elucubra
@elucubra@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Game over 1 day ago:
My first girlfriend’s brat sister got grossed out when I told her that eggs were literally shitted out by hens. Beautiful twist. She went on to get a food safety degree.
- Comment on MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis 2 days ago:
I’m running an AM4 Ryzen 9, with 64Gb of DDR4, and the thing cooks. AM4 is just great.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 2 days ago:
Yeah, Ive been working on engines (mostly my own, for fun) for decades, and I never knew about brake fluid and glass.
- Comment on Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece 2 days ago:
Can it run Doom?
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 5 days ago:
It is not. It says what I want to do, and where.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 5 days ago:
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 5 days ago:
I didn’t know that, and I have used liters of the stuff. Learn something every day.
Is it just Dot3? Dot4 is more common these days.
BTW, kids, we are talking about brake fluid, so don’t go spraying it on your camera lenses!
- Comment on Microsoft Shows AI Integration in Windows 11 Running in Task Bar and File Explorer 1 week ago:
That’s a typo, no? It’s “ruining”
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Fun fact. Air carbines, with a scope, can be very precise at short-dish range. Essentially a low powered .22, and fairly silent.
You should be careful to make sure you don’t hit glass, as it may shatter.
I wonder why in most jurisdictions there is no licensing needed?
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Why shouldn’t dot3 mixed with paint? Just so I know why to avoid it.
- Comment on The witch from Hansel and Gretel is the only person that's allowed to say "Home, sweet home." 1 week ago:
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
It’s well known that Taiwan has all strategic factories mined. If a single Chinese soldier steps on the island, anything industrial of value will be blown to bits. China is interested in the land.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 week ago:
They are banning USB sticks next
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 week ago:
I had 3 printers (long story), but sold 2 and kept one, an Ender 5 plus. Of the original printer, there is the frame, a couple motors, the electronics case, and little more. Its now an Endorphin, direct drive sherpa mini, rails, Hybrid coreXY, Octopus Max board, Pi with Klipper… Anyone can take measurements, and make themselves one of these, or a Voron, or a VZbot, or… Good luck, California.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 week ago:
this violates the 2nd amendment
- Comment on Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives 1 week ago:
Billionaires or no billionaires, I dont want my data in the US
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing a built-in network speed test to Windows 11 1 week ago:
because we don’t have dozens already. Fix the fucking OS, morons.
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 1 week ago:
Yeah. I got a free HP Laserjet 4 a few years back. 4 pages per minute, smelly (ozone, I think), curled pages like crazy, was fucking huge, no duplex or networking. Actually, if I remember correctly it was parallel only, no USB. Completely repairable though.
Now, for my B/W printing (I also have a Brother color laser, and an Epson A3 inkjet because reasons) I have a tiny Brother laser, that prints something like 16 PPM, duplex, with dirt cheap compatible cartridges. Go ahead and get a LJ4.
I imagine that if you have some obscure specialized printer this may be a problem, though.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
Modern airplanes, especially military, are Uber complex, and mostly made of bespoke components, and take decades and billions to develop. The idea that $5000 will pay for replacing a core component or system is just plain preposterous.
Just look at the fun Russia is having sourcing spares to keep commercial western jets flying, despite having one of the world’s most capable aviation industries.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 week ago:
Mental health care is a challenge even in universal health countries. MH is very time intensive.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 1 week ago:
What is the reverse thing?
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 1 week ago:
Your account got banned from YouTube, or you got banned from Google and it’s apps?
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
At the rate this is going, you may be saying this seriously soon
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 2 weeks ago:
If those are regular size flooring slats, the screws are impossibly large. I call fake.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
I installed in my(old but very good) car a surprisingly nice sounding stereo unit, very inexpensive, like 30€.
The unit has no cassette or CD. It does have a micro Sd slot, two USB, one is charge only, for phones, and the other for storage. It has a remote. Physical buttons and a multi modal knob.
My phone has 512Gb of storage, and I almost never use streaming services.
I imagine your phone notifies you of texts, anyway, no?
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
My phone is jailbroken (rooted, Android).
Unless I discover a deeply hidden part of me, it’s highly unlikely that I’d get a grinder notification.
Anyway, you won’t get that notification I the ipod, but you will in your phone.
I’m actually restoring a Motorola Startac phone for my son, but there is no pretense of usability there, (except battery life), it’s simply for the cool factor.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
True. That’s why I started the comment with “I”.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking about doing this, getting a storage constrained, apple constrained, obsolete piece of hardware, to do what the phone I already carry does better.
Oh, wait!
- Comment on lightbulbs 3 weeks ago:
I have a somewhat basic home automation, and my lights are programmed to be cooler during daylight hours (where necessary, desk lamp, corridor, etc), and they become warmer at night. The reverse happens early morning in winter, where I wake up while still dark.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Windows 8 .1 was effectively Windows 9.