I didn’t down vote you. I’m not saying all Chinese engineers are bad, I’m just saying a lot are bad or don’t care enough about details just execution as fast and with as little effort as possible.

You haven’t worked with a lot of Chinese engineers, have you? https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset

I have a c920 and it’s complete poop. Random hiccups and stutter and the auto focus fails.

I got my first Gateway 2k Pentium pro in 1996 and upgraded from an Amiga 500 too! Wish I kept that computer but I did keep the CPU as a keepsake.

Want to come get it? There is no market for this stuff and I’m on a time crunch. I need this stuff out fast. There are a bunch of speakers and decks.

Bought one, thank you!

Carmageddon! I still have the original CD from the late 90s.

throws poo

My wealthy relatives bought a summer home last year on the Florida west coast. That hurricane rolled through and messed up their entire neighborhood and they bragged if the tide went up one more foot their new home would have been flooded. I asked if they had second thoughts to which they quickly responded oh no, hurricanes never hit the west coast this is a freak event it will never happen again! The cognitive dissidence is insane.

It would be a lot cheaper to stop allowing no brand cheap crap with no accountability to be drop shipped from China. There are clear and well defined safety standards for lithium batteries and they’re just being ignored. They won’t prevent 100% of failures but 99.9% if they’re followed.

My whole kitchen is Samsung. Stove needed a new bimetal switch because the cooling fan for the top got stuck on. The dish washer garbage disposal knife blew apart into fragments twice and the gaskets rotted and fell apart. Microwave magneto diode blew. Its all literal garbage, I’m selling my house soon and leaving that trash behind and buying high end next time to save myself money in the long term.

Depends on your luck. I’ve had to repair my Samsung dishwasher 3 times in 5 years and yet my parents bought the cheapest possible model 15 years ago and it operates lawlessly and does a better job at cleaning.

Can you swap the hard drive between any generation and still have it boot and work 100%? To me that was the second biggest feature after all the gpio and i2c buses I used to hack all manner of stuff together. Heck I even have a cargo trailer powered by a pi!

This post scares the hell out of me. My daughter is 5 and sheltered but I know this is coming, I see it in other friends and families. Even the parents get sucked in and tell me about these addictive and fun empty headed music videos and it becomes a family event of consuming YouTube which makes me really question our Idiocracy future…

I’ve gone rogue at work and formated my windows laptop with Debian which I’m also extremely comfortable in with stripped down servers. Running Wayland and using Microsoft teams and tools via the edge browser (mandated) has been absolutely pleasant. There are still initial headaches initially setting everything up and getting the drivers to work and thunderbolt docks to work but now its awsome. Best part is the 10 second shut down time when I run between meetings.

Bingo. I’ve grown these before and they get hints of red at the top of the bell only when they get enough light. I think it’s light deprived but still looks very healthy.

The USA officially hasn’t used 110v/220v since the 1950s. Its 120v/240v and 230v in Europe.

Ditto, though I’m getting more and more resentful by the day at the lack of multi user support. I’m not going to donate to them again.

There is no one single solution to complex problems, it requires optimism and taking the first step.

Sent you a DM, I can help guide you to a product and give you a discount if you really want something.