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hereiamagain

@ hereiamagain @sh.itjust.works

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  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • I have FB for marketplace a couple times a year, I don't install the app unless I'm buying something.

    I watch a LOT of educational YouTube, and some tech news on there, using GrayJay.

    Otherwise, this is it.

    Used to have insta years ago.

    I guess I technically have Marco Polo, but it's literally my immediate family only 🤷‍♂️ and that's more chat app than social media.

    Edit: oh and discord for the couple of friends who use it. Plus I'm on a couple of servers for my hobbies, very specific, I hardly look at them unless I'm active in a given hobby at that moment.

  • A schoolbus, stopping in front of a residential home, is rear ended by a full size truck

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  • Probably on his phone

  • Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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  • I'm in this same boat. Right now jellyfin just isn't close enough.

    I was at a buddies house last week, he uses jellyfin. We were having weird decoding issues, pink/purple flashes that looked like HDMI desync.

    Resetting/reseating etc etc anything on the TV did nothing. Had to restart his server then it was magically fine 🤔

    I'm fine dealing with that kind of stuff occasionally, but my family is not capable.

  • Those that sleep in bed with a significant other, how do you deal with snoring?

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  • "honkshoo mimimimi"

    I heard this in my head perfectly, nicely done

  • Steampunk looking lamp :)

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  • No worries, glad I could help.

    I understand the frustration, I've had people do the same thing to me, make assumptions about what I was doing, putting words in my mouth and impugning my motives.

    Text is hard to convey proper emotion, and even harder when you've got a bunch of people only typing half of their thought 🤷‍♂️

    As for the design change, I honestly don't know. It's not actually my area of expertise, I just know enough to know what not to do.

    I do know that the highest risk is in the connections themselves. A pair of insulated wires are unlikely to ever be an issue on their own, but where you connect the wires to the wiring of the house is the real issue.

    Connections can loosen over time, through temp cycling or whatever reasons. And when they loosen, resistance goes up, and heat is generated.

    So if it were my project, I'd probably try to find a small round electrical box that fits inside the decorative one. Either metal or the proper plastic. And then make those connections inside that box, and call it good enough.

    Maybe make sure the edges of the pipe are smooth where the wires enter them, too, so the insulation doesn't get shaved off when you're moving it around.

    Otherwise I really do like the project! Looks great! I hope you come up with a solution you're comfortable with 👍

  • Steampunk looking lamp :)

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  • Listen man, you do what you want. I've done some sketchy stuff myself.

    Most people don't care that it's illegal, heck most people on here are pirates anyway.

    People care about you, and they want you to understand the danger of what you're doing.

    Most of them aren't judging you, I'm certainly not.

    Will using PLA for a light enclosure definitely cause a fire? Probably not. The odds are very low. In fact the odds are very low that normal wiring in a normal enclosure will overheat. You'll likely never see it.

    The problem is the what if. The chance. IF the wiring shorts out, overheats, whatever. A normal enclosure might contain it completely. Or at worst it will resist catching on fire, and fill your house with smoke first, giving you time to realize what's happening and save your life.

    PLA will do neither of those things. It will in fact do the opposite. So in the admittedly rare chance that your wiring falls, and gets hot, PLA will actually readily ignite. And then, worse, it WILL drip flaming plastic onto the floor, causing it to spread immediately and without warning.

    Your time to notice a fire and save yourself goes from minutes to seconds. It's potentially the difference from waking up to a smoke alarm and a smokey house, to waking up to a smoke alarm and a wall of fire blocking your only exit.

    I'm not trying to be extreme, it's just the facts. That's why people say codes are written in blood. The wrong plastics have been used before, and people have died, so now in many lands it's a law.

    No one is making you follow the law. They just want you to be informed, so that if you choose to continue, you do so without ignorance to the risks.

    I wish you well.

    Edit:

    Now, if you changed the configuration of the lamp, if you put all the AC wiring and DC conversion circuits in a metal enclosure, and then ran low voltage wiring to low voltage bulbs, that would be still unwise, but significantly safer.

    The concern is that AC circuits, while only using enough power to run a lamp in this scenario, have access to more than enough power to run a space heater. If your AC wiring becomes a space heater in your ceiling, nothing will stop it, and PLA will make it worse 🤷‍♂️

  • Steam Controller is Out of Stock*

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  • That's true, that should just work. I guess I just hate the dongle life haha.

    But that's no fault of the deck or the controller. I'm just glad it has Bluetooth backup. Options are nice.

  • Steam Controller is Out of Stock*

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  • That's fair

  • Steam Controller is Out of Stock*

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  • Bummer. But full features otherwise?

    Depending on how much lag, I could deal with that

  • Steam Controller is Out of Stock*

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  • Does it pair directly to the steam deck? Without the puck?

  • Steam Controller is Out of Stock*

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  • Am I the only one who doesn't really want one? I mean, I'd try it, sure, but like.. eh?

    And I do like some controller games, I have a handful of 8bitdo controllers.

  • Pc kept powering off/bootloopinghoping this fixes it.

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  • Impressive! Yeah micro soldering makes me sweaty and frustrated 😬

  • Moving to Linux, need help about homelab distro

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  • This is the way

  • Everything is relative

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  • I was gonna complain about my $4k bill for a heart checkup, but uh.. you win.

  • What was your "we have to leave now" moment?

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  • Excellent read, highly recommend.

    The sequel was a bit meh, but required reading I'd say

  • Valve Says It's 'Hard at Work' on Steam Deck 2, but There's Still No Release Window

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  • I'm not OP. But I think I share his sentiment.

    You obviously know a lot about this stuff, I do not.

    I'm excited for FEX, because even though some games can technically be played on arm right now, and even though you say it's easy to convert (I have no idea), the fact is nobody is doing it 🤷‍♂️

    I understand Valve did a lot of work to make gaming not only possible on Linux, but in some cases preferable.

    From a layman's non-software-developer perspective, regardless of how much actual effort is required by Valve... I hope that FEX will shift the industry as aggressively as proton did. I hope that gaming on arm becomes no big deal, easy to do with a click, and preferable in some cases. Whereas right now, it's not that easy or performant, as I understand.

    So I guess.. I'm just excited, that's all 🤷‍♂️

  • Rip lol

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  • Delta-P

  • Brussels will require all phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 – and use USB-C chargers

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  • Same. And even further, I kept a spare with me for awhile. And I bought a giant tumor battery and modified back cover to make it slick. Worked great.

    That was my Galaxy Note, the OG. I miss that phone. People would stop me to ask about it because it was so big.

  • Anon makes sacrifices for the family

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  • That's fair, and probably true in her case honestly.