temp range is necessary if you’re working with different solders & you want to hit them with just the minimum to get them wet
warm-up time if you have a limited schedule
accuracy is very important so you don’t waste time waiting for wet when the iron is undershooting or (worse) fry a component with too much heat. but you can always dial it in a bit hot manually
tip compatibility is uh, I have a bag of tips and realistically only use one (medium chisel)
the big spec you want with an iron is how well it maintains heat when you sink it onto a pad/component. it should recover pretty quickly when dumping heat into pads/components, to lesser the chance of a cold joint (which are a giant pain to track down if they work 90% of the time). more Watts (power) is best. dialing it a bit hot helps thermal recovery, else just being patient and slow
got bored, spent yesterday going on a Linux adventure on main computer
presumably because I hate myself
I thought Fedora 35 was perfect up until I realized something was borked with the GPU driver where OGL was rending incorrectly and vkcube gave me a persistent hitching
vkcube is a cube. it’s probably 12 polygons. it was hitching.
Endeavour: nope, still too dumb/lazy for Arch
Elementary: it, uh, actually refused to boot into a live environment from UEFI and legacy boot, so
openSuse: well, everything I want is available and vulkan worked and my only issue is finding a window tiler that does what I want, but I think using Suse makes me a relative Linux pervert
Google crashes the first time I open it every time, and I have to open it a second time
Pages reload randomly in all browsers
Apps close themselves after extremely short windows even when they’re the last thing I had open
GPS voice changes in the middle of sentences. I’m talking 3 completely different voices randomly speaking words in every sentence, at different volumes.
Dismissing my overnight alarm early no longer dismisses the associated do not disturb mode - I have to turn it off manually
Night mode filter doesn’t fade in anymore, it just pops on all at once. I think this is probably because I was fussing with settings trying to turn off that godawful bounce at the end of scrolling, so it might be on me.
Websites load slower in all browsers - I’m talking 5-20 second delays where it was previously 1-2 seconds
Sometimes dragging down for notifications instead shows the settings as if I dragged down twice
Attaching things in discord means I can’t type for at least 5 seconds or I’ll click through my keyboard and attach more things
I swear to God I get way more misclicks now in general
When I am playing music and lock my phone, the screen always turns back on after about 30 seconds and never turns off unless I do it a second time. Since it has controls on it, I end up skipping songs in my pocket unless I wait 30 seconds to turn it off a second time
The time on the lock screen is sometimes BIG NUMBERS, sometimes small numbers, and sometimes a second, slightly different set of small numbers. I cannot tell why it switches between these at all since I have no notifications on my lock screen
These are just the things I’d consider bugs. Other things I hate about the design:
If I open my notifications bar to see the date, I can’t see the time anymore. If I swipe down a second time to open the settings, I can see the time again. Why hide it once?
The notifications bar slides down but also fades out the screen below it. One or the other, why both?
The icons pop slightly out of the folders instead of staying inside the folders
Everything, and I mean everything, is slower. Just a little bit. The responsiveness is garbage.
The settings menus, in particular the Accessibility menu, is full of submenus and sub-submenus now.
Can’t swipe for more quick settings in the notifications bar anymore, instead have to drag down twice, then swipe. And some of the options are still hidden unless I manually added them.
Pretty sure my battery is draining faster as well.
It’s harder to see if I have more than 4 emails in a single notification - the icon is smaller and in the upper right instead of a big “+2” below the other notifications.
I was going to do this upgrade regardless, and I only really did it a couple of weeks earlier than I originally intended, so no shade to @boojiboy7 for saying it’s fine - I’m sure it is perfectly fine for 99% of everyone. I say all the time that I’m absolutely cursed when it comes to electronics and this is no exception. I’d guess I’m the only person experiencing most of the above for whatever reason.
I’m going to need to figure out how to back up all my data and switch to a different firmware because i hate using my phone now.
The Pro and the Mini are both reasonable options imo – the max is ridiculous (and it was annoying that it had exclusive features last gen, glad they rectified that) and there’s not enough reason to get the base model over the pro
I picked up a 13 Pro while taking my mom to the Apple store and immediately put it down so the refresh rate didn’t ruin me. Otherwise happy with my 13 mini.
Then the salespeople kept asking me what I was doing and messing up my typing tests
