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- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 1 hour ago:
I think you can get away with it for aluminum, but just be cautious and slow knowing its not the ideal tool. I’m sure it will work through since its such a soft metal. Just listen to the motor in case it protests your feed rate.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 4 hours ago:
That looks like a mitre saw, but you mentioned you want to cut aluminum. Be careful, I believe mitre saws are for wood only and spin much faster than a chop saw which is designed for metal and spins slower.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 weeks ago:
I work for an un-named company that makes stuff that has google assistant on them. Initially we out hardware mutes and pipes the microphones to physical hardware that monitored for wake up words and would then start piping the microphone data to the mother ship. Google told us to stop that, only way to certify the product as compatible with Google Assistant was to pipe the raw microphone data to the mother ship 24/7. That was 5 years ago and I removed all devices from my house.
- Comment on The more you earn, the larger the timespan for which you know your salary 2 weeks ago:
I think it just means youre well off and dont have to stress about money. I’m not sure there is a timescale element, I’m confident there are plenty if middle aged folk working paycheck to paycheck stressing about their income.
- Comment on Rain barrels are the exact opposite of "Saving it for a rainy day" 2 weeks ago:
Oh Christ I have 1000 gallons of rain water storage and I’m stealing that joke…
- Comment on Nextcloud and Thinkfree Office sign partnership agreement to add more choices for users - Nextcloud 3 weeks ago:
Their upgrade scripts for on the rails installs have gotten a lot better recently, especially in the last year. But then last upgrade they fucked it all up and made a series of database commands mandatory for the warnings to go away. Uggghhhh.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting's final form [30:05] 5 weeks ago:
Likely. The coils only job is to ignite the lamp by whacking it with high voltage to strip some barium elections off to induce plasma and therefore electrical flow. After that the coils could just be stubs of wire to keep current flowing through the excited plasma. If you did it inductively it would achieve the same means but I don’t think the plasma would be as dense so the lamp not as bright. My theory anyways.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting's final form [30:05] 5 weeks ago:
Wild to see this posted. I worked for the guy that invented this at Sylvania, I have a bunch of photos of the early prototypes. They never figured out how to commercialize it and in the process of trying to manufacturer it in China the manufacturer stole the IP and started making them under their own brand and stole the market. They were called Icetron lamps. I worked in their R&D facilities and domestic manufacturing sites in the early 2000s.
- Comment on "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven 5 weeks ago:
I love this community, I used to rant about efficiency all the the time on reddits self hosting community and everyone thought I was insane. If the damn thing is going to run 24/7 for 5+ years then put a little thought into its power usage!
I personally love old Dell optiplex micros on eBay. Cheap, plentiful laptop hardware in a cute little box which allows modest upgrades. My primary server in a full sized case is just a laptop CPU, Ryzen 5600g. It brings me joy that my network has four servers and still is under 75w idle for everything including networking gear.
- Comment on Hosting a Webserver in a RPi Model B… in 2025 5 weeks ago:
Ive been using a pi model B for the last four years as a wood stove monitor, data logger and web page landing page for said data. Is this a big deal?
- Comment on My dailies 1 month ago:
+the fact the pi is so darn cheap, has the IO and can emulate the game on the system not at all designed specifically for the task while also running a whole Linux stack and being online. Things have advanced tremendously.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 1 month ago:
My wife won’t leave the house without several water containers as it she is crossing the god damn Sahara. We live in the North East, its not even dry! I always ask her how she survied childhood without stupid fancy bottles that are marketed. Fortunately she is patient with my crap and loves me…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I was being dramatic, sorry, yes, this!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You would be the bad guy if you make him return it. Personally I would have a talk with your son about how unusual the act is and how his act could be used as leverage over him, nothing is free. Teach him healthy skepticism. Also call back those parents and tell them to fuck off, completly unacceptable they bought something connected and important for your son without checking with you first. They dont know your house or rules…
- Comment on A WYSIWYG editor for personal website? 2 months ago:
I migrated from WordPress to Grav and love it. If you know markdown Grav is easy, efficient and FAST.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 2 months ago:
I would like to say it was on purpose but it was not :( I might do math, spelling is not my forte.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 2 months ago:
I guess remembering grade school order of operation means you’re a guinus now? Bar has gotten pretty low…
- Comment on There were probably some people who just really liked "Never gonna give you up" and really enjoyed getting rick rolled 2 months ago:
I host my own cloud and various other services for myself and whole family. Any 404 resolves to a rickroll and I’m never mad, often letting it play fully.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Its essentially my garage and workbench with tools. My home doesnt have a garage so I made one. I built a modest bench into the nose of the trailer and put the inverter, battery and equipment under it. There is a cell hotspot and raspberry pi that controls the vent fans, exterior lights, etc so its a fully self contained, mobile workshop I can take wherever. I usually park it way out back on my property.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Listen to this guy, made a solar powered trailer/workshop and battery storage is the biggest limitation. If you get 3 days of bad weather the battery drains and you go offline. Or you spend tons of money over sizing the system and the batteries are wasted 95% time. Its a game of numbers and use cases.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
Plus $1000 a year electric bill
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
33% have severely deficient IQ
- Comment on I'm a 64-year-old Amazon employee. Retirement wasn't even on my radar, but now I have to leave due to RTO mandates. 3 months ago:
Which is why not enough younger employees want to climb the ladder anymore. I avoid promotions too, just not worth it. There is going to be a lot of unqualified clowns getting promoted and running companies in the future just because they were willing to eat enough shit.
- Comment on How to send backups on multiple location? 3 months ago:
I went a little crazy and setup my own wireguard VPN network, all the remote hosts connect to the VPN and the primary server connects to each of them and pushes backups. Because I use btrfs and lots of snapshots I use btrbk, annoying to setup but now my hourly snapshots get pushed everywhere, minimal bandwidth and it flawlessly has worked for years.
- Comment on Incremental backups to optical media: tar, dar, or something else? 3 months ago:
I do this except the offline copies are raspberry pis, they grab an update then turn their network card off and go black for about a month. Randomly they turn on the network card, pull a fresh copy and go black again. Safe from randomware and automatic.
- Comment on Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed 3 months ago:
Are those old ISA sound blasters worth much? I think I have a few in the basement…
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 4 months ago:
I have a trailer (workshop) with solar power, batteries, a raspberry pi controlling everything and a cellular hot spot. It pumps all the solar, battery information and light controls over MQTT and home assistant over cellular. So yes its possible, what do you want to do?
- Comment on The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs 4 months ago:
I overclocked my socket A athlon to the moon and loved every minute of its partial instability. Still have that CPU in the attic.
- Comment on am i insane? 4 months ago:
I’m not a doctor and a dude, just speaking from personal experiences and shared stories, but are you on birth control? Birth control pills made my wife emotionally unstable when she was PMSing and finally she had enough and stopped taking them. It was a night and day difference and she hasn’t taken them since. Just food for thought.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 months ago:
Power is a measurement of the velocity and volume of water flowing through a pipe at a given instant*
I’m so sorry, I am officially ‘that guy’, taking a simple analogy and making it annoying…