#general-chat | adafruit | Page 169

polar bloom May 31, 2021, 2:44 PM

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I guess for most equipment this doesn't really matter anyway because there's a transformer that creates something like 24V (or whatever) and the rest of the circuit runs off that?

delicate stream May 31, 2021, 2:44 PM

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My computers eat like 2.5kW XD

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At least

dusty citrus May 31, 2021, 2:45 PM

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@polar bloom Not sure how to answer that one. ;)

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When you're down to 24 V traditionally you aren't using a lot of Watts.

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So you wouldn't run a heavy electrical motor from 24V usually.

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(golf carts are 48V iirc)

polar bloom May 31, 2021, 2:46 PM

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What voltage would a microwave run at internally?

dusty citrus May 31, 2021, 2:46 PM

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(electric fork lifts too)

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I think a microwave could be near the kilovolt range.

ancient kindle May 31, 2021, 2:47 PM

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Yeah you use higher volts for higher wattages typically

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Simple life hack for not melting your cables 😉

dusty citrus May 31, 2021, 2:47 PM

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The weird exception is people's insistence on using a lot of amperes at 5 VDC .. for LED strip lighting. ;)

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I've heard car audio buffs say you use really truly thick wires to feed those high-power amps they like so much.

delicate stream May 31, 2021, 2:48 PM

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I think microwaves bump into thousands of volts?

dusty citrus May 31, 2021, 2:49 PM

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TWT's have pretty high voltages. I want to say 'plate' voltages there, but I don't remember.

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Oh but microwave ovens use the other thing.

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magnetron

delicate stream May 31, 2021, 2:50 PM

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Zap

polar bloom May 31, 2021, 2:50 PM

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That's literally what they're called here.

delicate stream May 31, 2021, 2:50 PM

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Yup

dusty citrus May 31, 2021, 2:50 PM

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TWT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling-wave_tube

ancient kindle May 31, 2021, 3:02 PM

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Car audio buffs are a special breed lol

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The current of audio stuff isn’t super high, it’s high voltage AC to the speakers

dusty citrus May 31, 2021, 3:27 PM

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I hadn't thought about car audio as HV AC but yeah that makes sense.

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72 V springs to mind for no reason whatsoever. ;)

ancient kindle May 31, 2021, 4:05 PM

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Well it’s not a consistent voltage usually

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But yeah the car audio kids usually blast music so loud that the current does get high

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Which is pointless since you’re gonna blow your eardrums at the point where you would need to reasonably worry about cable gauge

velvet pelican May 31, 2021, 8:23 PM

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dusty citrus (golf carts are 48V iirc)

Most of them. Some are 36 volts

quartz wren May 31, 2021, 10:25 PM

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cobalt r weerd

uneven lintel Jun 1, 2021, 12:12 AM

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Can someone add me to the Deep Diver role? @stuck moth

tardy badger Jun 1, 2021, 12:57 AM

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Made some brisket

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It fell apart when I was cutting it

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Super delicious

stuck moth Jun 1, 2021, 1:46 AM

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uneven lintel Can someone add me to the Deep Diver role? <@!252717193496756235>

Done!

ancient kindle Jun 1, 2021, 1:59 AM

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What even is deep diver for?

stuck moth Jun 1, 2021, 2:02 AM

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it's for folks who want to be notified about my deep dive streams

ancient kindle Jun 1, 2021, 2:05 AM

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ahh gotcha

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 2:12 AM

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NEW COMPUTER ALIVE

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But too tired, finish build tomorrow

ancient kindle Jun 1, 2021, 2:15 AM

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I'm finally home so I can start on my wii project

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 2:17 AM

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Biiiig shiny

ancient kindle Jun 1, 2021, 2:31 AM

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fancy

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 2:34 AM

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Computers keep me warm all year round

hasty quarry Jun 1, 2021, 3:16 AM

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I think I may be decent at this game

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 7:23 AM

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delicate stream Computers keep me warm all year round

U mining on that bad boy?

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I spent every cent I had on pre built gaming PCs and GPUs since February and now I have 11 GPUs mining and its getting warm outside so its becoming a problem

static flare Jun 1, 2021, 7:58 AM

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I got paid today!

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 12:32 PM

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dusty citrus U mining on that bad boy?

Maybe part time, one of my cards does that currently, but I don't let my machines rest much XD

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 12:36 PM

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Hehe profits way down now anyway

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 12:37 PM

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yup

urban radish Jun 1, 2021, 6:39 PM

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Same

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Just proves my point

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 7:57 PM

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Got the 2nd jab Saturday - no reactions after 3 full days. ;)

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There was like, 14 patients there, the rest staff - huge ceiling (Armory) so lots of air. ;)

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 8:14 PM

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Lucky, I felt like death XD

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 8:16 PM

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Yeah I've heard. My friends on a private BBS don't quite believe me.

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I had other bad luck earlier in life so I'm not employing magical thinking.

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 8:17 PM

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Most of my family had a headache for a day or two at worst, I'm the only one who was out for the count

burnt tendon Jun 1, 2021, 8:32 PM

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When I got mine, the second one was all like Set Pfizers for Stun.

swift hatch Jun 1, 2021, 8:33 PM

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This is a wet sloth:

grave crest Jun 1, 2021, 8:33 PM

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Hmm. Picture checks out. It appears to be exactly what JP said it is.

swift hatch Jun 1, 2021, 8:34 PM

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Lars is a little too into this.

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 8:34 PM

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Lol. I got Pfiser, first shot I had a headache for a day, arm was sore (like when I get a flu shot, but not hot like a flu shot). Second one I had a headache same day, then the next 2 days was like a horrible migraine and cold

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 8:34 PM

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swift hatch This is a wet sloth:

why do you attempt to haunt my dreams

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 8:35 PM

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oh! look away! oh! sloth yuch

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of course the other sloths think this is attractive

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 8:37 PM

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I feel like JP's shop has a corner dedicated to nightmare manufacturing

grave crest Jun 1, 2021, 8:37 PM

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Ooo, that's a great name for a rock band.

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 8:37 PM

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Lol

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I think there is a band called Nightmare Factory...

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 8:39 PM

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I see the worst things while falling asleep - once asleep the things I see are better than the other ones. ;)

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/Tim Burton's assistant

delicate stream Jun 1, 2021, 8:39 PM

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~~I actually have horrible nightmares that make Lars and wet sloth look like the cutest things on the planet~~

wary herald Jun 1, 2021, 9:22 PM

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dusty citrus I spent every cent I had on pre built gaming PCs and GPUs since February and now...

I started mining today! BTC/Monero 🙂

honest jolt Jun 1, 2021, 9:23 PM

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good luck! what pool(s)?

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 10:01 PM

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wary herald I started mining today! BTC/Monero 🙂

what are you using? ASIC?

stoic mesa Jun 1, 2021, 10:11 PM

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grave crest Ooo, that's a great name for a rock band.

wet sloth?

grave crest Jun 1, 2021, 10:14 PM

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That too!

wary herald Jun 1, 2021, 10:26 PM

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dusty citrus what are you using? ASIC?

BTG, not BTC, sorry. I'm using a GPU, which isn't sounding too profitable, 😬 but we'll see. I'm using Cudominer - cudominer.com - not sponsored 🙂

wary herald Jun 1, 2021, 10:28 PM

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honest jolt good luck! what pool(s)?

Cudominer 😬

honest jolt Jun 1, 2021, 10:48 PM

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Lol

dusty citrus Jun 1, 2021, 11:25 PM

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wary herald BTG, not BTC, sorry. I'm using a GPU, which isn't sounding too profitable, 😬 b...

If you're GPU mining, I highly suggest mining Ethereum like the bulk of us

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ethermine.org is a good pool, Ive been on it for a few weeks now with good results

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although profits are way down and getting worse, ETH is still the most profitable for GPU m ining

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as long as your GPU is powerful enough

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 12:45 AM

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There's a reason a lot of the big mining farms are in Iceland: cheap geothermal power and free cooling.

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If I were underhanded, I'd borrow the big V100 GPUs at work for mining instead of just training up machine learning models.

limber jackal Jun 2, 2021, 1:17 AM

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You know that moment when something keeps looking SOO familiar, but you just can't quite place it? Then one day, what make that look familiar shows up with it side-by-side, and all the pieces fall into place...

That day was today for me, after I can't even count how long!

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What's weird is, I KNOW the Adafruit address (well, number and street) from seeing it on packages for so long, but it never clicked when I saw the Radiolab address until today when both were in the mailbox at the same time

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Also, can anyone tell me how USPS is routinely 2 days faster than UPS for shipping from NYC?

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 1:45 AM

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Do you guys think those chips (2 silver colored at the right) could be removed with just hot air and possibly preheat? Or should I look in to a BGA rework station

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Maybe one of those reflow ovens could work, manually setting the temp to over the melting point of that solder and just picking the chips up

quartz wren Jun 2, 2021, 2:13 AM

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do you mean the 2 silver chips on the right? I'm only seeing sockets and addon boards on the left

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@late fulcrum why not train neural network models to mine crypto

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😉

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:15 AM

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yes

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Wrong perspective by me lol

quartz wren Jun 2, 2021, 2:15 AM

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so that's what, a CPU and some kind of coprocessor?

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:16 AM

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big chip is the GPU, small chip is the CPU

quartz wren Jun 2, 2021, 2:16 AM

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ahhh

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and these are BGA?

