https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

I have heard, but have trouble finding references to it, that you can build a simple arbitrary waveform generator circuit by using an analog scope, a photodiode, and a cardboard cutout.

You make a photodiode circuit that rails high with no light, but light on the photodiode pushes the signal low. Then you aim this at the phosphor screen with a cardboard cutout of the desired waveform: signal goes up until the phosphor trace is above the screen, and then it gets pushed low (i.e., feedback keeps the trace right on the edge of the cardboard).

Never seen it in action, but I choose to believe it works beautifully :)

Fare from Mars back to Earth should always be free.

“Can the US lose in a way that allows the crazies in office to save face in their eyes?” seems an important question to me. Because if the options are the US clearly losing vs. the US clearly losing but nuking Iran so everyone loses…

I wonder if there’s a legal difference between companies adding a tariff line item to the invoice vs. just raising prices (not that there’s a moral difference IMHO).

Not sure “asshole” is right for Torvalds…maybe there’s another word to describe him…

(See the last bit in Notable Usage.)

“…I really don’t want to have to wipe the thing because it’s running a headless OS”

I feel like logging in as root on a headless system and hoping you type the command(s) to restore functionality is a rite of passage.

Lemmy, you’re absolutely right to be concerned about a gunshot wound — GSW for short — to the head! Let’s dig in a little more and see why this isn’t as bad as it sounds:

• The brain is in the head, and this is where thinking happens — but thinking isn’t required to sustain life, so it’s relatively safe to ignore this type of injury.
• The brain has no pain receptors, so this type of injury typically doesn’t hurt.
• Seeking medical attention for minor injuries such as a GSW to the head takes away valuable medical resources from more important procedures, such as penile enlargement surgery.

I hope that clarifies things. Would you like more information on the topic?

AWS was recently “having issues” due to the Iran situation — same thing I wonder?

After reading a few of these I feel like I was either a very boring grad student, or my professors were all very chill. (Or maybe just subject to male privilege.)

A few run-ins with IT, but I don’t think I ever got nasty letters from professors…

Obligatory jwz take on webp.

…or is it about an hour from damn time? I can never remember.

I’ve been pleased with it. Family is very relaxed about projects like this, but yeah it’s low power draw. I don’t think I have anything special set up but the right thing to do for power would be to spin down drive when not in use, as power is dominated by the spinning rust.

Uptime is great. Only hiccups are that it can choke when compiling the ZFS kernel modules, triggered on kernel updates. It’s an rpi 3/1GB RAM (I keep failing at forcing dkms to use only 1 thread, which would probably fix these hiccups 🤷).

That said, it is managed by me, so sometimes errors go unnoticed. I had recent issues where I missed a week of rsync because I switched from pihole to technitium on my home server and forgot to point the remote rpi there. This would all have been fixed with proper cron email setup…I’m clearly not a professional :)

Not the same, but for my Immich backup I have a raspberry pi and an HDD with family (remote).

Backup is rsync, and a simple script to make ZFS snapshots (retaining X daily, Y weekly). Connected via “raw” WireGuard.

Setup works well, although it’s never been needed.

Breda are retired/retiring soon.

I think at least some of the vintage streetcars live there too (assuming that’s Balboa)!

Historically, does the youngest generation have the least amount of disposable income? As in, older generations (e.g., Millennials) are “family aged” so may need housing for a family instead of one/a couple.

In my 20s and early 30s I didn’t make much money yeah, but I had basically zero expenses other than food and shelter. With kids…oh boy. Daycare alone costs way more than my salary in grad school.

I wonder, legally, if there is a difference between the companies that simply raised prices, and the ones who kept the price the same but added another line item to the invoice that covered the tariff.

IANAL, but for the former, it seems like the company may be entitled to keep the money (of course it’s morally wrong). For the latter though, it seems like maybe (???) there’s some stronger legal pressure on the companies.

Or not. But at least CAH is doing the right thing, as others have pointed out!

Link(s) in post contain punctuation and break, at least on my client. Here’s the codeberg link (working);

https://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor

Indeed. The quoted passage made it sound like this was unique naval terminology, as opposed to standard nautical terminology. It’s not wrong, I just thought it was worded peculiarly.