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Oof, 5 more #Anker 🇨🇳 #powerbank models recalled - #fire 🔥 risk!

My #Sandberg "CHUNGUS" seems to be fine, according to incogniCopilot - the Danish 🇩🇰 seem to have their shiz together

..since 1985, in contrast to 2011.😏

If you're gonna pay for it anyway; choose the higher up-front cost, instead of the fire damage option. 😉

I personally think that i'm not rich enough to afford cheap shiz. I'm talking about finished commercial products - of course i still love my cheap(er) MacGyver jank. 😅

Let's recharge the #Sandberg 420-75 #powerbank, via a USB "PD65W" PPS, fed from my RD6006 bench top power supply.

I'm using my #Pinecil preset - if it's good enough for the soldering iron …it's perfectly adequate for charging the powerbank! 😅

I'm "re-commissioning" my old Siswoo C55 Android phone, as an auxiliary stop watch.

*sigh* 😩

NEITHER, my old #Samsung Galaxy S7, NOR #Ubuntu #Gnome #noble 24.04 LTS (Clocks app) is ABLE to run more than ONE stop watch, simultaneously!
…for FOX' sake! 🤬

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🧵 4/n

The #Sandberg 420-75 #powerbank cuts out (over-discharge protection) after ~11:25 hours of PD 20V output, powering my #Lenovo #IdeaPad tablet!

👉 Windows 10 pro, 1080p HEVC VLC video playlist loop, at 100% brightness
👉 yeah, nah, see thread above - imma not repeat the #benchmark setup specs, again.

edit: i'll keep the stopwatch counting, because i want to establish "my personal" use case maximum. Same specs; but the tablet runs off its internal battery now. Windows estimates +2:13 hours.

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🧵 3/n
I'm a n00b, regarding USB-C PD things.

Is the #USB #PD (20V) negotiation supposed to #fail at the 1st try (plug-in)?

(I thought, it's the mature fancy new shizz, that just wörks.)

This #Sandberg (420-75) #Powerbank seems to require several attempts, until it successfully negotiates 20V PD output!

I have to plug-in, fail, un-plug, and re-plug-in - "most times" PD 20V negotiation succeeds on the 2nd attempt (green icon) - a rather unreliable, cumbersome and inconvenient procedure, imho!

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🧵 2/n
at almost 10 hours, the #Sandberg (420-75) #powerbank charge indicator seems to decrease quicker than before - it dropped by 3% within the recent 10 minutes - now = 6%.

The tablet is still "fully charged" (99% is good enough).

This #benchmark is supposed to be an overall endurance test, including the internal tablet #battery.

Edit: the charge indicator of the powerbank begins to blink, at 5%. (USB-C PD 20V mode)

🧵 1/n
finally benchmarking the battery life of my #Lenovo #IdeaPad Miix 510-12IKB + the #Sandberg 420-75 USB-C PD #powerbank. 🍻 This photo was taken at ~8 hours of runtime. (👀 see also pic alt text)

Setup:
👉 tablet and powerbank was fully charged
👉 100% display brightness, muted audio
👉 1080p/<10mbps HEVC playing looped in VLC
👉 via iAX210, Wi-Fi 5/5gig AP, #sshfs for Windows
👉 "default AC plugged in" power profile

Currently: tablet still fully charged, powerbank at 22%, duration is 8:25 hours

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The payoff from Thiel’s early gamble in Trump is a lesson that has not passed others by.

As with their other obsession, #crypto, the best time to have invested in Trump was 2016,
and the second best time is today.

We already have a word for what we’re watching now:
it’s #oligarchy.

And we’ve already seen how this plays out.

In Putin’s Russia, political and commercial interests are one and the same.

Thiel is betting
– again
– on the same phenomenon in America.

Betting that he will be first among a new breed of tech bro oligarchs
– a new super-class of #broligarchs.

In Trump’s America, there will be hard choices for everyone, including the billionaires. --
Though it may be less hard for them.

Vance has said he wants to #deregulate crypto and
unshackle AI.

He’s said he’d #dismantle Biden’s attempts to place safeguards around AI development.

And while he has it in for the #legacy #monopolies of Google and Facebook
– the platforms that his ideological bedfellows in the “new right” see as part of the “censorship industrial complex” suffocating rightwing speech
– Silicon Valley is betting on a gloves-off, regulation-free, pro-business #goldrush.

Another Peter Thiel acolyte was on stage at the Republican National Convention last week,
electrifying the crowd:
#Hulk #Hogan.

Hogan is less well known as one of Thiel’s longterm bets, though in some ways he’s even more instructive than Vance.

In 2007, the online magazine #Gawker outed Thiel and ran a series of unflattering articles about him.

It took him years, but he ultimately got his revenge, covertly funding Hulk Hogan to the tune of $10m to sue the publication for invasion of privacy and forcing it into #bankruptcy.

On stage at the RNC, the wrestler, a permatanned orange, ripped off his shirt for the man who increasingly looks like he’ll be America’s next president.

Or, if JD Vance, is correct, the man who will prove to be the #Caesar he says America needs.

