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czardestructo

@ czardestructo @lemmy.world

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Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.

  • LinkedIn cap

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  • Spoken like a true MBA. I call this trash Buzz word salad.

  • arcane terminals

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  • At least she even comments. Mine just waves her hand in disgust. She knows it enables her whole technological life, but couldn't give a shit.

  • Uh...

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  • I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn't know what the hell it was doing but you just need to 'baby sit' it and you get useful scripts out of it. I'm a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.

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    Help diagnosing server freeze issue

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  • Check the power supply too. Those mini PCs just use a cheap laptop power brick and sometimes they can't sustain their full output anymore. I had one server constantly crash and once I swapped the power brick I never had a problem again.

  • Why do Americans pretend they're not broke when most Americans are in debt?

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  • Because those boomers who are broke were attempting to keep up with those who actually had money. I know a few examples...

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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.

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

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  • [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.

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    A WYSIWYG editor for personal website?

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  • I migrated from WordPress to Grav and love it. If you know markdown Grav is easy, efficient and FAST.

  • A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months

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  • I would like to say it was on purpose but it was not :( I might do math, spelling is not my forte.

  • A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months

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  • I guess remembering grade school order of operation means you're a guinus now? Bar has gotten pretty low...

  • Those of you that back your vehicle into parking spots, why do you do it?

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  • Americans avoid it like the plague for some reason. I always back in because I can look at the spot for objects or problems before I start backing in to ensure I dont hit anything. Backing out blind can be risky otherwise.

  • If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica

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  • Plus $1000 a year electric bill

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  • I just installed mine for the first time 4 days ago. I was excited, it worked, looked great. Then it cracked, in 4 days. I have no faith in screen protectors anymore.