Sam Vimes

I have a pair of cheap UV protection sunsleeves that I’ve cut to just cover my wrists-forearms that I wet with a spray bottle when it’s crazy hot. Works incredibly well.

That looks like maybe the opposite of what they need, that says it doesn’t affect normal operation, just boosts the ring. That website looks like it’d have something to fix the issue though.

I’m confused by the it in your last sentence.

Using a screen recorder (there’s a built in one in the Xbox games app depending on version of Microsoft, or if not, people always seem to use FRAPS) to capture whatever is in the window to get more information could help.

Someone else will likely be along shortly with more helpful info.

On a mostly unrelated science note:
Whatever compression happens to that thumbnail, on my phone at least, does some wild things to the rats face. Interesting how the different fur size/texture/focus interferes with the the compression.

A related article linked inside that one that lists the most expensive keywords to buy ad space for is absolutely shocking.
Imagine paying Google over $1000 because someone visits your website.
Kinda makes me want to Google some maritime accident lawyers and who knows, MLMs and essential oil charlatans and sow a little mayhem. Although is siphoning money from scummy MLMs to scummy Google even a net bonus?

Article:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/most-expensive-keywords-google

Second tangentially off topic reply by me, but hey, it’s chat.

Something I encounter more often is rather the opposite. When people come to you with problems, (especially technology related, but it fits all types) it’s often “what’s the solution to this weird specific thing?” and that weird specific thing turns out to be a result of them being part way through solving a problem their own weird way, because they neglected to consider the hammer situation.

In your case I’d be like if you asked me for skateboard grip tape to attach to the cap because it’s too hard to pull off.

A good technique is to do what you did, recognize something might be wrong here, and try re-understand the original problem, feel good about recognizing it, not foolish for misunderstanding at first.

When I was <5, I was a firefighter for Halloween. Apparently my mom wanted me to stop bothering her and she told me to go fight a fire. Apparently plastic axes can break windows, at least thin ones on a greenhouse. That is what firefighters do though…

If by any chance you have tmobile, they have a coupon for free crazy bread with purchase of pizza every week, and occasionally $3 pizza’s coupons.

And if you’re a family all on tmobile… Whooohooooo!

It’s always hard to decipher poor English, but that does seem possible. If you have a multimeter, plugging the socket into a cable would at least allow you to verify the ground and +5v easily. The data etc pins should be doable too, by using a USB A to C cable, and doing a continuity check to the pins inside the USB A side, which would be easy to look up reliably.

As far as swapping the wires around in the plug, that’s one of the easiest plugs to do it with. If you do need to, you’ll be able to.

If the wires are indeed arranged in the wrong order, but would otherwise be work, popping the individual sockets out and rearranging them is actually quite easy. You just need to either pry the little plastic tabs from the the outside or stick a sewing needle inside, and they should slide out fairly easily. If implementing the sewing needle, it often bends the little metal tab out of the way, and you’ll want to tweak it back with the needle before reinserting in the right slot.

The fact that phones haven’t been able to to this easily/natively/what have you is wild. Similarly, the fact that you can’t use old tablets as external monitors without, in my experience of quite a few, significantly buggy software that’s got significant lag in the best of times, is pretty wild. Sure, the technical hurdles aren’t small, but damn.

I’ve got a reasonably high end newish tablet (Galaxy S7+) that I can use miracast to use wirelessly as an extra PC monitor. It works quite well… if I’m near to a high quality new router. But can I just plug the tablet in and use it as a monitor with my laptop? Not remotely well.

It’s been a year or two, maybe I should check for new software again.

The cool thing is that they’re floating because of gravity. Specially, the thing they’re floating in is heavier than they are, so the float medium gets pulled underneath the object.

By free search allowance, do you mean the one time trial of 100, the 300 per month if you’re paying $5, or something else?

It’d take quite a few more to power anything vaguely first/second world houselike…

Watts=voltsamps. 1.5v0.01a=0.015w. That makes 67 per watt, presumably at ideal lab conditions. 670 per ten watts, 6,700 for 100, 67,000 for 1000, of course.

For reference a old slow phone charger is 5w, new ones are commonly 10-18. Household led bulbs 2-10 watts, incandescent 40-100. Any heating device (space heater, hair dryer, toaster) tends to be 1500w to 1875w.

I sometimes live in a van with 750w of solar panels, and if you’re especially energy conscious, it’s a very reasonable amount of power in the summer, but it’s also easy to blow through, especially if you’re using any of it for temperature control or cooking, or it’s winter, cloudy, shady, or worst, a combo.

Still always exciting to see new energy generation tech, fingers crossed it gets cheaper and more effecient and doesn’t end up in the energy tech graveyard.

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Wow, yep I did.
This is actually a different one which looks slightly better. To be clear, I don’t know if any if them are worthwhile, I don’t own any, I just searched for “payload Air2S” on Amazon.

https://a.co/d/5GZFWCP

Not sure how to tag people on Beehaw, @Freeman pleas let me know if this tags you?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

If it was a one time thing, some tape and string, I’d just hover it and they’d snip it.

If this was something I wanted to do frequently, there are fairly cheap attachments that you can drop things with, which would be more fun, and I wouldn’t have to worry about the person snipping the string tugging it and causing danger to themselves and/or the drone.

They’re a battery, little servo to move a pin, and usually a photosensitive trigger, and you can drop things by turning the auxiliary/landing light on or off.

Here’s the first Amazon result for that type of device it’s $37 and has a max payload of 500 grams.

I actually own and use drones for these things:
Scouting out roads/hiking-biking trails/camping spots/photog raphy spots. The drone has saved a good bit of time, and kept me from going down some real nasty roads for no payoff or just regular roads that dead end somewhere that has no view, or already has someone parked at. Similarly my ebike is also helpful for scouting out roads to see if it’s worth taking the van down. Yes, I’m conscious of drone laws and how obnoxious they are, I do my best to minimize noise and am careful about not bothering people, people deserve to hear nature in nature.

Figuring out if I have to clean the gutters again.
Make friends.
One time I used it as a birds eye view with VR(ish) goggles for fun. It was fun, it was awful.
Take pictures of a friend’s van’s solar installation for insurance purposes.

Things I do that aren’t weird:
Take aerial photography/videography.
Fly around and have fun.

I may use a drone for the following, but have yet to:
Get a different view to see if I’m gonna run the van into tree limbs, rocks, etc.
Fly a cup of sugar to a neighbor who would like to borrow some.
Have an outdoor “ceiling” light.

If you have any questions, ask away.

Dashcams (or rather fancy backup+ systems) already do this! They take 4 or more cameras, assume the top of your car is bland, and stitch them together. Super cool tech.

It was already good at least 6 years ago , these days it’s built in in and better.