Not my videos, just recommending here, good watch. Not really IT, just a lot of stuck valves and old school marine engineering. Creaking sounds when they try to bosh the stuck parts back open. More videos on same topics on the channel, worth watching. Newest one deals with electical systems.
Not sure if Diamond Geezer is reading this forum, he may be, some of his blog posts get reposted in here and sometimes mentions extra 100k views.
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com
Article is a bit old or the prices got a lot higher in last couple of months.
Just had a look at my recent electricity bill.
35 UK pence per kWh
that will be like 43 US cents at current rate. (not 27 like on the list)
Not sure what it costs in Germany at the moment but that is well above 39 cents making Germany on top the list.
Walk. Free, enjoy some tunes in your headphones, explore the area, stop for a beer when you feel tired.
I`m in London UK and I walk a lot. Doing callouts in central, sometimes rather than taking public transport home I will walk back . Finish work at 5pm, walk 20 kilometers home be back at midnight.
I been watching one youtuber and his streams playing The Witcher 3 game.
He has to censor the moments when he fights with certain beast, an Water Hag/Baba Wodna monstrosity. .
Evil creature has a woman-like breast on display and hes seriously worried about getting demonetised by youtube for that....
I miss good mp3 player days. I started on iriver cd player that could read MP3s... once i had some spare money upgraded to iriver H10 wit 20GB spinning rust drive (still have it, still working, sitting in the drawer).
Once tried an old ipod, to see what the hassle, learned the pain of loading my own music to it, and the lack of file browser on it, no i dont want that artist/album BS, got my own categorized collection. Sold that one quickly.
Sandisk sansa with rockbox was spot on, both both units failed like a year from time i bought them.
Currently using an old old heavy duty samsung xcover2, with cyanogen mod, it does not have a simcard just 128gb microsd with lots of music on it. DAC is reasonably good on it and it plays FLAC no problem.
Doubles as offline GPS with osmAnd maps loaded in.
There wont be much left on the other end because of volt drop in cables. But can be possible to make it into a HVDC transmission line. Will add bit of weight on the starship.
I been for a while on technical side of one of delivery company.
Fixing electric mopeds for them.
Its a BIG business and it does not really matter if makes money, its the investors corporate funds getting pumped into the food delivery industry.
A bit of perspective from speed user (amphetamine, not meth) who I know:
Been into it for 10+ years. Usual weekend binge on 3.5 grams of good quality amphetamine.
Can last from Friday evening till Tuesday, will little sleep between.
Lots of things get done.
Rest of the week head and brain is out service, depression you call it, nothing is been done, hard to go to work, any excuse willdo, sort out yourself some food or a takeaway, watch some youtube, sleep a lot till you get better.
Current state, 5 weeks clean: go to work, no problem 8 hours shift, do your duty to pay the bills. After work - eat, relax for a bit, read a lot be it books or just daily news. Bed time. Personal projects be it coding or electronics just put on hold....
I never had this problem. Using vivaldi full time, it remembers all the passwords (plus my home address and phone number for registering new accounts on shopping sites).
For one-off pieces with 2.54 or bigger spacing there is always the handmade old school tech - drawing the traces on copper laminate with marker pen, drilling holes yourself and etching the board in ferric chloride.
There is also a good old method using photo transfers and a laser printer if you not feeling like drawing it by hand. Still need to drill the holes yourself.
You can re-use ferric chloride for many boards.
I never left too. Still using my Nokia E72 business phone. I send and receive lots of text messages for my work, replying using full qwerty keyboard is a breeze.
Plus one function i cant live without - "say caller name" when phone is ringing.
You know whos calling you without looking at the device.
Device is about 15 years old, made in Finland, I have couple of spare ones in my drawer, swapping parts around normally brings it back to life when any problems (once a display went, once the keyboard, 20 minutes fix on the bench with no special tools needed).