I have a few stories about fake transistors. Including some BJTs that didnāt have the correct pinoutā¦ And some mosfets that did not match the absolute maximum ratings by an order of magnitude.
Still, itās kinda weird for a finished productā¦ But most LED bulbs run pretty hot and the thermal protection doesnāt always work so I guess it shouldnāt be surprising.
Being that
Your ānameā is Ham
You are a Radio Ham
And you are long pork
You are basically:
Hammy Ham Ham
I reverse engineer electronics a lot and the electronics industry has fallen off a cliff over the past 10 years. Yes things are easier than ever to produce, but the functionality is only getting more complex which raises the bar needed to make a āqualityā product, and global capital consumerism paired with greater wealth disparity has driven a race to the bottom as far as cost and quality. Honestly I donāt know why people are surprised, this is the inevitable trajectory. China would be stupid not to game the system like they do.
More and more I find I need to make things myself, adapting or arranging open source projects. When you said you didnāt think the brands would matter, I couldnāt help but laugh. Supply chain management and part sourcing are huge for me, so like you said seeing so much stuff out of spec and poorly documented Iāve just come to expect garbage
Sameā¦ Not that long ago, I was frustrated as I couldnāt find a smart lock that wasnāt designed in China in the local market.
I expect the same under certain circumstances and recently avoided the Chinese brands like the plague while buying an air conditioner and a bunch of access points.
I guess that Iām mentally struggling to process the stuff thatās nice enough to last for a few years but not nice enough to last as long as the stuff that I design.
I still expect no-name power adapters to last for a long time as long as they are UL/ETL/TĆV listed. And I was dumb enough to expect simple things like Qi chargers and desk lamps to behave like this. And yet I know that LED bulbs are a gamble, even the brand name onesā¦ I also realize that if a power adapter dies after 4~6 years, I doubt that Iād find outā¦
Sorry, but while Iām familiar with the problem, I still struggle to process it at times and was expecting it to be limited to some product categories because I wasnāt really thinking.
Iām an idiotā¦
I knowā¦ And Iām now remembering all the work that I did in the open source 3D printer side of thingsā¦ You should see how badly designed most of the commercially available boards are, I almost got an aneurism from looking at Chinese schematics and jokingly mentioned that everyone in the project I was working on should ask for a raiseā¦
TP-Link has done the same. And their stuff doesnāt lastā¦
Once again, Iām an idiot and the totally of this problem hasnāt fully clicked yet.
talk about an unwanted and overdone ceremony.
Just a cash grab guit tripā¦enough is enough, it just creates division.
Welcome to country is as bad as the haka in NZ, done at the drop of a hat, everywhere, all the timeā¦too much, just stop.
At least the haka doesnāt cost us anythingā¦
At least the Haka has some legitimacy. We now have all these academics which are coming out with different ideas. Our federal govt spent over $450k on welcomes last year.
If they (the Govt) was for real, this could have gone to health, education and violence intervention measures and actually achieved something.
We have an election due by May. Likely in April. Canāt wait.
Plus cost of living is out of control and they have no idea on how to fix itā¦
My wife is a NZ citizen. I may move over there shortly 
On what to do instead of the stupid ceremony or for ways to make the ceremonies even stupider?
Knowing academics, itās probably the latterā¦
ROFLMAO! Thatās not how governments work!
Trueā¦ But governments will government in those areas as wellā¦
Yes. Being published is all that counts. Bugger evidence. It really is setting us back as a nation. The current prime minister wanted to amend our constitution to allow for a āvoice to parliamentā for our first nations people. He did this despite it being obvious it would be majorly defeated. It basically divided the nation. Plus our constitution allows for the federal govt to make laws for first nations, so there was simply no need to entrench something into the constitution (I am involved heavily in legislation development and seriously we have never made a stupid mistake requiring changes because of unexpected outcomesā¦ So letās entrench it in the constitution and give no detail on what we plan to do)!
Exactly
āGovernā lol. Again, exactly.
sets install appt tomorrow, pre-provisions FlexSecure implant
Hurrah! Much easier to do when the lube packet is glued to the opposite end from the implant.
That sounds a bit generousā¦ And I said āgovernmentā as a bit of a meme while implying that they do what they do, not what they claim to doā¦
We have an election due by May. You could seriously be elected on the basis of doing what you say. It could be as easy as āthe country is fucked and all I am going to do is try to help you through it, and maybe fix a road or twoā¦ā.
Our biggest problem is we are such a large country (bigger even than Texas apparently: I donāt really believe that) and we have such a small population that we canāt do proper infrastructure.
Still, as some have suggested, yourself included, vote with your feet!
Isnāt Australia about the same size as the USA (excluding Alaska) 
Yeah, super close actually
You could probably squueze in Hawaii also
Texans like to think so.
One of my favorite things is when Texans go to Alaska and realize just how small and tame Texas is.
Iāve driven across the US twice (Los Angeles to Atlanta), and there is nothing so boring as the empty areas between the cities in Texas. I was so relieved to hit the Louisiana border.
used to live in Odessa. Moved to Dallas. Had to make 5 trips to move my things from Odessa to Dallas. This statement couldnt be more true.
