dgriffith

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

"Oh, it's got an embedded TIFF of the actual content. That explains it."

Yes, I am quite old now.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 43 points 4 months ago

Bastard user from hell

Every IT/software group needs to have one, otherwise you get complacent.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah it's steadily getting enshittified.

I used to have a mythtv box that I'd built , like, 15 years ago and it was pretty good. For a while there TV UIs were adequate enough that I didn't need it, but it seems that maybe it's time to build another one.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

TVs that do anything more than displaying a signal exactly as it's input shouldn't exist.

Some of that input could do with a bit of tweaking though.

I wouldn't mind if the TV was able to do things with the audio track, like remove background music, or lift the volume of people speaking, or erase laugh tracks/live audience hooting& hollering.

There's probably similar manipulation that you could do on the video side (eventually, once TVs stop getting the worst processors ever, not here and now). Imagine a prompt that says "Airbrush every recognisable brand name on-screen so that it blends with the background".

I seriously doubt if any major manufacturer would do that kind of thing though, so better get working on jailbreaking those TVs.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Hm that certainly won't help!

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can use a set of probes in series with a 100 watt incandescent bulb as a "poor man's megger" to roughly check insulation. Of course everything needs to be appropriately insulated for this!

Remove the motor from the washing machine and place it on an insulating surface.

Put one probe from your light bulb on a motor terminal.

Put the other probe on the frame of the motor.

The bulb should not light up.

Repeat for various motor terminals in case there are different windings/etc.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They'd have more luck just using a real big cannon , at least that was attempted in the 60's with Project HARP, with moderate success (180km altitude , prototype orbit circularisation system) before the project was cancelled.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Awesome! You are lucky, some of those devices don't have a reset - they are just like a fuse and once they are blown they need replacing.

Good to hear it's all working again, and at least now you know for next time!

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There should be some basic protection for the element in case there is no water, because there's a possibility that there would be no water , and there's also a possibility that your dishwasher would catch fire if the element is turned on with no water.

So when you're looking at the heater element, check that there isn't a thermal fuse nearby and check that it hasn't blown.

Possibly your new element will have it incorporated but maybe not.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Anything useful is still "unsafe."

So you take care with the bits that have to deal with C, just like you have to with C code itself, and then all the rest of your code is still safe by default. Still a net improvement, yes?

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you occasionally boot to windows, it's known to leave NICs in an unusable state if you just hibernate/quick power off. You need to boot back to windows and so a "proper" shutdown for it to come good.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Consider yourself corrected then. I've skimmed your comment history. Your go-to insult is "bootlicker" or alternatively, a simple clown emoji. In your comments you seem to provide very little context as to why you think that, it's just, "I deem you to be a BOOTLICKER! Next!"

So maybe a little guidance for you:

The very, very, first thing you do when dealing with perceived propaganda - be it on mainstream media, online, or wherever - is to remove all the emotion and insults and see what's left. You know what I see when I parse your comments like that? Very little.

Thus I conclude you have nothing of importance to say, and you become background noise that gets tuned out.

Actually your comments do have some small value. I check your bootlicker-comment-score and if it's greater than 5, I know the community you posted in isn't worth my time.

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