I tell people to take apart an ancient junk switching supply wall wart with a hammer and unwrap a winding from the transformer inside. That gives easy access to a small bit of enameled copper wire. They will need to be extreme about scraping the enamel to get to the copper. It is also a good idea to use a lighter to heat the enamel and scrape some more. Then they can wrap the exposed copper part around something like that transistor lead a dozen or more times like it is an old wire wrap job. If you can locate two such locations where a lead with an air gap exists, it is possible to make that connection.

I can’t tell for sure, but it looks like you’re bridging two traces that are connected to the center pin of Q17 (S1H6A) and either the “V” or “D” terminal of the XK ribbon connector with the designators marked “GVDCVG.” perhaps you could use a very small wire between these points. If the V/D connection is actually V and V is for voltage, you can likely find other more convenient places to source a similar voltage around wherever the regulator circuitry for that voltage block is placed on the board.

I had a ex-roommate once that had a duffle bag of weed about that size

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You using this in a toolchain? I haven’t tried any of the Qwen models yet, or Yi for that matter. I tried at one point early on, but they were not working well with my stuff and I had no complaints with Mistral stuff. I like some underlying things with a MoE for speed and underlying entity/realm stuff I can access in my favorite.

I’m curious if anyone has constructive contextual feedback about what makes these unique or worth exploring.

Steel is real, not all wire is created equal. Someone borrowed the soft jaws and chewed the wrong chow.

That looks a bit deep to grind, but maybe. I grind the back face of my higher end diagonals to sharpen and extend their life.

It is the flaming tail of the turtle that the Turth (turtle-earth…

It is just a simple prompt in Flux on Comfy UI. It is just an open source model running on my hardware. It is slow because it is such a large model (Flux Dev gguf Q4). You can find examples in the ComfyUI documentation and the model manager add-on to the base Comfy setup has all the models in the downloads menu.

At present, it only works on GPU and 16 GB is like 2+ minutes per image. It would be awesome in they split the chunks with the CPU to generate faster, but that is not implemented yet. It means you basically need 16+ GB to run it on your own hardware. There is a smaller model version, but that is not compatible in results quality. There is a larger model that is online only. Flux is actually FluX as in X-AI as in Musk. The weights for Flux-dev are open source, and that is what I care about for now.

I still vote FreeCAD. I know Blender too, but I can put down FreeCAD for months and focus on other things. When I return to designing on FreeCAD I have very little skills decay. I have to go make the canonical tutorial doughnut (YT) almost every time I do Blender. I also have some stuff saved with notes for manually editing quad mesh objects, and converting to quads, but now that is on my old backup comp.

This is my primary gripe with renting software. I invest enormous time in learning these things. I am not for sale. I own my time investment and no one has a right to steal that from me. I’ve only used FreeCAD a couple of times in the last year. I’ve spent most of my time on other projects. Printing is not my only hobby or interest. It is a tool and a skill I own, and it complements my other tools and skills well. To me, this is a fundamental part of life as a citizen in a democracy. Once upon a time, around 1k years ago, the average person had no right to own property or their tools. They were called serfs and this societal structure is called feudalism. No ancient citizen of a democracy wanted feudalism. There was no changing of the guard, or coup that started feudalism. People slowly gave up their land and rights to live closer to private security forces of the rich. They trusted them to do the right thing. Eventually they became slaves to those feudal lords with only a theoretical right to recourse from rape and murder.

The software features of CAD are finite. There is nothing to develop in some ongoing fashion forever. Open source is slower and a bit messy at times, but it has been around for a very long time.

You’ve never done ecommerce logistics. You do not get Amazon’s efficiency from such a garbage system, or the worlds richest man. I have no doubt there are dubious practices to give plausible deniability. The thing is too large and too successful for this to be the big picture. The collectivized warehousing invalidates the front end system and mechanics entirely.

Amazon’s pricing I not deterministic. You were likely tracked and information collected to know this was a key item for you. Amazon will market loss leaders to you in an attempt to get you to default to buying on Amazon.

