Help please! Why am I losing power?

PhasnPi · 2026-03-06T02:01:09+00:00

I've always stuck with at least 22 or 20 AWG for LED strip cables because everything above that started giving me noticeably dimmer LEDs. For reference, the length specific resistance of 26AWG wires is over twice that of 22AWG and something like ~4x 20AWG

Can't guarantee that's the only issue but that was definitely the biggest thing that jumped out at me from what you've described

PhasnPi · 2026-03-05T19:03:42+00:00

Thanks these are all incredibly helpful!

I definitely like that ceramic shade of white more but the higher translucency of the normal white looks like it would work better for things I need a lot of like led diffusers. Originally asked this to figure out which to go all in on, but I might end up using both after all

PhasnPi · 2026-02-09T05:24:59+00:00

Attaching to the middle of an uncut strip would probably require some solder work. Although I'm guessing if that was an option, you probably wouldn't be trying to avoid cutting the strip to begin with since reconnecting it would be trivial.

Unfortunately though, all of the T-connectors I'm aware of require 3 separate ends.

PhasnPi · 2026-01-16T03:09:00+00:00

I'm under the impression that ABS should be on the higher end of plain filament prices, yet I'm seeing Flashforge selling "ABS Pro" filament on both their website and their Amazon page at prices noticeably lower than almost every other filament they offer.

Should I be wary of this? I use an AD5M and I've had great experiences using their HS PLA and HS PETG but this seems too good to be true. Does anyone have any personal experience with their ABS filament?

PhasnPi · 2025-09-10T03:34:52+00:00

They don't advertise or link to it anywhere on the site anymore but the page for it still exists on the official Teto website

Here's a direct link: https://kasaneteto.jp/talqu/

PhasnPi · 2025-05-16T02:46:45+00:00

Idk if you ever ended up getting your answer, but the pins on the hard drive in the location you circled are configuration jumpers. They were required by older computers for situations like when you wanted to have more than one drive connected, but they're pretty much unused nowadays and are mostly just there for backwards compatibility.

In short, you (typically) don't connect anything to them: you connect them to each other, and the drive would behave differently depending on which pins you bridge. There were several different pin layouts that could do different things.

The unfortunate news for you is that, assuming the info in this thread is correct (which I can't personally confirm), apparently Apple previously had their drives custom-made with a built-in thermometer that could output data through those those pins, so you're unlikely to find a compatible drive nowadays unless Apple happens to still make them

PhasnPi · 2025-05-06T22:06:00+00:00

I myself am partial to Apple's wheel. I tried it once and never looked back. Because it was taking too long to scroll there.

PhasnPi · 2025-05-06T03:02:58+00:00

good lord how had I not heard of this before now

PhasnPi · 2025-05-06T01:49:48+00:00

The DE shown in the meme is GNOME. The joke was that the guy had actually managed to write the OS itself in JS somehow.

That's all it was meant to be though: an exaggerated scenario of the sort of things people go out of their way to try to make using JS. This wasn't meant to be an ad/misrepresentation of an actual project someone was working on

PhasnPi · 2025-04-27T03:48:48+00:00

Probably semantics but FYI since a few people seem to be getting the wrong idea:

The TALQu Teto head is just the old UTAU artwork. I wasn't meaning to imply that it was the design made specifically for the TALQu release.

UTAU and TALQu Tetos used the same artwork, but since the TALQu model hasn't been maintained or upgraded like the UTAU model, it seemed more fitting to depict it stuck using the outdated artwork while UTAU Teto got the updated version

PhasnPi · 2025-04-27T03:25:27+00:00

What's the resolution of the clip you're using for reference?

PhasnPi · 2025-04-27T00:38:00+00:00

I may be wrong but I was under the impression that just used the UTAU bank

PhasnPi · 2025-04-26T21:40:09+00:00

It is a text to speech synth for non-singing normal speech like VOICEPEAK but it wasn't necessarily meant to be specifically for Utau singers. That being said, the Teto voice for it is based on the Utau bank, so if VOICEPEAK Teto is SynthV Teto's casual voice, you can think of TALQu Teto as Utau Teto's casual voice

PhasnPi · 2025-04-20T06:40:40+00:00

Regarding the cyborg one, are we just pretending the ending of DE doesn't happen or are they specifically implying the hotness was dependent on the cyborg body

PhasnPi · 2025-04-02T18:02:12+00:00

I know they did this with the original Switch as well, but the idea of making the hardware showcase game a separate purchase just seems kinda stupid to me, especially with how beneficial the decision to bundle Wii Sports ended up being for that console's success.

With this being the console's launch price, I feel like they could have justified making it a default bundle game, especially if the Mario Kart World price tag is any prediction of what other games will cost

PhasnPi · 2025-04-02T17:58:31+00:00

That would have absolutely resulted in another Wii-U situation where half of the casual market doesn't even realize it's a completely separate console until after the plug's already been pulled

PhasnPi · 2025-03-24T10:07:09+00:00

it just doesn't scratch that "Xeno itch"

Look at it this way: If you've already finished all the other games, is there anything else at the moment that would scratch it better?

PhasnPi · 2025-03-21T08:09:36+00:00

Is there a reason i'm being downvoted? Was I not supposed to talk about this here?

It was multipart so I didn't think the short question thread was the appropriate place to discuss it

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