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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:00 am
by tautech
AVGresponding wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:36 am [youtube]https://youtu.be/MpLZBYDaZI8[/youtube]

PS I hate this shitty UI as much as the one in Discord
You need select a YT URL that includes the word 'watch' to have it show instead of just its URL. ;)

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:24 am
by tggzzz
AVGresponding wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:36 am
Cerebus wrote: Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:34 pm
bd139 wrote: Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:06 am Hey we don't have Catholic hospitals yet!

With nuns wandering the corridors. Give me vampires, zombies, ghouls, but not nuns.
[youtube]https://youtu.be/MpLZBYDaZI8[/youtube]

PS I hate this shitty UI as much as the one in Discord
There's always the popular[1] Netflix show "Ninja Nuns With Guns". Oops - I mean "Warrior Nun". The first episode starts with the quadriplegic protagonist being resurrected with extreme prejudice :)

[1] i.e. renewed for second mini-season

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:42 am
by Cerebus
tggzzz wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:24 am There's always the popular[1] Netflix show "Ninja Nuns With Guns". Oops - I mean "Warrior Nun". The first episode starts with the quadriplegic protagonist being resurrected with extreme prejudice :)

[1] i.e. renewed for second mini-season
I think we can go one better than that:

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:44 am
by Cerebus
tautech wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:00 am
AVGresponding wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:36 am [youtube]https://youtu.be/MpLZBYDaZI8[/youtube]

PS I hate this shitty UI as much as the one in Discord
You need select a YT URL that includes the word 'watch' to have it show instead of just its URL. ;)
Quod vide:

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:54 am
by tggzzz
Cerebus wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:42 am
tggzzz wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:24 am There's always the popular[1] Netflix show "Ninja Nuns With Guns". Oops - I mean "Warrior Nun". The first episode starts with the quadriplegic protagonist being resurrected with extreme prejudice :)

[1] i.e. renewed for second mini-season
I think we can go one better than that:
The nearest Warrior Nun has to nudity is unclothed wings, and they come late in the series.

I must admit, somewhat sheepishly, to enjoying WN. Total tosh, but it manages to achieve "willing suspension of disbelief" - especially after a beer at night :)

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:05 am
by bd139
Seems to have the same sort of feel as Planet Terror

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:29 am
by tggzzz
bd139 wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:05 am Seems to have the same sort of feel as Planet Terror
Warrior Nuns could be shown on TV without edits, so no!

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:31 pm
by bd139
tggzzz wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:29 am
bd139 wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:05 am Seems to have the same sort of feel as Planet Terror
Warrior Nuns could be shown on TV without edits, so no!
TV? What’s that?

Actually one thing that kept me amused recently was The Boys on Amazon. That is by far the most disgusting, inappropriate and hilarious thing on for years.

https://youtu.be/YwfiKQk0zLg?si=2KgcaRyiz68uFvGE

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:14 pm
by mnementh
tautech wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:00 am
AVGresponding wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:36 am [youtube]https://youtu.be/MpLZBYDaZI8[/youtube]

PS I hate this shitty UI as much as the one in Discord
You need select a YT URL that includes the word 'watch' to have it show instead of just its URL. ;)
Copy it from your browser's URL bar, not the "R-Click->Copy video URL" from the hover dialog. Easy-peasy.

Just something else YoobChoob manages to fuxxor up for everybody...

mnem
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:57 pm
by bd139
To be fair it's not really youtube's fault if someone only parses one of their URL formats.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:51 pm
by mnementh
There's no good reason for the two to be different. Just them being fuckheads and injecting tracking bunk. :middle_finger:

mnem
actually, that's the correct response to YoobChoob in general.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 4:15 pm
by bd139
Yeah but you're at the mercy of them if you want free video hosting so that's just the way it is.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 4:34 pm
by Cerebus
tggzzz wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:54 am The nearest Warrior Nun has to nudity is unclothed wings, and they come late in the series.

