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I'm heading in to work tomorrow at 3am to trigger the time lapse camera that I setup this afternoon using my A7IV. If all goes to plan it'll take at least 3000 still frames over a 24 hour period and not fall from the sky (it's mounted ~100' in the air). It's on a smallrig mount with multiple tethers so it shouldn't be capable of flight and should be rigid enough to be stable/consistent throughout. If I get the video cleared for public release I'll post it.

Oliver Lieb's latest release -- nice background music, pretty much designed for coding/researching/reading/&c. Just energetic enough to energize me; just diverse enough to keep my interest without demanding to be engaged with my frontal lobe. https://oliverlieb.bandcamp.com/album/recovered-frequencies-vol-1

I made a jambalaya that turned out well enough I didn’t get to take a picture of it.

Thanks non-robot buddy!

My point was not that made in china was crappy, it was that made in china is priced such that made in usa cannot compete. Audio-GD for example makes ultra high caliber equipment, and at a price that i cannot even buy the parts for. Ksa5 boards now on ebay that are my layout stuffed with parts and assembled and sell for a fair bit less than i can buy the parts for.

This is not aerospace. It is not even a cell phone. It is a crappy little headphone amplifier which is just some standard off the shelf parts soldered to a simple PCB. It is going to be the same whether made in China, Russia, or the U.S. Whether it sounds good depends upon the design and implementation of the circuit, not the quality of the PCB or the manufacturing.

Sadly, the Head-Case intelligence quotient is now less.

My advice to you is--if you really do want to understand what you think are divergent opinions--to go back and read the last several posts carefully and get the not so subtle hint.

Nate, you make some valid points. I do not know you at all other than my impression of you based on your posts, but I greatly respect your viewpoint because of them. You have long been one of the core group of people here and at HF who's opinions hold great weight. I totally understand your viewpoint on this. I really do. Perhaps a few here (myself included) have come off a bit harsh and/or disrespectful to Alex. Having said that, in my view, this thread started out as an exposé of an inferior design with safety issues and shoddy workmanship. That all changed with the blasé poofy response from Alex. Glossing over obvious facts (like the soldering), having the "if it does not fail, it must be fine" attitude, and ending with the statement he did is a bit insulting, no? Also, in my view, it is extremely insulting to the consumer to shell out a LOT of money for an obviously inferior product. So yes, you are right, a few of us might have been disrespectful to Alex, but a few words are a lot more benign than selling what he is for the price of a used car while telling people to accept it for what it is.

RIP Marjane Satrapi, director of ‘Persepolis’, “who died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marjane-satrapi-dead-persepolis-director-56-1236613671/