the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

somewhat annoyingly, our usb headset has an incredibly loud volume level... when doing teleconference meetings with it we need to set it to 4% or else it's way too loud

that means we have very little granularity in adjusting the volume

it'd be kinda nice if there was a fine adjust knob or something but no, the volume controls on the headset itself just send volume up and volume down commands to the OS
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I wonder why they never combined AM and FM for radio transmission... You'd think you could put them both on a single signal and have two non-interfering audio channels, but maybe they would interfere if you used a slope detector.... hm.
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ooof

joined a discord server because i was feeling adventurous, did an introduction post, and then three of the server admins did the emoji reaction thing to our introduction with pepe emoji

left that pretty quickly
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oh hey @codl is a serperior now

cute
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though zone plates are even neater
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Fresnel lenses are neat
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...okay what the fuck is going on here

i looked at the comments on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-SO2X6J83k for some reason and there's... ???????
there is a ton of who the fuck knows what going on here

people keep laughing their asses off and i just want to know, don't you need that to sit
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@metro@snouts.online i just noticed you were posting stuff and wanted to say hi.
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hi @metro@snouts.online!
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wait wait

the person who named the helicopter being launched to mars is from northport

that's like a fifteen minute drive from where we live

what a weird coincidence
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what on earth does this weird stock image have to do with this caption (cw: eye contact behind sunglasses)
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consider: ​
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they should make a movie where like twenty major characters are all played by the same actor, green-screened into their own previous performances
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what is it with Sony and center-negative barrel jacks
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i want to do more stuff with aditi

multibody aside, being bigender is a neat concept to play with and i really do want to explore that area of genderspace more
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looking it up all we can find is that the actual official standard (which most records deviated from because it was standardized after they were already in production) was 78.26 rpm for the simple reason that that was the speed a common 3600 rpm motor (the speed of a synchronous motor on 60 Hz AC) would give you with a cheap and common 46:1 gearing

but they could have gotten an even 80 if they'd just used a 45:1 gearing so why didn't they
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why were 78 rpm records recorded at 78 rpm anyway, why not a round number like 80 or something?
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