Heavybell
@Heavybell@lemmy.world
- Comment on I have no idea where to post this rule 2 weeks ago:
Urn urn’d urn urn
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure no card can conjure me into existence, no matter how many or few lines of text they have… :P
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 4 weeks ago:
No, see, he’s like santa. He can break the sound barrier under his own power in his goal to spread e. coli.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Supposedly, 666 being a bad number is a mistranslation, and the actual bad number is 616. This is according to an old episode of QI.
Or you could not believe in evil numbers.
- Comment on maow 1 month ago:
So this is that mewing thing I’ve heard about, right?
- Comment on What else is there 1 month ago:
Life when a Vector is a cool crocodile wearing headphones.
- Comment on unwatchable!! 2 months ago:
I remember hearing on QI about a snake that eats a poisonous frog in order to become poisonous itself. Don’t think it was Australian but who knows.
- Comment on NASA Ping 3 months ago:
If I get under 300ms ping it’s a good day.
- Comment on Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows 3 months ago:
I don’t believe there was any specific API in use here, for virus scanning or not. I suppose maybe the device driver API? I am not a kernel developer so I don’t know if that’s the right term for it.
Crowdstrike’s driver was loaded at boot and caused a null pointer dereference error, inside the kernel. In userspace, when this happens, the kernel is there to catch it so only the application that caused it crashes. In kernelspace, you get a BSOD because there’s really nothing else to do.
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 4 months ago:
“Mods, deactivate this man’s balls.”
- Comment on Growing Old 4 months ago:
This doesn’t stop even when you hit 40
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 4 months ago:
And there’s no place like home.
- Comment on Bravely Default 3DS 4 months ago:
Let us know how you go :)
- Comment on Bravely Default 3DS 4 months ago:
That’s what I’m talking about, yeah. And TBH it’s actually closer to the end than the middle. Also I didn’t find it that big of a deal, but your mileage may vary. I hope you can get past what a bunch of others seem to hate because the payoff is so good.
- Comment on Bravely Default 3DS 5 months ago:
There is a hurdle late in the game which you’ll know when you hit it, just in case you somehow haven’t heard about it. Do try to get past it though, the payoff is worth it.
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 5 months ago:
Awesome, gonna bookmark those for later. Thanks!
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 5 months ago:
No problem. The one I used is an ESP32 DevKitC, and you can find info about it on Espressif’s site, or just google the pinout diagram. For basic tasks it should be all you need since it has lots of binary pins, two ADC channels, two DAC channels, realtime clock, special pins for waking it from deep sleep, two I2C, etc. Though if you want to do video input you probably want something else, I’m learning.
Anyway, if you can spare the money to get one just to toy with I’d definitely recommend it.
- Comment on Let's goooooooo 5 months ago:
This looks like nonsense, but what do I know? In any case I prefer not to think about it. :P
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 5 months ago:
Okay so that is an issue with the ESP32, sure. There are a lot of variants.
So from what I can tell, the ESP32 is the SoC chip and what you usually get is a dev board which has that plus a bunch of power regulation bits, a USB connector and UART so you can easily program it, etc. That part varies mostly by pinout. I.e. Same features, different pin location.
There are also variants of the chip, but those are usually more costly and will be named things like ESP32-S2.
Every one I’ve seen can run off 5v or 3.3v and uses the latter for logic, so if you got yourself an arduino kit and then just bought an ESP32 dev board it would almost certainly work with whatever is in the kit. Both are microcontrollers, not microprocessors, so they tend not to have OSes or screens.
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 5 months ago:
Oh interesting. Can you link the detector? I could use that for something else.
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 5 months ago:
When you put mail in the box, unless it’s a REALLY small bit of mail it’ll land so it obscures at least one of the proximity sensors. This then sets the ‘got mail’ statue to ‘on’ in Home Assistant. From there, I have HA set up to send me notifications to go and check the mail.
Before you say so, yes this was a lot of work for something so trivial, but it was fun. Plus I actually get so little physical mail that I can forget to check the mailbox for weeks at a time. Which would be very bad if I got some actually important mail. And actually, that exact thing happened just days after I finished installing the thing. So it has already potentially saved me from a fine.
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 5 months ago:
I’m sorry to say I don’t. :/ You can grab dev boards off aliexpress for cheap, and they’re really easy to play with. Just connect the to your PC via USB to load your initial ESPHome script, and they spring to life. From there you can do basic testing, since they’ll get power from the USB. It’s just a matter of what you decide you want to hook up to them after that. I assume you’re looking for like a hobby kit, like you can get for arduino boards? Something that comes with a bunch of LEDs and I2C components you can fiddle with? Unfortunately I don’t know of any that come with ESP32 dev boards, but I’ll admit I’ve not looked. Sorry.
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- Comment on As a leftist when I saw this post in twitter I had to be rushed to the hospital. My blood pressure read 2567 over 1547 6 months ago:
I wanna cave this guy’s face in. Not because of the milk, sushi, okay sign or lack of eye contact. He just seems like an arsehole and has a super punchable face.
- Comment on Why tho 6 months ago:
You don’t store your dick in your pocket? What on earth do you do with it, then?
- Comment on Australia should pass bill to ban non-prescription vapes, Senate committee finds 6 months ago:
:0
- Comment on Australia should pass bill to ban non-prescription vapes, Senate committee finds 6 months ago:
Does ventolin count? :P
- Comment on Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required 6 months ago:
I did this ages ago now. Was a non-issue.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
I’m okay with most of this, but don’t want to see this logic universally applied. For example, I think art should be preserved, and that includes games. Consigning years of work from dozens to hundreds of people to the void because the publisher got tired of it absolutely should be considered a monumental failure.
- Comment on Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release 6 months ago:
Big agree.