
ProdigalFrog
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- California passes bill to make plug-in solar systems easier and cheaper to installwww.techspot.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
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- Comment on DIY eBike Mid-Drive 1 month ago:
Hm, the captcha worked on my end without issue and I was able to watch with audio.
I tested it just now with Freetube instead (should be available in most linux repositories), and that appears to work well for me without any captcha. Hopefully it should allow you to watch it without as many issues.
I don’t see a way to download the video from within Freetube. I suppose a much more inconvenient but guarenteed method of capturing the video would be to capture it live by recording the video portion of your screen in OBS.
- Comment on DIY eBike Mid-Drive 1 month ago:
Would an invidious proxy count? yt.chocolatemoo53.com/watch?v=0jco-RKzRSo
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Low Stakes Cozy Games Suggestions? 2 months ago:
Dome Keeper is a really fun up-to 4-player co-op game about digging for minerals beneath a dome and defending it from creatures on the surface who try to break in every so often.
- Comment on Got a spare $10? Net yourself almost 150 games and help support laid off game devs with the game industry hardship fund bundle 2 months ago:
I saw a couple standout titles like A Short Hike (polished cozy game) and Neon Struct (thief-like). I’ll see if there’s anything else that jumps out at me.
Edit: Eldritch is a rather good rogue-like Cthulhu FPS
Dungeon Bodega Simulator looks fun.
Deep Space Exploitation looks good.
Hyper Gunsport looks like a fun multiplayer game.
The Wratch’s Den looks neat.
- Comment on Air Purification 2 months ago:
Off ebay (though I’ve seen thicker ones in hardware stores too), they should pop up from searching 20x20x4 Merv filter.
The thicker ones are much freer flowing compared to the thin ones due to their increased surface area, making them comparable to a Corsi box, but easier to move around.
- Comment on Air Purification 2 months ago:
Was it a 1" thick filter, or 4" thick?
- Comment on Air Purification 2 months ago:
Personally I use a single 4" thick HVAC filter taped to the back of a box fan, which has similar advantages to the Corsi box, but in a smaller footprint, and allows it to still be pointed at things besides the ceiling.
The 4" thick filter has far more surface area than a single 1", giving it much less flow resistance, so no danger of potentially overheating/straining the motor.
- Comment on Air Purification 2 months ago:
They are also known as HVAC or MVHR filters, which appear to be available in the UK
Based on this chart, you’d want an M5 rated filter to remove car exhaust particulate, something like this (though I have no idea if that’s the best deal to be had, that site was just the first one that popped up from searching UK HVAC Filter).
- Comment on spychip-free AMD chips from 2013 2 months ago:
Ah sorry, I meant to link this video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53LdJcvOo
In the meantime I also found this video by Phil’s computer lab where he tests your CPU, and at the end concludes that, at least for gaming, the desktop CPU’s are better (but also assumes over clocking is an option, and I have since learned it’s not terribly viable to do on coreboot).
- Comment on spychip-free AMD chips from 2013 2 months ago:
I think for people who don’t use highly multi-threaded tasks, the lower core count Piledriver CPU’s would be a better choice, as the 6272 is likely going to use a lot more power at idle, and each core is clocked significantly slower than a lower core count chip, exacerbating the already low single thread performance of those chips.
The desktop chips also overclocked quite well, I recall pushing my FX-6300 to 4.5ghz without much issue, and the same for the 8-core FX-8320. Though I’m unsure if Libreboot supports overclocking (if not, than having higher default clocks would be even more important, IMO).
- Submitted 2 months ago to retronet@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I beat the first Gabriel Knight from Sierra for the first time. I was surprised how excellent the voice acting is, and liked the direction it was going, but the ending was kind’ve off putting, and I ended up needing a hint book toward the end due to some pretty out-there puzzle design, but overall I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
I tried the sequel, which is rated pretty highly, but found the switch to FMV unfortunately unbearable due to really slow, poorly acted awkward dialog, and a big down grade in the music and setting, so I chose to pass on it.
Instead, I discovered that with a little soldering, I can convert my 90’s sidewinder joystick from game-port to USB, making it usable on modern PC’s. That made me curious to finally try Wing Commander 3, a space dogfighter combined with interactive FMVs. It took some fiddling with Dosbox to get it working, but I tried the first few minutes, and was impressed with the quality of acting on display thanks to the cast having Mark Hamil, John rys Davis, and the villain guy from back to the future.
- Comment on Why States Are Making It Harder to Save Money With Solar Panels | The changes are costing homeowners money. But they also reflect a changing grid — and the need for home batteries. 2 months ago:
From DuckDuckGo AI:
Cannot recommend DuckDuckGo’s NoAi page enough so that we can avoid encouraging the construction of yet more data centers and the destruction for both the climate and the local environment they are built in.
- Comment on Patrick Stewart Reflects on 'Star Trek' at 60: Why He Wants More Spinoffs 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure one of the creator’s/writer of voyager was really disappointed that it never actually fulfilled the premise at all, so he went and made the Battlestar Galactica reboot in 2003 as essentially what Voyager should’ve been if the premise was taken seriously.
- Comment on Tuxedo Computers are putting Ubuntu Linux in the bin to use Debian for Tuxedo OS 2 months ago:
Actually quite cool, I could see myself trying that.
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- Submitted 1 year ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 7 comments
- Comment on Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power 1 year ago:
I uh… I wouldn’t mind if they sent some of that struggle to my country, I think I could bear it.