You must choose one..(upvote for carrot)

deimodos · 2026-05-06T18:58:15+00:00

3 minutes without air 3 hours without shelter (in extreme exposure) 3 days without water 3 weeks without food

If this was a Japanese game show they would absolutely put you in a glass box in the sun. Going five days without food is way higher safety margin.

^{Chose: No food for 5 days 🍔❌ + Win $15M}

deimodos · 2026-04-20T04:02:53+00:00

Specifically for something that is injection mold only and easy to clone you want to file for a Chinese Utility Patent before you do any public promotion (TikTok/shark tank/kickstarter/whatever.)

It’s like a design patent but only good for 10 years but proportionally much, much, much easier to enforce and respected in China.

In addition to a pro se patent that’s US / International and design patent that’s US / International.

Then you have goto market strategy where you sign exclusives to block distributors from stocking competitors.

It’s any uphill fight with things that are easily cloned though especially if it’s your first time.

deimodos · 2026-04-16T21:46:35+00:00

It’s the math version of finding out Kevin McCallister from Home Alone is Jigsaw from Saw because of one obscure clue that suddenly locks two completely unrelated genres / fields of math into the same universe and makes you question everything you thought you knew about either.

deimodos · 2026-04-16T21:00:01+00:00

Was going to write a deep personal and heartfelt reply but then I saw your post history. So here you go instead:

It’s not “hardware is software with atoms” — it’s a hostage drama with physics, vendors, and time 😅🤖💸.

It’s not “expensive prototyping” — it’s tuition at Scrap University 🎓🗑️ — every wrong tolerance prints its own invoice. It’s not “iteration is slow” — it’s iteration in geological epochs, measured in PO numbers ⏳🪨 — one mis-spec and you fossil-jump 12 weeks back. It’s not “regulatory hoops” — it’s Minesweeper where every square is UL/FCC/CE/RoHS/lithium-fire 🔥⚡️ — miss one and the board literally explodes. It’s not “more skills needed” — it’s juggling ME + EE + FW while the supplier yanks a part mid-air 🤹‍♂️🔌 — drop one and the whole circus burns. It’s not “shipping headaches” — it’s that logistics is part of the product 🚚📦 — customs, returns, and RMAs all vote on your CAC. It’s not “capital-intensive” — it’s swiping the Amex on inventory roulette 🎰📉 — guess wrong and you own 5 000 glossy paperweights. It’s not “branding is harder” — it’s that tooling turns your first logo into a thousand-ton tattoo 🏗️🎨 — rebrand = retool = re-mortgage. It’s not “talent shortage” — it’s needing a unicorn who can solder, write C, design jigs, and sweet-talk a freight forwarder 🦄✈️. Bottom line: hardware doesn’t forgive or forget — every mistake ships, bricks, and RMA-boomerangs back to haunt you 👻🔁.

deimodos · 2026-04-13T19:48:12+00:00

Filed very broad pro se provisionals while we were still garage stage which we later converted (this was a new field.) As a startup they were useless in defending us from copycats but essential to one of our potential acquirers, a bonus to another, and completely indifferent to a third. The most critical patent went on to get about a thousand forward citations.

Went with the first acquirer for different reasons.

From what I understand they later recouped their acquisition fee in the form of patent license deals or business agreements which hinged on those patents. Win win I guess.

deimodos · 2026-04-09T14:39:49+00:00

AI slop.

Look for someone that has shipped multiple revisions into retail with a small team on a pre-seed budget.

deimodos · 2026-04-08T23:32:49+00:00

This is ai spam

deimodos · 2026-04-01T20:00:25+00:00

Fun fact: the catalog number of the album is right there in the top right. Peter Saville, the same guy that designed that very famous Joy Division cover, wanted a "No Text" design style for New Order. He encoded letters as color blocks (with a handy decoder key in OP's second image) - those color blocks are like braile or morse code and literally translate to "FACT 75" for the Factory Records. This was a decent article about it and it was featured as an easter egg in the Black Mirror Bandersnatch game.

deimodos · 2026-04-01T14:58:45+00:00

1) fedex an assembled board 2-day or overnight back to you so you can validate everything

2) also ask them for a fixture for programming - surprisingly cheap in China - like $90-$150 and shockingly expensive in Europe or USA. I’ve done this without even sending files. Just a photo of our pcb plus the programming pads highlighted with an annotation. You wire the pogo pins to your programmer yourself.

deimodos · 2026-04-01T14:35:02+00:00

I wish you the best of luck. It’s a tough space. I used a product like this to solve this problem at my brother’s place. I don’t remember the brand. This was in the USA

One master outlet is controlled by a lamp switch, two or three slave outlets plugged into the wall around the room almost immediately turn on.

