BigDanishGuy
@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 day ago:
You do realize why we’re scrambling to get a European credit card, right? I mean what’s going to stop us from cutting Americans off when Trump decides to invade San Marino?
- Comment on Hrmmm 3 days ago:
But that’s just indoor shooting, right? (The page doesn’t work on my phone)
I wouldn’t want to shoot much larger guns than 22 indoors routinely. But that’s maybe the viking in me talking ❄️⚔️🔥
- Comment on Hrmmm 3 days ago:
Whenever this comes up I like to add:
- Don’t get a gun in some obscure caliber. Get a pistol in 9mm or a riffle in 223 (even better get a 5.56x45 NATO) or 308 win, that way ammo will be cheaper and you can better afford training with it. Shooting a few hundred rounds is not really enough. You’ll need to train regularly.
- Learn how to maintain your gun. As in how to clean it, what parts need lubrication, adjusting the sights, etc.
- Speaking as an electronic engineer, get passive ear protection. Active noise cancelling is cool and all, but what about when the batteries run out and you have no protection? Or what the electronics fail? Protect your ears, but when you can get +100 rounds of ammo for the price difference, then I would prioritize the ammo budget.
- Comment on Hrmmm 3 days ago:
If you’re not a gun person don’t bother with a rifle or handgun, get a shotgun.
You don’t have to worry about over penetration with a shotgun, and it’s easier to hit with than a pistol.
If you want to know what a proper rifle is, then that’s really a subjective assessment. I would say that a 22lr is ok, unless you need fight people in body armor. But I can see how big burly Muricans want something in 338 lapua or 50 bmg.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 6 days ago:
I’m not convinced that these people are organized and competent enough to kill people in that scale without people finding out.
Same thoughts. But also too incompetent to single out the detainees who won’t ve missed.
That said, I am certain that a whole lot if people have been killed in custody and covered up, but I don’t think it’s on a scale like that.
Oh for sure, but it’ll again be at least part Incompetence and part maliciousness, with an unfortunate outcome.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 week ago:
I can see the URL, I know it’s the NY Times … but it feels like it could just as well be a link to the Book of Revelation. Fuck this timeline sucks
- Comment on Every night 1 week ago:
As a fellow engineer I’m also never arguing, only explaining why somebody’s wrong.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 week ago:
Agreed, civil war will only happen if states bands together and starts fighting each other or the federal armed forces.
What we’ve seen so far has been almost too small to be called skirmishes. The intensity and size of the confrontations will likely increase, but it won’t be civil war.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree, but have you seen what a bulldozer goes for? Guns are expensive, but a dirt cheap cobot arm with a 9mm and extended mag, will be a tenth or less.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
Oh please, all the robots need is a light intensity sensor, some simple targeting, and a gun actuator, and they can do “policing” even more effectively than ICE. Maybe a speaker to play a token warning message before firing. You know something like “HALT! Show your identity papers, you have 10 seconds to comply, 9, 8, 7”
Movement comes later, once all the immigrants have figured out where the robots are planted.
- Comment on High value 3 weeks ago:
Once women hit menopause they’re experienced and can take all your creampies. IDK 'bout y’all, but I’d assign that great value.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
When was that? Based on life events I’ve reconstructed this timeline of my hangout sites
- late 1990s to mid 2000s was slahdot
- around 2006ish digg came into my life and was great for a some years. At least for memes and generic dopamining on funny pictures. I think I hung around until about 2014 or so, while spicing it up with cracked.com
- 2014ish 9GAG started having more of my type of content. After a few years 9GAG became just automated reposts of r/funny, and talking about that got you censored. Kinda like what reddit is doing now.
- 2017ish I switched to reddit, when 9GAG just became too embarrassingly bad.
- july 21st 2023 I started trying to figure out lemmy. BTW u/spez is a pedophile piss baby.
Maybe I was just trailing behind you others. Was I the one to ruin your experience? Why would you accuse me of that you insensitive clod? Anyway, in that case I’ll go eat crayons in the corner and shitpost on .ml
- Comment on Roxim Z3EK Headlight Wiring 1 month ago:
I suppose you don’t have the original power source, if you did then measuring the output would be my starting point.
If it’s LED then it’ll probably be a single LED using PWM. In that case try figuring out where the switching circuit is.
If it’s not LED, you should measure resistance between the wires, that would tell you which one is the common. .
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
And here I paid for sleep as android… Better not start using Pokémon sleep, it’ll classify between snorlax, psyduck, and goldeen.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
Pokeamum?
I’ve met them, they’re the ones playing pokemon go in Ikea when you’re in a hurry.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 1 month ago:
Well, you want rent money, don’t you? Then keep back the tears and start wriggling those piggies, while telling me a sexy story about how sweaty they were today. /s
Seriously though, just keep a self-hosted LLM for the communications, that way you don’t have to even try to tell the freaks apart. Just make sure nobody tries the ol’ “ignore previous instructions” trick
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 1 month ago:
Buy womens discount underwear, wash it a lot, make sure to tumble dry as well. When it’s good and “worn” buy cans of mackerel in tomato sauce. Smear some of the sauce in the crotch of the underwear. For a premium product you could not shower for a few days and wear it while buying the fish. Maybe forget to shake before whipping your dick back in.
