Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-29:/2419425] "EA will be a very different company under private ownership"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-29:/2419371] "F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-29:/2419197] "To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-27:/2418901] "Update Notice of Centauri Series – ELEGOO Official"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-23:/2417784] "Benjamin Button reviews macOS"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-18:/2416403] "Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-16:/2415778] "Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-16:/2415529] "Linux phones are more important now than ever"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-12:/2414684] "Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-12:/2414711] "Chat Control faces blocking minority in the EU"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-11:/2414559] "Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-09:/2413600] "Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-08:/2413456] "All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-07:/2413218] "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-04:/2412559] "Nvidia Dominates GPU Shipments With 94% Share"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-03:/2412311] "The worst possible antitrust outcome"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-03:/2412267] "Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-02:/2412032] "Judge: Google can keep Chrome, must share search data with “qualified competitors”"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-02:/2411957] "This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-02:/2411847] "Imgur's community was in revolt"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-01:/2411633] "Intel Patents 'Software Defined Supercore'"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410252] "Doge uploaded live copy of Social Security database to 'vulnerable' cloud server"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410211] "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410193] "Troubled USB Device? This Tool Can Help"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410135] "The size of Adobe Reader installers through the years"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-25:/2409944] "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-24:/2409578] "Picking an Old Operating System"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-22:/2409290] "US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-22:/2409328] "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-21:/2408908] "James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-20:/2408610] "FDA warns public to throw out potentially radioactive shrimp"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-15:/2407469] "HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-15:/2407392] "Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead – you just don’t know it yet"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-15:/2407386] "What kids told us about how to get them off their phones"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-14:/2407170] ""Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-12:/2406472] "Firefox’ new “AI” features cause  CPU spikes and battery drain"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-11:/2406239] "Reddit will block the Internet Archive"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-11:/2406191] "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-11:/2406033] "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-13:/2406677] "QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-08:/2405403] "New executive order puts all grants under political control"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-07:/2405388] "Cursed Knowledge"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-05:/2404654] "Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-05:/2404534] "Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-06:/2404914] "The Real Origin of Cisco Systems (1999)"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-01:/2403752] "Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-01:/2403745] "Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-31:/2403404] "Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-29:/2402644] "RP2350 A4, RP2354, and a New Hacking Challenge"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-28:/2402376] "Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progressl"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-24:/2401424] "Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-22:/2400766] "A Professor’s Search for the MingKwai, a Lost Chinese Typewriter"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-21:/2400386] "Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-21:/2400437] "NIH limits scientists to six applications per year"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-21:/2400421] "An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-22:/2400779] "MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-18:/2399996] "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with a VIC-20, an Abacus, and a Dog"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-15:/2399026] "Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-08:/2397262] "GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-07-04:/2396489] "Nvidia won, we all lost"
Comments for PAPPP's Rambling https://pappp.net Hacking, Geekery, and life in Academia. Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:02:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Comment on Dell Latitude 5340 2-in-1 (and some Linux notes) by Ab https://pappp.net/?p=97078#comment-1147997 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:02:07 +0000 https://pappp.net/?p=97078#comment-1147997 Idk if this is an issue with your particular dell, but I had to turn off RAID in the bios to get good standby battery life.

]]> Comment on White Family Rotary by pappp https://pappp.net/?p=632#comment-1143421 Sun, 20 Jul 2025 22:29:33 +0000 http://pappp.net/?p=632#comment-1143421 In reply to Stitch.

The serial number records for White are, as ever, not as organized or available as some of the other manufacturers, and they made the basic FR mechanism for well over half a century, so pinning down specific details of machines based on serial number is “tricky” at best. The records in public parts of the internet seem, if anything, to be worse now than they were 10-15 years ago as information has sunken into dead yahoo groups and closed Facebook groups and such. I don’t even know if SVP (The current owner of the White, Singer, Pfaff and several other old brands) is still responding to requests for information on serials, I haven’t heard of anyone trying it recently.

AFIK all factory electric FRs (and badged FRs like the various Kenmore paint jobs they were sold under) are friction-drive via a rubber tire that interacts with the outside rim of the handwheel. The motor, controller, and terminal block design vary widely among examples I’ve seen; they came in knee and pedal control, the motors were made by a variety of manufactures (GE, Westinghouse, Safety), I’ve seen examples that basically have a power strip with two-prong plugs and others with blocks that integrate lamp/motor/controller connections, etc.

