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disastronaut··on Sonic Pi
The appimage also produces no sound :(
disastronaut··on Commodore Releases Flip Phone
> but does it bring anything new to the table?

No, but that's the point. It has all of the good parts of a smart phone, none of the bad ones. Do other dumb phones run Signal or Maps?

disastronaut··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
CAN is a protocol, but the messages on the bus are implementation specific. Yes, you can use it on any CAN bus, but there's no guarantee that you will be able to decode the traffic. Some modern CAN networks are encrypted, too, because it's trivial to view the traffic. https://kentindell.github.io/2021/01/02/can2-wireshark/ has a great guide on decoding traffic with sigrok.
disastronaut··on An Introduction to Meshtastic
For the oldest school feel - https://spectrum.ieee.org/run-a-meshtastic-bbs
disastronaut··on Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]
> The us did recently announce that is has technology that can manipulate space and time or something.

Do you have more on this?

disastronaut··on Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
The similarities are pretty strong as is. The method of images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_images is used in both electrodynamics and aerodynamics because you can model sources and sinks for E fields and fluid flows using the exact same equations. Personally, EM didn't really click until I saw the vector calculus of EM applied to fluids.
disastronaut··on Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?
Maytag commercial makes old-school washers + dryers with no PCBs. The control boards are through-hole components only and a schematic is included inside the panels. https://www.maytagcommerciallaundry.com/mclstorefront/mcl/en...

Samsung sells commercial monitors that are just TVs without all the smart crap. You can even opt out of a wifi card

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1828914-REG/samsung_q...

I'm not aware of any lists, and the market is thin, but they're out there.