Summer's Coming!

@TechConnectify thanks for the video! 🌞

Technology Connections:
Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mBeYC2KGc

#airconditioner #klimaanlage #TechnologyConnections #technology_connections

Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them

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Watching "Technology Connections: Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up" on YouTube , even though I've never had a ceiling fan. Ceilings in the house are too low for them. https://youtu.be/_KWdCqpXB7A?si=Y96UfCCClFSR8mSl #TechnologyConnections
Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up

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Happy end of Wednesday! Alec's talking about ceiling fans for over an hour.

Fetch me my footstool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KWdCqpXB7A

#TechnologyConnections

Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up

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Attention fellow former employees of the #MuseumOfScienceAndIndustry (Chicago, get over it the rest of you)

There is a deeeeeeeeep cut in the latest #TechnologyConnections video.

No, I'm not going to explain it. If you want to learn, you will have to go visit #MSI and the landings of its Green Staircase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnUFH5GX_fI

Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars

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I love learning new stuff. And that feeling of a 💡 going off in my head.
Today, an older #TechnologyConnections video about #typewriters: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=YE0U018Copw

I am old enough to have used a typewriter in my youth. But as I am German, I was taught stuff in German.

A few years ago, when installing I-dont-remember-which-Linux, it wanted to auto-detect my keyboard and landed on [German, no dead keys]. Which I agreed with, as all my keys are in use.
So on every other Linux since then, I used that keyboard.

And when I restarted my french lessons, I wondered why the accents don't work. Must be a linux thing, just install a french keyboard.

NO! 🤦
Alec explained in passing that some keys (such as accents) don't advance the carriage and thus are "dead" keys.
And my 💡 went off. I feel so stupid and enlightened now 😅
@pseudonym @futurebird i wish to know this as well. Why have a popcorn button if we're not supposed to use it?
Maybe #TechnologyConnections has an answer?

If watching someone get in the middle lane and stay there for the next half an hour upsets you, then Alec Watson's latest video is not for you. (-:

There are a couple of points where he is being overtaken on both sides simultaneously.

#Indiana traffic regulations allow all this. Their rules aren't the same as ours.

https://youtube.com/v/AtaG0PQYeVQ

#MiddleLaneOwnersClub #TechnologyConnections

Sights and Sounds: Let's listen to a Toyota hybrid do its stuff

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I'd love it if our tech overlords could be bothered to hire some good sound designers again who understand the tension between #SoundPollution and #Accessibility.

Because the default choices that come with a phone these days all kind of suck. (t c) #TechnologyConnections

Ha! I can swipe Alec's set!
I'd tag him, but I can never remember his damn handle.
#TechnologyConnections

@Wen

Yes. And this was the case even before #DonaldJTrump started the #FIFAWorldWar. I spotted the irony of the #TrumpTariffs et al. pushing things Green last year, and I definitely was not the only one. So I think that future history will already draw this conclusion.

To pile on the anecdata: #TechnologyConnections last week rushed out a new video aimed at explaining the basics to U.S.A. people who are finally thinking about #ElectricVehicles.

#TrumpWar