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Anyone using laser engraving with a 20W laser needs to be exceptionally careful. That is 2000 times eye safe, and is a Class IV laser https://www.lasersafetyfacts.com/laserclasses.html . The raw beam will drill a hole in your retina, causing explosive boiling of whatever humor is next to the retina. Assuming that you aren't going to get the raw beam in your eye, scattered light from the focus is also far above eye safe. So - you absolutely need to wear safety goggles. Not Amazon hokey ones - but serious ones from say Thorlabs https://www.thorlabs.com/ , and expect to pay $200. Then interlock the door to prevent anyone in your household inadvertently walking in and getting eye damage. I spent many years working with lasers in this class, and wearing googles was mandatory as was interlocked doors. During laser safety training (also mandatory) an ex-Nam veteran said that nothing in active service remotely compared with the horror of looking at the world through his blood-filled eyeball. Nuff said.

Adios, Better Call Saul. 👏👏👏 It has been a great ride all these years. Glad I got to be on it.

Picked this up yesterday. I blame Andy @blubliss. 😜

I take that blame proudly.

Those last two episodes were really great. Perfect landing. As much as the series writing generally and main character were wonderful and the acting all around so good (Carol Burnett!), I want to say thanks for writing in more Mike Ehrmantraut (like the MCU, there should be a MTU where Jonathan Banks shows up on all shows when the plot gets ridiculous so Banks can reground them) and Kimberly "fuckin'" Wexler, who at least as much as Jimmy/Saul drew the moral line for us. Why doesn't Rhea Seehorn already have a newer entry on IMDB?

The last episode hasn't been aired here yet, they'll do this evening. I have left to watch 12th and that last one. Considering to re-watch Breaking Bad.

and some Bach (period instruments), well performed and recorded.

Ouch. You were supposed to do it under the sea.

That is a good solution! But put an interlock on the door anyway. Costs nothing, and is a belt and braces precaution. My experience is with pulsed IR lasers, which of course you cannot see. Had to be careful to keep fingernails out of the beam, because that particular laser would blow a fingernail off. Frequency doubled into the green it used to attract flies and wasps, which would explode spectacularly. An interesting calculation was that a single pulse from that laser, if divided up evenly and without losses, was enough to cause eye damage to the population of London. It ran at 30 pulses per second.

my solution to have solid brick between me and the laser. I run the laser in one room with the room door closed and control/monitor it from the adjoining room using a cheap web camera. I don't put any faith in it or the goggles that came with the laser....

Cruel Country Wilco 2022 https://album.link/i/1621315138 Example: Tis a Cruel Country. Overall, a nice album.

and this

I drink good coffee on the weekends. 30gr drip in morning and 20gr espresso in the afternoon. One day it will be good coffee everyday 😙 HS

Please accept my apologies for any lowering of the signal to noise ratio in advance but my sincere and profound thanks (as a philistine of all things electronic) to people like Birgir, Kevin, Justin and the rest of you that have influenced (directly and indirectly) the creation of masterpieces such as the one below and the influence they have on the lives of us mere mortal lovers of music. This is the culmination of a dream of over 15 years in the making: Special thanks to Birgir for his efforts and support to this community at large

#noassist

I took a 20,000 step hike. I think it won. I am not so mighty...

Lots of the parts like OPA134UA/2K5 or the voltage references LT1021DCS8-10#PBF or LT1021DCS8-7#PBF are available end of 2023. That's just insane and getting worse, like the world has run out of parts!