Second the iFixit kit.
Another consideration is some tool to heat up the display or back. iFixit has the iOpener, a silicone “pillow” you heat up in the microwave, which works okay, but you might prefer a heat gun, or a plate (3D printer’s heated bed works too).
And good lighting of course.
I know literacy is not their strong suit, but current immigration law already prohibits being a member of a communist or totalitarian party. There are exceptions, of course.
Some immigrants change their name to the variation that is more common one in the new country, especially if they use it every day already. Or to un-botch the transliterated spelling. So Oleksandr or Aleksandr is now Alexander, Katerina is Catherine, Ielizaveta is Elizabeth.
I think there might be another source of this stupid notion. Universities host free clinics where current students can practice their specialties on volunteer patients, who usually are from underserved communities and/or undocumented, who cannot get medical attention any other way. So of course, this is the “free healthcare for illegals”, dramatically exagerrated… Ignoring the fact that it is provided by less-experienced students, at very low capacity, and is technically available to anyone.
When a Thinkad is disassembled, there are like 20—40 fragile pins on the connector
AFAIK high-resolution screens (laptops, tablets) often use LVDS interface and connector, thin wires in twisted pairs. Like this one
TBH I don’t know that much. If it is a wider ribbon (40-50 pins), it is parallel RGB (5 or 6 bits per color, clock, power, etc). But for 10 pin cable, it probably uses some protocol to communicate.
Since it’s from a vape, it has to be widely available. I would find the model number (even look for similar LCDs on ali or ebay), then find the specs/datasheet/documentation - it should specify which pin is which and what voltages and signals they expect.
Gotta love feature creep. Music was not enough, let’s add podcasts, then add audiobooks, then add videos, now physical books.
Just to add:
Various cheap LCD panels can be repurposed using a $10-20 driver from Ali or eBay.
Red LED 8-segment displays from old alarm clocks - fun to use for any other purpose using a microcontroller.
I think it was an old toaster I got a nice slide variable resistor from.
Precise (but weak) stepper assembly from old CD/DVD drives.
Standard cords from any appliance. Nice high-current switches.
Some old keyboards (especially programmable ones) have a DIP chip, if you are into building keyboards.
Station Eleven takes place over a decade after a catastrophe, and has an unusual accepting-optimistic tone to it. Since it has been so long, people mellowed out, communities are slowly rebuilding (and rediscovering technology), and although there are some weirdos, it’s not the stereotypical Mad Max post-apocalypse.
IIRC Twitter introduced using # to make words searchable across all of the tweets, hence the name.
I did not get why people liked Midsommar.
Same idea of folk/cult horror, old The Wicker Man (1973) was more coherent, and had a point.
Steve Jobs invented the smartphone, Bill Gates invented the internet, and Google has been there from the beginning.
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Free People’s Village by Sim Kern is on my shelf, haven’t read it yet. The premise is that history went differently in 1990s and US is now a solarpunk utopia… For the rich.
To be cringe is to be free. Posting opinions and feeding trolls online is generally a losing game though.
IIRC term “Social Media” was coined at the time of MySpace-Facebook, where a person mostly interacted with real people they knew, just online. Now it is mostly strangers in the same niche/community/subreddit.
I have a complementary opinion - no one likes jerks, but IRL people are often too “polite” to call others out on their bullshit. So that one coworker who says terrible things thinks he is right because no one confronts him. And your relative believes that online armchair expert. And some asshole does not pick up after their dog at a public park.
it also runs an onboard vpn, which has the side effect of blocking ad tracking requests.
I like the adblock VPN and the browser UI, however, in the browser itself, I was surprised to see what third-party requests are “loaded to prevent site breakage”, Google and Facebook usually amongst them.
Makes perfect sense. This comment just made me realize English does not have a distinction between order and request. While, for example, in Russian, orders are said in indefinite tense (?). So when you order a dog to sit, you would say “to sit!” (сидеть!), or to order someone to stop, “to stand!” (стоять!). Another less formal way to order (usually a group) is to use “we” as the subject, for example, “[we are] not sitting, [we are] working” (не сидим, работаем)
Free, sure. There is only one app that does it, with huge dependency on Google and/or carrier (whoever runs the servers), which could just… stop working one day, like it did for me.
This looks so much better and easier than half-assing LACK tables and plywood/plexiglass together.
Just to add to the fun confusing acronyms, in 3D printing circles, IPA is isopropyl alcohol, not beer (india pale ale)
This reminds me of a story my graph theory professor told me (long before LLMs). One of their grad students discovered that a subset of graphs that are of type A and B at once has fantastic properties, such as fast searching, and a few others, useful in communication networks etc.
Excited about their potential thesis, student asked the professor to take a look. After calculating which graphs actually are types A and B at the same time, professor found that the intersection of such graph types is a null set. So the theoretically nice graphs the student “discovered” simply do not exist.