The San Diego Trolley is actually pretty great.

If I don't screw up the routing on this board, I too, will get to deal with The Pain

(unfortunately this did fix my problem with these gearboxes sounding like they were grinding rocks)

Bring me back to the days of uncut 720p GoPro footage of the thing working for the first time and the engineers getting really excited.

In this day and age you'll trip your breaker (and/or a fuse in one of the strips) before causing any real issues. All the fun fire risks have been regulated away.

Followed instantly by immense suspicion that it's going to instantly break

Great book by the way, honestly the most fun I've had reading a textbook in a while. Full pdf is available online as well: pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

Separate from that fact that most people here are real and nice, the app experience is just actually better.