Uranium_Green

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

If you really want that passive poison effect, you need to get fiestaware: bright orange/yellow ceramics where the concentration of uranium is way higher and it's used as the glaze!

It's known to leech into acidic foods, such as tomato sauces with pasta.

I also feel like we can also add antique top hats to this; I recently found out that my grandfather's childhood top hat, which I used to play with all the time growing up, contains mercury nitrate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, have you come up with a reason why it tasted so tree like?

What colour did the mead end up being?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow, thank you for the very thorough write-up!

I was wondering how you'd get it past the point where it's just equal pressure to the other cannister; I assume that's the reason for freezing the one being refilled, and I'm guessing the cannister that's being refilled needs to be a smaller than the one that it's refilling from?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

How do you refill the screw mount canisters from the other sort?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you meaning because people are excited about "fusion" being a possible future energy source, whereas when they here "nuclear" their minds immediately go to weapons and fission accidents and pollution?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My friend has so far fried 4 or 5 steamdecks, ROG Ally and two power banks before he took my advice to buy a type c cable tester and to stop using any charger that didn't come with the device until he could test them.

Turned out it was a damaged cable, I think it was a CC line was no longer working.

I've had a couple of cheaper Chinese type c and usb A multi port chargers fail; I manage to fry like 3 sex toys before I realised the type A ports were outputting 12v, and at some point something went wrong and the type c fried my phone (which I guess is on me for continuing to use the charger after the issue with the type A ports)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Something semi ambient, preferably without lyrics: Tycho, Bonobo, Nujabes

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, you must learn manual, that's ridiculous! Where in the world is that?

I've not started yet, but I'm going to learn automatic when I go to learn, my GF has been learning manual for over 2 years because her dad and our friend who drives said that it makes the most sense to, when in reality that's just because of what they were told based on outdated advice.

She even has an automatic waiting for her once she finally passes, but she's stubborn and doesn't want to switch to learning automatic, it's really frustrating how stubborn she is about not giving up or approaching it from another direction.

She has dyslexia and the British Dyslexic Association even recommends that dyslexics learn automatic as it's a known thing they struggle with. She even had to write L and R on her hands, bless her.

I've heard some people benefit from intensive driving courses, where you do like 2 solid weeks of lessons then take the test, but no clue if they have those in your country

I've suggested to her, if she really wants a manual licence then get the automatic licence, then decide if she really wants the manual, as she'll be more comfortable with roads and driving and can just focus on the manual aspect

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You aren't wrong, but as someone who managed to screw up and damaged the copper traces when trying to resolder an old mini-usb back onto my old keyboard; you do really need to have a good understanding and a lot of practice with SMDs and temperature control.

I went from a less than 50% success ratio when resoldering SMD LEDs to about 95% success after I bought a £20 mini-heatgun with a narrow (5mm) nozzle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

+1 for prusa if you want to spend more and get something that just works with no fuss, if you're wanting to go cheap&cheerful an Ender 3 will be a good option as well if you don't mind the occasional bit of tinkering for about half the price, as it's probably one of the most supported printers by the community and newer ones come with Auto bed leveling and half of the fancy stuff you had to add on back in the day.

I'd spend any money saved building/buying an enclosure and something to run octoprint with (Raspberry pi or a spare android phone)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

To add, it's often worth investing in a mini heatgun for desoldering/resoldering, typically it's near impossible to resolder the pins by hand as they are so fine.

Same with many other surface mount components

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Congratulations! You're our 1,000,000th casualty!

 

I don't know much about it, it's the only piece I've got that is made from two distinct layers of glass.

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