Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer.
Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.
| Website | https://toroid.org |
| Location | Uttarakhand, India |
| Pronouns | he/him |
| About me | https://toroid.org/about |
New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.
And now the punchline: this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria.
@whitequark I can't find the exact part, but "12MHz crystal oscillator" seems to be a reasonable match in general.
Is there anything else interesting about this PCB? (Is this the sort of thing that would have had the solder paste printed with an inkjet?)
@whitequark Any idea what the rectangular silver thing is in the first photo?
I thought the markings were unreadable, but they were actually only upside down. I think it says 12.000 on one line and something 905N(?) on the other.
Could it be a clock or something like that?
The innards of an old Kingston 4GB USB stick that doesn't work properly any more. (It's detected at first, but then keeps getting reset and spewing errors a few seconds later.)
I don't know what I was expecting, but there's not much to see other than the flash controller, flash chip, and the USB connector.
Iris