A man who he has already urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to
💥 “replace them with our people”,
to defy the courts and rule his own way.

Or, to put this in simple terms:
to foment a #coup.

Thiel knows what every investor knows. That a crisis is an opportunity.

And that if Trump succeeds in tearing up the federal administration,
there is not only billions to be made in the ensuing market #turmoil but that a new breed of oligarchs,
close to Caesar’s throne, will be the first to share the spoils.

And chief among them will be Thiel.

It’s not a stretch to see how #Palantir, his data-mining company
– that under the Conservatives got its teeth into the NHS
– will profile and surveil and target Caesar’s enemies.

And Thiel’s track record in winning, in successfully betting on the longest of odds, on biding his time, is maybe the most chilling of all the factors in a fortnight that has started to feel like the start of a run on the bank.

Biden’s debate disaster,
Trump’s victorious assassination survival,
and now Silicon Valley’s ascension to the presidential ticket.

The broligarchs have made their move
– and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means.

#tech#elite#Sandberg

Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

Less than a month after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016,
he invited the cream of Silicon Valley's #tech #elite to a meeting at his transition team’s headquarters at Trump Tower.

It was an awkward affair.
Facebook’s Sheryl #Sandberg, Google’s Larry #Page and Amazon’s Jeff #Bezos had facial expressions that ranged from a semi-rictus grin to full tech-mogul-in-a-hostage-situation.

But then, in a sense they were. There was a new sheriff in town – and none of them had seen him coming.

But one person was in his element. Seated next to Trump, uncomplicatedly beaming, was a South African-born tech entrepreneur whose early investment in Facebook had made him billions.

This was #Peter #Thiel.

And if this past week marked an inflection point, and there are many reasons to believe it did,
the seeds of it were planted in the summer of 2016.

This was when Trump was the outside candidate. The man no respectable west coast tech entrepreneur or east coast business elite wanted to touch.

Last week marked a decisive end to that era.

A week in which Donald Trump not only appointed a #tech #bro to be his second in command, choosing Senator JD #Vance to be his VP,
but in which he received the benediction of the tech bro-in-chief, #Elon #Musk.

Musk has said he will donate
💥 $45m a month to Trump’s campaign,
💥though his ongoing endorsement on X,
the platform he bought and owns, is worth countless millions more.

But it’s some lesser-known figures in Silicon Valley who last week boarded the Trump bandwagon who are perhaps even more telling.

#Marc #Andreessen and #Ben #Horowitz, who own one of the most storied and influential venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley,
have declared they’re all in for Trump alongside a host of lesser-known but important names who have either followed suit or who beat them to the punch,
including the #Winklevoss twins and investors and podcast hosts #Chamath #Palihapitiya and #David #Sacks.

Back in 2016, Peter Thiel was the voice in the wilderness. And in that meeting in Trump Tower, it was Thiel’s hand that Trump picked up and stroked.

(And whose data mining firm, #Palantir, picked up billions of dollars in contracts from Trump’s Department of Defense, and, most controversially, Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, where it profiled and surveilled migrants.)

The principle that underpins Silicon Valley investing is to bet early and bet big.

It worked for Thiel with Facebook. It worked for Thiel with Trump. And last week another of his bets paid off, though few could ever have predicted how spectacularly.

Because JD #Vance, the new potential VP, is Thiel’s creature.

He is a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers.
Thiel gave Vance a job at his VC firm, #Mithril #Capital, backed him to start his own venture fund, #Narya #Capital, then later invested $15m in his successful run for the senate.
Max Chafkin, Thiel’s biographer, describes Vance as his “extension”.

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chainBy Carole Cadwalladr

Ryne Sandberg was my childhood hero. I had a bedroom wall dedicated to his posters, baseball cards, and other items. It is hard to see heroes suffer. My dad was my other hero and I had to watch him suffer, too.

The stories I've heard about Ryne were inspiring. I've read his autobiography. An amazing person and the best second baseman I've ever seen play. I hope for a speedy recovery and rest and hope for his family.
#cubs #ryno #baseball #sandberg

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Ein US Bundesrichter hat soeben eine Offenlegung der gesamten Kommunikation von Sheryl #Sandberg und Mark #Zuckerberg “im Zusammenhang mit der Vertuschung des größten Vertrauensbruchs in der Unternehmensgeschichte” (Jason Kint) angeordnet.
Die Anordnung gilt für 2007-2020 …

[en]
Full ack to twitter.com/lyssaslounge Katharina Borchert:

“If you want to keep on top of the latest #Facebook [and #Trump] lawsuits you should definitely follow twitter.com/jason_kint

He is on a roll! If you don’t care about that, then follow him for his thoughts on digital media.”

twitter.comKatharina Borchert (@lyssaslounge) | TwitterLes tout derniers Tweets de Katharina Borchert (@lyssaslounge). Frmr Chief Innovation Officer Mozilla. Ex-CEO Spiegel Online. YGL. No ghostwriters harmed in the making of these tweets. Incl traces of irony + personal opinion. Palo Alto, CA