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I have been working on this video in the background for months, and I barely got it together before no effort november.
So let's learn about freeze dryers and how bonkers it is to own one (in my opinion, anyway)
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@TechConnectify it's a great video, and i completely agree on the uselessness of the feature. But did you really use one time batteries in a walkman? I thought that was the moment to get rechargeables for everyone  @TechConnectify I also recall them trying this concept a few times, at least in some stores you could get a more modern version.  @TechConnectify actually I found that you can still buy them brand new. here is an example from Amazon https://www.amazon.ca/Duracell-Ultra-Advanced-Battery-Power/dp/B0036QSKP2 i made a video about a thing which is everywhere but nobody ever thinks about
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@TechConnectify Excellent video! I’d always wondered how they worked. Also thank you for doing the work of tackling hotel doors. Good gods those things make me jump. @TechConnectify wait I don't need to run away from my building's recycling closet, grimacing, with my hands over my ears?!  @TechConnectify this content floats my boat and i would really appreciate a follow up into the rabbit hole of mounting those door closers... and the adjustment to the linkage length in case the latch-speed-valve does not kick in. I made this simple video just to prove to myself that I can do that. Oh and also you'll learn something cool probably.
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 @TechConnectify I always wondered about this, and this is a fantastic explanation of how these things work! Great video 😃  @TechConnectify ...feels like maybe Doctor Dinosaur had something to do with this. https://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v2fcbd-page-3 Confidence is not "I know what I'm doing." Confidence is "I know how to find that out" and "I know how to learn new things" and most importantly "I know when I don't know what I'm doing, so I stop and find someone who does" Obnoxious blowhards rely on people not understanding this distinction. And they amplify it by framing actual confidence as weakness. This may be a useful thing to talk about with certain people in your life who are being fooled by fascists.
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 @TechConnectify Yes! Or it can be simply "I don't know." Obnoxious blowhards would sooner make up an absurd bullshit answer than admit that they don't know or were wrong about something.  @TechConnectify Oddly enough, the pretengineers who stride with confidence, and have to be picked up after like incontinent elephants, are part of that base. A very large part of that base. Striding confidently into a Walmart with an AR-15 "for protection" shows a lack of confidence. Like peeing your pants whenever you see a spider, but driving an exterminator's van. I'd like to tell a quick story about successful troubleshooting. A few months ago I rented a scissor lift to install lighting at my new office. When it arrived, the delivery person gave me a quick demo and off he went. Well, when I went to actually use it - the lift went up by about a foot then stopped and screamed beeps of terror. It was broken! But the display on the control read "18" Rather than call the rental company, I searched "sinoboom fault code 18" to see what that meant.
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 @TechConnectify I had that happen at about 3ft off maximum extension, except the whole thing just stopped without error code. I assumed it had reached maximum extension and did the remainder of the gig lighting install by hand with a ladder, which was truly awful. Didn't find out until the last moment of teardown that the lift could go the full height. OK, this place. I've been pretty heady lately and not very technology-y. So to make up for it, you can have this picture. As a treat.
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Real talk time: "Just asking questions" is a weapon. We know full-well that some people exploit it to feign innocence when deliberately throwing noise into discussions. And it works in large part because it encourages otherwise earnest discussions which then contribute to the noise. So be careful.  Real talk: It is utterly exhausting to look at my notifications every morning (which is a difficult slog as it is with this many followers) and see response after response saying "just mute/block those folks" again and again. I'm gonna make this as clear as I can: On Twitter, this. was. not. a. thing. I. had. to. do. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I had to block people because, get this, Twitter had a quality filter which caught most insufferable people
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@TechConnectify I'm surprised no one has yet suggested that you code your own client with a custom bayesian filter… Please nerds have a bit of self respect and suggest more automated solutions! (end of joke) I enjoy your videos, please keep at it  @TechConnectify quality filter is algorithm. @TechConnectify I imagine such a feature would be easily implementable in a frontend modification, I am not an expert on how the internals of ActivityHub (mastodon's inner protocol) work, but I cannot imagine it would cause a lot of issues. Maybe that's something worth looking into. I know it's not within the reach of everyone (it is not within mine, I don't know webdev at all), but I thought it would be interesting to mention as a passing thought I accidentally left my dessert out all night, and what I found in the morning was really off-pudding.
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To explain, this is my car's vehicle-to-load function in action. A simple adapter signals the car to backfeed AC voltage from an inverter to the charge port (This is a generic adapter, btw, teardowns of the official unit reveal it's basically just a resistor across the control pins). This adapter turns the car into a generator capable of running basic necessities for days. You have the full 15A of any outlet at your disposal. Pretty neat™
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@TechConnectify it's been a bit since any technology Thing has made me audibly gasp but those closeups of digital film audio did the trick. fantastic video |
@TechConnectify Wann Gefriertrockner beim #38c3? 👀