Agreed. I think most prominently competitive gaming; development where you need to assure it later on actually works as intended on the target platform; and business stuff where parties are obliged by contract to guarantee something works flawlessly and keeps running that way - are good examples.

That laptop doesn’t look to me like it was intended to do any of that, so that’s maybe why I’m being a bit negative here. It’s cool and a nice idea, though…

(And we already have ARM-based retro machines, FPGA clones if popular processors available. So there is no need for them to do the exact same thing.)

The M6117C also isn’t the original and not that old. Also the 8MB of RAM aren’t true to the original.

I’m not sure. I occasionally use emulation. And I think it’s fine. Unless you’re a speed runner and need everything to be exact to the frame timing, you won’t notice. Certainly not for a desktop UI like the Win 3.11 on the photo. I guess it depends on the use-case.

Something like a FPGA or an ESP32 can also be repaired, replaced, programmed and most of the things a CPU or different architecture can do. And if the emulation layer doesn’t have too many flaws, it’ll be pretty realistic. Not exactly the same thing, but I think it’ll do for practically any use-case. And it comes with other benefits.

I think you’re allowed to do it just for the sake of it. But I often see people using an original SNES because “emulation is shit” and then they proceed to connect it to the TV set in their livingroom, which isn’t even close to the original experience because it adds lots of latency and doesn’t have interlacing and the colors are different than on a CRT, too. I think that’s just having strong opinions despite being uneducated. And I think I’m equally as well off with my Raspberry Pi and Emulationstation. (Which can also run DOS games.)

In the end everyone is entitled to their opinion. But this also isn’t the original (You can get an old Laptop… I have one with an 486.) But this isn’t the original but a replica. And it’s debatable (in my opinion) whether it’s the CPU architecture that does the realism, or other factors. I think for realism, you’d need a black and white liquid crystal display, a NiMH battery that degrades fast if you don’t charge it right and half the amount of RAM at most. And maybe just a floppy drive. The CPU is something you wouldn’t notice with the current state of technology.

Hmm. They’re dirt cheap so that is a pro. I don’t think they’re made to withstand mechanical load. So good for internal connections but less so if you’re moving around the wires constantly. There are beefier and more elaborate connectors available for that. But in my experience the JST connectors do their job well for normal electronics projects.

One thing to consider is the current rating. A quick googling tells me a common JST connector is rated for 3 Amps. That’s not a lot. About 75 LEDs per connector to stay within the limit. (Given 5V WS2812 RGB at full brightness. Or ~220 if it’s 12 Volt strips) So if your led strips aren’t longer than that, I’d say you’re fine.

But I’m not an expert on those things. I can’t tell you whether to choose the SM family or another one… But:

The Wikipedia article says JST SM connectors are used in some LED strips…

(So. I’d use them. But they’re not “the best solution”. They’re the minimum to do an alright job, make sure you can’t connect them backwards etc and apart from that, made to be as cheap as possible. The best would probably be some high quality german engineered products or sth like that (the country doesn’t really matter…))

JST connectors? They’re fairly common in all sorts of electronics.

Maybe check for loose screws, that’s one of the most common issues. And your Slicer settings, maybe it isn’t saving or restoring the Bed Levelling data.

That’d be the easiest solution. But I think it won’t work with this specific hardware, as it needs to close the damper with a separate 10s(?) pulse after the exhaust hood turned off.

Sounds good. Usually the simpler solutions are best. At least around the house in my experience.

Yes, it’s probobly not worth it. I wouldn’t know how to wire it to a 3 position switch, that’s not easy.

I just included the idea because it could be a cleaner solution. I mean there are edge-cases. For example with your setup, you can’t cook while the Wifi is down. That might or might not be a concern.

No, I mean for the input sensing. To see if someone pushed the switch for the hood… The shelly 2.5 has 2 outputs and 2 additional inputs for switches. You cant’t control a third device. But you can measure if there’s mains voltage on 2 additional inputs. If wired correctly to the switch of the hood… You can detect if it’s on and control the 2 damper channels all with one shelly 2.5

I think the 2 outputs are like controlling blinds. That’s a fairly common use-case for something like a shelly 2.5 and should work fine.

Your Shelly 2.5 also has 2 inputs: SW1 and SW2. You could also wire one of those in to the hood so it can directly detect if it’s powered. If that’s possible… Idk, it needs to be after its switch. likely the hood isn’t made for this and you’d need to mess with the internal wiring. Your setup is a bit easier.

