Just got one from a local electronic parts shop! Brand new in a box, and it even has a warranty ticket. What am I gonna do with it? Not sure... but it's a nice addition to my collection.

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Joan Lambert, the navigator on Nostromo and the penultimate surviving character in Alien, was recently hailed as an example of trans representation: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/04/alien-trans-character-joan-lambert-veronica-cartwright/

She had a bottom surgery in a very early age, but does it mean she was trans? She definitely would be if she had it at some point in her life as one of the steps in her transition, but getting one right after birth means that either the parents wanted a child of different gender, or she was intersex, had a "normalizing" surgery and was coercively assigned female at birth. This is still done today, and no one except for intersex people's rights activists seems to give a shit...

Congrats @NASA on the Artemis launch - we're getting there. Again!

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An old video (definitely 2021; see me with no bangs and no funky knife?) that got posted on my deadname channel rather than this one. Another surprise record unboxing, this time it's good old David Bowie. Ch-ch-changes!

No real deal mike, all recorded with a mobile over the workbench. Oh, and the SN34/1 stereo amp I was building back then.

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Back with a vengeance! No amount of harmonic distortion will stop me from doing that stream. So, let's have some action with the Tektronix and some other stuff...

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Rings a bell!

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Talking about current and future projects at Keritech Electronics.

0:00 Intro

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My first attempts at video editing. Footage taken at the Book Art Museum in Łódź, Poland where I worked for five years and developed the rpi2caster - Raspberry Pi based controller for Monotype composition casters. A line of text is shown being cast on that very machine.

The video is wobbly as I recorded it with a Sony HD camcorder on a tripod standing on the machine itself, which means that vibrations from the machine were transferred to the camera. I didn't have a better way of doing it.

Music by Dariusz "Balon" Adrynańczyk and the TypoMachinesCru music project, which I participated in, operating the typecasting machines.

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A little intro sequence I made for my videos, featuring the tubes on my WS-1 amplifier and the tune from an experimental music project I once took part in.

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Repairing an amplifier for my queerfriend's brother. The amp was said to be not working on one channel, and it turned out that the fuse socket was loose... Later on another problem showed: the speaker protection fuses were .16A instead of 1.6A and they both blew through bench testing on a dummy load. After fixing those issues, the amp started working correctly.

Recapacitulation followed.

BTW why does Youtube not have basic cutting or rotation functionality in the editor?

Trying to fix a well-worn clutch on a mixer made of finest grade Chinesium with no spare parts available. Heatshrink tube to the rescue, though I'd rather use 3D printing or molding to make a new spline, if I had access to the technology. Lefthand thread spotted too.

Thanks to all my subscribers for reaching the first milestone (100 subs). We're getting out there, thanks for your help!

Very disappointed about Youtube still not letting me choose a custom channel link, although I fulfilled last one of the requirements (100+ subscribers) on the Saturday night. All other requirements (30+ days since channel creation, and profile pic & banner uploaded) were met a few months ago when I was setting it all up. This kinda blocks my progress here (especially with promoting my channel, setting up a Patreon page etc.) and is rather demotivating...

I was also looking for help at the YT support forum, found more than just a few people there who had this very problem in 2021, and they got the same kind of replies: the list of requirements for being eligible for a custom URL. I mean, they probably reported an issue on the forum BECAUSE they knew about these requirements beforehand and that they met them, right? And yet they got the same kind of reply: "your channel must be at least 30 days old, you must have a banner, a profile pic and at least 100 subscribers" yadda yadda yadda. Which to me is just implying that the creator reporting this issue is not really smart. Meh.

I guess every tier of creators has their own Kryptonite, but we all have that one thing in common: YT does not lay out the rules clearly or stick to them, rigging the game against us.