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Mar. 9th, 2025 05:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyIn my research and experimentation on merging R/C battery packs with model trains, I discovered Kato uses a mini-Tamiya connector to go from the power pack to the rails. Which means I could get an adapter that can convert a mini-Tamiya to something like XT60, and power the trains directly. Except I absolutely should not do that. There would be no speed or direction control, and if there was any kind of derailment resulting in a short, it would mean certain disaster. LiPo batteries have no chill. A 5Ah battery with a 100C rating can make the rails glow, if it doesn't burn out any wires first.
Initially, I just had all my N-scale stuff set up on a regular Ikea table. Then I ran out of table surface. So I built another table out of wood, except for the legs, which I got from Ikea. This gave me a larger surface to work with. Except I'm already hitting the limits of that. Well, I can just put some plywood over what I built. If I decide later on that N isn't right for me, I can sell off the whole collection and then sell the DIY table or something.
I'd still like to get a Shinkansen train set. They're sold in sets of 8, with one set having the end cars and a power unit and a few others, and the other set having the rest of the cars to fill out the full consist. As it turns out, they don't always run a full 16 car train in Japan. Even in N scale, a full 16-car Shinkansen would need almost 9 feet of track. That's a bit much. So I could just get an 8-car set and be done with it.
At work, I've been compiling a list of skills that new techs in my department should learn and know. In order to get into the position in the first place, one must pass an electronics test. But I learned early on that electronics isn't the only thing important to the job. Knowledge about simple mechanical concepts, chemistry, air and water, machining, and so on. Hence, the list. I call it the "Special High-Intensity Training" list.
Back in 2023, I signed up for Threads, which was Facebook's take on the short-form social network, making it a direct competitor to Twitter. Except it didn't work out like that, at least not for the anime crowd. What I found was, Threads is unfriendly to the anime community on average and downright intolerant of the grittier underbelly of fandom. The Touhou memes, the hentai, denpa, video & gacha games, hentai, fansub discussions of obscure anime, doujin works, hentai, vtuber shenanigans, and so on, it just ain't there on Threads. Especially the hentai and anything that could be potentially mistaken for something that alludes to it. Someone can post animu tiddy on X or BlueSky all day every day and face no real consequence for it but will get suspended or banned on Threads almost instantly. In other words, my friends aren't there. It does have people who are into the bigger mainstream shows, and that's about it. It's not just Threads, it's all of Meta (FB, Insta, Threads, etc). I don't know if their off-shored content moderators just have something against Japan. Which is possible. Tl;dr Threads is boring.
TikTok is an even bigger waste of time than Threads. The app hogs up several gigabytes of precious phone space for no good reason, and the constant stream of video reels are designed for sustained dopamine overloads. When I got my phone, I was able to get one with 256GB of storage, so I'm nowhere near running out. But still! It's not like I can expand that storage, and if an app's data doesn't serve me, then it doesn't need to be on my phone.
Going to Daylight Savings Time doesn't mean losing an hour of sleep for me. It just means losing an hour of being awake. Priorities.
Initially, I just had all my N-scale stuff set up on a regular Ikea table. Then I ran out of table surface. So I built another table out of wood, except for the legs, which I got from Ikea. This gave me a larger surface to work with. Except I'm already hitting the limits of that. Well, I can just put some plywood over what I built. If I decide later on that N isn't right for me, I can sell off the whole collection and then sell the DIY table or something.
I'd still like to get a Shinkansen train set. They're sold in sets of 8, with one set having the end cars and a power unit and a few others, and the other set having the rest of the cars to fill out the full consist. As it turns out, they don't always run a full 16 car train in Japan. Even in N scale, a full 16-car Shinkansen would need almost 9 feet of track. That's a bit much. So I could just get an 8-car set and be done with it.
At work, I've been compiling a list of skills that new techs in my department should learn and know. In order to get into the position in the first place, one must pass an electronics test. But I learned early on that electronics isn't the only thing important to the job. Knowledge about simple mechanical concepts, chemistry, air and water, machining, and so on. Hence, the list. I call it the "Special High-Intensity Training" list.
Back in 2023, I signed up for Threads, which was Facebook's take on the short-form social network, making it a direct competitor to Twitter. Except it didn't work out like that, at least not for the anime crowd. What I found was, Threads is unfriendly to the anime community on average and downright intolerant of the grittier underbelly of fandom. The Touhou memes, the hentai, denpa, video & gacha games, hentai, fansub discussions of obscure anime, doujin works, hentai, vtuber shenanigans, and so on, it just ain't there on Threads. Especially the hentai and anything that could be potentially mistaken for something that alludes to it. Someone can post animu tiddy on X or BlueSky all day every day and face no real consequence for it but will get suspended or banned on Threads almost instantly. In other words, my friends aren't there. It does have people who are into the bigger mainstream shows, and that's about it. It's not just Threads, it's all of Meta (FB, Insta, Threads, etc). I don't know if their off-shored content moderators just have something against Japan. Which is possible. Tl;dr Threads is boring.
TikTok is an even bigger waste of time than Threads. The app hogs up several gigabytes of precious phone space for no good reason, and the constant stream of video reels are designed for sustained dopamine overloads. When I got my phone, I was able to get one with 256GB of storage, so I'm nowhere near running out. But still! It's not like I can expand that storage, and if an app's data doesn't serve me, then it doesn't need to be on my phone.
Going to Daylight Savings Time doesn't mean losing an hour of sleep for me. It just means losing an hour of being awake. Priorities.
