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  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • It’s entirely possible that your chips are fine.

    It’s also possible that they’re grey market and might have a higher fail rate, basically. The ones that meet spec get purchased by amtel or atmega or whoever and shipped to parts warehouses like mouser. The ones that don’t are contractually supposed to be destroyed but they technically still work and china is resourceful and doesn’t necessarily give a shit about copyright so they end up on AliExpress for cheap. It’s not a bad deal, it basically means that 3 in 10 might go bad prematurely instead of 1 in 20 but for 1/3rd the cost. Given the savings it’s usually worthwhile for hobbyist stuff, I know I’ve done it. Fuck amazon but I’ll fuck with aliexpress.

    The other issue though is clones and copies and that’s more complex. This is where it’s like they might just be fine or they might not work right or at all. Like the FTDI usb to serial interface for microcontrollers vs the clones, which dont always work with the FTDI drivers (though tbf this is bc FTDI purposely updates the drivers to break compatibility with clones and not inherently a fault of the cloned chip).

    https://youtu.be/vUuH02o5Mpk

    https://www.guillier.org/blog/2019/08/fake-attiny85-from-china/

    it appears there are fakes of attiny85 out there. “Fake” esp32 is more complex bc it’s a native Chinese product. Unless you specifically want the expressif version I guess

  • How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?

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  • I don’t know shit about Cantonese and the only mandarin I know is the most basic of phrases and stuff to refer to food (so essentially nothing) so I can’t speak to that

    Japanese is hard, but so is any language. You get out what you put in. I wasted about a year with “studying” half assed for like 10-15 minutes a day with duolingo. It was good that I had a consistent routine but at the end of 1 year I had very little to show for my effort. Learn from my mistake.

    After that I switched things up. I didn’t put in a ton more time but I changed approach. Pretty standard but boring stuff: Anki, Assimil, and some other more targeted apps later on (renshuu, Benkyō, and most recently kanji dojo have been helpful). Setting up language exchange calls via apps like hello talk and discord have been far more helpful as things have progressed. This is more of a significant time investment and requires me to teach English a bit but I am happy to do it for free Japanese instruction. Joining group chats on line, watching YouTubers and vtubers, anime and dramas, etc also is helpful but the hard part was determining when to make the jump to not use subtitles and finding content that was digestible at my level. I’m not the kind of weeb that watches precure and little kid shows but for a minute I did just to watch stuff without subs. It sucked.

    After about 5 years I got decent enough to have solid conversations via phone and text. Then DeepL came out and made it all pointless haha

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    Jellyfin inquiry

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  • “Anything else anywhere else”

    Clarify - do you mean remote access? Are you using your phone for local access (eg localhost:8096 or 192.168.0.1:8096 or some kind of mDNS like arch.local:8096)? None of that will work outside of your home without additional configuration nor should you just openly expose it to the greater internet without doing much more research. Short version though - easy mode: tailscale or wireguard, harder version headscale but can be fully self hosted.

    If this isn’t a remote access issue and it’s just some devices aren’t working locally (eg your phone and browser can connect but tv can’t) I would bet it’s a networking issue with firewall/router. What do logs say? This is one that can be trickier because logs on jellyfin side won’t necessarily have any useful info (they might if client is trying and failing to connect, worth a look) and logs on the other side might be a nightmare or even impossible to access (eg a smart tv and you don’t have a developer account for apple/android/webos)

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • Depends on what “stuff” we mean mainly.

    Passives like resistors and capacitors? It doesn’t really matter though it’s good practice to measure them before installation (even with good manufacturing nowadays tbh). But buying a widely cloned chip like an atmega mcu? I would just pay the extra dollar to get a few from mouser

  • Chicago Man Kyle Kania goes on Racist Tirade while wearing a company shirt goes as expected.

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  • gosendgo is the one that people use when they get fired for saying slurs

  • This is a real class-action settlement email I received

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  • I also got this exact email. Not a resident of California so I don’t even get the non expiring dollar, very cool

  • Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions

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  • Also means that a robust community of people creating businesses to sell variations of the hardware for those who aren’t as maker friendly cannot emerge, correct?

    Bc imo that’s what really got early 3d printing off the ground. Like back in 2010 during the reprap days there were all the independent maker storefronts plus a few bigger ones like lulzbot and makerbot (that eventually all got put out of business or bought for toxic modern shit like bambulab because in the modern day under capitalism every single industry has to consolidate until it’s under a few large extremely consumer hostile companies with okay products that just eventually get worse and worse bc there’s no competition or regulation for them but I digress).

    Without this industry or a proper open source platform I don’t see how this will succeed

  • TIL all photographic film and photo paper contain gelatin made from animal bones

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  • Ultimately I agree with you but semantically there are absolutely people who call themselves vegan that do not closely read labels for things like shellac. They just concern themselves for dairy, meat, etc either because it is a health concern or they don’t consider insects animals.

    Similarly there are people who consider themselves vegetarian and eat tons of gelatin based candy despite the fact that gelatin cannot be made without killing an animal.

    Doesn’t even get into refined/white sugar and the whole bone char thing!

  • What's wrong, babe? You haven't touched your can of FNAFta

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  • I have literally never heard of that. If you didn’t post the article I would have genuinely thought you were bullshitting too because it sounds so made up. Culture in decline

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • Problem with Ali is counterfeit city but I do use it for certain things, absolutely.

