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  • Salvage Any Machine Like a Pro - Determine what's worth saving, and how to organize salvaged parts

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  • Unfortunately as a kid with an iron and too much free time I’ve picked enough old PCBs clean to the point that I’ve collected so many single-purpose inductors I’ve had to throw a lot of them out.

    I really think there should be more guides like this spread far and wide. Would have done me good to have a video like this ten years ago.

    Unfortunately less and less parts are discrete now. I can understand what someone is doing on screen when I watch a NES repair but most current day devices use tiny SMDs. I understand why, but it is different.

  • Help the homeless, go to jail: Fremont passes hard-line law criminalizing encampments

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  • I threw my fuzzy dice on the floor and 5 donuts is the absolute maximum donuts I’m allowed to eat today. Anything beyond that would just be unhealthy.

  • What people did Zionism ruin for you?

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  • Just off the top of my head:

    Steven Wilson, one of the most influential artists in my creative life. Turns out even some of the songs were even recorded there. I don’t even think he has a familial claim to benefit from Zionism, I think he’s just gotten roped in. At least I tell myself that.

    Sacha Baron Cohen, IMO one of the most brilliant comedians. I don’t think he’s necessarily an extremist to the extent that Natenyahu is, knowing his politics, but that is the logical conclusion of Zionism and just being on that path is all the red flags in the world.

    Quentin Tarantino, bro why

    I actually can’t think of many. I’m from Lebanon and if it’s even a small part of someone’s public life we just avoid them, it’s been that way for very long. So there’s an extent to which these people are filtered out.

    I also don’t use traditional social media at all so something like the Sarah Silverman meltdown you mention would be completely off my radar.

  • Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington

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  • Because I was terrorized and not some Americans or Europeans so it’s cool. The Empire is fine, go back to work.

    Imagine driving down the road and everyone affiliated with one gang just has their phone explode. While they’re driving, sitting in buses, walking down the road or eating at a local restaurant with their family. Wouldn’t you be so relieved to see them all die morbid deaths? Wouldn’t the screams of their children and their careening vehicles as well as the panicking normal people trying to break their way out of bus windows warm your heart? They were in gangs or something, this is a good thing! 🥰🥰

    And the mass hysteria right after, 48 hours of people thinking their phones, computers, CPAP machines, solar inverters, cars, wireless devices, and basically anything with a power button could imminently explode. Like we don’t have other problems.

    And then you go online and enough people are smug about it, even on Lemmy (a rare decent space online), that you genuinely lose some remnant of respect for the average person. I’ve been online for almost two decades now, I’ve seen and gotten used to how mean it could be, but this event broke something and I’ve actually cried over nothing more than expressions of callousness online that weren’t even directed at me.

    It’s kind of funny. As Lebanese people we are pretty damn racist and judgmental, we think we’re some forgotten actually-European country that’s not like all those countries, I could write a whole essay on why deep down we culturally feel more white than any western white person. But then things like this happen, and everyone pretends you’re in rural Afghanistan and always have been, and worse still, that you deserve it on some level.

    Which now just makes me wonder how they feel in Afghanistan.

  • The Sims 1 and 2 Could Be Re-Released This Week

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  • Here's what I got in my old local archive folder, if it helps. Let me know if I have something missing, I've never been on this side of this interaction!

    banyantreefar.zipBookshelfMagic.exeColumnFrench.exeDartboard.exeDartboard_001.exeDormBookcase.exeDormChairLiving.exeDormLampDesk.exeDormPainting.exeDormSculpture.exeDormStereo.exeDoubleDeluxe1.exedoubledeluxe2.exedoubledeluxe3.exeexecchair.zipFunHouseTrack4x1-1003.exeFunHouseTrackLoop-1003.exeGreenBedroomSet.exeHPPottyPack.exeHungryHamster.exeIntelComputer_International.exeMcFoodCart_International.exePepsiMachine1.exePicnicUmbrellas.exePlantCarnivore.exeSCDrinks.exeStairsSweepingReverse.exeTableSoccer2.exeworkerdesk.zip

    Not entirely sure if this is complete, or if it's even all Maxis. I have a third party mod folder backed up somewhere (and one with those old text guides, loved those) but I didn't find it with a quick search. This folder is from 2010, so it's not exactly period-correct. In case Windows doesn't like these older .exes they seem to just be archives with the .far files inside, so you can rip them open. Not exactly sure why some of these are .zips and others are .exes, but the .zips only contain the .far files.

    One thing that sucks is that some disk content was just permanently gated behind these downloads, and there was every possibility that you wouldn't know these downloads existed. Specifically there were Makin Magic recipes for child-only magic stuff that used ingredients only adults could gather. So the Magic Bookshelf was mandatory to see that stuff that came on the damn disk. I'm pretty sure I was using a third party reskin of that item before looking for the original, but I could be wrong.

    Good lord, .far files. Remember FARout? Those really were the days. I still like to think I'll revisit TS1 properly someday. That was a proper game, with unapologetic personality.

