I ended up on Piwigo. It’s pretty fully featured and allows you to set up access controls for groups. Also has client apps.

I don’t really understand this reply and why this is a shower thought.

But, I take it back. Clearly not a pastor or sermon. Sorry, my bad…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b6781fe4-3459-42bf-adce-b9e26f7078b1.jpeg

Good to know. But, so far we haven’t got DRMed cleaning tablets. So, when it asks to clean, throw in some random powder, push the button and let it do whatever it wants. I can’t see how they’ll ever know.

It pisses me off. Because I’d happily buy manufacturer brand consumables if they weren’t such scumbag assholes with their pricing. I might even consider a small premium if the product is decent but not 400% premium just because it matches their brand.

These assholes package up the same common salt-shaker-garden-variety-chemicals costing 1-2 cents per dose (which generic brands charge 10-20c / dose) and sell it for $1 a dose. Screw that.

Anyways. Fight the power. :) Good luck.

Yeah you are a bit but manufacturers do like to ham up the warnings, so it’s understandable.

I wouldn’t stress. They’re all so similar. The variations will need mostly proprietary differentiation nonsense.

The sodium carbonate might attack copper and aluminium at moderate concentrations. I suspect the concentration would be enough to do mild damage if you left it a long time (ever run an aluminium pot, ice cream scoop or kitchen gadget through a dishwasher? You get that crazed grey look). But the chemicals and the duration of the cleaning cycle wouldn’t give it enough time to do meaningful damage.

From a heath angle, the cleaning agents in these tablets are also reasonably mild (in the scheme of things). Probably better to err in the side of no serious chemical burns to customers’ throats (in case the cleaning cycle goes wrong). Sodium carbonate (washing soda) and sodium percarbonate are generally mild irritants - best if you don’t stick your eyeballs on genitals in a concentrate solution.

But they’re not particularly nasty compared to things like dishwasher tablets.

You’d detect the taste before you’d have issues.

You can find the general compositions of the powders and tablets from the safety data sheets here: https://www.cafetto.com/safety-data-sheets

I managed to find a Breville SDS to compare (https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wc-prod-pim/Asset_Documents/Breville%20Eco%20Coffee%20Residue%20Cleaning%20Tablet%20SDS.pdf)

But from what I’ve seen, they’re all pretty much the same - Washing soda and an oxygen bleach (some brands add surfactants).

If you did it by approximate weight you’d be fine. But double dose probably wouldn’t make a difference either (the ingredients are easily dissolved).

I’d suspect the tablets contain a binder that might make them slower to dissolve.

If you want to get experimental, couch a spoon in one glass and a tablet in another and fill hald with hot water and see how long they take to dissolve.

I’m curious, but probably wouldn’t be curious enough to do it. I’d just Chuck in the scoop and give it a wash cycle and maybe an additional rinse (wash without powder) until the final rinse water from the clean cycle looks clear and tastes ok.

After a rinse or two I can’t imagine it’d be concentrated enough to case an issue from a tiny taste test (but I’m not a doctor, you do you).

Tim Minchin has a couple that’d entertain me.

Woody Allen Jesus (from memory this got cut from the original broadcast?) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU

A serious take on the season..

White Wine in the Sun - https://youtu.be/_CeY0VdhXK8

Just wondering, do you need to save the floor board?

TIFSNO? Today I Found Some Nonsense Online?

“size… of a dinner plate” !!

There’s a very familiar and comforting writing style and tempo to these old magazines. Articles that feel like they were written by some kid hired from a BBS.

Definitely a feel that’s missing from modern blogs and computing or gaming news sites.

I love all these old Internet Archive scans. Very glad that these have been preserved.

Thanks.

Breadboard is a cool idea, but your first experiments will likely be super simple right?

Here’s a few thoughts.

How about some double conducting copper tape and sheets of craft paper or cardboard. (Double conducting conducts on the top as well as the sticky side so overlapping joins completes the circuit).

You can draw/plan and then route the copper sticky tape like a circuit board. Fashion basic switches from the copper tape around a cardboard flap, tape down any “flat” components like resistors.

Add some tinned leads to anything that would stick up from the board.

I often find the more tactile “MacGyver” approach is a better teaching aid as there’s no mystery behind the scenes (no hidden board wires, no pre-mounted components or connectors). Everything is built up from existing skills and experiences.

When you start to get more advanced, 80s Aussie kids grew up with:

https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsvolume2/Dick%20Smith%27s%20Funway%20into%20Electronics%20Volume%201/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater

That has a complete list of components needed for the projects in the book. Same idea as the copper tape, just with bits of wire and screws. The project in the book were all built onto a pre-drilled block of plastic with the schematic laid on top. They were fun little projects and easy enough to do - the flashers and sirens were a hit for me.

You might find some starting points or even projects or terms to look for in this article:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/you-can-now-run-a-gpt-3-level-ai-model-on-your-laptop-phone-and-raspberry-pi/ .