The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

[Pilgrimsmaster]

I dont use it often, but everytime ive used it, its done what it should.

Battery life really good.
Its lightweight, low profile.

Not a huge fan of the track pad, but dongle and makes it more useable.

I’m still shit with Linux

[amal]

[tac0s]

Went to see the dermatologist. He’s trying to show me how his fancy scope works using a mole on my arm when his fingers touch my flexEm. He recoils immediately.

“What’ve you got under your skin?”
“A chip.”
“Why?”
“I got tired of losing my car keys.”
“And you use that?”
“Yup.”
“What if the battery dies?”
“It doesn’t have a battery. It works like this.”
I point to the RFID FOB he’s wearing around his neck.
“What if you get a new car?”
“Then I put the reader in the new car.”
“Huh… Ah, well about this scope…”

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Eriequiet

Then I use a 150ml syringe and slowly remove the “cleaner” alcohol at the top of the tank, and put it in 2 2 liter bottles

I was sooo proud, Little ol’ EQ finally using the metric system, but then I noticed this…

Of course, even when you guys use metric, you have to “Americanise it”

Now we just need to metricise @ODaily

[ThePolishedTurd]

The real question is how it’s pronounced. Do you say “LIT-RE” or “LEE-TER”?

[Eriequiet]

Could be worse, apparently Canada is a wild Wild West in our war of units and has no idea what’s going on

[invalid_signal]

They’ve been hangin around the US too much.

[enginerd]

@Pilgrimsmaster

Now we just need to metricise @ODaily

Meanwhile, I’m sitting here being the weirdo who understands both…

@Eriequiet

Canada is a wild Wild West in our war of units

Colombia has this problem to a lesser extent. Almost everything is metric except for fuel, which is sold in gallons… Good luck trying to have a meaningful fuel mileage indicator in your car over there… Cars should have an option to display kilometers per gallon! please don’t lynch me

[Eriequiet]

Also, just realized

In the US, soda in large quantities is measured in liters

In small quantities it’s measure in ounces lol

So you can get a 16oz coke or 1-2 liters lol

[Az_F]

As far as I know in Europe monitor sizes are always in inches for some reason. I always wondered why.

[ODaily]

@Pilgrimsmaster

Now we just need to metricise @ODaily

Good lord, not only do you use the wrong measurement, but you spell it wrong too !?

Fun fact, because I work in machining, I occasionally get metric dimensions, but my entire setup is in inches. So I’ve kinda learned quicky equivalents. Everybody knows 13mm is almost 1/2", but 19mm is good at 3/4" and 10mm is almost .400"

Just about now 'ol Pilgrimsmaster is realizing I just made him read a paragraph about approximating metric values with metric units, imperial units, fractions, decimals, and close-enoughs. Who says metric can’t be fun?

[Eriequiet]

@ODaily

Just about now 'ol Pilgrimsmaster is realizing I just made him read a paragraph about approximating metric values with metric units, imperial units, fractions, decimals, and close-enoughs. Who says metric can’t be fun?

I’m going to continue trying to list metric units in non divisible by 10 fractions

1/7th of a meter

[enginerd]

3/128cm!

[Coma]

@Az_F

As far as I know in Europe monitor sizes are always in inches for some reason

They are - I had a nice 14" monitor for a long time and later switched to an insanely big 16" (with a weight close to a washing machine…) . Same with old floppy disks - 3 1/2" and 5 1/4". I’m not sure about why, but maybe it was because almost everything was based on US companies (Microsoft and Apple), and thus nobody cared about converting it into metric (after all, there were few people using computers in the beginning, and we nerds didn’t really care about the units - just happy having a monitor at all ).

[enginerd]

[amal]

I did an interview today and the interviewee mentioned wearables and insidables… not sure how I feel about insidables. I kinda liked the word… but also not.

Poll? Likey the word?

• Yes
• No

[enginerd]

@amal

I kinda liked the word… but also not.

I feel the same way… I’d rather use the word implant. Insidable lacks permanece in some way, sure implants can be removed but I think that most of us got them for the long term.

[amal]

I thought of another basic term while talking to them - augments… as in “I got my RFID augment from Dangerous Things!”

[Eriequiet]

I’m torn…
I don’t like the term… but it’s probably less likely to have associated stigma… so it might be worth adopting it?

…people are dumb

[Eriequiet]

Came to ask a question and got sidetracked…

Ordered a space mouse for cheap for easier shitty cad work

Want to 3D print a little unit that adds some macro keys

Like this

I can’t find a 9/12/15 key WIRELESS macro pad
Amazon has a bunch clearly by the same manufacturer under a zillion names… that requires downloading sketchy software in sketchy manners… and not sure I wanna play that game

Yes there are wired versions… but I went out of my way to get a wireless 3D mouse… so I can quickly move it back and forth from a drawer seems stupid to them bolt on a corded accessory

Any suggestions?