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How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years?
  • Get the ones with the strip LEDs that look like they're trying to emulate a glowing tungsten filament. I can't remember where I got the information; it was like the Technology Connections YouTube channel or something, but I remember them saying that since they put the LED lights in series on those bulbs, they have a much higher voltage requirement to drive them, and much less circuitry is needed. It's the circuitry that burns out, and many of these filament-style LED lights literally only have a resistor as their main component.

    I've swapped to these kinds of LEDs like...5 years ago, and haven't had one burn out yet. Probably have like...15 of them across the entire house.

    https://youtu.be/fsIFxyOLJXM?si=4wz0wa355Wd9gkUP&t=1389 -- YEP -- Found the advice. Starts at 23:09 BigCliveDotCom also says the same in his episode about Dubai Lamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4

  • If I already have a VPN always on on my system, do I need to set up a gluetun container?
  • That way, if the VPN goes down, your torrent client isn’t just downloading stuff nakedly.

    You always just bind the torrent client to the VPN adapter so this doesn't happen. Most modern clients have this (qBittorrent certainly does)

  • I miss my hearing. I miss music.
  • Anti-vaxxers don't trust scientific researchers and their research.

    I don't trust for-profit "doctors", who look at you as a pile of cash to extract money from.

    While related to the healthcare industry, they are not one in the same. MRNA vaccines are a technology that has been studied and perfected for a very long time.

    Doctors on the other hand, will treat you up until the point where they don't believe they can extract money from you any longer. But there are still studies on Long-Covid that help advance that research and may even help reduce/eliminate some of the symptoms of its effects. Many of these studies are looking for participants, and don't exist to extract money from the people joining them; in fact, many will pay participants. They're risky, but in this particular instance, that may outweigh the problems that are being experienced.

  • I miss my hearing. I miss music.
  • I have helped find solutions for a handful of people's medical issues over the years.

    I've found doctors often don't care to do this research themselves. You too can help; as someone who cares about this stuff often times a patient's best hope is usually a family-member who is diligent in asking questions and educating themselves further.

    So piss off, internet armchair expert. Doctors aren't infallable as you may think; and I've known plenty to simply don't give 2 shits and do not look further into stuff such as this.

  • Nintendo, The Pokemon Company sue Palworld maker Pocketpair
  • This is what everyone had (wrongly) claimed when Palworld initially came out. Looks like they finally decided to pull the trigger. It's not going to be successful at all, but Nintendo is the Disney of Japan.

  • I miss my hearing. I miss music.
  • You should probably pity OP more. They lost the genetic lottery on this one. I haven't had COVID. I've been actually harassed and bullied because of the protections I took.

    So fuck antivaxxers.

  • [Repair] Creality K1 Max, and it being shipped with a different variant. A post in case anyone runs into this in the wild.

    So I run a repair shop in Altamonte Springs, FL - Got a weird one that searching the internet only turned up 1 other instance of it happening, so I wanted to post some details on the repair in case someone else runs into it or in case Creality doesn't admit that it's a thing.

    Creality K1 Max - Symptoms: Unable to finish initial calibration. X and Y Axis moving twice as far as commanded, auto leveling absolutely destroying the build plate.

    Initial steps in fixing this were to replace the main board. Creality shipped some of these printers with some interference around the main board which could have screwed up the drivers. Many references to this across the internet.

    After replacing the main board, it still would not get past the input shaping setup, so the next thing to replace was the toolhead board on the K1. It seems the accelerometer on this one was either A: Damaged by the customer in their attempts to fix, or B: Faulty from the get-go.

    After replacing the toolhead board, the machine would get past the initial input shaping, but it would do it in the back left corner of the machine (from experience, this should be done in the center of the plate). So upon homing, I also noticed that it wouldn't regularly go all the way to the front right of the machine. When commanded to go X negative, 10mm, it would go like 24mm instead.

    In the end, I needed to: Replace mainboard, Replace toolhead board, let the machine crash into it self for 20+ minutes while going through Auto-leveling on the initial power on stage, connect it to your network, upgrade the firmware, DO NOT HEED the warning that you need to auto-calibrate again.

    Follow this guide to root it: https://guilouz.github.io/Creality-Helper-Script-Wiki/helper-script/helper-script-installation/

    THEN, after it's rooted, install Moonraker/Nginx, Moonraker or Fluidd, then connect to one of those interfaces, edit your printer.cfg and change rotation distance to 72 for this variation of machine.

    If you notice that the sensorless homing is not acting perfectly due to the different step-size of this machine, driver_SGTHRS: 55 is the configuration option you're looking for, and you need to set it on both X and Y. 55 worked for me, but the default is 75. 0 is least sensitive, 255 is most sensitive. I had to set mine to be less sensitive to finally work.

    Once you've made these changes, you can save/reboot and test out homing/movement once again. If everything seems okay, go ahead and run the self-test to complete the repair.

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