As a former Buyer for a chain of retail stores, the loss leader is effective marketing. I sell you a popular item at or below my typical cost because statistically, a large percentage of customers are making a special trip to my store to buy that product and will make additional purchases at margin. On the wholesale Buying side, these are tools to get past bulk buying tier discounts for seasonal ordering with smaller scale retail.

Amazon is using a convoluted front end system of overlapping product categories and a supposed multi seller listings (despite collectivized logistics and warehousing) on the website you see. This is how they perform price fixing where you do not see honest or straight forward determinism. When you repurchase that same item later without making comparisons, the seller will shuffle so that a higher price is presented.

If you have a well isolated network where device history for social media and internet browsing is totally partitioned from e-commerce you’ll likely see even more of the scam. If you see anyone online show the search results and pricing on Amazon, then try to replicate those search results and product price on a device that is totally partitioned from your viewing of the item/price elsewhere, you’re likely to find it is not possible. If you then go back to the original device and do the same, you’ll magically find the same product and lower price. It is a scam market. This is why they are collecting and paying for all that data about you. We are in an age when automated individual targeting and manipulation is possible and happening. This is why data mining stalkerware is insidious. Scam markets are only the tip of the iceberg and what can be uncovered if you go looking for it. Anyone that has done database or logistics management should have major red flags flying when looking at how Amazon’s website is setup. The front end is absolutely untenable garbage for effective logistics. The only reason it is convoluted and search results are terrible is because it is a price fixing scam. The logistical efficiency proves that there is no connection between the front and back end of the site.

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From me specifically? When I was first disabled, I still used most corporate social media and stalkerware. In an isolated environment like I’ve been stuck in for a long time, it became clear that the user retention through suggested content manipulation algorithms and notifications were not able to compensate for someone in my condition and availability. What had always seemed like minor manipulative annoyances, became obvious manipulative annoyances. I started to see how the interruptions had altered my behavior. There were some interests I sought out on my own, but many pointless and frivolous distractions and things or projects I bought into because I felt like I had found or discovered something on the internet. Over the years of isolation, I can more clearly see the pattern of what was really my interests and what was suggested to me in manipulative contexts. One of the prime ways it happens is when I’m frustrated with something I’m working on and getting no where. Suddenly I get a seemingly unrelated suggestion or start getting what seem like random notifications. Those seem to target my emotional state specifically in a targeted way to tended to push me into new things or areas I didn’t really expect or want to pursue prior.

I could write off that kind of thing. I became alarmed most around 2018 when Dave Jones showed some search results on YT and was talking about them. I could not reproduce his search or even find the reference at all. A week or so later, it came up. I had it happen again a couple of months later. No matter what or how I searched I could not find the correct results. It is because google was being paid to funnel me into another website some imbeciles thought was related to my search results but the website in question is a garbage third party referral linking middleman. When they showed up in my search results, I couldn’t find anything I was looking for. They were quite literally paying so that I could not find what I needed. It wasn’t ads placement. It the top 20 pages of google, the results were simply not present at all for what I was looking for. In this situation, I could empirically check and see what was happening. Any company that can do such a thing with what I can see should never be trusted with what I cannot see. That type of manipulation is world changing and extremely dangerous. There are only two relevant web crawlers by size, Microsoft and Google. Every search provider goes through these two crawlers either directly or indirectly. When google failed to work, so did DDG, Bing, and most of the rest. At the time, Yandex still worked.

Since I have offline independent AI running, I’ve been able to test this a bit further. If I start searching for certain niche products in a search engine I will get steered in bad manipulative directions. I do not fit the typical mold for the scope of experience and information I know about going back over two decades ago. When I search for something commercial and industry niche specific, I’ve seen many times when relevant products and information are obfuscated as I am steered to consumer land garbage due to what I shouldn’t know. These are situations where I may have forgotten some brand name, but when searching for all of its relevant properties and use cases, the things never come up in search results. I can chat about the product with a decent AI for a few sentences and it gives me the answer. After I plug that into search results, suddenly I start seeing all kinds of related products in other places popping up like it is some kind of organic thing. It isn’t limited to search results either, it was YT, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and even reddit I noticed similar anomalies. If this kind of connection works in one direction, it must work in both directions, meaning my information bubble is influenced directly by all corporate platforms. It makes me question what interests and ideas are truly my own. I primarily find it deeply offensive that, as a citizen, any corporate shit can cause me to question my informed reality in such a way. Any stranger that asks you to trust them, is nothing more than a thief and con. They are an irresponsible gatekeeper. That is the prima issue.