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:16 AM

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Yep

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No idea how many balls yet

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 2:17 AM

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That PowerPC chip is a pretty good one

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:17 AM

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That IHS is probably gonna absorb a lot of the hot air

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It’s not the greatest if its time

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But they got a lot out of it

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The security was super creative, they jammed an ARM core in the middle of the CPU die

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 2:18 AM

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It's not a monster like the Cell/BBE, but with some clever coding to keep all those execution units busy, it could crank pretty hard.

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:20 AM

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But yeah basically I want to yoink those chips from that PCB and put them on a new PCB that I design

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Need the chips off to map traces and reverse engineer it

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My plan is to just use the diode mode on my multimeter and just figure out where absolutely everything goes to make the schematic

severe badge Jun 2, 2021, 2:25 AM

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ancient kindle Do you guys think those chips (2 silver colored at the right) could be removed w...

is this a wii

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:25 AM

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It is

severe badge Jun 2, 2021, 2:25 AM

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i might be stupid

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oh alright

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I was right thinking those circular ports were the Gamecube ports

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:25 AM

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They are lol

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The wii is just an upgraded gamecube

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The earlier models have the ports by default

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Later models can have them soldered on actually

severe badge Jun 2, 2021, 2:26 AM

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ancient kindle The earlier models have the ports by default

Later ones like the Family apparently dont have the ports

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Fun fact, the Family editions use the same boards as the original, they just don't solder on the Gamecube ports

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:27 AM

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Exactly

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The PCB is so huge for how little the console has

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This is all you need with a couple relocated components

severe badge Jun 2, 2021, 2:28 AM

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I've installed windows 3.11 on a homebrewed Wii many times

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I don't know why

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but i have

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:28 AM

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Summary of most things I do lol

quartz wren Jun 2, 2021, 2:30 AM

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was that through dosbox?

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I remember trying fruitlessly to get windows 95 running on dosbox...

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I did get DOOM to run on my phone through it

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it was very slow, but it was almost playable

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(with an OTG cable + USB hub + mouse/keyboard)

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 2:33 AM

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So you guys think hot air and preheat might work?

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hmm preheat might be tricky

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audio amp bottom left, NAND top right, composite video chip top left?

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:18 AM

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dusty citrus If you're GPU mining, I highly suggest mining Ethereum like the bulk of us

It switches between ETH, BTG, XMR, and RVN. But, thanks for the advice 🙂

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:20 AM

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ancient kindle audio amp bottom left, NAND top right, composite video chip top left?

Yeah, I think sparky

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but don't trust me 🙂

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I kinda hope that NVIDIA acquires ARM, because I think ARM software will increase

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:36 AM

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I thought nVidia already had. It could cause some problems for Apple, as Apple and nVidia aren't getting along these days.

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:36 AM

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late fulcrum I thought nVidia already had. It could cause some problems for Apple, as Apple ...

I didn't think so.... I'll look

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https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/03/02/is-nvidias-acquisition-of-arm-holdings-doomed/

The Motley Fool

Is NVIDIA's Acquisition of Arm Holdings Doomed? @themotleyfool #sto...

A number of high-profile big tech companies are uniting against the GPU specialist's purchase of the chipmaker.

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:38 AM

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Huh, I guess I read early speculation as established fact. I can imagine some big tech (Apple and Intel among them) being against it.

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:39 AM

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late fulcrum Huh, I guess I read early speculation as established fact. I can imagine some b...

Yeah, they are. I think it'll go through, but I'm no expert 😁

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:40 AM

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The article also mentions Microsoft, which seems an odd objector (they seem pretty wedded to X86), and Google (who already has PowerPC in their back pocket).

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:41 AM

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I don't think they want over-competition by NVIDIA partnered companies/NVIDIA AI boards/development

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:42 AM

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nVidia is making good money selling servers, so you're right, if they could source the CPUs and GPUs themselves, they'd have a nice little business that would be difficult to compete with.

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:44 AM

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late fulcrum nVidia is making good money selling servers, so you're right, if they could sour...

🙂

burnt tendon Jun 2, 2021, 3:44 AM

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Also, like, fool is a lousy clickbait news source.

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:45 AM

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burnt tendon Also, like, fool is a lousy clickbait news source.

There's better news sources, but Fool was the most recent I could find

burnt tendon Jun 2, 2021, 3:45 AM

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Yah.

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:46 AM

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I had thought it was a done deal, and was curious what Apple's next move would be (my guess was either roll their own GPUs, or offer an olive branch to Intel to use theirs)

burnt tendon Jun 2, 2021, 3:46 AM

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I mean, most of all, nVidia owning ARM kinda breaks the sense of detente at least for the server/desktop marketplace.

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:47 AM

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late fulcrum I had thought it was a done deal, and was curious what Apple's next move would b...

My Mac has an Intel i5, so I figured the latter....

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:47 AM

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burnt tendon I mean, most of all, nVidia owning ARM kinda breaks the sense of detente at leas...

Yeah...

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WW3 - NVIDIA vs the world

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LOL🙈

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:49 AM

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If nVidia does manage it, I would of course expect them to offer servers full of their own chips, but perhaps also an integrated CPU/GPU, quickly followed by a fairly amazing SBC.

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:49 AM

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late fulcrum If nVidia does manage it, I would of course expect them to offer servers full of...

I hope that happens 🙂

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I also hope the SBC is around 75-100 💵 , just to be affordable and a Raspberry Pi competitor

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:55 AM

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I'm imagining something like a board with a chip on it, basically like a breakout board, but with something like an HDMI connector.

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And yes, I would totally buy some

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 3:56 AM

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late fulcrum I'm imagining something like a board with a chip on it, basically like a breakou...

I didn't think about that, but that would be cool

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"And yes, I would totally buy some"

madbodger

Me too 🙂

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I also imagined something like a ~~cheaper~~ better Jetson Nano

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Like this, but NVIDIA/ARM

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Sorry for the dark pic

slim shard Jun 2, 2021, 4:04 AM

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wary herald WW3 - NVIDIA vs the world

"a strange game, the only way to win, is to enable RTX"

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 4:04 AM

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slim shard "a strange game, the only way to win, is to enable RTX"

LOL 🤣

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 4:16 AM

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the ARM acquisition is stalled in a massive bureaucratic mess

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as usual

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 4:19 AM

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Yup. A taste of normalcy 🙂

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 12:52 PM

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hmm so re: desoldering these 2 BGA chips in the middle https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/336571109430263816/849474445981646868/image0.png

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looks like one of the cheap bga rework machines wouldn't help

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there is a THICK ground plane in this PCB so the preheater wouldn't do much

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and the IHS I bet is going to direct all the heat on to the die and not the pads

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 3:01 PM

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The thick ground plane is why you want the preheater

static flare Jun 2, 2021, 3:30 PM

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Why do you want to desolder them?

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Looking for a way to get a Wii portable even smaller?

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 3:33 PM

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yes

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I want to put them on a new PCB

hasty quarry Jun 2, 2021, 5:52 PM

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quartz wren Jun 2, 2021, 6:04 PM

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looks like they're missing their heat sink brush with that much thermal paste

burnt tendon Jun 2, 2021, 6:05 PM

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Your CPU has been taken over by Cthulu.

quartz wren Jun 2, 2021, 6:05 PM

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looks more like FSM

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the Frying Spaghetti Monster

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 6:52 PM

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the verge special

zealous ermine Jun 2, 2021, 7:34 PM

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Just got my 1st covid shot!

stray wind Jun 2, 2021, 7:36 PM

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zealous ermine Just got my 1st covid shot!

:highfive: Congrats!

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 7:37 PM

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nice!

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I got both and it wasn't that bad

honest jolt Jun 2, 2021, 7:42 PM

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hasty quarry

that is sooooooo cursed and for some reason makes me extremely disgusted 😂

quartz wren Jun 2, 2021, 8:28 PM

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especially with the gray tint to it...you just know that's conductive...

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 8:40 PM

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it's thermally conductive

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electrically insulating

delicate stream Jun 2, 2021, 9:17 PM

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TV almost did not fit XD

static flare Jun 2, 2021, 9:22 PM

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Oof

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Got 2 new CRTs in the past couple of days

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a portable colour CRT, probably meant for camping and car use and such; and a Philips P-50, CRT, Radio and Cassette deck

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(is my life just collecting smaller CRTs now)

delicate stream Jun 2, 2021, 10:18 PM

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Nice. I want some tiny ones...

late fulcrum Jun 2, 2021, 10:36 PM

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I think I have some spare 40CB4 CRTs if those would suit you

static flare Jun 2, 2021, 10:51 PM

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my keyboard Illuminating the front of it

delicate stream Jun 2, 2021, 11:37 PM

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late fulcrum I think I have some spare 40CB4 CRTs if those would suit you

I'll take anything XD

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 11:43 PM

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so I want to make a DIY multimeter diode mode circuit

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should I limit voltage to like 1v or will 5v mess stuff up if it runs at a lower voltage

zealous ermine Jun 2, 2021, 11:43 PM

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ok can anyone help me with this?

