Not OP.

That sucks. Especially having to make poor people financial decisions, you often can’t afford to make changes that will save you money in the long run. Been there done that.

Still, there may be some things you can do to save electricity.

Cheapo line meter. I use one on my well pump. It shows usage over time. You can figure out what’s using the most juice. It does 200v as well as 110 and clamps on. Does have to be wired in to for it’s power supply and ground.

Also, Kill-a-Watt clones. $9.99. Shows you how much plug in things use.

Offhand things that might help:

• Hot water heater on a timer and turn down the thermostat. There wil be bitching.
• If you have an electric stove, inductance stoves are supposed to be the most efficent, but you probably can’t afford one. Electric kettles for boiling water probably beat using a stove to heat water.
• Use a kill-a-watt to figure out what is using juice when appliances/TV/PC/etc. is on standbym
• Check freezer temp, it may be colder than you have to have it, turn up the thermostat.
• Check anything with a motor that plugs in with the kill-a-watt, like box fans to see if they’re pulling too much juice, when the motor bearings get shitty, you’ll pull more over coming friction.
• Use that clamp meter to check things like whole house blower fans, bathroom fans.

Good luck.

I don’t give a fuck if it summarized the specs correctly. It’s been proven to be wrong often enough that trusting it to be correct when dealing with life and death issues is foolish.

I searched a basic spec to get a link to a manufacturer spec list. The bot offfered to vet my setup for safety. It seems you’re suggesting that it’s a good idea to listen to a chatbot for high voltage safety advice.

I’m not the one with the comprehension issue here.

I didn’t ask for high voltage safety tips from a chatbot. It offered them. If you don’t think that’s dangerous and wildly irresponsible, you’re being disingenuous at best and willfully ignorant at worst.

• 25 year machinist including maintenance

It’s not me that’s going to be killed. it’s people that don’t know enough to not trust a fucking chat bot. Do you really trust a bot to explain ground loops, isolation transformers, and floating test equipment? If so, I feel real bad for any kids you might be training.

Fuck ‘gemini’. I don’t trust a glorified chat bot with life and death advice. Don’t be simping for a chatbot ran by an objectively evil corpo.

I don’t care what the actual max voltage is. That search was a shortcut to find the manufacturer spec summary while looking at third party probes. Not ‘gemini’s’ summary or anything else. I don’t want electrical, romance, or life advice from a chatbot. I want links to relevant resources.

This just looks like you searched for a term where you knew the google ai will give some output so you can post here.

And there it is. What’s your agenda? Be honest.

Never ever did google point you to a specific page of a manual when searching for some value of said manual.

That’s a fucking lie! You’re lying.

I was drinking my coffee, having a lazy morning, researching the capabilities of my new-to-me scope while sitting in my study. Scope is in a different room and didn’t come witn a paper manual.

User manual, programming manual, and other technical docs are in the reference section of my self hosted library which is currently down, sd card or the board is on the fritz. (Calibre runs best with a desktop environment so it’s on it’s own little orangepi board running ubuntu or something in a gui that I remote into.)

Looking at third party probes and wanting a quick reference for the input specs. Wondering if I can get away with a 50ohm bnc cable to resistor for the external trigger or if I’m better off grabbing a cheap probe.

I’m not the one being dishonest and searching for something like this is perfectly reasonable and shouldn’t result in a personified bot trying to help me fuck with lethal voltages. That’s fucking crazy and defending that is a hell of a choice on your part.

Are you being deliberately obtuse, trying to ‘win’, or an llm fanboi?

The scope isn’t even sitting in front of me. I’m just casually investigating the tooling. Looking at cheapo generic probes, wanted the manufacturer spec sheet/sales page, not the full manual. Used to be, a search like that would return a link to the manufacturer’s page showing specs and documents on the product. Instead of going to rigol’s site, using their shitty search or selecting submenus. It’s not me that gets killed with a search like that, it’s someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing.

It’s a shortcut for pulling up the manual, 240ish pages long. I’m looking into probes, not currently fucking with 300 volts. Used to be, ask for max specs on a component and get a link to the manufacturer’s or sellers summary.

