progman32 · HackerTrans

3 個月前discuss

My aftermarket android auto display uses the type c connector for power input - wired directly to raw vehicle power. It will not run on 5v. It doesn't negotiate pd either. It just expects around 13 volts right on the power pins, and the supplied power cable does exactly that. It's portable too, which means that some poor person plugged their cable into their phone and blew it up.

progman32

6 個月前discuss

Don't overcomplicate or overthink, is my advice. You listen to a generally fixed sweet of tracks? Grab them, put them in a folder on your desktop, and open the folder in any old music player (Audacious is just fine, foobar2000 is also fine, use whatever). Optimize with things like Plex only after you notice patterns in your usage

progman32

7 個月前discuss

Not affiliated, but I've been using kagi's date range filter to similar effect. The difference in results for car maintenance subjects is astounding (and slightly infuriating).

progman32

去年discuss

I standardize all my two wheeled vehicles to the motorcycle layout for this reason. It bothers my push bike friends to an amusing degree but it's much safer for me. Plus I feel I have greater control of the critical front brake with my most dextrous and strong hand.

progman32

3 年前discuss

Fun. Because it's fun. Because we, as humans, generally like to tell stories, especially about shared culture. Making a tribute of an artifact is another way to appreciate it. It's another take, an amateur singer sharing a moment with their friends, singing a song from fiddler on the roof. I myself love recreating props from movies and games. It connects me to the author and other fans. I appreciate small details of its construction more. I perceive the steps the original craftsperson took. I understand, through a small window, the monumental effort it took to create the original greater creative work. I'm not saying not to create something new. Simply that it's fulfilling to some of us to experience our shared culture by contributing our own point of view.

A new thing is great, not saying it isn't. Certainly, tributes of recent works are not a good commercial strategy. I personally haven't truly appreciated a great work like lotr or Chrono Trigger or Jurassic Park or what have you until I've recreated a small part of it out of love. Of course, this rant is limited to fan derivatives made out of passion. Attempts to deceive are another thing.

I'm sorry if I'm rambling and come off as angry, I'm not and appreciate your point. But I find this suggestion to leave out the tribute part in fan works to kinda be missing the point. For my stuff I'd rather have made it and have it taken down, over not having made it at all.

progman32

3 年前discuss

You're not alone. Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should. We waste at our own peril.

progman32

3 年前discuss

Unfortunately, I don't think the last sentence holds if one looks beyond money. Everyone ends up paying for it eventually, in the form of the resources that went into growing the cotton, burning the fuel for electricity and transportation, etc, just to take the end product very nearly directly into the trash heap. It's shameful.

progman32

3 年前discuss

Unfortunately there isn't a true, affordable (for an individual or small group) circular solution that I've found. I've taken to gathering all my scraps in a bucket (not mixing plastic types) then occasionally having a "recycling day" to melt them down into bars, rods, or sheets, which are then used for other things using more traditional manufacturing techniques. I made some very pretty swirly vases on the lathe, for example. It's not ideal.

progman32

3 年前discuss

I bought a carpet cleaner "new" from target via curb pickup. It was clearly used (presumably once), there was water in the plumbing, the bottle of cleaner was opened, and the cord was not machine wrapped. Never used curbside pickup after that. I did keep the machine though, for better or for worse.

progman32

4 年前discuss

Yes. Handing control of my life to 3rd parties has almost always resulted in me getting screwed. Product pricing changes, companies shut down, features removed, etc. If I spend my money on something, I want to enjoy as permanent of an upgrade to my quality of life as possible. I don't want to constantly have to balance an ever-growing list of subscriptions, either.

For example, I used Fusion 360 for a few years under their hobbyist license. Then they started pulling the rug out: limited number of projects allowed, then they disabled local simulation features (forcing you to use paid cloud tokens, even though my local computer was often faster to run the simulation). I won't begrudge them asking for money. I did, however, realize that they can change the deal anytime they want, and thus my built up skills were at the mercy of Autodesk. So I dropped Fusion and learned FreeCAD (of which I am a paying supporter), OpenSCAD, and other open source tools. Those are much less polished, but I can all but guarantee that I'll be able to use those products until I'm past any need for software.

progman32

5 年前discuss

I remember back when I got my first digital camera, people would routinely ask me "ok but how do you look at the pictures? Do you just print them out?". Looking at them on a screen was almost unfathomable.

Nowadays, a physical album seems to have taken the place of your camera in the 90s. Not quite a luxury item, but you'd have to be "into that" to go to the trouble of making a physical album.

progman32

7 年前discuss

Oh they count Chromebooks too... Wonder if that's intentional.

progman32

7 年前discuss

Desktop slack will keep working on desktop OSes. This is just them blocking desktop mode access from phone browsers.

progman32

7 年前discuss

What's your intent? Sell the rights outright or sell it as some sort of service? Do you want to create a new persistent business out of this situation?

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