// #eevblog — 2026-07-02
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03:20:26 <arch> if you guys don't have one already, get a dual-hose portable AC. works fantastic. obviously not as efficient as a window AC, but still, the extra marginal cost for a couple days of heatwaves a year..well worth the comfort for $200-300
03:30:56 * electrohead pats the emergency floor AC unit
04:26:34 <K> eeh, ourside we consider getting some form of AC, but then the heat passes and thought goes away
04:28:11 <arch> it's pretty much a necessity for me since i wfh. i need to be comfy or my work suffers lol
04:38:56 <electrohead> !fart arch
04:38:57 * EEVBot stopped trusting a fart, and messed all over arch
04:39:05 <electrohead> you get to suffer more lol
04:39:45 <arch> lol
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05:45:41 <MrMobodies> The hose AC's seems alright when plumb in through the wall in a house as long as, the sun's rays don't over power it through the windows and I have seen this in shops on the high street with very large or window fronts overpowering this little tiny thing.
05:46:16 <MrMobodies> https://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/26242077.hmp-whitemoor-prison-officer-relationship-murderer/
05:46:16 <EEVBot> [url] HMP Whitemoor prison officer in relationship with murderer | Cambs Times | www.cambstimes.co.uk
05:46:39 <MrMobodies> I bet they were spying on her since the first text got through.
05:47:06 <MrMobodies> and I don't mean the prison itself
09:37:35 * arch clogs up electrohead's AC with runny boogers
09:57:27 * electrohead strategically places a strong magnet on arch's power meter and disconnects his power
10:07:27 <MrMobodies> Photoinduction could play with electrohead all night long with his transformers and variacs
10:07:58 <MrMobodies> oops Photonicinduction
10:07:59 <MrMobodies> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9OJE9OpXui-gRsnWjSrlA
10:07:59 <EEVBot> [url] Photonicinduction - YouTube | www.youtube.com
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10:18:45 <arch> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddlnqy8zmqo
10:18:45 <EEVBot> [url] Village People frontman Victor Willis dies aged 74 | www.bbc.com
10:18:49 <arch> sad ymca =(
10:18:50 <arch> !ymca
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10:29:24 <Nothing\> weird, i just noticed the browser history on my phone is also the browser history for my PC, everything i've looked at on my phone is also on my pc's browser
10:29:27 <electrohead> I saw that earlier :(
10:29:28 <MrMobodies> There use to be a YMCA in Romford.
10:29:43 <MrMobodies> It was a very tall building not sure if is still there
10:29:51 <Nothing\> but, it doesn't work the other way around. looking at links on my pc doesn't put them in my mobile history
10:30:13 <Nothing\> very odd, but kind of useful if i want to continue browsing whatever i was looking at on the can lol
10:30:15 <MrMobodies> Yep it is still there
10:30:28 <MrMobodies> but now called "YMCA Thames Gateway Group"
10:30:32 <Nothing\> so, who else is in a heatwave today?
10:30:38 <Nothing\> we hit 48c today with the humidity
10:30:53 <Nothing\> i saw europe's got a hell of one going, too. And UK
10:31:04 <MrMobodies> it was 27c, uncomfortable but nowhere like last week
10:31:14 <MrMobodies> now it's nice and breezy
10:31:51 <Nothing\> that's the thing, it can be 27c here, but with great lakes on all sides of us, the humidity is through the roof, so the "feels like" temperature is more like 35c
10:32:38 <MrMobodies> at night when that happens, it's like a swimming pool but with a smell of grass and pig swine
10:32:46 <Nothing\> the usual summer cycle is it gets hotter and hotter and more and more humid until we finally have a bout of severe thunderstorms that cools everything back down and the cycle starts again
10:33:55 <MrMobodies> I remember in 2000 July or August, there was a heatwave, 32c I think, it only lasted 3 hours
10:34:02 <MrMobodies> and that was it
10:34:25 <Nothing\> lol
10:34:35 <Nothing\> yeah back then the heat waves weren't nearly as bad
10:34:44 <Nothing\> we used to have white christmases almost yearly, too
10:34:49 <MrMobodies> in from beginning to mid 2004 it was very hot under 30x but always cools down at the end of the day it cooled down
10:35:18 <MrMobodies> In Britain you only see white christmas and snow on television
10:35:22 <Nothing\> we'd usually have our first snowfall around late october, early november and by christmas we'd have a bit of accumulation. Now, I think we've had 2 white christmases in the last decade
10:35:25 <MrMobodies> unless you're in Scotland
10:35:55 <Nothing\> MrMobodies, really? I always remember seeing the ideallic victorian/london christmas stuff where there's a light layer of snow on the city
10:36:11 <Nothing\> i can't think of anything specific, but it's the unual imagery used
10:36:16 <Nothing\> i don't know why dr who comes to mind
10:36:24 <Nothing\> sorry, DOCTOR Who
10:36:46 <Nothing\> which, i wouldn't actually mind watching the David Tennant ones again
10:36:56 <Nothing\> or Matt Smith, he was a good one
10:37:10 <Nothing\> good story arc with amy and rory, but i digress
10:37:47 <Nothing\> ugh my bowels feel like a percolator
10:38:28 <Nothing\> my one laxitive literally simulates the effects of being lactose intolerant, it's a milk sugar that the body doesn't absorb, so it goes into your intestines where it pulls water in through osmosis.
