ChaoticNeutralCzech @ ChaoticNeutralCzech @feddit.de

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A house fire is unlikely, as you definitely have the PC under supervision on first power-on. The wire insulation can catch fire under certain circumstances but it won't burn your house down if you're quick to act.

Most likely, the motor and head circuitry survived. The burnt PCB can probably be cheaply replaced without cracking open the sealed internals of the drive mechanism, and the drive should work as normal after a test and calibration. Of course, wrong polarity will destroy SSDs and most other PC parts beyond the point of repair.

Yeah, check any documentation available and even check which pins are connected to the same voltage rails. In this case, common sense says that the GPU most likely be fine as long as it uses less than 2/3 the rated power of the cable but any drives will pop.

The body still needs feeding, though. Support open source developers!

(And trans rights, we don't want the BRAIN to potentially feel uncomfortable in there)

No, don't throw them away. You can definitely replace one with another if all the wire colors match and the wires are thick enough and by a reputable brand (so that it's actual copper). But yes, 4-, 6- and 8-pin Molex connectors have at least 2 different possible pinouts, the 24-pin one should be standard.

But if you're naïve and think they're plug-and-play, you'll be playing with a plug-and-fire setup. Most of such swaps will cause a short circuit, in which case fuses or electronic protection will probably trip before the cable insulation starts burning (if the copper is thick enough to sustain 100 A for a second and not heat up by 200 °C). However, pretty much no PC components have polarity protection so you will need to go shopping for an entirely new build.

GPU Molex 8 pin (6+2) PCI Express male to 2 x Dual PCIe 6 pin Female Graphics Video Card PCI-E VGA Splitter Hub Power Cable (Some of the keywords like "VGA Splitter" are misleading or duplicate but most of it is correct)

“Smart”watch app:

(Dial Settings)

Edit: It was actually called "Nastavení vytáčení" (Dialing Settings) in Czech, the closest German word is "Herausdrehung" but the correct translation is "Telefonnummerwählen" or something

Nah, just a Russian millionaire with problematic opinions.

Lack of windows is a personality trait for computers AND homes

now shh

I know, I’m an electrical hobbyist. Most 10mΩ resistors (no space because it's an adjective) are SMD because leads would introduce significant resistance that changes when bending. Unless the wire is the shunt, of course. They have large pads and are thick to accommodate the current and power dissipation because their main use is measuring current in the order of A.

Meanwhile, 10MΩ ones are usually THT and normal size, the occasional ones rated for multiple kilovolts or spikes of even higher voltage are longer to prevent arcing.

Makes sense. I don't think latency is a great issue when transferring large files, I would be more concerned about packet drop. (Unless latency is part of the reason the tracker thinks I'm too slow to bother requesting data from, which would explain why American-based trackers barely let me seed but local ones work great.) The overhead of TCP torrenting is about 3-4 % for me, and even if an IPv6 tunnel increases that to say 25 %, I will be able to use 80 % of my upload bandwidth for seeding, assuming IPv6 allows me to reach enough peers to request 1.6 Mb/s from me, which would be much higher than the current <1 %. My logic was that I could reach people that don't have a publically reachable IPv4 port but an IPv6 one (because of IPv4 exhaustion of course), but now I understand that this is way less of an impact than I thought.

Disclaimer: I don't really know. But the ideology has not been practiced by the man himself, who is said to never have stepped foot in a factory. That is enough of a taint on that word so I cannot blame anyone for willing to disassociate themselves from it. And communism failed in our country so hard that the only Communist Party voters left are the ones who just blame “the system” for everything and don't care if the trending anti-establishment movement is far-right or far-left, they just look forward to the end of democracy so that they can be the first ones to pick up what remains.

When inconsequential, capitalization gets messed up all the time, and the mistakes are overlooked: everyone understands that a weight labeled “10 KG” has a mass of 10 kg, but it's better to get used to good practice for when it does matter. Thankfully, the “M/m” mistake of 9 orders of magnitude is usually caught by humans before it gets out of hand: you wouldn't order 1 mm³ of wood instead of 1 m³. Very few quantities span 9+ orders of magnitude, for instance 10mΩ and 10MΩ resistors exist quite commonly, and you can imagine one being mistaken for the other with people copying each other's handwritten component list. However, I'd bet that the bit/byte dichotomy confuses hundreds of people every day so we better make that clear by not breaking rules.

BTW, the word is “megavolts”, not “MegaVolts” or any other capitalization, similarly “byte” is correct unless at the start of a sentence, with title case, or in German, and perhaps in words like “MByte”, which I discourage in favor of the full form or complete abbreviation.

Dej árnt ment tu bí sín eloun bat on top of (ór bilou) Letyn letrs. D proublem síms tu bí d kombajning sleš, uič daznt sím tu rendr uitaut e prysídyng kompetibl letr, end daznt hev e spejsing verijent anlajk d uel noun symbls ` ór °, end ˇ´. Sou dis is dí intendid rendring:

Ček: ÁÉÍÓÚÝ, Ů, ČĎĚŇŘŠŤŽ - very nórml fonetyk alfabet, ixept jů hev tu rymembr růlz end ixepšns uér tu rajt í/ý, ú/ů, ně/ě
Slouvek: ÁÉÍĹÓŔÚÝ, Ä, Ô, ČĎŇŠŤŽ, Ľ, plas dej inzizt dájgrefs (ej.ke.jej. mentl dizórdrz) DZ, DŽ end CH ár letrs
Pouliš: ĆŃÓŚŹ, ĄĘ, Ż, Ł, bat dej inzizt det ćńóśź dount hev en ekjut ekcent bat e „kreska“, uič is sapouzd tu bí stípr den Ček ó bat hez d sejm inkouding in Junikoud. Sou áj kenot ekšli rendr it proprli, not det áj ryli kér for sabpiksl presižn wit dis.

It's supposed to say “Mbit” or “Mb”. Capital B infers bytes. Incorrect capitalization is one of the most common mistakes when using the metric system. It may be popular but it becomes a problem when 1 B = 8 b, or when 1 MJ = 10⁹ mJ. By the way, common ad-hoc abbreviations like “kbps” as opposed to “kb/s” or “PSI” instead of “lbf/in²” also grind my gears, luckily most such mistakes only occur in imperial units.

Byte is the 8x bigger one – longer word – capital B (but the word, unless shortened, is "byte", not "Byte"),
bit is the 8x smaller one – shorter word – lowercase b.
There is a roughly 0.8% difference per order of magnitude between 1024-based binary prefixes (ki=kibi, Mi=mebi, Gi=gibi, often incorrectly written as k, M, G) and 1000-based metric prefixes (k=kilo, M=mega, G=giga) but these ballpark numbers are not affected.

Anyway, do you think it's worth trying in terms of security against threats and law enforcement, or should I use a VPN on top?

Please don't say “MBit”, it makes my eyes hurt.

My internet plan tops out at 2 Mb/s upload so that wouldn't nearly fill such a public tunnel broker's bandwidth, and I would be glad for even half that, but right now I seed 500 GB of reasonably popular movie packs and the long-term average upload is a few kilobits per second, not worth spinning up the 10W HDD motor for. Yes, I expect some overhead with tunneling but not three orders of magnitude, and I need at least 100 kb/s to get a good ratio on those movie packs.

Let’s privatize hurricane and flood aid to them as a result. Maybe Disney will trickle down some of their wealth to the victims?

The trucks are getting ridiculous. This one can isekai hundreds of children without the driver seeing any of them.