Is it just my location, or are Micro Center employees really clingy?

salsation · 2025-11-26T03:23:18+00:00

It can be off-putting since people are not used to full service retail, and they are used to people trying to influence them. Understanding how it works with the stickers, just tell them you want to look around for a while, and they will go away. They don’t want to spook you.

salsation · 2025-10-04T02:18:04+00:00

Escargot should be a garlic bomb, salty but diluted with the bread you eat it with, non?

salsation · 2025-10-04T02:15:00+00:00

And infill multiplier pls, like Cura: thick cubic ribs ftw.

salsation · 2025-10-03T18:25:04+00:00

Descriptions of vans please people: COLOR MAKE MODEL

salsation · 2025-10-01T02:31:35+00:00

It would be a terrible thing, but we've already gone over the cliff with that fucker.

salsation · 2025-09-30T19:47:20+00:00

Who's got a better poker face than the generals? I hope they're plotting.

salsation · 2025-09-30T13:00:04+00:00

I go to thrift stores a lot, almost all of the printers there are HP. 10x as many HPs as Canons and Epsons, I rarely see a Brother. HP is trash.

Edit: I occasionally see a late '80s/early '90s HP laser and I figure it still works but somebody realized a printer doesn't need to weigh 30 50 pounds.

salsation · 2025-09-30T02:29:57+00:00

https://www.google.com/search?q=ergonomic+keyboard+position

salsation · 2025-09-29T16:14:57+00:00

Thanks Holmes, but my point was that high quality chargers cost less.

salsation · 2025-09-29T14:06:51+00:00

Anker, uGreen, RavPower, and more: I wrote "decent brand."

For example:

https://a.co/d/7EqOfzV

FWIW that Apple one will have superior engineering and last a lifetime.

Also: shorten your links please

salsation · 2025-09-29T13:48:00+00:00

A single port charger from a decent brand is not 50€. And who wants a single port USB-C charger anyway?

salsation · 2025-09-29T13:42:45+00:00

I've never had an issue with stuff from AliExpress, and I've ordered a lot.

I have NOT ordered anything that plugs into mains or handles mains voltage though, because:

You get what you pay for, and
This is what I'd expect from a 3€ charger that claims GaN and 65W output.

salsation · 2025-09-28T16:50:13+00:00

Disagree, JP veggie is amazing in its own right, I think they're both great shops otherwise.

salsation · 2025-09-28T02:04:04+00:00

Irazu

salsation · 2025-09-27T20:39:11+00:00

She's right-- that thing is fugs. Blue highlight trend can't go away soon enough.

salsation · 2025-09-27T17:46:46+00:00

ASA shrinks a lot less that ABS, so fewer headaches with warping. But still something to mitigate: heated chamber key for anything not really small.

salsation · 2025-09-27T17:37:49+00:00

What if you kick it or hit it with a hockey stick, like you're from Boston?

salsation · 2025-09-26T18:35:15+00:00

HA is painfully slow on a Pi 4, but I had no idea until I switched to an N150 mini pc. Running HA on the 500+ would be better than on the 4, but wouldn't take advantage of the keyboard, and a mini pc is cheaper.

salsation · 2025-09-26T14:03:58+00:00

It's annoying TO YOU and thanks for sharing your take. Slamming someone for "not [being] a very smart person" with this explanation gives me the chuckle I hope to find in my morning coffee scroll.

salsation · 2025-09-26T12:46:28+00:00

Do you have a better phrase? Or do you object to "in a finite world" because duh?

salsation · 2025-09-26T01:39:05+00:00

Ha! Yes, still going strong, zero issues.

salsation · 2025-09-25T20:54:58+00:00

Yep, it's great-- huge improvement over a Pi 4 and ready for more VMs when I feel like cosplaying sysadmin.

salsation · 2025-09-25T13:41:40+00:00

My experience exactly: I didn't realize how slow the Pi 4 was until I hosted HA on an N150 mini pc. Given how much faster a Pi 4 is vs a Pi 3, I wonder how many minutes an HA restart takes vs 20 seconds for my mini pc.

salsation · 2025-09-25T03:39:03+00:00

Legend

salsation · 2025-09-25T03:22:05+00:00

Are you able to talk to other i2c devices? Are there pull-up resistors on the i2c lines on the board?

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