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I made an energy efficient one by replacing the light bulb with an LED bulb and some cooling fins since the design looked like it would trap heat from escaping, but that guide is garbage because it doesn't work like it's supposed to!

Just made that one up but it was based on another Frankenstein-like setup another user in a beta testing group was using that I don't remember the specifics of. His issues started getting mostly ignored until he upgraded his system to something more normal lol.

Ah that's interesting. If you can swap the devices from one pi to another, try powering it all up on machine A, then swap the devices to machine B and power that on. Might tell you if the issue is with on the pi side or with the devices.

Is latency higher on the first boot than on subsequent ones? I'd be looking into race conditions if you're seeing a bit of lag cascade out into bigger problems. Race conditions are the worst, especially when the race most often goes the right way and just occasionally goes the wrong way. Though you can force the wrong way by adding delays in your code, if you have an idea of where the race is happening.

Or, after weeks of debugging an issue the user has logs proving they are having weird performance issues despite having a strong GPU, it turns out their parents wouldn't let them take that GPU out of the family PC so they rigged up a PCIe to USB to wireless transmitter that hooks up to a wireless to USB to serial port that exploits a signal leaking from serial port to PCIe bus bug on the family PC motherboard to act as if the GPU is on their own machine, which both impresses and horrifies you.

And when you try to get approval to drop the issue as unsupported, your manager gives you shit and it takes another week to convince him that it isn't a use case that you should support. And they only agreed in the end because a more senior technical person happened to overhear you pleading with your manager one day and only had to say, "that's crazy!" for your manager to 180 immediately on the issue. But it's still cited as a negative on your next performance review ("you spent weeks working on something we don't even support!").

Another angle to try is to set the date one day ahead and see if the bug shows up then. Might need to disconnect from network and set it in the BIOS for the test to work properly.

I could be wrong, but I figure after being off for an hour, all capacitors should have discharged by then, so it's probably not based on how long the hardware has been unpowered.

Though one other angle I just thought of, if you have something that runs periodically, maybe the bug is related to that period being missed once or n times. Or it could be related to something that is meant to wake the computer to run some job and then go back to sleep but instead just sets it in a bad state.

We breathe about 76% nitrogen with every breath. Though who knows, maybe we are high on nitrogen 24/7.

Edit: 76% not 26% lol

Note that nitrogen isn't the one that gets you high, it's nitrous oxide.

Not that having cell phones all the time doesn't potentially create psychological problems itself, even before social media is considered.

Though IMO the way to deal with controlling and abusive parents is to encourage kids to talk about their home life because parents like that will cause issues even without extra ammo of seeing what they kid says when they aren't around.

Yeah that's fair, though it doesn't help with the frustration. Especially when it's management getting in the way of things. Like with all the enshitification, my guess is that there's a dev or team of devs that hate themselves for going along with it.

I don't think there are any good guys at the top of any international power pyramids.

Yeah, that's something a shitty developer who is bad at debug would say.

Bugs frustrate me more because I can often guess at why they are happening and how to fix them but can't just apply the fix myself. Even more frustrating when there's an update and I'll think, "oooh maybe they finally fixed that annoying bug!" and then see it again shortly after installing the update.

It's a nice idea in theory but have you seen the world we live in? There's always some abusive fucks looking to exploit whatever weaknesses there are in all of the systems we have.

I don't agree with the other poster's bit about integrating cell phones into the lessons themselves, but I do think they make a good point about a ban restricting students' ability to expose abusers.

Though one way to get the best of both would be to put cameras in classrooms just like a lot of school busses do now. Eliminate or reduce the he said/she said as much as possible. It would also protect teachers from students that realize accusations on their own can be pretty powerful in environments that do want to prevent abuses and be good for kids who don't have bad intentions but teachers might feel a need to keep them at arm's length to avoid that situation.

It really sucks that positive relationships seem to be more rare these days because people are so fearful about either giving the impression of having a negative relationship and others can be quick to suspect closeness been adults and children has ulterior motives.

That looks just like my Sunfire's dash, other than mph being more prominent than km/h and it redlining over 7k rpm.

Is that an S2000?

Not to mention the selection of games available is pretty paltry.

My guess is that the brand names got stuck from their own popularity. People knew what they tasted like and might have reacted badly if they tried to tweak the recipe, whereas the budget brands were easier to either change or even discontinue and replace with slightly different branding. People were buying them for the price, not the recipe.

And then, after enough experimentation, they were able to figure out something that matched or surpassed the brand names.

In Canada, there's the PC brand that I always considered a budget brand. Until I worked at an ice cream factory that had their own premium brand but also made some PC flavours. The PC ones looked better than the factory brand ones. The factory did things the old way (where ice cream flavours were still more about the ice cream than extras added) while PC focused more on the extras like cookie dough or chocolate caramel cups. I can only speak for myself, but I'm more into the extras than the ice cream itself, so it felt like PC was more in tune with what I wanted than the premium brand.

Additionally, the premium brand sticking with the less preferred recipe kinda feels pretentious at this point, like they are being ice cream purists or think they know better about what people want, given the higher price.

PC also had their versions of various pop flavours that have colouring on the boxes to make it clear what they were cloning and their Pepsi cola clone was just as good as the real thing but way cheaper.

Something Awful, it was a link aggregator and comment site like Reddit before Reddit was a thing.

I didn't use it much but I did like that they had voting on posts in multiple dimensions (like funny, insightful, etc).

And those buying the ads would love to know if who sees their ads are bots or humans.

I was one of the "got game pass, usually forget to use it" subscribers. I ended up canceling when games I was playing were no longer available when I did remember about it so I couldn't finish them anyways, plus the price went up.

Last thing I did was go through their games and add ones that looked interesting to my steam wishlist. And after I cancelled, when one of the games I had been playing went on sale, I realized another thing that I didn't like about it that I hadn't even known: they don't advertise what games use invasive drm or anti-cheat software like steam does.

Though the main driving factor was wanting to divorce myself from as much reliance on MS/Windows as possible.

"I didn't realize you guys did appetizers!"

And if you're there with a group, spend some time asking everyone if they want to try the new appetizers before letting them correct the "misunderstanding".

If you go there repeatedly, have your eyes light up each time they ask.

Judging by history, I don't think the cycle is 100 years but more like 85 - 90 years.

Which would put us in the economic bad times right now, leading into a time of military conflict.