I'm sure this is sort of a dumb question, but can I just solder mechanical buttons to the contacts on a membrane button? As I understand it, that would still complete the path.

One of my deam goals is to bonsai a Clove tree, Syzygium aromaticum. It would be so wonderful to have a tiny fragment tree to warm my house. Unfortunately, the seeds don't take when they dry and I can't, for the life of me, find a place that sells saplings. Does anyone happen to know a place I could get one?

I am limited by the confines of my tools, but these are the layers needed.

Here is the command to generate it fully formed.

!give @p minecraft:red_banner[banner_patterns=[{"pattern":"minecraft:stripe_center","color":"white"},{"pattern":"minecraft:rhombus","color":"lime"},{"pattern":"minecraft:triangles_top","color":"lime"},{"pattern":"minecraft:guster","color":"pink"},{"pattern":"minecraft:diagonal_up_left","color":"lime"},{"pattern":"minecraft:diagonal_up_right","color":"lime"}]]!<

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52327536

TL;DR: I have a desk like the one pictured and I want to build a PC into the bottom left hand drawer and a power bar and fan set into the body. so that it's my dream desk. What do I need to know before I do this?

So I have a very similar desk to the image provided (not my desk it's currently covered in projects), it's a mid century tanker desk with Formica top. I also have a modestly good PC that I use for gaming. Unfortunately my tower is pretty bulky and this desk definitely wasn't built with the idea of that in mind.

I'm considering modifying the desk so that I can fit the internals of the PC into the bottom drawer on the left side. currently, everything will be able to fit and if I place the board at the middle I will be able to upgrade the graphics card (whenever they become affordable) without issue as that would be the biggest concern space wise.

The two biggest issues I foresee are cooling and cable. For cables, I'm thinking I'll get extenders for the video, internet, USB's, and run them through the body of the desk. one side will feed into the drawer to connect to the PC with a little slack to allow the drawer to slide, the other will be part of a tasteful 3d printed hub on the desk, either under the lip of the back or on the table top. That way I'd be able to plug in flash drives or the monitors without trouble.

Cooling is a trickier matter. The entire desk is enclosed but not air tight by any measure. I figure, I can drill out a vent pattern in the bottom front and top back of the left tower to allow a sort of chimney effect, the hot air coming out the back of the desk will draw fresh air in to the bottom. From there, I do a similar bottom front, top back array for fans on the drawer itself, so that it draws cool air into the enclosed space near the desk intake hole, and blows hot air up the back wall of the desk. I could then even wire fans into the desk itself to further move the air if it's not staying cool enough as I already plan to be in there running wires and maybe installing a power supply so that I always have a free outlet to test things with.

All that said, This is a bit more involved than the case mods I've previously done on PCs, and while I am confidant that I can do all this without damaging anything, I would like some input from others before I jump on it. Is there anything I should consider? anything I'm overlooking? I have a deep love for these desks and I've always wanted to integrate a computer into my desk instead of just sitting it near by. Now I kind of have the resourced and tools I need for both. I just want to make sure I do it right.

TL;DR: I have a desk like the one pictured and I want to build a PC into the bottom left hand drawer and a power bar and fan set into the body. so that it's my dream desk. What do I need to know before I do this?

So I have a very similar desk to the image provided (not my desk it's currently covered in projects), it's a mid century tanker desk with Formica top. I also have a modestly good PC that I use for gaming. Unfortunately my tower is pretty bulky and this desk definitely wasn't built with the idea of that in mind.

I'm considering modifying the desk so that I can fit the internals of the PC into the bottom drawer on the left side. currently, everything will be able to fit and if I place the board at the middle I will be able to upgrade the graphics card (whenever they become affordable) without issue as that would be the biggest concern space wise.

