Apparently you can magnetize steel with the Earthās magnetic field by heating it to a specific temperature range, then drawing it out while facing the direction of North or South. The guy in the video says South but Iām sure itāll work in either direction.
It would be cool if there were specific instructions in some sort of survival manual about how to make your own compass needles this way.
I had a guy once swear you could magnetize a screwdriver by laying it N/S and tapping on it. Sounded BS to me, but weirder has been true.
The tapping physically juggles the magnetic domains around. The effect would be pretty subtle. The domains will never align perfectly.. itās pretty random, but the earth field will pull a slight majority in alignment. Youād get a far better effect by putting the screwdriver up to an earth magnet and tapping it.. it would magnetize it far better then just exposing it to a magnet alone.
The same goes for prowpr earth magnets though.. you can demagnetize a magnet by tapping it, for the same reason.. it will slowly randomize the domains.
I was thinking about cyberpunk media and fictional cyborgs in generalā¦ Why are the cool and highly upgraded characters usually villains?
The Centurions had these guys:
Cyberpunk 2077 has Adam Smasher:
I mean, give him either a human face or no face at all and youāve got a significantly better character as long as youāre not creating a villain.
And there are a couple of other examples of thisā¦ Few have characters like Genos or Briareos Hecatonchires. That last one is a very specific example as he doesnāt have a human face:
Weird that outside of Japan, the idea of having a character that has very little human components left but isnāt a monster, is rather uncommon.
I think itās the Darth Vader trap. The whole premise is that the more you replace with machine, the less human you become. That is an underlying concept that persists.
Heās more machine now than man, twisted and evil.
Whatās wild, is that V (cyberpunk2077), by the end of the game, and especially after Phantom Liberty almost* always has just about their entire body replaced. I think all thatās left 'ganic if you max everything out is genitals, and thatās even questionable if you have subdermal armor installed.
The main differentiator is purely cosmetic. Both V and Adam have an absolutely huge borg-ganic ratioā¦
Which is sad because Iād like to have more visible or less āfleshyā cyberware.
There are of course exceptions.
Of the top of my head, Cyborg, RoboCop, Cable, Alita and Jax.
edit to add
Genos and also Raiden (MGS)
GASP
How dare you put Cyborg before RoboCop! 
Also throwing in: Seven of Nine, Motoko Kusanagi, Inspector Gadget, the Six Million Dollar Man, Rick Sanchez (questionable good/bad guy, haha)
Edit to add: Although these are still mostly human lookingā¦
Hollywood has a weak grasp of what makes characters relatable. They think it means making an empty husk that superficially looks like the viewer. But thereās nothing to relate to in an empty husk.
Japan seems better to understand otherwise. They make characters who are actually characters, who have something to relate to. Even if itās strange or disagreeable to the reader, itās interesting, and that means something to relate to so we can connect to the character and let them carry us through the story.
Maybe it is easier to relate to something human looking, and maybe itās harder to make less human looking things relatable, so they avoid it if itās not important to the story, but I do find great satisfaction in deeply non-human looking characters. Perhaps precisely because it strips away the superficial markers of humanity and lets me relate to something substantially human underneath. Briareos, for instance, had the most humanity of anyone in Appleseed, and the irony of his fully mechanical body only emphasised this fact.
(By the way, is that pic of Briareos from something? Iāve only read the manga but am not familiar with any other adaptations.)
Exactly my point! Besides, why would you limit yourself to looking human and the capabilities that you can fit in that particular envelope when getting significant augments?
I mentioned Genos in my original post, and both of them are from Japan.
Yeap, I find Adam Smasherās looks relatable, Iād love to have that obviously mechanical body minus the āfaceā. But itās an empty character. Just like Johnny, etcā¦ But Iām not a fan of Cyberpunk 2077.
I think so, yeah. Maybe itās in part because of the highly conformist culture IRL? Thereās a market for the human side?
Same, but in my case itās also in part from my desire to not look human. Or be carbon basedā¦
Itās from Appleseed Alpha.
I was pining for some nostalgia. Decided to get a dollar a month VoIP number and wire it to this old school telephone box. Itās a modern remake of course but, no voicemail.. no caller ID. Real mechanical bell ringer. Now when my wife canāt find her cell phone, I can call the kitchen.
2025/2026
2027
The chances of me getting the body that I want are still slim, and people are already seeing who I want to be as a threatā¦
*sad beeping noises or something
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Me:
Or:
Obviously mechanical, bulky, and with a metal plate for a face. Maybe with some carbon fiber accents as well.
Iāve also noticed that in countries where they wear uniforms, thereās a better grasp of self-expression through fashion. I think when your experience is populated by control groups where you can see how the same outfit looks on many people of different shapes and sizes, and how subtle changes within the dress code can express a personality, it cultivates a much sharper and more nuanced sense of self-expression. Then, release such a sense into a free environment like Harajuku, and youāve got a fashion capital of the world.
Americanās are given a blank canvas and the result is writerās block. Ironically, they donāt know how to express themselves as well. They hardly know how to dress themselves. They are consumed by anomie, deconstructionism, and post modern nihilism, insisting on redefining or rejecting definition in every little thing instead of being able to pick up on the fashion vocabulary of the zeitgeist and use it to express themselves like they do in Asia.
Hollywood protagonists donāt know how to express themselves, so they say nothing and hope to get by as a blank canvas. Asian protagonists know how to say what they want, so they crank the volume up to 11 and say it loud and clear. If a character is better expressed in metal than in flesh, theyāre ready to go full borg.
About time. And prosthetics? Prosthetics are just about caught up to the point that this could be a great proving grounds on which they can begin to surpass natural components in clear and well measured categories.
Finally bought a server rack, and Iāll have about 3-5u extra once it is set up and filled. More than that later, because my NAS is a 5.5u desktop and eventually Iāll change that to a ~3u case.
Any fun garbage I should throw in there to waste my precious rack space?
Planned:
NAS
1u server
1gbe poe+ cisco switch
Various small network components on a shelf
UPS
