They already have loads of “brains” at home, they don’t need to attract more.

Honestly fuck cursive.

Automotives ranks pretty high up on the list

One one hand: Props to the guy, and he has taught me genuinely interesting deep dive stuff about cars.

But on the other: OOOOOHHHHH GOD! Oh god that is so HORRIFYINGLY expensive!

Bush craft. That can get really pricy.

Electronics.

Granted it’s really cheap to get into, especially if you get most of your parts off AliExpress or small kitchen appliances that get thrown out.

For a lot of areas you essentially have to build up your own personal “factory”. BGA soldering stations (even DIY setups) are… Mmmm… <small>not cheap.</small>

(I really want to get into BGA stuff!)

And offloading the manufacturing onto someone else (eg: The many PCB manufacturers in existence.) is still pricy.

Also: Counterfeit parts! Don’t… Don’t buy rare parts or things for mainstream production off AliExpress. Use proper distributors for that sort of stuff. Getting 74LS00’s off AliExpress for a one off project is fine, but not for creating multiple things.

Especially anything that can by dangerous. I better not catch any of you women buying stuff like mains USB phone chargers, fuses, or X class safety capacitors off the likes of AliExpress of Amazon. That’s asking for trouble.

Thankfully you can get pretty far with Chinese microcontrollers, prototyping boards, and a soldering/hot air station and hot air gun. If you’re feeling real adventurous you can get away with Harbor Freight’s soldering iron.

Not nearly as “bourgeois” as gaming though, and you could argue home electronics is “less of a waste of time” due to the fact you’re creating physical items.

Fuckin’ love my spider solitaire and Avelog’s “Mouse Simulator” though.

The goop from alkaline batteries is basic.

Modern dish washing soap is absolutely fantastic. Put some of it in a spray bottle alongside water.

I like living here in the future with synthetic cleaning products.

Whenever I need to clean battery contacts in used electronics I grab the jug of vinegar.

One time I didn’t have vinegar, so I used my aunt’s diet coke lol. Carbonic acid did clean the battery “acid”! Not very well though, it got used up quickly.

The whole line of events is so batshit insane it’s something only reality can produce.

Something something “reality is stranger then fiction”.

Gatekeeping technology is a personal irritation of mine.

The famicom and capacitor electrolytes should not belong to individual companies, they belong to all of humanity.

Anyone else have their head stuck in the “cheap nasty embedded computing” stretch of sand under the “tech sun”?

…That was a really weird metaphor.

Cheap famiclones excite me, not modern graphics cards.

The pigs around me like to steal ebikes.

Of course they call it “”““impounding””“” but really it’s just legalized theft. Fucking piss buckets.

Would that even work? Crows are smart, I’d think they’d be able to tell if it’s a camera or a feeder.

Getting temporarily banned from the whole site for advocating against occupied Palestine is what got me to delete the app.

They blacklisted r/fullcommunism for getting John Brown on the front page.

I want my brain shoved into a jar and stored somewhere. Banking on brain mapping and weird hacky optimizations to make the computational stuff work.

Death would be too good for him tbh.

That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it?

Tbf my dumb web browser game does this.

It checks if the system language (those “en-us” like strings) is set to Ukrainian or Hebrew. If it is, it’ll set the url to something else, effectively redirecting the user.

I don’t want zionists and state sanctioned neo-nazis playing my shitty game. Liberals would probably call my arrogance, which I am being arrogant, but frankly I don’t think people who go around murdering civilians deserve to play my game!

I’d ban the United States, but I do live there. Besides it’s mostly a political statement, and it’s dead easy to bypass.

I will remove Ukraine when the war ends though, regardless of the outcome. (Unless I already removed them. I don’t quite remember.)

…Maybe I should add TERF island to the ban list lol.

I like being able to touch the things. The tactile feedback of something in my hands is nice.

Also: Don’t have much digital storage.

I enjoy Ben Norton’s content.