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i was in my back yard and then suddenly there's this high pitch sound. it starts at around 15khz and goes all the way to around 21khz. i even have a screenshot of it from a spectrograph

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it's very inconstant with random starts and stops. i can't figure out a direction. it just sounds like it's everywhere

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it loops for 3-4 times before stopping

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 11:46 PM

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that's super strange

zealous ermine Jun 2, 2021, 11:46 PM

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yeah it's weird. it's also really bothering me

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 11:47 PM

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maybe one of those things that are supposed to scare away animals

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https://www.amazon.com/AMERFIST-Ultrasonic-Repellent-Waterproof-Rechargeable/dp/B08T9N4SDY/

Amazon.com : AMERFIST Solar Animal Repeller, 2021 Ultrasonic Mole R...

Amazon.com : AMERFIST Solar Animal Repeller, 2021 Ultrasonic Mole Repellent, Rat, Squirrel, Deer, Raccoon, Skunk, Rabbit, Mole, Dog, Cat, Waterproof with Motion Detector, USB Rechargeable, Flashing Light (Green) : Garden & Outdoor

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like this

zealous ermine Jun 2, 2021, 11:48 PM

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well if that's the case, i'm going to have to ask whoever installed it to turn it off

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 11:49 PM

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look around, can you see one?

zealous ermine Jun 2, 2021, 11:49 PM

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let me take a look

ancient kindle Jun 2, 2021, 11:49 PM

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looks like they are basically all green boxes

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between brands

zealous ermine Jun 2, 2021, 11:56 PM

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Look what i found

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A little green box with a PIR sensor and a speaker

wary herald Jun 2, 2021, 11:59 PM

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zealous ermine

👍

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 12:01 AM

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glad you found it!

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next step was gonna be to get a bunch of directional microphones out to figure out where the sound is coming from

zealous ermine Jun 3, 2021, 12:03 AM

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ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 12:11 AM

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I think the model I sent is the exact one

stoic mesa Jun 3, 2021, 12:33 AM

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Now get a shotgun...

burnt tendon Jun 3, 2021, 12:35 AM

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That seems like an ultra-sound idea.

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 12:37 AM

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@ancient kindle Usually diode check circuits are current limited and measure the resulting forward voltage.

burnt tendon Jun 3, 2021, 12:44 AM

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Or at least that's the au current trend.

velvet pelican Jun 3, 2021, 12:45 AM

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zealous ermine

Congratulations you are in a very small percentage club that can hear the high frequency. Those are absolute murder to my ears

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They are meant to keep dogs out of the yard

wary herald Jun 3, 2021, 12:46 AM

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They KILL my ears

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I kept trying to find out if I had tinnitus

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And I found one of those

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 1:17 AM

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more people can hear it than you think

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you lose the extreme top end of the frequency spectrum as you age

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 1:38 AM

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Cleanest cable management ever

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Totally no cables shoved into a small space behind the internal panel...

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 1:42 AM

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he he he

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 1:54 AM

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So the RGB peripherals I got we overpriced trash... Gonna build my own!

spice moss Jun 3, 2021, 1:59 AM

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the one of the kind coolant as thermaltake is still testing the options to have 3d effects on coolant https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/643621694807736321/849805024111755274/unknown.png this is gold

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when that coolant was on the loop it made look great even with RGB

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 2:02 AM

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It looks like Odo in his liquid form...

spice moss Jun 3, 2021, 2:06 AM

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i saw blue and red of that too

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 2:10 AM

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I just run clear distilled water XD I tried using some UV dye for a couple months and ended up having a cruddy loop... decided to KISS

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[Keep It Stupid Simple]

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 2:11 AM

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good idea

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pure water isn't conductive so it's safer than most additives

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 2:16 AM

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Yup. I haven't heard of a brand of coolant that hasn't had someone report problems -- but you can't get much cleaner than distilled water. Also have a silver coil to help prevent bacterial growth

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Been running for... 6 months now? just have to top it off now and then

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 2:54 AM

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IT LIVES! Now for the hard part: installing Windows :P

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Mmm default rainbows

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Haha, Windows installer doesn't like this

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First tiny, now giant XD

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Whoa! File copy was like, less than a second!

fiery quarry Jun 3, 2021, 3:03 AM

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delicate stream Haha, Windows installer doesn't like this

800x600 on a 4k screen?

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 3:04 AM

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Appears that way XD

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Man, I think it was... A minute to install?

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If that?

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/fcBxhX8vnFFXCoqa7

Google Photos

New video by Kyoshii Teriatzi

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 3:34 AM

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zoom zoom

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 3:43 AM

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Except it's crashing randomly DX and I don't know if it's the build of Windows that's the problem or hardware...

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Well, I'll have to figure it out tomorrow... Bleh

wary herald Jun 3, 2021, 4:01 AM

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Good luck 🙂

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:55 AM

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How do I make a magnet change the magnetic field without moving the magnet?

crystal ore Jun 3, 2021, 4:58 AM

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A permanent magnet or an electromagnet?

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 5:02 AM

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with a permanent magnet...well you can get cylindrical magnets with the poles aligned along the width, and you still have to move it to change the polarity (but the profile remains consistent as the magnet rotates) but with an electromagnet you can flip it around 180 degrees by reversing the current

crystal ore Jun 3, 2021, 5:05 AM

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Yeah, sorry, the magnetic field of a permanent magnet is more or less... permanent. So you can't easily change it except by moving it around.

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 5:17 AM

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you can get rid of it entirely by letting it reach its curie temperature without a strong magnetic field nearby and holding it there for a while 😉

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 5:26 AM

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Or just use an electromagnet

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If you want to be lame

lapis bluff Jun 3, 2021, 5:41 AM

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I really need some better debugging. Not software; tiny (and some not so tiny) flying critters, that are very annoying. 🙂

crystal ore Jun 3, 2021, 5:49 AM

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A new project for you! https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-mosquito-laser

Tom's Hardware

Raspberry Pi Zaps Mosquitoes with Laser Beam

Destroy those blood-sucking fiends with laser beams and AI.

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 5:50 AM

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crystal ore A new project for you! https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-mosquito-l...

?

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seems hilarious and useful

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 5:51 AM

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if you have 3 electromagnets all at right angles to each other and an analog controller (or a digital controller with a DAC) then you can mix and match intensities to get arbitrary direction fields

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 5:51 AM

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i read the article and its very interesting

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(southern accent) those mosquitos be causing lots of trouble for everyone from the polar fringes to the blistering deserts

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always when reminded of mosquitos, i have a southern accent in mind

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 5:54 AM

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I live in a swamp so...mosquitoes are just a given

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and no, not in the south 😛

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~~mosquitoes can go suck a...vein~~ jk pls don't

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 5:56 AM

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quartz wren I live in a swamp so...mosquitoes are just a given

yikes

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ive heard mosquitoes have been found as north as Nunavut

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 5:56 AM

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at least the ones around here are just little guys

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they do tend to make some just uncouth density clouds

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 5:57 AM

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quartz wren at least the ones around here are just little guys

where im from they are large

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 5:57 AM

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quartz wren they do tend to make some just uncouth density clouds

ew

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 5:58 AM

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there's been more than once riding a bike at dusk when I inhale a cloud of mosquitoes

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taught me to ride with my mouth closed and meter my breathing through my nose to not get any stuck in my nasal passages

lapis bluff Jun 3, 2021, 6:01 AM

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The most bothersome critters here are the ones smaller than the openings in the screens. Second place goes to the moths, who like the lights and thus cause lighting variance on the keyboard and work areas. Third place is the 3" mosquitoes.

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Well, the really large moths don't really bother me, they're too big to get inside. Luna Moths almost a foot across.

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:12 AM

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lapis bluff The most bothersome critters here are the ones smaller than the openings in the ...

Roaches:

Allow us to introduce ourselves

lapis bluff Jun 3, 2021, 6:18 AM

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No roaches out here so far from civilization...but I definitely interacted with them before I moved out of the city.

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:24 AM

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had roaches when I was living in florida...woke up one night after a particularly restless bout of sleep and looked up at the ceiling to see 3 roaches skittering around...got the apartment supervisor to get the exterminator in there the next day

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turns out there was a tiny crack in the caulking around the windowsills and they were living in the walls

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apparently they can squeeze through flat wide openings really easily

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:26 AM

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quartz wren had roaches when I was living in florida...woke up one night after a particularl...

the ones around here come from the wild into pipes from sewers and into your house, they are giant around here

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:26 AM

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yeah those ones were only like an inch long tops

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:26 AM

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1 to 2 inches here

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no tiny ones

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:26 AM

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only critter that gives me the willies

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strike that

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roaches and centipedes

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:27 AM

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my goodness

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*cringes in disgust

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also i have a favourite animal, the honey bee

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:28 AM

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I even make friends with house flies and get them to land on my hands and hang out

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:28 AM

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there is one honey bee around here thats very friendly

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:28 AM

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even got a picture of it once because I was telling my friends about how sometimes I could get the flies to land on my hands and then I tried it and it worked again so I took a pic

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:29 AM

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lol

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the little bee around here know me so well it just flies next to me when usually walking home

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:29 AM

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then I showed them in person and one of them (long time family friend who's basically a second mom) told me I'm the devil

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:30 AM

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huh

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:30 AM

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https://i.imgur.com/OCwRJgL.jpg

Imgur

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my fly friend

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:30 AM

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quartz wren then I showed them in person and one of them (long time family friend who's basi...

also, master hand???

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:31 AM

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quartz wren https://i.imgur.com/OCwRJgL.jpg

bug friends

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:31 AM

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yes, yes I do 😉

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:31 AM

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quartz wren yes, yes I do 😉

responding to the master hand comment???

