I'm a total newbie, and I want to buy a cheap-ish welder that can do MIG and Flux Core (apparently this is gasless MIG), in case I want to opt into trying out in the future.

I'm thinking on buying a midwit phone to replace my Pixel 6 with, because despite using a simple launcher, I'm still using it a bit too much (but tbf my desktop doomscrolling is a culprit too).

Currently I'm thinking on these 2 phones:

• TTFone 990
• Commodore Callback (it's a bit too pricey, due to VAT)

My question is this: Have your phone consumption became healthier since using a midwit / transition phone?

I want to replace my old GameSir G3s with a controller preferably under €70-75. Initially I wanted an european gamepad but the only 2 options (ready2gaming and snakebyte) was so non existent or questionable that I had to swallow my EU nationalism.

Gaming style:

• Only use controllers where it's highly recommended
• Preferred genre for controllers would be arcade racing and JRPGs mostly
• Will only play on wireless (2.4ghz)

Preferences:

• Either TMR or high quality HE sticks
• Doesn't look boring (preferably it has some amounts of LED / RGB)
• Xbox stick position layout (I want to try it out)
• Linux compatibility (don't care about consöles)
• Doesn't have a shit QC (8bitdo's are apparently like that)
• I have larger hands, so maybe not a small controller

Currently these are some controllers that seems to be in my range. I'm interested if you know about even better controllers.

• GameSir Cyclone 2
• GameSir Supernova
• FlyDigi Direwolf 4?

I want to build a train in modded Minecraft which would fit into a realistic-ish solarpunk theme. My limited creativity left me with electric freight trains, however I'm sure that you have a great taste in pretty trains or a cool website with tons of train pictures, so I want to have your opinions.

I have only realized that I was commenting into a lemmy.ml post, just before sending it, but yoloed it. What would be the worst to happen? Ban my acc? LOL

Sorry, I came to ruin the community's rules already.

Study: Reverse engineering a Bluetooth LE device

"Tea": Ovomaltine chocco milk!!

I wanted to do some whacky and crazy hobby project, and this would be a perfect project, since I bought a Kronaby Apex hybrid watch last year which isn't supported on Gadgetbridge, so I began reading some stuffs about BLE with a cozy Ovomaltine milk, because this specific brand reminds me of dating a cute boy last in Switzerland (I'm not swiss) :3

Fun facts:

• Did you know that BLE was actually developed by Nokia as a "personal" project at first?
• Also BL Classic has 32 different states just to search and make the connection, whereas BLE only has 3 physical search channels, which is a major reason that it has such a low power consumption.

Hey! So I want to find some cool artists to make a commission perchance, but 99% of artists are on Bluesky and I would prefer to use Mastodon if it comes to that. I have my account connected to bridgy.fed, but it doesn't seem like to give me bluesky posts.

Is this in feature in functionalities of bridgy.fed, or is it impossible to get bluesky posts on Mastodon?

EDIT: You only see those Bluesky people's posts who are registered on bridgyfed

There was a guy with Undertale trinkets in front of me. Based guy :3

I have been heavily slacking off with my english brush up goals in these months with my small notebook, but I have just now realized that Anki is way more comfy as I thought it would be after downloading it. However it doesn't really have a proper intermediate / advanced dictionary in my native language, but it seems some or most people seems to prefer learning new words in their target language.

So my question is this. Is it better to learn vocab by translating it to my language or purely understanding it from the target language's definitions?

Lore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso

A resistance member called Edward Mukuka Nkoloso made some funs by trying to be involved in the space race, where he wanted to visit the Moon with 2 cats and a 17 year old kid and also bringing missionaries to convert primitive Martian lifeform. They trained their "afronauts" by rolling them down in empty oil barrels and such. They also have made a rocket made of oil barrels and space worthy material, but it wasn't allowed to launch.

Probably the CIA and the KGB sabotaged their rocket, because they feared too much of the african might.

If you are hungarian for some evil reason, then this is how I found about this story several years ago in a podcast: http://podkaszt.hu/track/58503/irany-a-mars-a-zambiai-urprogram-e40

The left part of the screen of my parent's Samsung TV have seriously blackened recently, so they are thinking of buying a new TV. We probably bought this like 6 years ago maybe, but I absolutely do NOT want to buy a Samsung again (6 years is just planned obsolescence reliability + their OS didn't let me remove the bloatware in any way or shape of form)

Which brand has been the most reliable for you, and also have you been able to remove the bloatware from your TV via dev mode or with a different method?

I've have seen this game in YT recommendation sometimes and this an immersive simulation game set in a highly soviet inspired dystopic cyberpunk city. The dev is also polish, so it checks out.

This game most likely will be on my bought list on the next Steam sale for sure :3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttUxGhouqDA

My current smartband just died due to salt water exposure, but I always adored timepieces, but being able to set multiple alarms (vibrating ones so that I don't wake others up) and having a step counter was really useful for me, so I'm currently looking for a hybrid smartwatch which is more like a traditional watch + smart functions, instead of a smartwatch, but kinda looks like a traditional watch.

I'm interested if you have any other alternatives or suggestions aside Kronaby, because I wasn't able to find any similarly good brand for my tastes.

My wishlist:

• Traditional watch look and looking great ofc
• Less screen slop, the better
• FOSS app or not being spyware too much
• Can set multiple vibrating /silent alarms and a step counter
• Atleast a 2-3 week battery life
• Quality materials

I have only discovered Pininfarina (bit too expensive, and software is apparently crap), Sequent (too expensive and doesn't look that appealing), Withings scanwatch 2 (Lot of criticism apparently on the corpo, screen is a bit too big and ruins the traditional look a bit)

Apparently the Casio G-Shock lineup has 5 alarm options too but this lineup looks to bulky for me and doesn't have silent alarm options according to my slight watch nerd friend.

Nem saját fost, csak epikus volt és gondoltam feltöltöm ide is, hogy lássanak fostot is a lemmy legények és legányok is. :3

I just found this website while randomly checking a Boys Love webring. It was a fun introduction page, so I wanted to share it with you guys :3 https://brofisting.net/

SPOILERS AHEAD

So despite it's popularity, I've never played with Undertale, and it really is an entreating game.

::: spoiler spoiler

After I've realized that killing Papyrus did have some major consequences, I decided to spare 0 mercy on the king wishing to go for the asshole route, and after "defeating" Flowey and sparing the king on a reload, I was greeted by a punishment by said flower.

I did a save reset to make a more pacifist run (do I get any difference if I kill zero enemies, or is that too hard of a challenge?), but contrary to the first run, I didn't encounter with Flowey after falling into the Ruins. Does this mean that my save is still corrupted by Flowey? :::