spauldo

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He followed me home, mommy, can we keep him?

No, dear, it's against the law now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

People surprised: 0.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

DON'T BE FOOLED! This post was made by the cat! It wants narrower TV stands so it can knock them over easier when its owner forgets to feed it!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

I believe you've answered your own question.

Lemmy isn't Marxist-only. The majority of Lemmy users are what the more vocal Lemmygrad and Hexbear users deride as "libs." As a thought experiment, imagine that you are one of us for a moment and then browse Local on one of those.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Accusing people like Stallman of being rapists dilutes the meaning of the word.

Is he creepy? Sure. Does he have rather unpopular opinions on what constitutes pedophilia? Yep. Does he go around forcing people to have sex with him? No.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Scrappy Doo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I assume you're basing the abuse argument on the WWE logo in the corner. Everyone who didn't notice that (me included, at first) just see a girl with a "how dare he?" look on her face. Which is actually pretty funny.

In case you're wondering where all the downvotes are coming from.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I still maintain my boycott of Amazon over the one-click patent.

It's a hassle to buy stuff online without using Amazon. The patent expired years ago. Probably no other person is still boycotting them over it (not that it was ever an effective boycott in the first place). But I just can't bring myself to buy from them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Writing. Specifically, tech writing. I've got an intuitive sense for it, but other than business communication and the occasional bit of internal documentation I don't have any desire to do it professionally.

I get along great with our tech writer, though, since I'm the only other person at the company who can hold a discussion about the Oxford comma.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Favorite? No idea.

Least favorite? Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon. Dammit man, you were good in MASH, why can't you act in anything else?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You'll notice if you look that North America and South America are missing from the map. That's what the title means.

Also, there's no consensus on how many continents there are. Someone from the US would be very surprised to hear that North and South America are the same continent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

On a greentext community? Blasphemy!

 

So, I was buying some stuff off Mouser and off the cuff decided to buy a transformer for a DIY dual-rail power supply. I wasn't paying enough attention and accidentally bought a Wurth 760895441 resonant converter (datasheet linked). I didn't notice until I was looking at the pinout and noticed the switching frequency was 70-120KHz.

I just tinker with this stuff for fun and had never heard of resonant converters. Am I correct in my assumption that this thing cannot just be directly hooked to mains like a Radio Shack special?

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