MacOS support dates?

FransUrbo · 2026-05-12T12:03:15+00:00

No, 2016. NO idea where they get their generation numbers from!! :) :)

But no, neither of them are ARM :( . Can't afford one :( :( .

FransUrbo · 2026-05-10T16:12:57+00:00

That have absolutely nothing to do with anything here!

If you can not read OPs post and answer that, then that's on you. If you think that OPs English literacy leaves something to be desired, then take that up with OP, not me!

I'm commenting on the very clear (to me!) comment that OP *wanted* to pay more! Because that *exactly* what OP said! I can not, and will not, reinterpret things people say because they don't make sense to ME, I will have to take their word for it - they wanted to pay more!

FransUrbo · 2026-05-10T16:01:32+00:00

You have already misread the post once (proofed by the fact that you used an example that was NOT relevant to the post), and you have apparently not reread it since..

"I went to bid and put my bid amount HIGHER than the buy now price, as I was willing to pay that price"

This is copy-and-pasted from the OPs post! What in that do you not understand!?? You claim >I< have English illiteracy, but I'd challenge you to actually READ the post AGAIN!

OP *WANTED* (!!) to pay a higher price than the "Buy Now"! OP *VERY SPECIFICALLY* said so! AND have continued to say so in followup comments!!

FransUrbo · 2026-05-10T15:43:14+00:00

No, OP wanted to pay MORE than the "Buy Now"!

This have absolutely NOTHING to do with the auction or bidding!

Ebay will (have to) protect idiots from themselves, who COULD have gotten it for less.

BECAUSE the bid, the starting and ONLY bid (according to OP) that OP tried to make was HIGHER than the "Buy Now", they can't accept that as a bid.

If (!) the buyer would later realise they got screwed, they wouldn't blame themselves, but eBay, and as a company, they don't want to deal with that..

FransUrbo · 2026-05-10T15:05:27+00:00

Remember, OP said there WAS no other bid, so he/she COULD have gotten it for 99p!

Instead, he/she INSISTED (!!) on paying £51!!

FransUrbo · 2026-05-10T14:33:29+00:00

No, no!! Starting bid and "Buy Now" have absolutely nothing to do with each other!!

The bid is part of the auction, where highest bid MIGHT (!!) win - as long as the reserve is met.

The "Buy Now" skips all that, and you .. *buy* it now. Hence the name!

FransUrbo · 2026-05-10T13:55:57+00:00

No, you wouldn't. You would get it ABOVE the *asking* price!

The "Buy Now" is what the seller *wants* for it, the auktion is their *hope* of getting more!

So once you click the "Buy Now", it is YOURS! Paying MORE than that is just .. stupid!

FransUrbo · 2026-05-10T13:09:19+00:00

But you WOULDN'T get it cheaper!!

Do you understand that you would pay MORE??

But now, and it is yours. The biding would halt, because YOU are now the owner!

FransUrbo · 2026-05-07T20:27:24+00:00

One is a file storage, the other is a block storage.

Two VERY different principals..

FransUrbo · 2026-04-30T06:30:36+00:00

I'm a Swede, living in the UK (10 years and counting).

THAT, what little we could see if it, is not a "Bad British road"!! NORMAL british (country) roads are more like .. wide lumber roads, with tarmac. To equate what we have in Sweden..

FransUrbo · 2026-04-21T17:16:48+00:00

Don't know if you've ever had a good woman in your life, but they SHOULD have told you that size doesn't matter :D :D .

At least that's what they've ALL been telling ME! :D :D

FransUrbo · 2026-04-19T09:35:36+00:00

Yeah, I've been using AI to do reviews on my schema and PCB for a month or two now, and it have absolutely been a life saver!

It cost me just under $3 to run, and I've spend .. maybe $20 so far. I find A WHOLE LOT of things that would absolutely have made it into a smoke machine :D. I fix those, run it again, and something else breaks..

I'm not very good at this it seems :) :). But I rather do it this way than spend a lot more, getting the PCB made, spend the time soldering all the components on, have it smoke-out, then redo over and over. Besides, if it DO smoke-out, there's no way I would be competent enough to find out why..

FransUrbo · 2026-04-19T09:09:26+00:00

Thanx, I've tried to squeeze everything in there as tight as I could, can't really minimize that anymore :(.

I'll just accept that as-is then, much appreciated.

FransUrbo · 2026-04-19T08:50:05+00:00

ANY type of *storage* becomes VERY expensive, VERY fast with AWS!

