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From the fact that the writer said his concrete house was not meant to be habitable without power, I suspect he means to run an air conditioner.
It's not hot in Ukraine at all - it's actually quite cold right now.
Said another way: the conductor is rated for amps and doesn't care about volts, while the insulation is in volts.
In an urban environment, there are many opportunities to salvage. Industrial areas especially have good pickings.
Rural environments are limited by the lack of salvage opportunities.
Don't bother trying to salvage wire from vehicles for anything substantial. Find the lowest effort option to improvise based on what's available.
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I'm from Sarajevo, spent two years in civil war as a child. This post brings memories, and yes that's exactly right - things that wouldn't fly in million years in my current home in Canada, were perfectly viable solutions in warzone. Best (worst) example - hand made natural gas lamps: use medical transparent tubing into a tennis ball as distribution joint, with four metal ballpoint pen tubes stuck into it, light the…
> things that wouldn't fly in million years in my current home in Canada, were perfectly viable solutions in warzone. You’d be surprised! I’m near Ottawa and in the past year I’ve been without power for 8 days, 5 days, and a handful of other times. I’m on well water and our septic system requires a pump. When the power is out we have no water, sewer or heat. The cell tower nearby only has about 1-2 hours of reserve p…
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My life was built on people who helped me out like this. Tangentially, the real MVP is the home depot guy who helps you find the one right-sized screw that costs $0.5….
There's no better reminder that only a thimbleful of useful human knowledge is actually found on the internet. I recently spent 4 hours online trying to solve a carpentry problem and not even knowing what words to use. I finally called my dad and in less than 2 minutes it was solved.
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Now _that_ would be a good, hard challenge for ChatGPT and its ilk. Could you post question and correct answer here? Preferrably also something approximating the original version (when you still didn't know the correct technical terms).
The communication of solutions to untrained audiences through the employment of simplified semantics is definitely an interesting field of linguistics. Visual smacks of Ikea.
I can show you how to do the thing with the chisel in this particular type of wood and humidity and grain and angle and pressure, but I can't write it down.
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For what it's worth the original poster seems to be from Sudan, another current (and more recent) war-zone. It's this part that made me think of that general area: > our concrete homes are not designed to be habitable without AC power. and a little web-searching confirmed it. The reason being that concrete-made buildings in Ukraine are definitely habitable right now without AC (I live in a concrete-made building myse…
It's unclear if he means Alternating Current or Air Conditioning with AC. I hope it's the former, because the latter needs kilowatts, not the 270 W they have. "Concrete" can also mean "the cement based building material" or "specific", as in "this specific building needs power to be habitable, because " (pumping drinking water for example, which is mentioned). The comment "because Russia and America are busy in Ukrai…
"Water evaporative coolers are very effective in Sudan because of the dry weather and they consume little energy and also use ceiling fans for cooling and other things like split units but I'm not planning to turn that power hungry device those days."
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Yeah, us old timers that can remember the days before LLM just called this social engineering. Customer Service: How can I help you today? hacker: I need help resetting the password to this account that is totally mine. CS: Sure, I just need you to verify a few things. hacker: I'm not in a place where I have that info, but I totally swears it that I'm the person I say I am, but I'm really in a jam right now and you'd…
I mean, every time I call tmobile I am my wife, because only she can make changes on the account. PROVE IM NOT HER OVER A PHONE
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Unless the ethernet cable is made from copper clad steel, which is sometimes used for ethernet cables and very common for consumer grade phone and RF cables.
I've heard of copper clad aluminum but never copper clad steel Ethernet.
It's actually pretty cool - it's very flexible and convenient.
It's difficult to solder and impossible to crimp though (so we use these factory-made), and I would not use PoE with it (the gauge - 32AWG - also means that it is really thin, and as it's steel, the resistance must be terrible. But for data, it works good.)
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Part of the cause is due to the warlords needing to seize power rather than handing it to civilian government established in the latest revolution.
> warlords needing to seize power Really? They needed to? And if these individuals needed to destroy their country in order to save it, that is also the West's fault for providing the population some encouragement to overthrow the last warlord?
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Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo. Your understanding of the world is warped by the safety and availability of goods. It's incredible when you get in places where the state doesn't function at let's say 50% of what we get in the first world. It's one hell of a learning experience.
I was recently in northern Vietnam. You could spend an hour having a simple conversation via Google Translate. Made me realize there are still big chunks of the world where you can't take basic literacy for granted in 2023, even of people in their 30s.
To me it reads like you didn't know the local language but they're the illiterate ones for not knowing your language? Or did I completely misunderstood your story?