mattreb

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

yeah, baking soda works but you have to be careful with the amount you put in them or they'll taste very bland after...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

No. Windows ships already well compressed. There's no way it'll compress further by 50%.

I've been getting about that rate of compression consistently with Clonezilla on windows 10. I also didn't have any problems relocating it... it just start a driver update step and then reboots normally, but idk about how licensing work for this cases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Invidious public instances have been completely blocked by this, it's no longer AB testing. IDK exactly what triggers it but, too many requests from the same ip is going to show this now... maybe OP vpn exits with an ip shared by too many...

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

Thanks for the interesting write-up!

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

Thanks, I'll have a look. It's an universal mains power supply with no voltage switch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How were you measuring the current in the power cable? Is this with a Kill-o-watt device or perhaps with a clamp meter and a line splitter?

For the current both with a line-splitter+clamp and checked with an in-line meter. For the power factor, since I don't have any actual instrument to measure It, and I just needed a ball-park figure to discern actual consumption from a capacitor, I used this diy method: https://www.giangrandi.org/electronics/cosphi/cosphi.shtml , which measured 0.04 ( with great approximation ).

As for why there is a capacitor across the mains input [...]

I have the basic on how a switching power supply work, but I was asking because it seemed weird to me that commercial appliances didn't take any stand-by meaures to avoid "keeping the wires warm"... is this the norm?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Bought a new PC, and I was measuring its consumption out of curiosity. I noticed something weird (to me): when the PC is off (in fact, I completely disconnected the PSU and did the same test), there is quite some current running in the power cable to the PSU (0.15A).

Further measures showed a power factor of (almost) zero, and I can actually measure a capacity of 2uF across the PSU ac input.

I did the same thing on an older PC I have, and there is no current / capacity. So what would the reason of a capacitor across the mains on the input be in a PSU?

PS: the PSU is a Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 1050W

Edit: I found some official measurements for this specific PSU: https://www.cybenetics.com/evaluations/psus/2249/ that have 40W standby apparent-power by design

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

Which bridge do you use? do you self-host it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Exactly, even when applied correctly, many projects will just not work with scrum. Managers that sponsor ONE approach have already failed....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The point is just differentiating your behavior between what you call a "bad" or a "good" junior.

And from experience the difference is whether they want to learn (regardless of their skill!!) or not (i.e are they passionate or it's just a job?).

Passionate seniors get frustrated when they try to teach bad juniors, but there is no point on doing that, the problem was just that the senior was not involved in the hiring process...

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

I get what you mean, I think in a realistic scenario this only work to circumvent some laws. if you are tortured by someone who know about this and don't care about your life, then it's meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Does not "help protecting privacy", that is marketing. It's a system for ads that track you in a more privacy-friendly way then other alternatives.

Peoples are mostly angry at the fact that they just silently slipped this system in without asking for consent.

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

you’d almost certainly notice the change in gravity.

Really? can you actually percieve the sun gravity? Do you mean that we would get like a tsunami beause of the tidal effect? Now I kinda want a documentary about this.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi! I'm relatively new to mechanical keyboards and I need some help.

I need a 60% that will allow to toggle between two mode, one for writing and one for cursor movement with arrows (possibly on IJKL).

From what I found most of the 60% use the Fn button for arrows, but you have to keep it pressed, which will not work for me... I need to actually toggle the alternative layout. Some 60% have a "Fn lock" to support this, but it's hard to tell by just looking at their specs...

Do you know any model with a similar feature?

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