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Showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.

I just recently I had an issue getting an OLED display driver to work on an esp8266 board, and given that it was a cheap board on a popular sale site I recorded the information so that other people when they are looking for the exact same thing I'm looking for will be able to find it from my post.

I have little to no intention of further referencing that post

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

On the old site my username was AmNotSatan, with the premise being that I may not be good but at least I AmNotSatan.

People would constantly accuse me of secretly being Satan all of the time, to which I would invariably reply, Am Not

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How are there only 2 arduino posts in the Arduino Lemmy? Are there no other Lemmys for microcontrollers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea. I also thought it was weird but whatever whatever

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.

If more people did that, we'd be cured of the "found a solution in an old post -> solution is deleted" trend which has woefully plagued the web.