czardestructo 2 weeks ago • 100%
I'll upvote the heck out of any gnome stuff. Still like their first album best but I enjoy any good new metal and this is great.
czardestructo 3 weeks ago • 100%
Well incompetentboob, let me tell you. You will short and blow the voltage supply on the motherboard and take that port out of service.
czardestructo 3 weeks ago • 100%
Install Enocean wireless, battery free switches. I've used them for many years, they work awsome. The switches can go anywhere you want (double side tape on any surface) or screw in as normal light switches. The act of pushing the button generates enough energy to send the RF signal to a receiver you install with the light and its powered from AC mains.
czardestructo 1 month ago • 100%
I was going to retort they're similar sizes but the ioniq 5 is almost 20" longer, damn. My perception is so warped because everything is a god damn SUV and I get excited even when someone makes a large hatchback.
czardestructo 1 month ago • 50%
Ioniq 5?
czardestructo 1 month ago • 100%
I still have mine and my daughter is probably old enough to enjoy it. Guess I need to repair the barrel jack connector and make a USB PD to barrel jack adapter so she can play all day. Thanks for the reminder!
czardestructo 1 month ago • 100%
You have to park in a garage and walk down a narrow path lined with people trying to sell you shit. Its more like visiting a mall with aggressive salesmen than a national park. It was the worst stop I made during a cross country road trip.
czardestructo 1 month ago • 100%
I use Ruffle on my personal domain to host my college flash web page again. I made the super Mario world map into a web page for an internet gaming group on campus and spent way too much time doing it. I was delighted I could host it again.
czardestructo 1 month ago • 96%
Needing something is one thing, tax payer subsidies is another topic entirely. State tax payers have now all chipped in for these Data centers and the question is was it worth it for them.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
Required course work for electrical engineers in the early 2000s.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
Those leaves look too light green, the plant is stressed. How often do you water the plant and how much do you give it? What is your metric for 'enough'? Do you let water sit in that tray? I would just start by watering it 1/3 as much as you currently do and see how it goes, the leaves will wilt if you are stressing it due to lack of water but in my experience cannabis can handle serious drought stress, they're champs.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
Just a heads up I grow mostly vegetables, have been an avid gardener for over 15 years so my advice will be generic and not specific to growing cannabis. In general I think cannabis growers over think something that is much simpler than it seems. After growing veggies for so long, I found that cannabis is so laughably easy to grow, its ridiculously robust, will handle all kinds of abuse and grows incredibly fast. Here is the little beast I grew two years ago
You mentioned you put them outside, how long ago? Did you re-pot them when you put them outside? They will need time to establish bigger roots when you replant them. Are you growing anything else outside that is doing well or just the cannabis? A picture of the leaves will tell a better story, green has lots of shades and a light green means stress. If you gave it lots of nutrients and you got no response that is bad, either you will over feed it and stress it out (Very hard in my experience) or it will take it up and burst into growth. What this tells me is your plant CANT take up the feed in the soil because the dirt is too wet. How often do you water the plant and do you check the soil to ensure its dry before watering? Has it rained a lot? Over-watered dirt will kill your plant because it cannot get the nutrients it needs, it needs to be damp but NOT wet or the roots aren't effective.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
I use the onboard CPU of my ryzen 5600g for my jellyfin and nextcloud (memories app) duties and it works flawless.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 95%
Taking an international flight where half the plane is smoking. Those were good times, especially in Greece where they loved smoking even more than the Americans.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
May or may not be an option for you but buy any camera that supports rtsp, only allow that traffic from their network through and block everything else. Works fine for me and my Amcrest cameras. You could accomplish this with a pi and a USB network card and some basic iptables.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
Lockheed Martin pulled this shit on me 20 years ago. Applied for a job, did a quick phone screen and they invited me to their campus 5 hours away for an in person interview. When I got there they had a whole gymnasium setup with booths and about 50 people doing interviews and 200 bewildered engineers showing up hoping for a job. They never once mentioned it was going to be factory interviews. Fuck that and similar companies.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
It's heavier than air and will displace oxygen in the area causing asphyxiation.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
I had to google ventoy and now I feel like a cave man because I have a dish with 6 flash drives that all have different ISOs
czardestructo 2 months ago • 66%
Foldersync pro has worked flawlessly for me for over a decade. At first I just used samba on my LAN and it would sync at night but then I spun up new and more services and it supports most all of them. I highly recommend.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
Been using it for over a year on two 8tb SSDs in strip and 14tb as mirror. This is on Debian and its flawless and wonderful. I run btrkbk hourly for snapshots, backups to remote locations and house keeping with 6 months of hourly snaps. Life is great.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
I have the micro form factor I assume the same as you. Basically just a laptop in a small desktop case. I never installed tlp I'll have to give that a shot but I'm pretty sure it's optimized. I have two as servers and one as a router and I'd love to get it down to 12w total! I monitor the whole server rack with an iotawatt and all my servers and networking gear hovers around 75w idle.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
I'd question that. I have three 3080 and they're consistently about 8W each with one ssd and onboard graphics. I even went so far to splice three barrel jacks to a single 60w power supply that powers all three to avoid the losses of an additional 2 power supplies and this gets me the 8w idle power with Debian and throttling.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
They exposed the intranet RMA portal used by MSI customer reps to review RMA claims, customer communications and all the personal info of the customers. The portal has a nifty button to dump the whole database to a CSV file going back to 2017.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
This is so amazing on so many levels. Their faces are perfect. Well done.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
Thank you. I've been subscribed to this sub for months and didn't know a damn thing just that it consistently produced amusing content. Please proceed you glorious bastards.