Your best bet if you are missing parts (but the sprung bracket that holds the motor itself is still present) is likely to get one of those pseudo-standard sewing machine motor kits that include the motor, control, and wire harness that are readily available online, and a suitable drive tire (a couple places sell one that is likely to work as #5767), and try to adapt it onto the existing bracket – I think the majority of motors use one or a small handful of screw hole patterns to attach. It’s certainly the safest bet if you aren’t used to working on electrical stuff. Or to try to track down a parts machine, or someone with machines they are parting out.

Do watch for direction when changing motors/wiring, I think the tire interface will make it work out with a standard counter-clockwise sewing machine motor setup, but remember that (opposite of Singers and most modern machines) vintage Whites run forward when the hand wheel is turned clockwise (away from you when you are sitting at the machine).

]]> Comment on White Family Rotary by Stitch https://pappp.net/?p=632#comment-1142291 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:19:36 +0000 http://pappp.net/?p=632#comment-1142291 In reply to Katie Farmer.

Hi, I hope you can help me out. My White FR serial number is FR 3025705, could you tell me it’s year of production? Also, I don’t have any of the cords/pedal. I don’t even know what it looks like so trying to find a replacement is difficult. Do you know of a source or have a picture?

Thanks!

]]> Comment on Married! by AC https://pappp.net/?p=94925#comment-1133872 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:35:07 +0000 https://pappp.net/?p=94925#comment-1133872 Congratulations 🙂

]]> Comment on Bambu H2D – a New Personal Manufacturing Machine by 3D Pooper https://pappp.net/?p=82483#comment-1133164 Wed, 28 May 2025 20:30:02 +0000 http://pappp.net/?guid=2acb9d513485a362f603858c6f255657#comment-1133164 Here’s a rambl for you.. I bought the H2D specifically to print with support and not have it take 3x longer. I skipped the laser entirely because having maitained a few in my time, I think it’s pretty dumb to deposit fine ash all over the inside of a 3D printer.

My point in responding here however is that I don’t think it’s a reasonable compromise to have the AMS only able to supply one print head, considering that they don’t tell you this. The concept that I actually need two AMS units in order to switch and dry filament is annoying but I probably would have gotten an extra had I known at the time. Now I need to wait for another and figure out how to mount a second one, which means some printing project, because they don’t really care about machine install. I assumeThis is further evidenced the fact that they provided me with 4 PTFE tubes that are way too short for the AMS, one medium one that is still too short unless you place the AMS all the way back and to the left (leaving no service length) and then a comically long one, I presume for the mystery platform. Having one head with dried material and the other with a reel hanging out in the open air makes no sense. I assume with how this thing shakes stacking twoS on top of the machine is no bueno but maybe I’m wrong.

Anyway I am thoroughly annoyed in unboxing. I think the lesson here is you get what you pay for, which makes me glad I didn’t opt for a glued-on laser. Let’s hope the damn thing works as my first x1c did not and I can tell you their customer service for return issues is not great.

]]> Comment on USB-C Trigger Boards by Jack https://pappp.net/?p=73103#comment-1127355 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:48:46 +0000 https://pappp.net/?p=73103#comment-1127355 nice information

]]> Comment on Floppinux Fixed for i486 and Up by pappp https://pappp.net/?p=45560#comment-1122377 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:25:19 +0000 https://pappp.net/?p=45560#comment-1122377 In reply to niht.

Oh, yup, WordPress did something stupid with the semi-internal link.
Fixed.

]]> Comment on Floppinux Fixed for i486 and Up by niht https://pappp.net/?p=45560#comment-1122332 Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:29:10 +0000 https://pappp.net/?p=45560#comment-1122332 Wrong URL in “I’ve posted a copy of my generated i486-clean image”.
Right one is https://pappp.net/misc/floppinux_i486.img

]]> Comment on Apple 12″ Macintosh RGB Monitor Recap by Mark Jones https://pappp.net/?p=26231#comment-1112215 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:47:28 +0000 https://pappp.net/?p=26231#comment-1112215 perfect thanks, my 12″ mac monitor has the same problem, i’m going shopping for the c418 now.

]]> Comment on Finally wrapping up my PhD! by Matt S https://pappp.net/?p=61361#comment-1074298 Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:43:39 +0000 https://pappp.net/?p=61361#comment-1074298 Good luck!

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