    Also stocks of things there that bullshit USA rules prevent. Back when I was repairing macbooks and apple basically controlled the entire supply of TI usb c controllers? Like they existed and you could get the datasheet off mouser but they didn’t stock it bc apple literally bought 100% of the supply for years. But aliexpress and ebay had sellers that either pulled them from lines or harvested them from broken machines and reballed them. Considering this was how the machines charged it was the only way to un brick then

  • What's wrong, babe? You haven't touched your can of FNAFta

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  • What are the left and right ones? I don’t keep up with new school horror

  • TIL all photographic film and photo paper contain gelatin made from animal bones

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  • If it was that they like just scraped bug shit off trees maybe, but shellac industry is ultimately a farming industry that kills millions of insects. Many vegans don’t eat honey either.

    Some vegans do eat shellac and honey, of course. It’s not there’s official rules aside from “no animal products”. Do insects count? That’s up to you. Some people are vegan for health reasons, some for moral reasons.

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • When you say electronic parts do you mean like resistors and ICs and shit? Why wouldn’t you use a parts warehouse like mouser or digikey or whatever the equivalent is in your country if not USA? You have to pay shipping but parts are cheaper and guaranteed no counterfeits

  • TIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.

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  • An md5 of whatever string pops in your head at that moment. True randomness is a persons nonsequitors

    This makes sense. I had no idea what tools existed because as mentioned many db solutions exist for this

  • TIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.

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  • Why not local

    Like just generate an md5 hash, truncate it to whatever arbitrary number the shitty website decided is their password length limit, then store it in an encrypted db

    Of course this is just a long way of reinventing keepass/1password/bitwarden/icloud keychain/etc

  • TIL all photographic film and photo paper contain gelatin made from animal bones

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  • A great deal of prescription medication has gelatin and if you tell your pharmacist you can’t eat gelatin you’ll be passed back to your doctor who needs to write an alternative script for an entirely new medication that may not be as effective because they simply don’t make an alternate preparation without gelatin.

    A lot of prescription strength PPIs are like this: esomeprazole, omeprazole, etc. the otc ones can come in capsules that are just the enteric coating (the gelcaps are filled with granules each coated with enteric, which is basically a time release coating). Enteric itself is not automatically vegan, older formulations have shellac and gelatin, though newer formulations are vegan using plant derived cellulose and copolymers (a proprietary compound called Eudragit).

    The frustrating thing here is that gelatin is used for reasons (improving absorption, mainly) but this can be achieved through vegan means like hydroxypropyl methylcellulose or pullulan, which is superior to gelatin in many ways.

    Not just pills either, wound care stuff in hospitals - hemostatic sponges, gelfoam, hydrocolloid dressings. The frustrating thing here is that there are numerous other ways to make a hydrocolloid matrix. Gelatin was just the first well established one really. But especially over the past like 40 years understanding of hydrocolloids have expanded drastically.

    With medical stuff obviously change moves slowly, new formulations need to be thoroughly tested, but the final frustrations are that these paths either arent being tested/explored (to my knowledge, in terms of like dressings), or they are established but aren’t being implemented because of cost. So when you get acid reflux or cystic acne and you tell your dr you’re vegan or halal or orthodox Jewish or whatever they will shrug and be like well sorry that this pill uses porcine gelatine, tough shit I guess?

  • Cast iron rule

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  • Do you live near a city with a Chinatown? Carbon steel 14” wok about 2mm thick is perfect for home use imo. The 16” is more if you’re cooking for several people at once. Either one should be 30-40 dollars. I have both and I use the 16 more because I like the space but I should probably use the 14 to control portions better for my health haha

  • Cast iron rule

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  • Homeowner’s insurance agrees with you

    It looks interesting (muurikka). The cost is very reasonable too which is surprising given tariffs and shipping. I could see this being a very good option for camping and fire pit. I am intrigued

    I look at pan this way: I have a stack of 3 steel pans, a cast iron skillet, and a cheap nonstick. 90% of the time I’m grabbing a steel pan because it’s the easiest to use for most things. If I need to get a pan ripping hot to do a reverse sear? I’ll bring out the cast iron

    I suppose the agreeable thing here at least is hexclad is stupid

  • Cast iron rule

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  • I don’t have 8 years but I did about 5 during college and grad school before I diverted into my current career path, though tbf that was like over a decade and a half ago now (oof). And agreed, like I said it’s not that cast iron is useless. It has a role, it’s just that the role is greatly overemphasized by the cookware zealots.

    Cost is pretty negligible - a lodge 12” skillet is $30, the first result for 10” steel pan on webstaurant is $21. Though there’s an aluminum 12” for $15 (yuck). Though again tbf at least where I worked the owners would def penny pinch over $9 haha

    FWIW I would absolutely love a proper deep fryer in my house. I unironically looked into this once bc I regularly go to restaurant auctions to get gear super cheap (ask me about the deli slicer I got for $50. Having a deli slicer rules) and one had a super cheap single basket deep fryer. But it needed a dedicated 220 line and as I looked into it more it turns out I would potentially be violating all sorts of building codes and invalidating my homeowners insurance. At a minimum I would’ve had to disclose it to my homeowners at get a bunch of paperwork to get the policy changed, which likely would’ve required me to have a ton of work and documentation in terms of ventilation, fire suppression, possibly inspection from local fire authority, etc. not worth the hassle even for the insane fries.

    I am not familiar with the muurikka. I am looking at the website now. It is intriguing. My outdoor setup at the moment is the wok burner and a small charcoal grill. I was considering getting really into pizza and depending on my approach this could be a good fit. My other idea was to build a small brick oven. I am historically not great at building things like that but I am also dumb