Dave.

Again,

Ha! Welcome to corporate

There is a catchphrase in corporate - “Minimum viable product” and it means just that, memory leaks and all.

Change your thought patterns. Minimise their actions in your mind.

They are not “psychopaths”, they are just “idiots”.

They do not “counterattack”, there is no “attack” from your side. They are just “being a nuisance”. Frame all the bumps and thumps as renovations if you want.

When they make a noise, turn UP your tv, just a little, so you can hear it over it. “Gee those renovations of theirs are a bit noisy, maybe I should put in a complaint.”

When they rattle the ceiling of their apartment, “Hey it must be time to vacuum, thanks for reminding me. I’ll do it now while you’re renovating and making noise so it doesn’t disturb you too much”.

“I hear that plants respond to music so I’m just going to leave some on for Ferris, my pot plant, while I go out shopping for a few hours this morning” - Not too loud, just loud enough for Ferris to enjoy it. If you hear a lot of thumping it must be just them taking the opportunity to renovate while you can’t hear them. I do hope they don’t damage their ceiling with all that thumping while you’re out, oh well.

All that activity on their part takes a lot of energy, your activities take very little. Which one do you think is going to end first?

It’s difficult on the back end of the charger as well.

A shopping centre or rest stop can’t just spring for a few high capacity chargers for the car park. A single megawatt charger is 50 houses worth of consumption, so they now need a substation upgrade to provide what is basically a whole neighbourhood-equivalent of power.

standard practice to find these potential leaks with intensive pre-flight checks to identify and solve these issues before they escalate into a catastrophe.

Except these particular leaks are due to vibration modes (on the newly designed vacuum jacketed fuel lines) that seem to be only present at high g’s towards the end of the burn.

After the first ship to use these new lines blew up, SpaceX made some changes and conducted a minute-long test firing on the ground of the second ship. A minute of the rocket going through various thrust levels on the ground is plenty of time to pick up issues if it was going to be visible on the ground.

Presumably it looked ok, so they launched it, and the second one blew up. They probably added more sensors on those lines, because they seem to be pretty sure that vibration modes are the issue on those lines now.

Yes, you could model this, and no doubt they did to some extent, but nothing beats testing in real life unfortunately.

They aim to actively deorbit starlink sats.

(Edit: they keep a small amount of propellant in reserve for the initial deorbit burn, and then position the solar array to give maximum drag which hastens things considerably)

As far as I know, apart from the first few batches, the “production run” of sats has a pretty low failure rate and are proactively sent to their demise.

People don’t just leave leaking apps out there for consumption.

Ha! Welcome to corporate, where vendors sell you software and say that the hardware has to have 128GB of ram and when you poke around a bit you discover a single JVM with constantly growing memory usage with a script that restarts it every time it runs out of resources.

AND a log file that describes - in typical Java excruciating detail - the precise lines in each module where the devs allocated resources but didn’t free them. About 40 times a second.

Motor oil tastes funny.

“Oh, it’s got an embedded TIFF of the actual content. That explains it.”

Yes, I am quite old now.

Yeah it’s steadily getting enshittified.

I used to have a mythtv box that I’d built , like, 15 years ago and it was pretty good. For a while there TV UIs were adequate enough that I didn’t need it, but it seems that maybe it’s time to build another one.

TVs that do anything more than displaying a signal exactly as it’s input shouldn’t exist.

Some of that input could do with a bit of tweaking though.

I wouldn’t mind if the TV was able to do things with the audio track, like remove background music, or lift the volume of people speaking, or erase laugh tracks/live audience hooting& hollering.

There’s probably similar manipulation that you could do on the video side (eventually, once TVs stop getting the worst processors ever, not here and now). Imagine a prompt that says “Airbrush every recognisable brand name on-screen so that it blends with the background”.

I seriously doubt if any major manufacturer would do that kind of thing though, so better get working on jailbreaking those TVs.

If you occasionally boot to windows, it’s known to leave NICs in an unusable state if you just hibernate/quick power off. You need to boot back to windows and so a “proper” shutdown for it to come good.

Consider yourself corrected then. I’ve skimmed your comment history. Your go-to insult is “bootlicker” or alternatively, a simple clown emoji. In your comments you seem to provide very little context as to why you think that, it’s just, “I deem you to be a BOOTLICKER! Next!”

So maybe a little guidance for you:

The very, very, first thing you do when dealing with perceived propaganda - be it on mainstream media, online, or wherever - is to remove all the emotion and insults and see what’s left. You know what I see when I parse your comments like that? Very little.

Thus I conclude you have nothing of importance to say, and you become background noise that gets tuned out.

Actually your comments do have some small value. I check your bootlicker-comment-score and if it’s greater than 5, I know the community you posted in isn’t worth my time.

It was a Sharp “Memory LCD”.

https://sharpdevices.com/memory-lcd/

Basically “visible memory storage”.

You treat it as addressable memory and write into it, and it will hold that state using about 15 microwatts to do so.

You can still buy the display modules , there’s a few boards that let you easily drive them with arduinos and etc.

“Akshually”, so do you. You had a chance to discuss and inform, and instead you went straight to “bootlicker”.

Do you think they’re going to take any notice of whatever you say from here on?

Samsung front loader washing machine here.

It is generally musical while selecting program options. It sings a little song when finished, which is only after it unlocks the door. The little song only plays once. The little song can be changed to other tunes by subtle and undocumented button presses.

After about 10 minutes it plays a few notes while turning itself off that are easily recognisable as the notes it plays when it turns itself off, so if you miss the first little song, once you hear that you know it’s definitely finished. After that it is done. No more door locking shenanigans or tumbling or clothes.

Generally I use the “sportswear” cycle which is about 1 hour, my clothes are generally not that dirty. Sometimes I treat towels / linen to a hot cotton cycle which is 2.5 hours and a 90 degree (Celsius) wash.

Had it for 10 years now, no mechanical or electrical issues. I always leave the door ajar when finished and once every few months I do a cleaning cycle.

I also have a Fisher and Paykel dryer. I have owned it for 8 years, in which time it has needed a replacement drive belt as it gets used heavily. The bushes on the drum need replacing soon, but I just turned it upside down so it will last for a while longer

Regarding your door issues, well that’s because idiots try and open the door during a load, and then when it’s locked, they turn it off and still try and open the door. They subsequently complain about the water going everywhere. Don’t forget that manufacturers have to deal with the lowest common denominator end user.

Maybe we should take the Amazon storefront naming approach where instead of repurposing exisiting nouns we just create new words from combinations of vowels and consonants, like Pnopty, or Flontep.

Always make your test messages something like, “Test message, please ignore”.

That way if it all goes wrong at least it looks like it was somewhat intentional.

Try “lspci -vv” first to see the devices on the bus and to figure out which device is causing this.

Secondly, check all your BIOS’ “performance” settings, such as memory timings, bus speeds, and etc, and set them to default.

See how things go after that.

Mainly when you are building a single-purpose , “appliance” device and you have the bare minimum of RAM/storage available. You just want to get the board powered up and initialised and then jump to your application.

So you build a kernel with only the correct drivers you need, you skip initrd, you skip initscripts and (lord forbid) systemd, you just jump straight to your program, with possibly busybox available if you need debugging.

Edit: I’m talking more about building it from scratch here, not LFS. Regarding security issues, you then “only” have to deal with kernel exploits, with a limited surface as you have limited modules linked, and exploits in your application.

There are phases of sleep that you pass through. Seems like you pass through the lighter ones relatively quickly and you’re getting dragged awake out of a deep sleep phase.

Either give it a little bit longer (like 35-45 minutes) or try 10 minute catnaps.