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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 10:25:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   The people at the hardware stores weren't very helpful so I had to do it myself, but at least I finally can get my Christmas lights plugged in!

   • Will (whbboyd@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:02:58 JST Will

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     • Glyph

     @glyph @foone Yeah, that cord looks way too thin for 15A. You should definitely be using Romex for this sort of thing.

     (Just to dissect the frog for anyone who doesn't get it: this style of cord is *extremely dangerous*, because one end has 120V on exposed prongs when the other end is plugged into an outlet. They're commonly requested by people who ran their Christmas lights wrong and only have the socket end of the light strand next to an outlet.)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:02:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Glyph
     • Will

     @whbboyd @glyph it's 12 gauge!

   • Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:02:59 JST Glyph

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     @foone no. Bad. stop.

   • leo vriska :light2: (leo@60228.dev)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:03:26 JST leo vriska :light2:

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     @foone foone why

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:03:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • leo vriska :light2:

     @leo people kept telling me not to, and I am a rebel

   • Daniel Erenrich (derenrich@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:17:58 JST Daniel Erenrich

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     @foone that wire isn't thick enough

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:17:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Daniel Erenrich

     @derenrich it's 12AWG!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:18:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • me

     @me yes!

   • me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 11:18:33 JST me

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     @foone Would you say they were shockingly unhelpful?
   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 05:08:17 JST vxo

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     @foone is that..... is that cat 5 or speaker cable or something

     i love it, it is exactly the correct level of cursed

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 07:16:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • vxo

     @vxo speaker cable!

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 07:23:41 JST vxo

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     @foone oh if you wanted to be a broadcast engineer - Belden 8451 audio cable.

     Every old-ish radio station has at least one place where someone ran 120VAC to some control relays, an RF relay, or an on-air light on 8451. Bonus: it goes through an unprotected 66 block somewhere mid-run.

     A broadcast engineer rite of passage is to be the "lucky" one who finds the Spicy Audio Cable by thinking it's abandoned piffle and tries to cut it out and winds up with a fireworks show

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 07:29:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • vxo

     @vxo brb telling @gewt about AC power in a 66 block like it's a campfire ghost story

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 07:35:51 JST vxo

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     @foone I once blew up a 5532 op-amp (easy, socketed DIP) ... and an irreplaceable, bespoke sound card in an old Telos audio archiver system in a radio station by accidentally completing a circuit between surprise 120VAC on exposed screw terminals right below the desk the console was on and the audio cables where they ran to these giant barrier strips also exposed inches away under said desk.

     The moment wondering why I smelled burning electronics immediately after being shocked was interesting.