from Chinese manufacturers and focused on the software aspect to ensure compatibility. This meant that a lot of aspects were cheapened out on. The chassis, trackpad, keyboard, display, fit and finish in general were second class. Sure it was a machine that ran Linux, but most computers do that pretty well.

Laptop shopping is already fraught with pain and hazards. How do you know you’re getting something that wont break down? Add the “vote with your wallet” premium price on these boutique Linux laptops, and they don’t seem that appealing.

Thinkpads on the other hand have a huge community of nerds documenting compatibility. They have enterprise customers dumping pallets of used machines into the used market every year, and have far better parts accessibility than the quasi-generic machine.

Then there’s the trackpoint, you never need to leave the home row. You’re not victim to subpar trackpads(Every non-mac trackpad is subpar, sorry, I don’t make the rules, they suck absolutely.)

I’ve had my X1 Carbon 4th gen since new in 2016. Even if I can’t upgrade it, 7 years on its still nearly perfect. I got an Dell XPS 15 from work ~5 years ago and I’ve gone through two batteries, finishes are wearing off, the hinge is wonky, and IT HAS NO TRACK POINT.

By arguing for the lesser of evils, you are arguing for the legitimacy of the establishment.

One thing paper helps me with is free-form thought externalizing.

When you limit yourself to text, markdown, or sometimes even a digital pen/drawing app, I feel like it requires a bit of effort to use which allows ideas to slip from my mind.

With a pen/pencil and paper, I can write, draw, and connect about as fast as I can think. I can crumble the page and refine the idea over and over until something I like is there.

I’m left to wonder what is more likely, a company taking advantage of a public health emergency to turn a profit, or a company manufacturing an entire public health scare to sell their product.

To be safe, I’d go with the former. Stay healthy.

Anytime I need to install something in windows, it just feels, uncivilized? Like every step of the way is disrespectful to the user. Windows is political, it has business priorities that effect how it’s used. Linux feels like a rock, like yeah you can get mad at it when you drop it on your foot but the rock isn’t interacting back the same way that windows is constantly changing and questioning your judgement.

Cries in perfectly managed window layouts and reasonable defaults.