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Yeah. This is why I’m so pessimistic about long-term prospects for the human race.

Living minimally is a skill that society has essentially turned into a negative trait. Our planet can only support so much, and individual humans are very selfish. There are 8 Billion now.

I can personally report that at 5A draw(the highest reported from any of my flashlights), these spring battery terminals still don't get hot. I'm not sure why I would need/want to push 10A to each battery? Drawing 5A already requires select cells.

I would rather batteries be field swapable than having a faster charge, which I try to avoid for the sake of their longevity anyway, personally.

In flashlights they use gold-plated phosphor bronze springs that seem to work well and last.

Sorry to hear that, and good luck. Additionally I apologize for the undue cynicism, but as a flashlight enthusiast I've been frustrated with this problem for years and years. The form factor of a battery charger and USB powerbrick/supply would be so nice! It's massively annoying to me that I own many 18650s and still need to buy and replace power banks.

Worse, it seems like the manufacturers best suited to make the product I desire(anker and nitecore) are directly incentivized by obsolescence to not ever make it. The best thing I've found so far is the Nitecore LC10, but it was discontinued. :(

I sort of suspected that it might be the case of safety bodies getting in the way. I really hope you make progress with UL. I'm rooting for you. There should be a way of overcoming this problem.

I'm going to go ahead and sling mud at iFixit for using a Battery pack instead of individual cells and springs. It also doesn't seem that this expensive power supply supports power pass-through. A soldering iron shouldn't have a shelf life. Easily replaceable commodity batteries with spring terminals are massively superior to packs. What a gross product that makes me think significantly less of iFixit.

They seem to have gotten so caught up in the "things should be repairable" that they've forgotten the true thing most people care about is, "I shouldn't have to replace my stuff". They are acting like parts salesmen, not consumer advocates.

$200(? looks like you get the iron when you buy the power supply) would be a fair price for the base if it allowed me to charge and use any 6 18650s(bonus points if it can accept a variety of cell sizes) as a power bank and had circuitry to do pass through as well as charging. It would also be nice if you could use it charge batteries to a specified amount, and use custom charge patterns. Considering this is iFixit, it should also have a way to use it as a DC power supply as well. $250 for a glorified power brick is pathetic.

I use an iPhone SE2 that I got refurbished in the past 6 months by Apple. I couldn't replace just the battery, because the rear glass had a crack in it. This thing is a mess, refurbishing it feels like a waste of money. It runs out of battery almost daily, has terrible multi-second camera lag when I open the camera app from the lockscreen. Often the phone will just have like a quarter second of UI lag for no obvious reason. The experience is overall very slow and frustrating, an enormous degradation from when I got it as a gift 4 years ago (part of why I'm still using it).

It's a shame, because I like the phone a lot otherwise.

> have no power until implemented as law.

Influence is power. For a stark example, consider Sharia.

Everybody is different.

3 years ago I took a summer and then autumn off of caffeine; my intent was to quit and only use caffeine in "times of need". This would be an on-brand thing for me to do as a person, and something I wanted pretty bad. But after 4 full months without touching any caffeine, my mood/energy levels never returned or even really rebounded any further than they did after the first month. I'm just a different person with caffeine, even after I'm addicted/habituated/develop tolerance. Notably I have a lot more energy, and I'm not a high energy person to start with. This energy allows me to better take care of myself, exercise, and be social, all things that I struggle with in its absence.

From experience, I can function fine without caffeine, even under an acute withdrawal scenario. In fact, some of my greatest achievements were done without caffeine for one reason or another. Not having caffeine just makes those things more miserable in the moment, at least for me.

I’ve become less clean in my life because I believe too much cleanliness is bad for your immune system. Could be a placebo, but I haven’t had allergies since.

I only use those things because of others.

I mean, I think it makes sense and deserves funding. Creatine has a mountain of evidence in sports nutrition, as you are likely aware, so much that it’s kinda mind boggling to me that there hasn’t been more research into treating it more like a Vitamin for the general population. The evidence is clear that your body simply can’t produce as much creatine as it can utilize. As an adamant vegetarian I admit that this is extremely good evidence that being vegetarian is unideal for our species.

In athletics, creatine is basically the first thing after protein that gets recommended to supplement. As you get older muscle mass and strength become very critical indicators of vitality and independence. It also becomes harder to build and maintain muscle as you get older. The data is clear on this. During this stage of life, giving your body everything it needs is a no brainer.

I asked this question here a while back and the answer I got was that at failure steel rebar stretches rather than breaks catastrophically and thats a very important safety factor when calculating dynamic loads, a fiberglass rebar structure would fail far more catastophically.

Yes, that is sage wisdom. It is a fallacy to think that humans exist in any sort of harmony with nature. The law of nature is kill or be killed. I’m reminded of this each summer when wasps try to take my home from me.

