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Another thing to look into if you love plasma, are toroids (donuts).
Example video demonstration: https://youtu.be/Q4sUre79ncA
More if you liked that:
Zerg Labs [TeslaCoilPro]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRKfNzc7-524yD8nlyZC5Zg
BackMacSci: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D566ClLdr1By2JnKh_DgA
zilipoper: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeTqOt4xDuL2imX7zYnJlw
I love plasma so much, I have multiple “Jr.” globes from Aurora Plasma Design (which have a voltage? adjustment knob), some gas tubes, ancient indicator bulbs from Ukraine/Russia, and an ancient VTG/Rabbit Systems “Eye of the Storm” E-6000 globe from 1987 (which has two adjustment sliders, and a few cheapo globes.
If you are interested in a globe, I’d highly recommend the “Phoenix Rising” Jr. globe they offer. At lower powers it’s near silent, and you can typically adjust them down to have 3-5 small tendrils wafting around each other lazily. APD’s gloves also have thicker glass, and are rated for running all day at below 80% power. At full power my phoenix rising globe uses ~12 watts, and at the lowest power it’s something like 3-4 watts. Unfortunately tariffs, inflation and noble gas cost have hammered the price in the last year.
I definitely prefer silent and lazy looking plasma instead of the frantic screeching storms that most globes have. I uploaded a few example videos here: https://imgur.com/a/bg8fsCW
One thing you can often do is take a cheapo Chinese glove, and use a voltage adjustable power supply and tune it down that way, though I couldn’t tell you if that’s ok for the electronics long term or not.
It’s the opposite, they do it to fit in more commercials, because apparently people don’t switch away when they talk over songs.
Listening to the local collage radio during my teens was formative, and the exposure to all kinds of things I would have never had heard otherwise still heavily colors my musical taste to this day.
Most of the time songs were played randomly from a huge list, there were no “hits”, and this was exactly what I wanted.
If there was a song I liked, I had to quick record it to tape, because otherwise I likely wouldn’t hear it again for days or weeks.
There would at times be people DJing for time segments, but it was relaxed and music focused, not person focused. I’ll take some dead air and a soft spoken young adult just giving the name of the next song vs bombastic “personalities” any day.
Another big key to it, was my college radio station didn’t have advertisements. Radio ads are grating and repulsive and I simply cannot tolerate that shit. Same thing with TV ads, which is a big reason I basically stopped watching TV in my late teens as well.
I cherish and miss the radio experience that I personally had, but when I hear what others subject themselves to I simply cannot fathom why.
These days my tastes are mostly adjacent to doom or psych-rock, and my modern day radio replacement is following some curators on YouTube whose hobby/side job is to find new releases in these genres and dig up old gems. Which makes it easy for me to quickly find and add (mostly through Bandcamp) new songs into my own collection every so often, which I then self host and further rate/curate via navidrome.
Basically I’ve always been a very active, rather than passive music enjoyer.
I suppose anything thing to bring up, is if I was listening to people on the radio doing something interesting, then I end up either needing to be randomly cut off from it to do something else, or try to constrain my schedule to their show. Not fun at all.
This reads like it’s been machine generated.
The “it’s built so everything is under compression” is great thing to bring up, but fyi your link is AI generated, filled with senseless repetition and “it’s not just x, it’s y”.
Looking it up on archive.org shows it was generated this year.
Had this happen to me just last week. Had forgotten to change the “to download into” directory in an GOG archive script after migration to a new system. Filled a folder on the system disk instead of my intended ZFS array.
Naturally ncdu wasn’t installed, so it took me a bit to figure out what the heck happened.
It’s interesting and ironic how so many things in proxmox that would normally release space, instead become nonfunctional when the disk is full. Things like deleting old VM disks or cached iso’s will fail via the interface. I think the web console also broke, had to ssh in to manually free space up.
Damn. As a commenter on the page put it, this was “compulsively readable”, I didn’t expect to read the whole thing.
Definitely a great read if you have a parent that has had severe failures. This essay is a great example of taking a confused and fragmented mess of childhood experiences, expectations and emotions and crystallizing them into something digestible.
I have a dodge ram (work provided truck) with lane assist. I had it completely disabled for two years because it was awful and possibly dangerous as you mentioned, though I’d enable it on rare really long multi-hour drives across states. Fortunately the button to turn it off stayed that way instead of having to set it every start.
This year I never turned it off. I’m guessing they updated the algorithm because it seems a lot more subtle, I don’t feel it being aggressive like before. When I deliberately cross the line (which happens a lot right now, lots of summer road fixing going on) I don’t notice it fighting me.
The videos don’t seem to load for me. On iPhone/ios, tried safari Orion, Firefox.
Same here, on iPhone tried with safari, Orion, and Firefox, all basically the same.
