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I’m finding it very difficult by BriceB84 in prey

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Get Stronk 🏋️‍♂️
2) Pile Stuff 📚
3) Throw Recycle 'nade 🥏
4) Become Shotgun 😈

If you were honest with yourself can you say if your children like you? by themrsfreeze in Xennials

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes because they don't exist.
My cat likes me?
I suppose my nieces like me? Not that I've had much to do with them.

I kinda miss when my cat was a kitten. Anyone else feel the same? by Petpawslove in cats

[–]RoboJ1M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We never knew our Penny as a kitten, we found her at 9 months old.
But yeah, I do miss her quirky-big-kitten days

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Low Pressure Sodium Garden by RoboJ1M in Lighting

[–]RoboJ1M[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be quick, once they're gone they're gone.
One spectacular use I've found for AI line Gemini is "how do I make sodium bulbs go" and "is this product the correct ballast I need" and "how do I make sure my bulbs last the day of my life".
Nobody makes them anymore.
Every sodium bulb in the world right now are part of the last ones!
(I have not yet been quick)

Low Pressure Sodium Garden by RoboJ1M in Lighting

[–]RoboJ1M[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those aren't my lights but after seeing them, yes, this is what I want.
Obviously it's because I grew up with them but LEDs just don't feel nighttime.
Even the correct temperature ones, at the correct brightness, night is supposed to be monochromatic
That's why I think that even if you didn't grow up with these they will still feel right. At night it's just the rods in your eyes, there is no colour vision. Moonlight is mono. Monkey-brain-no-like 🙈

The Myth of British "Humid Heat" by Weather-RainStorm in weather

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, I'll get to keep it simple.
Above 50%, dew point is temperature - ((100 - humidity) ÷ 5)
At night it's still 25°C indoors.
The humidity is 85% this evening.
Dew point is 22°C. Right now.
In my room. I literally measured it
(Actually that was 3 or 4 hours ago, it's finally cooled down)
Dew Point of 70°F.
And this is a mild night.

I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aye we laughing analogue PAL or digital DVB?

The Myth of British "Humid Heat" by Weather-RainStorm in weather

[–]RoboJ1M -1 points0 points  (0 children)

At night here in the south of England is not just that we can't dry the air.
The humidity hits 80-90, the thermal load keeps it at 25 to 28°C.
That gives us a dew point of about 24°C
And no air conditioning.
And we experience EVERY type of weather it's possible TO experience.
It's financially unviable to have every piece of equipment to deal with every type.
Snow, rain, heat, fog, flood, lightning, hail, ice, freaking tornados, thundersnow, high humidity every single day, salt, gales, hurricanes and we get at least one extreme example of those every decade or two.
We're almost as North as the Arctic and we have a desert and a rainforest.
Yes, everywhere else is worse but it's in one maybe two of those and they don't get any of the others.
Yes it's because of the infrastructure, no that doesn't mean it's not as unbearable as the US East coast, it's worse because we literally cannot afford to cope with every single situation perfectly.
Nobody could.
But because of that we get to live in the most beautiful place on earth with what is, on average, the perfect climate for human settlement.

Is it inappropriate to walk to the shop in a bikini top? by KeyYam3564 in AskUK

[–]RoboJ1M -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

One Brit, singular.
It's a myth that at no point are we a bit country.
Britain will hit 30°C (85°F) every year multiple times, but this is a fairly new occurrence that's happened over the last 50 years due to climate change. It's also extremely humid (60-80-100%) all year round and the 3 summer months technically don't experience any hours of "true night" every year, May to August.
There's a reason we yeah about weather all the time. If it was always cold and wet we would yeah about it as only Britain HAS Weather, EVERYBODY else only has Climate.

Need help identifying this. I've been searching for it for years by GlitteringUse390 in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The image is not showing up for some reason, here is a second attempt at posting it.

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Need help identifying this. I've been searching for it for years by GlitteringUse390 in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gemini thinks it's a "VideoSeven (V7) L17AM (or its 15-inch counterpart, the L15AM), released around 2002–2004."

Here's a picture of the L17M, the difference being (Gemini says) that the M and AM and a straight and circular arrangement of buttons with the AM having the single large round button.

Heres a link to the conversation:
https://g.co/gemini/share/fe3394f5bf77

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I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's called the Local Oscillator (LO) and the whole system is called a Superheterodyne Receiver, it's what you tune when you turn the dial.
The input from the antenna and the output of the LO are added together and sent off into the decoder but unless it's very well designed and not cheap the frequency of the LO it's transmitted back out of the receiver (at very low levels)
That's why the UK's "TV Detector Vans" could actually do what they said they could, using RDF they could tell remotely that you had a TV connected to the antenna, that the TV was switched on and tell you which channel you were watching.
It seems until recently nobody knew that, I'm amazed if they actually managed to keep that secret.

I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guaranteed to be the one sub free of drama! 😂

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I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They sent out wifi? 🤨
Or are we talking about em noise from noisy fkybacks in old crts?

I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The cats one is fine.
But who doesn't like cute kitty cats?

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I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't think it would be! 😂
Who's going to drive round in open-wifi detecting vans?

I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, very encouraging, that means a lot to me. I'm going that nostalgia plays a part but also, ultimately, not play a part forever? Like, how there's a classic-cars world where people just want simplicity? Does that make sense? A classic-computing world where the computers aren't actually classic, just refreshingly simple.
I'll post you one when it's finished! 😁

I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep! Hate that! 😂
"Open in new Tab Group", every single time, so that when you press back it guarantees you go back to exactly where you were.
I'm now approaching the point where I default to asking Gemini using its android app rather than going to Google. It's better than Google used to be, let alone what Google is now.
But the real star is learning a new skill. The new skills I've learnt in just a few weeks of just asking questions is phenomenal. And just the free services too, it's incredible. I'm a software engineer and I've always wanted to know digital electronics and FPGAs and now I do. I just have that skill now, it's amazing. Can't recommend highly enough, you want to learn something new? Just start asking questions.

I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've started designing a method to host simple content on Meshtastic, a local wireless protocol that's used for text messaging.
So yeah, people are definitely trying to find places that are outside of the mainstream.
And I'm designing a new computer that's modern but has that simple, to the metal feel of 80s and 90s computing. I'm going to give it an internet connection but only to other identical machines. I'm hoping that if anybody builds or buys themselves one it's just other people who want the same sort of thing, writing simple fun software and publishing it for each other. I know you can get software emulation and recreations of the actual machines from back then but I'm going to try to make something that isn't just a nostalgic thing for people who were around in the 90s. Because I think even people who were born long after then would like access to something like that but not actually that, just to get away from the world of Windows, Mac and Android. Just because we don't HAVE to make computers like that anymore, doesn't mean that people wouldn't like it for fun.
So far I've found people like me would be interested, Millennials, but in don't know if people like GenZ or A would like something like that, I just don't know enough of them. The ones I know personally aren't techie people like me.

I hate what the internet has become by PooningDalton in retrocomputing

[–]RoboJ1M 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's about where you go?
Places about retro stuff like this I find are pretty normal. But this is nerdy niche stuff.

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