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[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@RSDCDN @linusgsebastian @Microsoft No, if you need a walled garden that forces you how to think and work, you are better off with Windows and/or Mac. If you want choice and freedom, go Linux.

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@mihaschw I'm sorry for your loss.

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@DynamicsLab_AI This technology essentially doesn't work. It's just image morphing, essentially. Without a consitant (and persistant) 3D world, the best you can achieve is motion sickness and accidental nightmares.

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@DJSnM Speaking of "earthquakes", with all that is going on in US west coast states, maybe this is the perfect time to take a very long holiday in Europe with your family?

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@janekm @HanxiaoM I have no idea if this is real. But technically, the form factors (not the pin count, though?) would make it useful in densely packed phased array antennas.

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@i2cjak Extra bonus: DCF77 is a serial protocol for radio clocks in Europe. It encodes 1 start bit and 59 data bits.... per minute. The bits syncronize the seconds, and the data transmits the date, hours and minutes. Recievers for microcontrollers are available.

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@i2cjak WIthout readin the other answers, i would guesstimate 1) RS485 2) I2C 3) SPI

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@DJSnM @MakingAndStuff Modern tech is all fine and good. If it works. But you can't just *replace* good old engineering knowledge by slapping on a few fancy sensors and increasing computing power.

The last few years felt like "Engineers are expensive, let's just ask ChatGPT to design our spacecraft"

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@DJSnM Imagined reaction of the International Astronomical Union: "Ugh, now we have to name *another* moon crater"

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@trapsticles @hackaday My projects work mostly below 20MHz. As a general rule of thumb, any signal that can survive my perfboard prototypes will survive going around 90° bends ;-)

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@DJSnM @SwiftOnSecurity Hmm, yeah, makes sense in more ways than one. You don't want to hand out usable reactor fuel/bomb material to the general public. And it's much too expensive to loose track of it. Using essentially nuclear waste to power light houses is quite sensible... sort of.

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@DJSnM @SwiftOnSecurity There are two types of people in this world: Those who snuggle a nice piece of plutonium to keep warm.

And those who have watched enough "Plainly Difficult" and run away fast enough to qualify for an olympic gold medal...

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[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@eevblog In IT that distinction is kinda important because there is a huge speed difference between RAM and permanent storage medium. A supplier one of my former companies used mixed that up a bit (on purpose), with the result that their machines were awefully slow...

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

I hate companies that change their EULA after you already paid for the product. What i hate even more is companies that violate the GDPR privacy laws in the EU.

https://t.co/CrHaRF6a7R

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@w3ipa Did you coat the PCBs with anything for moisture resistance? (Had quite a bit of condensation troubles with my own outdoor projects).

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@FreightAlley Apple is one of the biggest Chinese brands, after all. The company may still have the headquarters in the US for PR reasons, but that's about it...

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@Gobos_ @antoniogm Do you mean those US luxury brands that say "Made in China" on the back or the ones saying "Made in Mexico"?

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@JetSetGent @SawyerMerritt Ja, in about 2076, maybe.

[Rene Schickbauer @[email protected] @TheCavac]

@elonmusk Tesla desperately needs to import materials, but can't afford the tarrifs.