qupada

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[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately a great many of them use Sodastream's gas cylinders - after their patent expired and anyone could build a compatible unit - so you might not be able to escape them getting your money when buying CO2 refills, if there isn't another brand of gas cylinder available where you shop.

Sodastream have released a new cylinder design (with a bayonet rather than screw fitting), presumably to again attempt to kill off the market for home refilling from a larger CO2 cylinder, or use in other brands of machines.

All of that said, I do like my Aarke machine.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago

Nominative determinism strikes again!

[–] qupada@fedia.io 33 points 8 months ago

Well of course people are upset, it clearly should say "one fewer" /s

[–] qupada@fedia.io 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It's well-enough documented that there's an informal unit of measurement for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

[–] qupada@fedia.io 9 points 8 months ago

Damn, that was a chonky update. 17GB download, 85GB of files touched.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 5 points 8 months ago

The website also shows a large unpopulated section of PCB near the network jack with "PoE" silkscreened:

https://assets.raspberrypi.com/static/3f5c4569bdef13d9e0bcfce8d5e2d780/00863/disassembled.webp

PoE built in could make this a very interesting device indeed.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago

The thumbnail looks like a shoe with mould growing on it.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 7 points 8 months ago

"I bought this before Elon went crazy"

No, no you didn't, he was just better at hiding it. But now that you're all caught up, glad to see you're doing the bare minimum.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I got into an argument with someone once about this, when they told me (paraphrasing) "it's safe to drive listening to music through headphones, because they let outside sound in".

Yes they indeed might, but - even ignoring delay introduced from digital electronics - you've now lost all sense of where that sound is coming from, because you're listening to the sound of one microphone being played through one speaker.

The human ear really is an incredible thing.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 9 months ago

Also he listened to a smart person.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 9 months ago

When you're eating off-brand loose meat, you might well find that it is horse.

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