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I wrote a short story a few years back with gamification of drone warfare as its central theme. Kicking myself I never submitted it to anywhere now.

You can absolutley do it, sign up and set yourself the goal.

3 years ago I couldnt manage more than abour 200m at a time. Now my regular morning runs are about 10-12kms and I've run a couple of half marathons in the last 12 months.

I'm almost at the point where I might start enjoying it 😉

Chopsticks with wires, holding a SMD capacitor, and attached to a component tester.

A microscope closeup of metal pins on chopstick ends holding a SMD capacitor

The screen from a component tester showing a capacitor detected with 100.7nF

Just stsrted trying my hand at SMD electronics and this may be the worst / best contraption I've ever cobbled together.

The problem as I see it is that the "economics" of AI dont stack up against its supposed outcome. The "end of work" isn't compatible with a scarcity economy. If nobody has jobs then who pays for the AI? The house of cards predicated on stock price alone can't survive the collision with reality.

There is also the much lesser known DesTestMaxSL (swiftlink) version, which gives you info via terminal output for a machine with seemingly no usable video. I got it working at one point via the ulitmatte ii+ swiftlink emulation.

Who's mathing this math? It just doesn't math up!

I guess if the long view worries of the tech and $ bros, is more about how comfortable your doomsday bunker is, then HOW the downfall of humanity occurs is trivial.

In the meantime, gotta grift those sweet doomsday bunker $

Yeah, I'm not seeing it either, but apparantly, I'm the crazy one.

I can't see how even a best case "A.I. revolution" pans out under late stage capitalism without eating it's own tail. If it displaces mass employment, then who's paying for it? Only works in a post scarcity economy IMO, ala Trek.

A Cancel Subscription form for Disney+ stating "Maybe Bob Iger should watch some of his own shows where the protagonists stand up and fight against fascism instead of folding like a lawn chair"

Decided to cancel my Disney subscription.

lovely

can't wait to take this for a spin

A PCB with a missing USB port. Some pads are missing or damaged

A PCB with a usb port repair with a thin wire routed from a pin on the usb port to a resistor

A PCB with a usb port repair with a thin wire routed from a pin on the usb port to a resistor

Well this sure was fiddly to bodge such a tiny wire, but seems to have worked out. First time I've tried a usb port replacement.

You're welcome. Keep an eye out for a bit character called Black Elvis - a guy I know from some shared local groups and being on occasional productions together.

I think Firebite (AMC+ tv series) just scrapes in. Australian horror / vampire show by Indigenous director Warwick Thornton (check out his other films and docos too). Family issues in the show but wouldn't call it a family drama.

A Band Called Death (2012) ⭐ 7.5 | Documentary, Biography, Music 1h 36m | Not Rated

A Band Called Death

www.imdb.com/title/tt2064...

Well I did just extract 1L of lemon juice from a half tub of lemons from my yard - froze most of it, but then decided to make a small test batch of lemon syrup, which is currently flavouring the gin and soda I'm drinking. It is however 8pm where I am so...

I was really expecting that to be some sort of Barrel Aged Imperial Stout 😆

Factor of Matt

Yay! @factorofmatt.bsky.social has now released DesTestMax Switch.

factorofmatt.com/destest-max-...

yikes

Heck yeah!

Don’t Happy, Be Worry Hilltop Hoods · Fall From The Light · Song · 2025

Rocking this tune out at the moment -

open.spotify.com/track/18ZSlY...

Quite a collection :) I've got a DS lite to refurb next week too. I could have probably kept its shell(ok condition but not brilliant) but it needs new digitiser and the screens have artefacts so I decided to do a full refresh on it anyway and ordered a new shell as well.

A white Nintendo DS with black buttons on a blue silicon workbench pad.

A closed, white Nintendo DS on a blue silicon workbench pad.

The black underside of a Nintend DS on a blue silicon workbench pad.

Re-shelled my first DS. This one was revived from a decapitation - likely caused by how brittle its plastic had become. Screens were fine, as was the digitiser in the end. The battery seems to recharge, and games are playing well. I kept the original back and buttons, ship of Theseus style.

A very shattered Nintendo DS casing.

Oh, hey. It got worse. Pulling it apart to rehome the motherboard and screens revealed it was even more brittle than I was already complaining about. It's roughly the strength of thin tempered chocolate.

Sorry to hear it. Maybe sneak in some extra time at the pool or add an extra run in until the next thing begins and while you're not necessarily on someone else's clock.

Considering how the DS lineup "evolved" every 5 minutes I think you might be right.

A broken Nintendo DS top shell. A whole plastic corner has fallen off.

The inside of Nintendo DS shell. There are many pieces of broken plastic.

What the hell was going on with Nintendo's plastics in 2004? This stuff holds together worse than any of my 40+ year old Commodore stuff.

I shall try to find more junk GBAs etc so I have need of your powers.

... and spent a small fortune on all the right hobby gear. I'm looking at you, Hotwire Foam Cutter, and your pal Hot Air Rework Station.