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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Five amps?

  USian here. My refrigerator expects (and is legally required to have) a dedicated branch circuit of fifteen or twenty amps with nothing else on it.

  Been years a since I had to actually apply Ohm’s Law, but I believe since we’re on 120V and most of the world is on 240V, you’d only need half the amperage we do.

  You (and apparently most of your fellow citizens?) are expected to run your home most of the day on half the power available to an average American fridge? (Figuring that as 7.5A for US fridge at 220)

  Puts our privilege in perspective for sure. If you don’t mind what general area of the world are you in? (Need not be overly specific, just curious about region(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked side by side with RU devs who were both personable and damned competent. Never were their tech skills in doubt, and I retain quite a bit of respect for those individuals.

  I’d not do the same today explicitly because of the political and compliance implications. It’s unfortunate, but necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel ya, no job is perfect. My giant employer is great about WFH for those hired as such during a particular period of time, but they’ve outsourced HR entirely to a third party - a simple inquiry becomes a three day saga, abd if I’m talking in real time to HR, voluntarily, it’s because I’ve a concern of some immediacy.

  WFH plus great benefits > downsides, but it’s always a balancing act of priorities for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Been looking for this sort of device for my Pantech laser.

  The cartridge is good for 1,600 pages - no more, no less.

  All well and good, they’re cheap, except… the vast majority of my printing is in A5 size (roughly half-letter, or exactly half-A4).

  Those half pages count just like any other page against the total, and I get shorted by the better part of 800 pages or so.