// #eevblog — 2026-08-01
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01:11:57 <Nothing\> omg i've gotta stop binge-eating drumstick ice cream cones
01:12:35 <Nothing\> i ate 7 yesterday and i just had one for breakfast and i'm going through a box of 8 every 1.5 days or so
01:12:50 <Nothing\> my insulin requirement is through the roof
01:13:18 <Nothing\> it's stupid because i have a stationary bike right behind me, but do you think I could ever get the motivation to use it?
01:14:14 <Kuschelpony> i feel that
01:33:03 <Nothing\> the sad thing is i knew it would happen when i bought it
01:33:43 <Nothing\> but given it's literally a matter of life and death, or at least my body wasting away from diabetes. I couldn't afford not to try.
01:34:21 <Nothing\> which needless to say has gotten worse since i've been binging on this highly sugary and fatty food as full meals every day
01:34:43 <Kuschelpony> me currently as well, not so bad maybe
01:35:05 <Kuschelpony> i would be very open for sports, just failing to have people to go out with them
01:35:44 <Nothing\> i realized despite my desire to be social, i'm not a social person and i'd be miserable if i had a social life. As I was when I had one.
01:36:20 <Nothing\> the whole reason I became as reclusive as I was was because i hate being social. And not just because of anxiety. I just don't ilke people.
01:37:14 <Nothing\> i realized every social experience i've had as an adult revolved around drugs in some way. Not to mention I haven't had any social experience outside of spending the day with a nurse at the hespital when I was getting surgery
01:37:28 <Nothing\> which i realize isn't realistically a social interaction per se
01:38:40 <Nothing\> historically i'd always either been surrounded by toxic people and have to get out for my own ogod. OR I'm the toxic one and simply don't fit in weth the group. It also doesn't help being neurodivergent
01:42:38 <Kuschelpony> im not that kind of social at all, its a different desire
01:43:11 <Kuschelpony> a kind of having kind of friends with me, not even needing to talk, just real people
02:01:40 <Nothing\> i know what you mean, i've tried in vain to fill the gap with things that just aren't appropriate replacements for a social outlet
02:02:06 <Nothing\> ai was a big mistake that was just an exercise in masochism if nothing else
02:02:48 <Nothing\> between gemini and chatgpt they've gotten so unusable i doubt they could even pass a turing test anymore
02:03:34 <Nothing\> it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't shoved in my face every time i use the internet
02:03:38 <Kuschelpony> would not do anything for me, its the physical presence and interaction
02:03:55 <Nothing\> i use my samsung phone, there it is. I do a google search, there it is, i look up the weather, there it is.
02:04:34 <Nothing\> yeah that too, part of you knows it's just a simulacrum
02:04:37 <Kuschelpony> oh imeant i am searching for the physical interaction
02:04:56 <Nothing\> it's been so long since i've physically interacted with anyone in a social manner
02:05:05 <Nothing\> like, 20 years
02:05:27 <Nothing\> i mean there were one or two times since but they were one shot deals that led to nothing
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05:15:24 <Kuschelpony> one of these ideas:
05:16:43 <Kuschelpony> 12v peltier heater water boiler
05:18:48 <K> why peltier?
05:26:33 <Kuschelpony> to get a few times more heat out of my battery, versus plain resistive heating
05:26:52 <Kuschelpony> water boiling heat of course
05:40:07 <K> hm, how does that work? something to do with ambient temp giving some extra %?
05:56:22 <Kuschelpony> a few hundred %
05:56:47 <Kuschelpony> yes, its like every joule of the battery moves several joules of ambient heat
05:57:03 <Kuschelpony> like any heatpump
06:08:49 <K> ah.
07:37:03 <arch> Kuschelpony, do you know which is a better method of overvoltage crowbar? suppose we have a buck regulator. are we better putting the overvoltage crowbar across input side capacitors, or output side capacitors? my gut feeling says across the input caps is best; any sudden voltage change will take time to propagate thanks to the buck inductor
07:37:33 <Kuschelpony> output side
07:38:12 <Kuschelpony> exactly because the coil still dumps its stored energy into the output capacitors
07:39:15 <Kuschelpony> and if something has led to output overvoltage, the coil current must have already been above normal
07:39:53 <arch> hmm, but my reasoning was that if the input capacitor is suddenly discharged by the crowbar, the output voltage will not rise very fast in the...few dozen microseconds
07:40:07 <Kuschelpony> everyone elses point of view also welcome
07:40:07 <arch> even with the inductor charged
07:40:55 <arch> but then this situation will not protect in the situation when the buck regulator has failed; it would only protect if the power supply feeding the buck reg failed
07:41:13 <Kuschelpony> hmm, this is an argument, but the buck converterdesign principles i usually see fevor the smallest output capacitirs and therefore fastest response
07:41:14 <arch> latter situation will protect buck regulator's downstream components, but the buck regulator itself would likely be destroyed
07:42:03 <arch> so maybe the best option is to have two scrs: one to protect the input side; another to protect output of buck
07:42:44 <Kuschelpony> if there is an overvoltage, either the buck has already failed before the crowbar activates (that is the very reason to use a crowbar at all), or there is a major design issue
07:43:25 <arch> yeah, like cold solder joint caused feedback resistor to fail for example?
