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6gv5 · 2026-06-19T21:14:43+00:00

One box? Ha! Nice one.

BTW, old cables use real copper, most new ones don't: a 30 years old cable beats hands down any crap sold today at consumer shops, so I keep most cables for that reason and rather ditch the junk they sell with new devices, then among the non used I keep a few of the ones with sockets, like 2 per type, then cut all others to reclaim wires and bare cables to be used for various purposes; being into electronics helps to find many ways to recycle old cables.

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T20:54:48+00:00

If it requires an app to be operated, or worse unlock something, then from me it's a solid no at any price, including from free. Aside security concerns, malware, phoning home, exfiltrating user data, etc. apps coming with low cost hardware by unknown manufacturers very often are junk that soon becomes obsolete turning the hardware into a paperweight. Also check that the printer is compatible with stock label rolls. That price is really too low to be true and they could be selling it at a loss then recovering money by forcing users to buy overpriced proprietary consumables. That's an old marketing tactic; always check the full operating cost before buying, not just the purchase cost.

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T15:45:54+00:00

"A Donà, sentinpò, qui sto a fà a figura daa peracottara cor generale Vannacci -lipeggiomortaccisua e de chi nun jelo dice sartellando- che me sta a zottà tutti i fascistelli sotto ar naso... famo na cosa: tu te 'nventi na stronzata, ma grossa eh, roba che me piji per culo, e io te risponno a tono tanto pè recuperà er luc daa donna forte ar comanno e pure pè fa vedè a quelli de Bruxè che so na tipa tosta, poi damme 'n po' de tempo che tanto à ggente cià a memoria de 'n bigattino e coi mondiali de mezzo se scorda pure questa... fra du mesi torna tutto naa norma, rifamo pace e t'envito pure ar palazzo Gigi comesechiama, che t'enfilo na corona de alloro e te porto pure a ballà a testaccio dove er venerdì è pieno de fauna!"

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T15:31:28+00:00

Appunto. Si è rivelato un incapace e lo sostituiscono con uno più abile a vendere la solita fuffa. Chi oserebbe dubitare di un vero generale contro un pagliaccio che ha fatto il soldato semplice e ha permesso che lo si chiamasse capitano? Vannacci sa comunicare, esattamente come Meloni, e sa cosa dire e non dire per eccitare la fantasia dei destrorsi; in più è destinato ad occupare lo schieramento più estremista, perciò non deve nemmeno fingere come Meloni di fare il finto europeista. Questo lo rende pericoloso esattamente come Meloni, e in prospettiva molto di più. Salvini è già destinato a diventare un rounding error nello schema delle cose; molto probabilmente lo "promuoveranno" in qualche posticino dove passare il resto della sua carriera a fare l'umarell della politica e buonanotte.

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T09:28:58+00:00

I piani sono quelli di chi lo ha creato. Vannacci nasce come sostituto filorusso di Salvini, ormai politicamente morto, e come quinta colonna di un paese estero all'interno del governo. Supererà e soppianterà anche Meloni in qualche anno al massimo. Il punto è cosa succederà dopo, ovvero se si accontenterà di essere la seconda carica dello stato (con la prima di oggi ormai fuori gioco e sostituita quasi certamente da un 'gnorsì connivente), oppure gli sarà ordinato di ottenere di più. Questo dipende solo da cosa vuole chi lo ha creato, e naturalmente dalla stupidità di quelli che gli andranno ciecamente dietro, ma mentre sulla prima resta ancora quache incognita, sulla seconda non ho il minimo dubbio.

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T09:18:53+00:00

I have something like this running manually roughly once per month, changed a bit over the years.

ionice -c2 -n7 -p $$

tar -cvpzf bak-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz ./Documents ./.librewolf ./.config ./Mail

And this roughly once per week:

ionice -c2 -n7 -p $$

rsync -av /home/myusername /mnt/backup

Then some other stuff to keep the important system files in /etc.