10:38:43 <Nothing\> but it's also a feeding frenzy for all of the microbes that cause fermentation
10:39:20 <Nothing\> i literally have to turn myself upside down every few hours to get the gas to rise to the "top" in the case, the top being my ass, and let it come out.
10:39:29 <MrMobodies> ooh I mean't on the adverts
10:39:31 <Nothing\> kinda hard to do with a jacked up collar bone lol
10:39:43 <MrMobodies> the christmas adverts I mean when they put the snow on
10:39:45 <Nothing\> ohh really?
10:39:55 <Nothing\> i guess it's more a thing to appeal to foreigners and tourists
10:40:12 <Nothing\> i dunno, when I think of an ideallic christmas, I think of London
10:40:20 <Nothing\> or a victorian era farm
10:40:23 <MrMobodies> and they seemed to be knocking buildings down in London to build new buildings.
10:40:53 <Nothing\> but like, london with all the street shops with gold/bronze trim on them, a light dusting of snow. $20 chocolates in the windows of Sainsbury's
10:41:25 <Nothing\> and the streetfronts are all victorian era. The store facades.
10:41:45 <Nothing\> that's why i picture based on the representation drilled into my head by popular culture
10:41:49 <Nothing\> *what
10:42:52 <Nothing\> actually, Tom Scott filmed, or has been filming a series where he goes through each of the counties of England and showcases something remarkable, but not well known about it
10:43:46 <Nothing\> ah yeah, the last one i watched was in Derbyshire. He visited a ferret school.
10:44:09 <Nothing\> apparently ferrets are really useful animals when properly trained.
10:44:44 <Nothing\> or the radar dish at Jodrell Bank
10:45:06 <Nothing\> a foundary in Leicestershire
10:45:45 <Nothing\> it's been a neat series. I just wish he'd show where on the map these places are. My British Geography sucks.
10:52:13 <Nothing\> i wish i could do something nice for my mum to sorta say "thanks for everything you've done" ya know? Like, I almost wish I could pay her back all the money she spent on me, for one. But it's more than just money. It's the symbolism, the fact that she's been one of the very few things in my life to go the way society says it should go, that our relationship isn't broken, that she's always stuck by my no matter how many times my family fragmented.
10:52:13 <Nothing\> That even as a 40+ year old man, she'll still support me through my surgery and recovery and next surgery and everything. I can't even do it justice without flooding the chat
10:52:21 <Nothing\> which apparently i flooded the chat anyways, lol
10:53:01 <Nothing\> i like to slip her notes hidden in places i know she'll find them saying how much i appreciate her and everything she's done and everything. That always makes her day.
10:53:07 <Nothing\> but it's just not enough
10:53:30 <Nothing\> i guess there really is no ONE thing I can do, it has to be the sum of a bunch of things, like the notes.
10:54:06 <Nothing\> or i buy her random stuff from china. She's big into snoopy so I buy her snoopy earrings, or a roll of snoopy stickers because she likes putting stickers on things.
10:54:44 <Nothing\> thank god (literally) at least one thing went right in my life
11:10:56 <MrMobodies> ooh I am 41 and turning 42 on the week after Saturday
11:11:01 <MrMobodies> for another disco
11:11:42 <MrMobodies> I just hope the landlady goes on holiday. She was very angry last time with the choice of music
11:11:54 <MrMobodies> Nothing, house does this sound?
11:12:09 <MrMobodies> https://www.facebook.com/100063643150499/videos/3222705341246315
11:12:10 <EEVBot> [url] The Top House at Coates on Reels | www.facebook.com
11:12:42 <MrMobodies> wow, it now has 7100 views compared to 5000 a few days ago
11:20:00 <MrMobodies> Unfortunately even with exposure I don't think the village pub is geared up for large amounts of people from the cities.
12:05:20 <Nothing\> MrMobodies, 42's a good number for obvious reasons. But, I've found since about 30 birthdays have been anything but happy
12:05:34 <Nothing\> especially with middle aged health issues cropping up
12:06:06 <Nothing\> diabetes, weight gain, cholesterol, discovering that literally everything you thought was food is, for all intents and purposes, poison
12:06:20 <Nothing\> as in you can't eat it daily without suffering serious healthy consequences
12:06:35 <Nothing\> but, being literally impoverished, you have no choice
12:07:29 <Nothing\> health canada's even taken to putting warnings on food if they contain excess fat or sugar or whatever and absolutely everything i have has one or more such warnings
12:08:43 <Nothing\> heh, i figured i can get a headstart on physio by doing bicep curls every time i have a puff on my vape
12:09:21 <Nothing\> i mean, that's a half pound weight, so it's not insignificant, and to do that 120 times a day is surely going to do something good. lol
12:30:07 <MrMobodies> Back, found a problem with the Scummy chipset drivers, It's called touchguard from the Luxpad drivers. When I touch a key it locks the touchpad STUPID IDEA!