The two biggest issues I foresee are cooling and cable. For cables, I'm thinking I'll get extenders for the video, internet, USB's, and run them through the body of the desk. one side will feed into the drawer to connect to the PC with a little slack to allow the drawer to slide, the other will be part of a tasteful 3d printed hub on the desk, either under the lip of the back or on the table top. That way I'd be able to plug in flash drives or the monitors without trouble.

Cooling is a trickier matter. The entire desk is enclosed but not air tight by any measure. I figure, I can drill out a vent pattern in the bottom front and top back of the left tower to allow a sort of chimney effect, the hot air coming out the back of the desk will draw fresh air in to the bottom. From there, I do a similar bottom front, top back array for fans on the drawer itself, so that it draws cool air into the enclosed space near the desk intake hole, and blows hot air up the back wall of the desk. I could then even wire fans into the desk itself to further move the air if it's not staying cool enough as I already plan to be in there running wires and maybe installing a power supply so that I always have a free outlet to test things with.

All that said, This is a bit more involved than the case mods I've previously done on PCs, and while I am confidant that I can do all this without damaging anything, I would like some input from others before I jump on it. Is there anything I should consider? anything I'm overlooking? I have a deep love for these desks and I've always wanted to integrate a computer into my desk instead of just sitting it near by. Now I kind of have the resourced and tools I need for both. I just want to make sure I do it right.

Hey gang, my family and I have been playing on hacked Ds's, mainly to play gen1-7 Pokemon all the way through. But with us using ROMs, everything is digital and I really long for that game cart era tactile feel of plug and play.

Is there a way to use the old flash carts as stand alone game carts? Like they just have 2gb SD card and one game each and when you plug them in they run from the game slot on the ds home screen?

I want to turn all my power tools and batteries a universal connector like USB-C. I have a 3d printerand skills so getting the manual interface is easy enough, but I don't a lot about ports and tech. I'm learning fast, but I'm not quite there yet.

From what I understand, I'd need to put a female port on the battery which isn't difficult and has been done plenty for charging.

I'd need to put a male plug on the tools to interface with it, and my initial research says I can't just solder the power pins to the cables in the tool, I'll need a circuit board that requests the 20v from the usb source? Is that doable? It looks like I can pick them up on AliExpress. But I need a qualified adult to verify that's what I need to do.

From there, would I be able to cord them with this method or would I need to build a better usb charger port?

Is there a better port to use? Usb-C is nice and small so I can fit it in wherever I like, but can it handle tool use? Would it be better to do usb or something else?

I've literally always wanted a robo cleaner but I'm really not a fan of Appliances that send reports back to some creepy corpo. Does anyone have suggestions on where to start looking? All I'm finding is smart tech versions.

Hey gang, working on a 360 corona 4GB and Band flashers are a pain in my area. I know there's pico flasher, is there any chance I can run it on a tiny instead of buying a pico? I really don't want to buy a tech piece I'll never use again.

So I'm kind of new to electronics but I understand a fair bit. The power button he solders in connects the board directly to the ground through the grounding pad and one of pins for the port to the button. This bypasses the capacitive touch sensor on the 360 slim and allows you to turn the console on with a physical button.

How exactly is that happening?

How does capacitive touch work?

Isn't this the same as connecting the board->ground and pin->button->ground? As I understand, electricity takes the path of least resistance so both lines will flow to the ground, or is it different in circuitry than houses?

If so, could I wire to use a 2 pin mechanical keyboard button for the power button to connect the pin to the ground and just bar fuse the board and ground?

The touch pads have very easy to follow traces that connect 5:5 to the port I understand that capacitive touch is different somehow, but couldn't you just solder a button to the contacts on the port?

Any help would be appreciated, I'm working on a total overhaul of my old 360 slim and this is going to be a big part of the aesthetics when I'm done. I'd very much like to get a good tactile button for the power and eject.

https://youtu.be/ZFikMkSPFWE

So I'm kind of new to electronics but I understand a fair bit. The power button he wires in connects the board directly to the ground through the grounding pad and one of pins for the port to the button. This bypasses the capacitive touch sensor on the 360 slim and turns it into a mechanical button.