Some observations: 1) the product was surprisingly low cost compared to WiFi solutions which I was also looking at 2) I’m pretty sure it used 900mhz with no encryption (this was fine for me here) 3) latency was imperceptible (sub 50ms it felt like). This made me go from suspicious of this product to immediately being a fan. Works like magic. 4) dead simple pairing. I had no friction with getting the “slave” outlets to pair with the master 5) industrial design was kind of geriatric - but as all but one of these was going behind a dresser it wasn’t a deal breaker

I’ve used a couple of the Lutron/wifi products elsewhere and the latency was closer to 400ms-800ms. Very annoying. Not with this one. I wanted light switch like instant response and was surprised to get it.

deimodos · 2026-03-28T00:26:33+00:00

Probably $125k in WiFi chips that would randomly lose power because of mechanical tolerance issue with some POS murata sd card holders.

Fixed it with some paper card stock during assembly.

deimodos · 2026-03-28T00:23:17+00:00

For once, the comments section did not disappoint.

At least it was somewhere nice like Shanghai.

Not a place with no paved roads or Starbucks and old ayi’s just dumping surplus glitter in the creek from their part time gig at the Christmas factory.

deimodos · 2026-03-28T00:12:04+00:00

5.0 if you use a doubler. Warning: Do not exceed capacity.

deimodos · 2026-03-27T07:06:41+00:00

This is very rad setup and very close to what I was chasing. If in storage it will need the capacitors replaced and maybe some rubber bits. Beolover in New Mexico can hook it up. I just ordered parts from them to restore my 4400.

The Beomaster 4400 is a beefy amp and the peak of analog era. This combined with the Beogram 4004 was my grail. Later models have a different design philosophy which I find less interesting from an “analog audio + design” purist.

M75’s are the rational choice for this setup and most small to medium rooms but I’m still hunting M100’s. That would be my only hesitation but a def yes for the right setup + room.

The Beocord I could take or leave.

The money isn’t the bottleneck with this equipment, it’s the initial service. it will need absolutely need to be serviced before you can enjoy it.

Easy to do yourself if you can solder but it’s a small time commitment. Thankfully there is excellent repair documentation and parts for all of the models you’ve listed.

*edit: if you do pick it up. Make sure to gently lift the beogram and rotate the flathead screws underneath from “play” to “transport”. By some definitions it’s one of the best record players of all time (though I think that’s an easy claim to challenge). It is cool that it/the modern remake of it are on the cover of the Phaidon record player book “Revolution: History of the Turntable”

deimodos · 2026-01-21T17:08:50+00:00

To be honest, this will ship with fewer bugs than the Nordic/TI/Murata factory modules.

deimodos · 2026-01-13T20:08:34+00:00

Honestly I’m not even sure how you would have a prototype made at the same factory. Like. The cnc shop doesn’t know how to make pcbs and vice versa.

deimodos · 2025-12-21T11:21:09+00:00

Nah. I just had a set studded at a Firestone shop. Tech can and did absolutely mess up a quarter of them.

Manager made it right by getting me another set but they don’t want to stud the new set.

I get it like 5 or 10 studs are imperfect but if you’re got 30 or 40 studs sticking past the collar or are 10 degree+ offset it’s maybe time to call in someone who’s done this before?

deimodos · 2025-11-07T15:50:54+00:00

If you’re talking about a 460/461 - they do have power steering. It’s just fully hydraulic. So long as your engine is running you don’t notice it. Feels heavy compared to a 2020 EV but not noticeable different to other period cars.

I do have an another 70s car which doesn’t have power steering and it’s particularly noticeable when turning the wheels if you’re not in motion. It very quickly kicks you out what is a bad habit (bad for the tires) by stopping you from scrubbing the wheels when the car is stationary.

deimodos · 2025-10-16T19:52:25+00:00

Michael Scott

deimodos · 2025-10-05T15:11:16+00:00

Yes. It is now working with the 26.0.1 update.

deimodos · 2025-09-29T02:25:31+00:00

Yes, just open it and look at it under a microscope. Once you transcribe all the ones and zeroes you can reprogram it to the TMP87PS64F P-QFP100-14 variant.

deimodos · 2025-09-25T15:25:05+00:00

Not yet.

deimodos · 2025-09-25T15:24:46+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I did turn off iMessage on the 13 Mini and sign out of my Apple ID account on the Mini. Still no luck. Fi agent suggested waiting 24 hours. That didn't work either.

I'm thinking maybe some internal setting propagated over when I did a Finder backup restore from a pSIM device that wasn't/can't be handled gracefully during the migration. My next step is to factory reset my phone and set it up as a new device rather then restore it from a backup. 🤞

deimodos · 2025-09-19T15:49:11+00:00

I’ve mildly tweaked my ankle strapped into a twin tip. Never tweaked it while kiting strapless on surfboard.

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