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calcifer :nes_fire:calcifer@masto.hackers.town
2025-07-31

Kid2: they have health potions but not mental-health potions

Me: uh, coffee??

Kid1: that’s just haste with a side of anxiety

2025-07-24

am i being paranoid and reading this wrong or are bluesky (or their contractor) retaining indefinitely all the data they collect for age verification?
kidswebservices.com/en-US/priv
#bluesky

screenshot of part of the above linked text about data collected
2025-07-24

why is shopping for simple hair care products multiple orders of magnitude harder than shopping for electronics components? where are the datasheets? meowwww

2025-07-24

@saraislet i did not know about that book before seeing your post. i have been out of work for a year cos too burned out.

2025-07-24

@dannyjpalmer yea but it's never one bad password or one employee, it's systematic failure and a weak password was the last straw

2025-07-24

@saraislet halp it me

2025-07-22

i have had this LED tester for years but only just realised the current markings printed on the front of the box bear no relationship to what it actually does...
across the top it claims:
2*2ma 2*5ma 3*10ma 4*20ma 2*30ma
but actually:
3*6ma 3*13ma 5*25ma 2*38ma

like not even the number of options or how they are arranged matches lol

typical aliexpress led tester, small box with a number of header sockets for inserting LEDs and different slot groups are marked with different current options.the main PCB showing the SMD resistors for each test slot.
2025-07-14

what did that google pixel 6a battery capacity change software update actually do to my phone...? oh heck
#pixel6a

screenshot of my phone's battery capacity in amp hours in grafana over last 50 days.  peak capacity drops from around 4ah to 3ah.
2025-07-11

i call this project "the bundle of features i want in the vicinity of my TV". i am sure the pcb has various issues and i have not really tested all the ideas... but it will probably work ok? it was probably not worth spending this long on anyway heh. it's mostly for practice.
#pcb #kicad

kicad 3d renders of a small PCB, sorry not sure how to meaningfully describe it.
2025-07-11

@cccpresser thanks for explaining! kicad is doing great here, it's my just guessing as i go along that is mostly the issue. and if "SOP-4" and such is more a vibe than a standard then yea not much that can be done...
i am just going to wait till all the parts arrive, print the design on paper, and see if everything seems to vaguely line up :)

i guess if i was being very wish-list; maybe the footprint preview could show a 3d simulation of a component on it that the user can scale/adjust to see how well it matches? but that would still be a lot of assumptions and guessing

2025-07-11

@janamarie yea... as a very beginner getting most of my components cheap with only vague details proved, i am rarely confident i am actually looking at the correct datasheet lol

2025-07-11

modern electronics is trying to work out why are there 3 versions of "SOP-4" in KiCad and if any of them actually match what you just ordered from aliexpress... (and none of the datasheets you can find ever explicitly mention that chip coming in SOP-4, just a dimensions diagram that does not seem match any of these)
#kicad #pcb

screenshot of footprint assigner in KiCad showing 3 different entries for "SOP-4" with different dimensions.
2025-07-06

@lukegb none of them?

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2025-07-06

Age 7: princess phase

Age 17: no, I am SMART and INDEPENDENT and LIKE VIDEO GAMES, I'm not like those other girls

Age 27: *weary sigh* so patriarchy deliberately singles out tomboys for a condescending pat on the head to reinforce the idea that any woman who embraces femininity is inherently inferior, which only serves to further–

Age 37: princess phase

2025-07-06

02:00 thoughts that turned out surprisingly useful: most kitchens come with a Faraday cage for 2.4 GHz

2025-07-05

@flamingspork mmm and it feels very relatable

2025-07-05

@flamingspork loved the storytelling via todo lists :3

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Preston Austingl33p
2025-07-05

“Endless, endless fake enthusiasm from people all trying to convince each other to buy into their boilerplate box of nothing.”

eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-ris

2025-06-30

taking votes on what the standardised food would be for energy efficiency calculations for air fryers

2025-06-30

a Very rough estimate says that it will take ~400 cycles of cooking something for 15 minutes for a £100 air fryer to pay for itself in energy savings vs my oven. 500 cycles if it's 1h of cooking.

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