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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • This reads like ragebait or a hit piece, but I don’t even know what I’m supposed to rage about?

    We all use some sort of automod bot to flag or even ban accounts.
    We’ve all banned accounts for way less.

    Am I supposed to be offended that this user, of all people, was banned from anywhere?
    Or that an LLM summary is linked in the modlog for it? If an admin reviewed it, why should I care?

    Am I supposed to get mad about political profiling?
    /looks around to literally everywhere in the fediverse and gestures wildly.

    My only gripe is it would maybe be more environmentally friendly to just skim that profile instead of using an LLM but whatever.
    “Save the planet, ban people with the old ban hammer.”

    IDK this whole thing feels like stirring shit for the sake of it. WTF is even the point of this post.





  • Honestly?
    I’m willing to help you out if you want.
    It’s not good. I would dare say it’s possibly even a hazard as it is.

    The key to soldering is to heat both of the parts that you want joined, then apply solder to that.
    Baeically, you mostly don’t melt the solder with your soldering iron, the heated joint melts the soldering.

    What you got here looks like a cold solder, which is basically melted solder applied to cold metal.
    It makes a weak connection that will fail or even come apart.

    Start by making a good solid mechanically strong splice that maximizes contact area.
    Starting from 2 clean stripped wires, join them together in sort of a X shape.
    At the same time, twist each wire clockwise around the other.
    (Like cross both wires in a x shape, holding each half between your index and thumbs, twist in opposite directions, one thumb away, one thumb towards you. Twist as tight as you can. Bigger gauge stuff like what I think you’re working with might need pliers. Once that’s done it’s already a strong connection even before solder. )

    Then to solder, heat the whole splice.
    Say you’re heating the top of the splice with your iron, apply solder from the bottom.
    It’s the heat from the wires that should melt the solder not your iron.

    I don’t know how to explain better, maybe pictures or videos.
    Don’t give up.



  • Do we know of it’s specific to this microwave, or just something that happens to be grounded?
    Is it just a static shock or something a bit more spicy?

    Grounded things that would discharge static:

    • The screw that holds the face plate over an electrical outlet.
    • a metal PC case

    I’m trying to understand if you’re

    1. accumulating static charge and discharging it by touching something that’s grounded.
      Or
    2. if your microwave is defective, leaking current on the chassis and you become the ground when you touch it.

    You mentioning you’re barefoot, kinda maybe point to #2, which isn’t fun (or safe).

    I imagine neither would happen wearing shoes, but I dislike shoes in my own house.