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- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
My 36" TV is fine, you monster.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 weeks ago:
I noticed the last modified date on some of my mp3s recently and realized almost all of them are old enough to drink and some are nearly 30 years old :(
- Comment on USB PD for older device 3 weeks ago:
You can also buy ‘trigger boards’ and wire it uo yourself if you like. I replaced all my barrel jack devices with USB.
- Comment on USB PD for older device 3 weeks ago:
That is not correct, you won’t get a random lower voltage. You are correct that thw PD supply needs to support the voltage but PD always starts with 5V for backwards comparability then digitally its negotiates the PD voltage it wants, if it asks for 12v and its not available it with just stay at 5V. It won’t spit out the closest value unless the device asks for it. Its a very strict and wonderful standard.
- Comment on Help diagnosing server freeze issue 4 weeks ago:
Check the power supply too. Those mini PCs just use a cheap laptop power brick and sometimes they can’t sustain their full output anymore. I had one server constantly crash and once I swapped the power brick I never had a problem again.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 4 weeks ago:
When cutting aluminum, push very gently. And when the raw material gets too small, don’t try cutting the last little piece. Small working material will increase the chance of accidents. I set my limit around 20 cm.
This. So much this. Even when cutting wood properly on a mitre be careful with little pieces. You simply cannot control or hold really small pieces. Almost lost some fingers and scaring the hell out of myself making that mistake.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 4 weeks ago:
Cool and dark, he would just toss them in baskets in a dark space that didn’t even stay that cool. He might have picked them before they were ripe but I dont remember.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 4 weeks ago:
Lemons if stored correctly will last 10 months. My grand father would just toss them in a dark storage room in Greece and they lasted until the next harvest.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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" 1 month 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 1 month 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] 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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] 3 months ago:
I was being dramatic, sorry, yes, this!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 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? 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 months ago:
Plus $1000 a year electric bill
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
33% have severely deficient IQ