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I don’t understand why Logitech did not add the free spinnig scroll wheel to the Ergo? It is hard to go back from that but the Ergo is overall an excellent mouse. I just wish it was wired…


Battery lasts like 2 months, why would you want that?


Why would I want to worry about a battery even every other month when I could just not worry about it ever?


It takes 20 minutes to charge fully. Technically, you will use the mouse in "wired" mode for 20 minutes every two months. Instead of using it in 20 minutes wired mode and 2 months free of wires, you prefer to go fully wired. That doesn't make sense.


I don't see wires as a problem. Wireless accessories are slightly more convenient when you're moving the computer around, which is why my work laptop has a wired keyboard plugged into the dock and a wireless mouse with the receiver plugged into the laptop directly, but that's not a concern with my desktop so I go wired there.


Not OP, but for me the biggest advantage of wired is that it's easier to find my mouse in my laptop bag or when my desk gets messy. I dunno how many times I've had to trace the wire to find my mouse buried in a stack of engineering drawings.


Wired is about removing wake-up latency and wireless interference.


Do you have any concrete products you can recommend for home tap water distillation? Searching for such a solution mostly yields DIY results for me.


Can someone ELI5 this?


The world map is hilarious. Germany sure does not look like this anymore (and this is not the GDR split but goes further back). Maybe they should update this. Draws into the question, the whole data.


The map is drawing Germany and Czechia both with the same white color as the border.

Unfortunate that the color scheme is confusing, but not any weird borders.

You can see the uncolored map here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-World6-Equirec...


Both non-fluoridating countries and country borders are white, so it's not that Germany is drawn wrong, but that that countries near Germany (Czechia, Netherlands, Luxembourg) look like they're part of the same white blob.


Looks like the Hailo m.2 accelerator costs $190 whereas I bought a coral accelerator for $55. So not exactly comparable.


The Hailo-8L hat for the Pi is only ~$80 and has more than 3x the compute power of the Coral USB.

* https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-13-tops/

Even the bigger Hailo-8 hat with >6x the compute of the Coral is only $135.

* https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-26-tops/


Oh nice thanks for digging that up. I currently run Frigate (along with Home Assistant) on my HP Prodesk 400 with a 8th gen Intel i5 and the Coral USB. I wonder if it would run better with that Hailo-8 on my Pi5 with 4GB.


Which of theirs is the most comparible to the flipper zero? Besides the cool looking Cardputer it is quite hard to make sense of their product lineup and compare features.


That case is even worse as it rested fully on the testimony of the other robber, which he made to get a lesser sentence and later rescinded:

> Prosecutors had no forensic evidence connecting Allah to the shooting. Surveillance footage at the store showed two masked men with guns, but they were not identifiable. The state’s case rested on testimony from Allah’s friend and co-defendant, Steven Golden, who was also charged in the robbery and murder. As their joint trial was beginning, Golden pleaded guilty to murder, armed robbery and criminal conspiracy and agreed to testify against Allah. Golden, who was 18 at the time of the robbery, said Allah shot Graves.


> Golden said he agreed to plead guilty and testify when prosecutors assured him he would not face the death penalty or a life sentence – a deal that was not disclosed to the jury.


> “I substituted [Allah] for the person who was really with me,” he wrote, saying he concealed the identity of the “real shooter” out of fear that “his associates might kill me”. He did not identify this person.

If your friend is wrongly facing the death penalty and you know they’re innocent there’s no reason to not name the person you claim is the real shooter.


I run my own nextcloud server now for over 5 years. There are some frustrations like the photo app which is uselessly slow. But for the files sync, contacts/calendar and some other apps it works well. It _does_ offer a million different things and some of those are half baked but the core functionality (a dropbox-like file storage) is decent in my experience.

Updates have never been an issue. And honestly I am always a bit surprised by that. I don’t update to a new version right away but when I’m ready, I change the version in the docker compose, pull, re-up the container. It performs the database migration and brings up everything. Never had an issue after using it for years. Not sure what your exact setup is, but it’s certainly not a nightmare to use.


