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About 2 years ago I decided on, "Settle for less," as a new motto. My goodness, one friend had such a hard time with this.
😬 Interesting that my ‘Decrease Doings’ step (step D of my A-Z steps to a better world linked below) starts by highlighting the ‘Less is More’ phrase (that Rob’s friend used but appears to be seen as toxic positivity) and then highlights ‘contentment’ in the second paragraph as per the beautiful French phrase.
I too am speaking from honest experience. I genuinely do feel like I’m benefitting by decreasing my doings. I feel richer for it.
It’s very hard to share your own experiences without being seen as ‘giving advice’. I hope mine is only advice to those who seek it, and is not toxic positivity to others, because it is my genuine lived experience.
@ethicalrevolution I can't think of a more important idea or way of living thanks settling for less, for those, of course, who are well able to do it. @sknob @RMiddleton
I know loads of supermarkets over the world have been using e-ink displays for years but I’ve never noticed them in the UK until last week at Lidl. This may just be how good they are or I’m just always rushing through supermarkets because I want to get out.
Check out three newly certified open source projects and hear their stories from their creators!This month's stream features:My Bike's Got LED (https://certi...
I've created a new soldering kit design for library makerspace students to get inducted on the electronics bench. Needed a larger design to avoid coin cell batteries. A few things to fix but really happy with how this one turned out!
Oh no! I slept and missed the gate! The plane is back in the air and flying on! I don't know where I'm going. Going to hide in the overhead luggage until it probably circles around in a few weeks. Sorry, see you then. If anyone is heading this way, get them to sneak tiny packets of peanuts and tiny bottles of wine up here. @viennawriter @marove
@LapTop006 They are a swallowing hazard for children, and new legislation in Australia (and the US now) make it difficult to make compliant kits. More discussion on this topic here: mastodon.social/@rasterweb/113…
Does anyone here make learn to solder badges or kits?
I'm wonder what your plans are for Reese's Law compliant battery/power solutions. (In the US anyway.)
#maker #hacker #DIY #electronics
that seems a little dubious (AAAA or even AAA aren't that much bigger than even some of the midsized coin cells), but regulations going to do what they will
PCBShopper is a price comparison site for printed circuit boards. Enter your PCB's specs and immediately see prices from more than 20 PCB manufacturers.
I'm quite handy with wood and I can repair most stuff but I'm the absolute worst at soldering. I've destroyed several guitar effects pedals by "improving" the circuit. And I know nothing about electronics. But this looks like so much fun 😀
As a kid I learned to write software on the Commodore 64. Each transistor inside the Graphics processor was 5 micrometers. That is 5000 nanometers.
The next A20 chip used in the upcoming iPhone 18 will have 2 nanometer transistors, effectively making modern day processors 2500 times smaller than the processors of the 80s.
There is a reason, powerful computers now fit in a trouser pocket.
"The term "2 nanometer" ... has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems ... a "2.1 nm node range label" is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 45 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 20 nanometers""
Had one of those. The Amiga 500 was amazing in its day; a 7MHz Motorola CPU, a custom chipset, decent GUI, stereo sound and it could multitask with 512k RAM. The C64 was surprisingly good audio-wise, first games that I recall having synthesised speech.
And with the modern day processors, we are able to produce at least 2500 times the amount of sh*t compared to the processors of the 80s, and about 2500 times faster 😉
(I too have deep experience with the VIC20 and C64)
But it seems like a typical human thing to do with great power ... 🙄
Struggling to get out of bed today due to PMS crushing my soul. So my husband went downstairs to make me a coffee and facetimed the cat to me whilst he did so I wouldn't be alone 🥲🥰
There’s many different reasons why somebody might have to hack together their own solution to a problem. It could be to save money, or to save time. Occasionally it’s because the proble…
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Jedes der drei oben genannten (Mesh) Systeme hat sicherlich seine Vor- und seine Nachteile. Reticulum kombiniert allerdings einige der (mir!) wichtigen Funktionen:
Es legt einen großen Wert auf Sicherheit (Verschlüsselung). Wer also Messenger wie #Session, #Threema oder #Signal statt #WhatsApp bevorzugt, lieg mit Reticulum (Sideband) sicherlich auch nicht falsch.
Reticulum ist dezentral (!) und selbstorganisierend. Andere Mesh-Netzwerke, die neben der Funkanbindung (LoRa), noch Zugänge untereinander über einen #MQTT-Server anbieten, funktionieren nur, solange diese Server online und nicht überlastet sind. Sideband l
Jedes der drei oben genannten (Mesh) Systeme hat sicherlich seine Vor- und seine Nachteile. Reticulum kombiniert allerdings einige der (mir!) wichtigen Funktionen:
Es legt einen großen Wert auf Sicherheit (Verschlüsselung). Wer also Messenger wie #Session, #Threema oder #Signal statt #WhatsApp bevorzugt, lieg mit Reticulum (Sideband) sicherlich auch nicht falsch.
Reticulum ist dezentral (!) und selbstorganisierend. Andere Mesh-Netzwerke, die neben der Funkanbindung (LoRa), noch Zugänge untereinander über einen #MQTT-Server anbieten, funktionieren nur, solange diese Server online und nicht überlastet sind. Sideband lässt sich auch ganz einfach über das Internet nutzen und wenn dies ausfallen sollte, gibt es ja auch noch
LoRa (Funk) Verbindungen für Not- und Krisensituationen. Es lassen sich so einfach und mit kostengünstiger Hardware lokale Netzwerke aufbauen.
