I’m glad people love the scent of wood. Working with green oak blew me away. It smells sweet! It kind of smells like vanilla and cinnamon. Theres actually a guy who made oak flavored ice cream by toasting oak scraps and soaking them in the cream he intended to use.

Also good to know i shouldn’t be self conscious of all the scars and stuff. Thought it’d make me look like an idiot haha.

Especially cause chairs are fucking hard (for the good ones). Lots of specialtly equipment to make it. A steam box, a kiln, bending jigs, all sorts of cushioning, fabric, springs, twine, burlap, its mind-blowing. I saw a master upholsterer give a demonstration and the depth of the craft of just constructing the cushion is jaw dropping.

Any women here who can give insight on why woodworking is attractive? I thought my hands would be too grimy with sharpening grit, everything covered in chips and shavings and my hands covered in scars for it to be considered attractive.

Also do you find power tools or hand tools more attractive?

To be honest I think it’s just AI developers gobbling them all up because Nvidia’s dedicated workload and professional GPUs are always sold out. Plus spending 1400$ on games is ridiculous, and that’s coming from somebody with a ryzen 7800x3d and a 7900xtx. I regret it so much, such a waste of money.

You also have to admit that the US covers for most of the worlds military. Most of nato and many Asian allies have very low defense spending, because the US will cover them. Most of the time when there is a global crisis or localized crisis the US is involved in one way or another.

Kind of weird that in the last 100 years nearly all the worst famines occured it communist countries.

In terms of ui and apps it’s perfect because I was using boost for reddit and now using boost for Lemmy and it’s nearly identical.

Definitely agree that there’s not much content, or at least much variety. Pretty much all I see is news, nauseating amount of memes and communists, frankly not much thought provoking content honestly. I’m really wishing for the hobby subs to grow, after that I’d be way more active.

Additionally tons of the bio fuel industry is based on corn and the United States’ extremely stubborn subsidization of it. Without the funding the corn industry gets bio fuel is financially impossible. Additionally it increases food costs for everyone substantially as there’s only so much farmland that exists. Already ordinary people pay millions more for food directly because of bio fuel production and the reduction of farmland for crops that actually feed people.

This video has the whole rundown of why bio fuel is actually extremely unsustainable. https://youtu.be/OpEB6hCpIGM?si=nQm8fft5JHmLw-Ri

The glue will depend on the internal bezels, sometimes they are wide enough for us to use some specialized (very strong) 1mm double sided tape but other times they are ridiculously tiny and almost impossible to glue well. In the latter situation most would tell you to buy the OEM adhesive but frankly it’s not any better.

If you do go with the tape method heat the phone up after assembly and press on it firmly. The heat softens the glue up and when you press down on it, it’ll “flow” into all the gaps, providing stronger adhesion.

I find that a phone is too cold if I could hold it indefinitely (without my hands burning) and too hot if your hand immediately starts burning. Usually I aim to get it hot enough to comfortably hold for a few seconds while I get it apart. If you want exact numbers the temperature I use on my heating pad is 70c.

To glue the fingerprint sensor (and many other small parts) I use liquid super glue . Sure some technicians may not approve of it but it has some very useful properties for small parts. It is strong and unlikely for fail in normal use, it is very easy to apply and easy to cure and its still weak and brittle enough that you can still remove the component later.

Put a drop of super glue on a piece of plastic (to discard later) and use a toothpick to apply a tiny amount. Look closely to see if the liquid has wetted all mating surfaces and let it cure.

To repair the chargeport you will likely need to go to a more specialized repair shop to solder it. SMD components should not be handled by beginners and it takes a lot of time to get good at it (professionally we use microscopes, precision soldering irons and hot air rework stations for them).

I see. I recently had to repair an iPhone 13 with super bent frame and back glass. Apple wouldn’t touch it because of the damage but the phone was still alive. Once I got it back together the wifi didn’t work and unfortunately we couldn’t really do anything about it even if it was looking new

As a repair tech, this can happen really easily. There are sometimes like 2 dozen cables that need to be disconnected and perfectly reconnected for every function to work. Additionally if they don’t have a proper testing software it’s fairly labour intensive to test and it can eat deeply in your margins. Some cheap businesses won’t bother testing beyond turning it on and just letting the customer figure it out and deal with it then.

For example at my work we barely test sub 100$ computers. The amount of time to , refurbish, wipe the drive, put it into stock, keep track of it in accounting and shipping it already makes it barely profitable, having to throw in another and hour to half an hour of additional testing can easily make the computer a loss for the company assuming it sells at all.

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Exactly, Google search itself is so enshittified you pretty much have to tag “reddit” at the end of every query to find any solution to a problem. Even my 55yr boss knows this and he’s clueless about anything social media related.

Having tons of Google traffic to any company in would be a godsend, yet Reddit wants to ban it. What a fucking joke.

I failed school horrifically and the last year I had a decent attendance rate was 5th grade and the last year I attended at all was 9th grade. I was always so anxious and I was bullying, had a fear of failure, was extremely depressed and had likelihood ADHD (it’s not diagnosed but everyone I know with ADHD has told me I probably have it, and I have just about every symptom of it).

I’m 18, working and its so much fucking nicer. Granted I have a super chill boss and a forgiving job all beit hard job and it’s a million times better. I don’t have any panic attacks before going to work and everyone’s a mature adult, not petty or slightly psychopathic like a lot of teenagers.

Huge plus is when work is done it is fucking done, I don’t need to stay up all night finishing shit for work too, or have crushing anxiety about upcoming assignments. I still cannot fathom how some prefer school over adult life, school made me want to blow my fucking brains out

:(

I personally did this like a year ago. Its extremely easy because almost every coffee machine out there will have a refillable pod that you load with your own grounds. So instead of putting in a pod you just load a scoop and put in your pod. Oh and it’s way cheaper and honestly tastier.

I also go to the browser drop down settings and change to desktop mode. It’s annoying but once you zoom in a little it’s identical to mobile view lol.

This is why Taiwan (ROC) is the true China who tried their best to preserve their own culture and country as much as they could, moving artifacts and such to the island (colloquially mainlanders even call Taiwan "treasure island). The CCP were demolishing temples and artifacts as well as killing millions and people and destroying their country.

Yeah like at least windows gives you an error code, Macs basically just say “uh-oh, we did a fucky wucky and your device has failed, contact apple” and now your stuck searching up the exact text and trouble shooting a dozen potential issues and dozens more potential fixes.

To be fair when it becomes itchy that’s your body getting you to scratch them off.