> coming to iPhone 15 pro, iPad and Mac with M1 or later.

I assume it will come to all the iPhone 16’s this fall? Or is Apple Intelligence a Pro Feature?

Either way, my first reaction is that this is going to sell a lot of iPhones.

Yup! And deciduous trees planted next to your house are an excellent green way to decrease heating and cooling costs. Shade when you need it, not when you don’t. This is the exact reason we blow leaves too.

I have had the twin battery Makita model for several years now. It’s a fabulous tool, basically functions how you describe I believe. Puts out a max of 61db on high. Expensive, but we already have makita tools, and it made a hated chore essentially not exist because its so convenient, fast and easy.

Really? Man, I hate to say this, but how long have you been restoring your iPhone and Mac when you replace them? Maybe you are importing a bug with your settings/environment. I've literally never had to restart my hotspot for my Mac in using both for over 10 years, at times as my daily driver for the internet. Has it gotten worse in the last few years? I haven't been using it as much lately, but 2015-2019 that was basically my main way of browsing the web on my Mac. Worked flawlessly the whole time, kinda amazing to be honest.

Yes! I have a layer accessible by a press and hold on my keyboard (mostly qwerty layout) that gives me arrow keys under FDSE, PgUp/Down and Home/End on 4,R,5,T. It also has custom chords of ctrl + shift, ctrl, alt+shift, alt on the Tab, Capslock, Q, A keys.

Really useful.

I honestly don't blame them. Couple of reasons.

First, having your assets in Garry's Mod is, in my opinion, a ticking time bomb for those assets going viral. This can be good, however in Nintendo's case their target market is kids and naturally they want tight control over the (squeaky clean) image of their characters. They have spent decades building that brand recognition and association.

Second, the only people who are going to get angry about this are Turbo-nerds, and Nintendo has already turned their back on Turbo-nerds. The overlap between people who are mad about this and who were already mad about Yuzu has to be substantial.

I don't know. I think this sucks, and it's particularly sucky that they just filed a DMCA action and didn't contact the developer directly. I feel bad for Gary.

All in all, it seems that they want to send a message that messing with The Plumber is just about as bad as messing with The Mouse.

From the Germans, during WWI.

> Can’t even own a ferret

I mean, there is good reason for this, ferrets are very hostile to the many ground nesting birds in California. Our state bird, the California quail, is exceedingly terrestrial, and that's before we even get started on the endangered shore birds, which are the real issue as I understand it.

Any non-arms companies in that mix?

I hate this article. Can’t we do some philosophical introspection instead of just this data driven drivel? There is even a clue in the empty nesters vs parents section but no discussion. Is the author just afraid of saying something offensive? Age being causative is just taken as fact.

I’d suggest that music discovery is centered on having the desire to do so. As people get older they often stop caring about being cool[+] (take a look at the author) and only listening to the same old music is lame. “We stop being interested in new music at $AGE” is just unimaginative, lazy, and counter to the facts.

Being “with it” is a choice.

[+] And, btw, nobody gets to decide what “cool” is(and your mom definitely doesn’t), but it is by nature always changing.

What is there to talk about? Seriously. This is just status quo behavior for businesses, and why do we care about some tiny minority of Googlers protesting and being fired?

The only thing I can think of to say about this is how disconnected people are if they think this is so problematic. How is work supposed to be done if everyone complains, protests and disrupts work? The top comment on the thread right now says as much too.

but no burn in on my LCD.

> look at the different cars or personal computer.

this feels like a flawed example to me. ~100 years on and all cars are starting to look the same.[1] Personal computers, after like 30 years, have mostly converged around something that's essentially a 3x5 touchscreen with cameras on both sides. Sure, there are laptops and PC's, work and semi trucks, but that's 3 form factors? meh. Manufacturing at scale is much more efficient, and form follows function, can't really escape either.

[1]https://windingroad.com/articles/features/why-do-all-new-car...

> that there are now middle skill jobs (trained professionals but not college) that not only make more than those with degrees, they will do better over the course of their life because they dont have massive debt.

I don’t believe this. My first and second hand experience is that sure, there are some people who work blue collar and get paid better than $DESKJOB, but those are typically from wealthy households that can help them financially so they can ascend to owner.

If you are poor and start working in the trades it’s the status quo to be completely taken advantage of with no real opportunities. Expect to end each day beat-up and exhausted, with very little energy to take care of yourself. This is the poverty trap.

Blue collar is chock full of sociopath owners who actively lie, exploit, steal from, and emotionally manipulate their employees.

I prefer internet ads to Billboards. Billboards are disgusting.

I switched to FastStone image viewer several years ago after getting curious when I saw it on ninite and haven’t looked back. It virtually instantly displays even large JPEGs from a cold start.

There is a huge difference between demanding something and badly wanting it.