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- Comment on This Is Why You Should Never Store Your Retro Game Collection In A Shed | Time Extension 2 months ago:
I did this with all my PS1 games a while back, ran into a ton of unreadable ones. Managed to read some scratched ones by trying out four different drives, but some sadly fell victim to disk rot ☹️
o7 thanks for the memories I guess!
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
.NET runs natively on Linux
Only
.NET CoresadlyWhen I moved my personal laptop to Linux I needed WINE to run some source-available .NET apps that were written targeting the Windows-only
.NET Framework - Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.
AMD FirePro and Catalyst users are going to probably stay on an older version of the OS, considering most of those users are going to be educational institutions, engineering workshops, makerspaces/hackerspaces etc.
Can’t think of any other vendor products that integrated quite as much into the legacy control panel area
- Comment on Couple sewing practice projects 2 months ago:
That looks impressive, well done! The corners in particular must have been really tricky…
I can’t really even sew myself to be honest, the most sewing I’ve done is using a handheld chain-stitch machine to repair ripped clothing
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Platforms like Floatplane, Nebula, Patreon etc make it so easy to support creators outside of YouTube, while also giving creators a larger share of income compared to Adsense.
There’s YouTube Premium… but I don’t think I’m alone in not wanting to give Google a single cent of my hard earned cash
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
This is a recent thing caused by the changes YT has been making, at the moment we’ve been given multiple quick fixes while the community continues to investigate AFAIK
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
When the YT apps stopped working a few days ago, I just continued watching on Nebula until the apps were fixed. Only went back onto YT to read discussions in video comments
- Comment on Why do so many people use NGINX? 3 months ago:
First time hearing of this! Thank you 😁
- Comment on Why do so many people use NGINX? 3 months ago:
I was coming from Lighttpd which at the time had a very similar config syntax to Nginx. It was pretty much a no brainer, considering I wanted to shift to an automated Letsencrypt renewal process at the same time.
Sadly I wrote some python web services for CGI (not django/flask) that cannot be run anymore, since NGINX only supports FCGI, rather than just CGI as far as I can tell
- Comment on Webflow says 2TB of bandwidth is worth $1,250 per month 3 months ago:
Makes me wonder if those are real VPSes, or if they’re Virtuozzo/OpenVZ containers pretending to be a VPS
- Comment on Sovol SV06 stringing issue 4 months ago:
Retraction settings are probably your best bet then. Since the SV06 doesn’t use a bowden extruder, there’s much less things that could be the issue in your scenario thankfully
To be specific about my “workaround”, it compensates for a non-flat build plate (ramped lift) and a cheap nozzle that filament often sticks to (wipe on retract). It took me two days of test prints and research to narrow those down though…
To get to the bottom of your issue quickly, you could try tuning your retraction using a retraction test, then possibly try recording the nozzle printing the same test at 60/120fps, to play it back in slow motion. This way you can see at what part of the nozzle movement the stringing starts, and change any relevant settings accordingly
- Comment on Sovol SV06 stringing issue 4 months ago:
Are you printing with PLA or PETG?
I dealt with my stringing issue by enabling “Wipe-on-retract”, and “ramped lift”, allowing any oozing material from the nozzle after retraction to get wiped off.
Dialed in slicer settings for PLA first since it’s usually an easier material to print with, then changed a few things for PETG, like increasing the travel speed to break the stringing faster.
- Comment on Can the SATA-to-USB adapter affect the result of the bad sectors scan? 4 months ago:
ASMedia is the only controller IC manufacturer that can be trusted for these IME. They also have the best Linux support compared to the other options and support pass-through commands. These are commonly found in USB DAS enclosures, and a very small fraction of single disk SATA enclosures
Innostor controllers max out at SATA 2 and lock up when you issue pass-through commands (e.g. to read SMART data). These also return an incorrect serial number. These are commonly found in ultra cheap desktop hard drive docks, and 40pin IDE/44pin IDE/SATA to USB converters
JMicron controllers (not affiliated with the reputable Micron) should be avoided unless you know what you are doing… UASP is flaky, and there are hacky kernel boot time parameters required to get these working on Raspberry Pi boards. Unfortunately these are the most popular ones on the market due to very low cost
- Comment on Can the SATA-to-USB adapter affect the result of the bad sectors scan? 4 months ago:
Probably not.
However, not all USB to SATA adapters support SMART, so even if there is a bad sector that gets remapped by the HDD on-the-fly (and thus does not show up in the software scan), you may not find out easily
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
This infographic is really helpful. Stuff like this makes me relieved I use the majority of services in a browser, rather than native apps
- Comment on Finally my old saves are backed up! 4 months ago:
IIRC when looking into this originally, there are multiple tools necessary due to additional metadata on the MCs: mcpaste for PS1 saves, psupaste for PS2 saves, and the PS3 uses an entirely different format that needs to be converted prior to use (I don’t remember if you need to jailbreak to get the keys for this)
Felt there was a bit too much manual stuff involved which could allow human error to come in and mess something up. I did do a copy + psupaste to the internal HDD on a new partition just in-case, but there was no way I was going to risk copying those back onto my only memory card to test if it actually was done right 😅
The original MC was near full as well, so it’s pretty nice to also be able to spin up new ones when needed (to be fair I believe OPL has a similar feature built in, although some games may freeze using it)
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- Comment on Disable windows updates 5 months ago:
Deleting documents from insider branch users a few years back, forced installation of HP SMART printer utility, constantly switching users’ default browser back to Edge, even bypassing my employer’s GPO to do so at one point in a Teams update
Not to mention their habit of making practically everything opt-in by default. And what is up with the new Aptos “cloud” font that only works if you have an active Office 365 subscription?
