Only certain mirrorless lenses ate compatible with teleconverters, and that one isn’t. Teleconverters are also surprisingly expensive. RF mount is also expensive because Canon banned third party lenses entirely until recently and continues to heavily restrict them.

I think the the least amount of BS from a major camera company is probably Panasonic:

• Panasonic uses two lens mounts (micro four thirds and L-mount), both of which are shared with other body and lens manufacturers
• Old bodies get firmware updates
• Features are rarely artificially restricted for market segmentation
• Third parties have written apps to talk to Panasonic cameras

The biggest downside to the brand is that until very recently, Panasonic bodies had only contrast-detection autofocus, which can pulse if used in video and doesn’t track moving subjects very well.

I’m disappointed in Sofirn for not making the battery in their bike light field-replaceable without tools. They’re a real flashlight company. They know how to do this.

Zebralight W51

You probably mean H51, or H51w. The H53 series is the current equivalent.

I think OP wants something with a little more power. Zebralight has a suitable offering in the SC700d HI. It is, by all accounts excellent, and it is priced accordingly.

There was a recent related discussion on Hacker News and the top comment discusses why this sort of solution is not likely to be the best fit for smaller organizations. In short, doing it well requires time and effort from someone technically sophisticated, who must do more than the bare minimum for good results, as you just learned.

Even then, it’s likely to be less reliable than solutions hosted by big corporations and when there’s a problem, it’s your problem. I don’t want to discourage you, but understand what you’re committing to and make sure you have adequate buy-in in your organization.

• side left: flashlight, keys
• front left: phone
• front right: knife
• side right: pepper spray, coins
• back left: wallet

I’m confused by why they would do this, and at the same time, why not for private text messages.

I’m in favor of encrypting as much communication as possible, but I don’t think many of Discord’s users were complaining that their voice chart wasn’t secure. I’d expect more of them to care about text chart, which is less effort to spy on.

The fact that it’s been out for a year and federation is still only half-implemented suggests to me the decision to add it was pretty late in the development process, even if it was early in the marketing process.

Threads is for whoever Meta can sell it to, and I think it was pretty far along in its development before they actually committed to ActivityPub support.

Having used a butane iron before, I don’t think it would. They don’t have the temperature control modern digital irons can, and they’re forbidden on flights.

Signal and WhatsApp work with the free messaging option. I was a little surprised by Signal.

I’m inclined to agree, and said so in the linked thread.

Lemmy thread and link.

Basically, anyone who can read your home directory could decrypt your Signal database. That’s about typical of traditional desktop applications, but questionable for security-oriented software. Mac OS and (sometimes) Linux have more robust credential management options, and Signal signaled (yes, pun intended) its intent to adopt them.

That’s similar to the iFixit iron, as is the less expensive Pinecil.

Those are probably the best options currently available, but I want something more compact and self-contained.

I would not want multiple cells for reasons of ergonomics and convenience.

I probably don’t need 100W for most field soldering. 60 is plenty, and temperature-controlled soldering irons usually don’t need to pull high current continuously. It would need 60W for maybe 10 seconds when powered on, and when heating something large. The rest of the time, it takes relatively little power to keep the tip hot.

What I’m describing is, of course not the right tool for production soldering. It’s for field work.

Assuming the M12 CP1.5 battery pack, it’s probably three 18650s. Specifically, it’s probably three LG HB series 18650s, which handle high burst loads well, but hold only 1500 mAh. A single Sony VTC6 holds 2/3 the energy of one of those packs. Wait… why am I speculating? Youtubers tear down power tool battery packs on video all the time, and someone did that one. They’re Samsung 15Ms, which are a little worse than HBs.

Anyway, short runtimes are fine for most field repairs, which is the whole point of something entirely self-contained. Spare batteries can extend it indefinitely, but a battery soldering iron is probably not what I’d pick for extended soldering sessions.

I would accept a bit of an awkward balance for being self-contained.

Since 2014, but Android had already been out for six years at that point.

What I want from a battery soldering iron is a field-replaceable 18650 in the handle, not Webserial.

As a practical point, saying it in English will almost certainly communicate what you need to communicate. Almost everyone who makes international calls will recognize that you’re speaking English even if they don’t understand what you’re saying, which suggests that the Russian or Korean speaking person they’re trying to reach is not at that number.