tophneal

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[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Local news ending or TNG opening

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

I was working on a personal project when a friend visited. I went through a quick series of successes and failures with my project and openly emoted at each, afterward he said to me "I've never seen anyone go through so many emotions in such a short amount of time."

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

Sooo many awesome suggestions here for you, OP!

One thing I don't think I've seen yet, is that you should create your calendar events as barebones as possible and then edit them to add each additional detail. This will notify everyone else attached of the updates to your event, every time you update any of them.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

At work, my work calendar is shared with the entire company to see. I like it as it lets people easily schedule meetings with me, know at which of the two locations (or at home) I am.

"Fun" fact: Outlook and Teams have a Scheduling assistant feature that makes that unnecessary. If a person wants to schedule a meeting with you, they don't need access to your calendar to check availability. They just add you, pick a day, and it will suggest to them time slots you have open in your calendar for that day. There's no longer a need to share an Outlook calendar with anyone just so they can know when you're free to meet.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

After finding a video for a VERY similar desktop version of this module, I'm inclined to think you're right now. The case for putting these on a desktop does have 2 fans mounted to the top rear. Disassembly in the video does not show or indicate that they have any power cables that require unplugging.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think you're right. I just looked up a video of a version of this module with an outer case, for desktop use. Otherwise looks the same inside. It looks like this might provider power to 2 top-rear mounted fans.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe? It's brushed over and not directly acknowledged in any documentation for the products that show it. If it is, I'm surprised they didn't at least label it as such on the documentation so people would know it's not intended for consumer use.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I initially thought that, too, but I've never seen a fan connector like what's on the board. Judging from the product shots and manual illustrations, the case appears to have all of its fans, and they have more direct connections to the PSU.

Not saying you're wrong (I have no idea lol) or arguing, just how I went from thinking fans too, to doubting it.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by tophneal@sh.itjust.works to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
 

Recently got a Sonnet xMac Pro Server case to put my MacPro6,1 into my rack. I'm getting things fitted into the Thunderbolt expansion housing and noticed this board with a socket on it. The board has power wired from the PSU, but there's nothing in the manual/product details (even though it's in the illustrations) that indicate what this connector is or what its intended purpose is. Can anyone enlighten me?

Edit: I just looked up a video of a version of this module with an outer case, for desktop use. Otherwise looks the same inside. It looks like this might provide power to 2 top-rear mounted fans. https://youtu.be/zG4I8q5JbyY?t=285&si=43mA0xhR-7ETQgPd

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm inclined to agree. I wasn't a fan when I tried it on my EOL one as an option.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you need to keep the budget down, you could probably find an end of service 2 in 1 Chromebook and make it a chultrabook.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Not all ARM chips are in phones, nor are they all locked down like one. There are several ARM devices and SBCs now where switching OSes is as easy as swapping out an SD card. Most do use uboot as a standard and some are even capable of utilizing UEFI.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Location info shouldn't be needed, though. (Even though they should technically be able retrieve location data from any terminal on their own already. It's all their hardware and network.) They should be able to geoblock traffic from Ukraine/Russia while having a kind of Allow filter for the terminals they know they provided for use by Ukraine.

It's the same concept as blocking a country's domains but allowing certain domains of that country through for emails. They just need to setup a "spam" filter.

 
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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by tophneal@sh.itjust.works to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
 

I have a project I'm doing where a small hobby board has connectors for different things, including LEDs. I don't want to use the original LED strip, and would like to make a single LED that plugs into the board instead, but I don't know how to identify/find this connector. Can anyone help?

 
 
 
 
 
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