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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • Parallel won’t show current load of a device. Even a clamp type can be thought of as serial, it’s just picking up the EM field instead of actually carrying the current load across the device.

    Something in parallel will be powered by the same source, with it’s current load independent of the other device.

    (And yes, I had to think about it for a second, it’s not always immediately intuitive for me either.)


  • 12-18 mo?

    Can you imagine a datacenter replacing them that often?

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good advice to remind folks these batteries are a wear item, and to be be prepared to replace them, but if you’re having to replace them at 18 months, I’d be looking for a different, not junk, brand.

    Maybe 2 years, if I have bad power so it’s being used, a lot.

    I can only imagine batteries wearing this fast because the UPS is cheap and doesn’t have pass-through design, and instead uses the batteries constantly to provide power conditioning.









  • And their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.

    “It was too expensive from an engineering standpoint”. Nonsense, Android handled it, your app merely reads and writes to the SMS database via an API.

    Or are you telling me the free SMS apps like Handcent, QuickSMS, etc, had a massive engineering team?

    This is when I stopped using Signal, when this lie was so blatant, I can no longer trust them.



  • Some people like to suffer.

    I’ll go a long way to reduce my data exposure, but ffs, Windows and Office are the standard worldwide, for a reason. It’s just naive and foolish to fight this battle while you have enough pressure and time limits as it is.

    And I run multiple Linux-based systems in my home lab, but my laptop is windows, because “ain’t nobody got time for that”, as Sweet Brown would say.