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Re:Hacking an old Sea Shepherd seagoing ship back to life, videos
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @06:48PM (#42967680)
Not my videos, just recommending here, good watch. Not really IT, just a lot of stuck valves and old school marine engineering. Creaking sounds when they try to bosh the stuck parts back open. More videos on same topics on the channel, worth watching. Newest one deals with electical systems.
Re:UK Postal Address Oddities
on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:16PM (#37825589)
Not sure if Diamond Geezer is reading this forum, he may be, some of his blog posts get reposted in here and sometimes mentions extra 100k views.
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
Re:Electricity Prices by Country
on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:25AM (#35502082)
Article is a bit old or the prices got a lot higher in last couple of months.
Just had a look at my recent electricity bill. 35 UK pence per kWh that will be like 43 US cents at current rate. (not 27 like on the list) Not sure what it costs in Germany at the moment but that is well above 39 cents making Germany on top the list.
Re:BlinderKitten, A free lighting software without restriction
on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:33AM (#35067353)
Re:Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape?
on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:51PM (#34698406)
Bicycle. Ride to work. Or for leisure.
Walk. Free, enjoy some tunes in your headphones, explore the area, stop for a beer when you feel tired.
I`m in London UK and I walk a lot. Doing callouts in central, sometimes rather than taking public transport home I will walk back . Finish work at 5pm, walk 20 kilometers home be back at midnight.
Re:80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea
on Sunday January 29, 2023 @10:55AM (#34569203)
For small stuff there is also makerbeam, 10x10mm sized, uses M3 fasteners.
https://www.makerbeam.com
Re:Free the nipple: Facebook and Instagram told to overhaul ban on bar...
on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:35AM (#34428954)
I been watching one youtuber and his streams playing The Witcher 3 game.
He has to censor the moments when he fights with certain beast, an Water Hag/Baba Wodna monstrosity. . Evil creature has a woman-like breast on display and hes seriously worried about getting demonetised by youtube for that....
Political correctness full on.
Re:New Sony Walkman music players feature good looks, Android 12
on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:09PM (#34415170)
I miss good mp3 player days. I started on iriver cd player that could read MP3s... once i had some spare money upgraded to iriver H10 wit 20GB spinning rust drive (still have it, still working, sitting in the drawer).
Once tried an old ipod, to see what the hassle, learned the pain of loading my own music to it, and the lack of file browser on it, no i dont want that artist/album BS, got my own categorized collection. Sold that one quickly.
Sandisk sansa with rockbox was spot on, both both units failed like a year from time i bought them.
Currently using an old old heavy duty samsung xcover2, with cyanogen mod, it does not have a simcard just 128gb microsd with lots of music on it. DAC is reasonably good on it and it plays FLAC no problem.
Doubles as offline GPS with osmAnd maps loaded in.
Re:Always Look *Down* in London: Pavement Oddities
on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:58AM (#34379962)
There are markers on pavements where it crosses the Greenwich Prime Meridian line.
Got one right outside my house.
Re:Power on the Moon. What Will It Take to Survive the Lunar Night?
on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:22AM (#34185227)
There wont be much left on the other end because of volt drop in cables. But can be possible to make it into a HVDC transmission line. Will add bit of weight on the starship.
Re:Battleships: A Ridiculous but Awesome Idea (2011)
on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:59AM (#34093907)
Aircraft carriers will be next when it comes to hot war. Drone swarms and hypersonic missiles just entered the game.
Re:One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:29AM (#32619392)
I been for a while on technical side of one of delivery company.
Fixing electric mopeds for them.
Its a BIG business and it does not really matter if makes money, its the investors corporate funds getting pumped into the food delivery industry.
Re:Association between ADHD medication and depression: A 10-year follo...
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @03:30PM (#31744816)
A bit of perspective from speed user (amphetamine, not meth) who I know:
Been into it for 10+ years. Usual weekend binge on 3.5 grams of good quality amphetamine.
Can last from Friday evening till Tuesday, will little sleep between.
Lots of things get done.
Rest of the week head and brain is out service, depression you call it, nothing is been done, hard to go to work, any excuse willdo, sort out yourself some food or a takeaway, watch some youtube, sleep a lot till you get better.
Current state, 5 weeks clean: go to work, no problem 8 hours shift, do your duty to pay the bills. After work - eat, relax for a bit, read a lot be it books or just daily news. Bed time. Personal projects be it coding or electronics just put on hold....