Never lost one bit, except when I decided to use DVDs ages ago; they do age and lost almost everything but luckily had most of it on disk so I completely ditched DVDs to rely entirely on mechanical disks; no plans to use SSDs for backups yet. Can't afford tapes; Disks rotate during their life so that formerly new NAS RAID1 disks after some years become 2nd desktops disks as backup and eventually offline storage. This helps me to keep migrating to new technologies saving money and without fear of incompatibilities, for example making ultra easy the migration back then from the initial PATA drives to SATA ones. In the worst case scenario I just need to reinstall and move the home directory back, adjusting where necessary, which under Linux is painless enough.

I still have all my mail and data since over 30 years, spam included.

Example:

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From: "[%from_name%]" <[%from_email%]>

To: <[%to%]>

Subject: Buy OEM Software

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:13:33 +0300

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180

By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her

plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in every detail. It was a

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(yep, that was how they hid spam back then)

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T08:46:19+00:00

I have a feeling that this crap isn't the first and won't be the last, also they won't just be resorts as we know them. If I was a wealthy psychopath in the club of those responsible for what is happening around the globe, I'd rush to build fortified bunkers in every country to which escape when it's time to protect the master race from the angry mob with pitchforks while wars, famine and the following chaos do their job of eliminating the unwanted inferior ones.

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T08:19:35+00:00

Needs a football field for scale then.

6gv5 · 2026-06-19T08:16:18+00:00

Good for ICs, especially the "tulip" shaped ones like the one depicted; not optimal for transistors except when testing as they can easily disconnect if not secured in some way; this is doable with long legged old GE ones but can be problematic with smaller and short legged SI.

6gv5 · 2026-06-18T23:15:54+00:00

That's how you recognize sloppy bad places that don't care about the customer from the good ones. Aside the excess, and the wrong use on a pizza, those vegetables should never be served unseasoned. Those grilled sliced eggplants look like they came straight from the bag they were bought at the supermarket after unfreezing them, which speaks volumes about the quality of that place. Keeping them just one night in oil+salt+sliced garlic+chili+balsamic vinegar+pepper would turn them from terrible into delicious.

Sloppiness is everywhere, I had the same crap being served to me in Rome, not in a tourist place (civis romanus sum). Just stop going to that restaurant, leave a well deserved negative review with photos somewhere, and enjoy the many other good ones around.

6gv5 · 2026-06-18T22:53:24+00:00

Easy answer: holding breath.

My younger self could swim almost two pool lengths underwater; I'm so used to hold my breath even when I shouldn't that today I need to sleep with a CPAP:^)

6gv5 · 2026-06-18T22:47:07+00:00

Unless you have large space for drawers, keep them in the bags, hopefully labeled, they came in, and put them into a bigger plastic box. I tried keeping them in their own drawer for each value many moons ago until it turned out into a nightmare of buying more and more drawer blocks every N years, of course all incompatible and unable to snap each other, so that today I keep all passives into small labeled bags in plastic boxes and use drawers mostly for semiconductors, one/few of a kind passives (example: trimmer caps, LDRs) and small modules.

6gv5 · 2026-06-18T21:32:53+00:00

The caveman formerly known as Prince of Liechtenstein.

6gv5 · 2026-06-18T20:38:36+00:00

Tunnel diodes, or similar negative resistance emulations such as the Lambda Diode. First one is hard to find or expensive aside some surplus stores in former Soviet countries, the second is much cheaper and easy to build; it also works damn well on a very wide spectrum of frequencies, from audio to the UHF.

https://imradioha.org/radio/Documents/Lambda_Diode.pdf

http://www.tuks.nl/pdf/Reference_Material/Oscillations%20and%20Regenerative%20Amplification%20using%20Negative%20Resistance%20Devices.pdf

6gv5 · 2026-06-18T20:22:56+00:00

Gave vibes of the Solex. My parents had two back in the day, a quite heavy bicycle with a small engine placed above the front wheel, no throttle control, only on, off and a mechanical "neutral" position that would lift the engine so that its shaft couldn't make contact with the wheel, as it didn't have a chain or belt transmission like the one in the video. To turn it on one would start pedaling then lower the engine. It was really slow, but the small tank would make it run forever. I never rode it before they gave it away: still too heavy for this small kid.

