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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
Electrical / embedded engineer and RPG nerd.

My hobby is getting into new hobbies and then getting bored of them after a couple of weeks.
Location Roermond
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
So apparently you cannot change the country of your PayPal account, you have to delete and remake it. Fine. Now I cannot delete my account because it's been 'limited' and I have to verify my identity and address? Fine. But now that failed because my official proof of address card from Hungary that is valid until 2026 was not made in the last 12 months.

what
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Finally got myself to ditch my ISP box and configured everything for OpenWRT and it went... fine? I'm very much not used to my networking setups just immediately working.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
I had a technical interview today (it went fine), but now they want to organize an even more technical interview next week. I am now afraid of spending the rest of my life going on increasingly technical interviews.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Hopefully everything should be back online now. Moving everything over to the new ISP has been... an experience™
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
My gpu just self destructed
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
@chrisg
Faber said subscription software updates would mean that people wouldn't need to worry about their mouse.
Having to pay a subscription for it would be the only thing that could make me 'worry about my mouse'.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Running it with XWayland works fine but it's kinda annoying...
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Nvidia driver 555 finally works absolutely flawlessly on Wayland with the only exception of Firefox crashing constantly ._.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Why tf did I just get a popup notification on iOS about wanting to access my fitness data???
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
@malcircuit I just got invited to a technical screening before the first interview even. All completely automated of course, so if I get a low score I won't even be able to talk to a human working at the company.

In contrast, the interview for my previous job was just one round of talking with the PO, the technical part mostly him asking a couple of questions and discussing why my answers were right or wrong and what my thought process was.

With all the AI hype going around, I'm kinda afraid it's all gonna become automated quizes that will never get evaluated by a person at all.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Well good thing I did all of that the day before the whole airline went down because of the BSOD thing lol
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Like every single time I have to do it, there are new pages of things they want to sell, new popups I have to decline and a new version of some dark pattern I have to figure out how to avoid.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
I just love going through the increasingly difficult to navigate series of steps required to buy a plane ticket without any additional 'services'.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Dear whoever designed the camera at ,

Why would you store the number of remaining films in the camera in RAM?
How am I meant to find out how many are left when the battery inevitably runs out and the counter gets reset?

I cannot believe that the microcontroller you're using doesn't have a single byte of in-system programmable non-volatile memory.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
So as it turned out, I had to give back my work laptop, phone and backpack but not my keyboard, mouse and headset.

I will now have to commute through the whole city with hands full of miscellaneous IT stuff.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
My coworkers made me a desk toy thing with an actual hardware sample of the product I was working on. Now I will have to find out if I can flash some software on it without access to any of our tooling or a debugger...
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
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@mcc The 'Got it' button is the same as the 'Maybe later' buttons that are getting very popular, both signalling that you don't really have a choice, but should just accept what Big Company has already deemed best for you.
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
After a couple of days of troubleshooting, it turned out that my router decided to turn on DoS protection for whatever reason, which was blocking the LetsEncrypt ACME challenge requests, preventing my certs from renewing...
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
Only two weeks left at my current job, time to get ready for technical interview hell
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Dave @dave@iceshrimp.aperture-science.engineering
1y
@katnjiapus Yeah... It cost more than my actual piano 🙃 Still can't say I regret getting it tho