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czardestructo

@ czardestructo @lemmy.world

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Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.

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  • +10 I think. I have an off grid solar powered trailer with a raspberry pi that controls it and a cell hot spot so it communicates to home base. I'm a geek.

  • 'Number One' - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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  • I need to own this mug...

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • I work for an un-named company that makes stuff that has google assistant on them. Initially we put hardware mutes and piped the microphones to physical hardware that monitored for wake up words locally and would then start piping the microphone data to the mother ship once it was heard. Google told us to stop that, only way to certify the product as compatible with Google Assistant was to pipe the raw microphone data to the mother ship 24/7. That was 5 years ago and I removed all devices from my house.

  • The more you earn, the larger the timespan for which you know your salary

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  • I think it just means youre well off and dont have to stress about money. I'm not sure there is a timescale element, I'm confident there are plenty if middle aged folk working paycheck to paycheck stressing about their income.

  • Rain barrels are the exact opposite of "Saving it for a rainy day"

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  • Oh Christ I have 1000 gallons of rain water storage and I'm stealing that joke...

  • Nextcloud and Thinkfree Office sign partnership agreement to add more choices for users - Nextcloud

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  • Calls grow louder for Europe to deploy its ‘Big Bazooka’ in tariff negotiations

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  • Americans have had it so good for so long they don't understand reality. Maybe we need to walk down that road to recall how bad it is.

  • [Technology Connections] Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting's final form [30:05]

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  • Likely. The coils only job is to ignite the lamp by whacking it with high voltage to strip some barium elections off the coil to induce plasma and therefore electrical flow. The plasma then excites the phosphorus to make light. After that the coils could just be stubs of wire so long as current keeps flowing through the excited plasma. If you did it inductively it would achieve the same means but I don't think the plasma would be as dense so the lamp not as bright. My theory anyways.

  • [Technology Connections] Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting's final form [30:05]

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  • Wild to see this posted. I worked for the guy that invented this at Sylvania, I have a bunch of photos of the early prototypes. They never figured out how to commercialize it and in the process of trying to manufacturer it in China the manufacturer stole the IP and started making them under their own brand and stole the market. They were called Icetron lamps. I worked in their R&D facilities and domestic manufacturing sites in the early 2000s.

    https://www.1000bulbs.com/pdf/sylvania-26313-brochure.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOorwXg30eX88Qqr_onubna8XmLWO2_-abII3J3MbnKVc_f8BRWMK

  • "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven

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  • I love this community, I used to rant about efficiency all the the time on reddits self hosting community and everyone thought I was insane. If the damn thing is going to run 24/7 for 5+ years then put a little thought into its power usage!

    I personally love old Dell optiplex micros on eBay. Cheap, plentiful laptop hardware in a cute little box which allows modest upgrades. My primary server in a full sized case is just a laptop CPU, Ryzen 5600g. It brings me joy that my network has four servers and still is under 75w idle for everything including networking gear.

  • A dad build an amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for people with special needs

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  • Should do, yep, but obviously not well if dudes getting PR for doing it privately.

  • A dad build an amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for people with special needs

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  • I was thinking more along the lines of "oh hey you're building a water park, cool! By law it must be handicap accessible so please make a section easily accessible and here is a $1mil grant to make that possible, show us your plans before we issue the permit". This feels fairy reasonable.

  • A dad build an amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for people with special needs

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  • Its uplifiting but shouldn't we value these things as a society and fund it accordingly? I hear we are a rich nation. Instead we depend on the charity of some rich guy who wanted to take care of his own daughter.

  • My dailies

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  • +the fact the pi is so darn cheap, has the IO and can emulate the game on the system not at all designed specifically for the task while also running a whole Linux stack and being online. Things have advanced tremendously.

  • How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?

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  • My wife won't leave the house without several water containers as it she is crossing the god damn Sahara. We live in the North East, its not even dry! I always ask her how she survied childhood without stupid fancy bottles that are marketed. Fortunately she is patient with my crap and loves me...

  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • No gpio but old centrino laptops make excellent low power servers. My primary server was a first gen centrino from 2011 up until recently and I think it only used 12w idle after putting a SSD in there. Had it's own UPS built in.

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  • What is your sentiments on the looting of the capital on January 6th then? By that logic they should all be in jail for life for such a substantial escalation relatively speaking.

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  • I was being dramatic, sorry, yes, this!

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  • You would be the bad guy if you make him return it. Personally I would have a talk with your son about how unusual the act is and how his act could be used as leverage over him, nothing is free. Teach him healthy skepticism. Also call back those parents and tell them to fuck off, completly unacceptable they bought something connected and important for your son without checking with you first. They dont know your house or rules...

    Edit: the phone isn't on friends family plan, right?