This was my first electronics project, and it turned out surprisingly well.

Not even kidding, I was looking everywhere to find this exact image today… Have you been listening to my conversations?

Lol for real though, thanks for posting! Saved me from feeling too bad about my subpar searching skills.

Iirc Duncan is still pretty solid (and easy to find), though there’s a lot of options out there these days.

If you’re looking for a more modern entry-level yoyo, I’d personally recommend the Crystal K2. This one comes with a spare “unresponsive” bearing, so if you ever decide to get into the more advanced tricks you’ll be covered.

Oh man, you should look into it. The yoyo (toy) scene is going through an absolute renaissance. Here’s a good video from Wired to get an overview of the hobby.

I’m not much of a collector, but my daily driver is a “MagicYoyo T5 Plus Overlord” I picked up on Amazon. One day I’d like to upgrade to something like the “Monarch.”

My sister gave back an old hand-me-down computer that I had given her years ago, and I did the same thing. It’s not the best or the fastest, but it has an ethernet port!

Currently got it set up with a (somewhat jank) Jellyfin setup, as well as hosting some of the Discord bots I create.

Someone already replied with a graph, but I also got curious and checked for some higher numbers. Sure enough, it held up.

For example:
832,040mi => 1,346,269km (actual: 1,339,039km)

Just saw Primer for the first time, so I’m gonna need to preemptively answer: Primer.

In another 10 years, electricity will rule the world - mark my words!

My dad threw a party to celebrate when I graduated university with a degree in Computer Science.

At the party, my dad’s friend took me aside and said “My nephew just got a degree in electrical engineering. Now that’s an up and coming field, you should get a degree in that.”

Like, alright buddy. Hopefully that career pays well enough for another four years of student debt. I’m still kinda in shock at how dumb of a thing to say that was.

Yeah, I left on June 15th when the protests started and jumped into Lemmy. Spent 11 years addicted to Reddit, but once I found Lemmy it was honestly pretty easy to ditch it.

Froggy Mix

I literally can’t listen to that video now without cringing into a singularity, but way back in the day it was my jam.

Came way too far to find this. It applies so perfectly to every situation in life.

The last US election cycle taught me how to block keywords in RiF. By the time I left Reddit, my blacklist had hundreds of entries.

I notice that the Connect app for Lemmy has an option to block keywords. Definitely planning to take full advantage of that in the next cycle.

I carry one with me. If I see someone else wearing one, I’ll put it on. I’m not really worried about anything myself, but I’ll gladly wear a mask to give someone else peace of mind.

As a teen, I needed complete silence/darkness to sleep well. Then I met my now-wife, who needed a TV on to sleep well.
It took a while, but we eventually compromised on a fan for background noise.

More “human vs animal”, but I like the way you think.

I wish I could find my old code, so I could compare it to today. So many +'s would turn to -'s haha.

Honestly I completely agree, but I still miss them.

I remember spending days agonizing over my avatar and my signature, creating animated gifs (from scratch, frame by frame in GIMP) for my “siggy”. I remember being weirdly proud of my post count on several forums, and getting excited any time I hit a new rank.

I also remember that they were more tight-knit communities, too. There are people I met of forums back in the day that I still think about, despite having lost touch 15 years ago. Nothing else has really filled that niche the same way forums did, sadly.

Oh, and I remember having my Geek Code in my signature! I’m sure that will ring a special brand of nostalgia for some people.

Turns out, the books you touch are actually quite satisfied and content.