To test and see what all it can and can't do.

I'm pretty impressed honestly. Although it can't do everything, it can sure do a lot!

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I basically followed this guide here...

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment

Plus, in case you need an onscreen keyboard with basically all the buttons (you probably will unless you have an external keyboard), I highly suggest Hacker's Keyboard

I'm still getting things set up, but yeah it even runs Firefox (but you gotta install that yourself) 👍

It probably runs quite a bit more than that too, but I need to do some house cleaning to free up some more space. I'm sure I can find some apps I ain't ever gonna use..

There's an app I keep on all my Android devices (dunno about iPhone), called Survival Manual, as part of my prep information.

Its a totally offline app, all information is local on your device, so it works just fine even if you don't have internet.

That would indeed be the one, yeah 👍

They ran out of Elmer's Glue.. 🤷

Eat them, obviously 🍴

Well thank you kindly 👍

Cursive is also easier for me, for what should be mostly obvious reasons. But sadly these days, more and more people don't really know how to read or write cursive, so I figured why not try to challenge myself and step my skills up a notch..

Unfortunately, doing this in print style takes more material, as I have to backtrack over more strokes and make more sharp bends, but as a first attempt, I'm not entirely disappointed. I'm almost certain the next time I try print style, it ought to be just a little easier (barely), and should hopefully come out a bit better.

Still, with all that said, I too prefer the cursive style, but sometimes I just like a good challenge...

Just make sure to boil him first, I'm pretty sure that should break down the chemicals, right? 🤔

Or just feed him to the pigs, either way 🤷

DE razor. But yeah, like I said, I'm lazy about shaving, I might shave my sideburns, cheeks, and under my chin every couple months LOL, so that's probably got something to do with it lasting me so long.

I do have to say this though, my beard hairs can be like an inch long, and I can weed whack almost all of what I shave off in the first pass with it set wide open, and only have to quick clean it once and a second pass gets the rest. 👍

Yeah, those top 'tits', for lack of a better term, on the 'r' and the 'n' were about the tightest bends in the whole thing, and I had intended to fold the 'n' very similarly to the 'r', as apparently that worked, albeit a tight squeeze of a fit for the tools I'm currently using.

Those letters, plus the 'a', actually have 3 layers to them in a few spots to accomplish the shape, very tricky to get even close to right. Once a tight bend is made, there's really no going back.

The thing that happened with the 'n' is basically that my roommate got really annoying and distracting right about that time, and it caused me to lose focus and I made a bend 90⁰ in the wrong direction.

I pretty much knew it was gonna be a loss at that point, but I figured I'd try to salvage it anyways, but nope, it broke ☹️

I do consider this a first of its kind for me practice piece anyways, so it's not a huge loss for me, plus I have plenty more coat hangers where that came from, so I'll just try again later.

Hey, I did learn quite a bit in the process at least, not quite sure about every letter in the alphabet yet, but I think they're all possible, just a lot of doubling back on many letters.

If it counts for anything, after I posted this, I went ahead and kinda bodged in a patch piece to finish the 'n' to see basically what the finished product would end up looking like. 🤷

I'm sure if I try again later, it'll probably go a bit easier, as I won't have to stop and think as much which way to bend what, and can focus more on trying to be more consistent with the measurements.

The cursive ones I just freehand, no template, but trying to do print, yeah I need a template to go by, which is now drawn at least.

Always disinfect and dry the blade after each use, with rubbing alcohol. Not only are you disinfecting it, you're also drying it out so the mechanism and the blade won't end up rusting.

I have been using the same blade for over 6 years, and it still seems just as sharp as brand new, partly because I always disinfect and dry mine immediately after each use, and also partly because I'm lazy and don't shave often LOL!

Hey, you treat it right, it'll last you damn near forever. But yeah, if you ever feel you need to replace the blade, well by all means do, at least they're super cheap 👍

Yes, indeed I was looking to finish the last lowercase 'n' properly, along with proper underline to finish it.

Obnoxious distractions came along, which I'm disappointed with, but caused me to lose focus while bending the sharp points on the 'n', causing the break.

I spent hours on this, almost had the first practice prototype close to right, yet my roommate (who wanted to see me take it from paper sketch to real life), decided to act like a toddler while I was bending the last letter, like 'look at me look at me look at me...'

Stupid shit. I'm still disappointed with my roommate, he wanted to see me bring my pencil sketch to life, but managed to be a mosquito in my ear while bending the last letter.

I spent like 5 hours on it, sketch through bending...

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I'll keep that in mind, when I manage to get the print version right, or close enough, without breaking it..

I've already shared my previous recent similar works here, figured I'd keep my relevant practice works here, until I hopefully get better at least..

A difference between cursive vs 'print' type, is that I can freehand the cursive, but the print type requires many more very sharp bends, and a pre-drawn template to follow. Once a sharp bend is in place, there's little room for correction until it breaks.. ☹️

Oh, as far as dotting the 'i', well it's impossible to do that with a contiguous piece of coathanger or other wire properly, so I figure if someone wants their 'i's dotted properly, well just stick a thumbtack in the wall above it LOL!

Unless you have another idea, I'm game for slight suggestions. Still, I'm gonna tend to doing such things as I see them.

But yeah, this experiment of trying simple underlined print proves extremely challenging, and also leads to more material use due to the extra sharp bends and overlaps taking up more material, so even if I would have completed my name in underlined print style, I would have just barely gotten the 5 letters out of it..

It's not finished, it's broken ☹️

It's a new style I'm trying for the first time, way more complicated than cursive writing..

Ah yes, I remember the flying tank in GTA 3 and Vice City with the Dodo Cheat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0bc4okyHAM

LPT: Make sure to disable the Dodo Cheat before getting into a helicopter, otherwise the game will freeze crash.

I'm not so sure this was engraved vs stamped out.

Look at the very center of the chest, where the horizontal line touches the large oval underneath. The lines don't line up around what's apparently some sort of welded/soldered seam.

If the pattern was engraved directly on the otherwise finished blank armor, then those lines would definitely line up.

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Back in the day, I dinked around with the Windows registry, and found one value under the Recycle Bin CLSID key that you can change a couple of flag bits, to enable Rename and even Delete in the right click context menu of the Recycle Bin, and both actually work LOL!

Once the Recycle Bin is deleted though, it doesn't just stop working, it just disappears from the Desktop, and can only be restored in another area of the registry under the Desktop NameSpace key by adding the Recycle Bin CLSID back.

Definitely not safe, so very understandable that Microsoft (before the slop era of course) would disable deletion of the Recycle Bin. I have no idea why they'd also disable the ability to Rename the Recycle Bin though, I'd always enable that flag bit, so I could rename it to Shit Can Hahaha!

Class Identifier {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} (Recycle Bin) did not appear until Windows 95. I'm pretty sure they should be referring specifically to Windows 11, as it's still receiving updates.

All seriousness aside, let me inform you that if you install any variation of the Calmira Shell in Windows 3.11, and indeed it does actually come with an equivalent Recycle Bin functionality, though it wasn't programmed by M$, so you should be safe 👍

Anyways, M$ seems to have shot themselves in both feet in recent years, so I recommend you throw Windows into the Trash (don't recycle), and install Linux instead...

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That's the formula for Brawndo, obviously