For photos, I highly recommend "Memories" : https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories

They should make it the default, IMO.


The file syncing is not very good either. It's based off WebDAV and very slow. If you only have a few files it's workable, but it isn't competitive with Dropbox, SyncThing or any of the popular alternatives.


I've noticed issue with older hardware. After a recent upgrade to modern hardware (LAN based), all performance issues have been resolved. Currently serving to >30 devices, including 4K media to multiple endpoints and 100Ks files.


It is also workable if you have more than just a few files. I sync several GB of data, books, papers, notes, photos, videos, etc. Constantly changing and it has been pretty fast. Webdav is just the interface used for external services that support the protocol. Which may not be the best tech but it certainly is supported by many, many apps and services. I cannot connect a random e.g. pdf reading app with Syncthing and maybe not with Nextcloud directly but certainly via webdav.


That microscope is amazing. Commenters debate whether it costs 30k or more around 100k so it is further out of reach for most hobbyist.

A few years ago I had quite a lot of fun with one of those cheap $30 wireless USB microscopes with up to 1000x magnification that connects to some app. My family and I always came up with new ideas about what we should look at next. Incredible fun. Unfortunately it broke down rather quickly. But it opened up the world much more than traditional backlight microscopes I am used to. They are basically “just” specialized cameras with bright flash lights.

I wonder if prices have come down a bit and if there are good options out there for such a portable microscope that doesn’t break so quickly. Better quality and magnification in the $200 range?


Strange Parts did a great video about, "A boy and his microscope..."[0]

We bought the same one 6(?!) years ago and still use it every day. It was ~$900 back then, looks like it's $230 now[1].

I had a really hard time spending that much back then, but it is easily the most valuable tool in our PCB engineering & assembly shop.

[0] https://www.strangeparts.com/a-boy-and-his-microscope-a-love...

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832694057535.html?gateway...


Shipping $80. AmScope are similarly priced and sold directly on eBay.


I believe that's a Keyence microscope, and yes, way outside the scope of a hobbyist! They have a range of microscopes for this kind of thing. Some are also able to perform accurate dimensional measurements (sort of like the old optical comparators machinists used to use but far better). They're typically used for incoming inspection in manufacturing processes.


I bought this microscope that has HDMI port for connecting monitor. Cost me little over 100€. Has no lag. Quality worse than what in video but better than some I see on youtube that also lags. This microscope is not perfect but capable to do smd soldering.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EIRqaY9


I am using 1500€ Amscope for soldering tasks. It does not have such amazing magnification. Such magnification is also not needed for daily work. But it replaced 10k Olympus device from a decade ago. Optical devices got radically cheaper in last 20 years. SMD rework is not possible without them.

Such amazing scope is built in into 70k professional SMD rework station I use sometimes for complex repairs. Replacing RAM and processor chips is easy, but slow. Honestly I don’t think, that the scope in video is extraordinary expensive. Definitively cheaper than my old Olympus gear.


I bought one of those pore cleaners when I had some pores and quickly realized it was a microscope camera basically, so removed the pore thingy tip and started using it as such (which seems to be the same as you from the description). It was so interesting to explore all sort of stuff! From checking a small cut I got in my head, moles and other parts of my skin, to electronics, different kinds of fabrics, woods, etc.


Wait so the people were pulled into the magnetic field? Were they wearing ferromagnetic metal items that were pulled in? And what does that have to do with the vest that the patient is wearing? If that is ferromagnetic, would that not just simply be stuck inside the MRI?


More info, for anyone interested:

https://www.auntminnieeurope.com/medical-legal-and-practice/...

> The nurse had tucked a total of 13 metal weights into the pockets of the vest, and it was these weights that pulled him into the scanner.


The nurse was wearing a weighted vest. Presumably the weights were metal of some sort. I can only imagine the sort of metal gear the security guards were wearing. Those guys love dangling stuff from their belt.


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