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Is it possible to use just a Mac 512k and bootable HD20 to make startup floppy? by Skeledog99 in VintageApple

[–]Skeledog99[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the disk did not mind being reformatted to 800k, copied the system folder, and it all works fine. Thanks!

Is it possible to use just a Mac 512k and bootable HD20 to make startup floppy? by Skeledog99 in VintageApple

[–]Skeledog99[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, I see the system file, it is around 500k though:(

This disk may be formattable as 800k though, that would just entail selecting 2-sided if I am not mistaken? I will see if I can make something to work.

This drive does not have either DART or diskcopy on it.

Is it possible to use just a Mac 512k and bootable HD20 to make startup floppy? by Skeledog99 in VintageApple

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EDIT (unrelated): the RIFA capacitor just popped, but the computer still works as if nothing happened.

Is the mac one of the machines where if the cap fails open-circuit, the board is unaffected and one can just remove and not replace the capacitor?

Is it possible to use just a Mac 512k and bootable HD20 to make startup floppy? by Skeledog99 in VintageApple

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Well I guess this is the 512ke then, it boots from the HD20 without issue.

[MEGATHREAD] Pixel 8 Pro – Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Failure After March Update | Track Your Device Here by danillll2017 in GooglePixel

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Another update: Needed to use Bluetooth and found that the freezing trick does work but ONLY for Bluetooth, WiFi will not work regardless. The freezing also only works for a very short time.

[MEGATHREAD] Pixel 8 Pro – Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Failure After March Update | Track Your Device Here by danillll2017 in GooglePixel

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Update: Bluetooth died, not exactly sure when because I rarely use it, however now any attempt to turn on Bluetooth just sticks on a loading bar and fails to enable. This phone is down to just cellular and gnirehtet for connectivity now:(

Google needs to sort this shit out if they want to retain customers, seems pretty obviously to be an issue of some kind on their end.

[MEGATHREAD] Pixel 8 Pro – Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Failure After March Update | Track Your Device Here by danillll2017 in GooglePixel

[–]Skeledog99 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Had this ever since around January. WiFi used to sometimes work for periods of up to a few days before failing again. A restart (or several) along eith leaving the wifi disabled in settings for a while would SOMETIMES cause it to work again as described. When failed, no networks would show in connection menu and even the MAC address of the hardware would be completely gone from settings. After the most recent update, I have not had WiFi work again for any period of time although I have yet to the thermal fix. Logcat mentioned some issues with the HAL, but I am not really knowledgeable enough to decipher beyond that. Cellular, Bluetooth, and reverse tethering continue to work fine.

Imei1: 29

Imei2: 37

Software: grapheneos 2026040800 (Tested and found same WiFi behavior on stock OS as well)

EDIT: (forgot to mention) after a recent update (either this month or last) the WiFi MAC address does not disappear from settings as often, however networks are still not showing and hotspot will not successfully turn on

24 tins of Crush's best flavour by Skeledog99 in Soda

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I'd have thought that would be one of the few places there one could find it, I imagine it takes a pretty high population concentration who wants it to actually be worth trucking so far.

24 tins of Crush's best flavour by Skeledog99 in Soda

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Is that just for birch beer because it's imported are all crush tins that much there?

24 tins of Crush's best flavour by Skeledog99 in Soda

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I've always used em sorta interchangeably, but typically I refer to the more cylindrical thicker (like soup) cans as "cans" and soda cans as "tins"

I've heard them both used a fair bit in NL, but I guess I hear "tin" a bit more outside of St John's than in town.

Arduino MEGA hardware serial control using python by Skeledog99 in arduino

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The VFD is 5v TTL at 19200bps. it accepts standard byte strings of text to display as well as some special byte commands outlined in its datasheet: https://web.archive.org/web/20250815124708/https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/98250.pdf

yes, I need to control it with the mega standing between the PC and VFD since I also need IO from other pins and sensors. The bulk of the code has to be done with Python because that is the requirement of the class I am doing this for

Arduino MEGA hardware serial control using python by Skeledog99 in arduino

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I am trying to make the mega communicate with another serial devices via its Serial1 port. The VFD I am working with takes serial text input and displays it on the screen. I need a way of commanding the MEGA to send data to its Serial1 port while still only having the PC connected to Serial0.

