hackaday.com mostly.

Everything else is “big tech adds [anti-feature], shoves AI more places no one asked for”.

Yep. It’s for an outdoor weather node on a metal pole, so damage would be fairly minimal if it had a bad day. It’s also only charging at like 200 mAh (max) since it’s got only a small 1W solar panel hooked to the charge controller. The only other concern would be summertime temperature, but I worry about that regardless of the cell.

Yeah, and my newer powerbanks all do PowerDelivery for 5, 9, 12, and 20 V.

I’m assuming watt-hours would be universal for them all (watts are watts, as the saying goes).

I may be re-thinking my morals for things like that here soon. My legitimate career relies heavily on federal grant money, and my skills aren’t rare enough to hope France will adopt me. Maybe I’ll start a meme coin or something lol.

That’s true, but this one came from a known (local) vendor. I took it back, and they were happy to refund it. Since they were gonna toss it, I asked if I could keep it (it works well enough to power an ESP32).

I’ve thought about selling out my morals, but realized I could never live with myself.

I guess they could still lie about watt-hours, but buying anything based off of the reported mAh capacity is a crapshoot.

Ended up with a clearly fake 18650 in my collection. Weighs way less than an older 2200 mAh one but it’s label says 9900 mAh. Again, it’s an 18650.

The culprit:

Yeah, I mean to say Dimension and typed Precision. My bad.

I had an Optipex from that era too. It was “horizontal” but could also stand vertically. It was the business model.

This one, but beige:

The image is the Precision Dimension model which was the consumer version of it.

I’m exactly that old.

Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we’re all thinking of:

It’s one new PC, Michael. How much could it cost? $10?

I think the safety guidelines are 3 seconds of reaction time which comes out to about 1 car length per 10 MPH of speed.

But yeah, good luck with that because other drivers just see that as space they can merge.

I’m not even a vegan (nor fully vegetarian), but this is just so far off the mark. There’s many sources of protein besides meat, and even more if you’re an lacto-ovo vegetarian.