Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE #renv
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Ex Hex:
🎵 Rainbow Shiner
#ExHex
https://exhexband.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-shiner
https://open.spotify.com/track/7r5xiobhzMJul4E0pVNu4g
The first irritant persistent message from Microsoft to log in to family functions. cannot log in, cannot remove it from desktop. It keeps popping up.
Ominous. 2/n
But I think that - first of all - Europe needs a strong cost reduction drive for components, systems, and processes in the energy transition, in a cooperation between R&D, manufacturers, and governments, and aligned with scaling up the market for 'made in Europe' solutions. We'll probably not get to the Chinese level, but we need to get a lot closer. This is essential both for competitiveness and affordability.
iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/robot…
Completely crazy, no sense of history, maybe also remove their gold teeth?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office
The FCC updates its site to remove the phrase "independent agency", after Brendan Carr said in a Congressional hearing it is not independent "formally speaking" (Sara Fischer/@sarafischer)
https://x.com/sarafischer/status/2001338675607769120
PIC12F683 just has a few traces of dielectric and a few vias left before it's fully stripped to substrate.
Surprisingly, poly still seems fully intact. I'm not sure if any of my cleaning steps at the end will remove it, but it's quite firmly stuck down and I haven't seen *any* of it floating free yet. Some of the tungsten contacts have come off, which doesn't surprise me at all.
Now that all the oxide over the poly is gone the poly images are even sharper, alt…
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Wire:
🎵 Three Girl Rhumba
#Wire
https://networth.bandcamp.com/track/wires-three-girl-rhumba