Igor Forgor

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  • This particular project you might be able to get away without soldering if you use a breakout / expansion board like shown and just screw terminal down the wires. If you are feeling a bit more ambitious, you could design a PCB and have it fabricated for you by a service such as jlcpcb or pcbway

    Should you still require soldering:

    There are soldering stations, irons and guns that have automatic or trigger pull solder feed which can help with single handed operation - the cheaper feed solder guns will do well for something larger like through hole for simple projects like this. Id get some heavy weights, some kind of board stand/clamps, and kapton tape in a heavy / mounted to desk holder do you can pull tape off and use it to put on the board to hold things down / together / insulate other parts from slipping with the iron tip.

    If you are just doing wire to wire joints, there are some heat shrink solder couplings that you can put on like its heat shrink over twisted wires and heating it over 150C with a heat gun will solder it together (e.g. electriduct).

    I haven’t personally had much luck with helping hands but ymmv. Soldering mat is good for spilled solder drops or if you accidentally hit the tip on the table. Solder flux (get in a syringe or squeeze bottle) helps a ton with getting a good joint. Also, some isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs / a rag / a toothbrush are good for cleaning the flux off once you are done - if you dont do this, the joint can corrode down the line. You will also want a fume extractor; basically a fan with a carbon filter, similar to an air purifier. This will keep the flux fumes out of your face and lungs.

    A hotplate and some tweezers could also help with surface mount stuff since you can just use the weights to hold it down and poke at stuff while letting the hotplate do the heating /soldering

    To sum it up

    Things you WILL need to solder:

    • solder (leaded probably better; just wash hands)
    • flux (syringe or squeeze bottle)
    • soldering iron/ gun (perhaps with wire feed)
    • some kind of stand/weights for holding the boards / wires
    • tweezers
    • fume extractor

    Things I think would really help:

    • silicone mat
    • isopropyl alcohol and swabs / rag / tissues
    • kapton tape (or other polyamide tape, the orangey stuff) and a dispenser / holder
    • normal heatshrink tubing/insulation

    Nice to have but might not be necessary:

    • hotplate
    • heatshrink solder couplings






  • The average person just doesnt care about things as long as they are placated and their most base needs are met. Many people actively avoid or are angered by having to think for themselves (see the “its not that deep” crowd).

    You end up with

    1. a large non voting population that just listens and passively supports whatever the most popular ideas are
    2. a small but vocal, fervent minority that drowns out everyone else and is backed by corporate interests. Typically these corporate interests are able to pay people to advocate for whatever they want, bribe politicians, whatever.
    3. A minority of people who tend to actually think for themselves, have more empathy / be less individualistic but have their voices, ideas and causes suppressed by the people in 2.

    In the US, republicans are 2. and Democrats try to appeal to 2 since theyre paid by those same corporate interests when their voting base is actually 1. This leads to people in 1 who would otherwise have voted for them feeling like theyre unheard since the democratic rhetoric either appeals to 2 or denies the realities and actual popular ideas

    Add on top of that capitalistic pressures on the average working person and people tend to become more selfish and individualistic, which causes ppl in 1. to just not vote if the democrats dont give them what they want, 2. to always vote republican because they fall for the propaganda, and 3. to either vote Democrat anyways as harm reduction or not vote because the Dems dont listen.

    Really, it is the apathy of the more “left” party to what people actually want that pushes people towards anyone who will listen, which tends to be the more “right” party that will try to activate any fear they can and promise people the moon just to get a vote, even if they never have an intention on delivering.












  • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlMe Living In the US
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    1 year ago

    Then after retirement and benefits it’s anywhere from 20% to 50%. I’m at about 25% just with tax, 36% with benefits and retirement.

    Depending on if your deductions are calculated correctly (you have to negotiate that with your job) you might end up getting a refund layer or have to pay, so in reality my rate is more like 30% overall. People with more expensive insurance or less tax credits and or other things on top of that are going to have it worse off.

    I make half what I would need to be able to afford buying a home in my area and be able to make mortgage payments and still have money left