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Yep - I've got the UGREEN FineTrack Slim G Wallet Tracker Card in my wallet and it's perfect.
Love the fact that it's rechargeable - although a little bit annoying that it's with a USB to proprietary connector.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Ultra-Slim-Rechargeable-Comp...
An awesome idea from Mark Rober !
Damnit, you got me with that one !!
Wow what a trip down memory lane - I was obsessed with this as a child !
The sounds of each tool instantly transport me back !
I really hope that when Apple is forced to open up access to competing app stores that there will be a setting for me to ban sideloads or downloads on my parents devices.
I’ve really been enjoying the “Safety Third” podcasts from William Osman and co - not particularly informational but very entertaining, especially given most of the guys are from a science and engineering background.
Darknet Diaries is also one I recommend - Jack is a great host and storyteller.
Don't think it's particularly innovative really - a lot of electricians in the UK are now installing the Quinetic - https://www.quinetic.co.uk/ - system and it works really well in terms of wireless switches.
Mostly it's not to save the cost of the actual cable - but to save the install cost on an old brick building, where installing a new switch requires fairly extensive work to the house and brickwork.
At a guess I would say probably using OCLP - https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher - lots of life left in old Mac’s using that tool !
Oh wow e107 takes me back to my early days of working on websites for my latest gaming obsession !
I just don't pick up the phone to numbers that are not saved in my contacts anymore - seems to have saved me a tonne of hassle.
Great to see OBS also being used on this one - although I imagine setting up and configuring that many instances of OBS must have been a bit of a pain.
I fully suspect though that the people who do want Amazon Key and the people who are happily defrauding Amazon are not one and the same.
I realise that there are the porch pirates who are another issue entirely!
I think that some of their more recent decisions have been questionable (Unifi Video -> Protect) - but there is still no doubt in my mind that you get a lot for your money, even if you do have to troubleshoot a little bit more than more pro (Cisco et al) stuff...
I'm not sure I love some of the more home automation based stuff as I've not used it - but at least with the Unifi Protect range and the switches / APs I've mostly been happy.
Seems like some of the more vocal people in the Unifi community are angry as they have built businesses around supporting these sort of setups - where I totally understand that a broken firmware update can wreck havoc.
It's explained on this page about how his blogging system works - https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
For anyone interested in more of this sort of stuff - including ways to modify some brands so they are not being driven as hard, it's always worth to check out Big Clive on YouTube.
Just wanted to add - I absolutely love watching your videos, thanks so much for all of the effort you put in !
Owned and developed by Milestone I believe.
This is fantastic- somehow works so perfectly as background noise for working in my home office.
I've driven past this farmhouse a fair few times and also believed the urban myth - quite nice to know the actual reason for it's existence !
Damn that takes me back - I begged my parents for one, eventually got one and found out that there was no one to actually message.
Definitely remember being a little bit addicted to Cylandia and eventually found another person at my school who had one.
1Password for me - not overly happy that they moved over to a subscription based pricing, but I’ve been using it for years now and it works well across all of my devices.
I must admit - I really love the delivery of CoffeeZilla’s videos, really interesting coverage of a lot of this kind of thing, something that traditional media tends to gloss over.
I love simple sites like this - it's a shame that google seems to punish sites like this that contain information that is not often updated (because it does not need to be).
I use Feedbin - https://feedbin.com for both my RSS feeds and email news letters - I find it works really well and allows me to favourite things as and when I wish to read them again.
Lots of RTSP cameras available - which would do exactly what you want and leaves you fairly open to whatever software you choose to implement on the server to share the feed.
I use lots of the Ubiquiti Cameras - I’ve had lots of success using them without the UniFi Protect controller app purely as RTSP devices.
I mean it’s probably quite tricky to keep a constant eye on every KM of both pipelines - but given the number of surveys involved just to get NS2 to a state where it could originally be pressurised - before they went bankrupt. I would say you could at least do semi regular inspections using ROVs.
Working on my home assistant installation - slowly finding more and more ways to make it useful!
Check out the SammyGo stuff - https://forum.samygo.tv/ - quite a trove of information relating to the Samsung firmwares.
The LED strips are somewhat replaceable - you should be able to find them on either eBay, AliExpress or ShopJimmy.
I will warn you however that it's quite an involved process - I know a fair few people who have managed to crack their LCDs or rip ribbon cables in the process of trying to fix backlights.
Unfortunately it seems that backlight issues are becoming more and more common - especially as most sets have a "Dynamic" mode or similar which sets the backlights to full brightness and drastically shortens their lives.
I doubt South America particularly wants it back - I worked on quite a few of the South America rallies and it was quite clear that many countries didn't want it and couldn't afford it towards the end.
It was particularly interesting driving through Bolivia one year with some of the locals in some towns literally hurling whatever they could at the service vehicles....