I’m not sure what happens if both channels are active simultaneously… Some devices handle this and prefer one direction, but not all of them. I can’t tell from the eBay page.

Hmmh. I think ‘link aggregator’ is somewhere in the description. You’re right. My issue is that oftentimes it doesn’t work because it’s just the link and no comment. While hackernews or my favorite tech blog with just their (unfederated) readership has dozens or hundreds of comments to the same thing. And sometimes I ask a question about the news article and don’t get a reply. It often feels like the people posting just dump random news without engaging and the community also just scroll past…

I’d be okay if it were a news feed WITH discussion…

Maybe I’m a bit negative. That’s mainly because I envision Lemmy to be more. And there are news articles that get attention. But I got a bit disappointed with that. In my eyes it’s mainly world politics and negative articles that get people to express their opinion and dissent. Rarely the positive ones. And I need a balance. I’m okay with discussing the wars in the world and the rise of right-wing nuts or useless politicians if I get on the other hand positive news, meaningful discussions about OpenAI’s Sora, computers and societal and technogogical progress. But it’s a bit skewed here, one thing happens, the other one gets 3 comments at best. I understand it, it’s always easier to disagree or talk about emotional topics. And it’s the same on other platforms. But it got me mildly annoyed with people and I restrain myself a bit from being part of that. I’ve lately focused more on talking about my hobbies, answering personal questions and helping people with tech issues. And less politics and news. But that’s just my 2 cents and I don’t want to tell anybody what to do.

Yes. I agree. A majority of the posts in my timeline is just someone posting the news. Lots of the posts get no engagement. Upvotes, yes, but zero comments. I kind of dislike it. I already have a feed reader and I don’t view Lemmy as a news feed… I’m here for the discussions.

So, news maybe, if people engage and use this to write their 2 cents beneath that. But I’d definitely appreciate genuine conversations and helping people or just talking or learning things.

I don’t think this works. The communities which are successful here on Lemmy are the ones where a large group of people left Reddit at once. For example the piracy people or the german meme community and a few other examples.

I’ve seen several communities in which one or individuals post daily, but it somehow doesn’t really lead to more engagement. It stays more or less the newsfeed of that person. It is better than a dead community and a few people read it and maybe upvote, but I’ve never seen this approach generate traction and change things around in a substancial way.

At least that’s my observation. Feel free to send me counterexamples if I’m wrong… I’m also interested in how to foster healthy and nice communities… But at this point I have no solution to offer.

You’re not really helpful because you misunderstood what they’re trying to do. Look at the Thingiverse link. They want to place a camera in front of the meter. Not disassemble it or touch the meter at all, except for attaching a mount that holds that camera. Not touching a meter (just barely touching the casing) and pointing a camera at it should be allowed in most countries.

But you’re right, you shouldn’t mess with your meters. Or rewind the mileage on your car, or swap price-tags in the store. That’s all fraud and not allowed.

Btw, we have meters that have a magnet inside of the dial, so you can read it with a reed-switch.

What? 15 days? I thought they run for like 6 hours or so. Now I’m interested in printing one.

So, does the clock work well? How long does it run? Would you recommend that print? Any caveats?

Depends on how much RAM your RasPi 4 has. And if you use HA-addons that use lots of RAM. You could also switch from PiHole to AdGuard. The latter is available as a HA-addon.

Maybe have a look at something like Docker to set up containers for multiple services on the same RasPi. Docker can also set up networking so you can route everything through something like OpenWRT.

OMG it’s R2D2! I loved him in Star Trek

Me neither. Sorry. I just heard in the podcast that scripts now can return values. And we can always store state inside of some input helpers. But if you don’t find a solution or an idea of how to do it in the forum, it’s maybe not (yet) possible this way. Or too complicated.

I have a few other things to do before i can start fiddling around with Assist and soldering some voice assistant for the kitchen.

Ease of use. They package the software for you. Make everything work together, do authentication. Patch everything and prepare updates and the most recent hardening tipps for the webserver. As well as configure fail2ban etc.

I’d prefer some containers to Yunohost. But I don’t know of any other selfhosting solution that works as well and is as ‘fire and forget’. I like to recommend it to people who don’t have the time or skills to do everything themselves. Or who worry about getting the security bit right.

I use it because it’s good enough for me and i like to do other things in the time it saves me.