We can only hope

The neat thing is the collapse travels at the speed of light, so nobody will ever know what hit them.

There are so many AMD mini PCs available these days, who cares it’s not the Intel NUC that Intel abandoned. A mini PC is a mini PC in my book.

I’m not sure what a Steam deck costs? $450 - $550?

A Minisforum UM870 with 32GB of memory and 1TB SSD is around $500. That has an AMD Ryzen 7 8745H CPU. 8 cores 16 thread 4.9ghz boost Zen4. Gpu builtin Radeon 780M with 12 RDNA3 2.7ghz cores. That could give the Steam Deck a round for it’s money I think.

Is it not much easier and cheaper to buy a mini pc and run Steam with an OS of choice? (You can chose between any number of Linux distros, I use Arch btw). Steam can just launch on boot into big picture mode, it’s pretty much a console at that point.

Yes you can very easily remove the suction bit and the cable. I always leave it unless it gets in the way, it sucks pretty good. When it gets in the way I remove the bit only, which is super easy to do and leave the cable so I can put the suction back again. Just don’t expect it to be a replacement for an actual good fume extractor, I always use both a dedicated extractor as well as the ventilation in my office/electric workstation. Breathing solder fumes is pretty bad in the long term.

I’ve used my old Aoyue 968A+ rework station for 10+ (maybe going on 15, not sure) years now and I’m very happy with it. It has excellent power in a comfortable grip with standard tips so you can switch around easily enough (although I just have a small point tip which is a good allrounder). It has enough power to deal with floodfill and ground planes without crashing the temperature, but still enough control to not overshoot and go way too hot.

It has fume extraction, but that’s kinda weak, they just added it because they could I guess. The suction bit can get in the way, but it’s easily removed when it does.

The best part is it also has an excellent SMD rework hot air, again with a comfortable grip and lots of tips included. It’s easily adjustable in both temperature and airflow. I use it to pre-heat (and add heat) when soldering large components, for example on old retro motherboards. This way I can get away with lower temperatures when desoldering stuff, preventing lifting pads or damaging traces. It works great for SMD as well, but for larger PCBs I combine it with a cheap hotplate I modified to pre-heat the PCB.

It’s Chinese made, but made well, more of a high-end Chinese model and is easily gotten for around $150. I’ve used it for thousands of hours and it has never let me down.

I think he means cutting the nail too short. So the guard stops the nail from going in too far and cutting the nails so short it hurts the nail bed underneath.

Personally I like my nails to be on the short side, since I do things like machining and woodworking as a hobby. Nothing ruins a fun day of working in the shop as folding or splitting a nail in the first 5 minutes. But I can understand for people who like to have their nails a bit on the longer side if this isn’t a concern.

Not just CO2, but also CO. You could feel nothing and be dead within minutes. Burning in an enclosed space is usually a bad idea. It can go perfectly fine many times and then it goes wrong and you are dead.

Does it have a Swastika on the boot screen and the bonnet? Otherwise why even bother getting the new model?

I assume the 2700 is SRP? Don’t use SRP ever, it’s total nonsense. It has in fact become such nonsense use of SRP in marketing/sales is actually illegal in the EU. Instead of it being an actual price point manufacturers intended for the product to be sold at, it’s always always a factor of that. So shops could advertise with a 50% discount on SRP, to get at what is just the regular price and not even a good one at that. That was considered so misleading, SRP use is banned. Instead the marketing can only be based on actual lowest prices the product was for sale at.

Right, now we just need a European provider for operating systems, office software and cloud services.

Microsoft is currently one of the biggest in this space for governments and businesses. But with Trump effectively canceling the EU-US data privacy framework, Microsoft is probably no longer compliant. Reactions will be slow, but if there is ever a time for a shift in the market, it’s probably now.

Shak’na kree, shel kree Jaffa KREE!

I wonder what his excuse will be now that Trump has canceled woke. No wait I mean cancel culture is canceled, I mean wait I’m confused.

He’ll probably won’t admit he wasn’t funny to begin with.

It was just an awkward wave! And you might have heard him say Sieg Heil, but he was just awkwardly sneezing, he’s just a silly awkward boi.

But they look really scary tho, perfect for “journalists” to scare an uneducated public

Haven’t they impeached this fucker a bunch of times? Didn’t really help…

Maybe they asked the pig for consent?

This game is awesome, but the give away is on Epic Game Store so that’s a bummer.