czardestructo 2 months ago • 100%
I have a good chuckle every time I walk down the fertilizer isle of the home improvement store. 50 plus varieties of hyper special pot fertilizer that is totally better than miracle grow, they claim, for 5x the cost. What ever happened to three simple numbers on the bag?
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
Their point is use a small generator to power the gas heater where as a heat pump is 'impossible'.I mention a whole house battery is in my 5 year plan to which they laugh and say your house will burn down. I don't have the patience. I told them I'm an electrical engineer specialized in battery systems and to let me worry about the lithium fires. That shut him up fast.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
I live in a progressive state in the US and currently renovating a house. Holy crap they all fight me tooth and nail telling me what a horrible idea they are. Nothing but problems, always break, oh my goodness what if the power goes out, the grid cannot handle the load so don't do it. These old timers need to go away.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
I have so much trash on my network. For instance my security cameras are decentralized and we use tinycam on android to view them so I had to allow an exception for rtsp to get between the dirty iot WiFi and our normal WiFi. Our WiFi connected Bose speakers and Spotify is also another set of annoyance, they will only work if you try to connect to them from the same subnet via Spotify and app. I've tried to NAT the traffic and it didn't work.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
I feel attacked
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
It's going to haunt you for years. Wife: "why doesn't this iot thing work?" Oh its on the wrong network. "I don't understand it just doesn't work". Then I go add more exceptions in pfsense and the cycle continues.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
Or small regional banks! They called me once when I wrote a huge check for a contractor but forgot to move the money, nice lady at the bank said I had enough money it just wasn't in the right account and the check is going to bounce, she inquired if I wanted to move the funds so the check would clear. Yes please! Closed all my other bank accounts with other banks and never looked back.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
I didn't down vote you. I'm not saying all Chinese engineers are bad, I'm just saying a lot are bad or don't care enough about details just execution as fast and with as little effort as possible.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 85%
You haven't worked with a lot of Chinese engineers, have you? https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
I have a c920 and it's complete poop. Random hiccups and stutter and the auto focus fails.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
I got my first Gateway 2k Pentium pro in 1996 and upgraded from an Amiga 500 too! Wish I kept that computer but I did keep the CPU as a keepsake.
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
Want to come get it? There is no market for this stuff and I'm on a time crunch. I need this stuff out fast. There are a bunch of speakers and decks.
So I'm cleaning out a house and found a brand new Gateway2k Pentium 4 computer. Someone opened the boxes but never took the computer out, its all still in the plastic and I don't want to ruin the unboxing for someone that is into this. The computer is free to a good home in the Boston metro area to make your retro gaming dreams come true! Shoot me a message, first come, first served. P4 Computer - Gateway 2000 model 510 - part number 2800434 17" TFT Monitor - Gateway FPD1730 Speakers - Boston Acoustics BA745 Edit: Found a taker, hopefully it goes to it's forever home on Saturday! Edit edit: its gone!
czardestructo 3 months ago • 100%
I certainly remember seeing the second one on TV a lot when I was a kid.
Started the peppers in March and tomatoes in April. They were getting too big for my grow light so I evicted them outside. Plenty warm in the cold frame in Massachusetts. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b73d1757-c975-4b65-b65f-02f4aa3fef72.jpeg)
So I had a verbal conversation with a coworker yesterday and now I'm getting fed very specific ads. No possible way it's accidental. I have most of the microphone access to apps limited, I have Google assistant turned off and no VPA setup in my home. I use a Oneplus 9 pro, does anyone have recommendations on how to further root cause this or just par for the course for using any standard android OS? Have other folks had similar experience after locking down their stock phones?
