Your best bet is very local. Go to craft fairs and farmers markets/Christmas markets, flea markets, and such. Around my area in Belgium, I went to our flea market and Christmas market in my village and found there are 2 people with small laser engraving/cutting side businesses for wood (perfect for coasters) and 2-3 people selling 3d-print stuff.
It is almost impossible to find these people online because google won’t allow it and pushes the companies with SEO or paying them.
Mukishoes. Very comfortable, leather ones are waterproof. Zero drop. They will resole them when the sole wears out.
Wildlings are very very comfortable, but the ones with the split sole fall apart after a couple years.
Well, outside of mining. But much of that is in Africa.
Rare earth mineral mining is still crazy full of very manual child labor. Just like the chocolate industry (not that China has anything to do with the chocolate industry, that is US companies using slave labor lol)
I mean, they did invade Tibet with ground forces and eventually bomb the shit out of them, kidnapped tons of children and killed their parents. Between 10k in the first three days (the tiny tiny tibet army was very overwhelmed) and their government estimates 1.2million tibetens were killed then and during the 220k Chinese soldier occupation, but the actual number is likely more around 87k to 150k, with the remaining number being imprisoned in slave labor camps and the children kidnapped to grow up as “real Chinese” children. Like the indeginous schools in the US and Canada. Things got so bad that according to the PRC’s own reports, over 70% of rural PRC members defected and fought for the rebels. Skeletons clogged the Yellow River one year apparently. But as typical with all imperialism whether western or eastern, the winners try to explain the deaths away as famine when the soldiers steal all of the crops and shoot out the legs of the people, but they “technically” die of starvation or disease.
Then they came and cut all of their old growth lumber (maybe the real end goal?) with massive deforestation and resource harvesting.
But it is no question that China’s current imperialism is economic for 90% of it. It is also by far the lesser of the evils and much much less violent and physically harmful nowadays after 1970 or so.
I mean, maybe the LLM could at least file documents on time and at least attempt to do what it, on record, promises it will because that seems to be the biggest problem with all the lawyers here in Belgium 😂
My girlfriend’s case was fucked because the lawyer, with around 7 reminders and my girlfriend pre-writing the whole document, still didn’t file the document on time and also not “officially signed”, thus shifting the entire burden of proof from her former employer to her. Then lying about it for a year. Now we know why she pushed for a very very bad settlement so hard. (Like, the company could burn your house down and murder your children and you still would be sued into bankruptcy if you said anything bad against them, with about 10% of the legally required compensation, type bad)
Then a different law firm hired to clean up her mess is doing their best in that case, but also got hired to fight the bullshit invoices from the other lawyer’s “work” (she billed about 5x the hours she possibly could have done). And just never filed against the other lawyer so now that is very very late after 3 reminders (they literally have to send one email) and we might have to pay thousands of euros out of pocket.
Sorry, end rant, but at this point using an LLM would have been more useful than either of the law firms. Plus we had to compile all of the documents and pretty much write the entire thing (and the lawyers just slap their names on it) anyway 😂
This is a bit vindicating lol. Every single social media post on the internet even here on Lemmy when something comes out about scalping people for more of their data there is a top comment saying: “do this and this to opt out” as a solution and it gets high visibility.
I usually say “yeah, there is a high chance that does nothing” and there are always people who say that is not true, without exception… Well, here is more proof.
I wonder if it was even able to compile. I am a shitty hobby coder who just does it to make my embedded hardware projects function.
I have yet to get compilable code out of any of the AI bots I have tried. Gemini, mistral, and chatGPT. I am not making an account lol.
I have gotten some compilable python and VBA code for data analysis stuff at work, so I wonder if it is because embedded stuff uses specific SDKs that it can’t handle.
Either way I have given up on it for anything besides bouncing ideas off of or debugging where electromagnetics issues could lie (though it has been completely wrong about that also even though it is using the wrong concepts, it just reminds me of concepts that I might have overlooked)
VW ID7 was advertised as the new Passat stationwagen.
It ended up just being a standard sedan with more tacky LEDs on the outside starting at like € 70k
KiCAD for 10 years now. Leaps and bounds better than then!