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:31 AM

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no, "bug friends"

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:32 AM

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oh

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lol

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still

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do you know who the master hand is?

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:32 AM

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no, but I have the googler

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oh

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:32 AM

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Super Smash Bros.

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:32 AM

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oh that.

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:32 AM

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ye

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im a R.O.B. main

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:33 AM

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I'm a Yoshi main because I'm a dirty cheeser

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😉

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thoooouugh

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:33 AM

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and i second Mii Swordfighter and Mr. Game and watch

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got to love the number 9

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:34 AM

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I do like Piranha Plant

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Game and Watch is just like...if you can use him he's ridiculous, if you can't you look like a fool

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:34 AM

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judge 9 is a OHKO for anyone 13% and above unless if shield or metal

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:34 AM

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quartz wren Game and Watch is just like...if you can use him he's ridiculous, if you can't y...

yeah

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for rob, its just spam Side B

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you just have to spin to win

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:35 AM

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yeah, with yoshi my tactic is to spam jump above people and down b at just the right moment when they're stuck in an animation that won't hurt me by the time I hit

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:35 AM

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arm rotor is side b for tob

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:35 AM

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quartz wren yeah, with yoshi my tactic is to spam jump above people and down b at just the r...

lol

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yoshi's FS is so hilarious

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:36 AM

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❤️ yoshi

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oh also

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what's really fun is egging people off the map

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:36 AM

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least favourite SSBU character???

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:37 AM

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hmmmm.....good question...I'd have to say King Krool

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but not because I don't like playing him, because I don't like playing when my friend plays him because he has learned his animation timing down to the frame it seems

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and he's really good at lining up that shot while you're flying through the air

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:40 AM

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Jigglypuff, Pyra, Villager, and Isabelle are annoying and stupid
Lucina and Corrin are toxic

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kirby is so generic

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but adorable

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:40 AM

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yeah I like using kirby when I want to wreck someone's day because he's sooooooo easy to cheese

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but I don't play him much because of that

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:41 AM

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i dont know how to spike

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or combo

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:41 AM

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I only play when I get the chance over at my friend's place, but apparently I picked up the controls really quick

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:41 AM

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all i know is side b and up tilt

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but i know how to play rob

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:42 AM

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and I learn the characters' specials pretty well if I have a chance to just test them out

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which is why it's always best to learn dodges first 😉

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so you have time to test your other combos

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:42 AM

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i never shield

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:42 AM

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I rarely do

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:42 AM

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i dont know more of the advanced moves

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:42 AM

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not that I wouldn't, I just always forget it's a thing

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:43 AM

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quartz wren not that I wouldn't, I just always forget it's a thing

i know how to do it, i just dont care

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:43 AM

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oh I definitely know how, I just forget in the moment that shielding would help to actually go into shield mode

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and if I try to train myself to respond, I always hit the shield too late and mess things up

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much rather do a dynamic defense than a static one

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ever feel like you want to play video games to procrastinate but you feel terrible while playing and you don't enjoy it but you also don't want to work on anything?

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well...if not then good, it's a terrible feeling

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I really want to hop on Take on Mars but idk if I could really get into it

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:48 AM

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if you could bring any character OTHER THAN to smash, then who???

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:48 AM

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like any character from any game?

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:48 AM

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logical

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 6:49 AM

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I'd probably choose Chell, all kitted out

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no need for attacks when you can portal your enemies off the map 😉

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special move? spawn companion cube.

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smash? hit someone with a companion cube you've brought to a high enough speed between two portals above one another.

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seems like a reasonable debuff for being able to teleport

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 6:55 AM

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huh

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i would like to see the zombie and enderman split off

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into a new dual brawler with different stats and FS other then Steve/Alex

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also have the enderman be its normal size again

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it looks horrible to be like that

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also zombies and endermen cant craft

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just simple logic

terse lion Jun 3, 2021, 7:03 AM

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quartz wren seems like a reasonable debuff for being able to teleport

in my opinion R.O.B. should have one of his "colours" just be him with his Ancient Minister outfit

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as he is the ancient minister

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 8:08 AM

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Endermen should be able to move parts of the map around

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(haven't played since minecraft stuff was added)

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 12:31 PM

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So I slept thru all 19 of my alarms spaced 5 minutes apart this morning... and was half an hour late....

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https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-fire-house-burning-okay-gif-5263684

Tenor

polar bloom Jun 3, 2021, 12:33 PM

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You need an alarm that gives you an electric shock or something.

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 12:34 PM

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I need to not be dying from a terrible headache

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shakes fist at pain

polar bloom Jun 3, 2021, 12:35 PM

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Ouch

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 12:35 PM

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yeah

real falcon Jun 3, 2021, 12:40 PM

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get alarm for deaf

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it flashes lights

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 12:41 PM

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I don't respond to light

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I need a giant vibration motor to shake the bed to oblivion

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Well, this isn't often a problem... just an off day

honest jolt Jun 3, 2021, 12:56 PM

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~~Best solution: Go to bed earlier~~

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 12:57 PM

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Growing up in Florida, I don't respond to light either. Amusingly, I did bolt a walldriver to my waterbed, but not for wake-up use, I hooked it to the LFE channel of my sound system, so I could feel the subsonic special effects. When that giant ship rumbles overhead in Star Wars, it's impressive when you can feel the shaking!

spice moss Jun 3, 2021, 12:58 PM

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i have fused with music

honest jolt Jun 3, 2021, 1:00 PM

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Only a active buzzer / someone shaking me / waking up 10 hours later naturally from sleep time will only wake me up ._. 😂

spice moss Jun 3, 2021, 1:02 PM

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i know how to shake that for sleeper it feel like feet is taking off when its just isnt it

real falcon Jun 3, 2021, 1:02 PM

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thats also other kind oif deaf alarm doctor.

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my alarm clock comes with plug in back

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its to turn on by alarm. it can be vibrator for bed, lights, fans, etc

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well limited to certain amps but yeah

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in old days before led lights, I could use 2 60 watt lights so it has plenty of power for that

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right now its with 2 of 1600 lumen led lights

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 1:06 PM

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I just wake up naturally. I strongly dislike alarm clocks.

polar bloom Jun 3, 2021, 1:06 PM

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Same here. Plus if I need to wake up at an earlier time than normal, I just wake up at that time.

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 1:29 PM

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I wish I had internal auto-wakeup functions

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to "just wake up at that time"

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I have a package being delivered to me via Royal Mail :O

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I feel fancy

spice moss Jun 3, 2021, 2:24 PM

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the thing was in here what i watched and was on during the adafruit shows https://youtu.be/GGnavoi5qEk

YouTube

Thermaltake Global

2021 THERMALTAKE EXPO JUNE

Powered by Restream https://restream.io/

▶ Play video

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 3:06 PM

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crystal ore A permanent magnet or an electromagnet?

Permanent magnet

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Do you believe we cound arrange a bunch of natural magnets to create electrical energy nearly forever?

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The permanent magnet's magnetic energy last nearly forever... And it's a energy, we could explore it in the future.

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For me it's impressive if I create an inductor with a metal inside it will make the metal magnetic forever! With way less energy than the sum of all magnetic energy he would expend in it's lifetime.

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I mean just a small W will make the metal magnetic for billions of years!

short bone Jun 3, 2021, 3:16 PM

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No, magnetism alone doesnt generate energy. Its the change of magnetic field that does, and it requires energy to do so.

crystal ore Jun 3, 2021, 3:17 PM

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You can think of it the same way as gravity. Even though the Earth's gravity is always "on", you can't use it to generate infinite power, because you have to lift stuff up and then drop it. Same with magnets.

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 3:20 PM

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short bone No, magnetism alone doesnt generate energy. Its the change of magnetic field tha...

Yep, that's why I asked before "how can we make a magnet change it's magnetic field without moving".

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 3:21 PM

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I’m pretty sure there are ways to profit energy with magnets (make more than was put in to the system to start it) but also magnets will lose magnetism over time

short bone Jun 3, 2021, 3:21 PM

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jovial path Yep, that's why I asked before "how can we make a magnet change it's magnetic fi...

You can heat it, but you need ebergy to do that 😉

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 3:21 PM

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Another classic perpetual motion technique

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We just need those suits that turn stress in to electricity

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Then all of our energy problems are solved

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 3:25 PM

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... These formulas of magnetic field works so well that makes me angry, it looks like I can't make anything new.

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Bohr's professor told him that physics wouldn't evolve anymore because everything that has to be discovered was discovered with Newtonian physics...

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Then it came Modern Physics...

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That had different equations than Newtonian physics to describe sometimes the same Natural Phenomenon...

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Sometimes Newtonian physics didn't work for very small things for example...

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My point is, I won't relly on what already exist 🙃

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For example, guys... In high school chemistry...

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Remember that there are chemical reactions that occur right to left and at the same time left to right?

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Where this infinity energy come from?

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The same could occur with magnets...!

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 3:36 PM

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jovial path Remember that there are chemical reactions that occur right to left and at the s...

Mantaining equilibrium!

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 3:48 PM

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Yes, lots of reactions work like that. There are similar quantum effects too. Some good experiments even show that particles and antiparticles spontaneously appear, and then annihilate each other. A few people have posited that if there were a way to to separate them before they disappeared, that could be harnessed as an energy source. Some very smart people have tried to figure out a practical way to do so, but while there have been some interesting papers, there haven't been any verifiable demonstrations that I know of. One of the approaches required a black hole, and harvesting the particles that got split by the event horizon: I don't expect to see that one turn into a commercial product!

ancient kindle Jun 3, 2021, 3:49 PM

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You mean I can’t have a personal black hole for power generation???????

