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  • Look at mister fancy pants with and assembler.

    How about entering straight opcode, operand with only a hex keypad and two pairs of 7 segment LEDs. You can only see one set of numbers at a time. You had to write it out on paper to be able to keep track and count positions so you don’t use your spot.

    I had to do this as a project in school. Two 8088 units that we breadboarded to a UART that we used to drive a fiber optic link to communicate with each other with a basic protocol. All descrete components hand wired and coded.

    It made you tie all of skills together into a full system of hardware and software.




  • I have had various sticks and Roku highest end models and then got the latest ATV with hard wire port that adds Dolby vision and high frame rate HDR. I have a 2022 high-end TV.

    The video quality is noticeably better. Not sure of older ATV, but this is clearly better than the top end Roku. Also, I’m not sure if it is the same on older tvs

    The other thing is that you want to hard wire if at all possible. Even the best wifi can’t touch the reliability of a wire








  • UPS batteries are really dangerous because you cannot turn them off. They are also high enough voltage and current to harm you through arc flash and burns.

    The other thing with small UPS batteries is that there are usually multiple batteries. There are fuses between the battery string and the circuit board but not between each battery in the string.

    OP may have connected batteries wrong or he put a new battery in a string with a shorted/dead battery.

    Whenever you are going to string multiple batteries together always disconnect batteries and check voltage on each separate battery to make sure that they are the same or very close in voltage. If different charge to the same level. Any difference in voltage between the cells will cause current flow that can cause a fire hazard.



  • A federation is just a group of entities that has agreed to work together.

    De-federating means that you don’t want an entity in the group so you refuse to work with them.

    For the threads situation. Say all of the nerdy kid’s in high school decided to make a club (current fediverse) and one of the popular kids (meta) wants to join, but the existing nerdy kids in the club feel that the popular kid is really only joining to take over and ruin their club. Many of the nerdy kids will ignore the popular kid to try to freeze him out of the group (defederate).

    Some existing members try to block, some will accept, and some will wait and see what happens. In all cases the popular kid has already disrupted and created divisions in the original club members.