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synackrston Rabbit R1 reverse engineered to run on Android

Readable Twitter thread - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1786717001265590576.html

It's an old DeWalt from 2013 (!) - DCD995. I'd expect most of the high end brushless drills from the major tool manufactures to have this feature now, though. Check the manual for something like "electronic clutch" if you're looking at a model and not sure.

synackrston The user is on their own

To make things more complicated, I have a brushless drill where the clutch dial does actually adjust the torque of the motor -- torque limiting is done entirely in software, and the ring electrically sets the limit. Once you hit the torque limit, the drill gives a small amount of "force feedback" and cuts power to the motor until the trigger is pulled again.

As a nice additional feature, the drill slow starts and limits the top speed in lower torque settings.

I end up using the drill for small screws (generally on electronics) a lot more than one normally would, as the soft torque limit works fast enough to not strip screws or heads.

synackrston South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6B in Bitcoin Exit Scam

There are a few things you can try -- hopefully one of these helps. It's definitely less intuitive than is ideal.

If you're on any of the Home Screens (icons), you can swipe down in the middle of the screen to pull up Search, which you can use to more quickly get to settings rather than trying to scroll though apps to find it. Alternatively, you can put the Settings icon in the "app tray" that's on every Home Screen, rather than whatever the defaults are.

Settings also has a semi-hidden search mode, which you can get to if you swipe down in Settings (scroll all the way to the top).

Finally, "Control Center" has a Hearing control you can add -- I'm not sure if this integrates with the hearing aids, but it might let you have a much faster way to get to the specific settings if that's compatible.

synackrston Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac

This is slowly changing, at least with some of the high-end consumer/prosumer Sony cameras. I'd like to see some of the other features in your list added, but Sony's past slowness to add features doesn't inspire much hope that they will be added any time soon.

All of the recent (4+ years) cameras have a "share to mobile" feature, where the camera acts as an AP, and your phone connects to pull photos from it. You can either pick the photos to transfer on the camera or on the phone, and it works pretty well for posting to social media, or instantly sharing.

I've run the RX100M3/M5 and a7iii off of USB power forever (a full day's worth of being a webcam via HDMI capture). You can get a battery eliminator for the older a7 models -- while it does require additional hardware and hassle, they do work, and can run off of USB.

The a7iii _finally_ supports some level of geotagging by using the GPS in your phone, and using a BLE connection to get location. It's not as good as a built in GPS, but it's better than recording a track log and syncing later.

synackrston Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

Looks like mitmproxy -- https://mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy5/ .

synackrston Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in C

That's by the same author (CNLohr), but in an organization rather than a personal account.

synackrston Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE

You can install OS X / "Core" updates (but not updates for apps that you've installed via the App Store) via the `softwareupdate` command line utility [0]. It's not at all ideal for an everyday user, but would work if you wanted to avoid the App Store entirely.

[0] http://gotofritz.net/blog/geekery/os-x-software-update-from-...

synackrston Compulab Airtop – Natural Airflow Desktop

Some GPUs have fans that spin down entirely under light load (Asus calls it 0db mode), and only spin up the fans when under moderate to heavy loads.

synackrston Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning

One source is a GitHub issue for one of the popular open source Pokémon Maps -- https://github.com/AHAAAAAAA/PokemonGo-Map/issues/2777 . AWS/Heroku/Azure/DigitalOcean (mostly) seem to be banned.

synackrston The hidden FM radio in your pocket and why you can't use it

The connection isn't needed for audio -- it's needed because the headphones / line out cable acts as the FM antenna.

synackrston International Space Station HD Livestream

From a NASA project presentation[0], there's a Panasonic AGHMC150, a Toshiba IK-HR1s, a Hitachi HV-HD30, and a Sony FCB-EH4300 in the HDEV. Video routing is done by a Extron SW4 3G HD-SDI and encoded by a Visionary Solutions AVN443.

[0] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2011001...