I don’t know tbh, Windows just doesn’t cut it for me anymore personally, mainly because of Microsoft. Stuck with it on my desktop though because of sim hardware.
I still have XP on an airgapped old PC for nostalgia ☺️
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 5 months ago:
The hospitals in my nearby city have their own BRT which is open to public use, and joined to the city’s ticketing system. It shuttles between them and various key locations, and is of course wholly subsidized for the intended users.
Despite being the only BRT here it pretty much goes everywhere it should, skipping the usual traffic, and as a result gets a lot of use.
If the users were limited to the regular transportation I think they would just all drive - while there are a lot of routes here they’re not entirely pleasant to use IMO and almost always get stuck in traffic
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 5 months ago:
By making something private, IMO you’re revoking its status as an inherent right, and restricting access to only those who can afford it.
IMO the primary issue with this specifically venture funded stuff is that it’ll undercut the competition for as long as possible, and then hike the prices once the competition has ceased to exist. When other recurring sources of funding are available, as it usually is with public services, this kind of thing is much less of an issue
- Comment on Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io 6 months ago:
IMO more accurate presence detection. Common sensors like PIR and cheaper doppler radar types can detect when there’s motion, but not if a user is present but not moving in the detection area (e.g. sleeping or sitting). There’s also open source projects that can track bluetooth wearables & phones to know who specifically is in a room, but these aren’t able to detect people with no devices, say guests and kids.
The preferred approach at the moment is a combination of sensors to cover motion and person detection separately, which comes at a cost, both on your pocket and the time needed to get it working suitably for your needs, or maybe one of the more expensive radar sensors like the FP2 that can detect where in a space is occupied with higher accuracy than more affordable alternatives
The thermal cam is roughly in the same price range as the FP2 - however since it has I2C, something cheap like an ESP8266 can be used to turn it into a WiFi based presence detection sensor. Something like an ESP32 could be used to turn it into a presence detector and wearable tracker, negating the need for another separate sensor entirely.
Something like this would probably be quite close to plug and play for someone DIY focused, and wouldn’t have the same problem as radar being able to see through walls to different areas, although this is somewhat solved by surrounding the rear of the sensor in foil with caveats.
I’m interested in how it performs outdoors in rain though, a lot of existing affordable sensors (except PIR) struggle a little in wet conditions, with doppler based ones not detecting anything
- Comment on Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io 6 months ago:
Yepp I agree lol, coverage about him/his companies gets old really fast…
Even worse when its stuff like laying off the one of his companies’ most profitable business units over a childish disagreement 🤦♂️ just to reverse the decision after reporters start spamming his antics everywhere, leading to more spam.
Feel like he likes to see his name in the news or something, very tiring IMO
- Comment on Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io 6 months ago:
The !electronics@discuss.tchncs.de community would be a better fit for this post IMO
That said this looks interesting, and seems really competitively priced when compared to other similar thermal cameras like the Flir One Gen 3. This measures a very wide temperature range too, from -20°C to 400°C within ±2°C, whereas the Gen 3 tops out at 120°C.
The 80x62 resolution is OK for this application IMO, the Gen 3 is similar at 80x60.
I wouldn’t go recommending one of these to a “casual” user though, it’s very much a development product. Non-casual users could probably 3d print a case and get on just fine with the demo apps IMO, and for those users this would probably worth its weight in gold, given how expensive thermal imaging usually is.
Given how closely its priced to radar presence sensors like the Aqara FP2, and the inclusion of I2C for comms, I think this is going to have some appeal to DIY home automation enthusiasts too, especially if it gets supported by open source projects like ESPHome
Technical docs: www.waveshare.com/wiki/Thermal_Camera_HAT
- Comment on trying to fix a wifi antenna need some help 😅... 6 months ago:
I recently setup a Meshtastic lora node and realized antennas are complicated… I never knew there were ones that are most resonant on specific frequencies and stuff, the importance of having the impedance close to 50ohms for best performance. And fake amazon ones that give you only 8cm of antenna wire inside a 37mm shaft 🤦♂️
That said, I am shocked that something the size of my thumb can communicate 1km through buildings, and uphill to the other side of my village on such low power. This radio stuff is really fascinating.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
If the Humane could recognise speech on-device, and didn’t require its own data plan, I’d be reasonably interested, since I don’t really like using my phone for structuring my day.
I’d like a wearable that I can brain dump to, quickly check things without needing to unlock my phone, and keep on top of schedule. Sadly for me it looks like I’ll need to go the DIY route with an esp32 board and an e-ink display, and drop any kind of stt + tts plans
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 6 months ago:
Freetube, piped, invidious work great on desktop too
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
16 years old? That thermostat has sure had a run, must have been designed pretty well to last this long without some electronic failure.
Assuming it’s cloud connected, anyone aware whether it got updates for the newer versions of TLS and root certificates? I’m aware quite a lot of android devices from that era have expired certificates now, and outdated/vulnerable SSL libraries…
- Comment on 2mm thick layers on a trophy cup 6 months ago:
Feed that beast into a CPAP cooling duct setup, the part will pretty much go flying across the room when bridging lol
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 7 months ago:
Boing
When the plugdoor hinge consultant is asked how to spell Boeing
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
looks at username
Hallucination checks out /s
