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ch00f,

You need a decora style outlet and switches. They all have the same large rectangular opening. All the Caseta wireless switches use that style. Not sure on open source options.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7e74872a-2bf8-4916-9d3c-4a6206872656.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f365af57-f17d-4a9e-973d-a4524337ebdc.jpegAnyway, then you can use a standard three-gang decora faceplate. No need to replace the box.

Also make sure that outlet is GFCI while you’re at it.

ch00f,

I don’t get it. For the average consumer, EVs as they exist right now are fine. Charging is generally 20 mins every 2-3 hours and only on road trips. Charging an EV at home is a trivial technical challenge. I understand that there aren’t chargers on street corners, but vehicles are rarely parked more than 20 feet from some kind of electrical service.

The idea of shipping liquid fuel in trucks and dispensing it out of hoses at special fuel stores is just silly. Rolling out that kind of infrastructure is unnecessary, and hydrogen has already showed that it doesn’t work. We only did it with gasoline because there was no other way.

I can see liquid fuel being useful in certain applications, but for the typical consumer, BEVs are the way to go.

ch00f, (edited )

But that’s the supply chain for the vehicles, not for the fuel. One of the best parts about BEVs is that if a new better technology is invented tomorrow, as long as it continues to use electrons being pushed around, all the infrastructure will continue to work. I don’t care what companies or governments try to do, I can still plug my car into the wall.

There’s money in hoarding the lithium, but not the kind of printer ink/razor blade money that you have with fuel sales.

ch00f,

I can see liquid fuel being useful in certain applications, but for the typical consumer, BEVs are the way to go.

ch00f,

Hollow face illusion produces a face that appears to follow the observer. This just looks like a sculpt under glass.

ch00f,

I recently needed a QR code generated, and for the life of me, I couldn’t find a website that wouldn’t either require me to sign up, or generate the QR code to their link shortener service.

Finally resorted to logging into my headless Linux server and installing some QR code package.

ch00f,

Funny it could sell out when it looks like 4 7400 logic chips that could be wired up on a breadboard.

ch00f,

I remember being really excited when iPhone got geofenced reminders.

ch00f, (edited )

I hate golf for reasons above, but I recently tried Top Golf, and if there is any sustainable future for the sport, that’s it.

A single fairway can serve ~100 tees with probably 500 people playing. And some of the games are super accessible to people of lower skill levels. We played a round of Angry Birds at a work party where the virtual targets were only maybe 25-30 yards away. Super fun.

ch00f,

Yeah, they have a big screen that maps a 3D Angry Birds piggie tower over the fairway, and the birds follow the path of your ball. It really is an impressive 1:1 mapping.

ch00f,

Yeah, but there’s mini golf across town for that.

ch00f,

My mom’s friend was nearly pickpocketed in front of the Trevi Fountain by a man with two thumbs on his right hand. My mom caught him with his hand in her purse and made a big scene. He ran away.

I was 11 years old and had my camera out and ready and it kills me that I didn’t get a photo of his hand.

ch00f,

Heh, my thought too, but it wasn’t like an extra pinky. He had two thumbs stacked on top of each other. I don’t know where they joined, but I could see the pad of one thumb on top of the nail of the other.

I sort of left the hobbyist electronics world back in 2018, and now everything seems to have an embedded Raspberry Pi in it. What's the best way to catch up?

I’m an EE by trade focusing on embedded devices, but most of my work is in relatively low-power STM32 applications. When I stopped following developments in hobby kits, it was mostly Arduino Unos slowly driving I2C OLED displays....

ch00f,

and nobody knows how to code anything and read datasheets anymore.

You seem a bit bitter which I can relate to. As someone who cut his teeth writing assembly for an 8051, I remember feeling a bit cheesed by people using arduinos to do what could be done with a 555.

My career has gotten comfy, but I can feel my skills stagnating with all this new stuff coming out. I of course would never ship a product with a Raspberry Pi embedded in it, but I’d like to have a feel for how to solve problems using newer more advanced hardware. With that in mind, do you have any recommendations?

ch00f,

chugs down cool, refreshing, non-exploitative Lemmy.

Dang, wish it came in a large.

One of the best features of lemmy is that it lets you see individual upvote / downvote counts

genuinely helpful and honestly meaningful (especially if you’re going to invest any level of your mental health in posts (which i don’t recommend but is natural if you try to post what’s on your mind)) being able to see like, oh even if 20 people downvoted me, 7 people agreed with me, i have seven fighters. it’s so much...

ch00f,

Reddit obfuscating vote counts was part of its “vote fuzzing” feature. The goal was to make it impossible for ninja banned accounts to know if their votes were actually being counted. So banned people/bots would keep using their banned accounts rather than make a new one.

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