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 No.2615[Reply]

Does anyone here know about circuitry? I'm trying to repair this alarm clock, batteries corroded and damaged some of the wires. The black wire that broke off I'm confident went to the corroded negative battery terminal.
There was another white wire (not pictured) that corroded on both sides and fell off. It was definitely connected to the bottom pin of the clock mechanism on one side, but I'm not sure where the other side goes.
Possibility #1: alarm on/off switch (rectangle with 3 connections). This seems like the obvious option based on the wire color. However, there's no visible corrosion on the open connection which is weird considering that the wire itself was severely corroded. I'm also not sure why the clock mechanism would need 2 connections to the alarm on/off switch.
Possibility #2: the corroded negative battery terminal. This terminal was badly corroded so it would explain the wire corrosion. However, the color scheme doesn't match up; every other battery terminal connection uses the standard red/black color scheme.
Possibility #3: The corroded positive battery terminal. Probably the least likely as this terminal was less severely corroded, but not totally throwing it out.
Possibility #4: Into the controller circuit board. This would be consistent with the button wiring (orange and blue). I'm kinda surprised the wire wasn't hotglued in like everything else in the circuit board if that was the case though.

Any ideas?

 No.2616

The photos are not particularly great but if you only have a single wire connected to the on/off switch and you have one wire left, that's almost certainly it. For alkaline corrosion, strong vinegar followed with a brush, and a silicon contact cleaner should do the trick. If the battery contact is totally gone / doesn't work, you might have to either replace it (likely salvaging it from a different broken battery-powered object) or manufacture new ones from a non-braided wire soldered to a small plate cutout.

These switches operate on the basis of sending a voltage on one wire and receiving it on the other (or not, duh). So one wire should be somewhere where you can measure some constant voltage (I think it's pretty safe to plug it in as is and measure the voltage with a cheap multimeter, you should have one regardless) and another should go to the alarm switch in the clockwork mechanism. It's even possible that the clockwork mechanism energizes that pin and the blue wire on the switch is the "start the alarm" signal for the logic board.

 No.2617

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>>2616
Thanks, I was using baking soda thinking it was acidic residue but they are ALKALINE batteries after all, aren't they?
Here's a diagram of the wiring.
There are currently 2 wires connected to the on/off switch, one in the middle and one on the "on" side. The "off" side has nothing connected.

 No.2618

Yeah it's unlikely it's the 3rd switch wire (you use 3 wires on the switch when changing voltages, for example when changing between 120 V and 240 V on an appliance).

Does the clock work without the wire? At this point you shouldn't be able to blow something up. What's the wire's color? Red is almost always +V, black is almost always -V (negative terminal).

I would assume that button to be a snooze / stop button instead, are you sure it's wired right?

 No.2619

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>>2618
>>2616
>Does the clock work without the wire?
Yeah, that's part of why it took so long to notice that the alarm was broke because the clock itself still runs without issue.
>What's the wire's color?
White unfortunately.
>I would assume that button to be a snooze / stop button instead, are you sure it's wired right?
It's a meme "tsundere" alarm clock so the button is there if you want to play the sound clips without setting the alarm. I have confirmed the button and speaker still work after replacing the red and black wires on the circuit board and taping the wires to batteries.
>These switches operate on the basis of sending a voltage on one wire and receiving it on the other (or not, duh). So one wire should be somewhere where you can measure some constant voltage (I think it's pretty safe to plug it in as is and measure the voltage with a cheap multimeter, you should have one regardless) and another should go to the alarm switch in the clockwork mechanism. It's even possible that the clockwork mechanism energizes that pin and the blue wire on the switch is the "start the alarm" signal for the logic board.
Good idea, I think this has solved the mystery. While I had the batteries hooked up I measured the voltage between the batteries and the 5th pin on the clock mechanism (connects to the on/off switch). Essentially no voltage between the positive end, but it reads around 2.5V between the negative end, and only when the switch is on. So I'd assume the negative end of the battery should be wired to the 6th pin of the clock mechanism, and the clock mechanism acts as a switch that connects the 5th and 6th pins when the alarm triggers.

I'm going to order some new battery contacts since they're cheap and I have to resolder the new wires to the contacts anyways. After that I'll test the alarm to make sure it actually works before reassembling everything.

Thanks again for your help, I don't do much electrical work and don't think of these things.


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 No.2612[Reply]

i’ve been thinking about why old websites are so fun even when they’re objectively worse at almost everything.

maybe part of it is that modern websites try to make the medium disappear, while old websites constantly remind you that you’re using a website. buttons look like buttons, links look like links, and pages feel like places you can explore or mess around with.

i get a similar feeling from terminal apps, limited game consoles, old cameras, and sometimes very simple games. the limitations somehow make the thing itself more noticeable and playful.

do you have any websites, software, or devices that feel like this? what is it about them that you enjoy?

