these gbhackers submissions have superoverblown click-baity titles. I am now aware of them and it takes but a few of these to put these clowns on a cried-wolf list. hopefully lemmy will have some ignore domain thingy and add this to the likes of sun, nypost et al., never to be seen again and/or taken seriously.
dingdongitsabear
joined 2 years ago
As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn't available for public use yet.
well, I sorted it. just like @[email protected] and others guessed, that was the correct spot to get the power from. the issue with the fluctuating voltage was due to my shitty multimeter, checked it with another one and boom, 12 V. well, no boom, that's just an expression.
that's a solid line, I'm gonna try that. hopefully won't burn nothing of value. thanks
they are. and the voltage is fluctuating (for the fade in/out light effect) when measured there. so I need to find the fucker that's doing that and bypass it.
the whole thing (5 meter strip, remote, PSU/controller) cost like $5 total so I'm guessing that's some ingenuity at play, like reusing strips meant for RGB lights and sumsuch
measuring difference between ground plane and the various points didn't give me a stable voltage. the black thingy leading to the 12 V line is a SS210 (search says that's a schottky diode) and on its output the mentioned fluctuation is happening. on its input there's some very low voltage happening that's also fluctuating, like sub 1V (got a shitty multimeter).
if I'm understanding this correctly, then this thing boosts the voltage but the fluctuation is happening somewhere else. in other words, there is no 12 V source on this board. or?
they are white LEDs i.e. they shine white. the R G B leads are used to trigger them individually, for the running lights and whatnot. so when I bring 12 V to the V lead and GND to e.g. R, all the LEDs marked R (image) light up. when I then short R with G, then all R and G light up, etc.
it's a RGB strip but with white LEDs.
so when I bring 12 V to the 12 V lead and then GND to the R, G, or B contact, the respective LEDs light up. when I bring GND to one and then short them (R+G+B) all the LEDs light up.
sure, I tried it with a known good 12 V PSU and it works, but I'd like to use this one and just bypass the light-show circuitry.
I do, and when I check the 12 V wire, it fluctuates between 12 and 5 V (that's the blink/fade thing) so I need 12 V before it gets mangled. where am I most likely to get it from?
edit: how do I check if the plane is ground with a multimeter?
I disagree on both them counts. for an intermediate user, sure. for a try-to-dip-their-toes first-time user, absolutely not.
VMs are OK for one-off or compartmentalised tasks. running linux on anything but bare metal is a sub-optimal experience and off-putting. it's essential for the user to get the feedback in snappy and satisfying response to their actions, which is easily accomplished even on 10-year old hardware, while being a tall order for any VM deployment. not to mention, any intense graphic use (an important part of OP's spec) is nothing but crap in that scenario.
dual-boot scenarios are not for beginners. a) you can fuck something up and thus relieve you of a safe fall-back and b) you can't switch between workstation #1 and #2 concurrently, reboots are jarring focus breakers.
sure, thanks for helping out. got now a cheap hack for lighting my abode, commercial solutions are like 6-8x the price. the CRI is crap but it's better than nothing.