Yeah, I didn’t watch this video b/c I’m at work, but I have seen his ebike video so I’m assuming the construction is similarly well thought out.

It’s just that all the fuses and BMSs can’t protect against a dodgy cell that decides to self-immolate. For cheap, disposable devices that are only meant to be charged 5-10 times or less and then thrown away, I’m super wary of the batteries that are chosen for those. Have seen too many things burst into flames and even expensive well cared-for devices turn into spicy pillows.

“Home Insurance Companies Hate This One Simple Trick”

That guy’s got some brass ones, lol.

I’ve upcycled disposable vape batteries for lots of projects, but never anything that draws significant amounts of current. Usually powering ESP8266/ESP32 projects that draw a couple hundred mAh at most.

While I’m all for keeping thing out of the landfill, I would be absolutely terrified to put that many questionable quality lithium batteries into an array let alone try to draw any substantial amperage from them.

I get a twitch every time I see the damn sparkle icon/emoji.

I challenge you to a race around the world. Go! [beat] Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

This is c/DadJokes though…

I think the point of 11h is to achieve that kind of range without directional antennas. Basically as a higher-bandwidth version of LoRa.

Took me a second to get that. Gross. But also lol

Yeah, that one took me a minute. I think “drip” or “slow drip”? I know “drip” used to be a term but was never one I associated with “screwball” or “crackpot”. Usually I’d heard “drip” to mean something closer to “dull” or “boring”.

In the 90s, before I learned Spanish, it was Macarena

Talk to the hand! Cause the face ain’t listening.

Veren zol fun dir a blintse

Pretty decent unless there’s a lot of animation / video in them. Calling, texting, looking up something on the internet, bank app, auth app, etc all work great. Some of the stock Android components don’t work super great with it, though, like the quick action buttons (though, arguably, they don’t work great on any Android phone either lol).

Feels sluggish at times but that’s just the e-ink being what it is. I mostly treat it like a dumb phone that’s also an e-reader.

I’ve always joked that coding as a hobby is just digital knitting lol.

I’ve gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.

I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one “distraction” the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it’s got an e-ink screen).

Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025

I’m just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value 😆

🎶I caught crabs in paradise. And, yes, I mean both kinds of crabs.🎶

Update: Yes! Seems to be. Calipers confirm the diameter. TYVM!

Thanks. I’ll grab my calipers and confirm if the measurements are correct. Specs say MHF4 is 1.13mm.

Can you, like, just post the YouTube link so my browser extension can re-write it to the Invidious instance running in my basement instead of one that’s slow, overloaded, and halfway across the world?

Anyone who cares is already re-writing Youtube links, and posting links to random Invidious instance is just inconveniencing us.

And the same goes to anyone else posting Invidious links and thinking they’re “sticking it to the man”. You’re not. Most people don’t care, and you’re only sticking it to the people who do care by forcing us to use a non-preferred instance.

Just 👏 post 👏 the 👏 Youtube 👏 link.