plus a phosphorus layer on top that smooths those two perfect lightwave color peaks in the wavelength domain into a broader light spectrum

The phosphor absorbs some of the blue and downconverts it to green and red. Some of the blue is let through for us to see. The mixture of R, G and B looks like white to us (but not necessarily to other animals with different cones in their eyes).

2 kinds of light emiting diode (LED) junctions inside - red and blue

I’ve never seen a red LED die inside a white LED. I’ve only ever seen blue dies on their own.

Technically UV-pumped white LEDs exist, but they’re rare and I’ve never seen one. They’re less efficient and require a third phosphor (to make the blue).

You can remove the yellowish looking phosphors on the LED with a small pick to reveal the blue die underneath. Fun fact: some high-power “red” LEDs are actually blue leds + phosphors, not that it’s a particularly good choice but it’s a thing: https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/018_led_cob_cutting/

Site seems offline now, says “Closed Jan 30th”

Something to be wary of when interpreting the datasheet:

• Act10 = LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received at 10Mbps.
• Act100 = …
• Act1000 = …

Bad wording on their part. What they really mean is: “LED blinking when Ethernet packets transmitted/received AND the link is currently in a XYZMbps link speed mode”. The mode is negotiated once after you plug a cable in and usually does not change after that, regardless of how much data you try to send.

Technically each linkspeed/mode is a whole ethernet standard of its own, but we mostly gloss over that and pretend to end users that they’re backwards compatible.

Similar here.

Family is mostly OK on it. We used to have issues with iOS devices not noticing some new messages & calls, but that seems to have stopped a few months ago. Family is usually impatient about me getting to my phone and rings me using 3 different services in a row, one of them Snikket xD

Have not yet managed to get any friends onto it.

My boss told me this is due to the skills shortage.

The paper type? Has it all compressed or gone mouldy?

Thing is, its EOL, per Asus. Does this mean that it won’t be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

OpenWRT tends to support devices longer and better than the OEM, but it depends on the popularity of the chipset inside the router.

Many different routers by different companies are almost identical internally, because they use the same chipset. Eg the RT-AC3100 seems to be a bcm53xx variant, of which OpenWRT supports a few dozen products. Support will probably only be dropped when every single one of those devices goes EOL and several years pass (ie no people left contributing/maintaining it and the builds break somehow).

Router chipsets can be very long lived. Many new devices use decade old chipset designs. Some chipset families have almost identical chips released every few years with slightly different peripherals, clocks & pinouts; but are supported by the same kernel drivers.

(This is all much better than the world of mobile phone hardware support. Maybe it’s because of different market pressures? Not to mention you don’t have a monopoly that benefits from keeping the hardware fractured. Imagine if people could make a competitor to Android that works across most devices)

Size is the interesting bit for me.

• Honda Super-ONE is a kei car
• BYD atto (the “$24K” one) is bigger, but not by too much.

I wish the backrooms were real. The monsters are no match for realestate agents, so it’d be pretty safe to rent.

As far as I understand, wireguard is designed so that it can’t be portscanned. Replies are never sent to packets unless they pass full auth.

This is both a blessing and a curse. It unfortunately means that if you misconfigure a key then your packets get silently ignored by the other party, no error messages or the likes, it’s as if the other party doesn’t exist.

EDIT: Yep, as per https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/

In fact, the server does not even respond at all to an unauthorized client; it is silent and invisible.

I’ve had some other friends mention only a tiny increase. Surprising.

Forgot about that. Stainless steel fridges get left with a shadow if you leave them on too long xD

Orange Supermarket in Sydney’s south

The one at Wolli Creek, or is that not south enough?

At Wolli you’ve got:

• ALDI (cheaper, but half the time out of stock, limited selection)
• Woolworths (expensive for most items)
• Orange Supermarket (expensive for most items)

Someone cut off the trolley keys in the Woolies carpark recently :D

Wolli apartments probably have a big variety of people in different socio-economic conditions, but I feel that woolworths & orange are priced to suit the higher end of the market. In particular woolies seems to stock lots of Wagyu beef.

I wonder if more is lifted at Orange & Woolworths than Aldi. I’d feel more comfortable stealing from places with higher prices.

Well what if I have to sell it?

Energy rating stickers appreciate after an appliance is bought, because the energy star standards get stricter over time but your sticker does not go down.

Non-amp link: https://www.9news.com.au/national/social-media-ban-full-list-of-sites-apps-exemptions-australia/fc75d5a7-2cc7-43a6-b7ee-074a47829ae5

(Yes deleting the UUID breaks the URL. Which means everything in the URL except that is probably useless)

don’t worry about it

reaches for flamethrower and glyphosate

I have too many questions about how the teleportation works, like what happens if you instantly (or over a small time t) transition from one location’s air pressure to another?

Had no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it’s a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.

I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!

Cycads? Disgusting.

As a Magnolia man I’m feeling left out.

EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. “Tell them I’m on the warpath and I’m coming after you”

The line was closed to passenger rail traffic in the early 1980s, following a downturn in passengers and munitions traffic

No more bullet trains ;(