timothyb89

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by timothyb89 1mo ago
I was able to buy one of the Full Scroll Dials, it’s fantastic! I even made a USB adapter for it using a Pi Pico W, which lets it work with a USB switch and fixes macOS compatibility by emulating a Magic Trackpad: https://github.
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by timothyb89 4mo ago
Fair point, I’ve been evaluating WiFi for my project as well and the ESP32-S3 certainly has better link rates and latency, though I’ve not determined if it can truly run uncompressed. UX-wise my project is pairing to a smartphone so I’m not
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by timothyb89 4mo ago
I’m using BLE GATT messaging with an upgrade path to L2CAP CoC channels for clients that support it. Roughly the path is: audio input -> opus encode -> BLE transmit -> smartphone/desktop. The latency floor ends up being ~80ms
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by timothyb89 4mo ago
I've been experimenting with more-or-less this on the existing ESP32-S3 (well, to a smartphone/PC rather than a 2nd ESP32). Practical bandwidth limits are in the ~72kb/s range with Bluetooth and a custom wire protocol, and Op
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by timothyb89 2y ago
I've been experimenting with the ALFA HaLow HAT [1] for some personal projects. There's also a number of APs good for point-to-point use. [1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/19956
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by timothyb89 3y ago
I've been using it for light CAD work to design stuff for (hobbyist) 3d printing. You can use exact measurements just fine. The main issue is that it isn't parametric but for my needs that isn't a big issue, and the one-time
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by timothyb89 3y ago
For what it’s worth, the Pixel 7 series (and maybe 6) has compatibility issues with some wireless chargers. It’s actually quite quick if you find one that plays nice: I measure 12-15 watts, so not much slower than wired. Incompatible charge
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by timothyb89 4y ago
GEOS (a Garmin subsidiary) offers this for most devices on the Iridium network, including Zoleo and Garmin's own inReach communicators: https://my-geos.com/products I have a Zoleo device and pay for the $40/yr cov
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by timothyb89 4y ago
Most dealers don't do this, though admittedly as another commenter mentioned, this isn't stopping the all the less scrupulous dealers. I paid MSRP for a Mach E I ordered online with relatively little fanfare, albeit with a ~10 mon
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by timothyb89 4y ago
By far the simplest solution is to just crack a window. Even a modest amount of fresh air exchange is enough to offset most of the CO2 generated by the people inside. I use a relatively small 10x11ft spare bedroom as my home office. If I cl
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by timothyb89 4y ago
I have one of the Anker batteries. It'll happily take in >1000W from an AC wall outlet to charge fully in ~1hr. It's 300W max DC input from solar (which is where that 3.6hr number comes from) or 100W max from a 12v car adapter.
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by timothyb89 6y ago
I'm about halfway toward a PPL myself and have been trying to practice with a simulator. My biggest complaint is that control inputs seem to be almost completely different from the real thing. Maybe it's the hardware I'm usin
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by timothyb89 7y ago
It was mentioned later in that thread, but the Kona EV also lets you control the AC remotely via its mobile app without leaving the keys in the car. I don't know if it'll run indefinitely, though; my old Chevy Volt would turn off
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by timothyb89 10y ago
Their older models from 2015 or so with 970m GPUs won't boot due consistently due to the hybrid (Optimus) graphics. The situation may have improved with the newer models, though, and their Stealth line only has Intel graphics which sho
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by timothyb89 10y ago
No idea, but I'm not going to complain. It's incredibly useful.
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by timothyb89 10y ago
youtube-dl is still plenty active, its last commit was just a few hours ago: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
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by timothyb89 11y ago
For the most part these issues are all fixed in recent kernel versions (> 4.2). The default trackpad driver (synaptics) is indeed buggy, but the newer libinput driver (available in the Ubuntu repos since 15.10) works perfectly. The WiFi
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by timothyb89 11y ago
Bulb detection used to be a big frustration for me as well, but they've 100% resolved my issues with it in the latest firmware update (now a few months old). I'd previously had issues with detection after power-on since WiFi would
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by timothyb89 11y ago
Same here, I love mine as well. As a plus, the company seems to be pretty open-source friendly, and they've published official APIs and full protocol documentation over the last few months.
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by timothyb89 12y ago
It hardly seems fair to reject the format simply because Apple hasn't added support for it to their image viewer. At least here my desktop environment happily displayed the saved image with its built-in image viewer (Gwenview). I'
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by timothyb89 12y ago
I've been working with PyCharm [1] a lot lately and I've come to like it a lot. Probably the best context awareness I've seen for any dynamic language - it (almost) feels like working in something more tool-friendly like Java
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by timothyb89 12y ago
I've been using an older tablet PC for notetaking for a few months, switching from a combination of typed and pencil + paper notes. Anecdotally I think think is the best notetaking solution I've yet tried since: * No smudging
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by timothyb89 12y ago
It's worth noting that Android 4.4 does support pretty much all JDK7 features (multicatch / try with resources / etc), finally. I've run into the occasional missing method from some of the newer class libraries, but noth
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by timothyb89 13y ago
I'm a bit curious, why would those goals be at odds? Is there a specific reason build systems like this don't scale well? I'm genuinely curious, not having had much experience with larger projects. I'm not certain how us
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by timothyb89 13y ago
To be fair, the "Flexible-Data Option" seems to only be available on the "Economy Plus" plan, which is their $20/m @ 3Mbps option. Still an annoyingly small quota, though.
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by timothyb89 13y ago
It definitely can be, if you write your app assuming that you are working with a traditional server. You're very directly charged for writing inefficient apps. I have a moderately popular app running on the AppEngine right now that ini
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by timothyb89 13y ago
It actually works great for me using the current Chrome Beta on Android, and I've heard Firefox might have started supporting WebGL on mobile as well, though a lot of platforms are still left out... iOS comes to mind.