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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

While I'm not familiar with Modzville, I'm sure he also has several other devices he's already making, and so he doesn't need to scale that much to take on the small demand.

Thanks for the insight

 

There's a new hardmod called ModXO that's been making the rounds. Part of me wants to make a Shopify store selling handmade ModXO pre-builts, but when looking at the BOM and labor costs, the devices would be around $30 USD.

With BOM, labor, and Shopify costs, I'd need to sell 2 each month to stay afloat and while that seems low, I just don't know if that's feasible due to the age of the OG Xbox and niche market who could likely easily put it all tigether themselves.

This sublemmy is pretty small, so I think it's the perfect place to ask: is there a market for something like this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Phones are generally seen as more secure because they're less likely to have malware and the apps should be running in their own sandbox, meaning it's more difficult to see what each app is doing and so theoretically it's more secure.

Most desktop operating systems do not have sandboxing in place, have known malware that could be installed much easier than on a phone, and harder to verify that the system is secure. This is doubly so taking into account that basically the only way to use the banking information is through a web browser, which could have any number of junky web extensions installed.

While things are incrementally changing on the desktop front (mostly on Linux with Atomic distros, Flatpak/Snap, and Firefox container tabs), most banks are only familiar with Windows and macos, and since those two have the most security risks, they'd rather play it safe with the relatively more standardized, theoretically more secure phone OS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You definitely want a mid size case if you're going to move it around. I got a full size with my first build and while it is nice and roomy, it's never fun to move when needed.

The case you have in your list has your 2.5" SSD storage in the back and PSU under an aluminum bar at the bottom. Everything else will mostly likely be easily accessible, but if you ever need to do PSU/SSD changes, it won't be as easy as everything else.

Otherwise, I really like Corsair cases, they've never done me wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To this day,I'll walk up to people and just ask "What's the story, Wishbone?"

My other alternative is "What's the Sitch?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just linked you 6 articles and a peer reviewed paper on the subject, but if you're still not going to believe me, I'm not going to spoonfeed you. This is my last reply to your motonormative idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You have me confused for someone else. Lemmy is a big place with multiple users, someone else said that it's both.

But sure, here you go:

Pedestrian fatalities are correlated with two major factors: speed and vehicle size. In North America, streets are designed to make driving easier and faster: lanes are made wider, and obstacles are removed to reduce visual clutter. This results in everything in NA looking flat and being spread out.

Vehicle sizes are goibg up because of the "size wars": the EPA made limits on fuel emissions barring vehicle size, so auto manufacturers decided to make larger vehicles to get around the limitations. Consumers wanted bigger, "safer" vehicles to make it more likely to survive a crash, so there's become an arms race for vehicle size. As these vehicles get bigger, pedestrians become harder to see, and if a pedestrian is hit, the grill is so high, the pedesteian will be thrown under the vehicle as opposed to over it.

As North America grows, we expand into suburbs, which are residential only, requiring residents to commute into the city to get groceries or go to work. More driving means more km driven.

And if you want my sources, here are a few to get you started:

Pedestrian deaths all-time high - https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car

And https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7317a1.htm

Vehicle size: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/more-and-more-american-pedestrians-are-dying-because-larger-vehicles-incorporating-data-safety-regulations-can-help

And https://www.cdc.gov/pedestrian-bike-safety/about/pedestrian-safety.html

And https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33147075/

Lane width and speeding correlation: https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/review_lane_width_and_speed_parsons.pdf

And https://narrowlanes.americanhealth.jhu.edu/report/JHU-2023-Narrowing-Travel-Lanes-Report.pdf

I hope these provide the answers you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The only thing I know as someone not in the business is that many of the experts are saying larger vehicles are nearly half of all fatalities.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212737005/cars-trucks-pedestrian-deaths-increase-crash-data

Do note that these are numbers for the US, and may not correspond with other countries.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

Were already at an all-time high of vehicle related deaths. We'd actually probably see a decrease in fatalities if we made cars smaller.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I think they store the data about the files in a database, but the files are in a folder structure.

Doesn't make sense to have data that could be a few gigabytes in a database, or maybe that's just me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

As a kid I didn't understand hermits.

Now that I'm an adult, I'm jealous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I personally don't use Photoshop but was using it as an example. You could fill in the blank with other tools like AutoCAD, MS Office, QuickBooks/Quicken, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I think there are two major hurdles keeping Linux adoption back (besides the obvious installation bit). The first is that our backwards compatibility is terrible. It is easier to get old versions of Windows software to run in Wine than it is to get some old Linux software to run natively.

If something like Photoshop did finally release a Linux version, even if they only did one release to make 2% of people happy, it likely wouldn't be able to run natively after 5 years.

The second is a good graphical toolkit. Yes, GTK and Qt exist, but neither are as simple as WinForms or SwiftUI/Aqua.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm not entirely sure some of these are a great idea, but what do y'all think?

 

I have a solar panel from a cheap Walmart device I tore down. Hooking it to a Multi-Meter shows it's about 2.25V (probably supposed to be 2.5V but runs a little low?).

What's something useful I can do with it?

 
 

Doug "quickly" goes through his 13, tongue-in-cheek ways to kill a community. IMO it's a great companion piece to Strong Towns and makes for a great discussion piece with other community members.

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Take the smallest pilot hole drillbit you have (1/16" or 1mm) and drill 5-8 holes in the bottom of your trash can. This not only allows the air to escape as the bag fills up, but also makes it easier to remove the trash bag later.

I've done this with two trash cans now and recommend it to everyone.

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