You need a #1 phillips, a #0 phillips, a soldering iron and accoutrements for desoldering and soldering 3 through-hole joints. There’s a screw under the sticker in the battery compartment; there are no clips holding the outer shell together, if it doesn’t fall apart under gravity there’s another screw somewhere.

Note the replacements will likely fail eventually too if you replace it with the same part number switch; there is a more appropriate switch for the task but don’t ask for the part number off the top of my head.

Right around here, in like 7th or 8th grade when they start teaching algebra instead of just arithmetic, is where math class goes wrong.

They teach the class as if every student is going to be a mathematician and fill chalkboards with a bunch of greek letters to prove that E = MC^hammer or whatever the hell they actually do. They expect tweenagers to take on board six or seven phrases like the Transitive Property of Equality, learn the definitions of them, and then remember which definition goes to which bullshit made up to look smart phrase that definition went with.

The result? Arguments on the internet over the simplification of syntactically ambiguous polynomials, because teaching it as PEMDAS kind of misses the point.

I use order of operations all the time in my day to day life; for example, right now on my workbench is a drawer box waiting for the glue to dry. It’s 10 7/8" wide. The sides are 5/8" thick. The back is set into a 1/4" deep dado on each side. The length of the back board is overall_width - 2 * (side_thickness - dado_depth). The back board is 10 1/8" long. That’s how I programmed my CAD software to create it

Whoever owns the Nokia badge are selling phones designed specifically for repairability by end users; the only issue I have with them is they don’t really say much about how long they’re going to have software support, so expect it to last 4 to 6 years tops before replacing it becomes required anyway.

They always lean a little too hard into making the small one the “budget” phone and end up gimping it into something nobody wants, and yet they still don’t make it cost attractive.

Compared to the SomePhone Pro, the SomePhone Mini has:

• 6GB of RAM rather than 8. (I mean, okay, what do I need that much RAM for?)
• 128GB onboard storage rather than 512GB (Those chips are the same footprint so that wasn’t done for miniaturization, but I don’t store a lot on my phone so ok)
• No SD card slot. (I suppose you could argue that IS for miniaturization but it’s still a kick in the pants)
• 1080p display rather than 4k. (fine, the PPI is still finer than my eyes)
• 3100mAh battery instead of 3600 (You know the reduced resolution on the display will probably make up for that anyway)
• No NFC (really?)
• No fast charging (fucking sigh)
• No wireless charging (pegwarmer says what?)
• 5.9 inch 9:21 display (so it’s 89% the size of the Pro model anyway?)
• a laptop grade VGA camera (you’re actively trying to make this product fail, aren’t you?)
• Locked bootloader, locked carrier (because of course)
• $899 instead of $949 MSRP (Okay just stop saying words and drown yourself in the septic tank)

Among my tacklebox of electronic components is a small baggie of microswitches because of my politics. Right to repair and all that, I specifically keep a stock of switches to keep my old Logitech mice going rather than buy new mice. Everything is political.

intrigued trackball user noises. What’s the coating on that thing like? Like the best case scenario is hard plastic, a rubberized coating either perishes or tears or something.

Oh the multiple clicking isn’t an issue for me, if one of my mice starts getting uppity I tear its guts out and replace the switch. I think I’ve replaced the switch in all of my M570’s at least once now. My backpack one is imtiredboss.jpg

I’m a french press kind of guy.

I’m still using my herd of M570s, is the M575 any good? The MX Ergo is a mistake; it’s nice how it tips over but the ball is at the wrong angle and the rubberized coating perished so the surface feels like pus now.

The groom sneezed during the first dance with the bride.

I’ve been to relatively few weddings and they’ve all worked out pretty well I suppose.

according to me, the setting ends in 3067.

that would be a challenge.

I have a cabinet full of empty jars. Mostly mason jars. It slowly fills as I finish a jar of jam or something I canned last year, and in September and October when it’s time to make new batches I’ll fill the jars again.

I appear to have invented a knife-wielding tentacle…

At some point I’m going to have to spin up DOSBOX and see if I can get my old copy running.

wait. “points to buy skills?” This I do not remember from this game. I remember you picked your stats at the beginning, spent your money in Independence, and then off you went. I don’t remember RPG elements.

Several years ago I fell down the rabbit hole nostalgic about that exact game, and either the TVTropes or Wikipedia article mentioned that event, and linked to the bizarrely long Wikipedia article about the Donner Party.

If I recall correctly, they were late to the pass because they took a “shortcut” that promised to take hundreds of miles off a 900 mile journey, which not even a perfectly straight tunnel from Independence to Sacramento that ignores the Earth’s curvature could do that. Also, it took them across a mud flat that bogged them down more than the official trail would have, so the guide that sold them on the route is guilty of some crimes against humanity. But who in the 1800s wasn’t?

Well 1, there’s a lot of classic recipes out there written for cups and tablespoons so if you want to keep cooking those you’ll need traditional measuring tools anyway and

2, Recipe calls for 1/4 teaspoon, you get the spoon that says 1/4 tsp on it and scoop once. It’s not ancient egyptian rocket surgery.

My understanding of the game (you’re talking the Windows 95 CD version of the game, right?) is it’s a special event if you go in the specific year they went.

Like many things about my cat’s past, I have no idea why she’s called Izzy. I didn’t name her and the person who did has passed away.