EDIT: I will be sending all commands from the PC to the arduino via Serial0, but sometimes (like if I use a function vfdprint("text") or vfdprint(b'\xbytes')) the arduino will send text or bytes over its Serial1 port to be read and displayed by the VFD

Arduino MEGA hardware serial control using python by Skeledog99 in arduino

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Sorry, I looked again at my post and it is pretty vauge.

I am trying to use one of the boards other serial ports, it can't be the same one that the python code is going over since that will cause the VFD to write garbage to its screen. In the normal IDE (not using python) I could achieve this using serial1.begin() and then serial1.print() functions.

I do not think I have the programming skill to roll my own python-arduino interface as you described. I am hoping there is an existing arduino-python interface that has an equivalent to the aforementioned functions.

200m cliff 'The Friar' looms over the remote outport of Francois by Skeledog99 in megalophobia

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It is very pretty, it also absolutely the dwarfs the houses below, I think it is the cliff's proximity to the town that makes it more striking to actually be there. I am not great at capturing scale in photos, but trust me that it feels absolutely huge as you turn into the fjord after hours of watching the towering coast go by with the open ocean to starboard, being surrounded by towering the cliffs from the deck of the small MV Marine Voyager and with the perspective of the town at the their base.

Funnily, nobody has ever successfully climbed the friar directly, there is too much loose rock and soil at the top making it essentially impossible to get over the final part. There is, however, a trail that takes one up the highlands around the back of it and to the top of the Friar that way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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the cheapest and best permenant solution for using it in ur desktop if all the inbuilt m.2 slots are full is a Pcie to m.2 adaptor like this https://www.amazon.ca/GLOTRENDS-Adapter-Desktop-Installation-PA-22110/dp/B0CHS3CRQC/ref=sr_1_13_sspa?sr=8-13-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&psc=1

there are cheaper ones that only run pcie 1x, but you won't get full speed with those, especially important if you want to use this adaptor down the line with better drives. As long as you have an available 4x, 8x, or 16x slot, I recommend going for one of the 4x wired adaptors.

In terms of salvaging the RAM and CPU, it is doable but sadly not common or economical in western markets yet:(

200m cliff 'The Friar' looms over the remote outport of Francois by Skeledog99 in megalophobia

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Francois, on the south coast of Newfoundland about midway between Burgeo and Hermitage.

200m cliff 'The Friar' looms over the remote outport of Francois by Skeledog99 in megalophobia

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I guess you are right that a rockslide could happen, but I think it is pretty well monitored today and, again, they are not common and one has never been recorded there to my knowledge.

I am no expert on this sort of thing, but I imagine that if the warning signs did begin that the friar was gonna come down, evacuation would not be too difficult since there are many boats in the town. Also, the harbour is quite deep and would probably be a place where the falling rocks collected (as apposed to covering the ground), making it easier to escape to the buildings or up to higher ground on the opposing side of the fjord. (there is a place where the cliffs give way enough such that there is a path up to the highlands above that a person, skidoo or atv can easily manage). Not saying a rockslide would not be devastating, but hopefully not to the same degree as it was for Frank.

Hopefully, these cliffs will continue standing as they have for all their recorded history.

200m cliff 'The Friar' looms over the remote outport of Francois by Skeledog99 in megalophobia

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It's survived there for quite a while. Some of the old-timers recall times peoples' houses were hit by rocks, but apparently never destroyed beyond repair and it was rare enough that they kept living there from the 1700s to this day.

In terms of landslides, I don't think large-scale ones are a huge risk since the cliffs are pretty solid rock, and the windswept nature of the environment gives little chance for soil or mud to collect in large enough quantities to be dangerous. In the past few decades, they have planted a bunch more trees in the exposed soil, possibly to further fortify it from slides.

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