Badabinski

I hadn’t even thought of that! I did some oxyacetylene welding many moons ago and I remember the heat being absolutely intolerable at times.

I do machining as a hobby now and I’d really like to filter out cutting oil smoke. My biggest fear using a PAPR is my shop is the hose—I’d need to find a way to keep it REALLY close to my body. I don’t want to get pulled into my lathe face-first.

I very much want a PAPR as well. I seem to recall that there were some units that came out of COVID that are somewhat cheaper, at least.

Open source can be enshittified. FOSS with many contributors should be basically proof against being fucked with.

the f stands for file. The c manpage has some details on how it works: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/flock.2.html

This script is why I ended up learning how to use OnShape. It’s probably much better nowadays, but I could not get it working a few years ago. I needed CAD and OnShape was close enough to Inventor that it was almost frictionless.

Yeah, the sound the vacuum makes as you roll it over a bunch of dirt and grit and the spinny boi goes “crunch crunch crunch crunch”

Your last sentence is like garnish on a beautiful dinner.

yeah fuck this, my soul crushing depression and ADHD are largely independent of my environment. I get that this is true for some people, but posts like these make me angry.