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- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 3 days ago:
I didn’t down vote you. I’m not saying all Chinese engineers are bad, I’m just saying a lot are bad or don’t care enough about details just execution as fast and with as little effort as possible.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 days ago:
You haven’t worked with a lot of Chinese engineers, have you? www.chinaexpatsociety.com/…/the-chabuduo-mindset
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 1 week ago:
Found a taker, hopefully it goes to it’s forever home on Saturday!
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 1 week ago:
I got my first Gateway 2k Pentium pro in 1996 and upgraded from an Amiga 500 too! Wish I kept that computer but I did keep the CPU as a keepsake.
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 1 week ago:
Want to come get it? There is no market for this stuff and I’m on a time crunch. I need this stuff out fast. There are a bunch of speakers and decks.
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- Comment on Fck it, we ball 2 weeks ago:
Bought one, thank you!
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 month ago:
Its not just the EV, its every layer of the supply chain. From the lithium they mine, the batteries they make out of it, the circuits and metal fabricating. Their government subsidies the electricity, tools, facilities, labor, etc. I work in the engineering field and I see bits and pieces of this everyday and have seen it for decades because I’m forced to source parts from China.
- Comment on Nextcloud appreciation post 1 month ago:
I hear ya but my instance is old (before i knew docker) and just works on the rails. I also tweak the heck out of it for performance so I deal with the annoyance once every two years. If it completely blows up I might roll it on docker.
- Comment on Nextcloud appreciation post 1 month ago:
I understand that everyone doesn’t always have a perfect experience but I’ve been using the same instance of nextcloud for over 8 years I just keep upgrading and migrating. It just works. Only issues I’ve had is when Debian withholds updating php for too long or when they finally do all the config files for php get fucked and I have to redo them all.
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 2 months ago:
They also make wonderful axes and mauls I use to abuse trees and let all my anger out. A by product of this behavior is I also get to heat my home in the cold months.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 2 months ago:
Burning natural gas isn’t so awful but getting it out of the ground and to the place where is needs to be burned is always overlooked. It’s a gas, it wants to escape and much of the infrastructure leaks and so a great deal is lost before its used. I walk around Boston and no joke you just SMELL it all the time because the infrastructure is so old. Natural gas is also mostly methane which when leaked is 80 times more potent than CO2. Furthermore much natural gas needs to be transported on ships to be uses. To summarize there is no ‘greener’ fossil fuels it’s all to be avoided if possible.
- Comment on please help identifying this plant 3 months ago:
Stone fruit. Could be peach or plum or nectarines etc.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
Sound dampening. Common feature on high trim cars or electric vehicles.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Bose actually made the first music playing sunglasses. It’s where the open ear bud idea came from.
- Comment on Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results 4 months ago:
I as not expecting to read about socket A tonight but I still have a special place in my heart for my old athlon. I still have the CPU somewhere in my basement, I had that sucker over clocked for years and it played a lot of WoW on it.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
These sound like high end ear buds at low to medium volume levels.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
You haven’t even heard them and are making grand assumptions. The bass is great at low to medium listening levels but rolls off as you increase the volume due to physical limitations.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It’s the later. A small speaker pointed into your ear while not blocking it.
- Comment on Mission MS 200 Schematics / Repair pointers 4 months ago:
Wow OK, great pictures. First I will say the PCB and components look super clean and the design, components and overall design looks very high quality. I’m kind of surprised this isn’t working because it doesn’t appear to be low quality, quite the opposite. The board is also super clean and well care for. I didn’t expect all the PCBs to be broken out, there appears to be a dedicated PSU board and I assume an amplifier board separate. Usually everything is all on one board. Perhaps you can order a new PSU from a different vendor if you figure out what voltages it should output, is there any clear marking on the output where there is no voltages to tell you what should be there?
OK so you tested the MOV and its 470kohm that is GOOD. It should be high resistance unless its damaged and then it typically fails as an electrical short. Also you would see physical damage and blackening. Next thing I would check is the fuse, but your PSU is fancy and uses an NTC. It will be low resistance until too much current flows which heats it up and then it’s resistance climbs higher and higher to choke the current flow to a safe/manageable level. You should check that and make sure its resistance is low, less than 20ohms or so. Capacitors also look good and you tested them. Unfortunately for you, this might be a vexxing or random failure :(
Did you happen to call the company and ask for help or a repair program? It looks high enough quality that they might stand behind it and mail you a new PCB.
- Comment on Mission MS 200 Schematics / Repair pointers 4 months ago:
The initial debugging you did, how did you root cause to the PSU? Your debugging aside I would check the fuse and MOV first. Did you have any bad weather recently? Lightning will take out your fuse and MOV and they’re an easy fix. Google what a Metal Oxide Varistor looks like. Next I would check for any damaged or blackened parts, then check the capacitors for bulging and capacitence values. Anything after that will get heavy on the EE side of things.
- Comment on Cursed 32 Gig NVMe drive? 5 months ago:
Early centrino laptops had a 16-32gig solid state drive in addition to mechanical disks purely to speed boost time. It was part of the spec in order to advertise Intel Centrino. SSD was too expensive to do the whole disk so just a simple operating system essentials raid type setup made booting incredibly fast for 2010 standards.
- Comment on USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray! 5 months ago:
If you can solder and heat shrink then search for “usb c trigger board” on ebay and get some for like $5. They will request either 5v, 9v, 12v, 15v or 20v. I’ve found for most older battery powered barrel jack devices a voltage that is an little under spec works just fine. Ive convertered everything in my house and now own a nice USB PD battery bank, life is good.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 5 months ago:
Perhaps not the same but I own a 150 year old home in America and I have foam insulation blown in. The insulation it provided was minor but what it helped tremendously with was drafts and air exchange. On older homes air leaks and sealing any cracks and drafts can potentially save you more money than adding actual insulation depending on how leaky it is. Food for thought though it might not help you.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video 5 months ago:
My company had a badge in/badge out procedure, badge out was new after covid. No one actually badged out. They have since installed security guards at all exits and they will chase you out the door if you forget to badge out.
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 5 months ago:
+1 this is exactly my experience. My install must be 5-6 years old at this point and its on the rails. I’ve braved many php updates…
- Comment on Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true? 5 months ago:
I noticed when they first spin up on boot they do some sub routine and they’re pretty loud and chatty. First time I heard it I was spooked but it worked fine and I just use it for backup so I just moved on. Once it’s on and in normal operation it’s like any other disk I’ve used over the decades. Nothing as loud as an old scsci disk or a quantum fireball.
- Comment on Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true? 5 months ago:
It’s really boring, Debian 12: /dev/disk/by-uuid/8f041da5-6f7a-4ff5-befa-2d3cc61a382c { spindown_time = 241 write_cache = off }
- Comment on Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true? 5 months ago:
I have an Exos x16 and x18 drive and they both spin down fine in Debian using hdparm.
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 6 months ago:
I’ve been running the Joplin server for over a year with clients on four laptops and three phones and share notes with my wife and its wonderful. There are certainly quirks and sometimes sync issues but by and large I’m really happy with it. There seems to be one cluster of notes I have that always irritates a fresh client sync and it shows up at 50 conflicts but I work through it. Also my notebooks are huge and the first sync can take an hour. It’s a lot slower than I’d expect.