 No.2613

All good tech are just oversized toys

 No.2614

when i can find a spot on the web page that i can rest my finger on that doesn't do anything at all <3


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 No.2599[Reply]

Will it shine like a GabeStar on our roads or will it purely become a reflection of our current reality and flop miserably? Or will Valve instead get sued to hell for enabling unregulated gambling and unfair merchant practices?

https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine
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 No.2602

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It seems interesting but pricey and I prefer steam deck for its portability even if its not as high spec

 No.2603

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>>2601
specifically for online functionalities. xbox live, playstation online, nintendo online… it's been a thing since the xbox launched. if you want to play online you have to buy one. i always found it ridiculous.

 No.2605

>>2603
oh right, I forgot about the online stuff

 No.2607

>>2601
Yeah, for like the past two decades. I remember back in the day PS3 users made fun of 360 users for needing to pay to use their own internet.

It's total bullshit and the main reason I'm a computer user. The service economy is a racket.

 No.2609

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>>2607
Service economy is coming to computers as well, I expect Windows/Mac to move to an annual subscription model for a bloated "AI-enhanced" OS in the next decade.


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 No.2534[Reply]

Does anyone here actually believe improvements in artificial intelligence will lead to a runaway process ending in artificial super-intelligence (aka the singularity), and if so, can you explain why the feedback effect of an AI improving itself has to be runaway rather than simply lead to diminishing returns? Is it about AI's speed advantage and innate breadth of knowledge?

You could, I suppose, argue that if smart humans can do something, then a smart AGI could do it too, and faster. Therefore if smart humans could eventually create super-intelligence, and smart AGI is successfully created, the rest of the staircase gets climbed much quicker in something resembling a runaway process. But I think people who argue this assume artificial super-intelligence is possible in the first place. What if it's simply not possible, or at least not possible with techniques derived from current advances? How can people be so sure there isn't a hard wall not so far away?

Despite being intelligent, and despite arguably harboring low-level super-intelligence among us in the form of the rare genius, we haven't been able to improve our own brains at all… at best we have some blunt hammers in the form of psychiatric drugs, and we don't even know how some of them work.
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 No.2539

>>2538
What about distributing itself over a botnet? No one computer has to host it all.

Maybe I lack imagination but I don't think AI escape is going to be much of an issue in practice, even if we reach some level of AGI. We already have malware and the reason it doesn't overtake everything is because there are people working on both sides with the same tools. The same model that escapes and scans for vulnerabilities is going to be used in the very same way to plug the holes.

 No.2541

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>>2539
>AI escape isn't an issue

Until 5 computers in the botnet holding key resources are unreachable for whatever reason. Botnets are specifically used for DDOS and other less sophisticated attacks because even if some are turned off, the mass of them is still dangerous. An AI is not an automated script, it needs all it's resources to act together, not to mention the Vram and high storage needs. whereas a botnet is designed to open a webpage and hold resources, which is possible on most computers. Very different design capabilities. Have you looked at the full size on open LLMs? They're gigantic. A real AGI would be probably a lot larger.

Also WAN transfer speeds are not fast. You better hope this proto-indo skynet doesn't get turned off before transfers happen lol

 No.2578

>actually believe improvements in artificial intelligence will lead to a runaway process
I don't.

You can't quantify intelligence in terms that allow for "runaway superintelligence" because information processing would then be a form of work that requires power. You could theoretically make the energy conversion more efficient but this can still only lead to diminishing returns as you reach maximal efficiency.

 No.2579

>>2539
The bigger the concept of the system gets the less concepts like "access" make sense. Once your system-concept becomes too permissive you've essentially just wrapped around to claiming society (or some aspect of it, like technocapital) is already a superintelligence and that theory has been dated nonsense since the dot com crash.

Singularitarianism in all its forms is a postmodern ideology for a world that has already moved on. The regressiveness of the tech industry is the perfect example. These ideas originate in science fiction that was only ever meant as a speculative illustration of simpler theo-philosophical concepts, like simulation theory being equivalent to descartes' hypothetical demon that can completely manipulate reality to deceive you. This isn't even a modern idea at all.

 No.2608

>>2534
tl;dr no because Large Language Models (LLMs - Please use this term in the future) have already improved as much as they can through using all human-produced data that has ever been made publicly available on the internet and using synthetic data has an effect similar to photocopying a photocopy.

Ask this question again in 100 years or so when science finally figures out synthetic consciousness and/or philosophy has figured out The Hard Problem.


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 No.817[Reply]

What is the most treasured file on your computer?
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 No.2581

The girl reading this

 No.2582

>>2561
what band was it?

