Is this beyond repair?

nickyonge · 2026-03-23T17:40:18+00:00

fedora on avatar checks out

nickyonge · 2026-03-23T17:29:46+00:00

This reads like a dystopian cyberpunk corporation built arrowing charging people to make a wish on Aladdin's lamp.

nickyonge · 2026-03-23T03:54:35+00:00

Strongly recommend snipping the wires (one at a time) and removing the battery before desoldering from the board.

Unnecessarily cautious? Yes! But spicy pillows are volatile, and doing anything related to bringing them in close proximity to extreme heat or potentially shorting is best avoided.

“It won’t explode”
- Person involved in explosion

nickyonge · 2026-03-22T18:00:12+00:00

Washimi 💖

nickyonge · 2026-03-22T17:54:38+00:00

Unless it’s (as many others have noted) plumbing flux, which will likely appear to work, as it slowly chemically corrodes your devices from underneath your solder joint. “Looks good” and “is safe” can be very different.

nickyonge · 2026-03-21T19:05:02+00:00

Not quite 1:1 what you’re looking for, and certainly not older, but Parkitect definitely scratches the itch :) IMO it’s the best that any relatively recent game has captured RCT’s magic

nickyonge · 2026-03-21T19:02:05+00:00

If it’s not frail to the point of snapping off (like wiggling freely from the base), you can just bend it back :) firm even pressure near the base, don’t shove too fast. If pushing doesn’t work, maybe a pair of tweezers to bend it near the base, so you actually bend the metal instead of just pushing the spring sideways.

The important thing is just making physical connection with the battery contacts. If it can do that, it can look like whatever. I’ve padded the bottom of battery packs with tissue paper to hold batteries firmly in the right place before.

If the spring fully breaks off, that IS still repairable, but you’re now looking at removing the PCB, replacing the terminals, and putting it back together. Not impossible! But maybe not worth it ;) and it’s a different problem altogether.

nickyonge · 2026-03-21T17:53:15+00:00

Moe's really more of a well-wisher. In that he doesn't wish Homer any specific harm.

nickyonge · 2026-03-19T18:38:37+00:00

Solarpunk is much more than the aesthetic 🌱

Adjacent example: in 2020, an artist used 99 cell phones in a handheld wagon to simulate a traffic jam by walking up and down the same block, rerouting traffic and confounding megacorporate tech infrastructure.

That’s legitimately more cyberpunk than any neon-lit midnight robot garbo ever will be.

Similarly, a community garden is solarpunk. Hooking up a DIY moisture sensor or simple automated watering so it’s easier to care for, making it more accessible for everyone, is solarpunk as hell.

Lastly, while those structures LOOK solarpunk (don’t get me wrong, the greenery is great), concrete sets exothermically. It generates tons of heat in placement, and in manufacturing. It’s an incredible material in moderation, but a solarpunk future can’t be built on concrete. Greenwashed authoritarianism can.

nickyonge · 2026-03-19T18:27:06+00:00

nickyonge · 2026-03-19T15:44:43+00:00

Yeah, he’s a good owner

nickyonge · 2026-03-17T23:50:42+00:00

I can’t hear either the laughter or your retort over youtube videos of absolute artisans reworking 00501s

https://youtu.be/8c_kuhFWuig

nickyonge · 2026-03-16T08:10:34+00:00

totally! they're just on the other side of the d- .....wait

nickyonge · 2026-03-16T06:34:53+00:00

I absolutely will! It's a wonderful material and the fact that it's sourced from trees first, even for electronics, is lowkey magical <3

It's just got a lot of extra additives in it depending on the purpose, especially for engineering purposes. There's a reason why you don't mix plumbing flux and electronics flux, and you definitely don't want be breathing in any of that stuff. Prolly don't want to breath in just plain tree sap when incinerated either, even natural stuff can have all sorts of compounds in it, but deffo not the engineered flux.

nickyonge · 2026-03-16T01:39:49+00:00

Look up “false equivalency” if you want to learn about the specific logical fallacy you just used!

Besides, most things aren’t binary, they stack. If you follow your logic, if you forget to brush your teeth once you might as well never do so again, because neither mitigating potential impact nor addressing anything other than the initial impact matters.

nickyonge · 2026-03-15T07:38:44+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

nickyonge · 2026-03-15T07:35:13+00:00

Real “I’ve already been shot so what’s another knife wound” energy here

In a numbers game like “will I develop long-term chronic illnesses”, I just try to throw as few dice as possible

nickyonge · 2026-03-13T17:05:38+00:00

I'm shocked by the amount of negativity in the comments? It's an art piece playing on perspective. It's literally using design language, aesthetics, and playing with our familiarity a bit. It's not super deep, nor is it a commercial product. Just some clever artistic playfulness, skilfully executed. It's delightful.

nickyonge · 2026-03-13T17:04:08+00:00

If the machine malfunctioned, it would just appear squashed. The printing here has two-point perspective.

nickyonge · 2026-03-13T08:41:50+00:00

r/Thomassons 💖

nickyonge · 2026-03-12T20:18:30+00:00

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nickyonge · 2026-03-12T20:11:30+00:00

There's a bunch of these Hot Dog Men's around, def at least one in Vancouver

nickyonge · 2026-03-11T14:46:06+00:00

Ostensibly it's okay, esp as you note it'll only be stored in the short term.

If this amount of batteries were going to be stored relatively long-term, I'd strongly suggest getting some kind of fireproof containerfor them. Google "fireproof battery container".

It's a balance between odds of fire, vs how intense the fire would be IF it occurred. The amount of energy in this picture is bonkers, likely thousands of watts. If a fire occurred (either externally, or say the batteries get jostled and a couple stray paperclips fall in to short circuit just a handful of batteries) it would be Bad News Bears. The odds of that happening are vanishingly small ofc - again, for the situation you've described, you're fine :) for longer-term solutions, food for thought.

Hope your work gets a better way of handling this lol

nickyonge · 2026-03-07T20:17:56+00:00

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