ℂ𝕠𝕕𝕖𝕩, ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕖

watching this guy fix up a DVD rental machine and a kernel panic from ahci, then clone to an ssd. but struggled the entire way 😅 but he got it to run Doom!

@e0syn wonder what a thicker wick would look like.. eye of sauron type thing?

is it just me or is this insanely pretty

@devinbgoble @SledgeDev safety squints and hold your breath!

@CodexHere @SledgeDev I like the ones where they're welding galvanized pipe with no PPE.

for some reason this kinda stuff fascinates me... but wow the comments are dead internet theory in a bottle.

@CodexHere Looks like the thermal capacity should be doubled by 3

@fjzeit taxes here can be annoying, but the software these days is free and covers even business taxes. it's mostly data entry, and it walks you through it. I just skipped a box like a goofball 🤪

@CodexHere i pay somebody to do it. easiest outcome. but my tax situation is relatively straightforward: my income tax is already sorted through the year, so year-end filing is usually about deductions, any dividends that aren't fully franked, and cgt.

paying tax bill tomorrow. it’s going to hurt.

maybe @SledgeDev might find it interesting as a professional welder 😉

i dunno, i find this to be like redneck engineering or third world engineering... it's the primitive approach combined with the effectiveness that makes it genius.

@vyrotek badass! there's a place called Pinballz here in Austin that's a similar vibe.

Rented an entire arcade for my daughter's birthday party. So many choices.

@fjzeit eh they're pretty easy when you understand them, I just messed up on entering a box from a form... simple and silly mistake

@CodexHere eeek

@michiokage there's quite a few designs out there but they don't quite compare to existing methods. noise, cost, weight, and they still deteriorate in the same amount of time.

@CodexHere tbf, we desperately need a new tire design. we’re one fungal outbreak away from rubber tree farms collapsing (again)

"from first principals" is a low IQ indicator btw.

@Dexerto cable: physical lines, maintenance, support, schedules. streaming: rented servers, rented wires, on demand. one owns the hardware, the other owns the customer.

Linus Tech Tips has called out YouTube for adding 30-second unskippable ads to its TV app "When will it be enough? Are we just going to go all the way back to cable TV with three-minute ad breaks? Can we not?"

@devinbgoble @home_assistant alternatively, if the devs were active, they could at least point me to the right direction in the code base instead of being snarky and stubborn. holy shit oss is like a pretentious begger

@devinbgoble @home_assistant meanwhile the pushback i get is "submit a PR"... sure, let me wade through 2-3 million lines of code, configurations, build tooling, etc just to track down the code that you won't even look at the issue or PR for maybe 3-6 years.... i'll get RIGHT on that.

@home_assistant mods are fucking retards. i called out that no one ever helps, and instead of helping they say "well maybe no one knows?" 40k people in the discord and hundreds of thousands people on the forums, and they want to make the argument that "no one knows"?! fuck you

@devinbgoble dude LLMs are absolutely AMAZING for this shit... you can even be like: google.com/search?q=bro+i…

@CodexHere He admitted he could have asked AI. That's literally one of its strongest use cases. You can vaguely describe an idea, and it'll tell you exactly what you should be looking for. I used to do the same thing with regular web searching, but it took a lot longer.

this is why we have education systems. I'm really tired of people thinking they're smart because they fell into a solution that's been known FOR MILLENNIA, all because they think they're smarter than 100+ generations that came before them. bro you're lerping not solving cancer

@michiokage since a pre-teen i've studied this shit, and not once have i looked back at old code in my entire life and was stumped on what was going on, unless it was a crazy process/algorithm that had unnecessary complexity due to limitations, and even then clean code paradigms help

@michiokage it's the same problem i have for most "programmers"... they don't learn design patterns and algorithms and cope themselves into dunning kruger echoing "you don't need that"... compare how they speak about their code and products to how i speak about mine.