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I'm a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

  • Do not remove my spam

    If I want to find something, I'll look for it.

    Don't dump a truckload of unsolicited information in my inbox/workflow/field of view.

    Otherwise you're as bad as door to door religious folks. Oh yes, I've heard about Jesus, thanks. Now let me get back to what I was actually doing a few minutes ago before you begged for my attention.

  • "508 Resource Limit Is Reached"

    How apt

  • I have MX Linux on a 14 year old Dell Laptop.

    Works great because it's got a lightweight desktop, and it has a tool (a GUI tool even!) that seamlessly merges the last available Nvidia 340 drivers for my GPU into the latest kernel. Parked at the desktop with no desktop apps running, it uses about 800MB of ram, leaving 15 GB left for whatever I need to run. Which I have found is plenty for my use case, I've never seen swap in use.

    The MX tools are good, like everyone else has been saying here. They take away a lot of the fiddly business associated with the average "sysadmin" things that an end user needs to do.

  • That's a phase change triggered by a seed crystal (generated from a physical shock from the 'clicker') where the transition from liquid to solid phases returns the latent heat that was previously added to turn it from solid to liquid.

    There is no phase change in this material, it remains a solid and changes temperature depending on how much pressure is applied to it.

  • Our monkey-brain has put millions of years of evolution into a vision system designed to pick up 3d cues from our environment so we can use our fine motor skills to manipulate small objects. It's a fantastic piece of wetware that uses shading and colours to pick up 3d hints about the objects we deal with daily and - once you're a few years old - it's completely automatic and requires no effort to use.

    And then we remove all the 3D cues and skeuomorphic hints from our computer systems so that now the previously subconscious "monkey-click-button" process is now a foreground task where cognitive energy is burned up to identify the correct UI element to manipulate.

    I should be able to shift the mouse pointer and click a UI element out of the corner of my eye. I shouldn't be required to look at and then parse a 'flat' UI to determine if this element is a button or just a panel with text. GUI elements should map to recognisable physical objects wherever possible, and where they are more abstract (eg wifi icons) they should be clearly distinguishable from others in the icon set. You're burning up cognitive energy needlessly otherwise, and that's why I dislike the monochromatic new age UI/icon sets.

  • Have you seen some of the stuff at Adafruit?

    A lot more DIY but a wide variety of stuff. I had a MagTag unit from them that ran for a few months at a time off a 1000mAh battery with hourly display updates over wifi.

  • "If these trends continue..... Eyyyyy!"

  • BYD vehicles all rate 5 stars in the Australian ANCAP ratings as well.

    The "Chinese vehicles aren't safe" thing is just fear mongering these days or, more generously, a misapplication of their micro vehicle standards for low speed urban use to ordinary passenger vehicles.

  • How

    the FUCK

    can a single datacentre cost

    TWENTY SEVEN BILLION

    dollars?

  • The nighttime sky is not the same. You see different constellations in summer than you do in winter.

    The stars appear above the horizon about 4 minutes later each day. There are stars at your particular latitude that are always visible (they never set), and they appear to rotate around the celestial pole. If you took note of their positions carefully at a particular time of night, you would see that they end up being 180 degrees opposite where they were 6 months previous.

    If you're talking about the pattern of stars shifting against the more distant background of stars (star parallax), when the earth is at opposite sides of the sun, this is measurable by observatories for stars within a hundred light years or so but the angular change quickly becomes very small and the universe is very big.

  • In litres and MJ because SI units make it easy:

    Approximately 34 megajoules per litre for petrol/gasoline.

    50 litres filling up in 4 minutes = 1.25 litres/second pumping rate. lol don't do calculations before coffee, let's just say you've got a hi-flow pump doing 1l/sec.

    1 litre/second x 34MJ per litre = 34 MJ/second.

    1 watt = 1 joule per second, so:

    An average fill up runs at about 34 megawatts.

  • I flew out this morning for work and I was wondering what that brown haze was over the city.

  • I'd not recommend it to anyone who can't tell the difference between "wifi" and "internet".

  • You won't get far with that kind of thing in Australia. We have no land borders with other countries so the "natural" blending of currencies with nearby countries at border cities doesn't happen. Nobody has a good idea of what a euro or US dollar looks like, and you'll likely just get told to go get it exchanged for AUD.

  • You still get all the same free stuff.They're charging for some new additional features.

    This is standard enshittification.

    1. Introduce a new premium tier, with "cool shit", whatever that might be. Free tier still allows you to do all the stuff you did before.

    2. Wait a period of time, about 6 to 12 months usually, to get the users used to the fact that the free tier is still the same as usual. Tinker with the premium tier a little to make it sound like awesome shit is happening there and everyone should get on it.

    3. Degrade the free tier, usually by adding "sponsored content" i.e. ads, or dropping features so that genuinely useful stuff only becomes available in premium tier. Pitch this as "maintaining quality for our increasing user base" or some bullshit.

    4. Ratchet up pricing for the premium tier, reduce/enshittify features in the free tier.

    5. Repeat from step 3 until your userbase migrates to the Next Hot Thing and your product sinks into irrelevancy.

  • There is no need to mindlessly update this application, it's been stable and full of enough actual features for some time now.

    Get the 8.1.6 apk from uptodown.com. it's the last update before enshittification occurred.

    And then find the app in your installed app list in Google Play and untick "install updates automatically" in the three dot menu.

  • Now there's something you don't see every day

  • need to run every inch in conduit is goofy.

    It's to limit the risk of mechanical damage. As an auto electrician, no way would I accept runs of unprotected battery cables (that is, only with their PVC insulation) in a fixed install. Too much shit can go wrong over the 10 year lifespan of these setups.

    On a big battery system you need 150+ amps of fault current before the DC breakers even think about tripping. At 48 volts that's burn-your-garage-down territory if you get a nail or a shovel edge or a rat nibble across your cables that "only" pulls a hundred amps.