JayDee

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I got this exact feeling when watching 'A Few Good Men'

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago

Ah that explains it the best. Now I feel like Argentina has more claim than the UK.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (5 children)

How many people actually live in the Falklands? Looks like there's mostly nothing on that island. Edit: Looked it up, it's about 3,600. So an incredibly small population. Census shows over 60% of that population is labelled 'immigrant', so non-indigenous.

I know Falklanders want to remain in UK control majority-wise. I also somewhat get why Argentina wouldn't want what is essentially a potential base of operations off their coast (though realistically they couldn't really do anything about it even if they did have sovereignty over it).

EDIT: as mentioned in another person's comment, Argentina also wants it for the fishing rights. The fishing rights area is fairly sizeable, but not, like, HUGE

At the same time, i can't really make sense of why the hell have the british fought to keep ahold of the Falklands. Maybe just because the british just love collecting shit that means nothing to them but have major significance to other nations' people? I don't really get it.

Edit: someone mentioned that the UK wants to keep the falklands in order to maintain claim to Antartica. Weird but okay. Have not looked into that one.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world -1 points 23 hours ago

I don't know about government/societal consensus being the standard by which we teach. I'd prefer expert consensus on subjects being taught more. As a US citizen, Governments and societies are often bigoted and delusional.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That lines up with it being right next to the MCU. I greatly appreciate the assistance! I'll get this into my notes in case it comes in handy.

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

Greatly appreciate the help! I will add that to my documentation list. I think i'll give dumping the ROM a shot if nothing else winds up working.

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

So I think the answer was found by a couple of the others, but I will still follow through with other photos.

Here's a (if only slightly) clearer image of the IC code

And here is a zoomed-out shot of the entire board. You can see the tiny IC in question to the left of the MCU with the '56/1.10' sticker on it.

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

We call this hyperbolic dark humor. It's meant to be irrational and to sound unhinged. That's where the humor lies.

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

I will grab a better photo when I get home in 12-ish hours.

The code is 4A081 8444QC as far as I can tell. I didn't get any matches for an 8-pin IC of that code unfortunately.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by JayDee@lemmy.world to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
 

I am working identifying a problem in a VFD for a friend's belt grinder, and I've ID'd the other ICs on but, but I wasn't able to ID this last 8-pin one. I know it's made by Microchip, but couldn't pull anything up from the codes on the front.

It's possible this is an encryption key chip with some obfuscated info on the front. However, I don't know how common that actually is.

Any help is appreciated.

UPDATE: Looks like this one's solved. I went back and double-checked the code, and it looks like y'all were correct on it being '4A08I' and not '4A081'. This chip is also the closest IC to the MCU which lines up perfectly with this being an EEPROM.

I appreciate everyone's input and help with this!

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Being repeatedly stabbed in the flesh to leave a permanent mark on yourself that signifies something important to you - that's metal at face value.

Plenty of people hold little-to-no value in their skin being 'clean', and so a symbol is more value for them than blank flesh.

It's also nowhere near as big of a detractor as it used to be. Nowhere near the same amount of discrimination over tatoos. Plus, they're usually pretty easy to cover.

Overall, who gives a fuck if someone posts a pic on their social media of a new ink? It's barely a footnote in folks' days, why would we care?

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

We actually had hit a peak on water consupmtion per houshold. I think it wouldn't be farfetched to see we would have hit an energy consumption peak had the internet not been invented, and that we would have hit a cap even then if LLMs and crypto hadn't become widespread. We just keep coming up with stupid reasons to burn electricity!

 

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