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@turmoni@treehouse.systems

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Also goes by Dave. Lives in Reading, UK. Generally techy and a regular cyclist.

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xyla 🐀📈6d ago

jacquelines 🌟6d ago

got one of the first parts for tangara 2! we’re gonna keep making them bigger the more people complain!

I'm sure I must have made this observation before but is there actually any reason at all for the "ml" unit on digital scales to exist, other than to make you go through the same unit twice and to lie at you about anything that's not (the same density as) water?

God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

Oh damn, I could've got a Streetpass hit if only I'd taken my 3DS to Download Festival

#3DS #DownloadFestival

* What?

So apparently if you have property stolen from you, you find it on eBay, the place that sold it on eBay confirms it's yours, but the property was sent to a different part of the UK and they don't have a suspect, that's the end of everything? They know where your property is, but nothing happens about it. This seems... dysfunctional and wrong.

@gsuberland @sil I like how my feed has two people tooting about Eurovision and the opinions seem to be entirely opposite to one another

@mcc did you intentionally boost a post about Iceland during their utter batshit Eurovision entry, or were you blissfully unaware (I apologise if I am the fiftieth person to ask this I do not know how to properly check for this on the Fediverse)

@firefly I have returned with picture

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xyla 🐀📈6d ago

Leela Vam 6d ago

@xyla I don’t understand. Can you please explain. I like FireWire and use it, but it is going away and I don’t like it. I have to get a new laptop, and am sad I can’t find one with FireWire.

xyla 🐀📈6d ago

@leelavam it's a joke about nvidia pulling dangerous amounts of power through generic 6+6pin pairs

@xyla@shitpost.trade @leelavam@mastodon.social
Fryerwire 😂

Sebastian Crane 6d ago

@leelavam @xyla I have a miniature FireWire expansion card (PC Card form factor, but I can check to be sure). You are welcome to have it for free if you'd be happy to arrange postage! Although finding a laptop with the expansion card slot is probably just as difficult nowadays 🙂

Leela Vam 6d ago

@seabass @xyla I understand the joke now. Thank you for the offer. I will let you know if I need it. I am using a PreSonus audio device and an old Dell, but have to dual boot Windows 10 to set the levels, so I am probably just going to get a new audio device with the new laptop that works with Linux. Looking at this model https://laptopwithlinux.com/product/clevo-nj70/ maxed out on memory and hard drive (though maybe not this company) with this audio device https://motu.com/en-us/products/m-series/m2/.

Clevo NJ75AU 17,3-inch Linux Workstation Laptop with Linux

The Clevo NJ75AU Linux laptop with 17.3 inch Full HD IPS screen with Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian and even without OS. ✓Free Shipping

Laptop with Linux

@leelavam @seabass @xyla I have the MOTU M2 and it works great on Linux

Tito Swineflu 6d ago

@xyla You mean I'm going to have to add to my dongle?

Mlle caféine ✨6d ago

@xyla *sighs*
*boosts*

Serge from Babka 6d ago

Can someone explain this one?

xyla 🐀📈6d ago

@serge https://shitpost.trade/@xyla/114851688614944708

xyla 🐀📈 (@xyla@shitpost.trade)

@leelavam@mastodon.social it's a joke about nvidia pulling dangerous amounts of power through generic 6+6pin pairs

buy shitpost cheap

Serge from Babka 6d ago

Thanks! I assumed it was something like this, but I didn't see enough of the cable to search for it.

@xyla if it could handle 200V, only 3 amps would go through, so depending on the insulation, this even would be possible.

not taking the PSU and the not-existence of HV GPUs into account

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱6d ago

That distribution voltage is way too low, resulting in this insane fire promoting current. More efficient to have buck regulators on the board that can easily drop 48/24 volts to 1 volt or less with hundreds of amperes

@dianea @xyla Oh there are a million and one things wrong with it, but annoyingly enough, when GPUs have those types of inductors you know they're going to be LOUD.

I miss the days when there weren't loud high pitched noises coming from my PC bothering my ears. 😭 (I had to tighten up the entire case and put in padding material so I could not go crazy. Even then I still had to stuff some thermal padding material over the power handling inductors my GPU does have. I can still hear it just a little bit sometimes...)

You're right though, voltage conversion is usually best done at the final step when this much power is involved.

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱6d ago

@nazokiyoubinbou @xyla

The high current DC buck converters I've worked with operate around 1MHz and totally quiet as the inductors are quite small and redundant across the board. Reliable? Yes, they were used for avionics systems.

@dianea @xyla Oh don't misunderstand me. The inductors can be made correctly and be quiet. But how will they save $0.25 on each $700 device if they use high quality inductors?

Sadly the issue is not that they can't be good, but just that OEMs won't make them that way.

Theolodian 6d ago

@xyla not a problem for us, the PSU died instead (5 weeks after we bought the PC)!

Theolodian 5d ago

@xyla well, whaddya know! I didn’t have time to deal with it for 2 days so it sat unplugged. Plugged it in quickly just to be absolutely sure before following up with the manufacturer and glory be it works again! 🤪🥳

Alyssa Voronin 6d ago

@xyla One of these is false advertising. The other will burn your house down.

Noxy 🐾🏳️‍🌈6d ago

@xyla looks like 12 pin, not 8 pin like alt text suggests

xyla 🐀📈6d ago

@xyla This is unfair to IEEE1394, I never had a IEEE1394 cable melt or catch actual fire.

Dataline 6d ago

@xyla this isn't even my dongle's final form

Andrew Zonenberg 6d ago

@xyla I wonder how different things would be if nvidia had used something actually meant to properly push a lot of power.

I'm thinking something like https://www.samtec.com/rugged-power/power-systems/extreme-ten60power/.

And switch from 12VDC to 48VDC for the chassis level power distribution bus to reduce current, then step down to 12V on the GPU board.

High-Power 60 Amp Power Connectors, EXTreme Ten60Power™ | Samtec

EXTreme Ten60Power™ 60 amp power connectors feature a modular high power and signal combo for mid-board or backplane applications. Designed as a high-current and lower profile interconnect.

Andrew Zonenberg 6d ago

@xyla (in my own slightly-less-extreme designs I use 6 pin minifit jr for 48V at up to ~2A total and 8 pin minifit jr for 12V at up to ~6A total, a sufficiently conservative design that I'm not worried about unequal current sharing)

Glen, waiting for the pre-poll 4d ago

@azonenberg @xyla as a telco person who's dropped 300A off a -48VDC cable, I'd suggest not letting the mere existence of a connector make the decision. Lest NVIDIA take you up on that.

Pxl Phile 4d ago

@xyla I ...

..I mean...

...this is not wrong.

I suspect we can charge an eCar battery very soon with USB-x-gold-max²™

FandaSin 4d ago

Don't encourage them!😂

Daniel Reeders 4d ago

@xyla 600 WATTS!?? Okay now I feel real stupid for not fully grasping the crypto and AI power crises. I'm a laptop user and I had no idea how much power a GPU draws.