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on How do we quit YouTube? · c/ask · 6 pts · 26d

Install browser extensions that replace all video thumbnails with randomly selected video frames. All of a sudden, the startpage looks like a bunch of car salesmen, nothing but talking heads. No polish, no arrows. Did wonders for me. I think the one I use is called DeArrow, and it allows you to hide shorts, comments, recommended section and more. Really useful.

Here's the reason why: Li-Ion batteries spend most of a charge cycle in an almost flat region. Simple battery gauges just read the voltage, so "Battery Low" happens shortly before it dies.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jun 4th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes
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Yes, that's roughly the conclusion I arrived at myself.

I'd prefer them to be transparent about it, though. I've seen comments on the videos along the lines of "glad you found the courage to do the voice overs yourself despite your French," but no clarification in response or statement anywhere that I've seen. It's one thing if it is obvious, like in the past; another if you really can't tell anymore.

Yay FreeCAD 1.1! πŸŽ‰ Looking really good. Seems the devs saved a few significant surprises for the final release that weren't obvious in the release candidates.

On a different note: Is Deltahedra AI voiced? They used to make obvious TTS videos, but there was a switch at some point and now the videos have impeccable English with a stereotypical French accent (too perfect, maybe, both the English and the accent?), and then there are certain words where they jump between two pronunciations (e.g., fillet and filet).

Does anybody know? I can't tell anymore.

Shows what a bloody civilian knows.

How do you interpret the graph? Or does it just mean "the military can't afford to have hiring standards anymore?" And does that result in worse soldiers or more loose cannons (i.e., problematic personality profiles), or I suppose that's probably the same thing?

So they take absolutely everybody they can get nowadays. What would be an explanation for the previous divide? I never pictured the military to be a job that you could apply and be turned down...

on A bug in the system. · c/askelectronics · 2 pts · 182d

Looks like a switching regulator. Why there are two of them I don't know, but all those electrolytic caps, inductors, and beefy diodes around there are very telling.

The fuse is labeled as PTC so should be a resetting type that does not destroy itself on overload.

If the problem was indeed a bug shorting out the IC itself you probably have a good chance of getting it back by just replacing the IC, if you can identify it.

Says "kernel runs just like any other program" and proceeds to launch a VM to run it, because it would "mess up the system" otherwise. I liked the article, but it feels like it's leaving out the critical piece.

I think you could replicate this in silverbullet.md. One file per entry, with frontmatter for the fields (you can create a template for that) and then one file with a query table as overview. Not sure if query tables display images, though.

Edit: Should work with image path in frontmatter and a query and a render template.