I’m more of a West Seattle blog person. :)

I’m curious about this as well. I think all the components are available, but nobody’s clicked them together yet.

Oh. I live in Seattle too. Wasn’t aware of that story.

Drivers are required to stop for pedestrians when crossing the street at marked crosswalks and at intersections as well. That’s right it’s perfectly legal to cross the street at an intersection even without the aid of crosswalk striping on the pavement.

https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2014/09/12/crosswalk-law-1-0/

Not like anybody stops for pedestrians, but they’re supposed to at least.

You might be talking about the case in Seattle where some people argued that the pride flag crosswalks in Capitol Hill weren’t up to code.

Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman were alive at the same time (for about a month).

This is like a reverse Goldfinger plan. Could have an interesting impact on the gold market if it can be done at scale.

I’m sure most gold mining operations take at least a few years to get permitted and started and then there’s risk that you won’t find as much gold as expected.

Compared to a lump of gold that all you have to do is not lose it and it will appreciate in value all on its own.

https://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Magnet-MM4200B-Patriot-Plus/dp/B07CLT5D6Z

Cant vouch for this model specifically, but my dad’s had good luck with a similar one. Targets biting insects specifically exactly how you said: CO2, heat, moisture.

At least the Space Race gave us Velcro and Tang.

I have this shirt.

To the female anglerfish, the male human is a loud and overly complicated pair of gonads."

Laughs in 1200 disc DVD collection

Considering how popular lamps are on lemmy right now, I’d say you might figure it out on your own

edit: direct link

“The loser in an argument about the meaning of the word ‘hoverboard’ is anyone who leaves that argument on foot.”

beyond trivial issues

I’d argue that 10-15% of issues are trivial issues and are worth investigating even without a schematic if the alternative is just throwing something away.

I can top that. I got a broken $100 BlueYeti microphone for $10 on eBay. The USB cable they shipped it with was bad.

You don’t have to fix everything, but just doing stuff like replacing connectors and capacitors could probably save 10% of the shit that we throw away, and it’s not that hard to try.

pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.

My point is that in a better world, people could fix this kind of thing themselves. Like offer a discount for their trouble and have them or their mechanic aunt come by and fix it.

Meanwhile, my Wi-Fi router requires a PhD in reverse engineering just to figure out why it won’t connect to the internet.

I do think people in general could benefit from maybe $100 in tools and a healthy dose of Youtube when it comes to this point. My PC of 10 years wouldn’t boot one morning because my SSD died. There wasn’t anything too important on it that I hadn’t backed up, but it was still a bummer. I took it apart, and started poking around. Found a short across a capacitor, so I started cycling capacitors. Sure enough, one was bad. Replaced it. Boots just fine. (Moved everything to a new SSD just in case).

All I needed for this job was a multimeter and a soldering iron (though hot air gun made it slightly easier).

I think the “black box” nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn’t turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.

She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to “fix” including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.

Yet there’s zero expectation of user maintenance. If it doesn’t work, trash it.

Scroll through maker TikTok

This guy might be looking in the wrong places.

Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.

• Auswitch statement
• V2latile variable
• Goebboolean
• Zyklon C++
• Left shift, Reich shift
• Open and close Parenzer
• Iron Cross-compiler