Romkslrqusz
@Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip
Formerly lemm.ee/u/romkslqusz
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game 3 days ago:
Back in the day, I bought some Fortnite VBucks to get a couple skins and emotes. It wasn’t really to “show off to others”, I was just tired of looking st the same starter character and all of the gameplay based aspects of the game are free so I figured “Why not”. I did the same in some F2P MMOs like Vindictus and Black Desert.
In shooters, I usually don’t engage with skin mechanics because they are, in most cases, immersion breaking. I like my firearms black or maybe with some FDE furniture, I might do some cosmetic customization as long as it’s believable enough for the setting. Definitely not spending real money on any of that stuff.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 1 week ago:
Thank you so much for all that you do for this instance, and by extension the Fediverse at large! We all really appreciate you :)
Disk space utilization is represented as a graph of percentage - if you don’t mind sharing, what is the actual storage footprint of this instance at this point in time? If applicable, how much of that is content native to Lemmy.zip versus cached content from other federated instances?
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!
It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.
Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.
Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
friends dont let friends use plex
Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.
storage is very cheap now
In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
John Woo’s Max Payne
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 2 weeks ago:
Grandma doesn’t need to “learn” Linux
Most of the older generation compute almost entirely through a web browser. They often struggle with the amount of notifications / solicitations that come up in a a Windows OS, as they can have trouble discerning between what is real and what is a scam - becoming fundamentally distrustful of everything as a result.
Through my repair shop, I’ve transitioned plenty of older generation folks to Linux Mint with minimal friction.
Main area where that can get a bit more complicated is for those who are clinging to an older piece of software they’re unwilling to let go of.
- Comment on LGA1155 motherboard - no USB ports work 2 weeks ago:
You’ve confirmed that you have 5V / peripheral devices are being powered
Measure resistance between USB’s D+ and D- as well as resistance between each of them and GND
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
Using MMOD doesn’t track playtime for the man game
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.
- Comment on GeForce Now’s 100-hour monthly limit goes live in 2026 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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
- Submitted 1 month ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 17 comments
- Comment on Battle Bun 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Maybe you need a controller with motion / tilt support?
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months 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 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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.