the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@noiob dunno if it needed to be but sure, I guess?

(we work for a company that makes SiC stuff, we're a little biased against GaN)
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@noiob it's the one that came with the steam deck

i'm not sure what the advantage of gan is in things like that honestly? does it get marginally better efficiency or something? wide bandgap semiconductors mostly excel in high voltage and high temperature applications, and this is neither
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@noiob It's permanently attached
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@noiob don't care about transfer speed, just need it to work for charging with PD
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@noiob a cable with a USB C plug on one end and a jack on the other without a hub chip though? because that's what we're looking for, just a plain wire
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we need a usb type c extension cord and have no idea where to get one

looking on amazon no reputable brands seem to make them (i think they're against the usb standard but we do need one) so i'm not sure what's a good quality one
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@typhlosion do you want boosts on this?

I hope you can find a job soon
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@pup_hime we get spike chunsoft and.... we had no idea they were still making games?
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@rey it must be something that whoever originally made the J11x series JFETs did and everyone making compatible ones just kinda had to do the same
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@Hayling@weirder.earth anyway we're heading back to work now but if you have any further questions we might be able to answer we'll get back to you tonight! and if we think of anything else
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@Hayling@weirder.earth you may need to also replace a capacitor or two--if you get one that's not working and need help please feel free to hit us up for help, we love this kind of stuff

if you're really stuck we'd be willing to take a look at it personally too but that would require shipping to us and back which, i think you aren't anywhere near us so that would be Hard
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@Hayling@weirder.earth oh and i will note by the way, there are absolutely junk turntables you can get from the 70s and 80s too, it's just that non-junk ones were being manufactured back then and they aren't now

look up reviews and stuff, check out forums for people into this kind of stuff

also expect to have to do a little minor repair on anything you buy; after forty-odd years rubber belts will have mostly turned to gunk that will need to be cleaned out and replaced with a new rubber belt, but replacing belts is usually easy

oh yeah and a lot of turntables of that era are meant to be used with an external amplifier--if you find a good one taht doesn't have a built-in amplifier (often called a "phono preamp", or it may just say "line-level outputs" or something) you'll need one of those too. i think you can get modern ones of those that are perfectly serviceable though
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@Hayling@weirder.earth Works fine for CDs (fun fact: there was a CD walkman from sony that was actually smaller than a CD, the disc stuck out the side while playing), but for a record where you have to put physical tracking force on the thing, yeah that's not great
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@Hayling@weirder.earth it occurs to me that there's probably a good deal of lost knowledge there, which is kind of sad
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@Hayling@weirder.earth It might be? Unless you go for one of the really well-regarded and/or rare models, but i don't think you need a really well-regarded and/or rare model, you just need one that works

and generally, a used Sony or Technics will work a lot better than a new Crosley or whatever--there was a whole thing a while ago where it turned out those suitcase-form-factor ones that crosley (and other sellers) put their name on actually do a *lot* of damage to the records

remember, in the 70s and 80s there were design engineers who actually knew how records worked and how to make machines that treat them right--in the 2020s there are just marketing executives who know that people want record players and engineers who have never seen a vinyl record in their lives
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@codl (though you'd think that a wikipedia article "name jr." would have a redirect from "name jr")
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@codl apparently mastodon's link parser doesn't like urls that end in punctuation, it's decided that the . at the end is actually not aprt of the link
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this is not a major problem because
- jfets are super resilient and can handle that
- the jfet in question is literally the cheapest one we could find on digikey and we have like twenty more of them
- TO-92 packages are such that there's no special mounting requirements so we can just flip it around

it's just frustrating that this project has been stalled for over a week because of this (and other projects taking up time)
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anyway this meant that we had the gate and source terminals swapped on a jfet which of course means everything was broken because trying to apply a negative gate bias as is normal for an n-channel jfet was instead just forward-biasing the gate
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every other TO-92 we've ever used has had pin 1 on the left pin, which is also the case for all TO-220, TO-247, TO-263, SOT-223, SIP, and bespoke packages with pins all in a row that we've ever used

why would you do it backwards
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