Hehe. Good one.

Actually I think the brain uses 30 watts so you’re not far off :)

I really should check my sources! Slacker me.

Might be difficult.

Bicycle riders make 30-70 watts from memory. That’ll run a few LED lights, but if you want the fridge you need five cyclists, and for the aircon about 30 to 50 I think.

Poseidon’s Kiss might have healing powers if you’re lucky.

Righto :)

I was thinking of usb3 hard drives. No need for internal storage if using spinning rust.

On older laptops with optical drives you can sometimes replace the drive with a sata tray and add a second drive that way.

But yes, a server that looks like a server and can recover after power loss is useful.

A cheap laptop might also be worth considering? Built in UPS that way, and sometimes UPSes have a large standby power usage. Would support a couple of bus powered drives as well.

Main drawback is no recovery if the battery drains fully.

Not for this Sharp one.

Made a video to show it.

https://youtu.be/FNh4uymKRbg?si=thofnazeloDO5lUV

Meanwhile, to heat up some chicken gently for my mutt it’s

Power power power power power power power start one zero zero start.

(one minute at 500 watts)

I miss my Akai at home with its memory button.

Once it may have been called ALDL instead. My '95 Commodore has one. Assembly Line Diagnostic Link. Same physical connector.

Hehe. As a small town Facebook group admin, it’s useful to have it reliable, but not the end of the world.

I don’t know for sure - my suspicion is that messenger relies on some other service which doesn’t appear in the battery optimisation UI and thus can’t be kept awake. (Opening the Facebook app causes Messenger to also wake up.)

My previous Realme phone had the same issue.

Still mostly loving my cheap Motorola g84. Rarely use the headphone jack but it’s there. The stereo speakers in it are pretty good.

Biggest gripe is it kills Facebook messenger in the background no matter what you do. WhatsApp unaffected though.

You mean the attack of the ants?

LOG

Revanced seems to be the answer.

I found it tedious to maintain though, so I put up with the original YouTube app but share all interesting videos to Tubular to get the No-adds, Sponsorblock goodness.

I use npvr with comskip.exe and it does a fairly reasonable job of taking the ads out of free to air TV.

You can see in the timeline where it’s detected ads, but you can use the mouse or arrow keys to still play those areas if it got it wrong.

My moto g84 has most of that I think. The only things that let it down are the mediocre camera and the speaker volume that jumps from just a little too quiet to rather loud. For $AU300 I’m quite happy.

I’m using Fing 10.3.0 - a version before it was enshittified. Not sure where I got the apk from.

I don’t update apps until they break. Never know when an update is going to enshittify an app. (Fing, etc.)

On the plus side, #5 can relax at last.

Fellow g84 user here. Almost a perfect phone.

Dual sim. Call recording. Stereo speakers. Loud enough. Oled screen. (slight tint.) Headphone jack 5Ah battery Super light phone. 5G. 12 gigs ram. FM radio with some reception sans cable. Soft rear cover.

Biggest downside is the camera as there’s no optical zoom / telephoto lens. Also if you take a photo in low light and leave the camera app straight after taking it, it’s gone.

For $AU299 it’s hard to beat.

I reach for the hazard lights any time I’m about to break hard or if someone in front has done something that will make me slow unexpectedly.