// #eevblog — 2025-08-30
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00:20:17 <K> for poundin' ?
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06:37:32 <Nothing\> fucking hell
06:37:49 <Nothing\> almost $100 for a damn game on the Switch now (after taxes)
06:38:20 <Nothing\> they jacked up the price of the games since the Switch 2 was released, which seems kind of backwards to me.
06:39:28 <Nothing\> lol I still remember in the late 90s going to the buy and sell shop with my friend with $20 between us and we'd leave with like 5-8 NES games
06:43:13 <Nothing\> but i did the math, between the $750 price tag, a $120 pro controller, 2 games for $110 each, plus 13% sales tax it's almost $1200
06:43:33 <Nothing\> just to play 2 games that aren't even that interesting. I like mario kart and all, but not THAT much
06:56:02 <Nothing\> anyhoozle. I think for this 60v LED setup, I'm gonna use a terminal strip to cobble together a divider of some sort don't have any skookum caps that aren't electrolytic, so perhaps inductive? Or just resistive and take the loss in efficiency.
06:56:29 <Nothing\> I have a bunch of 5W 1k resistors that should work nicely, I think
06:56:57 <Nothing\> 1k dropping, what? 120vpp
06:57:05 <Nothing\> or 2k i guess
06:57:22 <Nothing\> dropping 60 each? that's not bad
06:58:14 <Nothing\> no wait, they're 10k... that might be too little current. I need at least 120ma
06:58:37 <Nothing\> which i don't get, these big TV sized LEDs, but they seem to drop less voltage than a 5mm white led
06:58:59 <Nothing\> assuming they're series from the high voltage required
07:18:52 <Nothing\> lol
07:19:19 <Nothing\> i asked gemini about it and it told me it's not a safe circuit to build because resistive dividers don't work with AC circuits
07:19:30 <Nothing\> and that capacitive dividers CAN be used for AC
07:19:36 * Nothing\ facepalms
07:19:57 <Nothing\> then all of a sudden isolation is the problem
07:20:20 <Nothing\> because the chinese usb chargers with capacitive droppers are an exception, apparently
07:28:13 <Nothing\> lol it says they should have flyback transformers in them and that that's what i should use
07:28:16 <Nothing\> wtf
07:29:32 <Nothing\> it says isolation is a problem because people will be handling it, despite being a decorative item. citing that it might fall down and somebody will try to fix it... because you can't just unplug it rofl
07:29:42 <Nothing\> and how many TVs randomly fall off of walls?
07:29:52 <Nothing\> anything to get me to not do
07:29:56 <Nothing\> it
07:55:03 * flyback bites Nothing\
07:55:04 <flyback> BMCC
08:08:55 <steve30> halcyon's worst nightmare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3GV_wsi8I
08:08:55 <EEVBot> Temporary error talking to YouTube: [SYS] unknown error (_ssl.c:2638)
08:22:42 <Nothing\> lol
08:29:58 <MrMobodies> ABSOLUTLEY PISSED
08:31:03 <MrMobodies> Another repeat of the Sony XA2 magician thing but on this Samsung SM-T275 tablets named Bixby. I am doing something and it's interrupt, interfere and get in the way and guess what, no way it seems to uninstall it
08:31:09 <MrMobodies> https://www.asurion.com/connect/tech-tips/how-to-disable-bixby-on-samsung/
08:31:10 <EEVBot> [url] How to disable Bixby on Samsung | Asurion | www.asurion.com
08:34:54 <MrMobodies> Disabled some things but can't set permissions on it
08:50:39 <MrMobodies> stopped it from interferring but that crap and Samsung "Free" still load in the background
08:50:58 <MrMobodies> got to look at replacing it with Lineagos and I see it is supported
08:55:50 <Nothing\> yeah bixby is part of samsung's interface
08:56:03 <Nothing\> it's like trying to remove internet explorer in windows XP
08:56:34 <Nothing\> personally, I've never even seen it do anything. Except for the 30 seconds I played around with it.
08:56:50 <Nothing\> But, I believe there are options to neuter it
08:57:03 <Nothing\> like, settings options
08:57:40 <Nothing\> but yeah, bixby's a piece of shit
08:59:45 <MrMobodies> Removing Internet explorer I'd imagine would be easy
09:00:11 <MrMobodies> just take out the drive, plug it into another windows thingy
09:01:11 <MrMobodies> "c:\program files\internet explorer", move or rename, search any backups of "iexplorer.exe in the "c:\windows" folder
09:01:21 <MrMobodies> then mount registery and remove associations to it
09:01:47 <MrMobodies> that was suppose to be an expesive business tablet
09:02:02 <MrMobodies> even thought it didin't have as much sh*t on it like the others
09:02:12 <MrMobodies> except the others were cheaper
09:02:17 <MrMobodies> that's the best they can do?
09:02:41 <MrMobodies> Bixby, a voice assistant, should be in accessibility with an on/off button
09:03:18 <MrMobodies> that stupid Samsung FREE should NOT POPUP and demand internet access everything I swipe my finger to the left, now that's what I call HARASSMENT!
