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Zerstört Batterien, bastelt am Smarthome, 3D-druckt, taucht im Urlaub, zockt, hört schwarze Musik, hat mal einen Doktor in Teilchenphysik gemacht.
@Unixbigot The benchtop welder doesn't seem to be available anymore.
@rygorous Any technology discernible from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
Gwen the Loitering Fox 
@rygorous you forgot the fact that the commands must be issued in arcane languages that no one speaks out loud but several practitioners understand, and whatever those commands say will be executed exactly as said. That's why sometimes it doesn't do what we want, because it always does what we asked it to
ARGVMI~1.PIF
Fabian GiesenAs an aside, we use impossibly bright, impossibly blue light to inscribe tiny runes on sand, producing constructs that obey our commands (well, sometimes...) and communicate with us through literal liquid crystals.
This is not a fantasy setting. I'm just describing the real world
(well I'm leaving out 1000s of in-between steps, but still)
FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
@Unixbigot Ah, nice, thanks.
@Unixbigot Oh, right, it actually says so on the can. But that's still enough, discharge overnight is fine.
@Unixbigot While explosions (as in shrapnel flying everywhere) are indeed unlikely, cylindrical cells will do the "rocket", if you somehow manage to get them into thermal runaway.
They will yeet some or all of their innards (the "jelly roll") in one direction (usually out the "top", i.e. where the positive nipple is, but sometimes also out the bottom) and all the rest will fly off in the other direction.
And all of that will be burning hot enough to melt aluminium.
Oh, and you really don't want to breathe the fumes.
Always think about what you're doing and have an exit strategy for when things go sideways.