Looks like: https://imgur.com/a/AlEHsQQ
I work for a large agricultural company, in my part of it we sell fertilizer, chemical, and agronomic services. As part of this, we end up putting out a lot of trials so we can actually say something true instead of “buy our stuff it’s great I promise ;)”
One of my favorite slides is when we compiled dozens of trials on something that’s basically a nitrogen fertilizer, which as much of a guaranteed positive effect as you can get in agriculture. When compared in a graph most of the trials show an overwhelming effect on increasing yield over an untreated check, however there’s always a portion of the trials where the yield decreases compared to the (untreated) check.
Real life is extremely noisy for a multitude of circumstantial reasons that are either not practical or possible to control for, so a single trial is generally worth fuckall. It takes a lot of testing to see a consistent trend across them.
Science if finally catching up to Werner Herzog
Of course there's a lot of misery, but it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.
But seriously, the articles you posted are inappropriately repurposing words normally associated with conscious experience, in order to get attention.
There is lots of evidence plants react to stimuli. There is no evidence they feel.
Hah, yeah same. I grew up in a house built with hand tools sometime around 1910 (family bought it from an old lady whose father built it), not a single corner was square (though things were generally good vertically by some miracle), but it wasn’t noticeable until whenever were doing major work.
Also learned that lath and plaster needs some special consideration when screwing/nailing things for securement, as the lath (wood strips) could split, causing a subsequent crack in the plaster. Basically for screws or bigger nails, it’s a good idea to drill a small hole first to lessen the pressure, or do a bigger hole and use a spring bolt anchor.
That would actually be an interesting thing to read about
"Those who do not understand Unix
Funny enough, that right there is the actual fundamental problem here.
I am reminded of a post or blog long ago that talked about programmable thermostats and how awful they are for most people to use despite how powerfully in the weeds one can get with them. Basically summarizing the issue as something like “People do not want to learn your arcane system, they just want the benefit it’s advertising”. A good UI knows how to minimize that gap.
In case you haven’t considered, HDDs work great for this, since write wear out isn’t really a factor for those. ZFS can also help batch together TXG’s until they hit time or size limits before commit it at once to the disk.
For me it’s Dark Reader (https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader) which can be installed on at least chrome and Firefox desktop browsers, and safari and Kagi on iPhones.
I use it to keep from getting flashbanged by my monitor. In this case it also fixes the above site, however some websites need the color filter mode changed to work better, so realistically I’m not ending up with less fixing of websites, just easier fixing.
For Asrock, it should be fixed in any bios with 1.3.0.1b
Looking at Asrock consumer motherboards, it’s been rolled out to some but not all yet. The AGESA for that Asrock rack board looks way behind, so I’d definitely make a request to them to update since the squeaky wheel gets the grease if it’s going to at all.
They’ve been doing a bunch of stuff in agesa updates regarding memory stability lately, and also recently broke and fixed setting manual speed on DDR5 memory with ECC enabled (basically any setting higher or lower than 5200mhz or something was ignored).
I wonder if this was also something they just accidentally broke, or if it was an incompetent attempt at larger segmentation.
There are various sizes/shapes of stickers intended to either dim or block led lights if aesthetics are important.
FYI, the “?si=*” part of your link is what Google uses to track you, you can just remove it.
What an excellent example of Brandolini's law: “ The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
For those just encountering this like me, the man in question was Sequoyah, a monolingual Cherokee. His own tribe put him on trial, being overseen by his Chief.
Slightly different from what I’d normally assume had happened from just reading the above comment.
Really impressive on his part, basically saw it was possible and looked as some examples of what others had done, then got to work.
Same, I hated when everything transitioned to it and became harder to read as a result. Frutiger Aero was a sterile sort of cheerful in a way only a CEO could think was relatable. It basically marked the turning point where the UI stopped being something janky that felt human made, into a mass produced corporate template.
Looking at it felt like the visual equivalent of licking soap.
Every time I see it now, I can only think “good riddance”.
Wow, first time I’ve seen this site, what a great thing to find.
I work I Ag retail (agronomic services, chemical sales) and while we have an IT department, a decade ago I’d occasionally act as “local” tech support and double a coworker’s RAM when their combination of browser/office/database front ends stopped gracefully fitting in 4GB (and later 8GB). I would also migrate them from HDD’s to SSD’s, and set them up with backups.
But even I haven’t done that in several years now, once IT moved to providing 16GB memory and SSD’s as a baseline, there’s really nothing left in a box to upgrade. I’m quite happy enough to not have to care.
I really enjoyed it. I had no idea what a “backrooms movie” would end up being, but it was exactly what I could have hoped for having enjoyed his other work. Honestly creators from youtube putting out movies recently has probably been the most interested in going out to see something in years.
That’s wonderful for you and apple.
For those that want a personal “radio station” that’s a bit more extensive: https://github.com/perminder-klair/subwave