Unfortunately, the US is taking advantage of this axiom. Their unfettered drive of "influential" content amounts to, essentially, an undeclared cultural invasion.

Sadly, just one lemmy instance doing this won't change much. The US has been invested in destroying my country since the 1970's.

I can't say that Russia or China are any better, before anyone asks.

The fire hazard is no greater for removing the timer, there's a bimetallic strip in there that will detach from circuit if the thing gets over 90ish degrees. It'll just keep cycling like that. Microwaving coffee tastes, in my opinion, worse.

Great idea! Now do this for the americans too.

They've been interfering with the UK since the 70's. We have neo-liberalism as a result of their meddling. We could have had a nice, well-regulated economy that was far less prone to market fluctuations but nope. America doesn't have friends, it has business interests.

On the contrary, they provided a piece of information that I'm very interested in. They're hardly shilling.

clipboard...

This just sounds bothersome. A clipboard should really be machine-wide, that's the purpose of it. Although I can understand the reticence there, what with password managers. I would argue that, to achieve that sort of security, there should be a separate, "secure" clipboard that only enrolled applications can access - and enrollment should be left up to the user, not the application developer.

AI

Its. Not. Fucking. AI.

Jfc this muck is going to make us as blind as a bat when an actual artificial sentience appears. An LLM does not an intelligence make.

I've looked at these, but they lack the integrated amplifier (afaik) and the configurable equaliser. Those are two super important features that pretty much break the idea for me.

GEKOLONISEERD

Sounds about right. When I was 16 I thought I was very cool when I got a (very) cheap vibrator out of a vending machine in a pub off Percy Street. Paid two quid for the privilege.

Mr Tang said: “Typically broadband customers will pay for 13 months in a year rather than 12, thanks to inflation linked mid-contract price rises.

Zen has never done this in its 28 years of trading.

Sure about that? My broadband just went up by a quid. It's not a lot, and it's mostly thanks to upstream costing, but come on. Don't fuck around with blatant lies.

I'd still go with Zen like. Can't beat user-configurable rDNS.

Not hard to keep to the same policy we had in the 00's. Off or silent, and it doesn't come out in lessons. If it does, it goes in the teacher's desk, and they get it back half an hour after school ends. Job done.

Wahey!

I decided to replicate /r/NewcastleUponTyne and direct users here during the blackout. Still thinking about putting up an instance dedicated to UK geocommunities, since feddit.uk and lemmy.org.uk are both seemingly pretty unstable. Might get a few visitors, we'll see.

But ruby is so hard :(

I come from c# land and my skills are soft and squishy

Holy shit this looks practically perfect. Thanks!

Oh nice, I'll link that too!

I've put some thought into it, but realistically I lack the experience to flesh out the idea.

I've seen a few small DAC concepts out there, like https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic4091483.html or that iPhone modification that Strange Parts did a few years ago, but none of these really 100% match my needs. As for the sizing, the only real answer I have for you is "small" - whilst it is intended for integration into a phone, I'm going to be building a housing for that phone from scratch, so the size requirements are somewhat led by the dac itself. I had a few ideas about using a flexi-strip in place of a solid PCB too, but I think that's aiming too high for my non-existent skillset. Instead, I have no problem redesigning the board to be long and thin if necessary, or squat and fat in the alternate. Realistically, it's probably going to be somewhat L-shaped, but there's a good two inches or more of width and something like six inches of height to work with - minus the PCB of the phone, that is.

The actual handset it will be accompanying is a Sony Xperia 1 IV, but that's largely meaningless as we can add pretty much any additional size to it up to a reasonably large handset within the last ten years (preferably with an OLED display, but I'll be somewhat limited in terms of compatibility anyway and might have to end up running the screen in an alternate fashion somehow, I haven't thought too hard about that side of things because the project is useless if I can't design a DAC inthe first place).

The heatsink stuff was really just a suggestion, I'm not actually sure if it will be necessary, but it's good to have the option.

Specifications wise, it essentially needs to do four things:

• Pass any connected headset microphone through to the handset
• Run an EQ that is addressable and configurable from the handset
• Have a volume ceiling at least comparable to a fifth-gen iPod video (i.e. a wolfson chip)
• Take power from, and pass data and power through to, the existing USB-C socket on the handset.

The bit that I'm stuck on, really, is the addressable EQ. I could possibly go with some sort of Arduino-esque solution, but that's a lot of lifting for a single-purpose device. I have no idea where else to start looking - I know there are RISC chips out there that run on nothing but a button cell, but again I'm clueless as to whether or not this is a good idea.

You don't need something huge. Remove the DVD drive and the old mechanical drive from a USFF machine, stick a pair of 4TB drives in it, and put a basic debian image on it. Configure SMB with a shared folder or two, and voila: you now have a comfortable NAS for maybe £20 plus drives. Add in a sata pcie card if you can find a decent low-profile one, and that's an extra four or even six drives. It won't give you the cream of top performance, but it will be perfectly serviceable for a homelab.

On opening a new tab or window with a lemmy instance, I frequently find that I am not intially logged in. I am logged in, and refreshing the page a few times affirms this. It does not necessarily require a cacheless refresh (ctrl+f5). It also occurs regardless of what lemmy instance I'm browsing.

This started immediately after the hackening event of the other day. I'll play with what's in site storage in firefox later on and see what happens.

Edit: Ok something very odd just happened. I did the refresh thing and it briefly showed me logged in as @[email protected], for reasons unknown. It didn't stay logged in as (s)he, but very briefly flashed it as such.

Edit2: I deleted cache, webtoken, and other detritus in firefox, and refreshed the page to login again. I logged in, and the site served me the logged-out homepage until I refreshed again. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edit3: I was logged out completely this morning. No explanation as to why as yet, I'll test tomorrow and see what browser storage looks like

fedibuzz alleges that you can follow a single specific instance with their relay, and I see nothing to suggest that I can't use it better federate with mastodonapp.

I did note, though, that both my instance and mastodonapp are connected to relay.intahnet.co.uk - and whilst it has a few issues in the logs, it has none since i reset the instance again after attempting limited federation mode.