czardestructo

czardestructo, 3 months ago

I’m naturally charismatic. I’m lucky, don’t know how or why it just comes natural. But I hate getting complements. It makes me uncomfortable, I don’t need or want them. What drives me is my own desire to be better and get better. I don’t need external influence, my internal pressure is already many times greater than what most get exposed to. At least that’s my interpretation.

czardestructo, 3 months ago

Bingo. Give everyone a safety net in terms of mental health and finances and I’m convinced the vast majority of our problems go away. Even topics outside of this one.

czardestructo, 3 months ago

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czardestructo, 3 months ago

The initial debugging you did, how did you root cause to the PSU? Your debugging aside I would check the fuse and MOV first. Did you have any bad weather recently? Lightning will take out your fuse and MOV and they’re an easy fix. Google what a Metal Oxide Varistor looks like. Next I would check for any damaged or blackened parts, then check the capacitors for bulging and capacitence values. Anything after that will get heavy on the EE side of things.

czardestructo, 3 months ago

Wow OK, great pictures. First I will say the PCB and components look super clean and the design, components and overall design looks very high quality. I’m kind of surprised this isn’t working because it doesn’t appear to be low quality, quite the opposite. The board is also super clean and well care for. I didn’t expect all the PCBs to be broken out, there appears to be a dedicated PSU board and I assume an amplifier board separate. Usually everything is all on one board. Perhaps you can order a new PSU from a different vendor if you figure out what voltages it should output, is there any clear marking on the output where there is no voltages to tell you what should be there?

OK so you tested the MOV and its 470kohm that is GOOD. It should be high resistance unless its damaged and then it typically fails as an electrical short. Also you would see physical damage and blackening. Next thing I would check is the fuse, but your PSU is fancy and uses an NTC. It will be low resistance until too much current flows which heats it up and then it’s resistance climbs higher and higher to choke the current flow to a safe/manageable level. You should check that and make sure its resistance is low, less than 20ohms or so. Capacitors also look good and you tested them. Unfortunately for you, this might be a vexxing or random failure :(

Did you happen to call the company and ask for help or a repair program? It looks high enough quality that they might stand behind it and mail you a new PCB.

czardestructo, 3 months ago

Cool, let’s see what states in the US are paying their fair share into the federal government, if you take more than you contribute then you loose your electoral votes.

czardestructo, 3 months ago

Bitch

czardestructo, 4 months ago

Agreed. To add to this because the traffic is being blocked it keeps retrying so it’s inflating the traffic size. I have about 14 tplink WiFi switches on a vlan and my pfsense rule for NTP is less than 6 megabytes. OP is conflating legitimate NTP traffic with Tor.

czardestructo, 4 months ago

I did that. I popped off the soft flaps at the bottom of my fenders and attached longer flaps from a semi rigid plastic I had so that it almost touched the ground. Looked goofy but kept me dry.

czardestructo, 4 months ago

Early centrino laptops had a 16-32gig solid state drive in addition to mechanical disks purely to speed boost time. It was part of the spec in order to advertise Intel Centrino. SSD was too expensive to do the whole disk so just a simple operating system essentials raid type setup made booting incredibly fast for 2010 standards.

czardestructo, 4 months ago

If you can solder and heat shrink then search for “usb c trigger board” on ebay and get some for like $5. They will request either 5v, 9v, 12v, 15v or 20v. I’ve found for most older battery powered barrel jack devices a voltage that is an little under spec works just fine. Ive convertered everything in my house and now own a nice USB PD battery bank, life is good.

czardestructo, 4 months ago

Perhaps not the same but I own a 150 year old home in America and I had foam insulation blown in. The insulation it provided was minor but what it helped tremendously with was drafts and air exchange. On older homes air leaks and sealing any cracks and drafts can potentially save you more money than adding actual insulation depending on how leaky it is. Food for thought though it might not help you.

czardestructo, 4 months ago

I don’t know why this simple fact is so often over looked. If you have to work two jobs, commute, play with your kid, do laundry, make dinner, clean up then try and relax there is NO TIME to nurture your damn kid. As a dad it’s easy to see how single moms and blue collar parents have to constantly stick their kids in front of a iPad because they have nothing left to give.

czardestructo, 4 months ago

This is a plug for China. It will work fine in US outlets but it’s intended for that Chinese market hence the lack of holes.

czardestructo, 4 months ago

+1 this is exactly my experience. My install must be 5-6 years old at this point and its on the rails. I’ve braved many php updates…

czardestructo, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Yes I’ve been doing this with my prius for over a decade. The 12V ‘alternator’ on the prius is enough to sustain about 1000w which is plenty for a fridge and some lights. The engine only turns on once an hour to top off the main battery.

czardestructo, 5 months ago

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

czardestructo, 5 months ago

USA here. Can we please just start taxing fuel appropriately and remove subsidies? If fuel just cost what it actually costs (like the EU) then most of the problem goes away because only people who actually get work done with their truck’s will afford to run them and only while getting a job done. Currently 2/3 of the heavy duty trucks I see are grocery haulers for little boys.

czardestructo, 5 months ago

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.

czardestructo, 5 months ago

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.