czardestructo @ czardestructo @lemmy.world

Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.

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That number was more like 30% with a windows laptop and all the security crap Microsoft convinced my company to install. It was so painfully slow and glitchy. So I went rogue and put Linux on my company laptop 8 months ago and I'm not looking back.

Their point is use a small generator to power the gas heater where as a heat pump is 'impossible'.I mention a whole house battery is in my 5 year plan to which they laugh and say your house will burn down. I don't have the patience. I told them I'm an electrical engineer specialized in battery systems and to let me worry about the lithium fires. That shut him up fast.

I live in a progressive state in the US and currently renovating a house. Holy crap they all fight me tooth and nail telling me what a horrible idea they are. Nothing but problems, always break, oh my goodness what if the power goes out, the grid cannot handle the load so don't do it. These old timers need to go away.

I have so much trash on my network. For instance my security cameras are decentralized and we use tinycam on android to view them so I had to allow an exception for rtsp to get between the dirty iot WiFi and our normal WiFi. Our WiFi connected Bose speakers and Spotify is also another set of annoyance, they will only work if you try to connect to them from the same subnet via Spotify and app. I've tried to NAT the traffic and it didn't work.

I feel attacked

It's going to haunt you for years. Wife: "why doesn't this iot thing work?" Oh its on the wrong network. "I don't understand it just doesn't work". Then I go add more exceptions in pfsense and the cycle continues.

Or small regional banks! They called me once when I wrote a huge check for a contractor but forgot to move the money, nice lady at the bank said I had enough money it just wasn't in the right account and the check is going to bounce, she inquired if I wanted to move the funds so the check would clear. Yes please! Closed all my other bank accounts with other banks and never looked back.

I didn't down vote you. I'm not saying all Chinese engineers are bad, I'm just saying a lot are bad or don't care enough about details just execution as fast and with as little effort as possible.

You haven't worked with a lot of Chinese engineers, have you? https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset

I have a c920 and it's complete poop. Random hiccups and stutter and the auto focus fails.

I got my first Gateway 2k Pentium pro in 1996 and upgraded from an Amiga 500 too! Wish I kept that computer but I did keep the CPU as a keepsake.

Want to come get it? There is no market for this stuff and I'm on a time crunch. I need this stuff out fast. There are a bunch of speakers and decks.

I certainly remember seeing the second one on TV a lot when I was a kid.

Took a 6 day vacation with the wife and our only child, a five year old. Long story short, we learned vacationing with an only child is a lot of work and next time to bring her a friend or cousins to occupy her attention so that responsibility isn't on a parent. Still learning how to vacation!

Bought one, thank you!

Carmageddon! I still have the original CD from the late 90s.

throws poo

My wealthy relatives bought a summer home last year on the Florida west coast. That hurricane rolled through and messed up their entire neighborhood and they bragged if the tide went up one more foot their new home would have been flooded. I asked if they had second thoughts to which they quickly responded oh no, hurricanes never hit the west coast this is a freak event it will never happen again! The cognitive dissidence is insane.

It would be a lot cheaper to stop allowing no brand cheap crap with no accountability to be drop shipped from China. There are clear and well defined safety standards for lithium batteries and they're just being ignored. They won't prevent 100% of failures but 99.9% if they're followed.