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Re: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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Post by gambiting »

edzillion wrote: post #239
gambiting wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, it's nice to have an option for a quick programme when you have guests over and actually it's good to do a couple loads in a single day. But yes overnight I don't care, it can take 6 hours and I wouldn't mind.

Time it to finish when you get up and it will release a lot of warm (humid) air to help you warm up your house

It's on a timer anyway because we have cheap electricity from 00:30-04:30, so I just run it alongside all the other appliances within thouse hours(and charge our car too).

Re: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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Post by micromacrofoot »

paskozdilar wrote: post #150
micromacrofoot wrote: post #104

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You’re seriously recommending the manifesto of an anarchist that lived in a cabin in the woods without running water and sent dozens of mail bombs to innocent people? Come on, you can’t find something to support your ideas that doesn’t help glorify random murders?

You're seriously trying to censor one of the most influential anarcho-primitivists in the world, on the basis that talking about his work somehow "glorifies random murders"? Talk about oversocialization.

he killed several people and tried to blow up an airplane… I’m saying maybe find literally any other person to support an idea

Re: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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Post by micromacrofoot »

UmbertoNoEco wrote: post #160
cjbgkagh wrote: post #110

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I am recommending it. He is clearly a smart person. If it was the ravings of a lunatic I would not. He is not a random murderer, he was psychologically tortured by the government as part of MKUltra before he killed anyone.

You just need to get on with the times. To read somebody now, you must: A) Be sure that whatever they wrote you agree 100% with. B) That person must share your full worldview and must have a pristine moral reputation. Anything else is dangerous, wrong and frankly subversive so I dont mind if you get punished by violating these simple principles.

there’s a very wide chasm between “don’t agree with an opinion” and “serial murderer”

you’re talking about the unabomber like he’s a victim of cancel culture instead of a guy that killed 3 people and maimed a dozen more

Re: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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Post by flaviut »

mynameismon wrote: post #270
kortex wrote: post #252

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I was in the same spot when I met this brilliant hardware hacker at this hackerspace who had no formal EE degree but could design circuits in his sleep. "How do you do it?" "I read data sheets and a lot of wikipedia". I already spend tons of time on wiki, so I started reading data sheets. And he was absolutely right, datasheets for components are often chock full of information on how to use them, often with recipe b…

> datasheets for components are often chock full of information on how to use them, often with recipe books for circuits that use them. Curious, I looked into the datasheet linked in the post[0]. While I get what you mean by "chock full of information", I can't make the head or tail of it. Where do I get started? (genuinely)

I'm not sure what your question is.

When you don't understand a thing, you can google for it. Like it says it uses a Schmitt trigger for noise protection. How does that work? Wikipedia explains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger

If you have a specific goal for the chip, look up the words that seem to be related to that goal. Once you do that a bunch, you get better at figuring out which words matter.

Re: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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Post by throwaway09223 »

gambiting wrote: post #138
amluto wrote: post #129

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My “modern” (20-year-old, which is solidly modern by this standard) dishwasher cleans much better than I remember my childhood dishwasher cleaning. It also doesn’t melt plastic on the bottom rack, which is a fantastic feature. The main downside is it takes two hours, and I think my childhood dishwasher took one hour. My modern front load washer gets clothes clean. It also doesn’t severely abrade them. As I understand…

My new(2 years old) Bosch dishwasher cleans much better than any other dishwasher I used in my life. I'm like 60% sure that the buttons on the front don't actually do anything, because it cleans equally well in all modes, from ECO(50C) to Heavy Load(70C). Yeah the eco mode takes 3 hours by default, but press "Vario Speed" and is done in 1:05h with the exact same result.

I have a modern Bosch benchmark washer and it also cleans better than anything I've ever used from past decades. It's also extremely expensive.

I have friends with cheaper dishwashers and they do not clean well at all on eco modes.

Everything's relative.

Re: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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Post by tyingq »

tyingq wrote: post #77
darkwater wrote: post #56

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But then you would have to manually keep count of the used cycles to know when manually refill the cassette.

Ah, yeah, that is one downside. I suppose you could just weigh it.

Oh, and there's a continuous feed mod too: https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder/blob/mast...

Re: Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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Post by throwaway09223 »

maccard wrote: post #213
gambiting wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My new(2 years old) Bosch dishwasher cleans much better than any other dishwasher I used in my life. I'm like 60% sure that the buttons on the front don't actually do anything, because it cleans equally well in all modes, from ECO(50C) to Heavy Load(70C). Yeah the eco mode takes 3 hours by default, but press "Vario Speed" and is done in 1:05h with the exact same result.

> Yeah the eco mode takes 3 hours by default, but press "Vario Speed" and is done in 1:05h with the exact same result. I wonder about people complaining about this - whether it takes 1 hour or 3 hours, are you sitting in your kitchen waiting for the dishwasher to complete? Put it on after a meal and next time you're in the kitchen it will be done...

Honestly my only complaint is that my Bosch dishwasher's beep cannot be disabled. If I start it late, the damn thing wakes me up in the middle of the night.

I've seriously considered taking it apart to remove the buzzer.

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Post by Xeoncross »

kortex wrote: post #252
javajosh wrote: post #79

Am I the only one who looks at these projects with a combination of awe and apathy and jealousy? I do software, not hardware, and I like knowing how things work. When an expert in a different field glances at a PCB and identifies components, their purpose, by sight, and then rummages around a loose parts bin to go deeper, it dawns on me: this is someone's life. The same way I've been swimming in (application) softwar…

I was in the same spot when I met this brilliant hardware hacker at this hackerspace who had no formal EE degree but could design circuits in his sleep. "How do you do it?" "I read data sheets and a lot of wikipedia". I already spend tons of time on wiki, so I started reading data sheets. And he was absolutely right, datasheets for components are often chock full of information on how to use them, often with recipe b…

Same goes for construction materials. So many people fail to read the wood/adhesive/countertop/screw/paint datasheets which sometimes include recommendations against the way the product is often used.

reminds me of medications and antibiotics which include their own datasheets that not all medical providers cross-check against your current medications.

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Post by rrss »

blibble wrote: post #261
javajosh wrote: post #79

Am I the only one who looks at these projects with a combination of awe and apathy and jealousy? I do software, not hardware, and I like knowing how things work. When an expert in a different field glances at a PCB and identifies components, their purpose, by sight, and then rummages around a loose parts bin to go deeper, it dawns on me: this is someone's life. The same way I've been swimming in (application) softwar…

pretty much all of that should be part of any reasonable CS degree was certainly part of mine, and mine was more theoretical than most (I certainly remember peering through datasheets of various obscure TI chips during afternoon labs)

Many reasonable CS degrees have no electronics or hardware in the curriculum.
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