Mint, thank you! It stops doing it for a while, then decided it needs to warn you every time god a while, and so on. It’ll be great not to have that!

iPhones will do this even when you’re connected to an external device. Like I’m using you as a source, I want high signal-to-noise ratio, not constant nannying nonsense

Yeah, extracting an estimated 64 Trillion(!!!) in wealth from the subcontinent probably had little effect, nothing to see here

The Gameboy camera incident is wonderful

And by the look of it, access to and collection of data that he should never have been able to obtain.

I have a chisel from 1910, and a vice from the 1890s, the barn doors I open to get at them are from the early 1800s, and the well that our water comes from is probably a hundred years older than that. Most of the doors in our house come from its first renovation, in about 1880.

“I am a man that’s made of meat, While you’re on the internet, looking at feet”

Now start jailing the executives responsible

Yeah, that’s pretty much my attitude. Why am I worrying about a watt here and a watt there when muppets are constantly asking LLMs inane questions and getting them to make dodgy hentai.

I have a whole bunch plugged in constantly for various synth nonsense. Running off solar, I thought it would be worth seeing how much of a difference it makes turning everything off at night, and basically it wasn’t worth the effort. It’s like a percentage point on top of the things like my fridge that run constantly, and is way less than using my toaster once a week. That said, if you’re on mains, it’s probably a worthy consideration if a lot of people were to do it, but it’s also probably comparable to using ChatGPT once a day or something

In fairness, my aesthetic of choice is brutalism, so if I became ungodlyly famous, my house would very much look like a bunker, which is proof you can have your cake and eat it

That’s an interesting build, thanks!

Fantastic, thanks, that’s a good resource even if they don’t have the specific ones I’m after

I’ve always wondered how Ventongimps got its name

I should have specified, shouldn’t I? Auto/commercial/plant. I seem to only buy gear that doesn’t have readily-available workshop manuals

You may have found my specialist subject… I’m assuming you’ve seen Project Binky from Bad Obsession Motorsports, and through that possibly Fanatik Builds, but there are also a couple of scandiwegian YouTubers doing excellent work. First and foremost Peter Bjorck is quite phenomenal, his lambo-powered Volvo is on of my favourite builds, and his skill and humble manner is great to watch. Then there’s the Meteor Intercepter, that’s an interesting project.

Back in the uk, Soup Classic Motoring is doing a nut and bolt resto of a classic lotus, Mike FPE has built a DTM-inspired Fiesta that’s pretty mental, and the lad from Council House Creations is only building little stuff, but what he manages to build with basic tools is still very well engineered and pretty interesting.

The StanceWorks F40 build is jaw-dropping, and The Sendy Club is Robin Shute building what will probably be the next dominant car on Pikes Peak. That’s proper race-winning engineering, with the occasional bit of work from Superfast Matt thrown in.

Wesley Kagan is building a sort of v12 vintage f1 car. His posts are sporadic, and not always thematically-related, but he’s one of my favourites nonetheless. Like he made a working copy of the Konigsegg (sp?) free valve system. On his own. For fun.

Cassidy in the Preacher graphic novels

Hsotnikcah

Kick Up the Dust and Stitched Up by Barbarian Hermit, though frankly the whole album has been pretty much on repeat