Romkslrqusz

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeForce Now’s 100-hour monthly limit goes live in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about 3 hours 15 minutes per day or 25 hours a week.

  I’m sure this will eventually reach a point of actually enshittification. For the time being, it seems like they’re making the highest bandwidth users - who have a part time job’s amount of time to play video games - pay more for their share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is an NPN, It isn’t flipping when base is pulled to ground / is behaving as expected.

  When using NPN, the problems were related to the resistor. I managed to find a “sweet spot” at 330ohms where the module is able to turn on and play without cycling and the resistor sits at a comfortable enough temperature.

  I’m going to try timing plugging in the battery so that the resistor doesn’t shed all of its power before the gift is opened :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably, I used the term “Tripwire” as an example with relation to the circuit, in this application the intention is that a wire will be cut with snipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s possible place the full module between 4V and Drain (or collector for NPN), so I shifted my focus to just the speaker without all the ICs.

  The good news is that it works with both an NPN or a MOSFET - the bad news is that it totally degrades the quality of the audio to a point where the thing I am trying to play is unintelligible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With how I’ve been going about this, technically, the load of U2 / Speaker Module would be on the Drain side of Q3 PMOS rather than the source side - and that’s the key difference between what I’m doing and the Piezo speaker tripwire circuits.

  Could this be the reason I’m not seeing success?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Appreciate your response / effort! The first diagram that comes up in my post is one I drew of what I’ve been implementing, you can sub the NPN Transistor for a MOSFET to cover attempts with that component type. Base to Gate, Drain to Collector, Source to emitter.

  For all three of your diagrams, SW2 exists on the module PCB but it is being bypassed by my circuit. I have the resistor / drain / collector wired to “1” on SW2, “2” is the load of the rest of the Module (in my diagram, “2W Speaker and some ICs”)

  The blue wire is my “Tripwire” / pulldown to GND. In the last picture, I haven’t even bothered attaching it to pull down the signal from Gate because I had been experimenting with different MOSFETs and finding they weren’t turning on all the way / letting any more than 2V through, which is not enough to power the speaker module.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope! Mostly do computer repair / SMD rework, I’ve also tweaked some existing circuits to do what I want so this is probably my first foray into really tinkering and building something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where I think I’m having the biggest issue. I’ve been experimenting with different resistors, 20Ω is the only value so far that doesn’t result in the module power cycling the resistor starts to cook, I think it is rated for 1/8W and I could go with a higher wattage rating but I don’t want to drain the 300mAh battery too fast

• Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battle Bun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lugaru

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I looked into this I found that, for TrueNAS, using ZFS with RAW disks is generally preferable.

  I wound up writing custom firmware to my hardware RAID card so that it would be effectively “transparent” and yield direct hardware access to the drives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s a 3D model / printable replacement, might be able to modify it with a bit of texture and have someone with a CNC mill it from aluminum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to recall one of the early cross-platform competitive multiplayer games having full controller aim assist on PC, they had to dial it back because players were figuring out how to combine it with mouse input and ending up with such a massive advantage that console players were disabling crossplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My line of thinking is that games optimized for controllers will usually have sticky aim or aim assist, whereas those that maybe lack controller support won’t necessarily have those features.

  Gyro adds that last little bit of precision that could potentially bridge the gap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you need a controller with motion / tilt support?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s quite a headline they’ve got there!

  After provisioning a PC with a Windows 11, version 24H2 monthly cumulative update released on or after July 2025 (KB5062553), various apps such as StartMenuExperiencehost, Search, SystemSettings, Taskbar or Explorer might experience difficulties.

  This will occur for the following: First time user logon after a cumulative update was applied. All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.

  If you are wondering, provisioning essentially is the way admins configure devices as they automatically deploy various settings and policies on a client PC. So while the issue is in office PCs, considering a huge number of enterprise PCs are Windows, this is probably a very big problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  👋 Repair shop owner

  Between the three issues you mentioned, charge port are the most common I see with Acer whereas hinge issues are actually on the rarer side compared to other manufacturers.

