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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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  • Turned my old headphones into wireless headphones

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  • Is the sound quality any good? I bought one of those cheap BT audio jack's one time for a similar project and the audio was tinny and laggy and made the whole idea a complete bust.

  • 3 Stars!

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  • Nevermind, I reloaded and I see it's now an image post.

    Also, now I understand what I'm seeing on the web page. The first comic strip I see is kind of a banner, but only shows the middle part of the comic it is using. The actual post with the comic strip is down a page and then it is an image which you can drag/scroll left and right.

  • 3 Stars!

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  • It seems like a css/HTML issue on the website

  • [Meta] Questionable Content is currently down. "Hacked and blown up." 😔

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  • Jeez, that comic is still around? I haven't read it in like 15 years.

  • 3 Stars!

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  • The layout seems broken for me on mobile, anyone else seeing this?

  • I love the smell of Uncle Owen in the morning!

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  • So say we all that this is the way

  • xkcd: A Bunch Of Rocks

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  • XKCD should be posted with the title text/tool tip.

  • A suspected YouTube interface bug  spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping browsers in an endless layout loop

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  • Does a thing like crowd-sourcing ram work?

    No.

    Is it a thing?

    No.

    This would probably be the symptoms though, yeah?

    No.

    You seem very confused about what RAM is and what's happening here. You seem to think that RAM is something you make on your computer. It's a physical part of your computer that you load information into.

    Imagine you're sitting at a desk in an office. The desk has little shelves where you can put documents you're working on. You can only put a small number of files there. The office has filing cabinets where other files are kept that you're not working on. You can store a lot in there but it takes time to go find it. You also have some special filing cabinets that are still slow but you only use it to store files temporarily that someone brings you from another office, or when you run out of space on your desk but still need to keep files handy.

    In this analogy, the shelves on the desk is RAM. You only put the stuff you're immediately working on in those shelves because of the limited space, but it's really fast to find stuff compared to the filling cabinets, which are your hard drive. When you go on a website, like YouTube, you're calling someone in an office in another building and asking them for some files. They send over a bunch of files, which takes a really long time. You put a much as possible in your desk shelves to use right now, but anything that doesn't fit you put in one of those special filing cabinets, which will call the cache, which is slow, but not nearly as slow as waiting for the files to come from the other office. When you're ready for the extra files from YouTube, you just grab them from the cache.

    What's happening in this problem with youtube is that you request the files from them, they send them over, along with instructions on how to use them. The instructions say something that requires putting a bunch of things in RAM. At first this is normal. But at some point the instructions start repeating and tell you to put more and more files into RAM, maybe even repeats of files you already have there, shouldn't need again. But you just follow instructions, that's your job. So you keep loading things into RAM, but then there's no room left and your system falls apart and you can no longer do any work. Until you close youtube and chuck all the youtube files out of RAM.

    Hopefully that makes it clear why you can't outsource RAM. Essentially you would be putting your little desk shelves in a different office, but we already have a better solution than that: the cache or special local filing cabinet on your hard drive.

    What we outsource normally is the hard drive (filing cabinets) and call it cloud storage (for example), and the creation and processing of information (done by the CPU, GPU, or other chips on your computer) and call it cloud computing (for example). That's because those things are slow, and the extra time to move the files between offices isn't necessarily the bottleneck.

  • You need to secure a load onto trailer using just plain rope and then untie it later without using a knife - how screwed are you?

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  • This deserves a post in YouTubeClassics

  • In case of 86-47

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  • Yeah...

    <blinks>

  • In case of 86-47

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  • Well how's it untypical?

  • i ❤️ my puter

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  • I believe if there is a heaven and I end up there, I'll be surrounded by computers I can play with on end without anyone bothering me. If there's a hell and I end up there, I'll be surrounded by people who need help with their computer.

  • Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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  • Yeah, fair. I was thinking "produce more" in general, too.

  • Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

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  • Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances

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  • Stand up maths (Matt Parker) did a video on this bug I think.

    I can't tell what the latest update is when glancing at this page.

  • Help! Where to buy replacement wires?

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  • As others have mentioned, all you need to do is replace the connector where the red wire broke off. Since this piece isn't strictly necessary for printing, you can use it for a learning moment if you've never done anything like that before.

    Don't tell anyone I told you but if you look for videos on how those connectors work, you can probably figure out how to keep using the existing connector and just remove the old bit of broken off red wire and reconnect the main part of the wire.

  • Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?

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  • Maybe you're presenting the wrong end.

  • Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?

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  • Have you tried getting naked and flopping down on your back beside him?

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  • Yes, and requests for those features get ignored in the competitors' forums.

    Sub-tile icon/widget placement, I'm looking at you!