Behold:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Electrical-conductivity-of-banana-at-different-ripening-stages-with-the-help-of_fig5_317486785

5.4 Electrical Conductivity Measurement This method includes electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and dielectric analysis (DEA). The physical state of a material is measured as a function of frequency in EIS and the frequency ranges from 100 Hz - 10 MHz. It is simple and easier technique used to estimate the physiological status of various biological tissues49-52. Experimental frequency response of impedance is characterised by electrical equivalent circuits of materials. The physical properties of materials can be quantified by monitoring the changes in parameters at the equivalent circuit, among various equivalent models proposed53-54. DEA measurement is used in high frequency areas, generally 100 MHz - 10 GHz. DEA is used in moisture estimation and bulk density determination

So a overripe banana is an interesting high-pass filter, kinda like a capacitor, though the big takeaway is the conductance vs ripeness.

So if you want to test if a banana is ready to eat, hook it up… preferably with several other bananas in series. If the music is too loud, they are ready. Too quiet, and it’s not time yet.

I did a blind test, and found it depends on the genre.

Slow, chill music is completely transparent when compressed, no matter how hard I “audio peep.” It’s not even a question.

But something “dense” like System of a Down has audible distortion. It loosely (not always) coincided with the bitrate of the flac files, which kind of makes sense, though even the extreme end is hard to notice unless you know the particular song very well.

Also… a lot of recordings kind of suck. It’s crazy to worry about tiny bits of distortion when a bit perfect master is already noisy and distorted.

It’s been like this for decades, according to my dad. Well before the internet.

My conspiracy theory is they have so much dirt on the finance world that it gives them leverage.

What if there were to be a “data breach” of what they’ve been subscribe too…

OF has killed off the vast majority of ppl just doing it for fun.

With Instragram as the “creator front page.” Patreon too, on the digital art side.

It’s so weird how OF gets to pretend it isn’t a porn site, and somehow get along with banks that would normally turn their nose up to a literal porn site.

You can still buy the Framework Strix Halo board (with 128GB RAM) for $2k. For now.

I have a 3090, yet I’m still seriously considering it. The CPU itself is an engineering marvel, not to speak of the ridiculously fast RAM and IGP.

Only caveat is you better be a Python/Linux person. As you will be building forks and beating your head against the screen to get the setup working right.

Friend, this is 2026.

Clickbait is mandatory. Get your reason out of here.

It’s not! Use SonoBus; it’s dead simple, and superior to Discord. It’s far lower latency, with customizable filters, peer-to-peer; and totally free.

Now if you want emojis and video and rambling channels and stuff, you will have to go elsewhere.

I’m sure many did, sadly.

Camera equipment.

All the mirrorless makers price gouge the daylight out of their stuff.

It’s very cool, but not cheap. If your goal is to save cash by extending the hardware’s life, TBH it’d make way more financial sense to just invest that cash instead.

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I see lots of “brush it, it’s fine” posts, but if you want to dunk your components, that’s a whole different story. Alcohol is certainly going to dissolve something like TIM or thermal pads; that might not be a problem.

But it might?

One thing very oldschool PC builders did is submerge their PCs in mineral oil for cooling. This liquid is more innocuous, AFAIK.

So you could get some in a plastic tray and dunk your components in it. I have no advice for getting the oil off though.

It’s the strategy!

It’s the 2020s. There’s no such thing as bad attention.

I got shadowbanned! And I don’t even know what I did.

99.9% of my posting was in two places: technical testing in localllama and fandom geeking in thelastairbender, in spite of brain drain in both subs. I never even raised my voice in a post.

I did post a Lemmy link, but that was well after my first shadowban I believe.

Anyway, it feels like tons of technical and lore intelligence drained from these subs, so I feel like I’m not the only one who got shut out.

I mean, I saw the community, yet I had to think of it.

It’s “nottheonion” adjacent.

Yep.

Internet is “good enough” for P2P these days. I get not everyone is in a great living situation, but less than 500K down/up is an outlier at this point.

SonoBus for voice chat.

It’s peer to peer, just works on everything, sounds better than Discord, and most importantly, is 100X less annoying because latency is so low.

I think it was designed for remote music collaboration, hence it feels like you’re talking to your friend in the room. No compression if you don’t want it, no awkward interruption of pauses from the audio delay.

Oh, and it’s free, and has no chat or emojis or anything.

Getting randomly shadowbanned. Seemingly IP shadowbanned.

Lastly, “them” setting up seemingly good persistence on your system, yet not hiding any indicators of compromise, and then nuking everything when they are seen.

That seems sort of plausible to me. It was hidden, but it’s not perfectly hidden.

My interpretation was OP isn’t necessarily the target here, but a victim of some Windows hack spreading around their shared network. It’s possible the whole network was “worth” such attention.