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XTL, to science_memes in Pigeons

“Quack, damn you”

XTL, (edited ) to memes in They said wake me up at 6 AM

You won’t get more than a few mA out of an alkaline, but heat does build up. (Internal resistance)

A NiMH on the other and can give over 10 amps. They’re a seriously risky thing to leave around loose metal bits. Or attached to thin wires.

XTL, to privacy in Media Backups

I don’t nas, but I suggest a combination of offline drives, cloud services or remote hosts, and just ignoring data that is easy to recreate like builds and software installs.

The key is to keep the data organized in such a way that you know which parts deserve which strategy.

XTL, to privacy in Anonymous phone number

In a lot of places, a prepaid is just something you can buy, cash, in a shop. No papers please.

XTL, (edited ) to asklemmy in What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?

Hyperion cantos. Ilium/Olympos. Lovecraft’s dream cycle.

On one hand it’s a risk that there would just be some terrible version that ruins all public things connected with the name, but on the other hand there could be something fantastic.

I guess sandman is already off the list. Haven’t seen the results though.

Another big risk in adaptations is that, like Peter Jackson’s Lott, it will make it very unlikely that someone else would come up and do it better after a big enough attempt.

XTL, to linux in Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate

Me too. I’ve run 30 years with ext and bsd filesystems with no failure. Many years with various UNIX native fs as well. But Linux xfs, reiserfs, btrfs all have resulted in catastrophic failure within a year on several machines. They’re permanently off my list, but I have some hope that someone will get a new fs right.

XTL, to linux in Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate

I really hope it would be a working one, not like xfs where your files may just disappear with no trace (never on Irix, never on any other fs) or like btrfs which may just suddenly go read only and be dead on reboot with no fsck and all data unreachable.

How hard is it to get the basics right? Doesn’t matter how much rice there is if it keeps blowing up.

XTL, to asklemmy in What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?

It does take some time to get going and a few stories are pretty dense. But it’s also a good re-read, especially after reading some notes about the things you missed the first time around. There’s a crazy amount of detail and characters.

The artwork is also legendary, of course.

XTL, to historyporn in Stockholm on 'H-Day', when Sweden swapped from driving on the left-side of the road to the right, 1967

I’m guessing H is for höger?

XTL, to memes in But cat domesticated us

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_cat

Indeed. I’m a little disappointed that wp doesn’t mention that other than in the naming and talk.

A link from there:

www.newyorker.com/tech/…/are-cats-domesticated

XTL, to mildlyinteresting in This fast food order kiosk accepts cash

And if you live in an even remotely functioning society that’s a bad part that’ll never happen unless you deliberately refuse help.

XTL, to mildlyinteresting in This fast food order kiosk accepts cash

I’m thinking of printing some calling cards with the title of Ornamental Hermit.

Or does one just put up a sign?

XTL, to askelectronics in How to solve power supply whine with continuous dimming LED?

It might be doing the PWM in software somehow, making it useless for this kind of control.

You could see if there’s some other class or library or option or particular pin that can use a pulse generator or timer to do PWM instead.

I’m not really familiar with the exact environment but that’s just what comes to mind.

XTL, to askelectronics in Is “harvesting” small amounts of electricity a fools errand?

www.iloq.com for example does a lot of parasitic energy stuff. Most of the advertised things now seem to be RFID, but I think they also had locks that are powered by the key insertion.

There’s plenty of places where infrastructure power is not available and a flat battery would be a disaster. Door lock is one mundane one. Space is one more extreme one.

XTL, to askelectronics in Is “harvesting” small amounts of electricity a fools errand?

I’ve heard teachers telling the same story, but so it happened locally in a different country entirely. Sounds like a scare legend.

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