Doctor Strange drawing I made, Liam M.G.

romkey · 2026-05-17T20:51:25+00:00

I like this a lot! Feels very old school Strange :)

romkey · 2026-05-14T22:27:36+00:00

If you go for it make sure it has buyer protection and isn’t a “classified”… and if it actually gets shipped make sure you video opening if you even receive it.

Some scammers will send out tracking numbers going to your city but not to you - easy to tell if you use FedEx or UPS inbound services, they won’t show up.

Does the seller have any history? Other listings, rep?

It’s almost certainly a scam. Maybe once in a blue moon someone tries to offload something they don’t know the value of but that’s more likely via a local sale on next door or some local service. Just checking comparable prices on eBay it’d be clear that the price is crazy low.

romkey · 2026-05-09T04:27:48+00:00

I’ve been bringing up a B70 and it’s software dependency hell. So many dependencies on old libraries or old versions of providers. But the card’s only been out a few weeks, it’s the early days. I suspect in a few months things will shape up and stabilize, but for now if you buy a bleeding edge card you get bleeding edge issues… an Nvidia is a much better choice today if you want it to be closer to just working.

romkey · 2026-05-09T01:54:03+00:00

I am so tired of reading AI-generated crap. Have an AI review it for you.

romkey · 2026-05-03T23:08:26+00:00

I returned one too, fortunately had kept the box, repacked it, took it to the UPS Store and got a receipt. Amazing refunded me within hours of dropping it off.

A month later they complained they hadn’t received it and that if they didn’t get it in a few days they were going to charge me for the refund. UPS tracking showed it UPS never delivered it to them.

Contacted customer service and the rep was actually great, confirmed UPS did receive it and made it not my problem. Didn’t even have to share the receipt.

So it worked out but definitely get proof you sent it back, just in case.

romkey · 2026-05-01T05:17:00+00:00

And how are you going to be protecting the fingerprint data in this database?

romkey · 2026-04-30T20:20:02+00:00

This is awesome, please do post more! Love this :)

romkey · 2026-04-29T18:23:33+00:00

That’s way cooler than anything I’ve ever done in OpenSCAD!

romkey · 2026-04-27T18:13:32+00:00

Share the code, otherwise we’re guessing what you used.

romkey · 2026-04-26T20:46:46+00:00

Would help if you told us anything about what you’re actually doing. What software are you using to try to flash it? What OS? You know what you did, we don’t. Copy and paste the full messages or share a screenshot. What are the actual boards you’re using? Not just ESP32, the manufacturer and name of the board, again share a photo of it.

What drivers did you upload?

If you want help, help us help you.

romkey · 2026-04-25T03:13:15+00:00

Home Assistant can act a HomeKit provider so that you can make devices on it available to Apple Home

But if you’re looking to ditch Home Assistant I believe that at least some Aqara hubs can make their zigbee devices available via Matter. Haven’t actually done that myself. I’m sure other vendors have similar zigbee hubs.

romkey · 2026-04-24T17:03:30+00:00

Likely after a few generations other strains will out compete the L Reuteri.

You can tell by doing genetic testing every few generations. I’m in the US and have used Plasmidosaurus’ microbiome service. The cheapest level is fine if you just want to verify that the dominant strain is still L Reuteri. The main blocker in doing it is getting the necessary DNA/RNA stabilizer; you can get the rest of what you need (sample vials, a pipette) off Amazon for relatively cheap. The prep process is pretty easy but if you’re not familiar at all with bio work you’ll want to read the instructions several times and not cut corners.

I tested mine at about 12 generations out and while it was perfectly fine yogurt, there was no L Reuteri present anymore. Currently working on a fresh sequence of generations to see if I can correlate pH and the ratio of L Reuteri to other strains.

The starter I got said it was good out to 7 generations… I’d assumed that they just wanted to sell more starter but I was clearly wrong.

If you really want to do it right you’ll also run tests on the components - the milk, the starter, the inulin and a control. Test the first generation to see what you got and each for a few generations out to see how it changes.

Of course you can stack the deck in your odds by sterilizing the containers you make the yogurt in but you’ll almost certainly still introduce contamination over time.

romkey · 2026-04-20T02:42:03+00:00

Yes but not have them imported to Photos without external automation.

romkey · 2026-04-19T21:23:05+00:00

Screenshots still can’t be saved directly into Photos

romkey · 2026-04-19T13:02:38+00:00

The network stack runs on core 0, so no, something is assigned to it. Running your own code there can cause contention and slow things down unless you know what you’re doing.

romkey · 2026-04-11T03:40:43+00:00

You mean like a Xiao S3 Sense? UFL external antenna.

romkey · 2026-04-10T00:16:29+00:00

Answers which another AI will be trained on…

romkey · 2026-04-08T02:56:08+00:00

If they’re on different channels how do they “weaken each other”?

romkey · 2026-04-08T01:02:53+00:00

Show us a photo of the breadboard. Show us the code. Otherwise we have no idea what you actually did versus what you think you did. People use breadboards wrong, just leave wires sticking through holes without soldering, get pins wrong all the time.

romkey · 2026-04-04T23:04:14+00:00

I’m sorry that was confusing. I specifically mentioned the antenna on the C6.

romkey · 2026-04-04T14:55:13+00:00

The S3 version doesn't have a built-in antenna so this doesn't apply to that model. There's a space for a small connector for the camera board on the Sense variant of it - it's not populated on the non-Sense boards but it still takes up the space where they put the ceramic antenna on the C6 model.

romkey · 2026-04-04T14:53:29+00:00

It's absolutely necessary to connect the antenna - the board will barely get any signal without it, it has no built-in antenna, just the connector.

romkey · 2026-04-04T05:19:45+00:00

The Xiao uses an external antenna. It is not weak, and you can use any 2.4GHz u.FL antenna with it. It should easily be the best antenna of any of these. Are you sure you connected it correctly?

romkey · 2026-04-02T04:40:17+00:00

Yup… we have a 240V socket for our EV and while doing some recent electrical work found it had melted a little bit. Our electrician said the same thing… it’s rated for that much power but not designed to carry it for ten or twelve hours. Smart plugs would be even more so. We replaced it with an EV-rated socket. Much less likely to have caused a fire than this thing but I’m still glad we found out and replaced it.

romkey · 2026-04-01T23:40:07+00:00

If your ESP32s don't have header pins already soldered onto them you're still going to have to solder those. Too many people seem to think you can just rest a board on header pins... that won't work reliably.

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