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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does multiplexing a usb power cable from 2 cables into 1 impact energy efficiency?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Watts in a resistive example like yours is Volts x Amps. I would have been able to much better answer this question a year ago so forgive me if I’m misremembering the specs but I’ll answer since nobody else has. Two things that suggest to me this might be a bad idea:

  • Charger is 40W, that’s probably usb PD (I don’t know anything about QC so maybe I’m wrong). PD supplies more than 15W (5V x 3A) by stepping up the voltage, not the amperage. While stepping up either would likely be bad or very bad for some part of your circuit, don’t worry about that though; without the powered device telling it to, PD won’t activate. It should max out at 15W… I think. It depends on the resistance on the CC lines and using a splitter could screw up the resistance that tells the power supply which USB version to support so it can go up to 3A (15W). Sorry, it’s been a while since I’ve worked with USB power. 2 strips of 11W will need more power than that. Basically my concern is you won’t get adequate power out of the charger for one reason or another.
  • Where are you getting the 11.52W/min number? Watts don’t have a time unit and that much precision sketches me out. Almost as if someone who isn’t adequately educated measured the power straight off a multimeter once and just wrote that on a product page. Is the LED strip from a reputable manufacturer?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You obviously have good taste 👌😁 (no /s)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I forgot to check for replies til now. I’m using almost the exact set of services the other commenter is, minus mullvad (proton is fine for me) and standard notes (but I have been considering switching to it just this week, just haven’t done the research).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with the other guy, I’m not reading that again, but I remember it was on the verge if that helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨APC UPS switches to battery 50 times a day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How did you identify the problem and get ComEd to look into it? My UPS is switching inconsistently, sometimes a couple times a day, and I’ve seen some signs that makes me think it’s not just that UPS/outlet/breaker. I wasn’t at the point where I was going to do anything yet but since you’re talking about the same provider I have I figured I’d ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does cigarette smoking do for people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great description of nicotine addiction (I’m a vaper, but have smoked). I’d highly recommend anyone who’s considering it to not bother even if you’re impulsive and having a stressful time. Imagine adding another biological need like sleeping to your plate when after a few months all it’ll do for you is allow you to stop thinking about it for a bit. No more buzz. Just cravings and knowing where the exits are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll tack on to what the other commenter said:

  • Cost: I considered myself a heavy searcher (software engineer and gamer) and have been surprised to see I have rarely exceeded even half of my allotted searches ($5/mo, 300 searches). I’m now reprogramming my brain to stop turning to alternatives when something should be easy to find because “I might use up all my queries”.
  • Better: apart from all of the cool features, and there are many, there’s also that it just “feels better”. I don’t know how to qualify that despite being a professional in that world. It’s kinda the opposite feeling that I had using Google over the last 5+ years where I wondered if I was getting dumber or if the internet (and Google) was absolutely full of garbage.

  It’s on the very short list of subscriptions I pay for right now despite having a very limited budget at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, the data will not be scrubbed, just marked as reclaimable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  sudo

  As root

  find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs/files

  Find files in /srv/lemmy… that:

  -type f

  Are plain files (not directories, symlinks, etc; includes images)

  -ctime -1

  And were created within an amount of time (probably last day, haven’t used this flag in a while)

  -exec rm {} \;

  For each matching file found execute rm on it (delete it).