258: Some Real MacGyver #$@!%

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🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Brad's back from Western North Carolina, so it's time for a casual debriefing on being out there for two and a half weeks dealing with the Hurricane Helene aftermath, with a focus on all sorts of technical subjects like portable lighting strategies, acquiring and hooking up a generator in a hurry, making sense of the wiring layouts in older houses, remote work with almost no connectivity, dehumidifying and remediating a flooded basement, and, yes, some of the sillier computing artifacts that emerged in the course of the cleanup. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	So I plugged a smart plug that tracks power into my servers plug.
0:04.8	Why would you do that to yourself?
0:07.0	I was curious.
0:07.9	So we were talking at PC World the other day about small like Nuck style servers.
0:13.7	And I have this old B link.
0:15.2	I think it's a 12th generation cell around back there right now, which is, which I bought
0:19.0	specifically because it's a real low power drive.
0:25.6	Yeah. It's like, you know, under load, it goes, it goes fast enough. It has quick sync for video, but you can stream something on Plex without it busting up to like 100 watts, like my
0:30.1	old desktop PC, whatever. Right. Normally, I would say in this, I definitely fit into this
0:34.0	category that this is the type of thing you're better off not knowing, but you have made choices that at least give some reason for optimism.
0:40.1	Yeah, look, I'm looking at, I'm looking down the barrel of a $500 power bill every month.
0:43.6	Now, part of that is because, well, it's also my car, right?
0:47.4	Okay, sure.
0:48.1	So I'm not buying gas.
0:49.3	Sure.
0:49.8	Sure.
0:50.1	Now that helps, especially around here. As somebody, we'll get into it on the main episode, as somebody who pumped a lot of gas in a different part of the country recently.
0:57.1	Gas is very expensive in the Bay Area.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	But, but, so anyway, a big chunk of that is car.
1:03.8	That's fine.
1:04.4	I'm, you know, that's part of the deal.
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