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2024-07-10 05:15:42 GMT

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Dunno what they're called. They're what creates the fake flame flicker in "candle" light bulbs. Ridiculously tiny chips.

2024-07-10 05:11:15 GMT

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The flame chips are literally a miniaturized, semiconductor version of this.

2024-07-10 05:04:06 GMT

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Noise is the hard part, since it comes from random, unreliable places. Put your circuit too close to an extension cord and it will start looking a lot like a 60hz sine wave. Power it by a switch mode power supply and it'll look a lot like a ~40kz pwm signal. etc...

2024-07-10 03:53:37 GMT

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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003475650154.html
Have an arduino flash them however you want. If you haven't messed with electronics in 20 years, then a hardware solution will likely become an exercise in frustration.

2024-06-30 05:00:32 GMT

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The old ones, of course. But everything new should be in space. Even radio telescopes. Especially radio telescopes.

2024-06-30 04:55:54 GMT

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Not a single penny more should be spent building ground-based telescopes by anyone ever.

2024-06-15 02:56:01 GMT

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Better than paying, $216m could buy a lot of FPV drones should the EU try any more shit on them.

2024-06-12 05:40:11 GMT

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Outsourcing. They shipped everything overseas and pocketed the savings. Would't have been so bad if they passed on the savings, but they didn't.

2024-06-12 04:51:54 GMT

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Lol, like we could do anything at all against a disease spread by *birds*. They gonna lock down the birds?

2024-06-07 02:31:38 GMT

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Install Gentoo. It's rapidly becoming the only usable distro.

2024-06-06 00:45:23 GMT

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Until the rest of the globe catches on and all that money rubber-bands back faster than any third-world shithole could possibly print.

2024-05-31 05:05:56 GMT

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pcmanfm was the only reasonable file manager until it got abandoned or forked or whatever. It's ridiculous that such a basic application is so fucking hard for anyone to get right and then not fuck up.

2024-05-24 07:14:26 GMT

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I lived in Mexico for half of it. People sort of gave it lipservice. They seemed to believe the news, but also they didn't really care too much. They'd wear masks under their nose or chin all the time. Lots of places didn't enforce the mandates out of apathy. Eventually they just started ignoring the government and going about their normal lives, so the government just gave up pretending to have control.
Supposedly a bunch of people got jabbed, but I wouldn't be surprised if the injections were fake or mishandled. Embezzlement is rampant; no doubt there were doctors selling the real jabs on the black market then giving out saline solution to patients. And certainly the vials were not kept at the right temperature, even the ones that were real. I also wouldn't be surprised if there were doctors who pretended to give out tons of jabs in order to get money somehow, but actually just dumped them on the side of the road.

2024-05-24 06:45:22 GMT

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Too many wars for people to care. And if the West falls for it again, the East will start taking what they want.

2024-05-23 06:50:47 GMT

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Taiwan should have bought some nukes and ICBMs off somebody. They have the money.

2024-05-04 06:15:59 GMT

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> I don't think I'll make it to the year mark before doing a fresh install, though.
I don't usually even run emerge --sync that often. 😅

2024-05-04 06:13:13 GMT

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It's just that seeing them be old reminded me that I'm old. 😭

2024-05-04 06:11:24 GMT

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I'm too old....