the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

this includes stuff like gears

come on you can't just stick a whole bunch of levers together and expect it to--wait it works??
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if you think for a bit about most technologies they start to feel weird that they work at all
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relatedly, i am still annoyed that there aren't any good lead-free solders
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something i really appreciate about being here is that i can go from talking about really technical electrical engineering stuff to being horny for super weird stuff to complaining about the lack of good lead-free solders to talking about worldbuilding projects and not have to juggle three different accounts for it like it sounds like we'd have to if we were on twitter or something
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@kat pretty sure that would be immediately fatal
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@Draekos does putting the link in the search box work? I'm not sure what exactly the problem is--if it's a followers-only post or something you still won't be able to see it unless you're a follower, for instance
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the results are in, most of you are squishy
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@nautilee i love weird engineering nonsense
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@nautilee you want "surprised they worked at all", have you ever heard of a Williams tube?

that's a thing where you use a CRT as *RAM*
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i kinda miss CRTs
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i kind of wonder just how many people on here have never degaussed a screen
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*degausses*
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croc of dial
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@nautilee love them, very good cats
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have you considered taurs today?
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@LexYeen "Are you me? ...Do you want to be?"
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@Kilroy they're not *that* much smaller!
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weird to think that hard drives used to be like 20 MB and that was all you got and now we have like six orders of magnitude bigger drives
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i have no idea how true this is but we heard once that the etymology of the word wizard is basically an old english version of "wise-ass" and i think that's amusing
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