Tracks? Where we're going, we don't need tracks!
phx
joined 2 years ago
Also, use/borrow a multimeter and test the voltage output in the adaptor. Plenty of "dead" laptops I've seen were actually dead adaptors that failed to provide power and then the battery just ran out
Maintaining presence of mind. Everyone knows they exist and most have probably had a coke, but when you're hot and thirsty and want something cold, that last ad you saw might specifically whisper in your hindbrain "I want a coke".
Yeah paper maps work, I was just thinking of a way one can acquire updated maps on a regular basis without needing petabytes of storage :-)
Would stuff that's locally hosted count? You can actually download the entirety of Wikipedia and fit it into 22GB, which is well within the capabilities of an common SD card.
Maps are a bigger thing. Google has apparently collected about 20PB (20 million gigabytes) of data for maps, though I'd imagine if you just need street/address/road data that might be a significantly smaller subset. Just the satellite imagery of Google Earth is about 196TB. Not sure what just the basics would take up
This is both amazing and horrific...
Some people - many people in larger cities - literally to that far to/from work on a daily basis (which IMO is kinda crazy and I'm glad the push for WFH is helping change that)
Kinda feel like know only do the instances (like lemmy.world) need to get some decent funding, but also the devs.
The instances need to pay for hardware or hosting, plus maybe admin work (obviously people will do it for love but cash is nice too), but as a fairly fledgling platform, there's also going to be some serious dev work needed to fix bugs, close exploits, improve efficiencies, and add features. Even the best host can be dead in the water if the underlying software has an unfixed exploit or lacks the features needed to maintain/optimize it. It's one of the reasons people flocked to 3rd-party Reddit clients, after all (because Reddit themselves couldn't be arsed to build up the tools themselves).
I've tried to deal with several vendors regarding abusive domains and it's pretty terrible in general. Everything is a webform with a generic responder - if any at all - and then weeks or months or nothing. Even domains impersonating proper commercial entities.
- GoDaddy: here's the real domain, now here's the domain registered via you, cloned from the real domain (including text, corporate logos, etc with some additional chinese crap) and being used for phishing/scams. Their response: "fill out this bullshit form that goes nowhere"
- CloudFlare: "uh, we don't actually host the site (just the DNS and "protection" service that hides who does) sorry" Google: "we'll continue showing the scam/phishing domain in top search results after your reports because apparently accurate search results aren't actually our thing"
I've tried to deal with several vendors regarding abusive domains and it's pretty terrible in general. Everything is a webform with a generic responder - if any at all - and then weeks or months or nothing. Even domains impersonating proper commercial entities.
- GoDaddy: here's the real domain, now here's the domain registered via you, cloned from the real domain (including text, corporate logos, etc with some additional chinese crap) and being used for phishing/scams. Their response: "fill out this bullshit form that goes nowhere"
- CloudFlare: "uh, we don't actually host the site (just the DNS and "protection" service that hides who does) sorry" Google: "we'll continue showing the scam/phishing domain in top search results after your reports because apparently accurate search results aren't actually our thing"
I've tried to deal with several vendors regarding abusive domains and it's pretty terrible in general. Everything is a webform with a generic responder - if any at all - and then weeks or months or nothing. Even domains impersonating proper commercial entities.
- GoDaddy: here's the real domain, now here's the domain registered via you, cloned from the real domain (including text, corporate logos, etc with some additional chinese crap) and being used for phishing/scams. Their response: "fill out this bullshit form that goes nowhere"
- CloudFlare: "uh, we don't actually host the site (just the DNS and "protection" service that hides who does) sorry" Google: "we'll continue showing the scam/phishing domain in top search results after your reports because apparently accurate search results aren't actually our thing"
Most stuff will draw what it needs for amps. A power supply that provides insufficient amps may fail to start the device, or the power supply will overheat.
Supplying too many volts will fry many electronics though.
If you have a 19V 3A laptop it'll be happy with a 19V 5A brick, but probably not so much with a 25V 3A brick which may overload a component and release the magic smoke