“honkshoo mimimimi”

I heard this in my head perfectly, nicely done

No worries, glad I could help.

I understand the frustration, I’ve had people do the same thing to me, make assumptions about what I was doing, putting words in my mouth and impugning my motives.

Text is hard to convey proper emotion, and even harder when you’ve got a bunch of people only typing half of their thought 🤷‍♂️

As for the design change, I honestly don’t know. It’s not actually my area of expertise, I just know enough to know what not to do.

I do know that the highest risk is in the connections themselves. A pair of insulated wires are unlikely to ever be an issue on their own, but where you connect the wires to the wiring of the house is the real issue.

Connections can loosen over time, through temp cycling or whatever reasons. And when they loosen, resistance goes up, and heat is generated.

So if it were my project, I’d probably try to find a small round electrical box that fits inside the decorative one. Either metal or the proper plastic. And then make those connections inside that box, and call it good enough.

Maybe make sure the edges of the pipe are smooth where the wires enter them, too, so the insulation doesn’t get shaved off when you’re moving it around.

Otherwise I really do like the project! Looks great! I hope you come up with a solution you’re comfortable with 👍

Listen man, you do what you want. I’ve done some sketchy stuff myself.

Most people don’t care that it’s illegal, heck most people on here are pirates anyway.

People care about you, and they want you to understand the danger of what you’re doing.

Most of them aren’t judging you, I’m certainly not.

Will using PLA for a light enclosure definitely cause a fire? Probably not. The odds are very low. In fact the odds are very low that normal wiring in a normal enclosure will overheat. You’ll likely never see it.

The problem is the what if. The chance. IF the wiring shorts out, overheats, whatever. A normal enclosure might contain it completely. Or at worst it will resist catching on fire, and fill your house with smoke first, giving you time to realize what’s happening and save your life.

PLA will do neither of those things. It will in fact do the opposite. So in the admittedly rare chance that your wiring falls, and gets hot, PLA will actually readily ignite. And then, worse, it WILL drip flaming plastic onto the floor, causing it to spread immediately and without warning.

Your time to notice a fire and save yourself goes from minutes to seconds. It’s potentially the difference from waking up to a smoke alarm and a smokey house, to waking up to a smoke alarm and a wall of fire blocking your only exit.

I’m not trying to be extreme, it’s just the facts. That’s why people say codes are written in blood. The wrong plastics have been used before, and people have died, so now in many lands it’s a law.

No one is making you follow the law. They just want you to be informed, so that if you choose to continue, you do so without ignorance to the risks.

I wish you well.

Edit:

Now, if you changed the configuration of the lamp, if you put all the AC wiring and DC conversion circuits in a metal enclosure, and then ran low voltage wiring to low voltage bulbs, that would be still unwise, but significantly safer.

The concern is that AC circuits, while only using enough power to run a lamp in this scenario, have access to more than enough power to run a space heater. If your AC wiring becomes a space heater in your ceiling, nothing will stop it, and PLA will make it worse 🤷‍♂️

Bookmarked this, good ideas here.

Replying because this seems to be the most backpacker related comment in the post.

My recent backpacking discovery, was that if you coat eggs in a thin layer of oil, they’ll keep in the cupboard for weeks/months. I tested it myself, ate 3 month old eggs that were stored in my cupboard. I tested one every few weeks as they got older.

So now for backpacking, I oil a few eggs and bring them with me on 2 or 3 day trips. Makes for a nice breakfast with a tortilla cooked over the fire.

As mentioned here, I’ve also done just add water pancakes. Great for kids, and kids at heart.

Usually we do freeze dried meals, for the simplicity. But they’re so expensive, a 3 day trip costs $30-40 in dinner alone, double if your doing breakfast too.

I’ll still bring the occasional freeze dried meal, I do like them. But I discovered Idahoan makes a bag of instant mashed potatoes with added protein. The bag is almost water tight, so if you hold it with a sock you can pour you water straight into it and stir it up. No cleanup!

I add a can of turkey gravy, heavy, but a tasty addition. Toss it in the fire to burn off the leftover gravy remnants, then pack it out.

Honestly the whole meal is almost too filling. If I plan that, then I’ll eat a light lunch. But it’s only like $3 for the whole shebang!

And finally, I’ve been known to pack in frozen steak bits and fry them up in my titanium pan, for a first night dinner.

That’s true, that should just work. I guess I just hate the dongle life haha.

But that’s no fault of the deck or the controller. I’m just glad it has Bluetooth backup. Options are nice.

That’s fair

Bummer. But full features otherwise?

Depending on how much lag, I could deal with that

Does it pair directly to the steam deck? Without the puck?

Am I the only one who doesn’t really want one? I mean, I’d try it, sure, but like… eh?

And I do like some controller games, I have a handful of 8bitdo controllers.

Here here! I flashed my first wrt-54g with dd-wrt something like 20 years ago.

I got away from it for a bit, the siren song of Google Wi-Fi was too strong. And I didn’t know about openwrt.

But now I’m back and openwrt is my jam.

Impressive! Yeah micro soldering makes me sweaty and frustrated 😬

This is the way

I was gonna complain about my $4k bill for a heart checkup, but uh… you win.

Excellent read, highly recommend.

The sequel was a bit meh, but required reading I’d say

I’m not OP. But I think I share his sentiment.

You obviously know a lot about this stuff, I do not.

I’m excited for FEX, because even though some games can technically be played on arm right now, and even though you say it’s easy to convert (I have no idea), the fact is nobody is doing it 🤷‍♂️

I understand Valve did a lot of work to make gaming not only possible on Linux, but in some cases preferable.

From a layman’s non-software-developer perspective, regardless of how much actual effort is required by Valve… I hope that FEX will shift the industry as aggressively as proton did. I hope that gaming on arm becomes no big deal, easy to do with a click, and preferable in some cases. Whereas right now, it’s not that easy or performant, as I understand.

So I guess… I’m just excited, that’s all 🤷‍♂️

Delta-P

Same. And even further, I kept a spare with me for awhile. And I bought a giant tumor battery and modified back cover to make it slick. Worked great.

That was my Galaxy Note, the OG. I miss that phone. People would stop me to ask about it because it was so big.

This is basically me. Got my 13 least year. I won’t be upgrading until I’m forced to, most likely. When I do it’ll be those components first. Though I do covet the touchscreen, I don’t actually need it

That’s fair, and probably true in her case honestly.

Not op, but the world isn’t black and white. I definitely know people like they are describing. Perfectly healthy, mentally and physically, yet neet and unapologetic.

One guy actually recently got a job and a wife and an apartments, so good on him. Though he still struggles because his wife is neet, though she claims a dubious disability.

I also know some people as you describe, with different actual disabilities, and neet. It’s sad, but that’s life.

There’s a lot of people in the world, and they exist all over the spectrum.