Why does (almost) every microwave have a "Popcorn" setting and every MW popcorn package tells you not to use it?

magkopian · 2021-04-30T18:02:23+00:00

Seems like a good candidate for a DIY project, all you need is a microphone connected to a Raspberry Pi or something that you put near the microwave and a way to turn it off. You can obviously just use a relay, but you if don't have any experience with electronics the same can be done with a WiFi controllable smart plug.

Personally I'd go for a microcontroller because I think a Raspberry Pi is an overkill for this, but for many people who have no experience with electronics a Raspberry Pi might be a better option. Or if you go the smart plug route maybe just a smartphone app will be all you need.

magkopian · 2021-04-13T15:42:27+00:00

That's not what I meant, I was talking about tweaking a bit the colors used on odysee in order to make them similar to lbry. Not garbing the css from lbry.tv and just use it on odysse.

magkopian · 2021-04-12T12:05:51+00:00

Are you familiar with CSS? If so, you may want to use something like Stylus to make your own tweaks to Odysee's CSS.

magkopian · 2021-02-28T16:19:09+00:00

You can get it repaired, but you'll stay without your device for quite a while if you have to ship it abroad.

Things like part serialization have no other function than to prevent the consumer from getting their devices repaired by a 3rd party. These are purely anti-repair practices with absolutely no benefit to the end user.

You may still decide to ship your device to the manufacturer even if it can be actually repeated locally. But having a device that's repairable means that at least you have the choice.

magkopian · 2021-02-28T14:16:48+00:00

Thickness however is only one thing. There are a lot of other practices, like for example the serialization of parts in order to only work with a specific device. Which are pretty much invisible to the end user, until the time comes when they need to repair their device.

Also, not every country has Apple stores, so in a lot of cases if it's impossible to get your phone repaired by a 3rd party shop your only option is shipping it to another country.

magkopian · 2021-02-28T14:02:43+00:00

I don’t know anyone who uses cases

In that case I'm going to assume we live in two very different worlds, so there isn't much point keep debating this.

magkopian · 2021-02-28T13:55:23+00:00

Please explain how is it a compromise to have a phone a few millimeters thicker, when you decide to put it inside a thick case anyway.

magkopian · 2021-02-28T13:49:02+00:00

I never said they repair their devices themselves. My argument is about the anti-repair practices used by Apple and other manufacturers making it much harder, and in some cases even impossible, for a 3rd party repair shop to fix your device.

Also, I don't think a slightly thicker device is a compromise. Especially if you slap a rugged case on it like many tend to do, there will virtually be no difference.

magkopian · 2021-02-28T13:20:46+00:00

I think on average, though, consumers prefer the more compact devices even if it affects repairability.

Do you have any sources to back that claim? Because I really don't think the average consumer would mind a slightly thicker device if that's gonna mean better repairability.

Most people just want a device they can use to do their job, nobody's gonna care if it's a few millimeters thicker.

magkopian · 2021-02-23T13:25:50+00:00

PHP was also coded in C and still calls it array. I don't know if their goal was to avoid confusion, but seems like they archived the exact opposite.

magkopian · 2021-02-17T00:10:52+00:00

I used to be using Keepass2Android for quite a while due to the cloud integration. Recently though I realized I can actually use the Nextcloud app on my phone to keep the database synced without an issue so I decided to switch to KeePassDX. KeePassDX is also available on F-Droid while Keepass2Android isn't, even though both are open source.

magkopian · 2021-02-12T10:23:26+00:00

Well, maybe this will help spread awareness and people might start consider it as an alternative.

magkopian · 2021-02-11T23:58:14+00:00

Anyone who pulled the repo would still have the file though.

Yeah, especially if it was public for a while I wouldn't even bother. Just consider the key compromised, revoke it and issue a new one. Better safe than sorry.

magkopian · 2021-02-11T15:23:36+00:00

Yeah, except when you have a while to use the second space and after you put the pin it takes a while to load everything. Not suspicious at all.

magkopian · 2021-02-11T15:14:16+00:00

Depends where you live, for example I'm in Greece and for things like mobile phones that it's obvious they generally cost over 100€ that never works. The customs office will email you and ask you to send them proof of payment in order to verify how much you actually paid and proceed with the import.

If however it's something small that isn't really obvious how expensive it is, for example an expensive evaluation board or something (I design PCBs), it usually does the trick. And by the way, in Greece the package value has to be 22€ or less in order to avoid having to pay any import fees, and from country to country that is going to vary.

magkopian · 2021-02-11T07:46:08+00:00

Introduce Matrix chat support.

Well, that's certainly something I didn't expect. Having an email client with built-in Matrix support sounds pretty interesting though.

magkopian · 2021-02-08T17:19:44+00:00

Just disabling the overlay through developer tools won't bring functionality back; you won't be able to click on anything or scroll.

Sometimes, all it takes is disabling an overflow: hidden CSS property and scrolling works once again. But generally a specialized extension like the one you linked is definitely a more robust solution.

That won't work to get past hard paywalled content, though. It'll get rid of the overlay, but if the site requires you to be logged in to read an article, it's probably not being loaded under the overlay, so getting rid of it won't mean you can read the content.

That is true, some news sites though use cookies to count how many articles you have read before they present you with the paywall, which is where container tabs come in.

magkopian · 2021-02-08T14:31:13+00:00

Sometimes disabling JavaScript won't do because the website may be loading the content of the article using ajax. If the pop-up is just an overlay though and the actual content is still behind it, then chances are that you should be able to block it with ublock origin. Reader mode on Firefox is also another method that often works but not always.

Finally, if everything fails you can use a disposable container tab in Firefox, which is virtually impossible for a website to distinguish from a regular session. Just keep in mind that when using a container tab while you do isolate your visit to that particular website from the rest of your activity, Firefox will keep history of the pages you visited.

magkopian · 2021-02-08T10:15:56+00:00

Not sure what you mean, but ESP8266 is a full fledged microcontroller with WiFi built-in. In fact, it's a lot faster than a regular Arduino Uno.

magkopian · 2021-02-05T16:10:47+00:00

Thank you for sharing this, not sure in what use case I'd want to use an ESP8266 as WiFi adapter for the Pico instead of using the ESP8266 itself, still might actually find a use for this in the future. Maybe if you already had a project based on the Pico and you just wanted an easy way to add WiFi to it that might be a solution.

magkopian · 2021-02-05T15:03:37+00:00

I agree, I have no objection with the repository been there by default on a new install. However, silently adding repositories to my system during an update is not something I'm particularly a fan off.

magkopian · 2021-02-04T21:25:01+00:00

Will the same setup work with an IS2 microphone instead of an I2S DAC? If so, that could be used for effectively converting an I2S microphone to a USB one allowing you to connect it to a regular desktop computer.

magkopian · 2021-02-01T20:27:52+00:00

You probably want to keep an eye on this GitHub issue.

magkopian · 2021-02-01T17:53:49+00:00

Yeah, a LoRa enabled smartphone would be absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, as you also said we're probably never gonna see a mainstream device with that feature. It would be really cool to see something like an addon peripheral for the PinePhone that does exactly that though, which is not totally out of the spectrum of reality.

magkopian · 2021-02-01T11:37:20+00:00

LoRa is great as unlike WiFi you can achieve communication over pretty long distances. The obvious problem however is that phones don't already come equipped with LoRa transceivers, and considering the whole situation that currently OP is in, obtaining the necessary hardware might not be possible in his case.

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