I really like that you do this, and I try as well

For example, when I’m at thrift and an employee says “I’ll put that back for you” I reply “That’s okay I’ll do it, you have enough work to do”

Never fails to brighten their day

The idea that you would take a living creature and treat it like a possession is disgusting and inhumane

Pet ownership should be completely banned, I realized that’s an unpopular decision and people love dogs - that’s fine but I still hold this opinion

Most of the abuse that animals suffer is a result of the systems that funnel pets to owners, and in any way participating in that makes one guilty of said abuse

I was given a smart watch yesterday

I wore it for 20 minutes and immediately gave it to a crack addict

All the fking doodads that exist nowadays are just trash - I literally cannot comprehend why anybody wants them in their life! They do not really seem to add anything, they’re just a meaningless trifling distraction and another shiny toy that ends up in the trash heap, as far as I can see

I truly feel sorry for anybody that is in the not sweet spot I guess the sour spot of not being able to select the vehicle of their choice due to economic factors, and being forced to buy one of these used pieces of shit that is replete with garbage technology that does not serve the user in any meaningful way. Oh my God, I’ve never one from that generation and I never will, and I consider myself blessed. Just operating a microwave nowadays is torture, give me a fucking chunky button and let me press the fucking thing.

You don’t have a point. You’re in a psychological spin out because you’re wrong. Blocked

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That can be done but the voltage that it receives is variable so that’s causing damage. Which ripples down the chain, it’s not avoidable no matter how much you put in capacitors and diodes

It’s really just an unavoidable aspect of electricity, people think of it as magic fairies floating through wires but really it’s like ropes pulling on things, and just like mechanical things, ripples and vibrations fk things up!

If you’re really want to get down to it, electricity is destroying things by its very flow. But you want to reduce the unwanted harmonics as much as possible and wireless is not the way to go

That’s not a counterpoint, you’re just describing that you had a battery that was okay for 4 years

It doesn’t say anything really I’m sorry friend

I know people love these and I’m not going to go and break anyone’s balls but the reality is, because it is inductive charging you will never get clean voltage

Anything electronic, it really doesn’t matter what it is, is going to suffer basically the equivalent of “mechanical damage” when powered/charged with unstable current

An inductive charging is always going to be highly unstable, there’s no way around that

Anybody who tries to tell you different just doesn’t understand that this is a real thing, and yeah, really nobody should ever use wireless charging unless they’re willing to accept continual device (battery) damage

I have been hustling to buy old TVs, salvaging, scrapping, wheeling & dealing, diagnosing, ordering parts, Frankenstein-ing & fixing

Tonight and this weekend is the culmination of months of work which will result in four saleable TVs for around $1,500. I pounded out two tonight, a 55-in 4k, and a 50-in Roku 4K. I work hard af, then there’s not a lot of meat on the bone… but it’s very rewarding as stressful as it can be to not necessarily know where your next fridge of food is coming from

Edit: When I say “pound out” I don’t want it to seem like I just magically made two TVs appear… Like I said this is months of hard work, scrapping and fixing to get to the point where they are working. Nothing is compatible with anything, and the amount of work a person has to put in can’t be appreciated by the consumer - People think you just buy a broken TV, slap a part in and then you’re done - yeah as if it’s that simple!

First of all, everybody thinks their broken piece of shit with a cracked screen is worth $10 less than retail… Because they paid that 2 years ago and I guess they don’t realize that TVs are at the point where they’re disposable like fucking socks.

Then, the right to repair movement would go fucking insane if there was an overall deeper understanding of how little is actually repairable. Every single inverter board, every single motherboard, every single panel, every single driver board, every single connector on every single machine, even if it’s the same manufacturer from the same year, is totally incompatible. Every connection is different, every pinout is randomly chosen, nothing works with anything. And it’s all arbitrary, done exclusively to fuck you out of the ability to repair them. Go buy another one on black Friday you dumbass, you bought a stupid piece of shit for El cheapo thinking you’re this savvy consumer… and it broke immediately because it’s engineered like dog shit… I guess you’re too dumb… go get another one Thank you for the money.

