@MBEverding @torf @juliewebgirl

Sadly the majority of the nation did not vote for trump unless you listen to the orange buffoon who insist they did. Trump had 77,284,118 votes, or 49.8 percent of the votes cast. Harris had 74,999,166 votes or 48.3 percent of the votes cast. Voter turnout in 2024 was 63.9 percent.150 million Americans voted for the two parties or smaller ones. Close to 90 million did not vote at all. So in a way they voted for trump.

@petejohanson

You must have the advantage of younger eyes. I find smd devices difficult without magnification. Soldering them individually almost impossible.

On devices with lots of legs I have had luck.You can either superglue the device to the board or tack one lead down. On things like 0603 or 0805 resistors forget it. I have chased them around the board to many times.

Worse was my initial attempts with a Chinese hotair rework station. Repaired all the problems it had then proceeded to blow the tiny parts around.

Bought one of those 300 watt PTC heaters they advertise can just be plugged in and used. It worked but cooked chips if you did not pull them off as soon as you noticed the solder paste melting.

Designed a PID controller for it and now it is usable. Mine is small about 120x70mm so no large boards. Want to design an oven eventually so double sided can be worked. I have done a few like the battery switch for our eBkes but those were easy as the mosfets for the other side were larger.

@petejohanson @oshpark @zephyr

Impressive! How was it soldered. It looks single sided so hot plate? I built a small PID controlled PTC hotplate which works. Have not tried much larger than what you show so far with it.

It works better than the attempts with a hot air rework station did. I'm slowly moving over to SMD since the older stuff is becoming hard to get and forget microcontrollers and microprocessors.

@benroyce
Similar was done after slavery ended.
https://informationwanted.org/

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5308644/last-seen-judith-giesberg-slavery

@flexghost @ShadSterling

And fun to sprinkle from the box on the Christmas tree as snow. Imagine snow on a tree in S Florida! Luckily we were Jewish so only the neighbors got to do that.

@georgetakei

But you don't understand the logic behind their madness For instance Zuckerberg whose name translates to sugar mountain is the origin for the tale of Big Rock Candy mountains.

One pines for the drop of sweat that the Zuck might drop.In the hope that this tiny morsel of liquid goodness might propel their own fortunes to not flop.

Cause in the Big Rock candy mountains,
All the ICE agents got wooden legs.
And The jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again
As soon as you are in

So be grateful for the future goodness this will cause for all as the trinkle down happens.

@VTDARKSIM

They did that to me with a spinal injection to lower inflammation. After it was discovered during one of the required before they do anything else therapy sessions that turning my head to the left and tilting my head forwards caused instant lost of control and sensation in my left arm. I asked what was in it and was told a painkiller and it helped with the pain and lowered inflammation. No mention of a steroid even when I asked and told them I do not react well to them.
It did a little bit but wow did it jack my readings up! Armed with the actual treatment found it was loaded with Corticosteroids. So I refused further treatments and eventually had to have 2 vertebra fused.

Which is why the nerb can't turn his head far to the left while driving. So I ended up buying a vehicle with lane warnings and other nag features.

It was a vehicle accident that cause the problem. A lady t-boned me when she ran a stop sign Noticed a couple years later that spot now has a traffic light.