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:(

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 3:52 PM

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I didn't say that!

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Although the microscopic black holes that played some plot points in James Hogan's "Giants Star" novels did have some repercussions: the houses containing them had massive foundations to support their weight against earth's gravity.

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The other microscopic black holes that turned up in "Thrice Upon a Time" had other effects, as they orbited the earth's core, drilling tiny holes through whatever they passed through. 😬

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One of the scientists investigating the damage was asked "what could cause this", and said he didn't know, but "something like an armor-plated bacterium with a rocket engine?"

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:07 PM

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late fulcrum Yes, lots of reactions work like that. There are similar quantum effects too. ...

I wonder what sensors they use to detect it... I bet it's all magnetic fields and electrical field sensors...

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 4:09 PM

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There's a bunch of first-rate research involved in even measuring events like that.

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:12 PM

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I imagine...

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 4:16 PM

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Articles about the Casimir effect, which is not the same thing, but in a similar realm, make interesting reading.

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:17 PM

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I read about it in high school

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It was in my physics book

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 4:19 PM

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Your high school physics book was way better than mine!

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:20 PM

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Hahaha it didn't have fun Casimir's equations

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If it had it were maxell's simplified...

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To learn calculus I had to jump and buy calculus book in high school

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Because my school didn't have ap calculus

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 4:26 PM

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Mine did, but I stupidly took computer math instead of trigonometry beforehand, and it turns out AP calculus without knowing trig is hard

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:30 PM

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I started learning Calculus at 14.

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It took many years to see what I learnt from a real professor in a real class

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:32 PM

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late fulcrum Mine did, but I stupidly took computer math instead of trigonometry beforehand, ...

You mean sin,cos, tan?

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 4:32 PM

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Yeah, that stuff 📐

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:34 PM

#

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I'm trying to find the criminal who made all this mess...

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Torricelli is so close to the crime scene that I think it was him...

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:36 PM

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late fulcrum Yeah, that stuff 📐

I see...

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 4:36 PM

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All I see is wide-eyed innocence

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 4:36 PM

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Yes, who would think a great physicist like him would do this?

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I think he's using his good reputation to cover up his crimes...

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 4:59 PM

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I taught myself trig to write a program lol

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I was learning about converting between polar and Cartesian coordinates for simple gravitational simulation on particles

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Then I learned it again at Full Sail because they wouldn't let me test out of it and was required to take precalc because it was "remedial" and isn't accredited (same for Calc) when in the art degree programs, high school geometry is considered college level and is accredited...

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Wouldn't want them art students to feel bad now would you? But we don't care about how the tech students feel... Tech students went into that field for the pain of it as far as administration is concerned

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I tried to transfer my math credits from full sail... I was told that in the tech programs, only linear algebra and above transfers

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(didn't make it that far because group projects; the bane of a good solo worker)

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 5:10 PM

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Learning something for a specific purpose is my favorite way to learn

quartz wren Jun 3, 2021, 5:11 PM

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It's how it sticks for me, otherwise it's some ethereal pattern that I didn't quite make the application connection for

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Taught myself boolean algebra because it made logic design easier to know the math behind it

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I honestly just wish I wasn't lied to and coerced into debt with a curriculum that's intentionally designed to weed out not the people who can't do it but the people who don't play nice with others. If they had been honest and said that group projects were the thing messing up most students' grades I never would have gone. They also told me there would be no prerequisites which didn't apply to my field. They straight up lied.

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The "digital literacy" class they force you to take and do a group project in that's most of your grade is like if you took a high school tech class, got rid of the making a web page curriculum, and mashed it with the first page of every programming book ever

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(the "history of computing" section they all seem to have)

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 5:20 PM

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I hit different obstacles in school, but the result was similar

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 5:29 PM

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I started learning programming in my high school using CS106A Stanford video classes

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I also learn with MIT OCW with
Prof. Eric Grimson

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This professor told a lot of jokes in class

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And the students didn't laught at all

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I felt so much shame even that it was in the past and I'm in a country >1000km away...

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It was so many constant jokes and the students only didn't laught.

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Never.

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 5:38 PM

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That would bother me too.

wary herald Jun 3, 2021, 5:59 PM

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How do I get Sublime Text 4 for RPI4??

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 6:06 PM

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A quick web search implies that it may not be available, and if it is, you might need the 64-bit version of the OS to run it.

wary herald Jun 3, 2021, 6:19 PM

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late fulcrum A quick web search implies that it may not be available, and if it is, you might...

I have 64-bit

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 7:54 PM

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jovial path

Another crime scene, and the same physicist, Torricelli, was there. It can't be a coincidence.

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You don't wanna know why my shelf has no books in the botton and why I have a flying trash can next to my table.

late fulcrum Jun 3, 2021, 8:22 PM

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What's the model number for a flying trash can?

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 9:00 PM

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I don't know about the plastic but the flying part I built all with Adafruit's components... There's an Arduino controlling the helices so it will keep stable on every axis, there's an acelerometer (a very cheap one) mantaining track of everything, so everything the microcontroller does is to direct power to the right motor.

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If you punch it , it will automatically come back to the original position.

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Maybe in the future I'll install some cameras in the room so if the trash accidentally go out of the trash can it will take the trash before it touches the ground.

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...

jovial path Jun 3, 2021, 10:20 PM

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It's not this, it's just a very bad joke 😩

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 10:38 PM

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I believe your physicist may be a criminal

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Also I think your physicist may, in fact, be a dog

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 11:19 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/viralhog-iron-dog-dog-iron-man-cosplay-gif-11711960

Tenor

tardy badger Jun 3, 2021, 11:20 PM

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Dang my dog killed the battery on my car by turning on a light that’s hard to see during the day

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 11:20 PM

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oof

tardy badger Jun 3, 2021, 11:22 PM

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And my car has an electronic gear box

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I can’t put it in neutral to push it out of the garage 😵

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 11:24 PM

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oof

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Preference question for microcontrollers, if you have to choose one of the two: mini B or micro B?

crystal ore Jun 3, 2021, 11:34 PM

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Micro.

lone dagger Jun 3, 2021, 11:34 PM

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micro for me as well

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 11:35 PM

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Personally I prefer mini because it's easier to tell which way it plugs in and can be easier to plug in

lone dagger Jun 3, 2021, 11:35 PM

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I can see that

delicate stream Jun 3, 2021, 11:36 PM

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Type C is my absolute favorite tho, since you don't need to worry about direction, but it can be a bit tight sometimes...

grave crest Jun 3, 2021, 11:52 PM

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Depends on how well it's made -- most Mini-B connectors on consumer devices are through-hole soldered joints, but just the opposite for Micro-B...they're surface mount and don't last nearly as long under normal use.

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There are exceptions to both of these, of course. But it's so frustrating when you buy a USB-powered ethernet switch, and the micro-usb port literally falls off upon the first time you plug in the cable.

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[it was unusually dual-powered -- you could use either mini-b or micro-b. Upon investigating, it was a through-hole vs surface mount.]

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:02 AM

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I've certainly had a lot more micro breaks than mini, and that's part of it too for me. I have had some SMD mini ports pop off the board too -- but micro is almost always SMD, and I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone, say, knock a device off a table and have not only the port be broken free, but also take a good chunk of traces with it... not pretty

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Thankfully C seems to be more robust in that way -- despite the fact that I've never seen a thru-hole C connector, I also haven't seen nearly as many of them get broken [the side pads seem to be much more sturdy, or there's a cutout in the board and it has wings that take the brunt of fall damage and can just be bent back into shape]

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 12:11 AM

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delicate stream Preference question for microcontrollers, if you have to choose one of the two: ...

Micro B, because it's easier to find the cables and all the smartphones at my house are micro B's so I can easily take the cable. I have a few Arduino Nanos and I avoid using them specially because of the mini B...

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:12 AM

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The ubiquity of micro up to this point certainly does make finding cables easier... And I can imagine if you live somewhere that didn't get a lot of them and now they're expensive, that's all the more reason to avoid them

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 12:17 AM

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One day I had to order a single mini B cable from a local store and I had to wait to come to my home.

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I do not need to do this with micro b, ever.

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:19 AM

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I guess the fact I already had a few hundred mini cables helped me like them more, lol

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 12:20 AM

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lol

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I never saw someone like you in my whole life, more mini B's than micro B's that's insane.

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:22 AM

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I totally have more micros than minis XD

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I just have..... so many cables

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I still have like 50 VGA cables, and that's after giving loads away!

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This is what happens when you work IT.... you collect

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 12:24 AM

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My father is just like you.

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He just don't throw cables, electrinics, etc... away...

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He just keep it, for years and years...

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:25 AM

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It's a waste to throw good ones in the trash... and when you get rid of all of them, THAT is when you ABSOLUTELY NEED THEM.

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But it is good to pair down... I'd probably only keep like 10 VGA cables if I could find homes for the rest

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I think I only have like 12 VGA displays at this point, and they all have cables, and those don't die often, lol

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 12:27 AM

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delicate stream It's a waste to throw good ones in the trash... and when you get rid of all of t...

Hahaha my father aways say that he will use them in the future and in many cases he indeed used them!

