DonnerWolfBach

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Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new in c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
[–] DonnerWolfBach@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Germany I am afraid.

Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new in c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
[–] DonnerWolfBach@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no idea - how do I test that safely?

Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new in c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
[–] DonnerWolfBach@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I think that might be the most accurate translation

Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new in c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
[–] DonnerWolfBach@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Also a selection of the MC logic(?) ICs

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Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new (infosec.pub)
 

So my late uncle was working at Siemens and had a "little" home workshop/lab with resistors, capacitors, ICs, switches, soldering boards, wires and what there is. He learned something regarding radio (german: Nachrichtentechniker I think). Among others there was a self built radio clock (that got quite warm, plugged it out bc of safety concerns)

Now I am getting into microelectronics and roughly know what there is. But I only know that I should not use the leaded soldering tin (bc lead) - is there anything else that is unsafe because of old standards or aging? What should be safe to use?

Reliable "Country of Origin" Search in Web Shop? in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] DonnerWolfBach@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Galaxus on their website: https://www.galaxus.at/en/page/transparency-regarding-countries-of-origin-34177

In the legal definition stated by the European Union, country of origin denotes «the country in which the major part of the value was added.» We’re guided by this interpretation.

But unless the majority of value was added in branding for some variants, I don't understand why the 64GB variant of https://www.galaxus.de/en/s1/product/goodram-ume3-usb-30-128gb-eco-friendly-128-gb-usb-a-usb-memory-sticks-17543048 is "made in germany" while the 128GB is made in China.

So I assume their "machine translation" hallucinates at some point.

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Reliable "Country of Origin" Search in Web Shop? (infosec.pub)
 

Recently I was quite delighted to find out that galaxus.de has a "country of origin" filter. The delight quickly faded when I realized that it was quite unreliable, e.g. one size of a USB stick was made supposedly made in Germany while another was supposedly made in China (which I found quite unbelievable). To be fair, they do write "Specifications may include unverified machine translations."

Does anybody know of a (tech or other) online shop where this works? Or tipps how to quicker navigate real and fake/mistaken "country of origin" labels?

My journey towards more European, open source, privacy-oriented, and decentralized alternatives in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org
[–] DonnerWolfBach@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago

Damn, Mistral AI Le chat has web search, something that has become the killer feature for LLM for me.