07:44:10 <Kuschelpony> everything else than a failed buck converter should be handled by proper feedback, or as an intermediate step (i dont know the specific name) a kind of soft crowbar that disables the regulator until restart
07:44:35 <Kuschelpony> mmmh this is something i call failed regulator
07:46:00 <arch> oh
07:47:51 <Kuschelpony> i mean, the cold solder joint is a border case between needs a crowbar, and can be habdled by shutdown until repair, but i tend to place it on the side of "the regulator has failed"
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11:01:09 <MrMobodies> Hello
11:08:29 <MrMobodies> Steve30, you here?
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12:26:38 <MrMobodies> Steve30, I see you collect certain things
12:27:52 <MrMobodies> https://postimg.cc/bdGY8KTS
12:27:52 <EEVBot> [url] IMG 20260708 215824 — Postimages | postimg.cc
12:28:07 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/c456jcmC/IMG-20260708-215854.jpg
12:28:38 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/dJxTSJHb/IMG-20260708-220004.jpg
12:28:59 <MrMobodies> https://i.postimg.cc/4fCHsBTL/IMG-20260708-220014.jpg
12:29:07 <MrMobodies> Mint condition
12:29:34 <MrMobodies> The violin man next door to the pub gave it to me, from someone next door who passed away
12:30:25 <MrMobodies> Turns on, detects hard drive but no os. It comes with a Sony DVD writer drive that looks as iconic
12:30:55 <MrMobodies> but battery dead since it was labelled 2002 so that'd be a new battery for a 1998 laptop
12:31:02 <MrMobodies> is that something you'd be interedted in?
12:31:54 <MrMobodies> I don't want to sell it, but I don't want it to just sit there doing nothing like many other stuff in not such great condition
12:32:26 <MrMobodies> you can have it for free if you have interest. it also come with the original cd's with Windows 2000
12:32:40 <MrMobodies> but pickup only
12:32:57 <MrMobodies> I'll have a play with it first
12:33:30 <MrMobodies> and if you see anything else you might like similar to that you are welcome to it
13:34:45 <steve30> looks nice
13:34:57 <steve30> although I;m trying to avoid acquiring too much stuff at the moment
13:35:07 <steve30> You could probably put new cells in the battery if you wanted.
13:40:52 <MrMobodies> when it comes to soldering lithium cells I feel I am neither equipped properly and with safety
13:41:20 <MrMobodies> it'd be nice if I could do that safely
13:41:56 <MrMobodies> if I am able to easily open the pack and find the exact cell or cells with the same characterics used in that pack
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19:17:17 <steve30> i broke youtube
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22:33:40 <MrMobodies> Unbelievable:
22:33:43 <MrMobodies> https://lentedesportiva.com/gianni-infantinos-fifa-presidency-faces-mounting-pressure-amid-political-neutrality-concerns-and-world-cup-controversies/
22:33:43 <EEVBot> [url] Gianni Infantino's FIFA presidency faces mounting pressure amid political neutrality concerns and World Cup controversies - Lentedesportiva | lentedesportiva.com
22:34:25 <MrMobodies> This bit: Infantinom "I suffered with Argentina… But I’m neutral,”"
22:35:00 <MrMobodies> It's not the football it's the lying so blatant makes his job seem untanable.
22:35:22 <MrMobodies> I'd like to see that happen in other industries.
22:36:52 <MrMobodies> Analogy: "I believe all black people should be slaves and have no rights, but I am not racist"
22:37:36 <MrMobodies> "I can drive a car but I can't"
22:38:41 <MrMobodies> Or does that fall under arrogance?
23:02:02 <K> fuck them all with a cactus
23:51:07 <steve30> just trying the print server on my Teltonika router
23:51:25 <steve30> it doesn't seem to like my Oki printer
23:51:31 <steve30> (unless i'm doing something wrong)
23:51:39 <steve30> I'll have to try it with another.
23:55:23 <Kuschelpony> K, no cruelty to cactii!
23:58:08 <K> ah. i apologize.
23:58:41 <K> fuck them all with a vaguely-cactus-shaped piece of rock?
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