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A while back I ran LED backlighting into three adjacent bookshelves, and the wiring looks like this (fuses, capacitors between PSU and each LED run, and the resistor between the nodeMCU and first LED strip are not pictured).

https://i.imgur.com/Q3Xbnwl.png

However, once every 1-60 minutes, the lights on bookshelf 2 and 3 flicker for about half a second. It's always a consistent flicker.

For example, if I have the bookshelves set to a static warm white color, the flicker will always momentarily set the 2nd and 3rd bookshelves to blue. If I use WLED's "Blends" effect with a blue-purple color palette, the flicker will always turn the 2nd and 3rd shelves white for a moment.

The data line

1. What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games (ex: resolution, FPS, settings) or programs you will be using.

• This is primarily for work use, where I often hoard like 50 tabs across two instances of Brave, Teams is always running and often presenting my screen, lots of work in SQL, occasional Photoshop, some programming, and so on. Fairly heavy CPU and RAM use in general. Gaming isn't really a concern.

2. What is your maximum PRE-TAX budget before rebates and shipping?

• Hard cap at $1000, although if performance increases aren't all that significant, then I'm cool with lowering specs to save more.

**3. When do you pla

I've done a few small projects, but next up is backlighting a series of bookshelves. After a bunch of research I think I'm at a point where I just need someone to look over my plan and see if this is reasonable, because I really don't want to take any chances when dealing with this amount of current.

A writeup of my plan is below, otherwise here's an image outlining the proposed setup: https://imgur.com/xZ3IHma

There are 4 bookshelves which will each need ~4m of LEDs in total. I'm eyeing up a 5V 40A Meanwell PSU which will be wired to a normal house outlet and connect to a fuse block using a few inches of 10 AWG wire. The fuse block will hold a 10A fuse for each LED strip, and an ESP8266 w

I'm in Canada, and unfortunately that makes the Roborock line pretty difficult to find for a reasonable price. Costco does carry some Deebot models though, but after a bunch of Googling I can't help but think the 920 is the clear winner here.

Costco's offerings:

Deebot 920 - $400

Deebot T8 AIVI w/ extra brushes, filters, and mop pads - $800

Deebot T8 AIVI w/ auto-empty station - $850

As far as I can tell, the differences between the two are pretty negligible. I don't care for the built-in camera of the AIVI, and other than that a bigger battery seems to be the only real distinction. I'm keeping this on one floor only, and it's almost all hard wood but there is one area rug.

The on

I upgraded to a 4k TV, and of course that broke my DreamScreen. Before hopping over to a Hyperion build, I figured I could salvage the DS with a 1080 downscaler, so I bought this:

https://www.amazon.ca/HDMI-Matrix-4x2-4K-60Hz/dp/B086WWZJLW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

So the total setup is:

Input 1 - 4k fire stick

Output 1 - 4k TV (output one is set to pass through)

Output 2 - DreamScreens input (output two is set to downscale to 1080)

My DreamScreen is lighting up, but the colors are all kinds of crazy. A fully black screen causes the DS to light up purple, for example.

Anyone have any clue on why this isn't working? I'm not too well versed in home theatre connections, but as

I've been looking at a Synology NAS for a while, but I just realized that I have an old gaming PC currently not in use. Googling around led me here and it seems perfect for my needs.

On a single device I need to:

• Host a Plex Media Server
• Have my Sonarr/NZB Get downloads to save to the device
• Backup photos
• Run Home Assistant
• Bonus points if I can run OctoPrint in Docker or something, but I could always use my Pi for that
• Also bonus points if I can schedule cron jobs with little scripts, because Windows Task Scheduler is garbage, but it's not really necessary.

The computer I'm using should be more than adequate spec-wise, I'll just have to pick up some extra hard drives because I

If you hit the reroll button before actually selecting an awakening, the reroll costs 200 gems. If you first select an awakening and then reroll it, it costs 250 gems.

Turns out I've wasted like 300 gems before figuring this out, so hopefully it helps someone else too.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about home theater setups, but I can't for the life of me figure out the issue here, and I can't find anything from Google either.

My setup is probably easiest to see in a picture, so here it is. I've got a Blu-Ray player and a DVR hooked to a switch, which outputs to a splitter that sends the output to two TVs. There's also surround sound thrown in there which I've tried putting both up and down stream from the splitter.

The problem is, if only one TV is on, everything works flawlessly. If both TVs are on, the audio disappears but the video is totally fine. I've removed devices one by one and this is definitely the splitt

My hub suddenly died the other day and just has one solid red light. Power cycling doesn't help, and I've confirmed that my internet cable is working.

The status indicator help page doesn't mention a solid red light, so does anyone know what this means?

Spoiler - My dictionary.c is pasted below, do not look further if you haven't done the pset!

I've been trying to challenge myself with the harder psets and finally got stuck. I think that I've got load, size, and unload working properly in terms of logic, but there is a small memory leak that I can't seem to track down.

Judging by the amount of memory leaked, the most obvious choices here would be my pointers, but after a bunch of attempts I'm starting to come up blank. I think I'm freeing them, and if I try to add more code to do so valgrind yells at me for an improper free call.

Could anyone point me in the right direction? I've got a few helper vars printing at the end that s

I'm expanding my deck soon and just trying to clarify the last few points I'm uncertain on. My existing deck is attached to the house w/ a ledger, and the extension will run alongside the house but will be built freestanding w/o a ledger.

I think I have a good grasp on most of the connections, but there are a few that I could use some help with. The picture attached shows my current understanding, along with the two areas I'm unsure of.

Parts I'm fairly sure on:

• Beams secure to posts with cap connectors
• Beams are 2-ply, and they are nailed together every 16" or 24", alternating which side the nails go into
• Joists are attached to beams with hurricane ties
• Joists join rim joists

I've got a GFCI outlet right beside the bathroom sink, and I'm wanting to add an outlet down near the toilet to plug it in (it's a Japanese style toilet, highly recommended).

Turns out the sink outlet already leads to another outlet downstream, although I have no idea where. Is it possible and safe to use a wire nut to join the existing downstream wires with the new ones, having two devices downstream from the same load terminals?

In case my terminology isn't right, this is what the current setup is: https://imgur.com/a/an2MDAI

I've got a script I'm working on to assist with testing a live and beta version of a website tool. Instead of manually entering everything twice, I'm hoping to make a script where I enter data on one screen while holding shift, and after releasing shift the actions are replayed on the other screen (all that needs to change with the replay is that the mouseX is increased by 1920 pixels).

I currently have this code snippet that is working properly for mouse clicks, but now I need to work in keystrokes as well:

LShift::
count := 0
KeyWait, LShift

for numberclicks, clicklocation in clicksX
{
	MouseClick, left, % clicksX[numberclicks], % clicksY[numberclicks], 1, 0
	Sleep 500
}
cli

I've been kind of slowly piecing things together here but finally hit a wall that I haven't been able to Google through yet. (Ignore the unused variables and whatnot...there have been a lot of weird attempts at things as I learn lol)

My goal is to duplicate actions from one window to another. However, some situations will require multiple mouse clicks, so I'm using LShift as a modifier making it so that when LShift is held, a log of clicks is kept which are then reissued on release.

My issue is that I want the "+LButton::" and "LButton" to be mutually exclusive. The former is working, but the latter is triggering even if shift is held.

This is probably some super easy fix that I'm missin