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Help me find the manufacturer of this device (lemmy.ml)
 

The device is a mini thermal printer listed as the Flash Toy Mini on this Thai website. I think Flash Express only rebrand and sell the device, but when I looked at the windows drivers on the website, it was made for a "Flash Toy F2 Pro" which I guess is the same device but the model names are changed. I haven't come across many instances where the drivers are custom made for or by the seller for a novel device such as this one.

It uses an android app called SharpFox which was made by a Chinese company called Xiamen Angyin Information Technology co. Ltd. They also manufacture thermal printers.

I found this website of theirs, but I don't find a device even remotely similar to the Flash Toy. There's also this website but I'm unsure if those two are related.

Now I think that whoever was the manufacturer, may have discontinued the original device since it's not listed and Flash Express are just selling old stock. Then I find this Indian website also selling what looks like the same device, but the drivers they offer are made for the original Flash Toy, so the Indian sellers are further away from the source, but the device is still being made somewhere.

Anyway, finding the source of uncommon devices made in China is always difficult. But this time I've hit a dead end. Any help would be appreciated.

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Which anime is this still from? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I found this old screenshot but can't figure out where it's from.

Edit: People in the comments have confirmed it's from The Garden of Words (Kotonoha no Niwa) (2013).

Thanks to everyone in this community for helping me out.

You can't name things like this and then lowball your sign budget. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a town in Austria which was called Fucking and now it's called Fugging. Seems like the residents couldn't take it anymore

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's impressive! In your experience, how does the lithium battery compare to a lead acid one?

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

More info on how you built your setup please

Imagine in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

So Tab completions become Tab recommendations which happen to be paid promotions.

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Not a lot of critical services but I would absolutely need things like pihole.

Just realized, I can host the critical ones on the ARM device and the services which I can do without for some time can stay on the current server.

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I agree. Its never worth the risk.

I think I'll start with inverter + battery. Then add batteries in the future depending on my power needs.

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I should probably clarify that the 8 hour ones are infrequent. Once in a month or two. But those are the days that are really annoying. The regular ones are like two hours a day or an hour at 3 different times in a day. All the other appliances are manageable but I have to shutdown my server every time.

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

This was very informative. Thank you!

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's odd how people get used to the powercuts. It becomes a part of our lives.

Hadn't thought of generators. But I feel those might be overkill for me.

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Yeah, been looking into Pi's and its alternatives. But with the external drives I think I'll need a big powerbank or I've to DIY a ups

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How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
79 comments fedilink
 

I live in a part of the world where powercuts are pretty frequent. 1 per day is normal. They last between 1 and 8 hours. A day without powercuts feels like a special occasion.

My machine is powered by a desktop ups which is terrible. It is only supposed to power everything for a few minutes to shutdown safely. But it is cheap and I don't know much about other affordable alternatives.

How do you folks who self host at home deal with powercuts? Any recommendations? 8 hours of uptime from a ups sounds almost impossible or totally unaffordable to me.