I suppose that they’re using all the available resources to build drones for the conflict, but I’d definitely choose a Ukrainian FPV drone over a DJI or other Chinese drone if they were commercially available, both to support the Ukrainian economy and to buy within Europe

That’s very much of the future I was promised in the 80s by the Sony PS-F5.

Jurassic Bark

Fuck and indeed yeah. I don’t know how I’ve not run into them, they’re proper

I have a few of those, but the Mokin hub suggested by u/Fubarberry above is exactly what I was after, I’m trying to get it to be as tiny as possible.

Meshtastic network is a communication system that doesn’t rely on mobile phones. Have a look at it, it’s simple, secure, cheap, and rapidly growing

Now I want to know what these slang sayings are

Currently Stitched Up by Barbarian Hermit, I pretty much wake up to it playing in my head

How much transparent plastic do you have as a building material in your house? Because we already have a non-plastic alternative - it’s called glass. And that’s what ALL the clear surfaces are in my house envelope.

That last one is exactly what I’m looking for, thanks

I’ve had a scootch through their website, but it seems that all their products have hdmi/USB-A on them somewhere, I just want USB-C and pass through power. Was there a specific one of their devices that does that? I may well have missed it, they seem to make a whole lot of stuff!

Not quite over my Brotato fixation, but also got the ultimate Borderlands 2 edition with all the DLC in the sale for very little, so I’m falling back into that pretty hard. Also picked up Cult of the Lamb, though I’ve not given it my full attention yet

I’m lucky to be old enough that “Pirating” for me was one of those twin-tape-deck stereos. I miss physical media, and in all honesty I’m still mad a Minidisc for not becoming the universal format. They were way more futuristic than an iPod. My cousin putting his headphones on me, sat in the back of an old pickup, and playing me Tail Gunner by Iron Maiden when I was maybe 9 is still burned into my brain - his Walkman had EQ sliders in the front, which made it the coolest tape player ever pretty much!

Obviously my tastes were pretty cheesy to start with, but by the time I was 17 I was sneaking off to see Biohazard, and, over the years, having heard bands like Killswitch and Gojira pop up and fit into niches in my brain that I wasn’t really aware of existing is still as satisfying in my 40s as it was as a teen.

Edit :- putting his headphones on me. I can’t stress that enough. That would have been a very different anecdote

I reckon that those first heavy bands you find imprint themselves on your teenage brain. I remember taping the Radio 1 Rock Show while I was asleep, and then playing it back and hearing Monster Magnet and Machine Head for the first time. That opened a door in my 13 year old brain that’s never been closed since

I would have at least thought Hilti would get a mention, their tools are used on virtually every major building site in the western world

I’m reasonably sure that Lichtenstein makes more than just Neutrik connectors (though that’s an incredibly important contribution!)

I would add Radio Fip into the discussion, French, eclectic as hell, with many channels (though I pretty much only use the main one)

Conversely, I’m coming to the conclusion that I could probably live with just a steam deck, instead of a laptop etc. A portable screen, or my projector, my nice Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and I reckon it’ll do everything I really need day-to-day.

I don’t know exactly, my mate bought it, but if I recall rightly, it was about the same as you saved. Mined sweet fuck all though, so a 50w tube heater may have been a better bet…

We have a battery bank for our solar that was getting too cold in the freezing weather, and we used a little mining rig (that’s designed and marketed as a heater miner, to preempt the “it’s not designed for that” comments), and while it found exactly fuck all of value, it did keep them warm enough to keep our power on