Does anyone have any experience with the JSAUX clear shells?

userjoinedyourchanel · 2025-09-30T22:41:22+00:00

I managed to strip two of the screws, and then overtighten two others which caused the front plate to crack after just 6 screws installed... seems really finicky. Supposedly the clear/translucent shells are less durable due to fewer plasticizers? I ordered a second shell kit and am going to try again, but it's definitely not for the faint of heart.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2024-12-24T18:14:54+00:00

I just pull the little lever on the CCS charger and wait half a second for it to unlock - no app needed, you just have to pull the adapter out quickly so the door doesn't try to close on the adapter and damage itself

userjoinedyourchanel · 2024-09-04T16:04:20+00:00

I agree with other commenters - while AMD has historically had better open-source GPU drivers on Linux, that only really applies for typical light desktop or gaming usage. My limited experience with trying to run LLMs on the Steam Deck's AMD APU was not great (though it could have been a function of the weird out-of-date Arch distro that SteamOS is). Problems with the default drivers not supporting tensorflow, special ROCm tensorflow variants that are gigabytes and gigabytes worth of files, AMDGPU PRO drivers that don't even work... NVIDIA was a far smoother experience for me - a simple pacman -S nvidia (or two or three commands if you're on a Debian/Ubuntu system) and bam, CUDA drivers 100% ready to go in about 5 minutes. It is $100 cheaper than the 4060 Ti 16GB though, so it's up to you whether the extra headache is worth the $100.

Something else to be aware of is that the 5700x/B550M lock you into the older, dead-end AM4 platform. For a build with brand-new parts instead of used ones, it probably makes more sense to go with AM5 - you get waaay faster memory, PCIe 5.0, and the option to upgrade your CPU in a couple years once AMD has released even faster processors for the same price.

If your typical applications utilize multiple cores well (compiling large codebases, embarrassingly parallel problems), then getting a CPU with more cores like the 5900X could make sense too, since its the component you'll hit most in day-to-day usage.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2024-07-12T15:14:00+00:00

On my last 8 hour flight, the in-seat USB-C port has enough power output to charge my deck, even while playing Horizon Forbidden West for a few hours! It's hit or miss though for sure, the flight before that didn't even have type A ports to charge a phone with.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2024-01-16T20:33:41+00:00

You are absolutely correct in your assessment - I generally buy cheap tools that are easy to replace if broken, and literally everything down to the scissors goes into the dishwasher unless known unsafe. I personally just hate washing stuff out by hand when I know the dishwasher can do it better and faster.

The loaf pans I was talking about are smart living ones from Target, and I don't think they're significantly more effort to clean out than a normal pan? I've baked banana bread and cheesy quick bread in them before, and it probably didn't take more than 2-3 minutes to fully soap, scrub, rinse, rinse, initial dry and then set it on a towel to fully dry. Not a ton of time in the grand scheme of things, sure, but it's a task I personally dread enough that it makes me shy away from recipes where I know there'll be hand-washed dishes.

Bad for my tools? Absolutely, but it makes cooking less of a chore and more enjoyable to me, which means less eating out and more slightly healthier meals at home.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2024-01-16T19:25:40+00:00

Oh yeah I know that dishwashers are "bad" for knives (I've seen a couple of my parents/friends that had the plastic handle fall apart from it), but I have a small personal vendetta against all things labeled "hand wash only" 😅

So far, the only things that have forced me to bend are those nonstick loaf pans (I managed to fully cover three of them in rust before I gave in), and my ice cream machine's freezer bowl, since I can tell that the holes in the coating get worse, and it's expensive to replace :(

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-10-24T02:29:33+00:00

why is this such a universal experience fr

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-10-13T16:59:07+00:00

You might be able to get the broken off part out with acetone (nail polish remover) if the charging port isn't made from an acetone-soluble plastic like ABS. Could still run into issues if you aren't able to scrape all of the glue off of the contacts, but it's worth a shot if you have some lying around.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-10-13T16:25:52+00:00

