that was my thought as well. I assume most of them to be duds. hell, the relabeled Chinese hand-me-downs the Russians are using don’t work either.

Or be like me and spend too much time/money finding a tool that might be good only to never use it because brain says, “I’m bored, find new hobby” every couple of business days.

Listen, you. Get out of my head and wallet. I do this and it makes me so sad. looks longingly at the paints I bought for models

True. That was my peak wrestling watching era.

You also have to consider the audience Trump is trying to please. Who is going to pull more people? Steve Mnuchin talking about Trump glowingly or a clown wrestler that Trump’s fans remember as a childhood hero backing their pick?

Yeesh. That is some nonsterous shit.

Hey! Welcome. I understand the first year struggle since I have one of my own. Glad you decided to join and engage. If you want, join us on the Matrix channel. We have a lot of great fun talking there. Also, take we have a fatherverse community that might be fun for you as we all recount things about parenting.

Yeah, this feels like a nothingburger. Rates have only started coming in line with expectations and corpo gouging is the real problem. No amount of high interest will stop companies charging extortionate rates. Powell has good reason to be cagey as every rate hike tanks the stock market because of the general panic. We finally have lenders and businesses getting the idea that the gravy train of nearly free loans is over.

Nice to have you here.

I am running Bazzite and Stellaris. I have no issues with stability or opening the game. Have you checked your hardware fundamentals and done things like disable steam overlay?

I will never get over the absurdity of seeing a Confederate flag on a house in Ohio.

As an Ohioan, anything outside of the major metros is basically the south.

That’s where I am at now. The whole “There is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism” thing really eats at you. But I still know I won’t buy a Tesla for a host of reasons.

I thought that was called using meth?

Really? I’ll have to check again. Last time I looked it was a defunct Facebook page.

What could be more American than making merchandise to amplify a historic event?

If only the local IWW wasn’t a defunct facebook page…

Lot of good points here. I work in electronics manufacturing so I’ll add on a bit. Yes, much of what has been explained about solder and flux is correct. I will caution about trying something like conformal coating a board in this setting. It is hard to work through and can beat up your iron. Lead free is great but sucks for working it into the joints. It just doesn’t heatt the same. Even IPC build standards have explicit instructions about visual inspections of non leaded joints looking like shit.

If you are planning to coat the board, I would do outdoors as well. Extraction fans are great for general soldering but we use fume hoods for conformal coat. Just something to keep in mind.

I really would love to even test drive the keys or the layout but the price point is just absurd for these things. Anyone have a suggestion for someone wanting to jump into the ergo keyboard game?

The oblong dingus in the middle…

Hey! I never get name dropped. That’s neat. Really great write up. This thing sounds bonkers and I love your word choices. Always a highlight of my day.

I did the same jump, the same way last year. I’m still daily driving Pop_OS! After a year. I went through much the same way when I can over from windows with program placement. Welcome to the club.