JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhhh, tons of people in Europe are on 240V 3 phase power.

  My oven is 3100W and that is just fine. 3 phase consumer induction cooktops can easily go that high or higher.

  Once my 3 phase charging pole is put in, my car will charge at >10000W on a household circuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but this time deep web forums that are unsearchable/unindexed so that information is lost forever! (Discord, telegram, matrix)actually that might actually be a return to web 1 forums before search engines were giant and all forum seach engines sucked ass 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I add two docker containers via CLI and suddenly I can't ssh into my machine or access any local container.... what happened??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, syncthing for file syncing things between systems like music and I realized I never really used “cloud” storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  duckduckgo.com/?q=robot+vacuum&t=fpas&iax=images&…

  Ah yes, the extremely humanlike robots. 😂

  I think one difference is that men often have no support structures at all, and certainly not with levels of physical or emotional connection. They aren’t just craving sex, they are craving human intimacy and connection where it is very normalized among women to have emotional and physical intimacy among friend support groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Parks and golf courses are all world of difference lol.

  Parka have tons of trees, different species of geasses big and small, some open areas, playground for kids, small fields for football or something. Open to the public, 3rd spaces for kids and teens, people exercising and running and walking through it.

  Golf courses you have to pay to get in, not open to the public, a monoculture of imported grass, maybe some trees on the edges or between holes, kids and teens are not allowed, uses more space that the community isn’t allowed in, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Demonstrates Fully 3D Printed, Active Electronic Components⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, you could do that with any PTC + resistor. That is then a circuit, not an active component.

  For example, if you had a photoresistor and used an LED to turn its resistance from high to low, that doesn’t make the photoresistor an active component.

  Plus in the paper, the small wire + geometry is a prerequisite to do the resistance switch without melting everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I add two docker containers via CLI and suddenly I can't ssh into my machine or access any local container.... what happened??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to physically log into the server (I am not using a VPS) and docker compose -f … down the container in order for it to be solved. After a downgrade of nextcloud it was solved and the next upgrade I did, didn’t experience the same issue. I ended up ditching nextcloud anyway because after an update ~8-12 months ago, the login page has never loaded since, so it can’t be used. I found out I rarely used it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is literally no good corporate computer manufacturer anymore. Dell, HP, Lenovo, all not good.

  There are decent companies for home laptops: system76, framework, etc…

  But they don’t have the support infrastructure necessary for many corporate IT departments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I add two docker containers via CLI and suddenly I can't ssh into my machine or access any local container.... what happened??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I had a similar thing happen to me. It turns out the faulty container brought down my entire LAN network. The reason you can’t ssh in is likely because your router is stuck at 100% usage trying to figure it out.

  At least that is what happened with my old Archer A7 and damn nextcloud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that is an absolutely batshit insane price for storage. Backblaze is $6 per month for 1TB, and Hetzner is 4€ per month for 1TB, so literally 1000x cheaper, but you are also paying for development and the sync software.

  I almost have my company going on putting our QMS wiki on obsidian because excalidraw with clickable objects works so nicely and it can visualize our process, but for some reason commercial was showing up as 50 USD per month per user, so they couldn’t justify getting licenses but now it is showing up as 50 USD per year which is way way way more reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Demonstrates Fully 3D Printed, Active Electronic Components⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is a 3D printed PTC thermistor. Very cool and potentially extremely useful for measuring temperatures within a housing which has never before been able to be done to my knowledge. This is potentially awesome for embedding in medical devices which by regulations cannot be above a specific temperature while in contact with the body.

  That said, there is nothing “active” about it. Thermistors are, by definition, passive electronic components. Actives amplify, rectify, or supply electric energy while passives consume, store, and release supplied energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy enough, I have everything going that I want to on my server!

  • *arr suite and jellyfin
  • traefik reverse proxy with crowdsec + bouncer for some sites (e.g. not documents or media)
  • paperless-ngx for documents
  • immich for photos
  • leantime to manage personal projects
  • Book stack for a personal wiki
  • calibre-web for my library
  • syncthing for file and music syncing so I don’t have to stream music
  • valheim server for me and my friends
  • boinc for turning my server to a productive heater in the winter
  • home assistant for my in-renovation smart home

  As far as my server goes, I have everything I need. Maybe setting up something for sharing files over the web if needed. I used nextcloud for that before it killed itself completely and I realized I never really needed it.

  Next is working on my smart home because we had to fully strip the house to renovate. KNX first, zwave for things that KNX doesn’t have or are crazy expensive, ESPHome for everything that the other two can’t accomplish. Minimal 2.4GHz interference and don’t have to rely as much as possible on flaky wireless in a brick house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SLG46826V-DIP SLG47115V-DIP SLG47004V-DIP

  These are the breakout boards of their respective chips.

  These chips are the 3 “multiple time programmable” chips in their line (if I have the right ones, I put them in my mouser list a while ago). Which means that once you program them, they aren’t burned in with those settings and can be reused.

  There is also a “debug mode” where you don’t program them at all but program all the settings after boot so that the settings are cleared again after the chip is repowered. I have never used it, but that is what the renesas rep told us during our technical call at work.

  They are super handy at getting rid of all of the logic needed for amplifiers, CC/CV circuits, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t people here conflating intrusive thoughts vs the call of the void? I remember someone explaining it to me a bit like this:

  Intrusive thoughts are often violent and more “you need to kill yourself right now, jump in front of that train!” Or “push that person down the stairs now, do it!!!”

