Jimbabwe

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Garbage take. Also, and I can’t believe I’m saying this unironically, but maybe.. think of the children?

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Shit, I’m too late! Unless.. yall are still honking? Ugh this is frustrating….

Won’t somebody please just tell me if I should be honking or not?!

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I don’t normally celebrate death, but I can make an exception here and there

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Ooh with Kennedy at the helm, I bet we “solve” health next! Excited to receive my cocaine Rx to cure the ghosts in my blood.

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is there an IRL loading screen community I can join?

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I almost kinda involuntarily cheated and almost got flunked out of college. Comp sci major, forced to do a partner programming assignment. Met up with the dude and banged out like 75% of the project in the first meeting. After that, he kept dodging and rescheduling and giving excuses yadda yadda why he couldn’t meet up. Finally, just before the deadline, he says he’ll finish and submit it. I reluctantly agree (mostly because I was over a barrel at this point). The dumbass submitted his buddy’s version from the previous semester and it got flagged as a 99% match. We both had to face an academic dishonesty committee and plea our cases. Thankfully he fessed up (and I showed chat transcripts and screen shots) and he got an F in the class and a suspension of some kind. I think the prof actually kinda took pity on me because I was supposed to get a zero on the assignment, but I was a pretty crappy student anyway and that would’ve tanked my whole grade, so I think she just averaged my grades or something and I got a C+ overall.

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sigh. Insert squidward meme where he(America) is looking through the grate at the rest of the world as they get new, cheap, efficient, advanced EV tech

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Embed a tracking pixel in it!

Haha, kidding of course. This is cool!

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Cool attitude, bro. I don’t believe what I want, but I do believe facts

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nowhere in the continental US can a person afford rent on minimum wage working a full time job

This is wrong. You’re talking about the fact that a single person living alone on average cannot afford average rents in any state, but rents can be found at below average prices, and more importantly, many 2-3 room options are affordable when 2-3 minimum wage workers live together and combine their incomes. Living alone is a luxury and frankly, a quite wasteful one. There are more than twice as many people than houses in the USA source so to have everyone living alone would require considerable ruinous environmental destruction and expansion. Maybe YOU should be hanged for suggesting it! (I’m kidding of course)

And it's the fault of landlords jacking up prices because they could get away with it.

Proof? Evidence? You’re going to need to be pretty damn convincing if you want me to join your rally to hang everyone involved.

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well, it’s all shit innit mate?

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well you seem reasonable

 

Hello, and thank you in advance.

I'm making a privacy friendly "ring" cam/doorbell following this guide: https://tristam.ie/2023/758/ which has been great, but requires running a micro-usb cable down to the doorbell for power. I'm hoping to improve on this by using the existing doorbell power instead.

The problem is that I'm a DIY electronics noob and I can't create a mental model for how it should all work. The picture I attached is my existing doorbell wiring scheme, which is as simple as it comes. I totally get how this works. Pressing the doorbell completes the circuit and makes the bingbongs. But this will have to change so the new door cam gets power full time. Ideally without the chime bingbonging full time.

In addition to the ESP-32CAM, button, ring lights, etc., I also bought these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079FJSYGY which I thought might be needed to complete the circuit?

I measured the voltage after the transformer and it was around 18 volts, but maybe this is AC and I want DC?

Generally I don't know where in "the loop" to put things. Also, all the existing components are very far apart from each other, so I would love a solution that doesn't involve running any new wires through the walls.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!!

xoJimbabwe

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