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KyuubiNoKitsune @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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  • You are the millionth visitor to this site!! Click here to claim your prize now!

    Let's not fool ourselves, adverts were always there and intrusive, remember those hotbars that your parents would have 100 of installed somehow? Sure things are worse, but they were never perfect.

  • How do you actually read?
  • I read my first book in 11 years, I finished it 2 weeks ago. It's The Expanse. I loved the series and someone gifted me the first book.

    My trick? I commute by train and have my book with me everywhere I go. If there's waiting to be done, there's reading time.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • Thanks for the suggestion, I was looking at buying another soldering iron. I'm using a really obscure brand one that I got from my dad and that I have been using since I was around 8 (30 years ago).

    I can only get replacement tips in South Africa so was looking for something with more support.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • Honest question, how long is the fluid supposed to last? And I'm not talking about burning time. I have a zippo, I fill it, a few weeks later I go to use it and the flame lasts a few seconds as the fuel finishes.

  • I'm tired of not having friends
  • Rey and do stuff with the intention of doing the thing, and not meeting people, the meeting people is just a bonus that comes from it. That way it gives you something external you enjoy that allows you to meet people while doing it.

  • I'm tired of not having friends
  • When I moved to a new city in 2014, after burying myself in work and burning out. I decided to try rock climbing. I searched online for groups and asked one if I could join. It was really hard pushing myself to do it, but I did it. And that's where I made some of my first genuine friends, even after starting to climb, I remember going to a meetup at the gym and I made some more friends. It's 10 years later and I'm still friends with them. I moved to a different country now and whenever I go back I visit them.

    So my suggestion is find a social sport like climbing and go (and yeah, it's social, you spend quite a lot of time chatting while someone is belaying someone else).

  • Formlabs acquires Micronics

    techcrunch.com Exclusive: Formlabs acquires 3D printing startup Micronics mid-Kickstarter campaign

    What this means for the future of the Fuse line remains unclear, though the companies confirmed with TechCrunch that the Micronics branding is going away.

    Exclusive: Formlabs acquires 3D printing startup Micronics mid-Kickstarter campaign

    I guess they're just going to end up being really good but heavily overpriced like the rest of the FormLabs products.

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    I feel like I should leave the gaming industry

    So I've worked in IT for around 18 years now and in that time I've worked for 2 gaming companies, I started my most recent a year ago, but I'm wondering if I should just jump ship for the tech industry again, I'm now waiting for the layoffs in our business unit. I'm an immigrant living on a work permit and losing my job will mean losing the life I've made for myself over the last 4 years, and that terrifies me.

    I used to love the company I work for but now I'm wondering if it's worth it anymore.

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    Some advice on creating a 2.4 GHz antenna for Seeed ESP32-C3

    Hi,

    I'm looking for some help in a field that is super technical and I don't fully understand.

    I'm planning on using a bunch of these seeed studio Esp modules for some home automation projects, especially because they have a lipo battery charger making it great for portable stuff.

    The thing is the the ESP32s have U.FL SMD antenna connectors. Most of the antennas that you can buy with U.FL connections while are reasonably small, come with 50-150mm leads, which sort of makes the small size of the module a little less valid.

    What I'd like to do is get a female U.FL SMD connector and make a small daugherboard with an 2.4GHz SMD antenna on it, for instance a Janson 2450AT42B100 or a Molex 479480001.

    They go over the circuit board requirements quite thoroughly so I don't think designing it will be too difficult, but what I don't know is, they say that you need impedance matching on the circuit, and I see that there appears to be something that looks like it on the ESP circuit diagram, but I'm not actually sure if it is or not:

    You can see it in the middle near the bottom of the diagram here: Seeeduino-XIAO-ESP32C3-SCH

    So my questions are:

    1: Is this a dumb idea, having a direct plug-on SMD antenna?

    2: Is that an impedance matchning circuit between LNA_IN on the ESP chip and U.FL-R-SMT-1?

    3: If I can't get a female U.FL SMD connector, would using one with a lead and shortening it to make the daughterboard able to be much closer to the connector affect anything? Do I need to ensure that the lead length matches the wavelength at all?

    Edit: Found this SMD female U.FL, so they do exist.

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