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:29 AM

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Sometimes you use them for other uses, too -- like, I have a TONNE of old POTS phone cables, and I recently used one to hook a NeoPixel ring to a Pico, lol

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I use scrap CAT5/6 cable as breadboard jumper cables, lol

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:33 AM

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oh that's a good idea

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I've thrown away at least 1 ton of cat 5 cables at work

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ewaste service adores us

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:34 AM

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oof

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I don't think I've ever actually thrown any away

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Probs 50 tonnes of insulation, lol

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:35 AM

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cat 5 makes sense to scrap

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cat 5e not so much cause the shielding

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cat 6 w h y

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:38 AM

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The tiny bits that get cut off or leftovers from a spool, lol

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Or a broken cable that I can't figure out where the break is and it just isn't worth the time

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:51 AM

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Anyone know what that black component in the middle could be? It’s marked with 27000 and K129 on the package, and the silkscreen label for it is X1

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The other side of the PCB is a BGA GPU

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4 contacts, 1 on each corner

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:53 AM

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Hmm... is it some sort of weird capacitor? I think I've seen ICs that were actually 2+ capacitors [for... reasons?]

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:54 AM

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Idk, it doesn’t look like a capacitor array

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There are some resistor arrays at the top of the pic

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:55 AM

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hmmm

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Regulator?

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:56 AM

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I don’t think so, there’s a massive power section on the rest of the board

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:56 AM

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I have no idea what the heck all that is doing, but probs power regulation in that area?

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:57 AM

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They make an entire buck converter circuit for 1v 1.5v 3.3v and I think 5v

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:57 AM

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CPUs/GPUs do tend to have additional smoothing caps, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised if there's even more power regulation on some devices

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Guessing you can't find a datasheet or specsheet for the board?

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Wait, is that a Wii?

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:58 AM

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Not legally

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It’s a wii lol

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 12:58 AM

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knew it XD

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 12:59 AM

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There is copious amounts of documentation out there for trimming the wii, but no one has tried what I’m trying

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:00 AM

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Absolute mad[lad/lass/?]

tardy badger Jun 4, 2021, 1:01 AM

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Looks like a crystal

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Judging by the visible footprint and nearby capacitors

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And if you trace out how capacitors and the resistor near by are connected

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:07 AM

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I'll be a madlad if I can pull it off lol

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hmmmmm kinda wish I had an oscilloscope now to test

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:08 AM

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I think you're a madlad for trying

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 1:15 AM

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ancient kindle Anyone know what that black component in the middle could be? It’s marked with 2...

It could be a rectifier bridge.

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:17 AM

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I don't think so

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AC would be way too noisy behind a processor

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 1:20 AM

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I think they make on their own these components, right?

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So it's harder to people reverse-engineer their hardware...

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Is that it?

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:21 AM

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it's definitely not a custom component

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they would proudly write RVL on it if so

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there are like 4 custom components on the board, the rest are off the shelf

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hmmm maybe I could make a lil DIY oscilloscope with a teensy

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27000 might mean 27.000 MHz

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 1:25 AM

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ancient kindle hmmm maybe I could make a lil DIY oscilloscope with a teensy

This can be very fun.

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On christimans this year I'll have an osciloscope and a voltage source! 😆

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I am so happy with this.

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:29 AM

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I have so many things I want to buy now

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oscilloscope, hot air gun, BGA rework station, rework oven

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 1:30 AM

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I have a hot air gun it's so strong!

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And it really works...

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But I preffer soldering iron...

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:32 AM

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it's hard to work on BGA components with a soldering iron

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lol

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:34 AM

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Show me someone who can work with BGA using a soldering iron, and I'll sell you a bridge...

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:35 AM

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rectifier?

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or like a full bridge

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:35 AM

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Like a bridge that cars can go over, lol

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:36 AM

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for how much

terse lion Jun 4, 2021, 1:38 AM

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hello

tardy badger Jun 4, 2021, 1:39 AM

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Hi

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https://tenor.com/view/hello-there-hi-there-greetings-gif-9442662

Tenor

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https://tenor.com/view/general-kenobi-turn-around-star-wars-gif-15335963

Tenor

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:41 AM

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tardy badger Looks like a crystal

I think you're correct

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can't find a single crystal on this board

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except for X1

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also I found out something really critical for this project

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this revision of motherboard has all non power traces on the outer layers

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so it makes every trace for this visible

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:43 AM

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Wait, it's marked X1? Isn't X always a crystal?

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:44 AM

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I've seen resistors marked with C

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anything is possible

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:44 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/robertdowneyjr-wide-eye-tony-stark-iron-man-avengers-gif-7766118

Tenor

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I can't find my box of Windows keys

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In good news, I got rid of my display artifacting with a different HDMI cable, and I haven't had crashes since updating Windows and display drivers and GPU firmware...

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:48 AM

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horray!

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also the main power fuse here is marked F2..... there is only 1 fuse

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:49 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-thinking-batman-gif-14744673

Tenor

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Nintendo is a curious bunch

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:49 AM

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actually there are 3

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2 resettable ones marked 3 and 4

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:50 AM

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hmm

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Maybe they decided that counting 0, 1, 2, 3 or 1, 2, 3 is silly and decided to get rid of 1

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:51 AM

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this had to be an expensive board to make

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I just noticed that almost the entire top and bottom of the board is extra ground plane where there are no signal traces

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and there are thick copper plated borders

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no wonder they reduced to 4 layers later on

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hmm what could FIL2 be

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:54 AM

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ancient kindle Anyone know what that black component in the middle could be? It’s marked with 2...

dead center of this image, has a yellow silkscreen box

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FIL2 is what it's labeled, and I can't find FIL1

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looks like a capacitor but 4 sides with contacts

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:56 AM

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hmmmmm

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I have no idea

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I need sleep

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night night

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 1:59 AM

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delicate stream hmmmmm

I think you're on the same timezone as me, are you in New York,Boston,Rio de Janeiro, Sergipe....? This vertical line...

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Good night!

real falcon Jun 4, 2021, 4:26 AM

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https://twitter.com/FSD_in_6m/status/1400207129479352323?s=19 lol

FSD in 6 months (@FSD_in_6m)

@flames_of_chaos @sascha_p The author posted this video in the comments. It's a truck full of traffic lights. https://t.co/h2LwyL65ck

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ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 4:48 AM

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I wonder if there would be a way to make a BGA socket on the cheap

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So I don’t have to resolder these packages for every board rev

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I know that those expensive real ones are out there but maybe I could make one myself

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Amazon knows very well lol

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That oven comes with masking tape attaching the thermal shielding together, so it burns when you use the oven

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So replacing with kapton tape is essential

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 11:26 AM

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jovial path I think you're on the same timezone as me, are you in New York,Boston,Rio de Jan...

Yes I do :D

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 11:31 AM

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ancient kindle Amazon knows very well lol

What does this reflow oven do?

tardy badger Jun 4, 2021, 1:36 PM

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You know the benefit to having a 1st Gen beta Amazon Echo?

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No support for Amazon Sidewalk

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:37 PM

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lol

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I don't have a Sidewalk option to disable...

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Wait, I have all 1st gen devices, do none of them support Sidewalk?

tardy badger Jun 4, 2021, 1:38 PM

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Nope

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Only 3rd Gen

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:38 PM

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Oh, awesome

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Glad I had such disdain for the new ones that I got old ones XD

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 1:41 PM

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I much prefer the hockey puck look?

tardy badger Jun 4, 2021, 1:42 PM

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I enjoy my old fashion spy can

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:43 PM

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hehe

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Yeah, I hate the stupid fabric covered ones

tardy badger Jun 4, 2021, 1:44 PM

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I don’t mind the fabric, it’s the additional features that newer ones have that compromise privacy more than necessary

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:44 PM

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That's also not good... I'm shallow and made my choice based entirely on aesthetics XD

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:45 PM

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jovial path What does this reflow oven do?

Bakes solder paste following the paste manufacturer’s temperature profile

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So you can just use a stencil to get all the paste down, place the components, then bake

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Makes soldering a ton easier and is necessary for stuff like BGA and whatever those buck converter chip packages are called

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:46 PM

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EZ-bake circuits

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:46 PM

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Yea

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:47 PM

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I built my own :D

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 1:47 PM

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Reflow oven?

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:48 PM

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Yee

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 1:49 PM

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I'm annoyingly having difficulty locating a manual for an old piece of kit I just got

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 1:50 PM

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oof

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:05 PM

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when i search up philips p-50, it only gives me modern day TVs

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:06 PM

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Do you guys have a degree from a technical school?

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I don't think they teach this in an engineering degree...

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:07 PM

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I have an IST degree

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:07 PM

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Or maybe you get this with yeara of experience.

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Years*

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 2:07 PM

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I don't even have a degree yet lmao

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:07 PM

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I love technical school

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But my field is electrical engineering.

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I'm a student.

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:08 PM

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I do not miss school XD

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 2:08 PM

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I'm doing data science

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all engineering fields are insanely competitive

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:09 PM

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I currently work helpdesk

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But hope to impress the Adafruit gods and get a job with them XD

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:09 PM

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It's very possible.

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You're smart.

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Why don't you send your curriculum?

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They are located in New York I think.

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:10 PM

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jovial path Do you guys have a degree from a technical school?

i have literally no qualifications

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:11 PM

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static flare i have literally no qualifications

But you're so young, you're what? 12?

