vk6flab

vk6flab, 2 hours ago

Boot from a memtest86 ISO and hammer your hardware. If it crashes, the hardware is the issue, if it doesn’t, then start looking at software.

www.memtest86.com

vk6flab, 2 hours ago

Note that there is no calibration of audio hardware, so the level of usefulness of any such software would be strictly limited.

vk6flab, 16 hours ago

You can change how long a phone rings for. Talk to her telco for both landline and mobile.

In my experience, if someone doesn’t want to answer the phone, strapping it to their arm is unlikely to make any difference and in my experience they’re more likely than not to leave it on the charger.

Long battery life and tiny battery are on opposite ends of physics. Pick your poison.

Health monitoring is unlikely to be transmitted to emergency services, except iOS fall detection.

iOS and Android are both tracking as much as they can get away with.

Remote management is likely only with devices used in corporate settings.

vk6flab, 2 days ago

Only you can answer this.

How often do you take the bus today and will this bike change that and if so, how?

Are you going to have to lift it?

How does warranty and servicing compare?

What range do they have?

How long does it take to charge?

In other words, keep asking questions until you find a deal breaker…

Good luck, stay safe, have fun!

vk6flab, 2 days ago

Looks oversized to me, that’s 3.25 cm x 3.25 cm, looks like they could take it down by 40% and still call it a 2x2 😇

vk6flab, 2 days ago

Australia doesn’t even have that many officers in total, “only” 65,000.

However, it turns out that the USA appears to have less police officers per head of population when compared to Australia.

Source: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_and_dependenci…

vk6flab, 3 days ago

… not forgetting that it’s poorly laid out.

vk6flab, 3 days ago

Who cares?

Facebook is a cesspool of spam with an owner who in my opinion appears to think that “Soylent Green” is an instruction manual…

vk6flab, 3 days ago

The original article:

theconversation.com/how-your-vision-can-predict-d…

vk6flab, 3 days ago

The actual study:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38424122/

vk6flab, 3 days ago

The full text of the study:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10904745/

vk6flab, 4 days ago

Yeah, funny … right until they suffocate or rupture their esophagus.

vk6flab, 4 days ago

You can reduce the time there by making the water colder. You can also approach the experience as a sequence of steps and work out how you can wash every single part of your body in the least amount of steps.

For example, is it quicker to get all wet, turn off the shower, lather up your body, then rinse it all off in one go, or is it more efficient to do it from top to bottom, one body part at a time?

What’s the fastest you’ve been able to go from sleeping to walking out the door having had a full shower?

Finally, you should probably have a shower once a day if you’re around other people or if you get visitors. You might not smell anything, but they definitely will.

Finally, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with zoning out in the shower. Some days you luxuriate in the experience, some days you don’t.

Good luck!

vk6flab, 4 days ago

Yes. As I said, I’m aware of Kermit. It’s like sendmail, user friendly, just picky who it makes friends with.

I have not discovered a complete language reference for Kermit, neither have I been able to determine if it works asynchronously, since the examples I’ve found are just polling loops, which is not what I need.

My use case is talking over serial to a CNC to iteratively calibrate it. This requires dealing with asynchronous events, think move, interrupt by edge switch.

vk6flab, 4 days ago (edited 6 hours ago)

No, it needs to be serial communication. My use case is talking to a CNC.

Edit: fat fingers: “ea” -> “to a”

vk6flab, 5 days ago

The trick is to just start small. One thing at a time. Just use the thing and put it back in the same place. If you find that you need two things at the same time, put them together. Rinse and repeat.

vk6flab, 7 days ago

The voting behaviour around here is … interesting.

As for the /s, that’s because of how humans communicate. Most of our context cues are subliminal, facial expression, tone of voice, body language, eye movement, etc. These account for the bulk of the actual message.

In text based communication like this, those cues are missing entirely. We use emojis and smiley face brackets to give a clue to what is going on.

Then there’s the language barrier, people come from different countries with different languages, but also different cultural ideas of what’s funny and what isn’t. You can tell when you start looking into swearing for example. The Dutch hurl contagious diseases at each other, the Italians diss each others mother, Australians use body parts.

Sarcasm is a special form of interaction, straddling truth and disbelief in some way. It’s not universally recognised in the same way since it often triggers off cultural beliefs which vary across the world.

So, to bring all that together, the simple “/s” shows the reader that sarcasm is intended in a more or less universal way. Of course that too has a cultural impact, but that’s a rabbit hole I’m not going down today.

vk6flab, 7 days ago

In addition to the comments made in reply to your question, something else to consider is that all loudspeakers and ears are different.

If you want to faithfully reproduce the original sound, you might need to tweak the audio using an equaliser.

If you have tiny speakers for example, you might need to amplify the lower frequencies, the bass, and suppress some of the higher frequencies, the treble, to compensate.

Deafness is not the only thing that happens to ears. For example, my ears have trouble hearing much above 2 kHz, so I often need to suppress the bass and increase the treble to make stuff properly audible, since otherwise the bass overwhelms everything and I can’t understand what a person is saying.

Finally, sound is based on vibration of air. Slow vibration makes low sounds, fast vibration makes high sounds. The speed at which the vibration happens is expressed as a frequency and the name for it is Hertz, or Hz. 1 Hz is once per second. 10 Hz, is ten times per second. 2 kHz is 2000 times per second.

vk6flab, 7 days ago

In Australia an ISP went to extreme lengths to have a ruling, spending four years in litigation:

torrentfreak.com/iinet-isp-not-liable-for-bittorr…

vk6flab, 7 days ago

Asking for money is one thing. Asking for money after removing functionality that I depended on is quite a different thing.

To be clear, I voiced my concerns in writing and was ignored.

vk6flab, 7 days ago

I wrote it to preempt comments about complaining without telling anyone about my concerns.

I completely understand your view and agree that Signal went in a different direction than I wanted or needed.

I didn’t use it as a primary SMS replacement, rather that was the “hook” to get a bigger customer base amongst my contacts whilst sneaking encryption capabilities in by the back door.

I mentioned RCS because a messaging app that integrates with the common platform of SMS and RCS would bring end-to-end encryption capabilities to even more people. I could imagine integration with other messaging protocols too.

The original UI for Signal made it very clear if something was encrypted or not. Right until someone decided to introduce custom colour for each chat, essentially killing the clearest indication of security level.

A smarter person would have changed colour depending on level of privacy for example.

The crypto donation was just weird and put me off ever even considering making one.

vk6flab, 7 days ago

That’s odd, I used it for years and it served me well.