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- Comment on 4 days ago:
My college website in flash: wigg.lekatsas.us
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
Batteries have a logarithmic degradation of capacity, meaning using the quick charge function will cause the capacity to drop about 10-15% really quickly, likely within the first year. So dumping the phone in 3 years is likely right when you hit the shallow part of the curve and the battery stops degrading much.
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
This. I still keep my old 500mA phone chargers and use them on my phones to be gentle on the battery for slow, overnight charges. I am also a battery expert in my day job…
- Comment on Ford Admits Its Current EVs Aren't Software Defined—And They're Worse for It 1 week ago:
This is happening in all aspects of consumer electronics. Broad platforms of hardware and software that is cheap enough to meet all the needs then just water it down for the ‘cheaper’ varieties. The consumer has no attention span so everything has to be fresh and totally new with more features every 1-4 years max. Ita what the consumer demands from complex systems so engineers just need to churn shit out as fast as possible and everyone suffers.
- Comment on YSK: this is the hardware your favorite minetest server runs on 1 week ago:
Do you apply siracha in lieu of a turbo button when the user count gets too high?
- Comment on Social Security payments predicted to be cut in 2032 2 weeks ago:
Think of it this way, they will procrastinate long enough to where they won’t have full control of the government anymore and perhaps the next generation can teach them a lesson in bootstraps and how to pull them up.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 4 weeks ago:
Everyone misses this point. Lawyers have turned into leeches of society sucking the empathy and fun out of everything so everyone is scared to get sued. On the flip side its so god damn easy for corporate lackeys to say ‘no cuz lawyers’ just to make their job incrementally easier rather than actually doing it. Its a shitty cycle and I’ve seen it too much in corporate America.
- Comment on The author of viral Melania Trump erotic novel speaks! 4 weeks ago:
Here is the context you all are missing. The novel was offered for free so folks on Amazon could ‘buy’ it so it was number one on Amazon instead of the new documentary.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 months ago:
I looked into Greece and the birth right citizenship went away for children born after thr early 80s.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 2 months ago:
Different standards and playbooks because the democrats pander to largely educated voters who want facts and the illusion of accountability where as republicans pander to uneducated reactionary tribalism and any educated folk who allow themselves to be swept up in it. Some folks just need to be told what to think, others need to be convinced. You can call that imbalance if you like.
- Comment on What is this colour? 2 months ago:
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 2 months ago:
That was my first thought, dude looked coked up…
- Comment on Microcontroller recommendations for a weather station 2 months ago:
All fair points, assuming you write all your code yourself. But WiFi is still a pig even with optimization, coin cell is impossible which is what he/she asked to use.
- Comment on Microcontroller recommendations for a weather station 2 months ago:
If you want this to be powered by a coincell battery or any battery you need to figure out a power budget and pick a wireless protocol. WiFi is incredibly power hungry and won’t happen with a battery unless you like charging it every few days. If you are willing to make it a powered setup it will open many options otherwise youre stuck with zwave, ZigBee, BLE and LoRA. If you want to mix this project with other fun stuff like LoRa/meshtastic look into these. They snap into a main board and you can add a temp and humidity sensor and collect the data over BLE, add a screen and communicate over LoRa for miles. I can get these to run on a 18650 battery for about 3 weeks.
- Comment on Microcontroller recommendations for a weather station 2 months ago:
Esp32 will demolish a full sized battery, never mind a coincell.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 3 months ago:
I feel similarly and to expand a bit its more the fact that second time around electing this fool proves that that majority of Americans are either horrible people or useful idiots which is incredibly depressing to know with certainty. For me, first time around was a fluke, second time is reality. I’m exploring citizenship elsewhere as a backup plan.
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 3 months ago:
My install is bare metal, all SSS, redis and php-fpm optimization and I’m extremely happy with the performance. Also use transcoding from an Intel a380 and use Memories for the whole family. Works snappy and flawless. You need to tweak the php settings.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 3 months ago:
“I’ve amassed all this wealth and now that I’m retiring I no longer want to fund the system responsible for my success. Also, fuck welfare. But not Medicare. Dont you care touch my Medicare.”
- Comment on How would I make a HVAC simulator to see what a thermostat would do if the indoor temp was 400°F 3 months ago:
Everyone is over thinking the hell out of this. Almost all thermostats use a cheap NTC resistor, just change the resistance so the hardware thinks its at the whacky temperature. Or you could figure out the bias voltage the system uses through the NTC then apply your own external voltage to trick the system.
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 3 months ago:
I bailed on rocketchat a few years ago for Mattermost and never looked back. Rocketchats update cycle was insane, sometimes two releases in a week but often several a month. A few pdates required full database dumps and manual tweaking. It just wasn’t for me.
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 3 months ago:
Why can’t I prep all the things? I have bullets, beans and bytes, oh my.
- Comment on Is it insane to run a home server on an old laptop instead of a Raspberry Pi for self-hosting - what do I need to worry about? 3 months ago:
My primary server uses to be a 12 year old laptop with an SSD. I deployed a laptop server in rural Greece and its bulletproof, it VPNs back home to the US and works during short power outtages. Only caveat is the CPU fan, if you run the server with a high load the fans are not designed for years of high usage. I got crazy enough with one server where I cut the bottom out and mounted a large aluminum plate to the CPU heatsink and made it passively cooled.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 4 months ago:
Attatch a sausage to a soneloid and make a capacitive button pusher!
- Comment on 18650 battery pack 16s2p design 4 months ago:
Way better to use your old junk. I like that youre make your own home battery, ive considered it. I have solar installed and would love to not consume grid power at night. I’m thinking of installing a bank of lead acid batteries under my ground mount solar that would dump power into my home at night.
- Comment on 18650 battery pack 16s2p design 4 months ago:
May I ask why 18650? 21700 have better energy density and theyre easier to get these days. The price has also come down a lot.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 4 months ago:
That’s silly, they really don’t use much power in the grand scheme of things. It uses a lot of power for a very short period, a small blip. Big power consumption comes from things that run often or all the time. It compounds.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 4 months ago:
Does anyone remember older 747 jets having these types of projectors to show movies on international flights? Always thought it was so cool.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Thank you for putting into words what ive subconsciously been thinking for years. Every search result prioritizes videos at the top and I’m still annoyed every time. Or even worst I have to hunt through a 10 minute video for the 30 seconds of info I needed. Stoohhhhpppp internet of new! Make it good again!
- Comment on US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul 5 months ago:
Tax the offshore engineering and R&D, too. My company plays both these cards with a China office to hire local, cheaper talent plus manufacturing is local so they help domestically on their side. Thats a win. Then they hire tons of Indian H1B for engineering in America.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 5 months ago:
My 36" TV is fine, you monster.