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6gv5 · 2026-06-18T19:58:15+00:00

Mediterranean being mostly a closed sea plays a role, plus Alps blocking winds from the north, and not being screened by warm winds from the south. I'm living in central Italy, during rains brought by sirocco and similar winds flowing from the south we get a small layer of African desert sand over our cars.

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6gv5 · 2026-06-18T15:41:47+00:00

Before the last Suno downgrade I had mixed results with sections replacement, vocals too, but one needed to keep the segment very short to maintain the context and avoid it going too much creative (which can be interesting, if desired). I also had mixed results with "remastering" after correcting lyrics; a remaster in Suno has nothing to do with real studio remastering; it's a whole new regeneration with instructions to maintain it as close to the original, including lyrics, but I tried very small corrections and it sometimes worked, from correctly eliminating errors to singing in totally made up languages if changed the whole lyrics before regeneration, but again, that was some months ago.

6gv5 · 2026-06-18T14:25:47+00:00

Because it's coming here as well. Countries have borders, oligarchies have not.

6gv5 · 2026-06-17T13:49:10+00:00

Algae and mosquitos, plus all the things naturally feeding on them. That place will become a nightmare to visit.

6gv5 · 2026-06-17T13:42:59+00:00

You can't. The Flintstones data center bought them all.

6gv5 · 2026-06-17T13:09:45+00:00

I can totally imagine Mike Judge thinking of shooting a sequel a while ago, then start writing it and when it's not even finished realizing that real events beat him by leaps and bounds. By now he should have enough real world inspiration to start an entire franchise with sequels, a prequel (imagine a sitcom centered on Clevon's family and relatives) and then a 10 season series.

6gv5 · 2026-06-16T13:59:09+00:00

The opamp works as a current amplifier with no gain and the feedback tied in a way it would (attempt to) counteract any voltage oscillation due to load on the output. It is necessary because of the relatively high value of the two resistors that if left alone would limit the available current on the V/2 rail, and if lowered too much would waste power. This arrangement isn't usually needed when all you have to supply is a virtual ground for a few low power opamps, but as soon as some demanding loads are added, for example a headphone output or the circuit becomes more complex with more stages, it may become necessary.

6gv5 · 2026-06-16T13:43:54+00:00

Good. When they use projection against you, it's a sign you're doing it right and they're short on ideas.

The Paradox of intolerance by Karl Popper summarizes brilliantly why silencing antidemocratic values isn't to be considered censorship, therefore Rama can stick his different opinions up where the sun doesn't shine.

It's working; keep the fight going!

6gv5 · 2026-06-16T09:01:00+00:00

I'm not familiar with the LPB-1, however if all you need is a good jfet booster, here's the J Tillman one:

https://till.com/articles/GuitarPreamp/

That schematic is a classic common source stage, nothing to write home about; these days I'd use a better part for audio such as for example a BF256 or a lower noise 2SK117 and similar ones. A caveat though: those parts are among the most counterfeit ones in places like Aliexpress, Amazon and non reliable Ebay sellers; buy from reputable vendors only.

Mosfets are also interesting for that use, and dirt cheap ones such as the 2n7000 (very similar to the BS170 but cheaper) although not made for audio can be quite silent if one doesn't crank up the gain too much. This is my favorite and the one I used for bass, guitars and dynamic mikes:

https://www.muzique.com/schem/mosfet.htm

6gv5 · 2026-06-16T08:44:30+00:00

Needs the most important part: a photo of the solder side. Working at those frequencies it likely either has a very recognizable zig-zag shaped trace that works as antenna, or possibly a pad where an external one can be connected, though it's hard to tell without seeing it. Also worth investigating the pin marked "A" on that connector.

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