  With Acer, charge ports are pretty memorable since they’re soldered to the mainboard rather than being on an easy to replace daughterboard or cable.

  Ultimately, charge ports issues are usually a user problem rather than a quality issue. There should always be extra slack on the cable when charging, the systems should be on a flat level surface, and the device should never be transported with the charger connected to the port.

  Someone who has had repeat problems related to their laptop’s charge port is going to have a real bad time if they switch to a system that uses Type C ports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or perhaps it could be something other than malice?

  This person is putting up with a misbehavior they don’t have to live with. They’re presenting the perception that it’s due to the nature of the operating system.

  My Toyota engine dies when I idle, therefore all Toyotas and fundamentally flawed.

  Flawed logic, no? And yet, when it comes to tech, plenty of folks apply the same type of thought pattern.

  You’re right that one would think the issue is as it seems on the surface. Computers are actually a bit more complicated than that.

  One fail mode of memory is the occasional bit flip silently corrupting data in the background. As time goes on and new data is written to a disk, things can get weirder and weirder over time.

  We don’t know if Windows and Linux are sharing a physical disk (I hope for their sake they aren’t) and we don’t know how old the Linux deployment is, so it’s possible it hasn’t had the opportunity to get progressively messed up enough yet.

  Another key variable is that the Linux environment might not be interacting with every single piece of hardware, or that the structure of those interactions could result in symptoms manifesting differently or not at all.

  I’ve had situations where a MacBook’s keyboard and trackpad were completely functional in Linux and Windows, but absolutely dysfunctional in any MacOS based environment. The fix? Replacement trackpad cable.

  At the end of the day, the situation they’re describing is not common for the OS and indicates something is very wrong.

  A device with those symptoms coming through my shop is statistically likely to be leaving with replaced parts, a component level repair, or at the very least a complete OS and Driver reinstallation after passing extensive diagnostic testing and behavioral isolation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  5 to 10 minutes before the mouse pointer decides to cooperate with mr

  This is not a typical experience, you have some kind of hardware issue or corruption / incongruities in your OS deployment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I stand corrected, I hadn’t been in the loop as to how deep this really ran.

  They probably would have saved a ton of money and bad PR by just paying ANTIREAL for this work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How does one […]

  This is the key element. I don’t think this is a case where a team collectively chose to steal someone’s art.

  If the theft was deliberate, it was probably an individual, with how big these projects are it’s not hard to consider how that may have flown under the radar.

  I could also see one team member collecting assets to serve as inspiration and another implementing them without realizing they weren’t created in house.

  With how exhausting the current state of the world is, I could even see a burnt out employee tossing something together without remembering where the asset came from.

  Not trying to excuse what happened, the original artist is definitely owed for this, but there are other potential explanations for this beyond intentional malice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you opted into ESU, those would be the security updates that you opted to receive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having both on a different connection is essential!

  If you have a spare router, you could connect it via ethernet to the host and then connect your client to that WiFi.

  Host would then be able to maintain its internet connection over WiFi and there would be a separate dedicated LAN just for the stream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gigabit ethernet to the host, WiFi 5 or better for the client, QoS configured to prioritize both devices in the router settings?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With a strong internet connection and more capable desktop device, you can already stream for hours with high fidelity graphics, 60+ FPS, and no fan noise.

  With that in mind, buying a new Steam Deck is probably going to be multiple generations off for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try the Final Sentence demo (competitive typing game... and psychological torment)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Game is pretty fun, it had me typing out some pretty silly stuff that had me chuckling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 October Update Triggers BitLocker Recovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This 49 minute video ends with the presenter saying that fixes for what they demonstrated were shipped in July’s patch Tuesday

  The recommended mitigation is the use of TPM and a PIN, which is going to apply to any machine where the user went “with the flow” during Windows 11’s OOBE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not going to short anything.

  The power pins (VCC) on your phone’s USB-C port aren’t “live” at all times, the standard requires communication over CC1 and CC2 to negotiate which side is receiving power and at what voltage. Otherwise, a specific value of resistor needs to be in place between those pins and GND to get “dumb” charging at the original 5V usb standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine-Tails Kurama⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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