What am I even doing with an everyday boring job, I should be doing this myself.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 1 month ago:
Have you tried selling it or are you just guessing? I mean, there’s some fucked up weirdos out there.
- Comment on Single ended signal transmission 1 month ago:
If you’re designing for production then talk with the assembly guys, they will have options and cost estimates.
If we’re talking a one of, then just try. It’s only 500mm so not that much can happen. Especially at the slow speeds you mentioned. 20kHz isn’t that fast compared to the +100MHz that a cat5e is designed for when using differential signalling.
Are plugs a must? If not I’d consider soldering the wires. At least for testing the cable’s suitability.
If you must use plugs, then don’t use rj45. Some yahoo, like yours truly, will come along and go “neat, an undocumented ethernet capability” and fry something expensive. Have a look around DigiKey or where you get your parts, and find a less common plug.
And if you end up needing more wires, then get an old parallel ATA HDD cable from the early 2000s. They have 80 wires and are free at the dump.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 months ago:
They gave him a peace prize. The FIFA Peace Prize smh
Maybe we should have some people from SI give him something, so that the US will ditch those stupid units. He’s got a peace prize and a jet, so something else… How about a gold helicopter with AI in it? We could have the tail rotor fitted with LEDs some it’ll spell out TRUMP when flying. If we better make it good enough, maybe he’ll have ICE pickup anybody using feet or fahrenheit.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 months ago:
I can do you one even better. I am full time employed, I train IT supporters. Which means, that my job is to enable people to waste their time, in order to make you be able to waste yours. Just taking another trip round the wast-o-time-ception merry-go-round: my school employs IT staff as well.
Life is hard, pointless, and full of injustice. But at least in the end you get to die a meaningless death while alone and afraid.
This got dark, remember that you need to pretend to be happy again come Monday morning. Otherwise starvation will get you before the tumor, that you didn’t know you were to going to get 5 years before “retirement”. Here’s a little inspiration “Pretend You’re Happy” by Jay Forman recorded in the luxury of what appears to be a 2000s 3 door citroën saxo m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCrnbJHJeY
- Comment on Avocado 2 months ago:
Why is the stone groove on the curved side of the avocado? Am I wrong in thinking the groove left behind the stone should be on a flat surface?
- Comment on Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new 2 months ago:
Don’t lick, that’s dangerous, but nobody said “don’t eat 60/40 solder”. So go for it. Just remember to put a few sheets of paper in the bowl before taking a dump, otherwise you might break it.
- Comment on Repair or not, electrical heater switching circuit 2 months ago:
A relay would do the job, but they also wear out faster and the sound is noticeable.
While writing that, I found myself thinking about how significant the life span difference is. So I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations.
The defective heater had been installed for roughly 2100 days. Sometime during April we shut the heaters off, and they’re not powered up again until October, so let’s call it 50% of the year. The schedule for the heaters is usually two power on cycles daily. Again let’s call it 50% of the time. The house is pretty OK insulated, but let’s say that the heating element is powering up 4 times each hour. In reality it’s probably closer to 25-30% and twice an hour, so I’ll use that as the lower bounds for this calculation.
1050 days is 25200 hours, meaning that the heaters will have done between 12k and 50k power cycles in the almost 6 years of operation. I’ve seen relays weld shut before 10k, but MTBF for suitably rated relays on RS starts at 50k power cycles.
So maybe a relay could actually do the job. But then there’d still be the issue of the noise, which, while negligible, could still be annoying for some, especially in a bedroom.
- Comment on Repair or not, electrical heater switching circuit 2 months ago:
Wow, thanks, that is much appreciated. I was trying to find a SoMe channel. And knowing that Adax isn’t averse to support is even better.
- Comment on Repair or not, electrical heater switching circuit 2 months ago:
I could rewire the heating circuit, but doing so without the backing of an authorized electrician would be illegal. I’m already on thin ice just installing the heater by self.
But the thought has crossed my mind, as I have noticed there being an order of magnitude more 230V heaters on the market than 400V. On top of having to rewire everything, I’d have to put in a new 3 phased breaker, otherwise I’d be pulling way too much current… Let’s just say that this 1200W heater isn’t the only one we have in operation in my house.
- Comment on Repair or not, electrical heater switching circuit 2 months ago:
But you managed to pack my thoughts into 3 sentences. Unfortunately that means a new heater, because I don’t have a source for the board.
- Comment on Repair or not, electrical heater switching circuit 2 months ago:
I was thinking about contacting the manufacturer, but they don’t really have any post sale customer support. That’s all on the stores, and besides the heater has been in operation for almost 6 years now. So I’d they’d tell me to go away at best.
- Comment on Repair or not, electrical heater switching circuit 2 months ago:
I don’t know what stopped it. I wrote the occupant, but it was really just me. Neither RCD or fuses were blown. There’s a fuse (bimetal in a plastic box positioned above the heating element inside the heater) in series with the heating element, but that’s 400mm from the short, and its probably only there to prevent overheating and setting clothing coverie the heater on fire.
A new heater is 200€, because it has to be 400V as there’s no neutral wire available. That’s why I’d even entertain the idea of repairing the board.
- Submitted 2 months ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 13 comments