  Where call of the void is much more passive as in “what if/I could I jumped in front of a train right now” or “if I pushed that person down the stairs right now, they would probably get very hurt” and extends to things like “I could just drop my phone in a sewer grate”

  My understanding is that everyone™ gets the second but a lot less people get the first. I also get the second but not the first. I could be wrong because it was a random person that explained it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also a company called palantir which is pretty much a cyberpunk corporate distopia surveillance company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you use one GreenPak device and OTP it based on the model and have it cheaper and more reliable, any supporting circuits like drivers, FETs, bulk capacitance, etc… Would have to be designed per-model anyway on MCU based design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I remember, Seagate has a rough year most years when it comes to reliability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted Trakt.tv alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trakt also sells your data off to whoever wants it even though they explicitly say that they don’t. trakt.tv/privacy

  I hadn’t had anything on any ad service about harry potter in years. Never searched anything about it or anything. Watched a quarter of one movie via jellyfin on linux completely locally with the trakt plugin. A few hours later I had harry potter advertisements everywhere that I don’t have an ad blocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really really depends on what you have for heating.

  Floor heating + heat pump? You don’t need to mess around with target temp much because the principle behind it is thermal mass buildup and maintaining that. You have to tune thermostatic valves on the room level. Then you can have one central thermostat simply slightly change the target temperature with many hours of delay. That doesn’t seem too useful to me to automate.

  Do you have radiators? Then you can get zwave or ZigBee valves and tie them together with whatever thermostat that you want in home assistant. Then you can set per room/zone heat depending on whatever sensors you have.

  Do you have central forced air heating and air conditioning? Then you have pretty much target temp and on/off control unless you want to put in motorized automatic registers or redesign your entire duct system for per-room duct valves.

  Individual heat pumps/airco units with radiator based heating is the most “per room” customizable and probably the most useful to put automations on in Home Assistant.

  Ventilation can be useful by monitoring CO2 levels and humidity. Then you can use either the fan units themselves or socket switches to actuate those and put whatever sensors you want wherever it is useful.

  I am probably missing some stuff here, but there are only a few HVAC setups that actually benefit from automation, in my opinion. Mainly ventilation, infrared, and non centralized forced air heat pumps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  5600G is 140 on amazon. Arc a570 is 200. Less than double the price with like 7X the performance and not wasting the good 3600X chip.

  Probably the way to go to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower-cost sodium-ion batteries are finally having their moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish they were readily available and had standard TI charging chip ICs to charge them.

  Right now you can only get 18650s and a custom charging CC/CV solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium-ion developments from CATL, BYD, Huawei - Energy Storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t charge to 4.2V per cell but instead to 4V or 4.05V.

  Using the same charging chips as lithium that terminate so high would damage the cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium-ion developments from CATL, BYD, Huawei - Energy Storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so excited for sodium ion. I already have like 5 projects in my head for useful application of it. Solar powered rain barrel water pump, replacements batteries for power tools, camping battery pack.

  Sadly there aren’t any charging chips out there for it yet, but one of my project ideas is to implement my own CC/CV from a greenpak chip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inb4:

  Breaking news, google sells chrome to Oracle

  Breaking news, google sells chrome to Adobe

  Breaking news, google sells chrome to Microsoft

  Breaking news, google sells chrome to Epic Games

  Breaking news, google sells chrome to Tencent

  With the amount of money that chrome would sell for, I only see this getting much much worse.

  Chromium might get shut down and it becomes closed source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a novice at soldering, I now have an opinion about single-sided vs. double-sided breadboards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Double sided perfboards way more often than not don’t have plated vias. The vast majority are just etched from a 2 layer blank without any post processing.

  You would have to solder specifically on both sides in order to increase the strength.

  But yes pads lifting is almost exclusively from dumping way too much heat in it. Because there is no plated through hole, it also has ~1/4 of the thermal mass so it is easier to overheat and damage the adhesive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just send the energy directly back to the power executives houses with a high power laser. They want the energy for free so badly to pad their profits and buy a 5th yacht, give it to them 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only partially true. The solar panels almost all inject power back into the grid. Power companies started complaining about their profits when they had to actually pay the users for their power that they generated so now home power generating houses get paid pennies on the dollar for delivering power and reducing the power capacity needed by the power companies and of course the power companies didn’t lower prices at all, so they are just sucking up the difference in pure profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what your usecase is for what is “essential.”

  I think keeping household documents, taxes, medical bills, etc… In a local only paperless-ngx instance is quite essential to the organization of a household where everything is searchable and able to be organized on multiple levels compared to a simple document folder on 1 computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, the AI assistant fad isn’t all bad.

  HomeAssistant has an assistant pipeline that integrates into the most flexible smart home software around. It is completely local and doesn’t rely on the cloud at all. Essentially it could make Alexa’s and google homes (that literally spy on you and send key phrases back to your built data collection profile) obsolete. That is a way not to have to rely on corporate bullshit privacy invasion to have a good smart home.

  Indeed transcribing and translating (and preserving dying languages and being able to re-teach them) are 2 of the best consumer uses for AI. Then there is accelerating disease and climate research.

  If these were the use cases that were pushed instead of fucking conversational assistants, replacements for customer support that only direct to existing incomplete docs, taking away artists’ jobs, and creating 1984 “you can’t trust your own eyes and ears” in real time, then AI would actually be very worthwhile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  He is saying that AI uses countries worth of energy by itself. Even a normal search query using AI uses orders of magnitude more energy than a traditional search query.

  Literally tech companies have been buying or reserving entire power plants exclusively for training AI datasets. At least Microsoft reactivated an old nuclear plant instead of buying out coal plant energy shares.

  And 90% of uses for AI are absolute dogshit corporate fluff or a shiny activity for 10 year olds to play with for 30 minutes.

  There are legitimate uses like auto note taking, voice assistants, etc… But it is destroying the environment because corporations are shoving it into every possible thing they can, quadrupling the energy growth rate and straining our electrical grids and burning tons and tons more coal to do it.