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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great... Signal is imperfect.

Can you suggest a perfect alternative?

At this point I'm just happy my family have tolerated it to the point we're not using Facebook Messenger, Google chat (it whatever it's called this month) and WhatsApp.

The xmpp or whatever other convoluted alternative you're about to recommend is not something I'm going to get 20 or 30 family and friends to switch to.

Signal is imperfect... But not as bad as many other options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Posts must match the context of the community.

Like no topless posts wearing underpants in a pussy community for example.

Haven't seen it get out of control here yet, but it's madly out of control at Reddit with mods actively not caring about it.

Why have categories if posters are going to ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Every living creature is entitled to an equal portion of useful surface area of the earth proportional to their size and space requirements.

Not like that has anything to do with us possibly living out of a car next year if rent rises 30% again for the 3rd year running.

Fuck landlords hoarding property.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You've made my point well.

Absolutely I've already learnt it, and I don't intend to stuff around translating. At first it's one thing, maybe not cumbersome but then many things become a hassle.

Master and slave are not in and of themselves offensive words. You just assign offence to them, based on certain specific context, again proving my point.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes it's not about typing.

In the electronics works the us a serial protocol called SPI Serial Peripheral Interface.

In schematics we might have a micro controller that connects to several sensors or memory chips on a pair of pins, 1 each for transmit and receive.

The micro controller is the master and the common nomenclature for the pin names is MISO and MOSI MasterInSlaveOut and MasterOutSlaveIn.

This overcomes confusion with regard to using things like TXD and RXD.

Wokeness has now suggested a bunch of alternatives.

PICO PeripheralInControllerOut and POCI... are the 2 leading alternatives.

Problem is I now have data sheets and schematics going back to the 1980s

It's bullshit to me.

Words can have more than one meaning. Context and meaning matter.

I just want design cool electronics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yep. There was an assumption 20 years ago when common switches were 100Mbps and running cat5e that you'd have to upgrade cable to get the next speed tier, 1Gbps.

It propagated wildly, but was always incorrect. Cat5e was very much capable of gigabit Ethernet by design.

It was only beyond gig that you'd need cat6, and even then at short lengths 2.5/5/10Gbe has a good chance of working on cat5e anyway (but don't do it).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

High quality cat 5e would have done the job.

Original cables must have been faulty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some how I automatically read this in Greta Thungerg's voice.

How dare you!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is verifiable in manufactures data sheets.

Efficiency at less than 20% and greater than 80% loads isn't great relative to in between those ends.

This is compounded by lower wattage PSUs being more limited with regard to features and benefits.

If you end up with a 650w PSU and your system idles at 80 watts for the bulk of a working day you spend long periods of time in this less efficient window.

We need to see some quality 300w to 600w designs come back onto the market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's some Total Recall shit there. Love it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

From Chinese parts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's what anti islanding is.

Prevents power from going into the grid when it's down.

Way I read it is it puts surplus into the grid to keep you elec bills down.

800 watts isn't exactly going to set an outlet on fire.

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