Ah go easy on yourself. It’s all niche knowledge.

I’m my first job I worked in a chip company. There was an entire department dedicated to the interface between the chip and whatever it connected to. I learned just how incredibly specialised individual knowledge has become and how much cooperation between those niches is required to enjoy the things we all take for granted.

Mars Guy.

He’s a geologist who does a weekly video rounding up what perseverance has been up to and it’s one of the best parts of my Sunday.

Yeah that’s the one I just watched it through. Thanks for the link. Absolutely reckless behaviour from the owner after the previous crack event on dive 80 to go down again. Just so many bad choices.

Fascinating that they had the data to tell them it wasn’t safe and just ploughed ahead without examining it.

What the fuck? That’s mental. I’d never heard that little nugget before.

Also a h person on herb as is my entire country.

I have two:

I pronounce the d in Wednesday. Like wedns-day.

Vagaries - vag-air-ees. I think this is an Irish thing.

I say it as two syllables: cray-on.

I have never heard it pronounced any other way. Not American though (and I suppose you may not be either!).

It’s from a TV show called “The IT Crowd” and it’s an excellent watch. Highly recommended.

Haha. They’re bouncier than they look. There was a huge craze of them in the late 80s where I live. People definitely lost teeth.

5000 consecutive bounces on a lolo ball (aka pogo bal)

My dad used to say that all you really need when traveling is your passport, tickets and cash and that’s true enough IMO.

It’s brave though. At a minimum I always take clean t-shirt, undies and socks. It has paid off more than once.

How goes it?

Good luck with it. Retro game corps does a decent overview of his setup which would probably help someone starting out. Pretty fascinating watch actually.

The latest android versions on quite a few phones allow you to stop charging at 80%.

On my phone it’s: settings->battery->charging limit.

It may be different on your phone so maybe just search for “80” in the settings menu.

Yeah spot on. Deleting.

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100% fair and I do generally follow that rule with my phone and mostly enable the “stop charging at 80%” feature but I’ve noticed two downsides to it:

1. It occasionally needs a full charge / discharge cycle or it loses true 80%
2. If I do it overnight I find the phone unusually warm in the morning which is quite disconcerting so I mostly manually manage it these days (OnePlus Nord 2T 5G). I’m hoping they fix that in the future.

I’m a bit more carefree with the headphones partly because it’s harder to tell and partly because it’s a much, much easier battery replacement.

Having travelled a lot, I feel I was born into what I consider a great country just as it was starting to pull itself out of poverty. Pure chance.

I got a good education and college was essentially free.

I have a lot of kids and work really hard at being a good dad so I am surrounded by love. I am very lucky that I am married twenty years (some better than others) to someone who still loves me and who I still love. Some days that love is all that keeps me going because fuck me I am exhausted haha.

I feel uncomfortable typing all that out but it’s a good exercise in thankfulness so thank you.

I started it on a futon too and did eventually get used to it but would not want to go back so I totally feel you.

Not sure what your budget / bed size is but IKEA have a range of different priced, decent quality pocket spring mattresses with good warranties. My friend ended up returning his after nearly 3 years (iirc) and they honoured it after inspecting and agreeing that the springs at the very edge on one side were faulty.

I strongly agree with the other comment on not taking second hand ones because of the risk of bed bugs.

That’s some battery. How long do you get between charges?