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New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cutting dovetails implies by hand - power tools exist for it, but those using power tools generally use different joints.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My neighbor does not make dovetails, then.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not surprised. They are very hard to make correctly and not that much better than other options that are easier to do. they are a "holy grail" of wood working skill for a reason. I've done a dozen in my life and the best is so awful I want to burn an otherwise nice creation to hide the evidence.