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This seems like the perfect scam for Lemmy for setting up a fresh IP for launching a cyber attack/scam with a real residential IP. Helping a community member while circumventing shitty corporations. (Not saying OP is, just that it would be a decent scam)

This requires either an insane amount of trust in a random person or gullibility. Plugging a random mailed device into your network, even behind a VLAN.

I definitely would never do this if I didn’t have absolute full and complete access to every part of the pi’s software, or preferably set it up myself (optionally in collaboration with the requester) and the requester only had read-only access to it.

Eh, I am not pro AI, but these sorts of non- critical projects are maybe not a horrible use for them. Keep AI out of my kernel, core programs, basis functionality, camera, and personal/health information etc… But for a sorting/catagorization tool maybe not so bad. (Ignoring the environmental and ethical concerns of course)

Good question!

Sodium ion already had a reduced capacity (30% less at least than Lithium ion). And 2.5% of voltage is not 2.5% of capacity, something more like 3-4% (still small)

You could then just choose to use a configurable lithium ion IC, but almost all of those have an undervoltage lock out (safety shutoff) that is 2-2.5V that you would have to stay above. Sodium ion drops out at 1.5V, so I would again be losing a chunk of capacity. If I lost 30%-35% of capacity on an already reduced capacity cell compared to lithium ion, then battery life would be quite disappointing.

Do that rules out using a standard Lithium-ion charger.

If I am building a custom charger anyway (most non- embedded systems have custom chargers), then might as well put in all the features now and get 100% of the capacity. Cells usually also have a higher lifespan (double or more) by dropping that high CV charge voltage 0.1V or so and settling for lower capacity, but Sodium Ion lifespan is already 3000-5000 cycles compares to lithium’s 500-1000 (lithium ion and li-po, lithium iron phosphate is in the higher range) so might as well then use the full capacity.

That is amazing! I have just started making sodium ion battery chargers in my free time.

The bad thing abouslt sodium ion is that traditional CC/CV charging is harsh on the cells. Optimally each cell had to be CV charged at around 97.5% of its voltage end and then slowly brought up to 100%. Apparently that is how you get the most life cycles per cell

I am already trying to understand all of it first myself. In the middle of a full-strip renovation; I don’t think I will have time to spend on it 😂

Please dear god let STM or Nordic someone hire some technical writers for Zephyr, not just Nordic documentation.

The data structures, macro basics, and core concepts are OK, but for example ADCs have literally 0 documentation at all, documentation about DMAs is barebones at absolute best, non-led PWMs is not good, etc…

Pretty much every single peripheral needs 5x-100x the documentation it currently has lol.

Anything with a motor will run differently, usually safely but not always.

Motor speed is 120*frequency/poles.

For example, a 4 pole hair dryer motor will run at 60Hz, the fan will run at around 1700-1750rpm instead of 1400-1450rpm.

For fans specifically, this can be a problem because fan load (torque) increases to the third power with respect to speed. This means that changing the frequency to 60Hz for a fan designed for 50Hz will run it at a significantly higher load which can make it run at a worse point of the torque curve where it is less efficient and ultimately overheat.

Some electronics have filters based on their designed operating frequency, so signals may get distorted by switching frequencies (notch filters on sensitive signal chain things like ECGs devices) though many are designed for both nowadays.

Things like electric blankets are just resistive loads so there would be little effect, but if they have very cheap electronics it is possible that the timer functions would be analog AC coupled so the timers might run fast or slow.

Some people are fine with down time/inconvenience in exchange for security.

I have my boot drive on a secured USB and LUKS keyfile with the rest of the partitions on an encrypted SSD and data on encrypted HDDs.

In a smash and grab (or fascist government gestapo smash and grab), the server is pretty impossible to steal information from (inject illegal content to in order to fabricate evidence) without the USB and they can’t simply inject boot malware either. A network device is almost always findable either by cables or WiFi broadcast analyzing.

Ah so it isn’t the kopia server receiving the backup, it is the client making a server backup to a dedicated drive?

How did you get kopia running on your server? Even on the kopia github they pretty much just say “use one of the other options like a S3/B2 bucket or one of the file transfer options”.

Only local, without certificates for example doesn’t even work to test and there is nearly no documentation on hosting it yourself (decent documentation with the rest)

And many, if not most, of the people vibe coding projects on git repos are that stupid. People who have never coded and never used anything other than git clone. That is just a fact of many of the people who do it. They are the people who think they are tech geniuses because they once made an LED blink on arduino or made the millionth timer app.

It is just a fact of who is flooding the most slop projects. There are plenty of people who use AI in subtler or more useful ways, but that is not what is the target of anti-vibecoding rules. It is the 1000 slop projects generated bloated repositories fully in 1 day that are killing bandwidth and storage limits for everyone else.

That is a bit of an open source philosophy difference.

Is it better that everyone has open source everything so that anyone who finds the one-off useful can benefit from it?

Or is the software actually not provided “as-is” like the license states and on releasing open source software the community deserves regular updates?

I think that second option is a very entitled path. We are not entitled to the continued used free labor of a random person on the internet.

Don’t forget to change the database. There were breaking changes there as they moved to a different version in 3.0 which causes error loops.

All of my stuff luckily moved seamlessly without having to restore a backup.

A screen is always a significantly worse experience than physical programmable buttons sadly

Well they are correct to a point.

If the solar panel don’t have grid failure shutdown for its inverter, it can shock (or with bad luck) kill workers working on a downed power line assuming the load side is safe. That is also why house installations also often only have a dedicated outlet during power loss and are not allowed to connect to the full house.

I agree everyone should be able to get off-grid solar system or balcony solar, but they should have to be certified to not shock workers during an outage when people inevitably get cheap TEMU balcony solar.

Would spamming low effort comments to fill a quota then fall under the spam bit, not necessarily self promotion bit? It would be quite obvious and from what was written in the post, moderators have more hand-wavy freedom to decide what is spam.

I have no dog in this fight either since all of my projects are open hardware so nobody cares anyway because it would cost money to build it and test it out 😂

This is probably the coolest innovation I have seen in the past few years from the open source community. That is so awesome!

This guy is extremely smart and dedicated. It is crazy that he has been able to do it all single handedly as a hobby in only a few years!

Sadly, people will still steal it and sell it no matter the license. Companies might be slightly more hesitant to steal it, but anyone selling at flea markets will not even give it a second thought.