czardestructo @ czardestructo @lemmy.world

Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.

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I noticed when they first spin up on boot they do some sub routine and they're pretty loud and chatty. First time I heard it I was spooked but it worked fine and I just use it for backup so I just moved on. Once it's on and in normal operation it's like any other disk I've used over the decades. Nothing as loud as an old scsci disk or a quantum fireball.

It's really boring, Debian 12: /dev/disk/by-uuid/8f041da5-6f7a-4ff5-befa-2d3cc61a382c { spindown_time = 241 write_cache = off }

I have an Exos x16 and x18 drive and they both spin down fine in Debian using hdparm. I use them for cold storage and they're perfectly adequate.

I work on consumer electronic ear buds. Frigging ear buds, and we support this...

I've been running the Joplin server for over a year with clients on four laptops and three phones and share notes with my wife and its wonderful. There are certainly quirks and sometimes sync issues but by and large I'm really happy with it. There seems to be one cluster of notes I have that always irritates a fresh client sync and it shows up at 50 conflicts but I work through it. Also my notebooks are huge and the first sync can take an hour. It's a lot slower than I'd expect.

I've been through too many exodus, this post hits hard and true. Been using the net since 95 and have been a community refuge too many times. I'm really hoping federation takes off because I'm tired of rebuilding. Not sure I'll try again if this doesn't pan out.

As someone who has destroyed a lot of wheel barrows, what brand is that? It looks rugged AF. I'm really liking the quality and size of the strut that bolts the nose of the bin to the frame. I WANT

Dall-e through Bing

I worked for Sylvania about 15-20 years ago as they were swirling the drain and trying to adapt to LED lighting. Lots of cool old equipment and facilities but it felt like whoever was steering the ship (Osram) was asleep at the wheel. The way the company handled the next 15 years proved that was true.

Various companies repackage or license the enOcean parts. I've used this one from Amazon for about 6 years and haven't thought about it. I've also used others from this brand for 8+ years and had no issues. I bought an old house around Boston that had power in the ceilings but no switches anywhere so this worked perfectly for me and I was able to do it all myself.

Enocean has been making battery free wireless light switches for almost 15 years. I've personally used them for about 8 years and love them. They're a lot more expensive then the $1 quote in the article but still cheaper than an electrician. They work with a strike to a piezoelectric element to make energy and transmit the signal.

It's the same in the US. They offer you a total deal expecting to make money on selling the loan. If you pay cash they charge you more for the same deal so they make their money. Car dealerships in general offer no real value and just make things cost more.

You can certainly get more storage but 100gigs is a joke. A modest 4k video can easily exceed 1gig and 100 videos isn't very much. Considering how storage prices have crashed in 10 years and the price is still the same for 100gigs it feels like pretty obvious shrinklation.

For what it's worth my 2015 Toyota will allow me to connect over Bluetooth but in android I wouldn't give it permissions to my text message, just audio. It works fine except for the fact that every damn time I turn the car on it asks again for text message access and I have to click no on the infotainment screen.

I noticed I couldn't shake hang overs after 25. They ruined my whole following day so I just cut out that nonsense.

How about a different angle; enjoy the veggies as they are and forget the emulated meat puck. This isn't a dig at you, just a general statement of how I always found it weird there are so many vegetarian and vegan food tring to emulate a meat stick or patty. Veggies are wonderful all by themselves why not enjoy them for what they are instead of competing with something it's not. My 2 cents.

You're old. So am i.

This hits hard even as an engineer working in product development.

We are almost to the point where its the same cost for SSD. You can get an 8tb drive for $370 now and it won't always be spinning and wasting 4-7W forever. For me, with high electricity costs, it was a no brainer to get a few of these and they will pay the difference within a year or two. I got them on sale for $320 each.