How?

Isn't this the same as connecting the board->ground and pin->button->ground?

If so, could I do that to use a mechanical keyboard button for the power button?

Is there any reason you can't wire them to the port on the bottom left that the ribbon cable for the stock buttons connect to?

Any help would be appreciated, I'm working on a total overhaul of my old 360 slim and this is going to be a big part of the aesthetics when I'm done.

Moved to using KDE recently and it's everything I've ever wanted in aesthetics and customization. Unfortunately, dolphin doesn't refresh when files are moved around and while I tried to accept it, I just can't. Showing me where files are is literally the only job of a file manager.

Are there any other file managers that can take all the themes and colors in KDE? I love having a full theme but I can't stand this manual refresh thing.

If anyone else is having issues setting these up, message me and I will zip the whole build to you and walk you through setup.

UPDATE:

So I've made some major progress but still have a persistent issue. Radarr, sonarr, and lidarr are set to rename files, rename folders, and move them to the root directory. Even after importing the media the do not do that. I have both the boxes for renaming ticked, I have hard links turned off, they all have permissions for all the directories involved, and they have the media available in the program. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love the help. I literally did all of this because I don't want to manually rename 1600 files into a consistent scheme and Radarr apparently doesn't want to either.

I used yams.media to do the full install. It was incredibly easy to use for most of the installation and setup. The Mullvad wireguard setup was a pain. The VPN part of yams specifically says to follow the instructions to the letter but the link it gives is a 404. The mullvad.md it was supposed to take me to was just "TLDR" and two code boxes with no explanation. I managed to bungle my way through with some knowledge from past attempts and the yams VPN test says I'm in Switzerland and my client is ready to go.

Yams wouldn't let me set the directories I needed (it wants one directory for everything and I'm sorting them into different mounted drives) but it was actually remarkably easy to copy the yams config folders into my preferred directory and the yaml file directly into portainer to create a portainer stack running everything I needed. I even learned how to use the env and "advanced env input" in portainer to correct all the variable sections instead of writing all of them myself. All in all, it was exactly what I was wanting to do when I posted the TLDR.

Tl;dr: I understand docker is supposed to help get things running on different systems easily, can someone give me a copy of their working Arr stack?

Frustrated venting I'm past being new to this server thing having run mine for over a year so I guess I can officially say I'm just bad at it. I've been working on getting Sonarr, Radarr, and, lidarr running since 4 in the afternoon, discounting dinner that's 6 hours of constantly failing to get these to work. This is my 5th time trying since I learned about it in April.

I've given up on the automatic downloads, I've given up on the request system, I'm even done with the torrenting, I'll just do that on my phone. All I want is something that format my 5TB of media to Title (date) instead of MOVIE_TITLE_ALL_UNDERSCORE, or TB_1000, or movie.videoformat.year.special.deluxe.username.host.visit.my.site.please. I was sold on this idea that self hosting was a relatively easy thing that anyone can get into and while I have a good understanding of how a config.yml is supposed to look and work, and I've got a decent understanding of ssh and sftp between two computers, but trying to grt any one of these things to run is soul crushing. I literally work in the foster system and my worst cases do not give me the stress this does. I just want to get it fixed so I can watch Pokemon with my family and offer it to people who will never bother to log on.

Edit: OMFG I moved them back into individual folders and they work now. 6 hours of videos and tutorials and not a single thing saying they absolutely have to be in their own folders or it won't work. edit unclear, brain stuck in toaster

Edit 2: turns out, Radarr can't find movies at /movies/movie.mkv and needs /movies/folder/movie.mkv. Now Radarr can import movies but all other problems persist.