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:11 PM

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12 XD

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 2:11 PM

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lmao

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:11 PM

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What

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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gotta be 13 to be on Discord

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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I turn 20 in just over 2 weeks

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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Oh... Sorry.

polar bloom Jun 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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20 is the new 12

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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lol

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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;)

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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Twelve!

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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Twelve

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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lord

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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twelve whats?

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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twelve 5/3rds of a year

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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Eudecio thought I was 12

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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pies

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12 pies

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yes

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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I am sorry.

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It was the cat ears I think.

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Sorry.

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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I'm not even sure how you got that

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:14 PM

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How old do you think I am?

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:14 PM

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Wait you saw my face and thought 12???

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:14 PM

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Yes.

polar bloom Jun 4, 2021, 2:14 PM

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That's not too unbelievable actually

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:14 PM

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You do have a young face

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:15 PM

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It's weird, because for years I've been told I look older

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Heck, I still get people thinking I'm in my mid 20's

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:15 PM

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lol

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:17 PM

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...

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Does anyone recoginize it?

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It's not a complete development but it's the foundations so I think you can bet what it is :)

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😆

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 2:20 PM

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why, it's French, of course.

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:21 PM

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it looks like Portugese, and calculus

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:21 PM

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I was gonna say Spanish maths

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 2:23 PM

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É pau, é pedra, é o fim do caminho. É um resto de toco, é um pouco sozinho.

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:23 PM

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... buenos nachos

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 2:24 PM

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That makes me irrationally angry

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 2:24 PM

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What? Good nachos?

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:25 PM

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dusty citrus _É pau, é pedra, é o fim do caminho. É um resto de toco, é um pouco sozinho._

I like this music :)

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 2:25 PM

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@jovial path I learned most of the lyrics. ;)

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 2:25 PM

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dusty citrus _É pau, é pedra, é o fim do caminho. É um resto de toco, é um pouco sozinho._

I think I listened to it when I was a kid.

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 2:25 PM

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Art Garfunkel did it in English.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A3W5v1dNNI Art Garfunkel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqI5R6L7ow Elis

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Very good recording of Elis and Tom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1tOV7y94DY

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 3:12 PM

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I made a project of light for bicicles

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With buttons to turn right or left

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But covid doesn't allow me to play outside.

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Guys use good masks really...

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COVID is very bad :(

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Even if you're very healthy, COVID still is very bad.

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 3:16 PM

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dusty citrus <@!494340013165772821> I learned most of the lyrics. ;)

You're very smart :)

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:24 PM

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I was quite ill, so I (for some strange reason) decided to learn the song. I've seen the translation but I don't really know it as I'm singing it. ;)

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:25 PM

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jovial path Does anyone recoginize it?

sure, looks like Riemann tensor and Christoffel symbols

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:25 PM

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So when I couldn't get out of bed I had something to occupy myself with! ;)

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:26 PM

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why was my previous message higlighted red???
did I somehow trigger the modbot?

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:27 PM

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That means you have it locally but the server does not have it at all.

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Your client paints it in red so you'll be aware of it.

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it's a form of netlag

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:27 PM

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jovial path Does anyone recoginize it?

sure, looks like Riemann tensor and Christoffel symbols

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worked now

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:28 PM

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Oh that's the Reimann tensor?

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:29 PM

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Yep.
Riemann curvature tensor has 4 indices (3 lower, one upper)
Main tool in differential geometry, in particular in general relativitiy

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:29 PM

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Yeah I'm aware of it but not in native script. ;)

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It's over my head but I retain nouns and nomenclature pretty well.

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:30 PM

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TBH, it has been a while since I actually used it myself, but I do meet it frequently in papers I read

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:31 PM

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In one of the movies the guy refers to Reimann - probably that Russel Crowe one.

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I read stuff that's over my head fairly often - I used to also listen to people speaking when I didn't understand a word of it. ;)

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If you don't give them a stop message, and ask reasonable questions, they often keep going.

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 3:32 PM

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stoic mesa TBH, it has been a while since I actually used it myself, but I do meet it frequ...

You are a mathematics researcher?

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:32 PM

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@jovial pathyes

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 3:33 PM

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What is your field?

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:33 PM

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algebra, to be precise, representation theory

stoic mesa Jun 4, 2021, 3:34 PM

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dusty citrus I read stuff that's over my head fairly often - I used to also listen to people ...

I think we are all in this boat... just in different areas. I listen to a lot of discussions about EE in this discord many of which are over my head

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:35 PM

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I think as long as you're honest, if you're willing to listen 'anyway' a lot of people will oblige.

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(gives them a chance to say it out loud, for one thing)

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I guess it's a form of stagefright - people don't get past it because they feel .. fraudulent, maybe.

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The same ideas hold when it's medical stuff talking to the doctor.

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 3:37 PM

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I love to hear about other people researches even if it is not my field I love to hear.

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Even that are over my head (this means I don't understand completely).

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(?)

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:38 PM

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We'd go to public speaking events where the presenter knew something fairly specific.

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'lectures' that's the word.

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 3:39 PM

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jovial path I love to hear about other people researches even if it is not my field I love t...

You can talk hours about this with me and I'll be glad to hear and probabily I'll have a new friend :)

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 3:40 PM

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Until we get out of radio range (space-travel)

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How would you like to wake up in a space ship and realize your great-grandparent had an idea, and decided to join a crew - and they all set out into deep space .. and now here you are, on a generation ship. ;)

ancient kindle Jun 4, 2021, 4:02 PM

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ok so I have an idea

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for an altoids tin project could I just skip the ground plane in the PCB and hook up the tin itself as shielding

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say if I needed a 6 layer PCB, removing a ground plane layer could probably allow a 4 layer PCB to be done instead

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and that's a fraction of the cost for manufacturing

crystal ore Jun 4, 2021, 4:19 PM

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A typical board will often have dozens of connections to the ground plane, so I expect it would cost more in manufacturing to manually solder all those points to an external shield.

dusty citrus Jun 4, 2021, 4:23 PM

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Calling occupants, of interplanetary craft. I rode my bicycle up that hill, just to see 'em, fore, and aft.

tardy badger Jun 4, 2021, 5:14 PM

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Pro adult tip: work a job with top notch dental insurance so you don’t have to go years without dental work

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 5:25 PM

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oof

jovial path Jun 4, 2021, 7:12 PM

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tardy badger Pro adult tip: work a job with top notch dental insurance so you don’t have to g...

😆 I think that is true, my father has the best insurence plan ever and he never goes to the dentist. 😂

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I think he goes every 10 years... ✅

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My dentist told me I have to go back every 6 months...

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She makes my teeths so smooth...

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It's very good.

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💪

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I wonder if I could create dental equipaments with an mini arduino...

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Most of it are DC motors that spin ._.

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Kids are facinated with dental equipaments, when I was a kid my dentist allowed me to play with her electrical equipaments, it was a pretty cool day...

delicate stream Jun 4, 2021, 8:34 PM

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Someone had shared a Windows Terminal theme that turned it into a Portal console, but I can't find the link... Does whoever posted that remember and have the link? DX

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FOUND IT https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/no7mg8/i_tried_to_make_my_windows_terminal_look_like/

r/Windows10 - I tried to make my Windows Terminal look like Portal ...

1,524 votes and 86 comments so far on Reddit

topaz juniper Jun 4, 2021, 9:58 PM

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Does anyone know of a KiCad footprint for https://www.adafruit.com/product/4458 ?

static flare Jun 4, 2021, 10:14 PM

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worst case, you'd have to use the datasheet to make your own

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:06 AM

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I'm facinated by LED's...

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They are so small...

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And they are diodes...

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It so hard to understand the way they work deeply!

ancient kindle Jun 5, 2021, 12:06 AM

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Transistors are crazier

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:06 AM

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Chemically and etc....

ancient kindle Jun 5, 2021, 12:07 AM

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We’re down to 2nm transistors by IBM

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:07 AM

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How do they produce this minerva

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2nm...

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:07 AM

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Magic

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:08 AM

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I have dificuties soldering a SMD...

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And they create a 2nm transistor

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 12:08 AM

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I'd imagine they use computers to do the fine detail

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:08 AM

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delicate stream Magic

😂

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I was searching some partners for biomedical research last week

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And I found a group of researchers at MIT who study...

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Nanobiological engineering

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It was a fancy word like this... It is not precise

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But they created equipaments to manipulate microorganisms to the nanoscale

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The word is not precise.

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:10 AM

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I built a computer

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:11 AM

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Me too , it runs BASIC

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Like Apple 2

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But it doesn't operate on nanoscale

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I think this is a shared technology

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There's no way there's a coicidence of IBM creating 2nm transistors

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And exist a engineering field in biomedical engineering

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That creates equipamemts for nanoscale microorganisms...

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:13 AM

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delicate stream I built a computer

How is your computer?

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:13 AM

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Running smoothly now :D

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:13 AM

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😆 😆 😆

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I tought you created the computer....

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:13 AM

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I said I built one, lol

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Like, LEGO built, not chip fabrication built

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:14 AM

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Hahahaha ok...

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This video card is pretty fast

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Is it the best at the moment?

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:14 AM

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In the consumer class, yup!

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:15 AM

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I see...

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I think this consumes more energy in a day than my whole house.

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:15 AM

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Lol

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It is kinda power hungry... as are its brothers and sisters...