[Action Video](https://www.lekatsas.us/user/pages/03.servers-and-code/05.raspberry-pis/04.chronos/VID20231226110534-trimmed.webm) For her birthday my daughter received a cuckoo clock. It had very limited programming for 'quiet hours' so I fiddled with it and ended up breaking it. I didn't want to disappoint her so I gutted it and proceeded to install a Pi Zero W and a headphone amplifier I had built. She now has a fully programmable, USB powered, linux based cuckoo clock where I can program it to whatever suites our needs and it syncs it's time with NTP severs. I even connected her night light to it which turns on at night and off to let her know when its time to get out of bed. This combination also allows us to have dance parties with flashing lights, a dancing bird and fun songs coming out of her cuckoo clock. It's ridiculous and eccentric but it makes us happy! ### Build * The Pi Zero's dont come with a sound output so [I built an audio output filter](https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-zero/audio-outputs) to convert the PWM output to an analog audio output * Connected the analog out to a OPA1642 based headphone amplifier[ I designed and built](https://www.lekatsas.us/hobbies/circuits/SCH-00000-00.pdf) * Wired up the cuckoo bird's coil actuator to a simple MOSFET drive circuit to control it from the Pi's weak GPIO output * Wired up some 5V string lights (used to be battery powered) to a simple MOSFET driver circuit to control it from the Pi's 3.3V GPIO output * Wrote some bash code to make the bird dance, the light flash and the cuckoo bird sounds play * All the scheduling and execution of the code is done clean and simple in crontab * I also have a text to speech engine verbally state the hour after the cuckoo action so my daughter can better learn to tell time by herself ### To re-map the audio to the PWM0 output of the Pi add to `/boot/config.txt` to remap the audio to the PWM0 and PWM1 pins of the pi. ``` # Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835) dtparam=audio=on #remaps the audio to the PWM0 and PWM1 pins (pins 18 and 13) dtoverlay=audremap,pins_18_19 ``` ## Code ### Cron Scheduling ``` @reboot /home/pi/startup.sh #cuckoo between 8am and 6pm, inclusive 0 8-18 * * * /home/pi/cuckoo.sh #turn on the night light at 6:15 pm 15 18 * * * echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio26/value #turn off the night light at 6:15 am 15 6 * * * echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio26/value ``` ### Startup Configuration for GPIO ```bash #!/bin/bash #setup the GPIO #"In order to use a GPIO pin through sysfs, we first have to “export” each one to make the appropriate paths available." echo "17" > /sys/class/gpio/export echo "26" > /sys/class/gpio/export #set direction echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio17/direction #cuckoo movement echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio26/direction #nightlight ``` ### Flashing Light Code ```bash #!/bin/bash i=1 while [ "$i" -le 3 ]; do #turning the GPIO on echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio26/value sleep 0.050 echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio26/value sleep 0.050 i=$((i + 1)) done ``` ### Cuckoo Code ```bash #!/bin/bash i=1 echo "Looping "$(date +%I)" times" while [ "$i" -le "$(date +%I)" ]; do aplay /home/pi/cuckoo.wav & #flash the lights three times quickly /home/pi/flash.sh & #turn on the cuckoo bird coil to make it bob down and flaps its wings echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio17/value sleep 0.300 #turn off the cuckoo bird coil so it sits back down echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio17/value sleep 0.700 i=$((i + 1)) done #Text to speech engine, speaks the current hour through the speaker #date + sed command below returns the hour, in 12 format, and the sed command removes the leading zeros espeak -v mb-en1 -s 120 "it is $(date +%I | sed 's/^0*//') oh clock" ```
Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!
Does anyone else have a Turbo Button™ on their router? My wifi router is in essentially attic space with no AC so it gets hot and acts up with connectivity issues. My turbo mode solves the problem.
"The paper, which the students wrote as part of an applied lab course, found that costs are diffused across a number of areas and involve things people don’t often consider. Beyond those for individual drivers, road maintenance, snow removal, and policing, there are less-obvious ones, such as those associated with added pollution, value of land set aside for parking lots, lost productivity from sitting in traffic, and various costs associated with injuries and deaths on the road. Using publicly available data, the authors put the annual public tab at $35.7 billion, which amounts to about $14,000 for every household in the state. Those that do own vehicles pony up an additional $12,000 on average in direct costs."
Found some tiny coffee plants while in Hawaii and thought they looked amusingly fake so I grabbed a picture.
Took a nice macro shot of a flower while vacationing in Hawaii awhile back.
I call this nonsense host ‘Ghost’, for me it’s similar to a tape backup solution. Fairly simple concept, it’s an old Pi1 + external mechanical drive that sits dormant with its ethernet off. Once a month, at a random time and random date it enables the ethernet, spins up the drive and pulls data from the main server to update its drive then goes black until next month. The only way to check or maintain the pi is a push button that toggles the ethernet interface. I slapped it together with some scrap wood, spare hardware and screwed it to a 2x4 in a dark corner of my basement. It’s my 5th string backup, the ultimate insurance policy because I’m mental.