I must admit, somewhat sheepishly, to enjoying WN. Total tosh, but it manages to achieve "willing suspension of disbelief" - especially after a beer at night :)
On the subject of "willing suspension of disbelief":

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:17 pm
by AVGresponding
@MED6753 this is a nice shade of blue! :lol:

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:32 pm
by bd139
That's definitely a "close enough" job.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:46 am
by mnementh
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mnem
They make a creme for that...

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:51 am
by BU508A
Wasn't there this song from Elton John, "Blue case" or so?

Hmmmm....

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:08 am
by mnementh
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A day's work in the dwagon-cave...

The mess had reached critical ass... I had to do something, even if it was wrong. I must've been down & up under that bench a dozen times, and up & down the basement steps a dozen times... def got my exercise in yesterday.

Not only do I now have all my scopes up off the floor and out where they can be used, I doubled my usable workbench (vs previous shithole dumpsty). It'll be nice to be able to keep the microscope set up, and the MetCal being convenient to flip the switch for tip changes will be nice. My big surge suppressor strip is a "smart" one and I ran low on outlets, so now everything on the new rack powers on when the 54621D is turned on.

Hopefully I'll actually get something productive happening soon...

mnem
yes, you may touch it...

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:31 pm
by tggzzz
mnementh wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:08 am My big surge suppressor strip is a "smart" one and I ran low on outlets, so now everything on the new rack powers on when the 54621D is turned on.
What's the benefit to having a surge suppressor which communicates with the cloud? Oh. I see what you mean.

I've never heard of surges being a solvable problem over here. My use cases would be a lightning strike on the overhead cables leading to my house, or the electricity supply suddenly becoming 440V.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:36 pm
by nixiefreqq
hey mnem

nice!

can see that time domain instruments are well represented.

but where are your frequency domain instruments?

seem like you at least have a micro SA that should be somewhere in easy reach.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:53 pm
by tggzzz
v vs t, v vs f, but don't forget the third domain: modulation, i.e. frequency vs time.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:58 pm
by nixiefreqq
you will get no argument from me.

mnem needs an hp53310a.

OR

an hp5371a, and a gift certificate for chiropractic care.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:02 pm
by 25 CPS
nixiefreqq wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:58 pm you will get no argument from me.

mnem needs an hp53310a.

OR

an hp5371a, and a gift certificate for chiropractic care.
How about an HP 8901B and/or an HP8902A?

They are modulation domain but minus the CRT display.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:16 pm
by mnementh
tggzzz wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:31 pm
mnementh wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:08 am My big surge suppressor strip is a "smart" one and I ran low on outlets, so now everything on the new rack powers on when the 54621D is turned on.
What's the benefit to having a surge suppressor which communicates with the cloud? Oh. I see what you mean.

I've never heard of surges being a solvable problem over here. My use cases would be a lightning strike on the overhead cables leading to my house, or the electricity supply suddenly becoming 440V.
Well, it was BNIB, has EMI/RFI filtering, a high "warranty" and Joule-rating, and cost it 7 dollars at the Thrift, so I bought it "just in case I need it"; which happened aboot 2 weeks later, as is usually the case with such things. The fact that 6 of 12 outlets were "switched with the master device" was really secondary to the bang/buck of that equation, plus I honestly intended to hack the thing with a remote switch for "bench power" misuse.

mnem
hey, it could still happen.

Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:24 pm
by mnementh
nixiefreqq wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:36 pm hey mnem - nice!

can see that time domain instruments are well represented. but where are your frequency domain instruments? seem like you at least have a micro SA that should be somewhere in easy reach.
My TinySA is right there... in the drawer underneath the Protek counter and the 4-banger sig-gen on the left. I keep that and my NanoVNA in their protective prophylactics, cuz touch-screen and I'm a fucking klutz. :rofl:

mnem
damn you... now you have me thinking of printing a safety-stand like I made for the DE-5000, etc... :rant: