Whether real or a toy, you need a specific environment to get a good picture with them. It just doesn’t make a ton of sense to me to get a projector when TVs are so dirt cheap these days.

Carl, we told you not to divide by 0 again!

Smaller process means less energy. Less energy means less heat. Less heat can mean faster operation. So without changing any of the layout or logic of the chip itself to make it more efficient, just shrinking the process alone will give you a speed boost.

But it goes further than that. Chips are cut from a wafer. The cost to make that wafer is (for the most part) constant. So if you can only make 20 or if you can make 2000 chips from that one wafer, it ultimately costs the same. But then that means the more CPUs that can be made per wafer, the per-CPU cost drops.

So you get a more power efficient, cooler, faster and cheaper chip when you shrink the process. The entire semiconductor industry is so dependent on this idea that it invests billions into it every year because it is so vitally important.

Yes, it is infuriating, but getting mad at the situation only makes things worse. It isn’t like they will change or “get better” - you (hopefully) get better from a cold or illness. You don’t exactly “get better” from old age.

If they listen to you at all, consider that a win. If they are financially in decent condition, that’s also a massive win. If you can convince them to improve their health that has the potential to help the situation - eat better, maybe go for walks around the neighborhood.

I am going to assume that you don’t live with them, so one thing that has helped my mother tremendously is getting her an iPad. Both parents (who are older than OP’s parents by quite a bit) are not tech savvy in the slightest bit (I can not stress enough how NOT techie they are), plus their native language is not English, so communication for them has always been a little difficult. But getting my mother an iPad and installing Facebook on it was easily the best gift ever. She is able to communicate with relatives she hasn’t seen in decades. She can video chat with people 1/2 way around the world. It really is pretty amazing, especially since before the iPad, she’s never used a computer or had an email address or anything like that. Facebook gets a lot of well-deserved hate, but set it up for them, block whatever you can block and just make the it as streamlined as possible for them to use it. The large screen size on the iPad works infinitely better than a small phone screen.

When a gun is used 100% correctly, it will kill.

When a hammer is used 100% incorrectly, it will kill.

Far too many smart locks that are connected to a deadbolt use an actuator which can be tripped with a powerful magnet. No way would I trust them.

The LPL would have had to test them for me to trust them.

What part is in question?

Antiperspirants don’t really reduce how much you sweat.

They just reduce how much you sweat at your armpits. They use aluminum to essentially clog your armpit sweat glands to keep them from sweating too much. But you are sweating for a reason - because your body thinks it is hot, so you just end up sweating more in other parts of your body. It isn’t some magic no-sweat medicine.

We got a baller over here!

:swooon:

I’ve made a few logos. One of them I used to make a stamping die that deformed some sheet metal. Worked shockingly well.

I’ve also made a simple phone mount and a lens for the glovebox. My ultimate plan is to make the housing for new headlights, but lack of time and wanting to scan rather than measure the sheetmetal opening has slowed me down on that project.

I’ll tell you what, using that points distributor on my Lulzbot has sped up printing considerably! Unfortunately the print nozzle connected to the 401 nailhead sure makes the Buick hard to start.

Why not both!? I’ve used one to make parts for the other.

Depends on the number of axis.

Oh, let me add “can’t take any responsibility or else they experience PTSD or some other debilitating mental trauma” to my list.

Young people can’t do anything these days without their emotional support ferrets or without their phones clutched in their hands so they can ask the internet what to think. Also fresh air and green grass is somehow scary to them, as is any kind of social interaction. They also can’t take any responsibility for anything or else they experience PTSD or some other debilitating mental trauma.

What a useless generation.

You have any idea how much Roundup costs?! Just cut the plants down instead of spraying them.

Absolutely no good reason not to have a license. Be it for the occasional rental or borrowing someone’s car once in a while. Or just being able to drive someone’s car across town if something happened.

They are laughing at you, not with you.

Taxi is something that travelers use a lot of. You fly into a foreign city that speaks a language you don’t understand, but if the native population want to get your tourist money, they better know what you call a “car for hire” service. Seems like it is an easy word to say that could be quickly adopted by most languages for economic reasons.

Plus, cars have only been around for just 100 years, so there is no historic word for a taxi that goes back 1000 years. Every language would need to create a new word for that service, so might as well just adopt what other languages use. The same is true for a lot of technology terms. For instance, I know the word “computer” is very similar in Greek, Spanish, Italian, Russian and probably a ton of other languages.

Of all the fast food joints, Arby’s is highly underrated.