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Steam deck for a TV party game emulation machine?
  • The ONLY problem I have had with this, is the controller on the system itself defaults as controller 1, so SOME games it takes a little fiddling to use different controllers. But I have done this and it works great.

    I've used a handful of different USB to HDMI docks, and I haven't had any problems with any of them. I just use an anker dock that supports gigabit ethernet, 100W power passthrough, and HDMI, and it works just fine.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087QZVQJX/

    You can use just about any controllers using Bluetooth, I really like the wireless XBox controllers (only supported over Bluetooth) for this. But I've also used the Switch controllers and they work fine.

    It's really just a slightly expensive setup for what it is, but it's also very portable, so...

  • Time lapse plant growth

    Neat time lapse video of a bunch of different plants (and fungi) growing from seed to flowering/fruiting.

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    Framework Laptop 16, six months later
  • It's v1 from a relatively new company, trying something unprecedented. I'm not surprised it has some major flaws. The first Gen framework 13 did as well.

    I own a Gen2 and a Gen3 framework 13 and they are both phenomenal. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a slim laptop, that wasn't overly concerned about cost.

    I'm sure the Gen3 FW16s will be great as well, but it's going to be a bit before I would recommend them to anyone.

    What I think would be great for framework to do next is to design a purpose built eGPU for the framework 13. I would really enjoy something that would turn the FW13 into a decent gaming PC, while still retaining the portability for travel.

  • Fixing my Abandoned Project Car
  • They're going to knock it out of the park, which is why we can laugh.

    If they were going to fail, then it wouldn't be funny, but you know these guys are going to do amazing and fun work.

  • Daily multivitamins do not help people live longer, major study finds
  • Saying that this is a sum function on an Excel spreadsheet is a VAST oversimplification of this study. Stating that they did not take variables and parameters into account means that you did not read the study you linked. This may very well be a poor study, but not for the reasons you stated.

  • What secret conspiracy would you like to actually start letting other people know?
  • It was neutral at best, it was still a conspiracy to reduce choice in the market in a way that was beneficial to them. Yes, the excuse they used was that it prevented people from creating light bulbs that were of poor quality, and had an unpleasant color to them, but it also was profitable for them to do so.

    Here's the video you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

  • Evanston ranked choice voting ordinance passes, hopes to push county clerk’s office
  • Just for some context here - Evanston is in the same county as Chicago, which is one of the USA's largest cities.
    While this wouldn't directly impact all of Chicago's elections, it will have an impact in which direction Chicago may go. If Chicago picks up ranked choice voting, then the rest of Illinois may follow.

  • How some federal employees are pretending to work using 'mouse jigglers'
  • Often you can get by just starting a PowerPoint presentation, alt tab away, and let it run in the background. It'll keep the computer from locking and you don't need to install anything that might look suspicious.

  • Floating Island is Doing Great
  • I used 1/2" thick puzzle mat, which was plenty to keep things floating. I used a 3" hole saw, but only cause I had it already (ran it backwards so the teeth wouldn't grab and tear the mat.)

    A yoga mat would probably do ok, but I had to add a little bit of weight to the corners to stop the mat from flipping up in the wind (see previous post) so the yoga mat might not be able to support that extra weight.

    If you didn't need the cookie cutters anymore, you could probably put a board on top of one and smack it with a hammer to cut circles in the yoga mat, but it also may not work. You'd have to experiment a bit.

  • Floating Island is Doing Great

    We planted a variety of plants, at different stages of growth. After a bit of experimentation, cosmos grow extremely well. These were cuttings we put in just a couple weeks ago, and they're already bigger than most of the other plants that have been in there for over a month.

    The very young plants did not survive, but the larger ones did. If they're too small, they just get swallowed down into the cups by the bobbing of the water.

    Seems like the plants need to be large enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the pots, and still stick out enough.

    Going to be interesting to see what it looks like at the end of the season.

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    Disaster with the floating garden

    The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents.

    Luckily the majority of the plants were able to be saved, so we have one empty spot now.

    I added some weights to the four corners to hopefully prevent this from happening again.

    This is why we're experimenting! Learning what works and what doesn't with the setup.

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    Floating Island Garden

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15830343

    > Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats. > > Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly. > > Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats. > > Design is from: > http://www.beemats.com/ > > More reading: > https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/ > > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub >

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    Floating Island Garden

    Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

    Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

    Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

    Design is from: http://www.beemats.com/

    More reading: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

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    www.universetoday.com China Creates a High-Resolution Atlas of the Moon

    Multiple space agencies are looking to send crewed missions to the Moon’s southern polar region in this decade and the next. Moreover, they intend to create the infrastructure that will allow for a sustained human presence, exploration, and economic development. This requires that the local geograph...

    China Creates a High-Resolution Atlas of the Moon

    Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface.

    China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades.

    Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward.

    The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits.

    China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).

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    www.universetoday.com Insanely Detailed Webb Image of the Horsehead Nebula

    Life isn't so bad. Take a moment to enjoy this stunning JWST image of the Horsehead Nebula. Your tax dollars may have paid for it.

    Insanely Detailed Webb Image of the Horsehead Nebula

    The amount of detail in these pictures is amazing. You can really see the texture in the nebula, and the features are so crisp, it kind of looks 3d.

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    www.universetoday.com How Knot Theory Can Help Spacecraft Can Change Orbits Without Using Fuel

    When a spacecraft arrives at its destination, it settles into an orbit for science operations. But after the primary mission is complete, there might be other interesting orbits where scientists would like to explore. Maneuvering to a different orbit requires fuel, limiting a spacecraft’s number of ...

    How Knot Theory Can Help Spacecraft Can Change Orbits Without Using Fuel

    Pretty interesting topic, would be interesting if it could be used to move satellites to a "parking orbit" once they run out of fuel. It's unclear just how much movement in an orbit that can be done, as it says it needs to be in the same energy level.

    Source press release: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/new-technique-uses-knot-theory-create-tube-map-around-planets-and-moons

    Source journal article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-024-0201-0

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    www.universetoday.com Perseverance Finds its Dream Rock

    The Perseverance Rover has found the kind of rock that it was sent there to find. It's exactly the type that holds microscopic fossils.

    Perseverance Finds its Dream Rock

    If there’s a Holy Grail on Mars, it’s probably a specific type of rock: A rock so important that it holds convincing clues to Mars’ ancient habitability.

    Perseverance might have just found it.

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    Is Blocking Users Problematic to the Platform?

    There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.

    After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren't getting the downvotes they deserved.

    Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I'm worried that if we're all blocking shitty users that we're just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.

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    Custom mount adapter for a wireless camera in my car

    This was a fun project, I had to measure and figure out the iottie thread pitch and then create an adapter to go from a phone mount stand to a backplate on my wireless camera screen for a backup camera on a trailer.

    Basically replicated the back plate from the original phone mount with the same tolerances and spacing.

    Took 2 test prints to make sure the threads and spacing was right, then I printed it out of PETG. Seems to hold up well, but I might end up adjusting the design over time if it has a weak point.

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