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This is not a conversation about guns. This is a conversation about items that have withstood abuse that are near unbreakable.

Some items I have heard referenced as AK47 of:

Gerber MP600: It's a multi tool

Old Thinkpad Laptops

Mag lights

Toyota Hilux

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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Pinecil soldering iron. Cheap (only $26!), open source, portable, usbc powered. Even more powerful than $100 ones. I love that thing

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Open source soldering iron? How does that work?

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it has software for the temp control and such

specifically: https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS

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