the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@NumberOneBug@yiff.life Is "central oregon" specific enough?
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@packbat and! we specifically said in the thing they're saying is gatekeeping, "you probably should avoid that word unless you're from that culture"
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@packbat we don't strictly know, but it's statistically very unlikely (the thing in question is Tibetan spiritual practices)
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@NumberOneBug@yiff.life i don't have the energy to elaborate on the whole situation right now, i was trying to but words aren't coming
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@NumberOneBug@yiff.life we live alone and have no local friends, unfortunately
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woke up to see that someone accused us of gatekeeping for explaining that a word is probably an example of cultural appropriation and you should probably use a different word

how does that remotely come across as gatekeeping
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what exactly is "inverted" about NRZI, anyway?
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The Wimshurst machine is an interesting thing in itself, but I just particularly like the name. Wimshurst.
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@starkatt I imagine welding it is a lot more dangerous than soldering with it, due to the higher temperatures involved!
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@starkatt i don't think the zinc fumes are really that likely to happen but anything working with zinc and high temperatures you need to be careful
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@starkatt and that aggressive flux means you need to be absolutely sure you've cleaned off every last bit of flux residue or your board is toast
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@starkatt soldering it's a nightmare though. you need incredibly aggressive flux, and a weird zinc-based solder that has the potential to give off highly toxic zinc fumes (tin-based solders, even really good tin-lead stuff, just don't wet aluminum very well at all)
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demons make their motor feedback systems using Hell effect sensors
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actually i'll be very surprised if no one has made anything called fivetran yet
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if there's fortran, why isn't there fivtran
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but it's cheap, relatively strong (even stronger with small amounts of copper and other metals in it--most stuff sold as aluminum is actually an alloy), lightweight, has excellent thermal and electrical conductivity (not as good as copper but still really good, and cheaper)

it's just a pain to work with
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oh and it makes terrible crimped connections because you can't break through the oxide very well

and it's really hard to wirebond to
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@sharkNserg you've been doing the same for us, honestly
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aluminum is a nice enough metal but it's a pain to work with

can't solder to it worth crap without special solder and really aggressive flux, can't weld it without tons of practice
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