✧✦Catherine✦✧hey
do you wanna bet on how many of these i can stack before the system stops booting?
Luke Wren@whitequark They should make a DDR5 to screw terminal adapter so a licensed electrician can install my RAM
Dr David Mills@whitequark @wren6991 wire nuts for the US version.
datenwolfFondly remembering the first time our (then startup) had a booth at a exhibition in the USA, and of course we packed the wrong mains extension cord. Luckily there's a electronics store right on the other side of the street and we try to scramble something together mating Schuko to split phase power NEMA that's cost effective and safe.
At some point I jokingly blurt out "well, we could wire nut it and it'd be to US code" to which my colleague asks "what's a wire nut?"
@wren6991 @whitequark @datenwolf first time I saw them was when putting up a new ceiling lamp for my family in the US.
I thought they were just a joke item until then.
I thought they were just a joke item until then.
Pxl Phile@dtl @wren6991 @whitequark @datenwolf I was today's years old when I learned about wire nuts.
After seeing a usage video I am still convinced they are a joke item. 🤯
WAGO all the way down but regular Luster clamps are okay too because one could check the electrical connection from the outside via the screws.
@ppxl @dtl @wren6991 @whitequark
Wire nuts, like so many other things in the USA are a physical manifestation of what I have come to think about the core (engineering) mantra they have over there: "Good enough…"
Over the past 10 years I've "tested" about every hotel in the San Francisco Union Squere area, and it was only last year, that I actually stayed in a room that didn't have a wild maze of pipes and conduits criss-corssing some corner of the ceiling.