09:03:54 <MrMobodies> "Do you want to use Samsung Free?" No and that should be it
09:04:35 <MrMobodies> at least it doesn't have that stupid insulting Microsoft Swiftkey leuboard
09:04:56 <MrMobodies> but I was able to switch of the suggestions and predicts, and make the keyboard floating too so that's something I didn't expect
09:26:13 <MrMobodies> finally got it to leave me alone
09:26:14 <MrMobodies> https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-disable-bixby-on-your-samsung-phone
09:26:15 <EEVBot> [url] How to Disable Bixby on Your Samsung Phone | PCMag | www.pcmag.com
09:26:30 <MrMobodies> they mapped the power button to that stupid thing and made it intefere
09:26:39 <MrMobodies> Power buttons means power button, not stupid app
09:27:26 <MrMobodies> when I pressed the power button "oh you haven't set up Bixby yet"...
10:32:02 <rc-garage> why do you keep annoying yourself with all these devices who does not do what you want? how about trying to find something you want in stead of demanding that everything else should do what you want?
10:53:10 <Nothing\> rc-garage, in fairness, nowadays you have little choice at times.
10:54:05 <Nothing\> eg. I FUCKING HATE phones. I hate touch screens, I hate autocorrect, I hate how their updates change vital shit and fix what's not broken, I could go on but won't for your sake
10:54:17 <rc-garage> sure, but I still would not get ABSOLUTELY PISSED at least a few times each week, just because a device is not made to do what i want it to do
10:54:37 <Nothing\> and it's not just my current phone. IT was less annoying when they weren't as "smart" but it's gotten worse with time
10:54:45 <rc-garage> yep
10:54:53 <Nothing\> yet, not having a phone would be a severe disability in many ways
10:55:18 <Nothing\> and i'm not even social
10:55:42 <Nothing\> being social, you'd basically kill your entire social/career life getting rid of your phone
10:55:44 <rc-garage> I am actually almost happy with my shitty china phone. it is a bit slow, but other than that, it is fine.
10:56:06 <Nothing\> you know, my first smartphone was a Huawei and it was also my favourite
10:56:44 <rc-garage> I think mine was a htc. the one with a bend on the end, that was pretty good
10:57:06 <Nothing\> most of the stuff was straight to the point, no smart BS, no constant updates to fix what's not broken, no minimalistic UIs that use childish pictographs to denote what buttons do instead of just using their words
10:57:18 * steve30 needs coffee
10:57:29 <Nothing\> steve30, i just had like 4 or 5
10:57:41 <Nothing\> my tumtum don't feel good
10:57:44 <Nothing\> lol
10:58:03 <Nothing\> sad thing is, i could still sleep if i wanted to
10:58:07 <rc-garage> I have no idea how many I have had. I just got home from wørk, which means at least 6 hours of coffee
10:59:06 <Nothing\> i drink coffee too slow with my shit focus. A double cup takes me over on hour to drink if I don't concentrate on it
10:59:14 <rc-garage> so, mr steve, have you bought white and red spray paint yet?
10:59:20 <Nothing\> otherwise i just get distracted my whatever i'm doing
10:59:29 <steve30> nope
10:59:41 <rc-garage> I would never have thought you could get distracted like that
10:59:57 <Nothing\> dude, my attention span is non-existent
11:00:08 <Nothing\> i get distracted while i'm in friggin bed
11:00:13 <rc-garage> maybe you should, so you can mark the fly tipping junk as racist, so someone does something about it
11:00:14 <Nothing\> or taking a leak
11:00:26 <rc-garage> I mean english
11:00:30 <rc-garage> same same
11:00:35 <steve30> hehe
11:00:59 <rc-garage> people are amazing
11:01:20 <rc-garage> K, is you awake?
11:01:24 <Nothing\> they have their moments when God lets them
11:02:08 <rc-garage> yeah, I have no idea why he lets them throw garbage and junk everywhere. but I am also not let into his office very often
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11:04:37 <rc-garage> heh. I am still not really allowed into church here, unless there is some sort of happening, like a wedding, or whatever. I did not do anything to them since...uh. I guess I was 10. which is a while ago. But they never forget, lol
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13:40:35 <MrMobodies> https://www.itv.com/news/2025-08-28/mounjaro-manufacturer-admits-pressure-from-trump-contributed-to-price-hike
13:41:32 <MrMobodies> and I remember that trump wanted a deal where uk buys it's all it's drugs from the states last year and use only their things.
13:42:10 <MrMobodies> Pleased that didn't happen seeing how he orchestrated it.
13:42:18 <MrMobodies> on this particular drug.
13:42:39 <MrMobodies> "US had been “subsidising other countries”. "
13:43:22 <MrMobodies> Well he wanted a deal to supply his things. Now he seems to be saying oh we're giving out more than we wanted to to other countries.
13:47:17 <MrMobodies> $88 in London and $1300 for the same drug in the US he claims, ignoring how HealthUnited and it's middleman are inflated things like that $66 dollar inhaler to $500+ where someone died over it.
13:48:05 <MrMobodies> I just hope he stays away from the NHS
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18:15:40 <K> i is awake
18:17:33 <K> just ate breakfast, about to head into city
18:18:16 <K> thinking about taking some local tram-ferries to go around for a bit
18:18:36 <K> weather is very ok for walking
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