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I think it was introduced with at least the S9+, mine has had DeX since I got it originally.

The only ways I'm aware of to download your Steam games are through the Steam desktop client or using the SteamCMD command-line client.

Edit: I think people really sleep on SteamCMD, I really like using it.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

I looked through the material, but I'm still at a loss how this is different than any recent battery/inverter combination like Ecoflow/Jackery/etc or a UPS with an app. I'm an electrician, and very in to new electrical products but this one just makes me wonder how it's different.

I absolutely love how once things get down to 1 AWG they realized they had a problem and just started adding zeros. Then that got a bit silly, so when they reached 4/0 AWG they switched to KCMIL measurements and the numbers start going up.

Cody's Lab did a video with some experiments collecting and refining road dust. As I recall, he did manage to obtain a small bead of platinum-group metals but it didn't appear to be economically viable at least at a small scale.

Does this not take in to account lyrics in musical movies? I looked up Across the Universe and it reported zero name drops despite there being at least a dozen.

I haven't tried the ESP32-H2 or ESP32-C6 yet, but they have 802.15.4 radios so they can be used with Zigbee or Threads (plus WiFi 6 on the C6). I definitely am eager to play around with one, most of my current projects have been on the ESP32-C3.

I do a lot with solar for work, and had a few questions immediately. Are the Renology panels what you had access to chosen for a specific purpose? Some of the panels we use for high efficiency jobs are 400+ watts at a size closer to your 200w panels than your 440w panels. Also, have you considered using any type of optimizer or per-panel MPPT? Those can have a significant impact on real-world performance in my experience, especially in cases of shading or uneven panel soiling. With high efficiency panels, panel optimizers, and series stringing you could likely get to DC charging voltages (although at paltry amperage).

I also built something along these lines about three years ago and use it every year. I started off with a stainless steel hall effect float switch and it's lasted so far, on its fourth year. I don't have a pump for my water, I use my RO system as a source and a solenoid as a valve. I do use a peristaltic pump to meter out Christmas tree preservative according to the readings from a flow meter on the water side though. It's worked wonderfully, even when changing tree stands.

IGBT's changed power conversion as we know it!

Depends on the type of device you're talking about. The company I work for installs batteries and solar on homes as part of its business and we were surprised to find cell modems starting to come installed inside the battery system we use most often - with no notice to us or apparent change in how the system operates. It's not for customer-accessible statistics/usage information, those still require a hardwired connection. We haven't been able to get a good answer from the company about why they started being installed.

I've heard it said both ways on the news today, but I'm leaning towards R-Evil.

In Sonoma County Comcast Business is down. T-Mobile also seems to be having issues.

By the way, take a look at the PurpleAir map - you can get an idea of the size and spread of the outage by the number of offline air quality sensors. Works for power outages too!

When you select not interested, it gives the option of saying it's either because you already watched the video or that you don't like the channel. I don't know quite why they keep recommending videos I've watched recently, but at least telling YouTube I've seen a video (...) prevents it from spamming my recommendations.

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I use an i3-4370 with 32G of ECC in a Supermicro 4u case as my ZFS NAS - I got it new for the purpose and it's still running strong seven years later. The only changes I've made have been doubling the RAM from 16G, adding in new storage as needed, and adding a dual 10gbit card when I upgraded my network.

I tried a couple of 10gbit cards, but ended up getting a half dozen used Intel X520-DA2 cards for dirt cheap. I've not had any issue with these, and my NAS can easily saturate at least one link. The cards have been reliable in every machine I've tried and can be found for $75-100 - not too bad for dual port 10gbit!

As a side note, I was surprised to find that i3 supports ECC.

I saw him mention it at the end of this article, but the way the link was presented caused me to lose any interest in clicking it. Is it a story worth reading?

I'm on T3 with an excessive use surcharge, so I'm closer to 45 cents here in the North Bay.

I just checked, it's off by default for me currently. Maybe they'll change the default in the near future.

It's definitely not the cheapest option, but if you don't have a large storage requirement, 25 Mail St. is a good option. I host my own personal email, but have set a couple clients up with 25 Mail St. and it's been excellent. By far the best part is the support - all support is done by the engineers instead of customer support staff following a script. They're incredibly transparent about things like support statistics, and are understandably proud of their metrics. The main downside is the low amount of storage offered for the price.

It's run by the same company as Rimuhosting and Zonomi, if you're familiar with either.

I'm already resigned to the fact that once old.reddit.com goes away I'm not going to be spending any more time on Reddit. Maybe that'll be a good thing.

Shocked face or a big red arrow pointing to something in the thumbnail make the video an instant pass for me. It would be amazing if YouTube's algorithm could recognize that.

Most hand sanitizers seem to include glycerin, which will burn with a yellow flame as I remember. It's worth looking more into this type of testing though, I don't know if the concentrations of glycerin would be enough to effect the flame color.

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I have Comcast at home, and they flat out require me to rent a modem from them in order to receive static IPs. I have their modem set up in bridge mode and a BSD router behind it, but would really love the option of sourcing my own modem.

At least the tech who came out to do the install was kind enough to give me a rackmount modem! I hadn't seen many before, but asked for one just in case they could provide it.

That's what I'd like to have clarified - I'm an electrician but not a utility worker.

Outside of drives and fans, the virtually all of the power used in your system is exclusively 12v; either from the 12v pins on your ATX24 or P4 or EPS12 connectors, or via the PCI-E connectors; very little non-drive or non-fan power is supplied via 3.3 or 5v rails.

I'm curious which fans don't use 12v - all the fans I know of in a typical computer operate on 12v except perhaps GPU fans. Occasionally I'll run a fan on 5v if I need it to be quieter and I don't have any PWM headers available, but that's about it.

I still keep around DB9 connectors and housings/pin kits. The field I work in still uses a lot of different serial communications and various vendors seem to like to design their own pinouts so they can sell you their own cables.

Sounds a bit like what you'd get with an IRC BNC, plus the encryption.

The low end Rigols make good entry-level scopes, and have a surprising amount of capability for the price.

As for learning resources, I came across a decent article on the subject when I was starting out (1), and most of the oscilloscope manufacturers have whitepapers on SMPS diagnostics, the Tektronics one I read a while back (2) gave a good overview. A lot of the whitepapers have a manufacturer-specific focus, but they still have good information that can be applied to almost any oscilloscope.

If you want to get really into the power supply and do high-side measurements you'll need an isolated differential probe, which can cost as much as an inexpensive oscilloscope, but for DC output measurement you shouldn't need anything special. Current probes are a lot more affordable if you're interested in looking at loads or current fluctuations/harmonics, but that's more useful after you've figured out a bit more what specific properties you're trying to measure.

1: https://www.testandmeasurementtips.com/test-switching-power-...

2: https://download.tek.com/document/3GW_23612_7.pdf

Edit: I forgot to mention that the EEVblog forums are a good resource also, but they sometimes aren't as friendly as they could be towards people just starting out.