I would agree more if the thing was a product purchased and operated by the establishment, but these things are always run by a third party and their interests and affiliations have no oversight or accountability. What happens when there is an abortion clinic with one of these present. What happens when the controlling company is in KKK christo-jihad hell where women have no rights like Florida, Texas, or Alabama? What about when the police execute someone at random, who loses that recording? No one knows any of these factors or should need to when they wish to walk into a store. This device is stealing your right to autonomy and citizenship as a result.

It is not like I fail to understand the use case. My issue is that data mining me is stealing from me. It is taking a part of my digital entity to manipulate me. It is digital slavery. To be okay with such a thing is to enslave one’s self; it is to fail at a fundamental understand of the three pillars of democracy and the role of freedom of information and the press. Forfeiting your right to ownership over your digital self undermines the entire democratic system of governance and is an enormous sociopolitical regression to the backwardness of feudalism.

No ancient citizen of a democracy wanted feudalism. These things do not have a parade to welcome them, a coup, or a changing of the guard. This change is a killer in your sleep and a small amount of poison added to each of your meals. Every little concession is a forfeit of future people’s rights. This is that poison. I will go hungry. Enjoy your meal, I respect your right to eat it; after you’ve been warned of its contents. I reserve my right to speak of the poison to any that will listen.

It has been a very long time since I was super into car stuff, but IIRC brown like this is indicative of the plugs being too cold in general, but color is more to do with a short term diagnostic method of tuning.

In this case, from the image angle, it looks like way too large of a gap. You probably need to look into setting your gaps. The new plug is likely closer to a decent gap. The older plug looks like it was intended to be gapped manually but never was.

Also, limited by the angle of the image somewhat, but it appears that the plug was only firing from a single hotspot. Those pointy corners of the tab are intended to focus the spark into one area for a more reliable ignition timing and flame front propagation. However, this engineering methodology tends to cause a deposition of material at this point location over time. This plug clearly has a considerable build up of material around this hotspot. That build up could have caused the plug to fire cold and late in the cycle thus building up the brown deposit on the ceramic insulator.

The new plug is of a better design for long term use without service. The rounded sharp edges (on both sides of the spark) will allow the spark to propagate from more places along that edge after any specific hotspot builds up resistance. It has less predictable flame front control, but this does not matter on most factory vehicles, just racing and motorsports really.

I live under a rock and don’t get out much due to physical disability, but I don’t see a security improvement. I see a data mining monstrosity and further reason to avoid local retail.

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Nice attitude for a back of napkin lunch idea. This is my idea of trash thought random casual conversation. I’m not presenting you with some investment proposal. I’m in the middle of a far more difficult and complicated project. This was just my peripheral subconscious making a distraction to procrastinate while sipping a morning coffee.

I never claim to be an expert at much of anything. All I claim is a life long curiosity. Feel free to block me it that offends you. I’m physically disabled and this place is one of my only forms of outside human contact.

How did you reach the conclusion that some harmonics are missing from the resultant signal?

I forget if it was Veritasium, Steve Mould or one of the other edutainment content creators that was showing how waves move through a string and form the extra major harmonics along the length. I was half baked thinking of that and how the string is not constrained to a single plane of vibrations.

I am thinking of the motion of the string being more complex, like if I placed a coil under the string and one at 90° to the first beside the string, there should be a subtle difference between the two signals. The motion of the string may be oscillating entirely within the field of each pickup coil, but the motion with respect to the magnetic pole of the pickup will be different. If two fields are pointed at the string from opposing angles, perhaps more of this motion is defined. It might alter the sound for more subtle picking techniques like plucking, slapping, palm muting or others.

Also there is the question of what is the optimal turns ratio and signal for each string. If each string had its own pickup and winding, it is like audio channels on a mixer, it creates versatility and nuance. It’s just an idea.