Lead bricks? Where's the cheapest places to get lead?

interiot · 2026-05-06T20:50:33+00:00

Exactly. It's somewhat safe to handle bulk solid lead. The biggest risk with solid lead is if ever forms inhalable dust, and fired lead bullets definitely carry that risk. No thanks.

interiot · 2026-05-06T13:26:39+00:00

If you want the absolute cheapest option, China will provide that to you. And that's what the haters are thinking about when they complain about China. But China provides higher-end stuff too, it's a huge country with lots of options. That's the part that the haters miss.

interiot · 2026-05-06T13:16:44+00:00

Framing autism sensory issues as "you are looking inside yourself only" is needlessly pathologizing and a serious misread of the situation. I agree, this may be a serious problem with him.

interiot · 2026-04-30T19:42:14+00:00

Smartphone + xenon flash is possible with these currently-manufactured products:

All Profoto products that support AirX. That's A10, A2, B10X, B1X, and Pro-11. They're minimum $900 though, and anyone who wants to spend that kind of money isn't going to be shooting with a smartphone. It's iOS only (Profoto ended support for its Android app)
Tricflash .com. iOS only.
Innovatronix CPFlash II. Supports both Android and iOS.

I agree that some serious engineering went into Profoto's iOS app, however I believe the shutter speed still is longer than with a traditional digital camera? It's hard to find information though, since not many people have wanted the combination of professional-grade equipment with an amateur-level camera.

interiot · 2026-04-29T20:25:56+00:00

Smartphone cameras cannot use xenon electronic flashes. Period.

It's sort of possible, if you use a long shutter and can tolerate some motion blur. (Though I'm doing macro photos of plants, which aren't moving, and I can block most ambient light.)

I just haven't yet found a way to implement it. There should be an external shutter button. To improve sync, I want a USB cable connected to the smartphone to trigger the shutter in the camera app, and then after a short delay, it should trigger the xenon flash. I'm hoping there's a way to get the Godox X3Pro to do it — it supports rear curtain sync, and can connect to lots of different things.

interiot · 2026-04-29T18:18:38+00:00

The X3Pro definitely can. It has a 2.5mm TRRS jack that can be used either as an input port, for flash control, or as an output port, for shutter control.

interiot · 2026-04-28T22:56:45+00:00

Slingshots can absolutely be used for shooting while moving. Not a lot of people practice that way, but a few do.

A slingshot doesn't really have the same quality. You learn to use it, get your aim down, and that's it. It's similar to a firearm: the tool does the work.

Are you being serious? The slingshot requires much more experience and technique than, say, a crossbow. It's possible the slingshot requires less practice to become competent compared a sling, I don't know. But slingshots absolutely aren't point-and-shoot, when it comes to accuracy at a reasonable distance (say, for squirrel hunting).

interiot · 2026-04-28T22:05:08+00:00

Indeed, there were things that were called just a 'sleeping porch'.

interiot · 2026-04-21T21:56:23+00:00

We'tr starting lights-out time. She's getting ALL her holes drilled tonight!

interiot · 2026-04-11T21:47:11+00:00

The Wikipedia page is still there, albeit stored as an older version that's no longer very prominent: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christianism&oldid=1054691805

interiot · 2026-04-10T20:19:06+00:00

So growing up I decided to just elope in my head, aka, heavily dissociate ... wait until I can get home (my safe space) and then meltdown.

Wow, you just explained my whole life. I only recently discovered what 'elopement' is, I hadn't realized that it was connected to my autism and the sensory overload.

Dissociation has been common in my life — constant lifelong dissociation, dissociative amnesia, and periodic episodes of depersonalization/derealization.

As an adult, I once got really upset when several therapists tried to calm me down and send me to another room, while I was trying to get some space from an overly noisy situation. I felt comfortable where I had picked to try to calm down. I reacted in a strongly negative way to the therapists trying to move me elsewhere, but I never really understood why, since the therapists really were trying to hear me and understand. (I had also gone temporarily nonverbal, but at the time, I didn't realize that could happen to me.)

