Alex

Tinkerer, musician, engineer. Not active here; please contact me on Mastodon (@[email protected]) or via email.

[Alex @therealcompucat]

@qwertymodo yes, IEM racks are the exact use case. :)

now that I think about it though, I may have misremembered the option name, so ignore my earlier instruction

one option disconnects from Wi-Fi; the other remains connected but reroutes Internet to LTE, and they are not intuitively named

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It is a pity I must post this on Twitter's dessicated corpse, but relevant parties are not present on Bluesky or fedi.

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@CSCServiceWork needs to fix their refund process.

- Paid to use air pump, pump is broken.
- Phone # on pump leads to broken phone tree.
- Phone tree points to website, whose form failed 2/3 times.
- Website requires email confirmation, which triggers a WordPress error.

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@CSCServiceWork @Speedway corporate is not without blame, either. The local staff were unable to do anything but point at the phone number. I was told: "not our problem, we can't do anything; go use Holiday's free pump up the road."

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@CenterPoint Home Service Plus’ repair scheduling windows are a joke.

Furnace blower motor just died, and it’s below zero outside. Their provided time window is 7 AM to 11 PM - yes, 16 hours long - and they only give you 30 mins heads up.

This is patently absurd.

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@polprogpl @jeffqchen Yeah, that's what I said about the last rev. :)

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@jeffqchen @konigssohne Pardon, "AD8146 datasheet figure 29", I accidentally a word.

Theoretically also possible with baluns at either end, but good luck finding SMD baluns with bandwidth extending low enough.

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@jeffqchen @konigssohne I mean, impedance mismatch certainly isn't helping you here - you're replacing 75-ohm-nominal coax with 100-ohm STP. The "right" way to do this is with a differential driver (AD8146 or 8142) and matching receiver (AD8145). See AD8146 figure 29. :)

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@Kenny_J_Miller @poeitus Bingo. Definitely takes time, but easier if both of you have good kitchen sense.

I will eternally credit my mum for teaching my sister and I about this from when we were very young. Lifetime habit right there!

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@ProgrammerSockz hell yeah. <3

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@coffeeknife no extension needed; add https://t.co/cobtZKZZLw as a custom search engine and set as default

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@qwertymodo Glorious. 🤣

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@qwertymodo ...is that just clear printer filament? Impressive

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@bugsyband What sort of turnaround time? Could do a rush order through customink/etc. and ship to a location ahead of you. Post Office/UPS/FedEx is common; could see if venue/hotel will receive package for you too.

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@qwertymodo Oh geez, I didn't realize lcsc was that cheap

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@qwertymodo Ah yes, the eternal fun of storing packs without removable antennas. Half tempted to mod my Senn G3s with SMA antennas just to get around that...

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@qwertymodo Actually, if you assume a Class 2 USBC PSU, you could just chain them for split supplies and manually add a ground ref, but that's clunky

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@_sourcecode_ ah yes, the eternal hell of finding a username that isn't taken on Every Single Platform