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Electrical Engineer and Pansexual Menace (He/They) (Ham: KE0MKA) Electron-Gun-Slinger. Toots about Electronics and Socialism. Wife-"guy" in training.

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extremely niche rec, but i'm having such a good time working with sunfiretesting.com for tangara's EMC work. great mob, hugely recommended.

North,
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@jacqueline I talked with Tim and got a quote from them during my shopping process and I would probably go with them for my next project that requires testing and certification.

On the other hand, I might just never do another project that requires testing and certification, lol

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I know 60 down and 20 up sounds wildly slow to everyone outside the US, but frankly I'm just shocked that I can do that on DSL over POTS wiring that hasn't been updated in 30+ years. Two 30AWG copper wires are streaming HD hentai into my house? Seems pretty futuristic to me.

North,
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@bobmcwhirter I'm just a little too far outside the city limits. Pizza delivers here, but broadband does not. The only other options I have are satellite and 5g. I'm somewhat tempted by Verizon's home 5g service, but Brightspeed has been cheap and reliable, so I'm hesitant to shake things up for a radio based provider.

North,
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@bobmcwhirter Yeah, they changed it last year I think? Maybe the year before? It was CenturyLink when I got it

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I will not be making it to the @oshwassociation summit, due to the unfortunate, but my work will be there! Find Nate and ask him about his differential GNSS rangefinder, if FedEx gets their shit together, he might even be carrying it around!

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@rglenn I would love to, I miss the Supercon crowd! It doesn't seem likely, though.

North,
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@rrmutt @avi Oh, hey! Are you the Avi whose fault this is?

North,
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@avi @rrmutt Well, it's nice to virtually meet you!

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So approacheth that most blessed season wherefor I can, with confidence, kill the fucking breakers connected to the baseboard heaters

North,
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Rising one entire socioeconomic class with one weird trick

Video of me shutting off all my heaters

North,
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@recursive This year is for sure the year that I install gas logs in the fireplace

North,
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@recursive Yeah, that's something I've considered, too.

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CEO sends out "look at these cool customers" email featuring Blue Origin and some drilling machine company. Says, "Never forget what we do here."

Bro, if I couldn't forget about this segment of what we "do here," I'd be unemployed.

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Valve control test on the O2 concentrator is making me optimistic. Next is the full pressure test!

video/mp4

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Pressure test went well, safety valve works, it seems like the solenoid valves are working properly, but I need to get a fan on the condenser before I can run long enough to troubleshoot. I may be at the point where I can start adjusting the stage timings!

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Little green bois popping up all over

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Hey @MLE_online, it took entirely too long for me to get around to it, but... they still germinated!

North, to random
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I love assembling a DIN rail. Finally working on the O2 concentrator again.

North, to random
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New vacuum system controller is finally assembled. This time, I went two layers of PCBs and used 3D printed masks to isolate the LEDs. What a glow up.

The rear side of the front PCB with several unmasked areas surrounded by a plastic baffle
Front of the assembled panel with rainbow LED test code running
Side profile of assembly

North, (edited ) to random
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Finally decided to use the wiki to find the stages where my last 50 or so stars were. Glad I did, there were some stages I was never going to find organically. For instance, the only way to get to one was a small chance that you would get warped there by the entrance for another area inside of a stage. Even knowing it was there, I had to reset the stage several times to get the warp.

Overall B3313 v1.0.1 is absolutely a killer SM64 hack if you like spooky/unsettling N64 stuff

North,
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It's mostly exploration and discovery, not crazy platforming or kaizo. It's creepy, sometimes in a campy and cheesy way but mostly in an unsettling and spooky way. If you're not a completionist, then you'll probably have the most fun, but even if you like to collect stars... I mean, there's 450 of them!

It's also fun learning how to navigate a massive, non-logical, labyrinthian, space like the B3313 overworld, if you're into that kind of thing.

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It's also a great way to experience the work of a lot of different Romhack creators, because so many people worked on it.

That said, play one other hack beforehand maybe, just so you're used to the camera and the move set and you don't have to think too hard about moving Mario around.

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If the dialogue boxes took themselves a little more seriously and the story made a little more sense... and if they put some in-game resources for pathfinding... and if they removed Moto's Factory (an awesome stage but it just doesn't fit the rest of the hack) then it would be a 10/10 hack for me...

Also, it would be nice if they added a modern camera alternative, because vanilla cam sucks.

But yeah, totally sick hack. I played like 250 hours between 0.7 and 1.0.1

https://romhacking.com/hack/b3313-super-mario-64-internal-plexus

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Cracking a fresh La Croix, chugging half of it, making a sound like I'm going Super Saiyan

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One way to find out if students/recruiters are using


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@donw @MishaVelthuis @mathowie 💯

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