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Windows is activated now :D

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:16 AM

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10 years ago it was possible to connect 2 video cards in the same computer

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You can do this today?

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Or the video card is too powerfull

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And can't work with another

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Otherwise the computer would explode of so much power

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:18 AM

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Yeah, you can do multi GPU, but for gaming it's generally considered a dumb idea, as most games don't support SLI [which is what enables 2 GPUs to work together for a game], so there's no point in having 2

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But 2 of my 3 workstations have 2 cards so I can do bigger projects, because some software can use however many random GPUs are in the system

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 12:19 AM

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Ah yes I need 12 monitors on one PC

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:19 AM

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But even in SLI supported games, the gains aren't generally worth it -- 1.5-1.8x for some titles with 2 cards, and usually you can just get the next card up for less than 1.5x the price

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I currently have 6 monitors on my old main, lol... gonna go to 8 on this one

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But I probably will just get a Quadro P620 for moar monitors

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 12:20 AM

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I want more than the 4 I currently have

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:20 AM

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More is good

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But also high resolution good... I'm sitting in front of a 4K 55" TV and it's lovely, like having 4 monitors with no bezels

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Although it's temporary

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:23 AM

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I think 1080 is so good.

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But if you look at the time, it's a bit old.

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:24 AM

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1080p is fine for 1 or 2 things... can't fit so much

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This is why I have 6 monitors

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:24 AM

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But I still think it's high definition.

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:24 AM

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1080p is FHD, 720p is HD

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1440p is QHD, 2160p/4K is UHD

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:24 AM

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Yep... Full HD

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:25 AM

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Resolution only makes a difference depending on what you're doing -- like, for work, I want as much on screen as possible, so higher resolution lets me fit more

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:26 AM

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For me, it's good.

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But it's only saving me from the work of oppening a new window...

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It's like <2s

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Ok... Sometimes you need to have two windows oppened...

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That is true...

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:27 AM

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I need to see multiple things at once XD like the phone, call list,team chat, ticket window, user's machine, etc

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:27 AM

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Or even more...

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:41 AM

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delicate stream Running smoothly now :D

You could sell processing power to Pixar, what do you think?

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They send you the archive to render.

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You render in your computer

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Then send the result to Pixar

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You could earn money with this.

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Sorry, bad joke....

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You really can't do this... 😩

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:42 AM

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Lmao, Pixar has a bit more processing power than I do...

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They probably have workstations with the 3990WX and 256GB of RAM, dual/triple/quad Quadro or Radeon WX cards, etc

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:43 AM

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Ok. Time to go, I have to watch The Walking Dead otherwise my brain will explode of so much engineering.

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12h a day everyday including weekends...

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:44 AM

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Lol, have fun. I really need to catch up, I am WAY behind on TWD

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Too many shows, not enough time

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 12:46 AM

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jovial path Ok. Time to go, I have to watch The Walking Dead otherwise my brain will explode...

Or my brain would explode or suddenly I would turn into a microcontroller

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:46 AM

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lol

sick adder Jun 5, 2021, 1:26 AM

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TFW you upgrade the wrong system to Debian unstable

zealous ermine Jun 5, 2021, 1:26 AM

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HS is in the books!

ancient kindle Jun 5, 2021, 1:27 AM

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are you sure you want to post your full diploma on the internet like that?

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that's a ton of personal information just out there for anyone to see now

zealous ermine Jun 5, 2021, 1:28 AM

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Lots of people do it here

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Plus i really trust this community

terse lion Jun 5, 2021, 1:30 AM

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hello

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 2:06 AM

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zealous ermine Plus i really trust this community

Young person, you shouldn't trust any community besides your parents...

zealous ermine Jun 5, 2021, 2:06 AM

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true

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 2:07 AM

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zealous ermine Plus i really trust this community

There are bad persons in good places...

zealous ermine Jun 5, 2021, 2:07 AM

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sadly 😦

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 2:07 AM

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Even inside Google, Microsoft...

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It is just not perfect.

zealous ermine Jun 5, 2021, 2:07 AM

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nothing is perfect sadly

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 2:08 AM

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But I'm not your teacher to be a non-parent guiding tou throught life, so...

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I won't say anything else.

zealous ermine Jun 5, 2021, 2:08 AM

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thanks for the tips anyways!

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 2:24 AM

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Trust no one, not even yourself

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Stay secret, stay safe

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Most importantly, stay inside and stay in bed. The world is dangerous, no reason to go out there

jovial path Jun 5, 2021, 2:38 AM

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Because of COVID.

ancient kindle Jun 5, 2021, 2:43 AM

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EID23J6/

Quick 861DW 1000W Digital Rework Station with LCD Display - Power S...

Quick 861DW 1000W Digital Rework Station with LCD Display - Power Soldering Accessories - Amazon.com

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Probably gonna get one of these bad boys when my paycheck rolls in

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Hmmm I’m seeing now the preheater section of the bga rework stations for like $100

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So a quick + a preheater could get me full bga rework for less money and much much more utility

hasty quarry Jun 5, 2021, 3:38 AM

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AMONG US!

ancient kindle Jun 5, 2021, 4:35 AM

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ok

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 12:51 PM

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sigh

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 12:56 PM

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fun

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:06 PM

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Yup... That might explain the crashes...

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yeets Intel out a window AND STAY OUT

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never again

polar bloom Jun 5, 2021, 1:13 PM

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RAM errors are no fun

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:15 PM

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Nope. I thought it was a graphics driver for a while -- might still be, might be both. I blame Intel

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:15 PM

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Fortunately, there are many modern alternatives to the long-obsolete X86 chips.

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:15 PM

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Pretty sure it's the memory controller

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:15 PM

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I unironically love the look of the fail message

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:15 PM

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I still need x86 for Windows, lol... My 5950X is smooth

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:16 PM

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static flare I unironically love the look of the fail message

Yes

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Very 80s

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:16 PM

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Happily, I don't need windows either, with all its nutty quirks.

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:16 PM

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I think MacOS is the one with nutty quirks XD

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:17 PM

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I've been using BSD since the early 1980s so I'm used to its quirks and prefer it to AT&T style Unix.

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Happily, Unix has outgrown some of its worst decisions (EINTR? please) over the years

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:19 PM

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I played with FreeBSD once...

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Unrelated: Windows at 4K 100% scaling on a 14" screen is completely unusable

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But on a 55" TV it's like 4x 1080p 27" monitors with no bezels :D

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:25 PM

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Alas, my 50" TV is only 1366x768

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:26 PM

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Oof

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2007?

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:26 PM

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Yeah, it's a really old plasma screen. It got zapped in a recent lightning storm, I'm going to make one attempt to repair it, and if that fails, I'll get a modern unit (probably skipping straight over LCDs to OLED)

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It turns out the power supply has a whopping 53 electrolytic capacitors (some hiding inconveniently under the heatsinks)

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delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:28 PM

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Omai

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:29 PM

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I was able to obtain the service manual, which has schematics for all the logic boards, but alas, as usual, not for the power supply (which is presumably bought in)

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:29 PM

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You're certainly in for a treat if you get a new TV, even cheap ones are pretty amazing compared to the top end from that era

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:30 PM

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Only having 2 HDMI inputs has been frustrating me for a while, and software updates for some STBs have broken compatibility with the set's older HDCP implementation. I have repaired this set twice before.

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If I feel like watching TV, my choices are the 22" LCD in the bedroom, or the 30" cinema display on my computer desk.

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:31 PM

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Inputs... Definitely a higher end tend to have more, this one only has 2

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:32 PM

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i don't know how many inputs my tv has, i currently use none of them

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:32 PM

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O-O

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:33 PM

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Direct drive to the CRT grids???

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:33 PM

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The living room TV has 4

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:33 PM

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late fulcrum Direct drive to the CRT grids???

??

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:33 PM

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I figure if you're not using the set's inputs, perhaps you're just using the set as a CRT power supply and direct driving the tube.

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:34 PM

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oh! no! I'm not talking about my CRTs

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:34 PM

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Lol

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:34 PM

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I'm absolutely using my CRTs inputs

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:34 PM

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Looking at last year's models, I can get a bigger screen, 4k resolution, and more inputs, for less than I paid for the plasma.

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:34 PM

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I have a LCD TV I just... don't use

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:35 PM

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late fulcrum Looking at last year's models, I can get a bigger screen, 4k resolution, and mor...

We live in a magical time!

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:35 PM

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There are creative things you can do with unneeded LCD panels. Magic mirrors are popular

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:35 PM

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delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:35 PM

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DIY LCD projector!

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:35 PM

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Oh, no, not gonna dismantle this

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:35 PM

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That would be a lorj magic mirror

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:35 PM

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i already own a high end projector

delicate stream Jun 5, 2021, 1:36 PM

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LMAO, I meant unneeded LCDs

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:36 PM

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it was a gift from my fiancee's dad, he got it free from where he works, it cost about $1.5k new

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:36 PM

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I bought a broken fancy laser projector with the intention of taking it apart for the lasers. But, ironically, it showed up fully operational.

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:36 PM

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It's only been used like... a few months in total, and it's like 10 years old

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it's gonna last me forever at this rate

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(i never use it myself)

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:37 PM

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I did find a projection TV by the side of the road, and stripped the CRTs and optics out of it.

static flare Jun 5, 2021, 1:37 PM

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ooooh

late fulcrum Jun 5, 2021, 1:38 PM

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One each red, green, and blue