[-] justinh_tx@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure you have a point, but I can't decipher it.

[-] justinh_tx@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

As giant a douchebag as Abbott is (and most if not all of the GOP), it saddens me that in 2023 there are still people who a) won't stop working and take a drink when they need it, fuck the boss if he doesn't like it, and worse managers who would try to disallow it in the first place. We shouldn't have to have a law. This shit is common sense.

[-] justinh_tx@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Submitted mine on 6-10-23 for my 15-year old account.

Currently holding my breath...

EDIT: formatting

Submitted: 2023-06-10
Received: 2023-07-03

[-] justinh_tx@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but if you give things to the peons they start expecting to live a better life... and if they have better lives how can we look down on them and feel better about how superior we are?

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Recommendations for beginners? I have a specific project I'd like to undertake with certain goals I'd like to achieve, but I've only done some very basic programming and very little electronic/electrical work. Figuring out how to get started is a little overwhelming.

My goal is to replace my infotainment system in my car with something much more modern. There are exactly zero aftermarket replacement options for my specific car and unfortunately the stock system is tied into other systems, such as the HVAC. The stock system already has a 7" touch screen, though I'm not certain it has the same aspect ratio as the one sold on raspberrypi.com.

My dream is to pull out the factory "radio" module and the touchscreen and replace them with a raspberry pi 4 (or maybe there's a better one for this?) and the touchscreen that goes with it. I figure I'll need a DAC HAT (the car has a center speaker... maybe I want a DSP? 5.1ch?), a CAN Bus HAT (PiCAN3? PiCAN2?), some I/O HAT that I can map the physical HVAC controls to (I'm fairly certain the current system not only displays HVAC status info, but actually transmits commands from the HVAC buttons, but I might be wrong)... I'd also like a backup camera, maybe even with the moving lines (CAN Bus link the steering wheel position data?), Andriod Auto, Navigation... and if all of that doesn't max out the I/O already maybe even accelerometer/gyro data-logging and analysis and dashcam/rearcam recording.

It's ambitious, especially for a beginner... and I don't expect to have it working in the next year. I'd love to know of some resources that I can use to learn how to accomplish all of these goals. Books? YouTube channels/courses? Forums?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[-] justinh_tx@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Same. I've been justinh_tx for 20 years or more on just about every site/service that let's you have an underscore in your username. If I can't have an underscore I'm justinh512tx.

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