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- Comment on USB-C PSU is 9v *only*. Is that compliant? Did a PD-compliant charger fry my gear? 22 hours ago:
kenwood cr-st90s. Not sure about the OEM charger since I don’t have it.
- Comment on USB-C PSU is 9v *only*. Is that compliant? Did a PD-compliant charger fry my gear? 2 days ago:
The seller had a few of these same radios, new in box, but all missing the chargers. My thought was either the seller sold them separately or the chargers were stolen and so whatever retail store had them could not sell them and they ended up on the street market. But after seeing that the OEM chargers are strictly 9v, they seem worthless without the radio. Unless it’s just a shitty label. Maybe the OEM charger is proper USB PD, but they only wrote 9v on the label. I can only speculate.
The universal charger I have could also be dodgy. It was from a 2nd-hand shop. But afaik it’s fine.
Since I don’t have the OEM charger, I cannot see how it is marked. I just recall it was only marked 9v.
- Comment on USB-C PSU is 9v *only*. Is that compliant? Did a PD-compliant charger fry my gear? 2 days ago:
Dead battery was my 1st theory, but it’s questionable. I fiddled with a healthy demo unit (same model) at the store. The battery ran out of juice and the machine shut down. I plugged it in and hit the power button and it instantly turned on. So it can apparently run directly off the USB-C as the battery charges (and the manual says as much). But the one I have never powers on, even when connected to power.
- Comment on USB-C PSU is 9v *only*. Is that compliant? Did a PD-compliant charger fry my gear? 2 days ago:
USB-C chargers won’t work in this case, as they only output voltage, if they detect a device.
Note that the first 2 times I attached a universal USB-C charger to the radio, it gave a charging animation (though after ~30-45 min wait). So I am struggling to work out how that happened. Did the charger give up after waiting a long time and say “fuck it, will give some arbitrary power”?
You need a USB-A charger with a A-to-C-cable.
My universal charger has both USB-A and USB-C ports. I tried the USB-C port first (thus usb-c→usb-c). Then at one point I tried usb-a→usb-c. I was expecting usb-A to behave the same because the charger specifies the same range of voltages for both ports. The only difference is the max current is a little higher on the usb-c.
- Comment on Lenovo USB-C PSU for laptops powers a Rasberry Pi, but cannot simply charge bicycle lights. WTF? 2 days ago:
What would be the meaning of a default voltage then? My understanding of USB PD is that 5v is a default, which I took to mean it would deliver 5v in the absence of a handshake.
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- Comment on What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS? 4 weeks ago:
No, I figured if I could recall the name I could get a nostalgic fix by searching it. I found this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
I recall DESQview was much lighter weight and better performing than Windows, but had limitations. I did not recall that the windows were text only within, but that’s starting to fill some holes in my memory.
- Comment on What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS? 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, I was quite vague. I think there are multiple right answers… but I recalled one starting w/a ‘D’ and that’s what I was trying to recall.
- Comment on What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS? 4 weeks ago:
In those days, DOS was the OS. Windows and DESQview were just window manager apps that ran other apps.
- Comment on What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS? 4 weeks ago:
What is that? I don’t think that’s what I had in mind. I think it’s DESQview I was trying to think of. Anyway, not important… it was just driving me nuts I could not remember.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 26 comments
- Comment on Can my SPARC server host a website? 4 weeks ago:
Originally ZFS could not be a boot disk because of the license issue. There was some other important feature that was denied to linux users, originally (forgot what it was). Apparently the booting restriction was eventually overcome. I don’t really grasp how the licensing changed that made booting possible.
Conceptually ZFS was relatively superior to all other filesystems. If it’s fully liberated, I don’t get why it is not more popular. I might expect it to be a default of sorts when installing Debian.
- Comment on Can my SPARC server host a website? 4 weeks ago:
I have one as well, mothballed, which is why the article caught my attention. Then I saw all the mention of Cloudflare an thought: oh fuck, so it needs a wheelchair, in effect.
What originally attracted me was running a full-blown ZFS, which was too license encumbered to be fully featured in linux or bsd, IIRC. I never got around to doing much with it. And I wonder if ZFS is finally fully liberated on a FOSS platform.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 8 comments
- Comment on cannot edit my post b/c of slur filter? 6 months ago:
Oh, right! Indeed, I forgot there was a language specifier for the post itself. That fixed it. Thanks!
