the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@squirrellilly@queer.party have people become more intense about spoilers? we've just always been really sensitive to them
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@squirrellilly@queer.party why do they keep doing that

this is why we don't watch trailers for anything
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@kobi_lacroix Give them a car with misaligned wheels that always pulls right and see what they think then
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@socks that's absolutely something hunter would do
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@mawr @kat i wish they would do this for the stuff we buy sometimes because sometimes the product photos for connectors are at the worst angle and it's hard to see details that matter
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@derFisch Latis are very good, and you don't see htem very often!
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maybe it's that they're complex enough to be interesting, but simple enough that you can fully understand the workings of one

boost converters are especially nice, but i also like flyback converters and have recently been warming up to the rare negative-in/negative-out buck converter (which no one actually makes controllers for so you have to trick a flyback controller into doing it)
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dc-dc converters are just kind of nice

i'm not sure what we find so appealing about them, maybe just the way they work and how everything works in concert

and a little bit of how it feels like cheating physics but then it isn't really
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a two-headed zigzagoon would be cute...
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consider: ​
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maybe that's what their expression is, intense pain
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@bj that's a lot of sprites!
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we came across this splash screen for an old video game and this is just such an image

i have no idea how to interpret the expression on the character's face

also i'm pretty sure their left leg is broken, there's no way it bends at that angle
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@trysdyn @monsterblue we like having all the extra buttons, and that requires the drivers unfortunately

fortunately this one (G604) can be set so that all the settings stuff is handled by the mouse and the software doesn't need to do anything (which we were glad to figure out because the software *loves* to do popup notifications about what the mouse's current DPI setting is whenever you start moving the mouse after a minute or so of not moving it, but when the settings are all on the mouse it doesn't do any of that)
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@monsterblue (also they put some Questionable features in them sometimes. has anyone *ever* needed a mouse that reports data to the computer at 1 kHz? why would you want that?)
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@monsterblue they're not the cheapest and their software has been kind of bad lately but the hardware's solid

also good for CAD work, lots of buttons

they market them as "gaming mice" but we don't play the right kinds of games
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@monsterblue we have been unable to use any brand of mouse other than logitech really, because no one else does the scroll wheel with a clutch that's actually really nice
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@monsterblue we know them as a RAM company

why are they making mice now
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this youtube downloader frontend we've been using lately (to accumulate c64 music) has a really neat feature we've never seen in anything else

its URL entry isn't a textbox, it's a button and clicking on it just pastes whatever's in the clipboard over whatever's currently in it

which is i think good design? because you're never going to be manually typing in the video url, it saves you a ctrl-v, and saves having to select whatever's in the box to overwrite it if you're doing multiple things
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