Steam 15 years or so
VLC since windows XP
Firefox since then also
Arduino for quick things for 12 years about
Discord since 2016 (and now looking to change)
It will be tried again next year, and the year after, and the year after, because in EU Parliament, how much money backing you have means how often you can try to push something through apparently, without any sort of restrictions while actual issues that would help the citizens get pushed off and delayed and never re-tried.
Single sided PCB assemly, Single sided LCD controller with many, many vias, single sided PCB layout screenshot, all with vias. Single sided ≠ single layer which I think is where the confusion was coming in for me.
But you are right, looks like I have a lot more to learn. I have only ever made a 1 layer of copper PWM speed controller because I guess I am not good enough to make 1 layer PCBs. Almost every design I have ever worked on would be physically impossible to use a 1 layer PCB simply due to the IC package pinouts literally not allowing it. They get around the via problem in your picture quite cleverly by using a dozen jumper wires as via+2nd copper layer. Plus there are no non-discrete ICs which helps a lot.
I would love to know the supplier that Philips uses here, none of my suppliers were willing to do such hand-wiring-intensive work for anything less than a fortune.
But I admit, you have proven me wrong in that was quite the exaggeration to say that “literally every part of electronics design” requires multi layer PCBs. Though I never meant to imply that people weren’t engineers doing this. I was specifically addressing the response to OP because it was about SMD using a single sided board for SMD components and OP specifically talked about a replacement for sending boards to China or common PCB houses., but I reacted in way way too broad of statements which was wrong.
There are thousands of write wound boards, hand wired boards, or projects like this guy which are very well done and well engineered projects. Wire-wound PCBs were the first GPS modules also, and they were 10x the engineers I could ever hope to be.
By all means share the designs of all of the 1 layer boards you claim! I said nothing about single sided boards, my claim was about vias.
I would love to see “nearly every LCD monitor” that contains 0 vias! I would also love to see your SMPS designs that are 1 copper layer with no vias at all!
Having all of the components on a single board side is something completely different, you can have a 16 layer board with 10k vias with components only one one side.
Please, share all of these aerospace designs that use one single copper layer with 0 vias that isn’t hand wired!
Amazon was toxic from day one, anticompetitive, borderline illegal, definitely corrupt as hell. It is what Epic Games Store would have been if it had been long before steam lol. The amount of shit that they bankrupted into the ground with cheap Chinese copies off the backs of VC funds while making tons of loss and then removing their storefronts…
But as soon as GabeN dies, steam will become shit probably as the vultures close in.
Wait wait wait, but trump (and magats) said everyone at the US 2020 insurrection that the only people there were Fed agent provocateurs and paid Antifa™™ actors.
Well and then Trump pardoned them but that was just forgotten about and definitely unrelated.
Glad I bought 305M of S/UTP Cat6a 8 months ago for our renovation
The number of Democrat voters also. Could be a political cleansing…
While I get that, tolerating absolute bullshit pseudoscience (or anti-science) and letting people think it is a fact is exactly why there is a huge western general anti-science sentiment harming millions of people.
You have to call them out and shame them for spouting disinformation bullshit as “science” and facts.
The difference in your analogy is that fountain pen enthusiasts never* spout pseudoscience and disinformation as justification and/or discount actual science and blind tests. Audiophiles do that regularly…
Yes, if they say that they love designs, collections, how it makes them feel, whatever, sure. Don’t tolerate lying and pseudoscience though.
Zen browser, while privacy isn’t its main focus, has an awesome user interface and a bunch of QoL features and I ended up switching from Firefox.
What people never seem to realize is that the most popular solar panel + inverter + battery configurations do not work when the grid goes down. Newer systems often have 1-2 outlets that are dedicated as “works with grid failure”.
This is by design so maintenance workers don’t get electrocuted working on lines that are thought to be unpowered.
You need special inverters with built in grid detection and independent frequency generation AND a switch between your meter and your house so that it will dynamically start/stop grid tying (or at least have a manual DPDT/DP4T high amp switch.
Humble bundle got stripped by its parent company IGN. That’s why they haven’t had a good bundle for a long time.
Humble is being enshittified.