Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular

[rubber_jonnie]

My current decongestion spray and a rattle on the can. I waited until it was empty before I dismantled it.. The rattle actually stopped by that point anyway..

Turns out the say line solution is in the foil bag and I presume the pressure was between the foil bag and the can itself.. I can only assume that the say line would be isolated from the air pressure inside.. Maybe is cheaper to do it that way than sterilise the air I suppose.....


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I use the same one, I can only guess it's a means to ensure the water remains sterile for the life of the can and that it doesn't get contaminated by the metal inside.

[exxos]

I had a odd banning issue which has been puzzling me..

So I tested some AI models to see if any of them would find it..

GPT - No
CLAUDE - Yes
GROK - Yes
COPIOLT - No

Pretty odd how sometimes some AI's are better at something but terrible at others !

[exxos]

Found a short film channel.. There's all-sorts.. Kinda Reminds me of black mirror..

Oh and this video isn't what it looks like :P





Another good one..





And yes it's the guy out of warehouse 13..

[exxos]

Need a new regulator, Can only find them in Farnell :roll: Their site has been broken since like forever ! CPC site never works either.

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So likely I will have to order the regulator from overseas now :sigh:

[exxos]

Well Farnell doesn't seem to like me at all today..

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In other news I have been trying to figure out what parts I need to build up the Falcon version of my power supplies.

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Problem being that I ordered parts from various places such as Mouser and LCSC. Some items I simply purchased a whole reel of 5,000 generic such as resistors because they were just so cheap anyway. Other parts I only ordered enough to do 100 PSU's. But "overshot" on some items because of price breaks mostly.

Figuring it all out would have taken me a entire day. So I thought I would just explain it all to AI, give it my order history, and BOM and let it figure it all out ! To my amazement it actually seems to have worked on it did a mind blowingly fantastic job !

This isn't the full list, but you get the idea of what it created...

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A lot of parts have already been purchased over the past year and sent to the UK PCB assembly company. I was mostly waiting for prices to come down a bit on some parts because they were insane.. But unfortunately some prices have also doubled on other stuff :roll:

[exxos]

Bad driver rant day.

So there is a crossroads on dawns estate. I was sat waiting to turn right. Traffic lights stopped traffic moving from left to right. I was stuck waiting to pull out. The oncoming car from the left looked to be letting me out. But I couldn't move as I'd be blocking the entire junction. So a traffic van guy starts blasting me with his horn waving his arms.. Like WTF. People these days seem to forgot your not supposed to block junctions. Really takes all my strength not to get out of my car and punch people. Frankly such people should be banned from driving as they clearly can't determine when it is and isn't safe to pull out.

It seems to span to a similar problem about blocking junctions to side roads. I see it evey single time I go out anywhere. Straight road, lots of side roads on the estate. Pretty much every junction gets blocked because nobody leaves a gap for oncoming cars to turn into the junction. This then causes a tailback to a roundabout a bit further up where traffic can no longer move around the roundabout. Which then causes tailback in 3 other directions. Even worse when cars enter the roundabout when traffic isn't flowing making things worse. Then as it's a busy road, it caused miles of tailback in each direction. Everywhere is now gridlocked. :roll:

But nope. We all sat stuck as all the roads are blocked everywhere. Just annoys the hell out of me. If drivers just left a gap on every side road then traffic wouldn't keep building up!! But nope, we all have to sit in miles of gridlock everyweek because one car has blocked a sideroad. :cussing:

I always let cars pass. It takes no effort. All it takes is stopping a few extra feet sooner and everyone wins. Feking idiots :roll:

Its pretty amazing the amount of smash ups on that road as well. There's speed cams and there's be a remembrance banner across the road for 2 years a a young girl got killed crossing the road. Was 2 police cars last week as a car somehow managed to drive into a lampost on a straight road. Going by the damage, likely speeding. Seems to be a weekly event and has been for a few years now.

All reasons why I live in fear of going out on the roads these days. Myself and my mum and dad have had people run into us writing off our cars. Its basically a ticking timebomb before someone runs into me again. Almost happened a few weeks back. A car tried to dash across the road and I had to swerve to miss running into him. Was hard as there was a car on the left on the junction waiting to pull out why which I almost hit trying to avoid the idiot.

Even before that, same road, it seems a car was speeding around the roundabout at the end of the road. A car was pulling out as it was clear. Then the speeding car hit the car pulling out and it hit it with such a force the car rolled over 3 times landing on its roof. Its amazing nobody was hurt or killed that day.. What a world..