ch00f

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[–] ch00f 6 points 1 day ago

How would you cool the water to condense it?

Getting it to cool efficiently is actually a very interesting challenge. Certainly more challenging that I thought before watching this https://youtu.be/tmbZVmXyOXM?si=tN5akv4gB4Nmr5XU

[–] ch00f 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also to add, look up suicide stats in England after coal gas was replaced with natural gas. Suddenly, poison gas was less available. Not only did gas related suicides drop, all suicides drop.

No way to prove causation, but for a lot of people, the decision to kill yourself depends a lot on convenience. There isn’t a lot of planning involved.

[–] ch00f 31 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Shotgun physics get complicated. I remember hearing a case where the gas in front of the slug (or shot or whatever) propelled the shotgun out of the victim’s mouth, and the shot ended up skimming off their face.

Leaving them disfigured but very much alive.

In any case, suicide is largely an emotional thing rather than logical. Don’t read too much into it.

But if you’re up for a dark laugh on the topic of conscientious suicide, consider https://youtu.be/snjCj0ntG8E?si=8omBU_VZA_MqL-Lp

[–] ch00f 6 points 2 days ago

I’ve always wanted to start a ghost busting business.

Just explain that after I’m done, all the strange sounds they hear have a perfectly logical explanation.

[–] ch00f 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Camera man got stuck in the door again"

This is one of my favorites.

[–] ch00f 4 points 2 days ago

Had to hunt down the original forum thread after seeing this story posted a few weeks ago.

I think it's pretty obvious why none of the news outlets covering this are including the original photo. Even this article embeds an 8 minute video of a dude talking about it without embedding the original pic.

[–] ch00f 49 points 2 days ago

And when the company stops wanting to pay the webservice hosting costs, you have to pay the plumber to come back and throw your useless toilet in the trash.

Worked for a company that made a kitchen appliance that had zero buttons. Needed an app. If you unplugged it without shutting it down in the app, it'd send you an alert notification. The app took at least three taps to fucking turn it off.

And the company was paying something like $1MM/yr to AWS to keep this thing running.

[–] ch00f 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This is a non story. Dude got some cheap large fridge-style magnets for marketing, and they left a bit of residue.

Them being magnets has nothing to do with what happened, and the damage is not nearly as bad as pictures in the lead image.

If the Cybertruck wasn’t such a grocery hauler, I don’t think anybody would even notice this.

[–] ch00f 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Not really. Mouthwash as well before bed. Never struggle with odor. And I wear a night guard to boot.

Edit: oh and a tongue scraper helps

[–] ch00f 144 points 3 days ago (14 children)

I floss and electric toothbrush every night. My dentist routinely complements my hygiene. Every cavity I’ve had filled in the past 8 years started from before I had an e-brush.

At a recent visit after remarking on how little plaque I had, my dentist asked if I brush twice a day. I told him no, only once a day.

He immediately changed his tune and told me that I should brush twice a day for better results.

I think he’s in the pocket of Big Paste.

[–] ch00f 1 points 3 days ago
 

Looking to ROM dump just a handful of games, so I’m trying not to spend hundreds on a Sanni or Retrode. I saw this on AliExpress for $15.

I’ve personally had good luck with Alibaba and Aliexpress, but I recognize that this could just straight not work. There’s no documentation, but it claims the game data will show up like files on a USB flash drive.

Anybody know where this design came from?

 

Edit: turns out these are all bootleg and I’m a moron. Only two Zelda games were officially released for GBA.

Just kicked off a return.

 

I’m now at a point where I can detect 152 nodes in my city. 25 are listed as “online.”

Yet the only contact I’ve gotten is the occasional “hello world” and once or twice a response to my own “hello world.”

It’s possible that nobody has anything to say, but I also suspect the network isn’t robust enough to maintain contact and facilitate a real conversation between random strangers.

Has anybody else here managed to actual chat with someone they don’t know?

 

Rak wireless module with battery/solar.

My question is…now what? I’m in Seattle, I can pick up 121 nodes, but there no traffic.

Is everybody using private channels? Or is nobody talking? I don’t see many messages and got one reply to a general CQ I sent out, but no response to the follow up.

I guess I was kind of hoping for what I get over ham radio, occasional chats, evening nets, etc.

Am I running into a technical limitation? Or is that the gist of Meshtastic?

As a follow-up, can I easily see if my router is handling other people’s traffic? I’d like to know if I’m helping.

 

So just installed a rooftop relay based on a Rak wireless module. I can now reach over 120 nodes (around 20 “online”).

I guess my question now is…now what?

I come from ham radio, so I was hoping to make come connections and maybe have some conversations, but the best I got was a single reply to a CQ, but I got no response from my follow-up.

Does anybody actually have conversations over the general Meshtastic channel? Is it all encrypted channels? Or is nobody talking at all?

Is there any way to determine how much traffic my router is handling?

This is in Seattle, BTW.

 

This might not be news to everyone, but since 2021, they stopped offering an alternative to the app. You can no longer print or screenshot the barcodes because they roll.

Super lame.

 

…the correct answer on the crossword is wrong. “Earthrise” is not a natural phenomenon. The Earth doesn’t rise in the sky of the Moon. The Moon is tidally locked. It only appears to rise from orbit where it was observed by Apollo 8 in 1968.

And pulsars were first discovered in 1968 (or at least that’s when they were named).

So, it recognized that it was a crossword question, but it didn’t give the crossword answer. The answer it did give us technically more correct.

 

In my head this was Ian Kung, but I can’t find it on his channel.

The creator was trying to make a point about how broken copyright enforcement is on YouTube by basically watching cool videos and “reacting” by saying the same thing after each one loosely tailored to the content. They were all based around the phrase “my wife” or something like that.

Like “wow, what a cute lazy dog. It’s almost as lazy as my wife,” “if you think that’s a big whale, you should meet my wife,” or something to that effect.

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