As an electronics hobbyist and frugal person … you can just literally add CA to any model number and you’ll get the Canadian version. That’s just one thing I’m aware of but I’m sure there’s other ways and I’d love to know

Oh hellz yeah. Take the gravy away from them and make 'em earn their money. I’m on your side, good luck with this nightmare!

Oh damn I remember those keyboards, I remember my friend absolutely pounding on one like Chick Corea on a meth rage… Didn’t even affect it

You are right about your first point, I really didn’t have time to read the rest of your comment though

My uncle ran a very successful painting company, and his son got into the game in remediation

They bone the insurance companies on the billing, but if you plead with them and tell them that you’re just a private person, often they will have a heart

You are wasting your time because you’re correct, the way to make the world a better place to get up and do something.

Truly It’s not my line of work so I’m not going to start randomly recommending products, I don’t think it’s fair to talk out my ass hahaha

What I can say however, is the reason I was so bold in my assertion previously, was that I personally do a lot of hobbyist electronics, and wiring up temperature sensors is very simple. It’s very much a trivial aspect to basic circuitry, because heat is such an aspect. It’s in your most basic things from coffee pots to hair dryers but even down to smaller electronics, bulbs and projectors, everything really in its own way.

And then my father was a highly trained meteorologist with the government of Canada for 43 years and then another 10 of consultancy, they scouted him because he was the 100% in all courses math superstar at his university for his year.

My father taught me a lot about how heat is measured and it’s a huge concern in a way that the average weather watcher doesn’t understand. It’s talked about in Watts per Square Meter. So that could be how much heat a structure may absorb per square meter, or perhaps how much heat is dissipated per second in a certain wind.

That’s a major and primary concern of anyone in the agriculture industry, think for example a farmer that holds a barn full of cattle, he absolutely needs to know how much heat that building’s going to dissipate so he can plan for heating.

But it doesn’t end there, it goes into so many different areas where heat is an issue, and weather is the primary driver of heat transfer.

So I guess in summary, a solution is trivial, I’m not sure if there’s an official product, but we’re not talking rocket science! Edit: I guess in a way it’s pretty cool and it’s pretty complicated, but the thinkings has all been done by people smarter than me I’m just saying it can be put together and lots of people probably do this every day.

Edit2: I guess also my brother-in-law was a graduate of 4-year electronics program and he ended up working at our local eh price where he designed some forms of heating control systems but to what degree I know not. We talked a bit about some of the egghead stuff so I think in summary it’s doable.

I was going to give a bunch of advice but then you answered your own question at the end.

If you want to change, you just going to have to change - that’s all there is to it.

My advice therefore is that you’re going to experience two or three days of discomfort, be prepared to deal with that.

You don’t need to go to that level of complication.

Two sensors in combination, one that detects current heat input one that detects absorbed heat. These modules would be placed about the outer walls.

Then calculate how much heat is going to radiate into the building the rest of the day.

And it can compensate.

We don’t need to be more than a fraction of a degree off and a system like that would be amply accurate.

Squarez Deluxe

Makes Tetris seem like a children’s toy

My friend, I take care of the people at the bus station near me, I have just decided they are my community and I show love for them

I go every night with hot water, cold water, medical provisions, hygiene, and some food

I make sure everybody’s okay, and I see what’s going on in their lives

It has built an insane amount of support in my community, I couldn’t even see it coming, I did what I did because that’s me, and then the results were profound?!

I walk down the street and people say hi and give me things. They know me as the guy with the rainbow hat.

Whattttt

I’m learning that everything you said in your comment is true

Edit, oh and yes, I actually feel that when I show the “normal world” the way that I live, I actually get a form of quasi-abuse back. It’s so bizarre to me