Bananasplit_00

Grayjay?

Idk about the latest stuff but I still have a Canon AE-1 and a A-1 that both work perfectly and they are like.... 50 years old?

29 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

I dont know, some are saying its impossible, very hard, without qmk via on a 60.. and its making me nervous

That sounds misinformed and weird

I mean QMK is very nice to have but if you can type all the letters and numbers and brackets you are good. Especially for python, it's famously not weird character soup

11 minutes ago, da na said:

Are companies too fucking cheap to put a 5400RPM laptop hard drive in a cable box anymore? 

See that costs *something* instead of nothing so that is reducing profit

8 hours ago, hishnash said:

In the end Siri like workloads are best done on device given your want low latency and you have so many possible devices that could be making requests that doing this server side would just cost a small fortune.   Just piping Siri to a cloud based LLM would have so many downsides from a load perspective since the Siri load is likly has lots of spikes throughout the day, and you cant pipe requests half way round the world to have a single server handle that load due to massive added latency so you would end up with a lot of compute spread out around the world with much of it only be used at peak times for that timezone. 

Being able to do as much as possible locally on the device, even possibly letting that on device model figure out how to query remove data sources (even remote LLMs) would filter out most of this load... it would be a huge wast of $ to have an huge cloud based LLM handle people adding groceries to thier shopping list, or tuning on and off lights in the house (this sort of things makes up most of the Siri requests)... people are not asking Siri to write them a 100 page essay. 

"Hey Siri, turn off the lights"

*phone catches fire*

Only thing I can think off is using some finishing compound for car paint. Might work, it's ment to remove what's left after cutting which is what you did with the paper towel kinda

17 hours ago, PacketAuditor said:

The UIDs and keys can all be updated! And if EMV gets approved, any payment cards will be tokenized much like Google/Apple pay, and are objectively better than a traditional card with just static data.

Neat, then it's mostly my phobia for needles that's getting in the way of me getting one

17 hours ago, PacketAuditor said:

Haha, there actually are some people who install magnets in their tragus, the little flap in front of the ear. While they can't hear the radio you can hear power supplies, chargers, power stations, etc.

Personally I like fingertip sensing magnets and think they're a little more useful.

That sounds awful, I can already hear most powersupplies coil whine along with tinnitus

Got pretty close to doing the small magnet in my finger some years back but the primary source of the magnets was ebay and I wasn't old enough to drink so I'd have absolutely nothing decent for painkillers

Might look into it again, in a not potato and scalpel in a shed way this time

Unless the cryptographic keys on these devices can be updated i would probably not be interested. There is a good reason you get a new credit/debit card every few years.

If i was setting up a new personal email for myself today i would go for Protonmail

Looks like bed adhesion, clean the bed with dishsoap or IPA, level it and set the Z height.

The ender 3 is not a great printer for quality and needs a lot of upkeep, it's more for if you want to learn and tinker because you will be. A lot.

2 hours ago, podkall said:

@Eigenvektor @Bananasplit_00 isn't the moisture from direct blowing more concerning than the push of the air itself? (still being less likely to do anything though?)

If you drool on it every day maybe you would have an issue. Blowing on it once isn't going to do anything. The moisture will evaporate pretty quick unless you are at 100% humidity

Unless you have an air compressor for your lungs I don't think you need to worry about that

Hey those are some really good rules! Like honestly that sounds great!

It likely uses a different BT protocol when used as a headset than as headphones, as two signals need to fit in the same bandwidth the quality is reduced. This is a common thing with BT headsets, not sure there is any fix for it.

Idk what the new surface pro variants are up to in specs but they are lovely devices to use from my experience.

You don't want to do maintenance? Go air.

You should replace your coolant something like yearly and clean the loop when you have it apart. Soft tubes also have a finite life, the heat will get to them. The clear ones go bad much earlier than the black stuff.

Those are some ridiculously low minimum specs if you have 3k to spend

I'd first look for battery life and RAM. At the very least 16GB, I'd probably go for 32GB.

Next up is a nice screen and keyboard. Definitely going to be a really nice thing to have seeing as you are likely going to be using this laptop for most of the day almost every day for the next 3-5 years.

My recommendation is to go for something fairly slim and 14" or below, I am extremely happy to not be lugging around a thick and heavy 15.6" during my days.

The graphics might be tricky, seems like they want you to have a dedicated GPU, any discrete GPU you can find in a laptop from the last five years or so will probably be good enough.

Buying used can get you a heck of a lot more value too. I got my surface laptop 2 for €300 when my pro 4 died, you have about 6x that budget so you should not have a hard time finding something suitable in your price range.

Why doesn't it have USB PD???? 5v 5A? Does anyone even sell that?..

i built in that case when it came out, i thought it was pretty nice besides the acrylic window. The blue colour is quite nice so i imagine the red would be too. The plastic and paint isnt perfectly matched which bothered me slightly but its not that bad

you probably need to update your repository refrences

if you want experience? sure, do it. Startups are very volotile though just be aware of that

if you want something that will never ever go down you would be looking at server grade stuff with ECC everything.

i think for what you are looking for this would be a decent motherboard, but dont think that it will be the best thing ever forever. Eventually in a few years its going to limit you as you cant upgrade because of the chipset

If you really want to know why, id say you should become and electrical engineer with a focus on semiconductor design for integrated circuits. Some useful topics to look into if you want a real answer are digital design and semiconductor design for integrated circuits. There are way too many for me to explain and its not like i know every limitation either but a few of them are:

Gate charge, the controll terminal of a MOSFET acts as a capacitor that needs to be charged before it can effectively switch state

Gate oxide thickness, thicker gate oxide means the controll terminal can handle more voltage which can speed up switching

Critical Path delay, how fast the slowest thing you are trying to do with your transistors is

C2Q delay, how fast your memory elements can ready the next output(kinda, not really)

Package power dissipation, if its not enough the silicon structures will break

These are VERY simple explenations of a few of the limitations that came to my mind, its not as simple as "make it cold -> more go fast"

10 minutes ago, Leychee said:

Tried plugging the turntable into my PC and recording with Audacity, and it works flawlessly.

Is it fair to say that the issue here is 100% the amp?

 

It also takes RCA no?

The RCA are outputs, you need a phono preamp i belive

Does that amp take anything but USB input? I dont think it does