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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This comment is underrated lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Very classy merc ๐Ÿ‘Œ

The owner clearly cares for that thing well - the finish, bodywork and chrome-like elements look absolutely immaculate

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait hold on - persistent notifications (where when you swipe, a settings cog icon appears) have been ripped out of A14? Everything disappears when you swipe?

Why ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Neat, thanks for the additional insight!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

fair point that I didn't consider! my assumption would be traffic, seeing as the toll is branded as "congestion pricing" - which wouldn't really make sense for motorcycles because they make up so little of the actual cause of traffic in NYC (large motor vehicles).

If we're talking about noise though, and how clean the engine burns fuel, motorcycles are 100% guilty as charged IMO.

Deaths and injuries is a little muddier because there are several factors at play, fault could lie on any individual involved in the accident, or maybe even the road design itself. I don't think these would be robust enough to use as the sole basis for a toll fee

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (60 children)

Sounds good overall, should reduce traffic levels significantly and make people consider whether they really need to drive their car in such a compact city.

Not sure if I agree with tolling motorcycles though, they don't take up anywhere near the same footprint as the average car

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dang, that thing is the bees knees!

Would make more sense to replace just the batteries rather than the whole unit IMO. Looks like it takes standard 12v 7Ah sealed lead acid batteries, so should be doable for under $120 (if you buy them individually and use the existing battery harness)

I have three other UPSes, but none of them are as good as yours lol:

  • APC SUA1500RM2U - was a great online rackmount unit, stopped using this a few years back because of its tendency to overcharge batteries without a charge controller ADC calibration mod. It wrecked my last battery pack bad ๐Ÿ˜ญ plan to convert it to LiFePo4 and put it back into service ๐Ÿคž
  • Zigor Ebro - cheap and cheerful line-interactive UPS for the modem, network switch and CCTV cameras. Switchover time is pretty much instantaneous, worth every cent paid and has kept my network up through many outages
  • Cyberpower UT650 - A temporary offline UPS to hold the server gear specifically until I get the APC back in service. Honestly not worth the cheap price, the switchover delay is long enough to shut off anything that's not a server PSU with massive bulk capacitors

Edit: fix bullet list formatting

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I agree here entirely.

The article is pretty much at fault here, as far as the bot is concerned if garbage goes in, garbage comes out

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nice, thanks for the link ๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Adobe is the one company i'd never, ever, ever want to support, especially with a subscription. ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ all day every day

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The tldr bot is pulling directly from the article - it used to use ChatGPT wayy back when it was originally created, but it got expensive for the creator, so now I believe it uses some sentence interpreter library to compare relevance of paragraphs, in combination with semantic HTML tags/markup.

The code for it is on GitHub

 

The Retro Lite CM4 is a passion project by two modders StonedEdge and Dmcke5, inspired by the Switch. This emulation handheld is based around the Raspberry Pi CM4 and RetroPie.

While sharing a very similar look to the Switch, this thing is been built from the ground up, with a custom machined shell, PCB, and various other components. There's an optional custom dock with an integrated LCD, that can show the current game's cover art.

Personally, I think this is absolutely impressive. Hats off to these guys!

Picture grabbed from the GitHub, which is also linked below

https://github.com/StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM4

 

A pretty comprehensive video by Hugh Jeffreys covering how Apple has been restricting repairability in their devices, even before 2012.

P.S. Apple's iPhones may be exempt from California's R2R bill, apparently they slipped an exemption in there for "waterproof portable devices" ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

 

I've been in need of a bench supply for a while, up to this point I've been using little buck/boost boards with a multimeter to get the voltage I want when working on a project. The limitations of that started to show though, so I was after a more ideal solution.

After spending a while looking at various power supplies, I happened to come across this tiny adjustable supply. After binging a bunch of videos on it, I decided it'll do, especially compared to the absolutely chonky big alternatives.