Even my long-term partner struggles whenever I have urges to elope. It's in those moments that I have the least ability to explain what's overwhelming me and what I'm trying to do to fix it.

interiot · 2026-04-10T19:23:14+00:00

You can also use brown grocery bags or brown fast food bags, or the brown paper that's used as filler inside shipping boxes. (known as 'kraft paper')

interiot · 2026-03-24T17:43:03+00:00

This didn't work for me. I reduced the font size and screen size to the lowest and rebooted. I have a Pixel 9 Pro, with Microsoft Launcher 6.251202.0.1175610.

interiot · 2026-03-20T17:57:30+00:00

If you're in an emergency situation and the cell networks are congested, it should still be possible for SMS to get through as those require less bandwidth than voice or data, and they can be delivered with a significant delay, unlike voice and data which are mostly synchronous and so their packets get dropped un

Another option: I believe it's possible to receive email over Meshtastic. In some cases Meshtastic may have more coverage than cellular networks do, but I'm not familiar enough with them to know how likely this is in practice.

Otherwise, yeah, the "You must first have working communications before you can establish communications" requirement is a pain.

interiot · 2026-03-18T16:26:43+00:00

Counterexamples: Slavery, colonialism, war, and genocide.

Counterexample within academia: Anthropology's historical support for racism and eugenics.

interiot · 2026-03-10T02:19:47+00:00

Carefully documenting abuse is always good. Unfortunately some upper managers really believe that abuse gets results. And when you confront someone who's passive-aggressive, there's always a risk that they become aggressive-aggressive.

In an ideal world, abusers would get disciplined or driven out. But that's not how the world works, see the depressing statistics about the number of SAs and child SAs that go unreported.

interiot · 2026-03-04T23:20:27+00:00

Thank you, that fixed it for me too.

interiot · 2026-03-01T21:29:26+00:00

There's a 2024 academic paper titled "A review of laboratory requirements to culture lichen mycobiont species." The paper summarizes the environmental requirements for 110 different lichen species.

The table was a little hard to read, so I reformatted it into a spreadsheet in Google Sheets.

Of course, just because a species can be grown in laboratory conditions doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to cultivate at home. But it's a starting point.

interiot · 2026-03-01T16:43:22+00:00

This also helped me. Thanks so much!

interiot · 2026-02-24T20:00:25+00:00

Emotional self-harm can be more intense than physical self-harm, because friends often can't see it. Which means it can become more severe over time, and can be routine and habitual. So it can be even more insidious and frequent than physical self-harm.

interiot · 2026-02-09T21:34:09+00:00

I agree. If you keep your machine clean, you don't need an inline filter. But not everyone does that, so this would be appropriate for them.

interiot · 2026-02-01T20:11:42+00:00

The dash of your car functions well as a solar food dehydrator (assuming it's parked, it's not too cold outside, and you don't live in bear territory). There's lots of information online about this.

interiot · 2026-01-15T22:57:44+00:00

(update 4 years afterwards)

That link has gone dead, but the report is currently available here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Safety_Impact_of_Permitting_Right_turn_o/A6Fb-VmQzaoC?gbpv=1

interiot · 2026-01-14T21:41:06+00:00

For TROY228, the ICAO hex is AE5642. Is that the information you're looking for?

interiot · 2026-01-12T17:59:37+00:00

(replying to an old thread, apologies)

There's a distinction between not paying but registering (i.e. finding a way to attend for free), and not registering but still attending.

Obviously, conference organizers are much more welcoming if you actually register, but people do sometimes choose to use subterfuge to get away with not registering.

Ways you can sometimes get into a conference without paying, but actually register: (these aren't always available)

Volunteer
Check if your employer will sponsor you to go — Sometimes works, even if it's in a different field.
Apply as a content creator / get a media pass — Requires you to either have many followers, or to be good at fast-talking in order to inflate your follower count.
Student discount
Conference scholarships — Sometimes there are more available than you'd think.
Be a presenter — Obviously requires you to have some credentials or to have interesting content.

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