I'm modding a 360 and as a strictly Linux user I've spent the last 4 hours of my night trying to get Iso2god running with no success. About 15 videos, 6 Reddit threads, 2 complete reads of the Xbox 360 section of consolemods.org, and it's the stupid AI agent on DuckDuckGo that says "install xboxforgod with snap"! I assumed it was hallucinating but no, it's actually there and it worked right out of the box! Even did the OG Xbox isos too!

Why on Games on Demand's green earth is this not on the wiki?!

Long story short, I was reading over sliver lore on the wiki and made a connection that I thought I'd share.

As per the wiki, the planar origin of slivers as a species was an unnamed plane where an unknown sentient species built their empires by using slivers as beasts of burden. This ended when the Sliver GraveMother evolved to conquer death and the result was a cataclysmic night where sivers overran the population and killed anything that wasnt a sliver on the whole plane.

Long after this, Volrath would visit the plane and take a liking to the species. He'd capture the queen and some of the babies and bring them back to Rath for him to experiment and keep under the Stonghold. The Weatherlight stuff happens, the Rathy overlay happens, and all the slivers end up in the volcano in Urborg which kills the queen and the rest die during invasion.

They're later revived without the queen by the Riptide Project in a bigger blunder than Jurassic Park where they immediately escape the labs and consume everything on the island. By the time of Time Spiral they're an unbridled disaster for everything as without the queen to lead them they are just feral beasts driven to eat and reproduce. This is where Hivestone see print.

"Creatures you control are Slivers in addition to their other creature types."

*"Rath's evincars used hivestones to control the slivers, but the overlay put their power into unwitting hands. Now the stones make not masters, but slaves." *

This is an amazing call back to the lore, and generally all the slivers with flavor text in this set are loaded with details.

Here's where things get interesting. During the events of the Weatherlight, Karn manages to get the Legacy artifacts by talking to the Sliver Queen and comparing his relationship to the artifacts to her relationship with her offspring. This implies that, on a very accessible level, the Sliver Queen is fully sapient and capable of reason, emotional intelligence, and empathy. Something that texts from after her death show is almost diametrically opposed to slivers without her.

Part 1, I believe that is what the Sliver Queen brings to the hive. A sapient, fully in control, intelligent and emotionally receptive mind. The single guiding consciousness of the hive. With her death, the slivers are nothing more than instinct driven animals. In the same way that each sliver grows wings or claws when a sliver of that type comes near, the presence of the Queen suplicates the personality if the hive mind across the population.

The flavor texts state that the Evincars used the stones to control the Hive. How better than tapping into it as a fellow sapient being and either talking with it or maybe demonstrating it psychically. What's the difference between when the Evincars of Rath used the Hivestone and now? It states right in the flavor text that the Hivestone was put into unwitting hands during the Overlay, the exact situation that killed the queen.

I propose that the Hivestones function as a direct psychic link to the hive mind, and the Evincars used it to communicate with the conscious mind provided by the queen. With her death, the Hivestone still connects to the Hive mind but now it's an unending echo chamber of base instinct and animalistic needs. Where before you could either communicate or maybe dominate a single mind or control, now you're engaging the entire swarm on a psychic level that they are naturally part of. It turns everything into slivers and enslaves their minds because anyone that uses it will get over run mentally in the same way they operate physically.

Lastly, I think the Hivestones are actually older than the stronghold nest. Volrath visited the home plane of the slivers, he likely saw the ruins of the civilization that they destroyed. What if the sliver stones are how they managed to domesticate them? The bit and bridal of a culture that tamed them. He could have used them so locate and transport the slivers back to Rath without a fight as opposed to somehow overpowering a sliver hive in combat. Now, eons after they were made and centuries after they were discovered, they no longer function as a tool for communication because the Hive has outgrown the power of those that could use them.

I've been running bazzite as my primary OS and while its pretty great for gaming but just about every other software is a bit of a pain to figure out. I recently heard about Drauger OS which is based on Ubuntu which I'm way better with. Does anyone have experience with Drauger? I'd like to hear about is before I do the full hop.