You strike me as the type of refined gentleman that would like a weed torch.
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I've been gardening the same patch of dirt for nearly 30 years now. I won't plant until Memday weekend, but I'll start preparing the soil a couple of weeks before then.LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:14 pm It it the time of year where we start take interest in the weather by proxy of your tomatoes yet?
For that matter were you the first OOer to profess their joy in gardening before it became an OO thing? I'm not part of that group. I hate weeding with a thousand fiery daggers from hell, so I don't enjoy gardening. A result is I don't pay attention to the gardening threads that begin sprouting around this time of year every year.
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Reading about options makes me want to punch safety experts. "Don't use more than one power strip!" "Don't use power strips permanently - they're temporary fixes!" Yeah, fuck you. Apparently you still live in 1985 where people had one TV, one radio, and three lamps to worry about. What are the recommended solutions? There is exactly one: "Call and electrician to update your wiring and install more outlets!" I would have to ring my entire tiny living room with outlets every few feet (and every foot near the desk) to even come close. Installing more outlets and rewiring the entire house isn't a solution for people with budgets, nor for people living in the 20th century.
I actually thought about that, but too many of the chargers need to be in different places. I need my phone and watch near where I relax. Michelle needs her phone charger near her. Neither of us have space there for the battery chargers, tablet, Kindle, etc. The only place with room for the battery charges is the kids' room, but that's a terrible place to have the Kindle or tablet that I use in my room. I really like the idea of a central 'charge hub', and may try to work something out for a few of the items (maybe in my room), but the stuff still has to be spread out.
I need the phone near me whether it is charging or not. It is only occasionally on the charger, but when it is, I need it to be within reach.
Yeah, I've got some of both. As usual when I bitch about something, I've already either eliminated or implemented the easy solutions.Jaymon wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:22 pm Some newer table lamps have wireless phone chargers as the base, and often have usb plugs as well, that could reduce some clutter.
there are console controller stands that hold and charge multiple controllers off a single plug, if you don't have any of those already
I actually thought about previous descriptions of your house and walls as I was typing, but decide to finished the post anyway.Blackhawk wrote:Not here. Our walls are solid brick and predate electrically wired houses. When they ran wire the ran a piece of square conduit all the way around on the baseboard a few inches from the floor with outlets here and there along the way.
Absolutely. The last time (your post reminded me), spending money wasn't really an option. Thanks to the stimulus I have a little flexibility right now, and may ponder whether this would be a solution. Part of the problem is that I have a smattering of older devices that I don't use every day, but want charged when I do need them (for instance, since I got my Kindle Paperwhite for reading, I rarely use my tablet, but I don't never use my tablet.) I should consider just getting in the habit of cycling through which secondary device is charging each day as part of my routine. In the morning get up, make the bed, cycle the device. This product would help with that if I could find an appropriate space.The Meal wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:55 am BH,
I've suggested them as a product for you under a different context, but one possible solution to the too-many-things-to-keep-charged conundrum may be these cables (and associated adaptors). There are a handful of kits of different sizes and lengths to fit folks' needs. The one I linked has USB-C, USB-micro, Apple lightning, etc. connectors which you put into your devices, then also provides USB-A cables that have the associated adaptor at the opposite end. Where this adaptor meets your device, there are REE magnets which hold the charging cable in place. What it accomplishes is that every device can be charged by the same cable (regardless of what sort of adaptor it typically uses). In essence you could have a few of these cables in strategic locations, and then every chargeable device in your home could be juiced back up at any of those spots.
It's a pretty cost-effective and super convenient method in our household. I like it because the magnet connection is "universal" directionally, so I can read in bed and charge at the same time, without fear for which side of my body I have the device positioned because of how I need to route the cable. But the fact that everything is a simple magnet connection is also super convenient.
Worth considering, at least.
I know. This was one thing I actually dumped some research into. There are actually two circuits in the living room, but there is no way to arrange the electronics to even out the draw. Circuit #1 covers one side, circuit #2 covers the opposite side, but the entire room and a 6' wide door separates them. #1 has all four PCs and monitors (mine, Caiden's, the old spare-part-dump machine that I use second monitor style, and the one hooked to the TV that used to handle most of our TV needs (the Roku took most of that over starting this year), plus the consoles and router. Circuit #2 has the lamps, chargers, and AC. I'd love to work at least one of the PCs onto the second circuit, but it would require plugging it into the same outlet as theTheMix wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:24 am I got a mixed set of those little adapters a while ago from Monoprice. Might be worth checking there first. Though assuming you are Prime, Amazon does have the shipping perk.
Also, one thing to remember with adding more outlets, power strips, etc., is that the circuit will only allow a certain amount of draw. So adding more sockets to plug things in could result in your breakers/fuses blowing much more often. For charging cables that aren't all used at the same time, probably not an issue. Adding more computers, printers, tvs, etc., however, could cause problems. Before we renovated, I was using the tiny 3rd bedroom as a computer room. It only had a 10amp fuse. When I'd turn on the printer, everything else would die...
But but but... if your item doesn't stop working out of the blue, how will you know it's time to upgrade to this year's model?hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:58 pm i actually try to avoid buying anything with non-user serviceable Li-Ion batteries (which is just about everything that is portable, now). i don't like this trend.