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@ BoxOfFeet @lemmy.world

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Engineer. Retro console modder. Pen and watch enthusiast.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

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  • I make a bit of a ritual out of my projects, the setup is half the fun. Taking it slow, picking thr right tip for my iron. Thoroughly cleaning the area of the board I'm working on. Actually my whole work area gets clean and organized. Like, clean enough to film a YouTube video. Getting all the old solder off with my desoldering wick. Using my vintage Dazor magnifying lamp. Using my little tiny tweezers to place things just right. The soldering itself goes rather quickly. But the ritual is fun.

  • What is your favorite TV show of all time?

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  • Star Trek TNG. Without a doubt.

    Macgyver is up there, so is Westworld.

  • EA is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and private equity

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  • My last one was the Battlefield 1942 complete collection. So, 20 years here.

  • The game’s cheap but not the hobby

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  • I feel that. Except with watches. Started off modding Invicta Pro Divers with the Seiko movements. Now, my watch collection is easily twice that meme.

  • Why do YOU think men commit more crime than women?

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  • Uhhh... Because it's easy?

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • I switched whenever it was that I woke up and Copilot was installed on my computer without my consent. 2 years ago? More? Idk. I bought new drives because I didn't want to dual boot, but also wanted to keep Windows "just in case." Well, I haven't booted from those drives once in that time. I did plug them in to get some files off them a few months ago, but they are back to collecting dust again. I think it's about time to finally wipe them and put them back to work.

  • SEGA has no plans to abandon physical media and still sees a lot of value in it

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  • I forgot about typing of the dead! Good times.

  • SEGA has no plans to abandon physical media and still sees a lot of value in it

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  • The dreamcast still exists, you can go get one right now! And with the VGA cable, it really doesn't look half bad on a modern TV. If your TV doesn't have VGA in, I have had good luck with even cheap VGA to HDMI adapters. Go on, play Crazy Taxi again with the good soundtrack. Play Episode 1 Racer. It's still awesome. Shenmue can still go to the arcade.

  • Needs some cobwebs to hide the plastic appearance

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  • Same! Four here. Such a good use of space.

  • That's real 😂😂😂😂

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  • 30 degrees Fahrenheit? Hell yeah. It's practically tropical. If it's sunny as well, I'll be rolling my windows down.

    (Not me in pic, but I've been him)

  • What about the Deanna torture episodes?

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  • Oh, wow. That makes that scene in Death Wish 3 so much worse.

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • My printer has a regular paper tray and a photo paper tray. I find it very difficult to print things properly to the photo tray. And I had to get drivers for one of my PC's Wi-Fi adapter off github. Other than that, I have been quite happy over the last few years of daily-ing Linux

  • Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

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  • Mechanical Engineer. 14 years in automotive interiors. I design tooling for instrument panel toppers, door uppers, arm rests, etc.

    Primarily, the type of tooling I specialize in is known as edge wrapping or edge folding. Basically, you have the plastic "substrate" and the leather or vinyl "skin" that is either vacuum formed or press laminated to it. Extra material is left around the edges, and that is heated, wrapped, and glued around the back of the part with a number of metal fingers. I do the wrapping tooling, as well as the lamination tooling.

    The most complicated tool I ever designed was for a large, flat component behind the back seat of a car, by the rear window. Let me walk you through the sequence for it.

    • Operator loads plastic substrate in tool upper
    • Operator loads flat skin pattern in the lower on skin pins, and a clamp in the rear
    • The infrared heating shuttle moves in and the upper closes to the heating position, where the skin and substrate are blasted with tens of thousands of watts of IR heat to activate the glue
    • The IR shuttle retracts, and the tool fully closes to the lamination position, and the skin pins all retract. In the case of this tool, it had (I think) 0.25mm of compression a-side of the part.
    • Seven slides extend to laminated areas that were either undercut in tool draw, or protruded in a way that prohibited skin loading.
    • Three 200C hot air heaters extend down from the upper to heat the back edge of the part, and around the two speaker openings.
    • Once those retracts, 25 edgefolding pieces wipe the skin around the back, and up through the speaker openings (that's the coolest part)
    • The edgefolders retract in the reverse sequence of which they extended
    • The slides retracts
    • The tool opens, and the skin pins extend
    • the Operator can now step in the light curtain to remove the part, then return with the new substrate and skin.

    So far, I would say it is the pinnacle of my career. But car parts are getting more complicated all the time. My design focuses lately have been focused on simplicity over that level of complexity. Where can we use a guided cylinder where we used to use linear rails? Can this detail be made in multiple pieces to reduce waste material? What components can be 3D printed? It's great fun, really. I do love my job.

  • What are your favorite apps from F-Droid or other open source apps for Android?

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  • Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

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  • When did these come out? Wow, that was a steep enshitification slope.

  • Besides gas and housing, what else makes you do a double take at how much it costs now?

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  • Family of 4? Dang, I'm happy if I'm under $40 for my family of 3!

  • [Mimi] Genie. [2]

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  • Milk is 87% water. This is going to create a loop that will end up with all water-based liquids on earth becoming powdered milk.

  • Lets celebrate

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  • I love food, and cooking. But I will always take a big ol' scoop of #2.

  • This is why we can't have nice things

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  • Decline? I figured it Star Wars died a while ago. For me, it ended with the Kyle Katarn erasure. He should be canon, dammit.

  • This is why we can't have nice things

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  • I watched three seasons of Enterprise. Didn't finish it. I think I could have done without it. That was back in 2010, though. Things have gotten much, much worse since then. Maybe it does deserve a revisit.

    I do like Scott Bakula. It's hard to not see him as Sam Beckett, though.

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
    BoxOfFeet @lemmy.world

    Found a stapler I've been looking for for a while

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
    BoxOfFeet @lemmy.world

    Been cooking a lot this week, thought I'd share my best pan boys.

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
    BoxOfFeet @lemmy.world

    I replaced the evaporator blower in my Samsung fridge today.

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
    BoxOfFeet @lemmy.world

    Hung up one of Gramps's old Hilda calendars.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    BoxOfFeet @lemmy.world

    Thanks for the PETG help