I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.
On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆
I was an adult during that time, and I don't recall it being anywhere near as annoying. Well, except the TV and radio adverts spelling at you like "...or visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot Company dot com. Again, that's double-you double-you double-you dot C-O-M-P-A-N-Y dot com."
YMMV, but it didn't get annoying until apps entered the picture and the only way to deal with certain companies was through their app. That, of if they did offer comparable capabilities on their website but kept a persistent banner pushing you toward their app.
The baguette cushioned his fall and the striped shirt scared away any predators. The beret was just a beret, though. Even if you've fallen down a 130ft ravine that's no excuse to look dowdy.
My X1 Carbon does now. But it used to drain to empty after a day or two even if it was turned all the way off. Drove me crazy.
The problem ended up being the always-on USB setting in the BIOS. For some reason, even with nothing connected, that would drain the battery until it was completely flat. Once I turned that off, it'll sleep for weeks like you said.
OP, maybe check the BIOS settings for "Always on USB" or similar and disable that?
Yeah, I didn't watch this video b/c I'm at work, but I have seen his ebike video so I'm assuming the construction is similarly well thought out.
It's just that all the fuses and BMSs can't protect against a dodgy cell that decides to self-immolate. For cheap, disposable devices that are only meant to be charged 5-10 times or less and then thrown away, I'm super wary of the batteries that are chosen for those. Have seen too many things burst into flames and even expensive well cared-for devices turn into spicy pillows.
I predate both of those events by multiple decades lol.
Printers were well established even on the Trash-80 I grew up with. The bloatware drivers aren't really what I'm talking about. I suppose Clippy could be considered prior art to the whole "shoving AI in your face" but at the time I was a WordPerfect fanboy.
I learned a long time ago to never install manufacturer printer drivers. Or, at least, never install them from the provided Setup.exe.
They've always installed a bunch of bloatware (HP has always been the worst but other brands are just as bad).
If you look in the setup folder, there's usually the raw drivers you can install from Device Manager. If the driver package is just a single .exe file, you can usually unpack it with 7zip and get at its inner contents.
If that fails, the system-included HP LaserJet 4200 PCL driver is about as close to a universal print driver as you can find lol.
I've upcycled disposable vape batteries for lots of projects, but never anything that draws significant amounts of current. Usually powering ESP8266/ESP32 projects that draw a couple hundred mAh at most.
While I'm all for keeping thing out of the landfill, I would be absolutely terrified to put that many questionable quality lithium batteries into an array let alone try to draw any substantial amperage from them.
Been playing with a Raspberry Pi Zero clone (Orange Pi Zero 2W) to make a portable travel router + app server + party box + development environment. Basically seeing what all I can cram into four 1.5 GHz cores and 4 GB of RAM in a Pi Zero form factor.
Its primary upstream is wifi (but can use ethernet or USB tethering with some reconfiguring) and also presents an access point. AP, ethernet, and USB ethernet gadget interfaces are bridged into the "LAN" segment.
Has multiple VPNs (one for privacy and one for connecting to my internal stack), PiHole for DHCP services and ad blocking, PairDrop for sharing files, CodeServer for development, MPD and Snapcast for listening to music (plus another Pi Zero to act as a satellite speaker), Kiwix with the full 120 GB dump of Wikipedia and pretty much every dev doc I could load, Calibre Web with most of my book collection loaded, and Searx-NG to provide a portable search engine that's not infested with AI and SEO slop.
It's also running Nginx with real Let's Encrypt certs so all the web apps it hosts are properly running behind HTTPS.
Still working out some kinks / hardware quirks and don't have the scripting automation complete to cast from Bluetooth to Snapcast server, but that does work on the bench.
I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.
On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆
server { listen 443 ssl; http2 on; server_name www.mydomain.xyz; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem; ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/conf.d/tls/shared/dhparam.pem; ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; ssl_session_timeout 15m; ... location ~* { return 301 https://aarp.org/; } }