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Comment #45533439
I'd definitely be interested in a project like that, but I think customizing a PCB layout and sending it off for manufacturing would be too much for many people that would otherwis…
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Comment #41761140
https://rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/razor_blade...
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Comment #41253369
My friend has the opposite problem. The ISP's map claims to offer fiber service on his whole block, and if you type in your address they'll even offer service at that specific addr…
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Comment #41252393
I've actually bought/planned to buy a few things that I was introduced to via YouTube sponsorships, but it's never been any of the generic YouTube sponsor merchandise. It's always …
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Comment #41252215
It's no longer functional, but in the past if you appended the parameter t=wadsworth to a YouTube URL it would skip the first 30% of a video.
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Comment #41252161
There's a torrent going around the usual places that has every [as] bump from the launch of the network to whenever they last updated the archive (a few months ago in my case.)
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Comment #41233454
Yeah, I hear people repeat that a lot, but it doesn't entirely align with my experience. A lot of the grocery stores I shop at (mostly Kroger and other national chains,) have a coo…
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Comment #41176419
A bunch of stuff you will absolutely not care about. Unreleased music, rough cuts, behind the scenes footage, promo materials, etc. . . Nothing about the content itself that would …
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Comment #41075976
IIRC, Emby has also had some GPL compliance issues. Jellyfin is a fork with of Emby with all the crap removed.
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Comment #41075870
They're storing information about the app's current state, as well as tracking/analytic info. If you don't care about linking to an identical view and just want to link to a specif…
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Comment #41031063
Rokid and Xreal have products that are more up your alley.
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Comment #40981499
>I could not upload anything to imgur from my phone or tablet What devices are you using? I upload to imgur from my phone all the time. Just do it from a browser in desktop mode, y…
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Comment #40958341
Don't forget about birth defects. I went to school with a kid that was born without pinkies, but otherwise completely normal looking hands. You could still tell something was off w…
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Comment #40958313
Look under the heatsink. You're probably going to find 6x 2GB chips in parallel. The individual chips have a power of 2 capacity.
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Comment #40795301
Now that you bring it up, I can't recall ever (knowingly) using a piece of Korean software that wasn't a game or baked into a phone's firmware. Does seem kind of odd considering ho…
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Comment #40763475
My family had one about the same size as well, and it was setup in the basement. When my parents sold the house the contract stated that the TV in the basement would not be removed…
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Comment #40723004
Same way as vanity onion domains: brute force. Anything else would be a security flaw. If you're asking how to actually get one yourself, just search for "bitcoin vanity address" o…
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Comment #40569574
A modded iPod classic is hard to beat. Replace the HDD with a CF card (many of the SD and SATA adapter boards don't have support the drive's power saving features) and stick the bi…
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Comment #40519284
I honestly can't remember if it showed up in the strobe or not, this was a few years ago. This procedure wouldn't be listed in the regular manual. It involves opening it up to adju…
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Comment #40505840
A single 18650 can do much more than 30W. My Emisar D4v2 can pull ~17A from a single 18650 on turbo mode, and it's not much bigger than the battery itself. I carry it on my belt ev…
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Comment #40505534
My MK2 was off by about 3% when the pitch adjust was in the detent. To be fair, it had a rough life before it ended up in my hands. If you have a frequency counter they're pretty e…
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Comment #40375331
A few years ago a non-technical friend factory reset their phone only to realize they hadn't actually logged into their Google account in years and didn't remember the password. Th…
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Comment #39594593
>Maybe more people have gaming-grade computers sitting around now than they did 15 years ago? You don't need a very powerful computer to emulate a Switch. My M1 Mac Mini w/ 8GB of …
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Comment #38835961
Did you even read the article you linked to? > The story of Topsy fell into obscurity for the next 70 years but has become more prominent in popular culture, partly because the fil…
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Comment #38563316
IIRC they used a variation of this a second time on a newer model of iPod. They found a way to trigger the click speaker, wrote a program to dump the ROM via the clicker Morse code…