Ob ich also an einem PC mit Interzugang sitze, oder mein Smartphone mit Mobilfunkanbindung (oder eben auch mit einem über Bluetooth verbundenen LoRa Device) nutze, ich bin dann Teil des Netzwerkes und kann auf all diesen Geräten erreicht werden und Nachrichten versenden.
Ich weiß jetzt nicht mehr genau, wer diese Frage eigentlich gestellt hatte, aber ich hoffe, diese Erklärung hilft weiter. 😀
höre das erste mal von #Reticulum . kennst du #deltachat chat? Leider ohne #lora Anbindung... Reticulum schaue ich mir aber mal an. Welche HW empfiehlt du für den lora-connect?
California residents: If you (naively IMO) signed up for the "23andMe" genetic testing service, please understand that your data may soon be sold to an even more untrustworthy company -- but you can still order it deleted before it's too late.
Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing and information company.
Trump sends another US delegation to Greenland. The Greenlanders call it "aggressive" and "a lack of respect", but Second Lady Usha Vance is going anyway.
I will not be surprised if that delegation experiences some misfortune on this trip. Greenland can be a very cold place in more sense than one.
Also, let's all cringe together at the class betrayal of a woman of color willingly acting as an agent & enforcer of the most overtly white supremacist government on Earth right now, a government which will deport her in a heartbeat if her slimy piece of shit husband ever decides he wants a new model & divorces her & will delete anything she does in her capacity as Second Lady from history in the name of anti-DEI & misogyny. Just leaving this picture here, apropos of nothing.
@HarriettMB or would be even more powerful, if the people of Greenland created huge protests against the arriving group, showing the world that the Trump cabinet is despised but the people of Greenland.
Trump would absolutely hate that, because it undermines his narrative about the relations completely.
I'm on my way home after a really great Saint Motel show that I decided to do on the spur of the moment. But since I had to come back to the shop to get my bike, I figured I might as well get some pantograph mill practice in. These letterforms really aren't made for this scale of engraving, but it's still fun. I wish I had the reducing attachments needed to make them really useful, but no luck finding any so far.
The front page of https://github.com/clackups has now an overview of the keyboard projects, and other stuff helping the disabled.
#onehandtyping #disability #veterans #UkraineWar
Can't update our instance. It requires PHP 8.3 (note, the current version on Debian is 8.2), and after manually adding a repo and upgrading to 8.3, it fails at the composer install step with this error. Any ideas?
My chat shows messages from multiple different conversations. Even messages I sent to different accounts appear. Like you can see on the image: This is the chat from my Pixelfed account (daniebeler...
The latest Fountain Pen Showdown video is now available for your viewing pleasure.In this video I am comparing:The Lamy Safari with Colorverse Dante’s Cosmol...
This Rarotonga Best Beaches Travel Guide tells you what the best beaches in Rarotonga are and what the best snorkeling beaches in Rarotonga are and we show you photos of what you will see.
The original Dear Abby was a badass, esp for her time, she was a champion for queer acceptance in her column and was very big on telling parents to listen and accept their children instead of punishing and fighting with them. But also this response is a banger. Top 10 advice columnist responses of all time.
I took a train to Sacramento today. The second we got off the train, I started playing with my #yoyo and this stranger walks buy and asks “have you heard of Doctor Popular?”. I said “that’s me” and we chatted for a minute. It turns out I was talking to #AndySinger, a cartoonist from Minneapolis that was a major influence on me and my art. It’s funny we bumped into each other in a town neither of us live in. I’ll write more about him, and the impact he had on my life, soon.
Who hasn’t dreamed of serving on the bridge of a Star Trek starship? Although the EmptyEpsilon project isn’t adorned with the Universe-famous LCARS user interface, it does provide a com…
Hi everyone, As Cosmos is being worked on, I thought it would be helpful to put updates here or anything related to its progress. For example, the Artemis cosmos webpage, etc…
Established by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. There is so much to see that we provide several self-guided walking tours of Dublin. How do you like it? #Dublin #Irelandbackpackandsnorkel.com/Ireland…
Today is your first full day in Dublin - perfect for a self-guided walking tour of Dublin. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.
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in reply to sknob • • •@gerrymcgovern
😬 Interesting that my ‘Decrease Doings’ step (step D of my A-Z steps to a better world linked below) starts by highlighting the ‘Less is More’ phrase (that Rob’s friend used but appears to be seen as toxic positivity) and then highlights ‘contentment’ in the second paragraph as per the beautiful French phrase.
I too am speaking from honest experience. I genuinely do feel like I’m benefitting by decreasing my doings. I feel richer for it.
It’s very hard to share your own experiences without being seen as ‘giving advice’. I hope mine is only advice to those who seek it, and is not toxic positivity to others, because it is my genuine lived experience.
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/decrea…
Decrease Doings - Ethical Revolution
Ethical RevolutionGerry McGovern
in reply to Sam • • •I can't think of a more important idea or way of living thanks settling for less, for those, of course, who are well able to do it.
@sknob @RMiddleton
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in reply to Sam • • •@RMiddleton @gerrymcgovern