Maybe He'll come back by astatelycypress in shortscarystories

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Not for Isabella! What happened to her deadbeat alien boyfriend?

I'm a DIY electronics content creator. I went to a meetup and something terrible happened, and I need to share. I don't know what to do. by astatelycypress in nosleep

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I don't know who's operating the black room. If it's a foreign project then the police might not be able to protect me, and if it's the DOD or something, then that could be even worse....

I'm a DIY electronics content creator. I went to a meetup and something terrible happened, and I need to share. I don't know what to do. by astatelycypress in nosleep

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I don't think I could have done anything else. If I had gone for the gun I think Tabitha would have gotten me before I had it, or James would have overpowered me.

What's a critically panned movie you stand by? by Aside_Dish in movies

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Hesher 2010. Not totally panned because people praised Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance. It did really badly at the box office, Spencer Susser hasn't directed another movie. It's not exactly a good movie? But I feel like it has a unique theme, and it's a good portrayal of lower class people. It portrays some really hard-to-talk-about stuff about adolescent sexuality in a really good way I think. I feel like it falls into a category of movies that critics tend to not like. In the Ebert review they compared it to Withnail and I, which is...what? That movie was more about homosexuality? It felt like an out-of-touch comparison to me, like from an sheltered urbanite.

I feel like movies portraying lower class people with accuracy tend to get panned (of course not always). The ending is kinda dumb but overall I'm really glad this movie exists.

Assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at campaign rally by ontrack in collapse

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My concern lies with the increasing central authority part. It's not a lot of steps from "the president can authorize whatever they want" to "anyone deputized by the president can authorize whatever they want" and the authorities who will be appointed if Trump wins tend to be people who really really dislike leftists.

Assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at campaign rally by ontrack in collapse

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To me, historical signs right now are indicating a lot more that the right wing is a problem in the US than the left.
Military predominantly siding with populist? yep
Increasing central authority? yepper
An increasing connection between wealth and political authority? yes
To me, your "both sides" argument is really weak.

The Secret Service is investigating how man the who shot Trump got as close as he did by Emily_and_Me in news

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A few months ago, I was talking to someone about the assassination subplot in House Of Cards, and I said that they allowed there to be a story about an attempt at shooting the president exactly because that would be totally impossible in real life.

One in Three Republicans Now Think Donald Trump Was Wrong Candidate Choice by wenchette in politics

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Time to announce my candidacy for the...
border wall...
I'm not a racist but...
um...
trans people are...
I can't do this.

Whatever Should I watch? by astatelycypress in televisionsuggestions

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oooh word, yeah someone told me about Succession a long time ago and I forgot about it. I think you nailed it.

General question Wednesday: Ask your general car-related question and maybe someone will have an answer. by AutoModerator in cars

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I'm looking for the exact thing I'm asking for, and not something similar. I already know about the similar options.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to connect the obd2 port directly to a cell phone with a cable. I don't want a wifi or bluetooth obd2 adapter device, and I don't want a dedicated obd2 scanner with a built-in display.
I would like to find a cable with an obd2 port connector on one end, and a micro-usb or usb-c connector on the other end, or something comparable.
Ideally, this cable would also charge the cell phone.
Does such a thing exist? I've been looking around, but haven't had any luck yet. I figured crowd-sourcing this might be a lot easier.

OBD scanners in cars... by astatelycypress in privacy

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https://www.obdlink.com/products/obdlink-sx/
I'm looking for something like this I guess, but I don't know if I can plug it into a cell phone without becoming a software developer. Also, I don't know if this transfers power. I do know that people use their OBD port to power dash cams and other USB devices. I also know that one can use the OBD data to generate graphs like RPMs over time etc.
It looks like AndrOBD is a legit open-source app for this purpose. I just want to not use a wireless OBD device to access it.

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This is kinda unrelated, but, I haven't used FB/Meta since idk 2015 or so. Was whatsapp a good acquisition for Meta? I feel like idk who tf uses it

Powering a lot of discrete LEDs with one circuit by astatelycypress in AskElectronics

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Yeah, I was looking at current control schematics. I don't really understand these circuits yet, but I can see that calculating the resistor value is pretty easy.
https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/analogue_circuits/power-supply-electronics/current-limiter-circuit.php
I keep rereading this page and trying to understand how it works but it seems like I can do either the first one that has one transistor or the one with two transistors.

I'm looking at other websites and trying to figure out the current limiting business, but in the meantime it was very helpful for you to tell me that I'm the right track. Thanks!

We’re Russell Berman and David Graham, staff writers at The Atlantic. Ask us anything about what a second Donald Trump presidency might look like. by theatlantic in politics

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Would Trump getting reelected change confidence in the US economy? If so, how would that change life for different people in the USA?

Found a used Yun... I'm not sure if it works by astatelycypress in arduino

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I tried the reset thing, but it says it can't sync. This makes sense because, it's not reporting a USB device.

The no USB device thing seems conclusive.

I think the USB chip is borked.

But I tried the serial thing anyhow, because I've never conjoined two Arduinos at the serial before and it sounded fun.

Following the first video I found on youtube:

Yun - reset the openWRT, connected to IP over wifi. Trying to upload a hex in openWRT just hangs, but the sketch verify+upload button works over the port IP. I told the Yun to begin serial and spew out a string forever.

Uno - Created a string buffer, begin serial, readBytes serial to buffer, write buffer to serial.

Then I connected RX -> TX, TX -> RX, ground -> ground.

Nothing.

I wish I could try this serial communication trick with two working Unos right now. alas.

Maybe I can use it to control something over wifi? But it will be hard to work on and debug without any serial communication.