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Typically if you report the phone stolen to your provider they blacklist the IMEI which gets shared with other providers so the phone can no longer be used. I was unclear on this part but a new e-sim can be provided for the new phone, and the old sim banned or the old one transferred. Regardless, the old phone will still show the IMEI/sim/phone number, which is how they got that to text them

The phone itself (by IMEI) is a brick. The sim and same phone number were assigned to a new phone and they texted that number

Choosing rice either wasn't random or you just stumbled onto "ricing" and "ricers" which comes from a derogatory name for Japanese motorcycle and cars in the 60s-80s? ("rice burner" and "rice rocket"). . Ricing/ricer later became a term for modded cars/motorcycles which were popular in Japan.

That's where r/ricing and "Linux ricing" came from for Linux/unix theming. It's not unique to that either. People use the term for their gaming rigs. An example of "ricing" in this context is adding tons of RGB LEDs. Some people consider the term racist, other people don't care and continue to use it

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The ones for autism :•|

I felt the same the first time I tried but it honestly takes a few tries to start getting it right. The kind of iron and solder matter a lot; the older ceramic core ones suck and the JBC/pinecil type are much superior. Part of the problem with the ceramic type ones is they have one setting - full blast - and not good temperature control. With a pinecil/JBC you can set the temperature to 300C and expect to get 300C. Too hot and it will boil off the flux before you're done soldering and you just get crud.

In terms of solder, leaded rosin core solder is the best. Don't worry about the lead, as long as you wash your hands. Use a brass sponge type thing to clean the tip frequently to remove crud

For through holes, I'd say get some veroboard off eBay and a bunch of cheap resistors and just start plugging away until you get better. Process is basically - have tip with a bit of solder, poke to pad and pin, put solder into joint and hold 1-3 seconds until solder flows onto pad and pin, remove tip. Putting some flux on in advance helps remove the oxides before soldering

For surface mount (side pads/pins), there are kits with cheap/obsolete/trash components you can just plug away at without fear of messing anything up. Soldering smt is a bit annoying but doable by hand without much training. the process is basically: tin one pad, use tweezers to place part and reheat the solder until the part is in place, solder the rest of the pads, reheat first pad to relieve stress.

Even for large parts, I used to have trouble with unsteady hands. If you are doing smt you really need a microscope or magnifying glass for anything smaller than 0805 - really helps with the visual feedback loop for hand positioning. A microscope significantly improved my dexterity and hand steadiness

Oil is placed on the pan and then it is heated to form a non-stick coating. This layer can have small holes in it, so the process is repeated many times. The holes do not line up, which makes the path for water to get through much longer or blocks it. This means water can not easily make it through all of the layers. That also means any water that gets in can't easily get out, and it can cause rust to form if it makes it through the coating and is left on there.

What kind of emails are you sending to what kind of people, and how frequently that AI increases your productivity? I don't think I ever have emails that AI could do better or faster, since it'd probably take longer to explain to the AI what I need it to write than to type it out myself. Then again I'm in an engineering setting and it's pretty much just numbers, confirmations, basic requests, and issue descriptions, IT tickets, mostly

I have more than once found a post my exact problem with an exact solution and sources, only to go back and realize it was my own post from n years back

Isn't he that crazy dude that was using a bunch of sockpuppet accounts to harass people

E: yep and yep

Don't trust anyone - not even yourself

They're common in vending machines, libraries, ticket machines for bus/train, etc. as change because they're easier to distribute than single dollar bills by a machine