I got some hot glue on my hand on accident once well over a decade ago, that hurt like hell.

Plaster would be really fun to get into playing with, but I just don’t have the space for something that messy, eg. if you soak cloths in the plaster and put them on an armature of some kind, the mess level with that is like paper mache turned up to 11, and would be just as fun to play with; but that type of thing really needs room to breathe, as it were.

A non-traditional lawn? Instead of just grass everywhere, set up a biodiverse lawn with wild grasses that are safe for bunnies and such to eat as well as other things which don’t require constant watering or mowing or anything and also attract bees and such.

This is gonna kill Linux, which I’m sure is the intention.

Even PCs are leaning in that direction now, eg. with Strix Halo’s IGP legitimately beating some mid-range GPUs.

ENG has even standardized on a DIN plug for power delivery since forever as well; anything from camcorders to monitors or studio cameras uses a DIN plug for external power. Cathode Ray Dude goes over this stuff quite a bit in some of his earlier vids.

Leave the US for a country that hasn’t turned into a dictatorship yet.

It’s gone for good now, fully replaced by the Mac Studio.

This is probably an extreme take, but kids shouldn’t be anywhere near a tablet while they’re still really young especially.

Well, I did a huge chalk drawing on a sheet of tiling backer board for an art contest once over a decade ago and ended up looking like a smurf by the end of it.

The fact that chalk is as messy as it is is a huge part of why it’s so fun to play with, chalk is basically like dry fingerpaints, at least if you forego the blending stump.

But yeah, the biggest messes I’ve made in recent years are any time I’ve gotten my chalk out to play with basically.

Beyond that there’s playing in the mud when I was a really young kid and still living in Washington state at the time, and the countless glitter crafts and stuff I did in school growing up like pretty much everyone else in here has probably done.

PS: I hope I’m not the only one on this thread whose messes are normal, and just part of, and IMO the fun part of, making physical art or crafts in the case of my chalk art story. Like, I’ve come across some screwed-up stories on this thread and mine seem to be the most normal of the bunch.

The ENG field has had two battery mount standards in the form of the V-mount and the Anton Bauer Gold Mount for decades now, and both are interchangeable; you could swap a Gold Mount plate for a V-mount plate or vice-versa.

And on the consumer front, Sony’s Infolithium might as well be standardized as there’s lights which use Infolithium packs and you can buy generic battery packs in that format and still be able to power your Handycam from the mid '90s, for example.

That’s what sealed-beam headlights used to be before composite housings which are proprietary to a given vehicle were legalized.

In fact, sealed-beams are still widely used in commercial vehicles because of their standardization to a point where they can be picked up anywhere and they’re just gonna work.

An open phone standard, and no, I do not mean the ‘Open Handset Alliance’ that doesn’t even live up to its name, I mean like an ATX-equivalent standard for mobile devices.

An open-source ISA already exists in RISC-V, maybe that hypothetical ATX-for-mobile-devices standard could standardize around that for starters, as for an OS, it could standardize around non-Android Linux and maybe even some BSD mobile OSes instead of Google pulling some MS-in-the-'90s crap for Android like they’re doing right now.

Devuan is also a low-friction alt-init option for those who are on Debian, and then of course one could go to Void or Slackware as well.

If you’re already on Arch, Artix will be easier to move to, although you’ll need to enable Arch’s [extra] and [multilib] repos to fix any potential dependency issues from some packages not being available in the Artix repos.

And with any Arch install, which also includes Artix, CachyOS, or EndeavourOS, I’ll still recommend enabling [chaotic-aur] as it makes dealing with the AUR easier as it offers most of the AUR as precompiled binaries.

That’s an option, and one I already took having recently moved to Artix.

Custom ROMs are unaffected, for now, but Google’s gonna find other ways to kill those.

Systemd is pushing age-gating at the init level, which means the majority of Linux will be age-gated, whether they want to be or not.

Also, Amutable wants to add Android-style attestation to systemd, which means if they get their way, the majority of Linux will be as locked down as Android as far as telling you what and what not to install for apps.

Here’s the Lemmy post discussing Amutable.

This is happening to PCs now too, eg. with the OS ‘age-gating’ laws that IMO only exist to quell competition for MS, Google, and Apple.

Fuck ‘Madoff’ Altman.