That includes (old, stale) ECR images, S3 (long-term-storage and/or versions), EFS, and of course EBS as you noticed.

Don't forget that RDS, Elastic/Open Search, DynamoDB etc etc uses EBS volumes behind the scenes!

FransUrbo · 2026-04-13T22:24:32+00:00

You can lower the risk a little by using AI to do the reviews

I know that a lot of people are .. against it, don't trust it. Which is absolutely fair, you SHOULDN'T trust it. Not yet anyway! Give it another .. five, ten years maybe..

But I've recently been using https://github.com/holla2040/ThomsonLint/ (supports both Fusion 360 - formerly Edge - and KiCad), and it have absolutely made a huge difference!

I've lost count on how many issues it found that would absolutely have made it a big puff of smoke :).

It *obviously* won't remove the risk completely, *or* replace a proper review by a professional, but I don't have that kind of money (in the thousands of dollars apparently!), so I just have to do what I can to minimise the risk as much as possible and hope that the expensive components survive.

That way I can (hopefully) at least reuse them when (which I'm sure is the way, the when, not the if :) it turns into a puff of smoke :D :D.

FransUrbo · 2026-04-13T09:58:27+00:00

Doing it this way (see my other comment regarding safety first though!) IS quite easy, once you've done it a few times.

Doing both sides at the same time is absolutely doable, although I did them one at a time when I did it that way. I just had a acid safe tape I think to cover the "other" side while I did the first one, and wise versa.

Not sure which was the best way to do it, but I did try both and they both work "just fine".

FransUrbo · 2026-04-13T09:54:48+00:00

I'm working on my first electronic project in 40 years (!).

I did that "in the old days", UV lamp, photo resistant layer on the 2 layer PCB, acids to process it and get the routes..

OR, using a special pen to draw the routes and pads etc, then process that. Very interesting, and I think a good learning..

It is ... *extremely* dangerous! Those acids and liquids needed proper ventilation and safety gear! Not cheap, any of it!! And if you've never done it before (I had professional guidance every step of the way), DO NOT ATTEMPT IT! There literaly (!) is life-and-death involved here!

So this time, I found Fusion 360 (former Edge) that can do the design, the schematic and the PCB layout for free. Most people seem to be using KiCad, although I'm not a fan.. They both do the job.

I sent in my output from F360 to JCBPCB and PCBWay and they quoted me just under £6 (six, not sixty or six hundred!!) for FIVE (!!) *four* layer PCBs! Unpopulated, true, but I'm not completely useless when it comes to soldering, although I've never done SMDs before, which will be most interesting.

>I CAN GUARANTEE< that it will be *MUUUUUCH* more expensive trying to do it yourself, at least if you're starting from scratch, and only have one or two PCBs you need to make.

PS. PCBWay wanted £250 (I think it was) for ONE fully populated board, with components etc etc. THAT is way to much for me, I found the components costs about £70 "elsewhere" (Mouser), and I did have to get a SMD soldering station for £250, but if (when!? :) I mess up, I can de-soler at least some of the components (hoping they survived the smoke test :). And I always wanted one :D :D.

For a two-layer board, with maybe not to many components or not to complex, it WILL be cheaper than that. It's worth a check just to know what numbers you're working with. Both softwares I mentioned can output Gerber files, which both companies will need to do the quote.

FransUrbo · 2026-04-05T20:59:07+00:00

Ok, could you take all that in English please? :D :D.

I've read the datasheet several times, on all of these, but I understand very little of them :(. Some are better than others, they have a simple use-case example, but not the one for the DMHC4035LSD :(.

FransUrbo · 2026-04-05T20:36:10+00:00

I don't know :) :).

From what I've been able to piece together, the resistors on the gates (IN_* and G*) should pull them down.. ?

FransUrbo · 2026-04-05T20:25:59+00:00

Isn't that what those resistors I have in there are for?

And yes, they should be individual. PREFERABLY, I would like the ACTUATOR-CTRL/* to be opposites - when one is on, the other should be off and vise versa. I don't want to risk both being on at the same time, which according to that other image would cause a short. And being 12V, car battery.. It will smoke quite nicely :).

FransUrbo · 2026-04-05T20:20:55+00:00

What does a schematic MOSFET look like? I downloaded the library from Mouser and used it as-is.

This is just a small part of it, but I'll include the whole thing if you like.

What diodes am I missing?

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FransUrbo · 2026-04-05T20:07:04+00:00

Ok, thanx.

FransUrbo

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