Machinist

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Horrors We've Unleashed in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Ahh, someone else who views the risks correctly. Spent a lot of time in the swamps in Alabama. Wore snake gaiters for the giant cotton mouths. Soaked my clothes in permethrin. Still way more scared of the ticks than the snakes. Especially that Alphagal stuff.

What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't figure my way out until I was in my 30s. Been out of it for over a decade.

I was brainwashed, my head was full of carefully crafted indoctrination. My extended family will almost certainly never be free of it.

We were subjected to an evil process from an early age. It's not our fault. Losing the hate and guilt is also a process. Go easy on yourself. Takes a tough person to change their entire worldview. Only a few of us make it out.

Coworker purposely drops his Android phone onto concrete to get it off a bag in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've used my Kyocera Brigadier as a hammer on wood and plastics before.

It also really upsets people when I rap it on a table or throw it at the wall to show how tough it is.

Had it for five years, maybe a little more. Battery is getting weak. Needs a factory reset. Storage is 96% used. Keeps on working, it fits in my pocket, no case required.

Cyberule Dystopia in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

But I'm lazy and have given up on keeping my shit private.

Cyberule Dystopia in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I'm mostly joking but would do it if I have to. I only have like 9 inches of colon left and it's not attached to my small intestine.

Cyberule Dystopia in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Swiss Navy silicone FTW!

Cyberule Dystopia in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I wouldn't say that I want to...

Colonoscopies are expensive and my health insurance sucks.

Cyberule Dystopia in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Inspection scope for looking inside walls and such.

Trump rejects Fox News invite to debate Harris in late October in c/politics@lemmy.world
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Cyberule Dystopia (lemmy.world)
 

Just looking up some DIY medical procedures and then the unwanted AI goes off the rails.

Milton strengthens to Category 5 hurricane in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My wife was talking about it today. I kind of grunted and said that sounded about right for Desantis. Weird little evil fucker.

No clue if it's true. Sounds true.

Please let me know if someone posts something credible.

Philly restaurant bans GOP candidate after being told campaign stop was autism event in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It would be nice, but good luck. More rational churches will support batshit fundamentalist churches before they support dirty baby-eating atheists. Especially when it comes to their tax status.

Philly restaurant bans GOP candidate after being told campaign stop was autism event in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not the poster you're responding to, but I'm a preacher's kid who made it out.

Man, it's just about impossible to pull others out. I know the bible backwards and forwards. Can persuasively speak to the origins of tithing vs. what it is now, the confusion in the gospels, and so on. I've tried.

Fundamentalist leadership works very hard to innoculate their people against doubting what they've been led to believe. Centuries of propaganda techniques. Highly effective.

I had to think myself out of it and it took until I was in my 30's to free myself. No one could do it for me and I haven't been successful in pulling anyone else. My small family and I recently moved out of the deep South. It has gotten incredibly bad down there and, at this point, I don't know what can be done to help someone out of it. Maybe planting seeds of doubt and rationality are all we can do.

It's sickening what it's done to my extended family and loved ones. I hate it. It still makes me sad. My parents and relatives would be great people if it weren't for the bad religion.

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celeb_pics spam (lemmy.world)
 

Celeb_pics appears to be some bot posting from whoischic.com. Cluttters up /all.

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Rewinding an electromagnetic clutch. (lemmy.world)
 

The electric PTO clutch on my 1969 mini tractor is dead and discontinued.

Original winding is aluminum 18 gauge. Manufacturer specs were 2.88ohms, 237 turns. The manufacturer specs didn't quite physically match what I found when I took apart the old clutch. If I understand this correctly, the 2.88ohms is the most important part and will pull 4.17 amps.

I just attempted a coil with 18 gauge copper magnet wire. I made it to the max dimensions I can get in the housing with a scramble wind. I'm getting 1.2 ohms, which would pull 10 amps or so. Not good.

Was able to get 187 feet given the resistance.

If I go with 20 gauge copper, assuming I can get 235 feet (1.26 * 187) and I should get 2.319 ohms. Probably get a little more than 235 feet and get the resistance up a little more.

What does this do to the strength of the magnetic field?

Would I be better off putting a power resistor in series with my 18 gauge coil?

Any advice greatly appreciated!

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jeebus. reading Vampirre$ for the first time. (lemmy.world)
 

Like this is hitting me real hard. I can feel the sadness and the fight. They're good boys and and don't deserve what's coming down. They have some good religion. I'd like to be like these men. We fight for the ones we love.

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Recommendations for cherry blue keyboards. (lemmy.world)
 

I use a Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate with cherry blues and love it. Have a good friend who likes using her grandson's gaming keyboard that I think is a nice membrane keyboard. She was interested in my keyboard as it is mechanical like the old keyboards she used back in the day.

We are both office users, not gamers.

I don't want to spend the $179 for a keyboard that might not be what she wants and there are better options now, from what I understand.

Can you please recommend a cherry blue mechanical with a number pad and a steel back plane?

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Small fan switch sanity check. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Machinist@lemmy.world to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
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Circuit is for controlling the fan on a Raspberry Pi, just on/off according to temp, no PWM. Not sure about the diode as it has a .7V drop and it's a tiny brushless DC motor. No markings on the fan so I measured the current with a multimeter when hooking it up to a USB charger. Circuit was adapted from here using what I have on hand.

Suggestions? Any advice is greatly appreciated!

*EDIT: Confirmed, this circuit works on a Raspberry Pi 4. Base was wired to GPIO 17 and manually tested using commands:

raspi-gpio set 17 op dh

raspi-gpio set 17 op dl

I didn't use a breadboard, just hack-n-slash with the wires coming out of the fan, the leads on the thru hole components, a jumper connected to gpio 17 as a socket for the base/resistor lead, and heat shrink tubing for insulation. Folded it up as I closed the housing. Case combo including heatsinks and fan here.

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Are there any communities tracking qanon/fascist/magat terrorism, threats, and laws? (lemmy.world)
 

I used RiF to keep an eye on what is happening around us. My wife is still on Reddit. I was born and raised in the deep south. In 2020, we realized it was time to leave and came up with a plan. We basically lost my extended family and most of our friends.

This is a safety issue for us. These people are dangerous. I need to be able to keep my finger on the pulse of what they're doing and saying.

We'll be moving summer of '24 and have been saving.

Are there any communities similar to /r/qanoncasulties, /r/qult_headquarters, /r/parler_watch?

I'm not great at Lemmy yet, and have tried searching but haven't found anything. My apologies if this breaks a politics rule, I'm not trying to debate or anything. Again, this is about the safety of my family.

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