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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
McBryce:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 04, 2022, 04:54:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 04, 2022, 04:21:49 pm ---There is your problem right there, the phone is 10 years old and is only really any good for a pure phone alone, almost all apps will refuse to run on such an old platform.
That said however, I do still agree with you about the interviews, it is my firm belief that these should be conducted in person, and I also believe that the interviewer should reimburse the cost of attending such interviews. Today it is common place for some people to have been out of work for a period and therefore may not have the wherewith all to afford to attend the interview, having other greater priorities for their cash, like eating, rent etc.
In the past, I have been asked to attend interviews over 100 miles away :wtf:. When I used to interview people for positions, I used to go to a hotel close to them and do the interview there, and likewise, the better companies who have interviewed me for a job, have all come to see me, either at home or in a very local hotel. But these days, such etiquette seems to be alien to most companies.
But back to your phone, it is a thorny point in my side as well about phone companies and app developers not being willing to at least ensure that their products are capable of being used to their full design capability for at least a 10-year period. Not everyone can afford to splash many hundreds of pounds on new phones every 2 to 3 years, when inflation is creeping up and up all the time and wages failing miserably to keep pace, so in essence most people today are far worse off than they were 10 years ago :rant:
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I'm in a similar position now with my phone, it is 3 years old, and some apps are already incompatible with it and the phone makers are no longer supporting it with software updates. The phone is taking longer and longer to respond to anything these days, and I don't even have a single game installed on it, has 64GB internal storage with only 28.5Gb used and also has a 64GB memory card fitted with only 288MB used, so space is not an issue. I'm already looking for another phone but don't want to spend hundreds on a phone when my income is limited to pension only.
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Well the point is that even if I had the money, I would not want to renew my phone unless it's broken, because that would be encouraging hyper-consumerism and e-waste, which I hate.
I am not anti-tech, having a new phone would not make me any better at tech than using my 10 year old phone... newer one will not do more than the old one did, all it will do is have the latest OS so that apps actually accept to install on it.... Phones allow you to phone, go to the web and run XY app. Any smartphone does that. Using the latest Smartphone will not make me any worse or better at tech. Just like replacing your car every year will not make you a more skilled and knowledgeable drier than me in my 23 year old Safrane. The guy and brain holding the wheel never change.
Anyway, think I got an idea.... I don't need to use MY phone to connect to their TEAM interview, it's just a link. I can open it using any phone so... I will ask a friend or two see if they can pass me their phone Friday morning for an hour...
I did plan on upgrading my phone fairly soon I admit, because it's uselessly slow at switching between open applications (say switching from the phone app to Firefox), and Firefox / browsing is extremely slow at loading pages / running websites, it is very painful.
But, I checked and you can now get a brand new smartphone for only 50 Euros ! Might push it to 75 Euros but not more. All I want is more strage space and a faster processor, which even a 50 Euros brand new phone should I guess be able to provide, compared to my 10 year old one. So I will cough 50 Euros sometime in the next year or two, and will keep that hopefully for another 10 years. The cheaper it is, the longer you keep it, the less damaged it does to your wallet and the environment.
That why I fully intend to run my 1999 Safrane and it's 345.000kms, to the ground. Chassis has not rust, engine is strong and bullet proof, 5 cylinder N/A Mansaxel engine, it can do much more than that.
Previous car 4 years ago almost, was my Renault 21 Turbo diesel. Sold it at 450.000kms. Engine and gearbox were still working like new, was even still on its original clutch... I would still have that car today if it were not for the rust cancer which, although was not in any safety related / dangerous area, failed to pass the recently strengthened MOT. Now they are overly critical about rust. A blown head gasket and worn out shocks, they don't give a fuck, but rust that's not even putting the safety at risk... they somehow care.
OK so now let's find somebody who can pass me his more modern phone....
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Why are you trying to do this on a phone at all?? I'm sure you have a PC with a speaker, microphone and internet connection. Click the link on a PC and you don't need the phone to be involved at all. For free, without having to register or give credit card details.
McBryce.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 05, 2022, 02:37:45 am ---
--- Quote from: Zucca on July 05, 2022, 12:27:29 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 02, 2022, 09:22:44 am ---In the UK gas is much cheaper than electricity, and is commonly used for central heating, water heating, and cooking.
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I have two problems with gas.
1)
Look at the efficiency of my gas water heater:
I can't sleep at night when I thing that 38% of my DHW gas (bill) is going to heat up the sky/stars.
2)
BTW: I adore climate town YT channel.
That's why I am switching to a Rheem Pro Terra
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Except that generating and delivering an equivalent amount of heat as electricity is an order of magnitude less efficient than burning the natural gas directly to heat your food or water. No matter what mumbo-jumbo they're spouting, you still need to expend a certain amount of kilocalories to heat a galllon of water or to cook a dozen eggs.
