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- Comment on Antique Electro-Cautery Unit: Measuring voltage with ADC and general safety. 17 hours ago:
If you want to ground it and don’t require a floating output, you could connect ground to one end of the secondary.
- Comment on perplexity pro 2 days ago:
At least use a decent QR scanner that shows you the contents without automatically opening anything.
- Comment on You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training 3 days ago:
There’s no guarantee that deleting your account actually deletes your data. They will probably keep it and use it to train their AI.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 days ago:
Even if the smart fridge doesn’t become enshittified, the smart features will likely become obsolete long before the fridge its self is worn out. Just try using a phone or tablet that’s 10-15 years old. It probably won’t be able to open an https website, let alone install new apps.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 days ago:
Get a magnetic case for a tablet and stick it to the fridge. If it starts showing ads, you can take it off, put it through the wood chipper and the fridge will still work fine.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 days ago:
The article was about TVs, not computer monitors. Most people don’t sit nearly as close to a TV as they do a monitor.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 6 days ago:
That hasn’t stopped the addresses from changing on any of the devices I’ve tried it on.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 1 week ago:
Android changes its IPv6 address daily. That makes it kinda hard to host anything on it. SLAAC would be fine too if it was a stable address.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 1 week ago:
Has anyone figured out how to make android use a static IPv6 address? If I have to run a reverse proxy on a real PC, I may as well just host the website from that PC.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 1 week ago:
That depends on what you are running on it. The Pi 5 will be one of the most energy efficient options, but it’s limited to USB and PCIe 2.0 x1 with an adapter for storage.
- Comment on Amazon unveils prototype AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers 1 week ago:
I wonder if this will help the delivery drivers find my house? They seem to deliver my packages to my neighbors house more often than mine, despite it being 600 feet away and me reporting it every time. They will probably just ignore it like they do their GPS.
- Comment on TiVo Rides Into the Sunset 1 week ago:
I never had one, I always thought the subscription fee was a ripoff. High speed internet and bittorrent pretty much eliminated the need for one anyways.
- Comment on The Internet's Biggest Annoyance:Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites 1 week ago:
Or just install Consent-O-Matic. By default, it’s set to automatically reject all cookies.
- Comment on Help imaging a IDE drive 1 week ago:
That hard drive is probably multiple gigabytes, it would take days to weeks to transfer that over a serial port. If the computer has a PC card slot, I would look for an ethernet adapter that would work with it.
- Comment on Help imaging a IDE drive 1 week ago:
I’ve also got a couple of older drives that my IDE to USB adapter refuses to work with. I never found a solution, but the drives work fine in a PC that has a real IDE interface.
- Comment on This Early SSD Was WILD 1 week ago:
Just put
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=4G 0 0in /etc/fstab then reboot and /tmp will be a RAM drive. Set size to whatever you want the maximum size to be. - Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 weeks ago:
UHD is just a pain because it’s hard to find a compatible drive.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never had a normal bluray that I couldn’t rip with MakeMKV. It’s the UHD blurays that are a pain to rip.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 2 weeks ago:
It will probably just push more people to piracy. The streaming companies have been doing a good job of that lately.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 2 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if that was the case when the satellite equipment was originally installed. SDRs only became available fairly recently. Before that, you would either have to have the knowledge and ability to build your own equipment or have a lot of money.
- Comment on How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people? 2 weeks ago:
For email, you just pay for a host that will let you use your own domain. It’s usually a lot cheaper than getting a static IP and you can easily switch hosts while keeping your email address.
It’s not really even worth attempting to self host your own outbound email these days. It’s a lot of work getting the big email providers to accept your email and if someone has ever sent spam from your IP address, you are pretty much screwed.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 2 weeks ago:
The UK should just block sites that don’t comply. They have no business trying to fine US websites.
- Comment on LineageOS 23 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately still no support for my phone.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 2 weeks ago:
Yes there is. I was looking at the chart on my phone and missed it.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 2 weeks ago:
You should also list what providers allow P2P and what ones have port forwarding.
- Comment on Backup recommendations 2 weeks ago:
You can enable file versioning so deleted files will be kept for a set amount of time.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 2 weeks ago:
Office 2003 was the last usable version.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
It’s a switch, there shouldn’t be anything to go obsolete.
- Comment on AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month 3 weeks ago:
AV1 is one of the codecs that youtube uses. Not all videos have an AV1 version available though.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 3 weeks ago:
There are lots of standards for charging over USB such as PD. Many of those standards have multiple versions since newer devices keep needing more power. That’s to be expected of an interface that’s been around for almost 30 years. If every device came with a 240W USB PD charger, the price would increase by over USD $100, not to mention the only model I’ve seen is the size of a brick.