dave

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[–] dave 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I have a script that toggles my Dell XPS between full charge and 80%, as I’m usually on mains and only need full charge occasionally.

[–] dave 13 points 3 days ago

A kind of ‘super’ print screen, in fact.

 

When opening a post from the main feed and then using the Community menu, the Subscribe entry has the wrong icon, and also doesn’t ‘update’ until you close the post and reopen it (ie it doesn’t show as a toggle, even though it does appear to function as a toggle.

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[–] dave 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They’re also rapidly making their way and taking a long time.

[–] dave 3 points 6 days ago

How were they able to reduce sinusoidal depleneration though?

[–] dave 1 points 1 week ago

That mb appears to have 8 channel audio on the backplane (7.1) and maybe another stereo header for the front panel headphones? That would make 10 channels in total which fits…

[–] dave 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting. Is the orange line on the board separating the audio section from the rest?

[–] dave 2 points 1 week ago

You’re probably right—I searched for ‘20 mosfets in parallel’ or something like that and it came up near the top. But I didn’t read the whole thing.

I guess there’s got to be some reason for using so many though?

[–] dave 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My gut feeling is they didn’t put 20 there in case you scraped one off. But likely the others will have enough leeway to cover for it. If the power rail gets stressed enough, it might well fail sooner than it would have.

[–] dave 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

From the TI briefing note:

Paralleling power metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) is a common wayto reduce conduction losses and spread power dissipation over multiple devices to limit the maximum junction temperature.

It would also provide redundancy in case of a failure—if you had only one, and it failed (or was scraped off by an over-enthusiastic GPU installation), you would probably not be going to space today.

[–] dave 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The back of my envelope says that if a 50Wh laptop battery gave you 5 hours of run time, an average of 10W, then reducing that to 7W whilst keeping everything else the same would give you just over 7 hours. But it likely wont be quite that much in practice because all the components are constantly changing their power requirements and my envelope has a corner torn off at that point.

[–] dave 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be careful—he may understand as a German.

[–] dave 3 points 1 week ago

Hope this email finds you in a well.

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Media improvements (self.arctic)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by dave to c/arctic@lemmy.world
 

Loving the new link preview position option :)

Is there space for a couple of media tweaks?

  1. Images, once zoomed in, have this unfortunate feature where moving them by a few pixels brings up the controls layer, and then it’s hard to get rid of—single click zooms back to full image (which is great for quick dismiss). Maybe the controls could be completely disabled if the zoom is anything but ‘fit to screen’ or whatever that default state is known as?
  2. Videos when rotated often fail to scale properly to the new aspect, getting progressively more and more zoomed.
  3. Tapping a video in the feed to show it full screen leaves the playback controls visible, then another tap brings up the share / dismiss controls over the top, and then finally a third tap leaves just the video. This feels like it could be smoother—again maybe start with no controls visible?
  4. Dismissing a video should probably pause playback, as it can be hard to hit the tiny pause button back in the feed.
 

When using Large post view, posts with a url show that url including thumbnail below the post content. But when opened, the link is above the content. I’d prefer it to be below, so that the 2 look similar—I find it a bit of a visual glitch that the order jumps. Is there a way to do that (couldn’t see one), or could it easily be added?

 

Seems like the default post sort is periodically switching back to Scaled. I’ve have Remember post sort set but after some time (maybe app restart?) and often when switching feeds from All to Loval, etc, it’s back to scaled. Is that a known problem?

 

Would it be possible / desirable to set the community automatically when viewing a specific community and then tapping Submit Post? Seems like that would be to most convenient and could still be changed if needed.

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Sidebar information (self.arctic)
submitted 1 month ago by dave to c/arctic@lemmy.world
 

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what this is supposed to do, but I thought the ‘Sidebar’ menu item used to show information about the community you were viewing. But it seems to show instance info now. Is that right?

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submitted 4 months ago by dave to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?

 

I saw this comment which included a link to a crosspost in a different community. When I open that link, I see the post and the top of the view has the community name with menu. But I seem to be able to do everything (subscribe, favourite, block, read the sidebar) except just ‘open’ the community to see other posts. Am I missing the right place to click / menu entry?

 

Don’t know if this is from the most recent update but I just saw this post and it doesn’t show the image in the feed—just a grey placeholder box. Opening the post shows the image.

https://feddit.uk/post/11005731

 

Google classify their own security alerts as spam. Or they just can't be arsed with sorting out DKIM.

 

I got a reply to a comment in what’s become quite a bit post (≈150 comments). Clicking the message in the inbox goes to the post comments but not to the reply. It seems to go to a slightly different place each time I open it.

I saved the original comment I’d replied to, and navigating from my ‘saved comments’ does go to the right place.

 

This is an assumption on my part, and may have other explanations. I’ve noticed sometimes the feed ‘jumps’ down a post while scrolling, and I’m assuming this is due to a background feed update combined with a sort order that puts a new item anove where I was currently scrolled to. If that’s the case, having an option for manual refresh only would be great.

If that’s not it, there might be a bug somewhere but it’ll be hard to find I guess, as it happens quite rarely.

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