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- Comment on No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard 3 weeks ago:
This just isn’t general interest technology news, especially since it’s for a vaporware (crowdfunding) product. Might be ok on /arduino or something.
Here’s USB PD to 12 volts (other voltages available too), just wire it to the breadboard:
- Comment on No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard 3 weeks ago:
I know perfectly well what breadboards are. I even remember the Continental Specialties brand. They have power supply strips, like the ones on the edges in this pic. You connect power there.
- Comment on No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard 3 weeks ago:
This is spammy and there are already plenty of USB-C power conversion gadgets, e.g. on Adafruit. No crowdfunding needed.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, that makes no sense.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to fanfiction/writing platforms? (Wattpad, AO3, FFN, etc.) 4 weeks ago:
IDK, I’m here on Lemmy basically as a refugee from Reddit, but the federation angle doesn’t seem to help much from what I can tell. Look at how fast Bluesky overtook Mastodon. Anyway, anyone putting up new fanfic servers without understanding the politics and drama behind the existing ones is probably in for some pain. There used to be a saying “you’re looking for a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem”.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
Yes I use lemmy.ml sometimes, but am mostly on .world by inertia. It doesn’t make that much difference.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
This false equivalency pains me to my core. I don’t really have anything to say about the rest of your comment, but ffs can people stop with this nonsense take? You’re implying that the difference between centralized corporate authoritarianism and decentralized grassroots democracy is negligible.
It might very well be that the corporate censors are worse human beings than the Lemmy censors. That is completely independent of which platform experiences more censorship. It’s literally against the Lemmy World terms of service to discuss unsanctioned brands of cat food without supplying scientific sources. That nailed Lemmy’s coffin shut for me. There is nothing like that on Reddit. It’s ok, I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re trapped in here with me.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
If you really think this and don’t think Lemmy will get better then you should be using Reddit instead of Lemmy.
I explained that Reddit is better for most people, though there is a fringe minority that chooses Lemmy for various idiosyncratic reasons. I’m part of that minority and so are you, ok? That doesn’t make the rest of the world likely to migrate here.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy is a failure at being like centralized social media
It’s also a failure at being like Usenet, which was far less centralized than Lemmy. I’m unfamiliar with Beehaw.
- Comment on Potential Decentralized Fediverse Alternative to Ko-fi, Patreon, etc.? 4 weeks ago:
@Teknevra, you’ve posted a number of ideas like this which seem based on the premise that all it would take to make them happen is writing the software and keeping the servers running. In fact those are really the easy parts. Any above-ground platform involving user to user payments (Patreon, Paypal etc.) has to devote a ton of energy into anti-fraud and anti-money-laundering. AO3 isn’t just file hosting for fanfiction, it’s explicitly political in that it aims to give a safe space for works that would be banned on other platforms due to subject matter that draws disapproval. That takes a lot of ideological commitment and some level of moderation, legal backing, etc. Pulling non-fediverse sites into the fediverse when they desire to run their own walled gardens for whatever reasons is another set of battles to fight. So in each case, the obstacles to your idea involve conflicts between humans, not just lack of the right software.
Why do you find the fediverse so great anyway? Lemmy is basically a failure IMHO. Instead of having one giant jerk censoring things like on Reddit, there are instead dozens of little petty ones wanting to defederate from other instances. Reddit is mostly a superior experience for users, with just a few of us fringe types staying on Lemmy because of priorities that almost nobody else cares about. Mastodon gained some popularity when Twitter became an intolerable hellhole, but Bluesky ended up recapturing a lot of those departing users.
I appreciate your good intentions and willingness to help out with various annoying situations, but I think it’s important to stay clear-headed about exactly what you are trying to do.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to fanfiction/writing platforms? (Wattpad, AO3, FFN, etc.) 4 weeks ago:
Why would you want that? What is the attraction? “Federate all the things” isn’t really an answer. Why would authors or readers prefer it over AO3?
- Comment on A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry 2 months ago:
I think somewhat worse, but try a web search. One attraction iirc is very fast charging.
- Comment on A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry 2 months ago:
It’s just about LFP which are very common now. The new trend is sodium ion instead of lithium ion. CATL (battery manufacturer in China) is shipping those now, and they are starting to appear in some cars.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
Oh you mean the discontinuation rather than the accessory itself. Meh, there is always ebay. Someone will always have an extra one left from their old phone before they upgraded to a usb-c phone.
- Comment on Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses? 2 months ago:
This was the plot of the 1973 science fiction story “By Any Other Name” by Spider Robinson, later expanded to the novel “Telempath”. The story won a Hugo award but the virus scheme didn’t work out so great.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will we party like it's 1999? 2 months ago:
Vance becomes president. Whether you party is up to you.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
Controversial? Unpopular I can understand, but that’s not the same.
I still prefer wired buds and chose a phone with a 3.5mm jack, but I wasn’t into Apple phones to begin with.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 2 months ago:
It works fine for me, everything else is worse.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 2 months ago:
No matter which sort you use (except for new),
Yes, sorting by new is best. The rest of the post seems irrelevant.
I wish the site could work like an old fashioned usenet reader, where it would list your subscribed communities and say how many unread posts each one had. I don’t like having all the communities jumbled together. That seems fixable.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
You can pay a lot less than 10x for completed panels. store.santansolar.com amazed me.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 months ago:
Embrace RFC 8890 (“The Internet is for End Users”) as a guiding principle for all Mozilla client app design and for the organization as a whole:
www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890.html
Specifically, delete item 9 from the Mozilla manifesto and replace it with “follow RFC 8890”. That’s not supposed to be an anti-business stance, but rather, a recognition that the commercial side of the internet has the resources to look after its own interests, and Mozilla should be on the user side, rather than trying to straddle both sides.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
Left of the US Senate center, or maybe the Senate Democrat center. Not the whole US. And I mean in the 1980s, not now.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
Absolutely not. Type “Lamont Lieberman” (without the quotes) into a search engine for more info. Also “Clinton puma”.
- Comment on Siemens to buy Altair for $10.6 bln in digital portfolio push 2 months ago:
People still pay that much for 8-bit S-100 machines?
- Comment on Ente Photos - Pricing update (getting cheaper) 2 months ago:
Spam
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 months ago:
It’s ok if you call then medicines instead of drugs. Otherwise maybe ok anyway.
- Comment on Special Report: Inside Intel, CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the revival of an American icon [Reuters] 2 months ago:
I’m too tired to read that carefully right now, but it looks interesting, and calls Gelsinger out on some dumb stuff. I had thought that he had simply taken on a messed up company and done the best he could, spouting some BS here and there as required. Oh well.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I guess we will find out, maybe.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 2 months ago:
Also the badass hotel concierge in the John Wick movies.
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 2 months ago:
Peace, in Landru.
