LrdThndr
@LrdThndr@lemmy.world
- Comment on How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment 1 week ago:
Fuck yeah, public transit - Right in my veins, lets go.
But for right now, there is ZERO public transit infrastructure where I live, which is only about 20-30 minutes to a medium-sized city’s downtown. And when I say ZERO, I mean ZERO. We don’t even have busses here. No trains. NOTHING. We don’t even have sidewalks on most roads - if you want to walk, you’re literally walking in the road. I used to ride a bike to work a long time ago - I can’t even count the number of times I’ve had shit thrown at me by shitbag rednecks as they zoomed past in their lifted pickup trucks.
The local governments’ answer to all this is “If you don’t have a car, fuck you.” Cars are literally the only option. If you don’t have a car or a driver’s license, you better find somebody who does and give them gas money, or consign yourself to paying for Uber/Lyft anytime you want to go anywhere. It’s straight-up dangerous to travel any other way around here.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
You are a fucking hero. I couldn’t figure out why my Roku TVs were still able to get ads after blocking everything.
- Comment on octopi tip - get a Usb-a power blocker 3 months ago:
I simplified a bit. But it’s easy to bork the cable in the process, and it’s also possible the cable didn’t follow standard wire coloring.
Here’s the step by step process for anybody who wants to do this but doesn’t know for sure what to do.
You will need a razor blade or wire stripper and a wire cutter, as well as a roll of electrical tape.
Also it should go without saying, but unplug both ends of the damn cable before you start.
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Verify that the usb cable is a CHARGE AND SYNC cable. A charge only cable will not work.
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With your razor blade, make an incision into the usb cable about 6 inches from either end. Don’t cut too deep. Only go deep enough to cut the outer jacket. The cut should be slightly longer than your tape is wide. If you have a wire stripper, strip about a 3/4 inch section of the cable about 6 inches from either end.
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If using a blade, cut around the jacket at both ends of your incision and peel off the jacket between your cuts. You should have about 3/4 inch of unpacked cable.
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If there’s a wire mesh wrapping the inside of the cable, cut SOME of the mesh, being careful to ensure that the mesh is still connected on both ends. If there’s a foil wrapper, find the seam and peel it back to both sides. You can cut the foil if necessary, but do not remove it entirely. Ensure that SOME of the foil and/or mesh is still attached at BOTH sides of the exposed section.
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The inner wires should now be exposed. There should be 4 wires - red black white and green. There might also be a 5th wire with no insulation at all, but this won’t be in all cables. It’s okay if it’s missing. However, if you don’t see ALL of those 4 colors or see different colors STOP. Tape the cable back up and get a different one. If you only see TWO wires, you have a charge only cable and it won’t work. Tape it back up.
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Clip the red wire TWICE, about an 1/8th inch apart. There should be a gap in the wire now if you line the ends up. DO NOT cut anything else inside the cable. The black white and green wires MUST remain intact for the cable to function.
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Bend the red wires up and out of the jacket. Close up the foil and/or mesh and wrap the exposed portion of the cable with a layer of electrical tape, leaving the red wires sticking up. It’s okay if some metal is exposed on either side of the tape, but the red wires should be able to lay down on it without the ends touching anything metal.
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Lay the ends of the red wires down so that the ends are laying on the tape. The metal inside the red wire should NOT contact anything else that’s metal in the cable.
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Wrap the whole opened section of the cable with electrical tape to an inch or two on both sides of the open section.
Plug it in and give it a try. You should have data-only usb cable that doesn’t deliver power now.
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- Comment on Why does my printer suck so much? 3 months ago:
I bought a X1C and have never leveled it once. Everything is completely automatic, and I’ve never had a failed print.
If I can see that the print quality is starting to go down (and by that I mean I can see a little ringing or something), I just hit the calibrate button and it does everything on its own with zero intervention besides the initial button.
- Comment on octopi tip - get a Usb-a power blocker 3 months ago:
Or just sacrifice a usb cable - carefully open the wire jacket, snip the red wire, then tape it back up. Easy peasy done in 2 minutes.
- Comment on Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately 4 months ago:
FWIW, I run proxmox at home, and I friggin love it. It’s really not hard at all.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
No online store. I just do it as a hobby. Feel free to dm me whenever.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
There’s a pen sub? I was on r/penturning on that other place.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
The bold action is wenge with a oil/wax blend friction polished finish. I’m asking $100 for it.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
I still have the third one available. I’m asking $50 for it. It’s padauk, canarywood, katalox, and leopardwood with an aluminum inlay.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
Bruh. I make pens as a hobby. Happy to make and ship you one. Image
I still have the four on the right on hand. Can also make whatever.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 5 months ago:
Web developer here. A “cookie” is just a piece of information stored on your machine. A cookie can be a setting, saved app data, or a tracking id.
The reason you keep seeing the banner is because by saying “no” to cookies, you’re telling them they don’t have permission to store ANYTHING on your computer. Which is fine. Your computer your call.