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • I still prefer paper, although not having to store moisture-sensitive fragile things is nice. So is the fact that I can read books that are out of print or hard to find (or banned, yay Middle East), even if fumbling with PDFs isn’t wonderful on the device.

    And of course, the obvious: downloading them for free. Which is always ethical when Routledge wants to charge you 85$ for a scholarly work of which the author doesn’t see a dollar.

  • Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

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  • I got a Kobo and just use the networking to sync Pocket articles. Stock system.

    I don’t even think an account is available in my country. Just been syncing over Calibre. It’s not perfect (it uses a community plugin) but once you get the quirks of the Calibre-to-Kobo transfer it’s easy enough.

    Now the hard part. Actually reading.

  • The Sims 1 and 2 Could Be Re-Released This Week

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  • Not sure about that last bit. IIRC all of the EA TS1 downloads are archived pretty extensively, across many fan sites and the IA for good measure.

    Then again the last time I checked was probably over a decade ago.

  • NATO: There was officially a Russian plot to kill European weapons chief

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  • My country is being invaded illegally right now with zero consequences, I know what you are saying. But there should be zero way to profit from war, from an ethical standpoint these industries would ideally be nationalized and kept far far away from profiteers.

    I know exactly what “peace” with the apartheid Nazis taking a fresh bite out of my homeland means, I’m not oblivious to that flavor of “pacifism” that gets promoted by the slimiest characters. You’re pushing back against a point I never made. I empathize with a lot of the sentiment supporting Ukraine specifically because I feel like that country’s relationship with Russia is in some ways analogous to our relationship with Hafez and Bashar’s Syria.

    Arguably we need the weapons more. The countries controlling the world’s economic and social levers are more than willing to punish Russia, great, but then bend over backwards, and even spit in the face of their commitments to the ICJ, because we’re just in the way of a modern colonial project. I’ll take the guns in a heartbeat. I just believe it’s an unethical thing to privatize, monetize, and eventually promote to keep the numbers going up.

  • NATO: There was officially a Russian plot to kill European weapons chief

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  • I think it’s sick that people downvote this in the name of civility. I understand people not wanting to make a super solid link between wealthy magic bean salesmen and societal issues and seeing it as a slippery slope, but the weapons industry? Fucking come on.

    If you profit from the most literal form of human suffering, you are a statistical outlier even among outliers. I can’t think of many less ethical things to enrich yourself from than making the world a deadlier place.

  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • This is exactly why I’d want a GPU in a home server.

    That and transcoding. Wonder what the best option would be without breaking the bank/wasting too much idle power. All the GPU talk online seems to be for gaming.

  • Brain workles funny

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  • Thankfully/sadly it’s a pretty short article. Very cool stuff!

    The rabbit hole that has grabbed me on and off over the past half decade has to be all the golden age of piracy stuff. And those articles are damn long.

    Not linking it here though.

  • is Chat-GPT refusing this image?

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  • Sending soyjacks to your father is a choice.

    Not necessarily a bad choice just not one I’d make.

    Always interesting to see the American boomer perspective from the front lines.

  • ADL defends Nazi salute

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  • This photo makes my skin crawl.

  • With Switch 2 and presumably a new 3D Mario on the horizon, it's time for me to admit Super Mario Odyssey always felt a little weird

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  • That’s funny to read. I remember loving Odyssey because I never felt too punished for not having amazing video game dexterity. I felt like I had a ton of objectives that went up in difficulty in a very linear way and eventually got 100% on everything.

    Even the very very last section, with a string of bosses that I found pretty damn near impossible, was surmountable. As someone with no interest in HP-sponge boss games, it was the part that I felt was the most frustrating. But enough rounds and I got better/lucky and finished that section.

    What’s also funny about “articles” like this is that the author, like most of us, has probably spent hours as a kid trying to beat one level. Usually nowadays I feel bored after less than an hour of repeating and failing the same objective. I have way less time and patience for hard games. So I do sympathize a little. Bloodborne’s an intriguing game but I’m not going to torture myself over it.

  • Why Iraq says this road will fix the Middle East | CaspianReport [19:05]

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  • I was intrigued by this channel back when I was vaguely interested in geopolitics on a surface level but before I really started learning about history. Think Paradox player level interest in history.

    When the 2022 round of fighting started between Armenia and Azerbaijan I was pretty appalled at this channel’s coverage. I’m Lebanese so I’ll definitely have a bias in that conflict as well, but it was pretty blatant and unapologetic. That half video was probably the last I’ve seen from them.

  • Football club falconer sacked for sharing explicit photos of his prosthetic penis

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  • Just to get the point across, a nickname for the club is SS Nazio. This guy is not even the worst I’ve seen from them, not by a long shot.

    I’ve been put off by antics like this for a long time before “discovering” football. It turns out this sport is great fun to follow. Being so universal though, a lot of what you’ll find online trying to keep up with it is content made by and made for the absolute dregs of society.

  • No money for coffee? Just take out a loan.

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  • Looking for angel investors for my new business idea: if we offer the lowest pizza down-payments in town, we can edge everyone else out of the market by 2034 and be the market leader!

  • Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin.

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  • Unexpected Babbdi