Re:Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:22PM (#31687064)
I never had this problem. Using vivaldi full time, it remembers all the passwords (plus my home address and phone number for registering new accounts on shopping sites).
Re:Notkia puts a Linux PC inside the shell of a Nokia 1680 cellphone
on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:08AM (#31620485)
will be nice to do the same with one of the full keyboard devices like communicator or E72
Re:Software Library: MS-DOS Games
on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:43PM (#31611423)
Time to install dos box and replay Master of Magic, again.
Re:Xenobiology Codex
on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:54AM (#31609140)
Bone chilling beautiful.
Re:Show HN: I created a collection of useful websites
on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:31PM (#31100268)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flush-toilet-finder-map/id9552...
its an apple store app and not even a website.
Timewaster.
Re:Ask HN: Making PCB from home best option?
on Friday March 25, 2022 @04:43PM (#30806856)
For one-off pieces with 2.54 or bigger spacing there is always the handmade old school tech - drawing the traces on copper laminate with marker pen, drilling holes yourself and etching the board in ferric chloride.
There is also a good old method using photo transfers and a laser printer if you not feeling like drawing it by hand. Still need to drill the holes yourself.
You can re-use ferric chloride for many boards.
Re:Not smart but clever? The return of 'dumbphones'
on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:37PM (#30770484)
I never left too. Still using my Nokia E72 business phone. I send and receive lots of text messages for my work, replying using full qwerty keyboard is a breeze.
Plus one function i cant live without - "say caller name" when phone is ringing.
You know whos calling you without looking at the device.
Device is about 15 years old, made in Finland, I have couple of spare ones in my drawer, swapping parts around normally brings it back to life when any problems (once a display went, once the keyboard, 20 minutes fix on the bench with no special tools needed).
Re:The metaverse is bullshit
on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:09PM (#29049861)
clubhouse has some unique market niches. Japanese ex-pat community, not really young ladies talking too each other around the world.
Source: mrs wife, she has some "friends" around, listens it a lot, sometimes chats, sometimes gets little parcels sent from somewhere (Germany, Israel, Russia), some biscuits or local snacks inside.
Re:The metaverse is bullshit
on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:03PM (#29049816)
19 million counted legal viewers. Myself and everyone I know just torrented it.
Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft from stores
on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:14PM (#28408149)
Londoner here, true for big shops and supermarkets, off-licenses and corner shops will be equipped with a baseball bat behind the counter. Watched them dragging low-life thiefs to the back stores to be dealt with.
Re:Julian Assange: The Man Who Knew Too Much
on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:42PM (#27530556)
make the ones in power not happy and literally rot in jail :-(
Re:Windows 11 screenshots leak, show new Start menu and more
on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:02PM (#27519117)
No thanks microsoft!
I`m happily using the same kind of interface for most of my IT life... win95, 98, xp, currently linux with LXDE. And i don't want your new startup sound.
Re:Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming?
on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:40AM (#27275612)
Have a look at Teensy microcontrollers and Audio shield available for them.
https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy3_audio.html
Re:Linux distros without systemd (2019)
on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:28PM (#26691715)
Artix user here. My system works just like regular rolling arch install. OpenRC for init. What is like is freedom to choose, can choose between OpenRC, SysV, systemd if i really wanted... I do not like some software having hard coded dependencies on systemd and the trouble it brings.
Re:Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:24PM (#25470174)
Been watching someone play the game, recorded stuff on youtube, and i`m really enjoying it.
Better than movies.
Anyway i`m there for the art and lore, the full experience is not worth spending thousands on a dedicated gaming hardware.
Skilled player is using a high end gaming PC to run the game, there are some bugs but nothing too serious.
the stream i`m wathching here, this from original soundtrack for the game in Polish (yes in been created by Polish studio) https://www.youtube.com/user/Corle1st/videos?disable_polymer...
Re:HomePod Mini
on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:35PM (#24770593)
so much apple-fanboy on here. Grab a good second hand hi-fi set (cheap this days, everyone wants to be "smart"), play your own cd`s, vinyls, *.flac or other good quality digital media) and you will get a good sound...
HomePod mini works effortlessly with your Apple devices.
and only apple devices.
Burned myself on apple years ago, got myself an ipod, learned my lesson with itunes, sold it, never come back.