Right out the gate, the aluminium casing feels amazing, but they could do with a bit of a stronger adhesive holding the glass screen cover in-place ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ I'm personally not too bothered by this, but it doesn't set a good first impression IMO

A few seconds after pressing the glass back into place, the opposite end of the glass popped loose. At least I now know there are screws hidden under here if I ever decide to open this in future ๐Ÿ’ญ

Aside from that, it has pretty reasonable specs for the size:

  • Dual input, either AC (mickey ears plug) or DC 7-28v (XT60)
  • 30V 10A (max output 200W on DC, max 100W on AC)
  • Minimum output 1v 500mA
  • 65W USB PD output (handy for the Pinecil I recently ordered to replace my old iron ๐Ÿ˜)
  • 200x200 IPS display
  • AC input uses GaN parts

When watching the videos a few people complained about the absence of an XT60 to banana jack. This may have changed at some point, as one came with mine

The internal AC converter appears to supply 19V into the unit, which you can use via the XT60 connector at the rear. Not sure if intentional or not, but pretty neat nonetheless - as long as you dont accidentally leave a lipo plugged in there ๐Ÿ˜ณ

I'm not sure if its worth the price tag ($60-120 depending on where you look) when you can get a RuiDeng clone for under $30. I mainly jumped for this because of the size, integrated AC input, and that 65W USB-C. Voltage ripple is a little concern at lower voltages where some components may not be so forgiving...

Happy with the purchase so far though, can't wait to start using this for projects!

 

This is pretty neat IMO, and is provided by some other FUTO software called Polycentric, integrated into the grayjay app.

These devs have really hit above their weight, considering Nebula doesn't have social features built in, and the official app can feel a bit unintuitive sometimes

 

Never realised that quite a few third party mods for the deck are available - such as a transparent chassis, colourful buttons, and even an aftermarket APU cooler.

Linus pretty much pimps the heck out of the refurbished deck in this video.

The main downsides shown (aside from the difficult chassis swap) were the aftermarket chassis joystick tolerances being a bit tight, and the new HD screen increasing system power consumption by at least 10W - while also bringing a noticeable performance penalty, with ~37 FPS on the HD screen vs 60 FPS on the standard deck screen when playing F1

 

Louis Rossmann unveils Grayjay - a video client similar to Revanced and NewPipe, but shows your subscriptions from various video sites in a single feed.

Site: https://grayjay.app/
Source: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

The app is OSS but not Free, which I'm personally completely OK with.


Watch elsewhere: Invidious / piped link in comments

 

Welcome to 2023, where you can say hello to a jail cell for being signed in to Google... at the wrong place, at the wrong time


Watch elsewhere: Invidious / Piped link in comments

 

My old sandisk SATA ssd was starting to get really slow for some reason. The SMART data and the sandisk SSD dashboard app were saying the SSD was healthy, but its performance wasn't anywhere near what it was when brand new.

When benchmarked, it was all over the place with looong access times:

Sooo I decided to take the opportunity to upgrade the SSD to something faster - ended up grabbing a Transcend 512GB drive, with onboard DRAM

There were two problems though:

  • My motherboard doesn't support NVMe (at least officially)
  • My only available PCIe slot is an x1/single lane

After researching, I realised that the single PCIe lane would still give me almost 1GB/s in real world usage - even though its far from the 3GB/s the drive is rated for, it's double the speed of SATA and it's worlds apart from my Sandisk ssd lol.

Ordered an NVMe to PCIe adapter, and proceeded to chop up my PCIe slot to make it fit:

PCMR NSFW

It took a while since I don't own a dremel ๐Ÿคช

Once that was done, I kapton taped up the exposed metal bits on the NVMe adapter, that could short on a mobo heatsink nearby.

In it goes!! (The GPU went in after the pic lol)

After re running the benchmarks, OMG the speed difference is insane, although it's limited by that single PCIe lane.

I was caught off guard by something else though. After cloning my existing install to the new NVMe SSD, it booted right up, with the original Sandisk drive gone. My BIOS does not even recognise the NVMe drive as a disk drive, and there are no settings anywhere in there for it.

BIOS person, thank you whoever you are, you saved me needing to do more jank to get my unsupported NVMe drive working!

I am more than happy so far with the dramatic speed increase compared to the SATA drive. I can now actually shut down my desktop when I'm not using it ๐Ÿฅฒ

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/4255839

Hmmm

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/4255839

Hmmm

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Waiting on the bus... bike? (images2.imgbox.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Picture of a bus stop, where a separated bike lane runs straight through the space a bus driver is expected to pull in to

Edit: Added description

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