glarf

joined 2 years ago
[–] glarf 9 points 1 month ago

You will be missed, thank you so much for the time and energy you've shared.

[–] glarf 2 points 3 months ago

Knobgoblin nicely rolls off the tongue

[–] glarf 3 points 5 months ago

This is awesome, I absolutely loved that game. Glad to see it still gets love all these years later!

[–] glarf 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fold 4 daily driver. It's easily my favorite phone since my motoX many years ago. I can't imagine going back to a non-foldable. Looking at floorplans, videos, documents, photos, you name it is so much nicer on a small tablet vs a phone screen. I'll absolutely be getting another foldable when I'm done with this one.

[–] glarf 3 points 5 months ago

Yep I have to second, you lose a ton of safety when overinflating tires like that due to the tire not gripping the road as it would if correctly inflated. Not a trade off I'd make with my life.

 

I came across this today and I thought it might be an incredibly powerful tool. So I was curious to see if anybody in this community has used it yet?

[–] glarf 2 points 6 months ago

Oh for sure, they really went to crap the last few years.

[–] glarf 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Microcenter doesn't sell fridges, unfortunately. However, I have been pretty pleased with them since Fry's is out of then picture. That was a rough couple of years.

[–] glarf -1 points 6 months ago

Some less tired viewers have correctly pointed out that the "warranty" was added for a price and discounted in the cart, as well as free delivery. Perhaps, if you don't find the UI misleading like I did, this isn't a bad thing.

[–] glarf 18 points 6 months ago

Back when they introduced their marketplace, I found an extremely good deal. Thinking it was too good to be true, but cheap enough to say "what the heck," I bought it anyway. Fast forward a week and I received a completely different item than what was described (no surprise, to be honest) in the listing. Naturally, I reached out to customer service for a refund because the item I received was not as advertised. To my surprise, Newegg refused to refund me the whole amount even though they acknowledged the listing was essentially a scam, so I back charged through my credit card. Then, they banned my account. I had been an avid supporter of the company and built many computers from things purchased there, up until that complete joke of a refund process.

Newegg died the day they sold out way back in the 2010s, screw that horrible customer service.

[–] glarf 3 points 6 months ago

m the same IP address? Cause some places check for that kind of thing.

Yep, didn't bother playing any games, same IP.

 

So I was shopping with my wife today and I said "oh let's see if my membership helps out." So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I'm paying for in this membership if the items "original price" is higher for me than it is for regular shoppers?

[–] glarf 4 points 7 months ago

That was great!

[–] glarf 15 points 7 months ago

Wow that's a blast from the past.

 

Greetings again! Yesterday I posted the schematic for this circuit, and today I have routed it as a 2 layer PCB. The intent of this board is for it to be a playground to build autonomous LED animations with the LP5812 ICs from TI, which seem pretty neat.

I'm hoping to get feedback on this design and sanity checks to make sure I haven't missed something when routing this out. I couldn't figure out how to upload multiple photos, so I'll add some more views in the comments. Cheers!

If you're interested in the KiCad files or other related things, I've got it on GitHub.

 

Greetings! I've been throwing this schematic together as I want to experiment with the TI LP5812 IC which is an i2c controlled autonomous matrix LED driver. I am a novice when it comes to electronics so I'm looking to see if I've missed anything in this demo board schematic.

The intended purpose of this circuit will be to provide a playground to experiment with different lighting patterns by allowing the user to interact with two of these LP5812 ICs over i2c as each can only drive 4 RGB leds each.

My main points of concern: Making sure that I haven't missed anything critical in the rather dense TI datasheet https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lp5812.pdf?ts=1710689049125 as well as making sure that my schematic makes sense.

I chose not to include i2c pullups on this dev board as I felt that was best left for the host to configure, but I'm happy to learn. Thank you!

Here's a link to the KiCad project if you'd like to see more https://github.com/scytherswings/Starlight-LP5812-Dev-Board/tree/main

 

I hope this doesn't mean they are on the slippery slope of selling user data, thoughts?

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