12:30:34 <MrMobodies> Good Canada is starting to label up things
12:31:43 <MrMobodies> there are sensitivity settings but nothing to turn it off and INHIBITS me like the overzeaous developers know better. Their use to be settings for it years ago. Now I have to find it in registry like I did a few months before.
12:31:56 <MrMobodies> I think the previous one was alps
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12:58:50 <MrMobodies> Manager to turn off that piece of sh*t
12:58:51 <MrMobodies> https://superuser.com/questions/1294092/no-option-to-stop-synaptics-touchpad-disabling-on-keypress
12:58:52 <EEVBot> [url] windows 10 - No option to stop Synaptics touchpad disabling on keypress - Super User | superuser.com
13:00:00 <MrMobodies> Sarcasm: "Advanced thinkers for the mass majority!. Mass Majority = stupid and confused, don't know what they are doing and DON'T USE touching their touchpad at the same time as typing on their keyboard."
13:06:56 <Nothing\> okay that's weird
13:07:23 <Nothing\> my smart tv turns off and then back on real quick every time i switch my fan
13:08:04 <Nothing\> which leads me to believe there's some sort of inductive kickback occuring and the numbnuts who designed the fan couldn't spend the 5 pence for a 4007 or equivalent
13:10:03 <Nothing\> i wonder if my meter has some peak voltage detection feature i could use. I feel a bit iffy about using my scope on mains even with resistors to bring the voltages down
13:10:17 <Nothing\> and i'm woefully out of practice in terms of my practical skills
13:13:24 * Nothing\ pokes #eevblog
13:13:35 <Nothing\> soccer?
13:13:48 <Nothing\> or mexico?
13:13:56 <MrMobodies> that happens to one of my monitors sometimes
13:14:03 <MrMobodies> a HP LP2065
13:14:13 <MrMobodies> I have them still and they still work
13:15:02 <Nothing\> MrMobodies, odd. Most devices in North America have a little notice printed on them saying they're complaint with FCC regulation such and such where they need to be able to accept interference from other devices and still function
13:15:29 <Nothing\> although it occurs to me now that could mean function as in not break beyond repair, rather than just having a hiccough
13:15:53 <MrMobodies> That touchguard/touchsense/smartsense don't gaurd anything. With all that gesture crap hidden and turned on in the driver causes the user to make more mistakes based interpretations of features they didn't know existed.
13:16:03 <MrMobodies> ooh
13:16:12 <MrMobodies> I thought they needed to be FCC complaint
13:16:32 <Nothing\> i could be misinterpreting the law, but so did i
13:16:35 <MrMobodies> unless they come from some cheap Chinglish source from China
13:16:39 <Nothing\> law/mandate what have you
13:16:51 <Nothing\> MrMobodies, lol yeah chinesium's exempt from all rules
13:17:24 <Nothing\> i've even seen honest to goodness radioactive jewelery you're supposed to wear to give health benefits
13:17:40 <Nothing\> marketed as "negative ion generators"
13:17:40 <MrMobodies> does it really
13:17:58 <MrMobodies> and what benefits are those they think give
13:18:12 <Nothing\> lol of course not. It's just powdered thorium oxide in an ampule most times, or it's baked right into the plastic/rubber/whatever
13:18:45 <Nothing\> but god help you if you get one of the pen ones that has a glass ampule full of powdered thorium oxide that will get absolutely everywhere if/when you break it
13:18:52 <Nothing\> including in your lungs and stomach
13:19:17 <Nothing\> MrMobodies, i think the general benefits the old radium sales people of the 1950s pitched
13:19:51 <Nothing\> just vague claimes of improved vitality, sex life (of course), health in general, more energy, and other such vague claims
13:20:44 <Nothing\> this was a couple of years ago i know a bunch were investigated by the NRC and taken down
13:21:04 <Nothing\> i'm sure they're still out there, though. Even if under a different product description
13:21:21 <Nothing\> something with slightly different health benefits
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14:09:41 <MrMobodies> Smartsense was interferring so when typing it'd lock the touchpad, not sure what register value so found an older driver from 2017 with the settings to turn it off
14:10:27 <MrMobodies> Interference from manufacturer's IDEALOGY and fixed perception of the user that they WON'T USE the keyboard whilst using the touchpad
14:11:55 <MrMobodies> I use to play a port of Wolfenstein3d on my W700 using the touchpad and pointer... what a STUPID Idea.
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22:56:44 <steve30> wayback machine is slow today
23:13:07 <electrohead> wonder if they are being DDoS'd or something
23:13:11 <electrohead> !caffeine
23:13:11 * EEVBot turns electrohead into a rockstar
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