is a #CFExpress card containing 128GB at #pricing of US$280, access speed 1.75 GB/s because CFExpress is “basically PCIe”
blackout preparedness Amazon product shill #video. Walmart “Hypertough” plastic bucket, sort of like a cross between a typical plastic tote and a 20ℓ bucket. Square, a bit squat, strong enough to sit on, but “under 20 dollars” (so 4× the price of a 20ℓ bucket) and not hermetic like a 20ℓ bucket. Contents: Platypus water bags (empty); drinking water filtering system; three single-person-day ziploc “quart” bags of food (Clif bars, drink mixes (!? oh one is oral rehydration salts), sealed mylar Spam packet, instant coffee, “Nutrient Survival” brand dehydrated macaroni and cheese, dehydrated lasagne, dehydrated scrambled eggs, etc.); “Seattle Sports” brand rechargeable solar lantern that’s also a soft silicone water bottle; “Streamlight” brand three-AA-battery LED lantern with hanging clips; headlamp per family member; waterproof plastic box full of batteries and a Swiss Army Knife; hand-cranked weather/AM/FM radio with telescoping antenna that also takes AAA batteries and a solar cell and is a flashlight; USB power bank; multi-USB adaptor cable; camping pot which has a heatsink in the base and clips onto the stove; camping stove with “Jetboil” brand “Jetpower” butane/propane mix canister with 230g of fuel; silicone folding bowls (?!); “Ozark Trail” brand plates (?!); camping utensils (!??!); Walmart folding cups (silicone?); freeze-dried beef macaroni; sealed mylar packets of tuna. His excuse for all the dishes is that you might have to leave your house, so the bucket doubles as a “bug out bag”. Next to the bucket he has an “Allpowers” brand portable rechargeable-battery/inverter/outlet/USB-power/lighting combo machines, this one about the size of a car battery.
minimalist wilderness #scouting kit #video of 6–8 “pounds” in a fanny pack, plus some food in a “little foraging pouch” and a steel bottle of drinking water suitable for cooking in. Work gloves, emergency whistle with button compass and thermometer on a lanyard, a baseball-cap-clip-on headlamp with a long LED bar, Rite in the Rain notebook, ink pen, water sterilization tablets (one to kill, one to neutralize, materials unspecified), two hanks of army cosplay cord, emergency poncho, duct tape, survival space blanket, small first aid kit, another compass, two bandannas, mini binoculars, some sort of unspecified black plastic bag, fire kit containing matches and ferrocerium rod, and a couple of ziploc bags of unspecified tinder. He has a sheath knife hung around his neck, a Bahco folding wood saw in a pouch, and what looks like a huge French-style kitchen knife on his belt. This “Frontier” guy with 2100 survivors is annoying as hell because he keeps saying “There you have it” and “Boom”
#bushcraft 14 months in the forest #video. He starts with a pickaxe and bedroll and dog and shovel and stuff, though. Saw, bowl, backpack, rope, bread, aluminum cooking pot, lanterns, sleeping bag, pliers, axe head, nylon line, etc. So he cuts a sapling as a handle for the axe, digs a 2-meter-deep hole in a clearing (breaking the pickaxe), and lines it with polyethylene sheeting and baling wire using fencing pliers, and pegs the polyethylene to the walls; I suspect this is a cistern. He delimbs more saplings with a machete, cuts them to length with the saw, and lashes them together with the wire into a lattice lid for the cistern. Then he hangs a second polyethylene sheet over it on four poles perforating its center so it will collect water for the cistern, weighting the center with a rock. Bandages the dog’s injured foot with a strip cut from his T-shirt with the machete, bifurcating the end of the strip to permit tying it tight. He clears a square on a slope with the shovel and uses some chalk from a dry wash to lay out a door on it; at this point I am getting skeptical about night not having fallen! Then he begins to dig terraces out of the rocky forest soil there with the pickaxe and shovel, uncovering a long-buried terra-cotta pot with gold chains, coins, and a ring in it. Poor pickaxe technique. As it begins to rain, he seeks out fragments of quartzite from the streambed, striking sparks from them. The camera cuts from him crushing one of them on a rock with the back of the axe in the middle of a cotton ball to a shot of striking already-ignited and charred cotton in the same way with the axe, a clear indication of #fraud, so I’m not going to watch the other 35 minutes of this video. In the comments he explains that he charged his phone with solar panels, which are never seen in the first 12 minutes of the video. There may be some interesting ideas here, but because of the fraud I have to say #plonk to “Ramiz in the wild”.
Airwick fart neutralizer #electronics #hardware #video. He suspects it might be using a “tin oxide volatile organic compounds” sensor to see when to go off; a heating resistor heats a thin-film layer of doped tin oxide, and the “chosen” volatile organic compound lowers the resistance across the film. He wasn’t able to figure out much about it.
#3D-printing a bandsaw #video. Really just the table, trunnion, and blade guides; the frame, wheels, motor, and blade are the same as before, made of wood or metal, and the PLA and PETG parts are held together with steel screws.
supposedly history’s lightest tent, looks like a plastic bag #video #toread