ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Support local bands 2 weeks ago:
I unplugged the bassist and people went to buy the album.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 3 weeks ago:
Definitely then the issue lies with click to subscribe, and not with click to cancel.
If the customer is insufficiently informed of any penalties for cancelling, then he shouldn’t have been allowed to subscribe in the first place.
- Comment on smart engineering 3 weeks ago:
For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?
- Comment on Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio 1 month ago:
Well, not “kind” of dark, but really dark. I mean, the cartoon couldn’t be more direct in comparing the “haitian Simpsons” to the jews and other racial minorities in Nazi Germany, with the last panel being a page from the life of Anne Frank.
- Comment on Whale 1 month ago:
It looks like a fun chair.
- Comment on Doritos 2 months ago:
Tripping through time, love it
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
Why the down votes? Bro asking a question and being legit curious, don’t be hating on someone that’s looking to challenge what they know just because it’s trivial to you.
- Comment on The Big One 2 months ago:
I always knew that THIS is how kidney beans looked, I’ve been lied to my whole life.
- Comment on children 2 months ago:
Makes a lot of sense, not gonna lie.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
This is an interesting approach from the CEO, in that it demonstrates why unions are mandatory.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
Someone surely tried this on a Tesla by now…
- Comment on A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 46 white men have lost 3 months ago:
I get the feeling in OPs post, but for those unfamiliar, there are more people on the ballot other than the 2 main picks. This even varies by state, as they can have different criteria for defining who makes it to the ballot.
So perhaps a black woman has at some point ran for president (as in, made it to the ballot at least)?
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 4 months ago:
What.
The article says that, for the GPUs, they can have a “maximum power draw of 45,000 W at full tilt”.
The 28 million W comes from the full system, and surely the massive displays, LEDs and eventually sound system makes up the bulk of that, the gfx cards are a rounding error…
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
I don’t know if this recaps the situation accurately, to be honest.
Sounds like the publisher is complaining about some article that’s trying to use the game as a reference on why early access can be a bad thing.
I don’t see how the gamers are an issue though. They will expect what you tell them to expect, this is something for the publisher to manage, and I don’t even think this is a problem for Manor Lords.
All of it just seems like news sites trying to come up with their clicks.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 months ago:
Maybe this invention revolutionised how we clean our butts, or maybe it was utterly trivial and 20 different ways of cutting paper rolls were patented that same year (note that present day rolls don’t even use this method).
But that’s irrelevant to the point that seems to be implied here that patents somehow contributed to it’s success. They don’t, an invention will be useful or not based on its own merits, not on the fact they’re patented.
They exist to ensure whoever registered it makes a profit, which is why they’re being exploited way past the point of making up for any good they were supposed to bring…
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 months ago:
So the innovation that was patented is literally “cut it partway through”.
Patents are inherently stupid and only serve to stifle progress. Change my mind or otherwise just downvote away, works as well.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 months ago:
People here be discussing the wrong thing, or am I the only one thinking that patenting a roll of paper is incredibly stupid?
It’s a damn roll of paper. How much of a genius do you have to be to come up with that? People have been doing it for millennia, the only difference is that it used to be so expensive that no one would think of whipping their butts with it.
- Comment on Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says 4 months ago:
Data privacy AND not having to deal with more bullshit AI? Oh my, how will we ever cope with this… /s
- Comment on What a Hobby 4 months ago:
This is what they want you to believe…
- Comment on Cursed Milk 5 months ago:
The secret ingredient to turn "Instant Spoiled Milk into a great beverage is chocolate syrup??
- Comment on MFW my friends try to get me to leave the basement 7 months ago:
Techtonica is my new love. It’s like I’m still in my basement, but eerie, bioluminescent plants claimed everything.
Early in development, but really good IMO, even the story they have so far is really great.
- Comment on somewhere a postdoc is crying 7 months ago:
I would only trust the 0%…
- Comment on Give me Options or give me death 8 months ago:
I couldn’t care less about crashes, that’s an end-user problem. But do you expect me to go to sleep while that squiggly line is in my IDE??
/s just in case
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
I feel like you missed the point.
Webengines are not more complex than a full OS, and yet, Linux works as a community driven project and Chromium does not.
The difference is that Linus is the one with final say in Linux, and he never sold out to a company. Chromium is Google.
It will never be a “community” project, because Google pumps so many resources into it. The goal is obvious: to make sure that it’s always ahead of any competitors, and anyone willing to catch up would have to match Google spending.
The brilliant move here by Google was making it open source. This ensures that no other megacorp needs to fight them, as long as their interests are aligned.
Edge has died already. Safari will follow. The future is grim.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
I feel the same. I’m too traumatized by a couple of my playthroughs to play it anytime soon… But what a great game.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
I was going to mention this game, +1.
Trying to desperately survive in a world that’s upside down, fighting the hopelessness and trying to survive just one more day and slowly realising the you’re just one day closer to death…
Man, it’s a really great game, but I can’t play it again anytime soon.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
Depends on the kind of games you enjoy.
While not particularly about consequences of decisions, I highly recommend Frostpunk. It always feels like any decision is about trying to choose the less horrible one, but without ever knowing if it will work out or not. The atmosphere of that game is just superb.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
The hero we needed.
- Comment on 1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly 10 months ago:
How many for bad apple
- Comment on Temporary pull-up during boot (ESP-01) 11 months ago:
Uh yes, pin to base.
I still couldn’t come up with a way to make it work using a resistor-capacitor circuit, but I did learn a lot (that particular rabbit hole led to me an article discussing capacitance in potato tubers…!).
There is probably a better way of solving it, but at least I got it working with another transistor to “decouple” that sensitive pin from the base. I’m not exactly sure why there’s a negative voltage across base and emitter, but it was preventing boot.
I’d be very interested in hearing any criticism you would be willing to share. I have hopes of moving this from my breadboard and solder it to a PCB so I can put it into a paper-cut lightbox that will be controllable from HomeAssistant, but I wouldn’t want to risk setting anything on fire…
One thing that concerns me is that 7333A. I only have it in a TO-92 package, and while it’s only powering the ESP-01S, which doesn’t really draw that much current, it still gets uncomfortably hot to touch (I can hold it for a few seconds, but not much longer). Is there a better alternative, or is it supposed to get hot?
Thank you!