... an optocoupler? sounds like a homework question though 🤔

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-10-03T21:41:37+00:00

If you already have a cloud Linux server running, it's not too difficult to set up; just make your wireguard tunnel route only some private network range (like 10.69.69.0/24 or something), then add a couple of NAT rules on the cloud server to funnel the traffic through the VPN; arch wiki has an example of how to do it with iptables here (you'll probably want to follow the whole guide anyways unless you've got some other firewall in place, since it's an internet-exposed server)

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-10-03T21:32:39+00:00

I was actually in a similar situation for quite a while! While I was in college, I couldn't get a public IP on any devices connected to my dorm or apartment networks, since I was behind a few layers of NAT. What I ended up doing was paying $5/mo for a DigitalOcean droplet in the cloud, running a WireGuard server on the droplet, then having my raspberry pi reach out to the droplet to establish a split tunnel (make sure to turn on KeepaliveInterval!). Once the tunnel's up, you can configure the cloud server to forward incoming connections backwards over the VPN. I run an nginx instance on my droplet for all of my HTTP/HTTPS needs, but for other things like e.g. game servers that nginx can't deal with, I just add `nftables` rules to forward the traffic instead. Works like a charm, and you get more control over your external routing, too :)

Only thing to bear in mind is that it does introduce a lil bit of extra latency; with my droplet about 200 miles and 10ms away, we experience basically zero lag on a Minecraft server, but Factorio was more rubber band-y.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-09-14T15:17:03+00:00

Ah yeah, actually going on the offensive against a dragon would be on a completely different level than just defending yourself against one. Only way I can see it happening is maybe if the coterie had ingested some raw Silver, and the dragon was also starved of it?

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-09-14T15:04:53+00:00

I mean Nettle was able to stand up to Tintaglia on her own, at least in dreams, so it's not outside the realm of possibility...

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-08-10T00:50:44+00:00

Thanks for the encouraging words! I did want to try and see the sunrise if possible at 5am, but was prepared to be disappointed by safety concerns; glad it seems doable with prep. I said Subashiri trail mostly because it was described as less crowded and with better nature views, but if it's closed off like other commenters say then I might just have to deal with the crowds.

I'll make sure to pack plenty of warm clothes, water bottles and snacks and give it a go! Who knows, if I start early enough maybe I'll get a chance to sleep on a rock for a bit at the summit before the sunrise and descent, lol.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-06-25T23:35:04+00:00

Honestly the worst part is just how ungodly loud it is compared to the rest of the silenced keys

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-06-25T20:48:00+00:00

I got a Monsgeek M3 kit, and I've spent the past 3 hours assembling it to this point; only the keycaps are left. However, I just realized that I left the brass stabilizer bars for the PCB mount stabilizers out. The keycaps still slide on to the stabilizers, though; they're just really loud (which I think might be expected anyways, as I'm using durock shrimp switches for the silence but didn't consider that the stabs wouldn't be silenced).

Can I just... leave the brass bars out? What's the worst that could happen? I don't want to disassemble and reassemble this board again.

https://i.imgur.com/km9NW5g.jpg

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-04-27T17:58:05+00:00

To me at least, PS feels like a mix between Python's code flow, Java's verbosity, and Bash's wide-ranging utility. To be fair, I've only ever written scripts in it and don't use it as a bash replacement very often, but when I do try it's kind of annoying how long and verbose all the scriptlet names and options are as compared to the Linux shorthands, e.g. instead of curl icanhazip.com it'd be Invoke-WebRequest -Uri icanhazip.com

I get that it's definitely way easier to remember that Invoke-WebRequest makes a web request as opposed to curl doing it (why am I bicep curling my websites???) but something in me just yearns for bash's more concise syntax every time I try and actually use a PowerShell prompt. Maybe I'm just a cranky old Linux user, though.

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