I do appreciate your shitty tone and assumption of my ignorance. While I try and stay under 480V grid power, I do occasionally have to mess with it in a professional capacity. I’m safe, but someone who doesn’t understand what they’re playing with gets a free ride on the lightning.

This is interesting. Can you give me a ballpark on your hardware cost for an 8 camera system? What does integration for NAS look like?

Thank you for the thorough response!

It’s unfortunate that the design compromises result in a tool with limited usability. I’m slightly interested in the desktop mills and lasers but haven’t done much research on them. Your comment about printing being slow actually perked my ears up as that suggests increased rigidity needed for milling. It sounds like if I ever do decide to get a tiny mill or laser, I’m better off with a purpose built machine.

As for software, G-code for a specific machine is all about the post at the professional level. Unfortunately, pro-grade CAM is around $20k a seat. A good post is often $4k or a lot of time painfully producing and testing it yourself. CAM/CAD is the only thing keeping me from Linux at work and on my primary home PC. I wasn’t impressed with the 1.0 release of FreeCAD. The UI still seems to be designed by aliens.

(Lemmy weirdness: I only received notification of your response last night.)

Could you please give your thoughts on its milling and laser capabilities? Do you own the 4th axis rotary?

My capacity for apocalyptic news has to be carefully metered to prevent burnout and stress. (It’s a balancing act.) Humanity seems to be hellbent on heading down a dark road with a bunch of ugly possible turns.

The potential to stifle FOSS is bad enough. What I find even more concerning is when the LLM gets good enough to reliably fool developers and can inject very complicated exploits from multiple sources.

I’m a programmer by trade, but it’s highly specialized. Otherwise, I’m just a power user/script kiddie. My crystal ball is pinging alarm bells about some of this. It’s hard for me to make an accurate assesment of the risk, I lack the knowledge. I expect unspecified bad things and am in a reactionary mode on this.

Woah. Not who you’re responding to. Had a read through GitHub and one of the reports.

Been seeing the rumblings about AI fuckery and open source but haven’t followed closely.

That’s some spooky shit.

It’s an old saying, longer version I know is:

“Saddest thing in the world is a cat scratching at the window because it used to be an inside cat.”

That’s unholy and should be cleansed with fire and chanting.

It would require Von Neumann machines to do it. Of, course, we could end up being turned into grey goo with that sort of tech.

But, yeah, simply invent self-replicating nanotech. Shoot it at the moon, Mars, Ceres. Viola, data centers in space. Use the same tech to clean up the enviroment and eliminate oil dependence. Might as well rebuld the coral reefs and old growth forests. Also cures cancer and the common cold. And is the fountain of youth. And we all live happily ever after in the computer.

I often code directly on the machine control, including single blocking a running program and adding a line while the program is paused.

Editor on older CNC machines usually doesn’t even do lowercase and often has limited alphabet keys. Think '80s green or amber screen.

A machinist’s coding workflow can be real fucky. I go from CAM which is like a highly complex visual programming IDE to notepad. If I’m being fancy I use notepad++ for syntax highlights and diff’ing.

I like both kinds of CNC!

I’ll be looking at all of this. Going to probably try LTSC first. Rufus also is sounding interesting. Thank you much for the write-up, it is greatly appreciated!

I’m going to be looking into LTSC first. Will also be giving the rest of your recommendations a look. Thank you much!

I’m not willing to spend the money it would cost to duplicate my rig right now. That also throws the same problem on a different machine.

I’m just going to have to neuter the installation I have after an upgrade. I need to figure out if there is anything I should do to it while it’s still on 10.

Due to CAD/CAM and the nature of my industry, I’m stuck with windows on my daily driver for the foreseeable future. (Been using Linux since Ubuntu was new, have multiple servers and old chromebooks running different flavors.)

I’ve been putting off dealing with this. Goatfucking bullshit pain in my dick.

Can I pretty please get recommendations on upgrading to 11 and unfucking it as much as possible?