You want to really save energy and minimize your CF, get a more efficient washer and dryer and keep the gas heater and stove. Get a more efficient gas water heater; current models extract so much of the heat they vent through 2inch PVC.
mnem
:=\
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Ok, then that video does sort of make some sense, but here is another angle, what would happen with all that natural gas if we don't use it for heating or cooking? It's going to get released into the atmosphere and do what? Build up to become a huge big gas cloud that we are going to be breathing in and then one day a lightening strike ignites it and the entire planet erupts into a huge fireball and incinerates everything and everyone or worse, the planet blows apart and ceases to be a planet any more. :-// :-// :-//
I don't know the answers really, and I'm pretty sure nobody else does, we may think that we do..but do we really :-//
Looking at the animal / plant world for instance, it would seem that each animal, insect or plant has a specific role to play in the grand scheme of things and in one form or other all rely on each other for food and regulation. So how can we really be certain that fossil fuels aren't just a spoke in the great circle / wheel of life and that man was meant to discover it and use it like we do :-// Didn't early man have fires in their caves and use fire to scare off predators like wild lions etc. It makes you think what if... don't it?
tautech:
--- Quote from: tautech on June 30, 2022, 10:11:41 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 10:01:44 am ---
--- Quote from: tautech on June 30, 2022, 09:49:20 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 09:32:41 am ---All it takes is one fucker with a hedge trimmer to ruin your day. Doesn't matter where you live.
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Not with a 250MB/s P-P wireless connection and your ISP's UPS in the house keeping your connection up ! ;D
The Pop part of Mom& Pop was here today for a coffee and checked our connection speed ....as just reported and also dropped off a new 3 blade 24V wind gen to go up the hill on our backhaul site as this winter the PV panels have struggled to keep the batteries full which has pissed us off some needing to keep an eye on the bloody things every time we have a session of dull weather......then a few days back it became obvious why, apparently at high altitudes the southern hemisphere still has a lot of fine ash aloft from the big Tonga eruption a few months back.
Anyways, one of these suckers:
http://www.primuswindpower.com/wind-power-products/air-30-turbine-2/
Wonder how long it will last 200m ABSL where there are unrestricted views between Aussie and Chile....translation = blows like a real SOB !
Pics to follow when installed.
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In that case, all it takes is a stray cow to scratch it's ass on the pole :-DD
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:)
The wind gen site is already up and running with an 8' galv pipe mast bolted to one of the posts on the post and rail around the control cabinet and 6M timber pole but with a vertical helical POS generator that's only good for landfill !
That helical thing has been a real disappointment so it must go and be replaced with something designed in the US of A that might actually work ! :rant:
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And so over the last couple of days it was done. :phew:
Yesterday (Monday) in readiness for the real installation work, the useless helical turbine, its 3 phase controller and wiring was removed and new 2 core tinned marine wiring installed and ~600mm extension to the 1.5" galv pipe mast so to make today's efforts simpler. The weather was closing in and we did most of this in light rain but with barely a breeze, thank heavens ! :phew:
This thing:
Air X Marine wind turbine with 110mph survivability....and it will need it !
http://www.primuswindpower.com/files/7816/0709/3270/PWP_Manual_-_NOV_2020_-_3-CMLT-2020.pdf
The 3 carbon fiber blades are as sharp as one thing hence the need to add an extension to the pole to prevent it from scalping us anytime we needed to work on any part of the installation.
Now blowing 20+kph tonight and already we can see the batteries benefitting from charging after the sun has long gone.
Pop of the Mom&Pop ISP is well pleased as we can both see 25.16V at the batteries from the solar logging whereas just after dark 3hrs back it was 24.42V.
In a few days I'll grab a screenshot of the latest logging which should clearly demonstrate the challenges we've had with keeping this installation fully charged this winter.
Anyways, you've probably seen pics in previous postings so I won't bore you with old ones, just one of the new turbine and a bonus one of the indicator LED's on the radio of the 900mm 11 GHz dish with 900W of solar panels in the background.
Next upgrade is to the DC powered POE 1GB/s switch, of which the current 6 port one is full so no spare ports for local management without unplugging something and a local POE camera is planned to be added.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 05, 2022, 02:37:45 am ---
--- Quote from: Zucca on July 05, 2022, 12:27:29 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 02, 2022, 09:22:44 am ---In the UK gas is much cheaper than electricity, and is commonly used for central heating, water heating, and cooking.
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I have two problems with gas.
1)
Look at the efficiency of my gas water heater:
I can't sleep at night when I thing that 38% of my DHW gas (bill) is going to heat up the sky/stars.
2)
BTW: I adore climate town YT channel.
That's why I am switching to a Rheem Pro Terra
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Except that generating and delivering an equivalent amount of heat as electricity is an order of magnitude less efficient than burning the natural gas directly to heat your food or water. No matter what mumbo-jumbo they're spouting, you still need to expend a certain amount of kilocalories to heat a galllon of water or to cook a dozen eggs.
You want to really save energy and minimize your CF, get a more efficient washer and dryer and keep the gas heater and stove. Get a more efficient gas water heater; current models extract so much of the heat they vent through 2inch PVC.
mnem
:=\
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Also of course, the heat lost in the process of cooking, is not really lost in the winter as it contributes to the warming of your house? Its only in the summer months that the heat loss is really adding to global warming without adding anything useful in return :-//
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 05, 2022, 02:42:04 am ---
--- Quote from: Kosmic on July 05, 2022, 01:56:40 am ---For the nixie tubes lover, this one seem to be cheap (40$). Not sure why someone hacked-in a 7 segments display ?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134158692838
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IIRC, that "digit" is just a long neon bulb for a "1". I don't believe there is an actual digit, is there?
mnem
*knocks self unconscious with a nixie mallet*
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Yes, I think you are right, as can be seen here. The display starts to flash as soon as it passes 1.99 volts.
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