We just need to wait until copyright regulations get killed… Right?

I was going to say the same, ours wakes up way too early, and I’m looking forward to the teenage years when they want to sleep in and I get to wake em up.

Woah, pets are not pets you train either. Pets can be just as nuanced in personality as a kid. (Our dog is currently sassier than our child and doesn’t care for Dad jokes, our kid loves the dad jokes though).

The heat to melt solder is well above the heat made by the cores in normal operation. It’s more likely that the balls crack under stress in the heat/cooling cycles. (Also if the ball is at such a high temp, the core is likely way way higher, and that would damage the core)