fair enough, thanks for the response.

my ‘extra hands’ station w/ the two alligator clips to hold the subject, magnifying glass w/ led also has a holster for a hot iron, so I pop the hot iron in that after soldering.

the wire coming from the iron, whether it goes to a battery pack or the 250 eur smart battery is still the hangup for me. I build large things with nicrocobntrollers in them, so I need to soldier in super awkward places. a wire connecting the iron to anything is a massive liability.

Id be interested to hear how you get on with it though

I love my ifixit precision screwdriver, so I’d be a fan and would try this out.

The thing is once I switched to a butane iron (portable, hot in 20 seconds, awesome fire) I don’t have any interest in anything with a wire coming off of the back of it. battery or no, the wire being in the way is ass and is also crap

edit: maybe it doesnt have a wire?

edit 2: maybe I shoulda read the article before typing? 5 second heat-up time, wow… seeing as I am a fucking idiot and am also very tired, can someone who is smart tell me if the iron has a battery itself? the pack is for recharging the small battery in the pen?

I tip my cap to both of you

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thats so cool

please dont bring this shitty kind of thread joke to lemmy from reddit

can confirm

This is the only renarkable thing about this.

I actually remind myself this is the worst moment of the day. It gets better and better.

I wake up with rather dark, pessimistic thoughts. They tend to fade toward mid-day.

So, again, I say “this is the literal worst moment of the entire day” (Its very rarely not true)

I think you might be round-about almost quoting Mark Twain?

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

thanks for the shout, I’ll look into that

I’ll look at that version of ultima IV, for me, its kind of unfinished business… gotta get on that druid shit

Please don’t misunderstand- I still have the magic book that came with it (I lost the Kyle the Younger book), and when my mom passed away a few years ago and I had to clean out her house, I sold the cloth map on ebay (I got like 60€ I think). I was annoyed I couldn’t find that little ankh that came w/ the game…

I used to read the magic spells book over and over. I was probably 9 or 10. Y(up) and Z(down) … god those dungeons were tricky. I was always scared to drink from fountains (blech, poisoned?) Its been a while.

So I know all about it, the mantras… those portals w/ the phases of the moon… anyway, I was young. I think I got one of the virtues, but I felt like to get the Valor one you had to kill like 20 guards and it was never gonna happen. I did show every friend who came over the tarot card scene at the beginning to choose your character class, though.

I tried to see if I could finally make it about 5 years ago and downloaded some kinda emulator, but I think I had trouble “changing discs” and lost progress and gave up.

What emulator are you using? i played it on Apple IIc, and I’d want to use that same exact everything if I was to give it a go.

I found that game borderline impossible. Tried my little ass off but could only get one rune or whatever it was. If you got poisoned without being able to deal with it you were done

there

I actually don’t care for Robin Williams. I don’t actively dislike his stuff, I just find his humor off-putting. Good Morning Vietnam was OK.

good eye

I don’t buy anything from LITERALLY any of those brands, and YOU need to learn about nutrition!!

you sound pretty good at sharing the wisdom you’ve accrued and not coming off like an arrogant, self righteous blow job

I had to read your message a few times before 1 clocked the U

no you are not. I will not buy an internet connected anything as long as possible.

it was utterly macabre