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Ultrasonic manual advises not to use ammonia and to use /cold/ water
  • Ammonia is specifically used for cleaning fine jewelry like gold. It’s in a lot of jewelry cleaner products. So maybe the ammonia isn’t good for the machine? Idk. Or it’s just another legal thing to cover some butts.

  • 'Barbenheimer' highlights U.S. ignorance of nuclear reality
  • Almost certain aftermath photos are included in textbooks when I was in school. As well these images are found on the internet.

    I know these things aren’t mutually exclusive but Japan should focus more on apologizing for its own atrocities in WWII that led to the necessity of the bombs. The Rape of Nanjing had as many innocent deaths as the 2 nuclear bombs combined.

    (Also also it seems to get overlooked frequently, but the Allies could have kept fire bombing cities and it would’ve caused far more deaths then the atomic bombs caused.)

  • Question: How Do You Feel About Tackpads?
  • Square because trackpads have always been that way my dude and can be set to a ratio similar to common screen sizes.

    Not awkward at all seeing how we hold smartphones these days and the onscreen keyboards are typically in the same location our thumbs need to reach when using both smartphones and the deck trackpads.

    Sure you can argue size is small but most likely the deck internals won’t allow for larger size.

    I liked/like the steam controller. I’ve got four. But the steam deck trackpads have been far and above more responsive for me.

  • Are these worth taking
  • Hard to tell but wouldn’t be difficult to strip down and clean up the parts for rebuild or selling.

    Probably tossed because of clogged parts that are easily fixed or replaced. I’d grab them and clean it up. Go from there.

  • Can someone explain Asteroid City to me?
  • I’ve found his movies to mean different thing to each viewer. Sometimes I find a new meaning in the stories each time I watch. I haven’t seen this one yet but I’ve seen all of the others. Personally I’ve liked fantastic mr fox the best. So many different feels.

    I think it defeats the purpose of his storytelling to have someone write it out for you.

  • Recommended multiplayer FPS?
  • Yeah the deck takes practice to get semi decent in fps. I’ve been trying to research if it’s possible to counter recoil movements in game with the deck controls. Nothing yet but maybe someone will figure a work around.

  • Recommended multiplayer FPS?
  • Counter strike works well on the deck.

    Insurgency sandstorm works well on the deck. Needs to be plugged in as it goes through battery fast.

    Battlebit Remastered is the latest that works well. Remap some buttons and it’s great.

    I use gyro aiming on all of these (turns on with using L2 for aiming.)

  • What do you guys think of riders republic
  • I was an early buyer of the game when it just was on Ubisoft and love every second of it. Recently I’ve had problems with my PCs gpu and am unable to play it on that and ubisoft launcher doesn’t work well on my steam deck. So it’s sadly been awhile since playing it.

    I got hooked on Steep and i think that they kept the feel of snowboarding pretty similar to that.

  • what happened to my cherry tree? and how to help him?
  • Ants farming aphids on the ends of your cherry branches. I’m dealing with it too. Can try neem oil but it’s doing nothing for me. I try to avoid serious pesticides but I had some permithrin laying around so sprayed the leaves to take care of the ants and aphids. I have dogs so have to be very careful. Also don’t want to harm bees.

    You can try a systemic aphid killer. Start it early next year to prevent this.

  • Football games on Steam Deck?
  • Getting other launchers to run can be tough so that’s probably why you’d think it won’t work. But to me it’s not worth the effort.

    I’d go with emulating. Any PS2 FIFA game will work great. I’ve gotten WiiU roms to run well. People have gotten Switch games to work (I tried BotE but I need to organize the game files on a separate computer first and see if I can get it to work.) PS3 was a hassle to setup and won’t even work after hours of setup. Ymmv.

    There are some indie games on steam you can try as well but they are more arcady.

  • Comic/Image Organizer

    I’m curious if there is a Comic/Image organizer that can help change titles to a huge selection of comics and manga that are all over the place with titles? Also setup a folder system on my hdd.

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    To the powers that be

    Is there anyway we can get some bots to pull in Twitter posts from some of the key NHL rumor mongers? I don’t venture into the twitterverse but I like to keep up to date with talk around the league.

    I feel like a bit aggregator could bring in more liveliness to this community. Not enough things to talk about on our own.

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    If anyone cares to inform me:

    Is there anything in the works to group subscribed communities so that a user can select the group to view only the communities in it on the feed?

    With the way federation works there are so many repeat communities across instances and it will stay this way for awhile I imagine until one community gains majority popularity. But til that day it would be nice to gather those communities into groupings (for example gaming; I’m subscribed to at least 5 of them named gaming) so that I can look at all of the posts without having to click a bunch of links.

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