Random Thought Thread

[SharpBits]

Keyed locks only slow down the non criminal types.

 

[Blues]

Keyed locks only slow down the non criminal types.

There are other methods of slowing them down once they enter...

 

[SharpBits]

There are other methods of slowing them down once they enter...

As long as those methods get used.

 

[Blues]

As long as those methods get used.

That's true for any exigency and methodology.

 

[SharpBits]

That's true for any exigency and methodology.

Agreed!

 

[clinton1]

As long as those methods get used.

That's true for any exigency and methodology.

Are you guys talking about the Paul Pelosi of “dealing” with an intruder??

 

[Blues]

Yep...throw the intruder the hammer and then skin that smoke wagon...

 

[MattinLA]

I’m anti-smart home. With the power of AI, and the $500bn Open AI investment in Abilene, I have a feeling that all the smart-home tech could be easily hacked. My house coming alive against me is a nightmare I prefer to not experience.

We've all been warned

 

[ferider]

I’m anti-smart home. With the power of AI, and the $500bn Open AI investment in Abilene, I have a feeling that all the smart-home tech could be easily hacked. My house coming alive against me is a nightmare I prefer to not experience.

Not that it ever happened… no hacker needed either.

 

[Jabrni]

We've all been warned

the simpsons have been known to predict the future…

 

[Jabrni]

Not that it ever happened… no hacker needed either.

Awful

 

[Alone]

Not that it ever happened… no hacker needed either.

Bruh.

What the fu.........

 

[toker]

Yes, keys work fantastic, extremely rare they fail.

The big problem is that you need to have the key with you. When my son was 3 years old, he locked my wife out of the house in the winter when she took out the garbage. She begged him to open the door for 15 minutes before he opened it.

So we decided to put in an electronic lock in after that. By we, I mean my wife threatened to stab me if I didn't.

 

[Murphjd25]

Big Dumper!!! Way to go Cal Raleigh!!!!

 

[Jabrni]

Big Dumper!!! Way to go Cal Raleigh!!!!

It was an awesome Derby!

 

[Retired UPS Driver]

The big problem is that you need to have the key with you. When my son was 3 years old, he locked my wife out of the house in the winter when she took out the garbage. She begged him to open the door for 15 minutes before he opened it.

So we decided to put in an electronic lock in after that. By we, I mean my wife threatened to stab me if I didn't.

I can totally relate to that, happened once, and only once, to us too One time too many.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

The big problem is that you need to have the key with you. When my son was 3 years old, he locked my wife out of the house in the winter when she took out the garbage. She begged him to open the door for 15 minutes before he opened it.

So we decided to put in an electronic lock in after that. By we, I mean my wife threatened to stab me if I didn't.

your wife, it seems, knows how to get what she wants.

in this case she decided a threat of physical bodily harm was the way.

You picked a winner buddy.

 

[Blues]

It was an awesome Derby!

Didn't watch all of it, but a good bit. Good for Raleigh.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

well. its time to play the ''I'm excited to join your team but not for that amout'' game

 

[bluemax_1]

So… I’m fan (i.e. sucker) for technological innovations.

In today’s edition of, “Wow… I didn’t know something like this existed…”

I’ve known about Peltier coolers, and thought they were pretty cool (pun intended ), but never gave much thought to it. Then Prime Day bit me in the ass.

I posted a while back about getting a neck fan (looks like an oversized horseshoe you wear around your neck, and has small fans that blow air on your neck and face). Well, anyone in hot AND humid environments, knows that blowing hot humid air on yourself doesn’t help as much, since evaporative cooling doesn’t work as well when the air already has a ton of moisture.

Discovered during Amazon’s Prime week, that there are neck ‘A/C’ devices (not cheap), that supposedly actively cool, using Peltier coolers. Decided to order one to check it out (between the Prime Sale dropping the price to the lowest it ever gets, from checking the CamelCamelCamel Amazon price tracker website), and Amazon’s simple Returns, if the item sucked.

Ordered the Ranvoo Aice Lite Plus, and got to test it out. 93f. 46%RH.

Garage was even hotter from baking in the sun.

Used the Seek Nano 300 to take a photo. This was immediately after taking it off my neck, after using it for 30-40 minutes in the heat (so those are the temps the cooling plates were able to maintain, while absorbing the heat conducted directly from skin contact with my neck).

OK, this thing is really cool (literally). Cooling the neck (especially near the carotid arteries and jugular veins), in effect can help keep the head and body cool, as you’re removing heat from all the blood flowing to and from the head.

Reviews say that the device can be used in charge-through mode (i.e. using an external powerbank connected to the USB-C charging port), for even longer runtimes (maximum runtimes on maximum cooling mode are variously quoted by reviewers as somewhere between 1-3 hours on the internal 6,000mAh battery).

I ordered a 40,000mAh small (pocket sized) powerbank, to try the combo.

As the photo shows, in the non-climate controlled garage that had heat soaked everything in it to 95.2f, the cooling plates maintained a nice, cool 70.5f while in contact with my neck, and you can see the heat exchange of the Peltier Coolers, transferring the heat to the outside of the device.

The other photo shows the device within a few minutes of being turned on, in a hot environment, and shows the heat vent, as the Peltier coolers transfer heat from the cooling plates, to vent it away from the device/wearer.