What a piece of shit software.
- Comment on cannot edit my post b/c of slur filter? 6 months ago:
thanks for the tip, but it seems to make no difference. I changed it from browser default to english. Simply tried to add the word “needed” to the end of the title, and it said “language not allowed”.
- Submitted 6 months ago to sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org | 5 comments
- Comment on Before buying a “white goods” appliance, send this rant letter to the manufacturer (written in LaTeX) 6 months ago:
Please report any spam you find to the mods by hitting the “create report” flag under the ellipse, and explain why it is spam. They will remove if it is non-conformant or irrelevent to the topic.
- Submitted 6 months ago to rant@lemmy.sdf.org | 2 comments
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- Comment on Why do you think I USE search operators? 8 months ago:
That’s too short to be a rant. Do whatever you necessary to get some outrage built up, then come back us ~3 or so paragraphs please.
If you need help, consider using the “angrier” parameter with 5 peppers on this page: goblin.tools/Formalizer
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 8 months ago:
counterfeiting doesn’t stop being a crime because the fake bills suck.
It stops being an effective crime that is significant enough to warrant disproportionate intervention with printer design. Someone who would use a SOHO printer to counterfeit banknotes isn’t going to the trouble of making paper that integrates colored fibers into the paper. Maybe lousy counterfeits will fool some low-grade vending machines and some kids will loot some candy bars. For me that’s not justification for fingerprinting every single printed page using ink that the customers pay for.
Also, if appeasing the Secret Service isn’t the real reason, why aren’t black and white printers printing gray dot codes?
A gray dot is harder to hide than a yellow one.
BTW, it’s worth noting that the whole industry of counterfeiting yields less counterfeit money than what the secret service spends on controlling it. It’s security theatre for the sake of reputation and respect for the currency.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 8 months ago:
It’s a good “cover for action”, considering most of the printers that have the stego are naturally incapable of achieving the high quality needed to counterfeit banknotes. And those that are high enough quality are artificially crippled to be incapable of producing an exact match on the colors used in banknotes. Printers are generally lousy at matching colors. IIRC, Epson supplied software that would alter the photo displayed on your screen to best match what the printer could do, because demanding that the printer precisely match the source color is unrealistic.
Self-regulation out of fear of regulation is a tough sell. What regulation do they risk if they don’t self-regulate, other than the very same outcome: tracker dots?
Like a lot of surveillance, there is the cover story and then there is the real reason.
Nonetheless, I appreciate the link… it’s always good to be aware of the /official narrative/ regardless.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 8 months ago:
Thanks for the ransom note tips.
I’m also thinking the ransom note could be a PDF w/metadata removed, posted anonymously to a framadrop box, and the physical note could be made with your dominant hand but only as a hand-written QR code to the PDF URL. Perhaps magic marker with making dots on a graph paper.
- Comment on Reality Winner documentary concealed how she got caught (yellow tracker dots) 8 months ago:
Printer makers have no legal obligation to surreptitiously fingerprint every page printed. Frankly, you are simply stupid if you believe this.
Citation needed on the statute. Also, please show us cases where printer models /without/ tracker dots led to prosecution of the printer maker.
- Comment on When you change your address, the USPS website actively tries to trick you into signing up for junk mail and offers 8 months ago:
That’s not the worst of it. If you fill out a USPS change of address form, they surreptitiously sell that information others.
So you should never fill out that form. Buy stamps if necessary to tell each entity your new address. It’s the only way to get some control over the disclosure.
- Submitted 8 months ago to rant@lemmy.sdf.org | 16 comments
- Comment on credit bureaus are fucking nonsense 8 months ago:
equifax/transunion: oh, look! we don’t care why, but there are “too many different phone numbers” being reported for you. we’re lowering your credit score
I treat all members of the credit bureau (all banks, insurance companies, etc) the same when it comes to info sharing, just as if it’s all the same org. Because they all share the info via the credit bureau. If you give a different number to every bank, every bank can see all the numbers you gave to other banks through the credit bureau.
I give just one useless number to all of them. A FAX number. Banks have no hope of getting me on the phone. But fuck them… they create this mess by joining the credit bureau. They’ve demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with useful info. So for self-defense, consider making every bit of info you give as useless as possible.
You might be interested to know that the phone numbers on your credit report never mention the source who reported the phone number, which is unlawful. I wrote this thread about it:
