Heavybell
@Heavybell@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 5 days ago:
And there’s no place like home.
- Comment on Bravely Default 3DS 1 week ago:
Let us know how you go :)
- Comment on Bravely Default 3DS 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks ago:
Awesome, gonna bookmark those for later. Thanks!
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Oh interesting. Can you link the detector? I could use that for something else.
- Comment on I built a smart mailbox 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
:0
- Comment on Australia should pass bill to ban non-prescription vapes, Senate committee finds 1 month ago:
Does ventolin count? :P
- Comment on Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required 1 month 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. 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Big agree.
- Comment on Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release 2 months ago:
4.0 is such a weird choice. Like, does 6.22 contain code they’re still using? Is there a reason they couldn’t even share the latest version of their decades-obsolete OS?
- Comment on don't listen to big gravity!!!!! 2 months ago:
Unironically yes. Gravity is the weakest of the 4 main forces.
- Comment on The best censorship is creators' self-censorship. 2 months ago:
These other guys have given a good gist of the issue, but IMO it’s inaccurate. The problem lies with society and capitalism at the end of the day. Basically, credit processors are in it for the money, obviously. And they view porn as a risk to profits, because puritanical society means that statistically a lot of sex related purchases lead to charge backs when someone finds out and the purchaser denies having any knowledge of it. So as a result the credit processors don’t allow their services to be used for sex stuff.
This is not to say that the credit processors AREN’T led by puritans with an agenda. Just that their profit motive probably has more to do with it.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 2 months ago:
Ah good point, I did write it kinda wrong huh. :)
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 2 months ago:
I don’t think anything about NFTs inherently guarantees their payload is unique. As I understand it, that part is enforced by the exchange, if at all. And there’s nothing stopping you from putting the same payload up on a different exchange. The token itself would be unique, at least within the same chain, but who actually cares about that? :P
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 2 months ago:
You get a special unique(?) cryptographic token containing a link to the article, presumably.
- Comment on Progress made on Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) 2 months ago:
All fair points. I just wish they hadn’t slowly stripped away all the reasons to try to hold onto a decent quantity of rings. In Sonic 1 it was the biggest optional challenge; either shit your way to the end getting hit and grabbing at least one as it bounces out of you, or try to finish the level with 50 in order to have a chance at the “true ending”.
- Comment on Progress made on Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) 2 months ago:
I still love Sonic 1. I hate that so many fans of the series look down on it, despite the ring mechanic making the most sense in this game of all of them. Such a great example of optional difficulty.
- Comment on I will miss them 3 months ago:
I am still eagerly awaiting the last ep being out so I can watch it all. Then I’ll have this moment later, I’m sure. :P
- Comment on know the difference!! 3 months ago:
It cannot be proven. ;)
- Comment on Elder scrolls 3 months ago:
Yes.