I’ve fitted one into my old pickup, but again not worth the amount of complication that they generally come with, eg a massive screen in the dash and the canbus nonsense to go with it. I’d rather not have the level of canbus integration of modern cars, where a locking module or whatever failing can stop the whole car working

Not sure that it’ll be available this side of the Atlantic that soon, but it does seem pretty interesting

That’s very much my thinking, the kits have come down in price a huge amount recently, so it’s almost achievable now

I’d love to buy an electric car, but I want one with no electronics, if that makes sense. Electric power train, but no screens, “driver aids” or other nonsense

Brotato!

Good lad, fuck Palantir in every way possible

Yes, but also yes

Most of mine are just like that, but getting the TS100 is a real bonus for SMD stuff, for heavy stuff,and primarily for me can run off my Dewalt drill batteries. Being temp controlled with swappable bits with different elements means you can go from a tiny tip to a massive wedge using the full 100w very easily, and being able to do that inside a speaker can in a field without having to find an inverter or whatever is well worth the price of admission

I thought it had peaked when I had to put a hacked firmware onto my soldering iron

At the bottom of the bag

Is this “bitcoin” in the room with us now?

This is the way

Had me in the first half, “European parliament bans lawmakers from…” had me wondering what fresh hell this was heading into, before the “using AI tools” gave me back a shred of hope for the future

French Autistic Detective

That really wasn’t a fun place to visit. Powerful, and if you’ve the head for it worthwhile, but fuck me if that wasn’t the most harrowing holiday day out I’ve ever had

Hey baby, are you a school? Coz I want to shoot kids in you

I think if you use them pretty hard, Leatherman becomes more reasonable, as I’ve used their lifetime warranty twice in five years, and will probably have this thing for another decade or two. No other multitool I’ve owned has stood up to how I use them, so their price is really justified for a get-out-of-the-shit tool for my use case. That said, I bought an Amazon one with extremely similar functionality for my mate’s kid recently for about £20, and it’s really impressive. For most people I guess that would last long enough to make the warranty a non-issue, and it will definitely do 9/10ths of what a Leatherman will

Hah, yep, that sailed straight over my head! That’s a dense boost…

Yeah, I got one of these for my camera gear, but have found hundreds of other uses for it

Nah not really, but it comes with a belt pouch though. It’s a little bit bigger than say a boost or a double decker or whatever, and it’s definitely heavy, but not spiky or awkward to keep in a pocket