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@colin_mcmillen ok, that's brilliant 👌
@colin_mcmillen ooh, neat, but why is V3 so much faster than V2, it's two shifts and one add in both cases, no?
Semester start is approaching quickly, live view from inside my head:
Bluesky apparently has shorter posts, previous one got truncated by the bridge.
And I'm not exactly sure how I can make my bridged Bluesky account being discovered? Hashtags?
Read today that a large part of the scientific community has now firmly abandoned Twitter/X for #Bluesky. I'm not at all interested in maintaining two separate social media accounts, so I'll certainly keep my main account on #Mastodon, but just to give it a try, I've enabled brid.gy for my account. So if you're on Bluesky and interested in #HCI, #opensource, #openscience, #hacking , and #making - hello there 😁
Meh. The fact that Nvidia's quarterly numbers were pretty much exactly as expected probably means that we'll continue to inflate the "AI" bubble for at least another 3 months. 😑
@nblr Wait, those are not external GPUs, right? I was assuming they don't need any OS drivers at all, like most proprietary docks?
@regehr this is just another sideshow to distract people while Trump burns the rest of the US down 🤷
@IanBadcoe fractree
Chuck Norris abducts aliens.
Bought a box of #AirTag clones specifically because they loudly claim to be compatible with both the #Apple and #Google Find networks (for increased coverage, or so I thought) ...
... only to discover that they support only _one network at a time_. 🤬
I'm 99.5% sure there is no technical reason for that, it's probably just some dumbass certification policy. Caveat emptor. 😑
@Lapizistik +1. Musste spontan an den corporate goon aus "Aliens" denken, der hat's auch nur bis zur Halbzeit geschafft.
@fesshole In German, this is called "wegloben" ("praising away"). 👍
Philips floor cleaner. Wet-mops your floor with rotating brushes and vacuums the dirty water into another tank. Really nice for hardwood floors, but I once filled in water with citric acid, intending to descale it, and that killed the pump 😖 Luckily, I found out that they used a relatively standard espresso machine pump which was available online, swapped it out (after a lot of cursing during disassembly) and it's now been working fine for years 👍 (only using filtered water now, though)
Nintendo Switch Joycons. These have seen some heavy grinding thanks to the kids, so it was just a matter of time until the thumbsticks gave out. Inexplicably, Nintendo has used resistive sensors instead of much more robust magnetic sensors - I don't think the price difference is that big after all. Anyway, you can get a complete replacement kit on AliExpress for 10 bucks, including all the tools (Nintendo triwing screws FTW), but do follow the iFixit manual, they are a total 3D puzzle inside.
New dumpster finds:
- Asus Vivobook (MacBook clone)
Asus Vivobook (MacBook clone, also found in the dumpster). Was a bit tricky to recharge, because it needs 19 Volts on a stupid custom plug, but I still had an old Asus PSU in my junk box that fit well enough. Could finally turn it on, but the screen backlight didn't work (you could see the screen content with a flashlight, so it wasn't entirely broken). Opened it up and discovered that the display plug was a tiny bit askew - replugged the connector and done 👍
Huawei fitness watch. Another dead battery, straight out of the box 😑 Luckily was able to find an exact replacement on AliExpress for 10 bucks, the hard part was getting it open through all the glue without wrecking everything, and then getting it closed up again while still keeping it reasonably waterproof. (cf. also https://hci.social/@floe/114641451309678060)
@teotwaki Thanks for the tip! Already did that, though 😉 Everything seemed to work fine 👍