 No.2584

>>2582
Linkin Park

 No.2604

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on this VM, probably this one :)

 No.2606

Probably my Xenogears save file, it would take forever to get back to the point I'm at.


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 No.2433[Reply]

I had ideas of jumping ship from Windows to Linux Mint Debian Edition due to being annoyed with Microsoft's decisions lately. The problem is that I want to make games using RPG Maker XP, and even though I tried searching through the web (that's a lie I'm just lazy…), I was not satisfied. So, do you think that it's possible to use RPG Maker using Linux or is it not possible? Thanks!
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 No.2440

>>2438
Oh, thanks! Though I wanted RPG Maker XP, that's good enough, since beggars aren't choosers, LOL!!!

But… the EasyRPG Editor is not released yet…

 No.2441

And it seems there "is" a way, based on this link: https://gdu.one/forums/topic/4804-tutorialrpgmaker-xp-and-vx-for-linux-users/

 No.2442

>>2433
Does it work in a VM? why not test it in virtualbox and then you should be able to run it virtualized on LM

 No.2594

>>2433
if everything else fails try using winboat, its virtualization sure, but it integrates nicely and it just works, would reccomend trying using wine or bottles first tho

 No.2596

works fine in steam using proton for me, presumably works with a cracked version too


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 No.2553[Reply]

The old programming thread is about 9 years old, and hasn't been updated in months. I know /silicon/ is a slow board, but I'd like to make a second programming thread to talk about what newer projects sushis are doing/finding interest in.
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 No.2571

>>2570
Thanks, will do! I'm definitely very excited about it. Part of inspired me to do this actually is that I got an internship this summer working on a research project relating to TSN (specifically 802.1Qbv), and I guess I kind of got the bug. I just graduated and got an unrelated swe job, but I always liked networking and I'm trying to build up a portfolio to hopefully switch to something relating to it. Hope is that I get into some networking software engineer position (I have my eyes on a specific company).

Do you mind if I ask what you do specifically in networking?

 No.2590

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Does this board have code tags?
Hello world

I have some very cute code to share and I want to test code tags.

 No.2591

>>2567
>>2568
I could not for a moment do what any of you guys do but it's really comfy to hear about it, particularly approaching tetris the way an old arcade board would have done it's really something

>>2555
Oh, I have the Pocket C.H.I.P sat in an old envelope somewhere. By itself not with the breakout game PCB or anything. Is there anything I should be trying to do with it? It has a MIPS chip but it's probably weaker than a Pentium 233

 No.2592

>>2591
idk sorry >_<

 No.2593

>>2571
net tech


 No.2585[Reply]

The "AI" is here forever, you will give "AI" your job, you shall love the "AI", fall in love with the "AI", trust the "AI" with your inner demons. You have heard all that already for years now. But what about…

Becoming the "AI"? Using https://youraislopbores.me/ is pretty fun before it dies out in a few days / weeks.

In support of the new "AI" rule (see >>>/lounge/23349), every prompt in this thread will be replied to by a specialized ethically sourced AI agent [YOU]. Talking about this web toy in particular is okay too.

 No.2586

I like to do art on this site :) Fun for a little while and good practice, although my tablet has issues with doing anything with a browser.

 No.2589

>>2588
what the fuck


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 No.2564[Reply]

discord is doing the endless CAPTCHA loop

 No.2565

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seeing as discord is a newer program which previously mysteriously replaced both skype and teamspeak for those separate functionalities, it could be silent weaponization (which is commonly called a shadow ban)

the internet today revolves around *control model* perhaps, rather than left v.s. right or big v small or have v have nots….. these control models which are often hostile to the citizens of Earth are 'Behavior Shaping Platforms' (evil, and not the fun kind) and they exist for the sake of secretly shaping your behavior or controlling status quo or social engineering or propagadizing and that sort of thing….
- inputs
- risks
- metrics
- behavioral targets

the other 'control model' you might call 'communication-preserving platforms' (participants, peers, autonomous agents…)

"everything else is marketing"

anyways, this is weaponization, very rude and evil of them and truthfully if you are doing anything productive, don't do it online… you can't win at the internet any more because they murdered innovation and all that…the old spirit of it is dead or dying because they will feel their cold ugly dead hands into even small spaces like this image board so please be careful sushi rolls


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 No.26[Reply]

Has anyone seen/used the Pyra yet?

It looks comfy but it is pricy.
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 No.101

Why not hack together your own for much much less?

 No.1248

>>27
Pocket chip died :(
You can't officially buy it anymore

 No.2010

>>1248
yeah but you can still unofficially buy it

 No.2509

>>26
takes me back but no but I use a GPD MicroPC now. I love it.

 No.2563

>>26
mini PCs changed so much since this thread was made


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