But if they can’t store anything on your computer, there’s no way to remember that setting next time you come to the website. No local setting storage means they don’t have the stored “no cookies” setting to load. Likewise there’s no tracking id they could potentially look your setting up in their own database by.
Web site requests are “stateless”. That means that, to a web server, each and every single request to a server is its own brand new, separate connection with no link to any other connection. The only way to share data between individual requests is via some kind of stored “state”. That state can come from your computer in the form of cookies, or from the server in the form of sessions. But linking a connection to a session requires your computer providing a session id; and guess how your computer has to store a session id? If you guessed “in a cookie” you win.
Are cookie popups annoying? Oh holy Christ yes, both from a web user standpoint and from the stand point of having to implement them as a developer. But by outright rejecting cookies (and/or auto-wiping your cache/cookies when you close the browser), you’re telling the website it’s not allowed to store your preferences for not having cookies and eliminating the websites ability to recall that preference at all.
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 5 months ago:
So only charge it to 80%. Why is that a concern?
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 5 months ago:
I mean, US Cellular had a free battery swap program for a while. If you were a subscriber and your phone battery was low, you could go into any store and they’d swap you out for a fully charged battery for free. I presume they just ate the cost of damaged or degraded batteries as part of it. I only used it a couple times, but it was kinda nice.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations 6 months ago:
In one age, called the third age by some, a windbag rose in the west. This windbag was not the first, nor would he be the last. There are no first or last windbags in the wheel of bullshit, but he was A windbag.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 6 months ago:
Open source hardware is a thing. See: raspberry pi, pine64, etc.
In hardware, open source means the schematics are available and the device is built with commonly available components; eg: no proprietary chips, standard discrete components, pcb schematics and plans available.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 6 months ago:
I love how this was somehow both the next line of the song AND snarkily correcting their spelling.
- Comment on GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety 6 months ago:
I recently saw a 94 corolla with like 2400 miles on it while car shopping online. I guess it just got bought, parked, and forgotten about. It was in spectacular condition.
It was also $26,000.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 6 months ago:
The pcb footprint isn’t the same. Changing the port isn’t as simple as just soldering this one instead of that one. The pins are in a different order. Changing the port requires redesigning the PCB that the port attaches to. In a larger device, maybe you could create some kind of internal adapter that can solder to the lightning footprint but provide a usb-c port, but there’s just not enough room in a modern phone.
Plus, even though the USB portion of the circuitry may be the same, the port does more than just provide a usb interface. There’s also headphone functionality and other things on there that have to be adapted too, or the phone will have less functionality than it did and people with bitch that apple broke their headphones when they changed the port over.
- Comment on OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims 7 months ago:
Well that was a hell of a ride.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 8 months ago:
Okay. Explain something to me. I’ve tried to use piped, but it’s just so dogshit slow. Unusably so.
What am I doing wrong?
- Comment on What quality PLA filament brand have you standardized on? 8 months ago:
Yeah I know, and maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems like the stuff I get in store is better than the stuff I get online.
- Comment on What quality PLA filament brand have you standardized on? 8 months ago:
Jealous!
I live 4 hours from the nearest microcenter. I still make the drive periodically.
- Comment on This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far. 8 months ago:
As a self-hoster thats also a ham…
Fucking ow.
- Comment on New Raspberry Pi 5 comes with PCIe 2.0 x1 interface and power button 8 months ago:
rpilocator.com.
Haven’t had trouble finding one in quite some time.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 9 months ago:
A raspberry pi4, Home Assistant software, a zigbee dongle, and any zigbee-compatible smart bulb.
By default, the traffic never leaves your local network, and all your smart-crap still works if the internet goes out. At one point, it had a learning curve like a brick wall, but over the last year or two, they’ve done a spectacular job of improving the user experience. it’s still not perfect, but it’s far better than the commercial alternatives and won’t harvest your entire life for metadata it can sell.
- Comment on Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests 9 months ago:
Hydrogen is an element that, when left for long enough in sufficient quantities, begins to wonder where it came from.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 9 months ago:
It’s also not about what data they hold, but what data they have access to.
To you, it’s a light bulb, but internally, it’s a network-connected microcontroller, meaning it’s also connected to everything else in your network.
It theoretically could scan and exploit any number of security holes in other devices, including but not limited to phones and desktops.
Even if the manufacturer is ethical with it, other nefarious actors can use it as an attack point to try to gain deeper access. Some of these devices run a full Linux install internally, and if you know how, you can even get a shell session open on them.
- Comment on California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating data brokers 9 months ago:
US and Canada only.
- Comment on California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating data brokers 9 months ago:
On one hand, FUCKYEAH for data privacy rights. Can’t wait to pull my shit out of databases I don’t want to be in.
On the other hand, as a software developer that’s gonna have to implement the data removal functions on my company’s databases… goddammit. I’m already up to my eyeballs and it’s gonna be a bitch and a half.
But all in all, fuck yeah.