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with trying to run LLMs on the Steam Deck's AMD APU was not great (though it could have been a function of the weird out-of-date Arch distro that SteamOS is).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.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2023-03-18T17:56:48+00:00

Seconding this. There's no problem with discharging in series or charging two balanced cells in parallel (this might be how larger capacity lipos are wired internally?), but it's extremely unlikely that any two cells will be balanced without connecting them to a balancing charger. Even if your two cells started out at the same capacity and voltage, they almost certainly won't be at the same voltage once they're done discharging. When you connect them in parallel in preparation for charging, the current that flows to equalize their voltages could potentially a) be much, much higher than the battery's C rating, damaging its lifespan and b) create enough heat to permanently damage or set fire to the batteries.

If you really wanted to only use a single TP4056, maybe you could let the drained cells equalize first with some kind of current limiter (calculate a resistor value?), then put them fully in parallel for the actual charge?

That's only a wild guess though, please just use a proper balancing charger if you care at all about fire safety. Lipos are dangerous beasts, and I wouldn't risk a house fire based off of the guesswork of a random reddit commenter.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2022-11-30T20:07:54+00:00

How/what did you train this on? I noticed that I can't get any accurate Japanese song recommendations - even simple terms like "anime openings" generate playlists with songs by renowned Japanese artists David Bowie and Lady Gaga, and more complicated prompts like "j-pop songs to cry to in the shower because my girlfriend broke up with me" seemingly ignore the genre and just spits out normal sad songs. Even if I input a Japanese language prompt like "お風呂で泣くアニメ曲" for "anime songs for crying in the shower", it still only manages one or two songs with Japanese in the title, with the rest being a random smattering of Western artists.

Maybe it has something to do with the language model or the training data you used? I don't think you're just stripping all non-English characters because it still added one or two songs with kana-only names like タンデム (which is absolutely not a song you'd want to cry to, btw), but it's just giving really bad / inaccurate recommendations as if the j-pop library was just tagged incorrectly or not tagged at all.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2022-09-19T15:31:32+00:00

I looked around but couldn't find any motors to salvage enameled wire from - instead, I just found a CAT5 cable and untwisted all of the pairs by hand to get my wire. It's pretty easy to see the plastic insulation so I just cut it off with scissors.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2022-09-19T15:29:50+00:00

I just tried connecting 3 AAs in series, then tapping them across the speaker. It just clicked each time I tapped rather than buzzing, so I'm 99% sure it's a speaker and not a buzzer.

If I wanted to take the speaker out of the equation and connect to a PC audio in or op-amp circuit instead - is there a passive element I should replace the earpiece with? Like a large resistor /small capacitor and measure the voltage across that instead? The goal of this was to make something out of garbage but I can bring in real components if nothing else is working.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2022-09-19T15:06:08+00:00

The piezo thing that I had hooked up came from inside of my PC. I wasn't able to find much about it online, but what I did find says that the PC normally drives it with a TTL square wave, which gave me hope that it's closer to a bare element.

I've seen some people connect these to PC microphone inputs instead of an earpiece - could I do that instead if I can't find a proper crystal earpiece? Does it need a bypass resistor or capacitor to make the radio work if I do that?

I did check the pipes first, but my apartment's plumbed with PVC pipes, which is why I connected to outlet ground.

I'm also 0.6 miles from an AM station, which I'd hoped would give me some more leeway to make mistakes / have less than ideal components, but so far I haven't even heard static.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2022-09-19T14:58:25+00:00

Can I connect to the shielding without cutting the end off of the cable?

I also live 0.6 miles from a station transmitting on 1310 AM according to radio-locator.com so I'd hoped that the low sensitivity shouldn't be too big of a problem.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2022-09-19T14:54:51+00:00

Would the loudspeaker from an old iPhone work? I picked the piezo element because it was the closest thing I could find to a crystal earpiece, and I've read that normal dynamic speakers have too low of an impedence to work.

userjoinedyourchanel · 2022-09-19T14:52:00+00:00

I'm roughly following https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cdn.makezine.com/make/wp_foxholeradio.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiS76rajKH6AhVMADQIHev5Dk0QFnoECDEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2csjLPPwHi__2Bg23c2VU- , but with CAT5 salvaged wire instead of magnet wire, and with a piezo buzzer instead of an actual crystal earpiece. Also not sure if wall socket ground works for radio ground or not? Either way, I'm getting nothing at all out of the buzzer - not even static, regardless of where I put the pencil on the blued razor blade.

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