Joseph’s Machines: Pass the Pepper

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OK. I’m going to violate my policy shunning YouTube links on the main blog page. (Yes, I know any YouTube link brings along trackers.) Ya gotta see th
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That’s what happens when engineers have too much time on their hands! That was great

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I’m glad you DID, because I’ve never heard of these guys before.  Now I have to go watch a bunch of their videos.

I have to admit, though, that I physically cringed when they sacrificed a laptop in this one!!!  I almost never junk a computer, unless it’s so woefully beyond repair that it’s past any hope of salvage, at which point I try to cannibalize it for parts.  (Hopefully it was all but defunct, or they have great repair skills.)  Example: My present laptop is about seven years old and running pretty well, and the one before that is twice that age and functions fine as a Linux Mint tinkering platform.

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I have to admit, though, that I physically cringed when they sacrificed a laptop in this one!!! I almost never junk a computer, unless it’s so woefully beyond repair that it’s past any hope of salvage, at which point I try to cannibalize it for parts. (Hopefully it was all but defunct, or they have great repair skills.) Example: My present laptop is about seven years old and running pretty well, and the one before that is twice that age and functions fine as a Linux Mint tinkering platform.

Agree. I cringed when I saw that. I still use an old Windows 95 computer that is now over 25 years now. Plus one of my client has an ATM machine that has old Windows 98 so I have to have several old either working or parts as well to fix it when need. My current computer is a Windows Xp. The newest laptop has Windows 7. I have not got Windows 10 since it is the worse OS ever. Never plan to get it.

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For something that amazing… we forgive you.

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What in the ****? That was extremely boring. I finally turned it off midway as there was no point to it that I could see. I even had to open my most private browser, etc as youtube is not a place for those caring about their privacy.

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He is the Rube Goldberg of the 21st Century! BTW, I’ll save the young’uns the trouble of Googling “Rube Goldberg”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

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Did you spot this topic, posted by @wavy a couple of weeks ago?

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[WildBill]

Thanks for the topic link; I have seen it As of Now. As I replied to @wavy:

“For the bored…” AKA the Quarantined with More than Enough Time on Their Hands. Will be interested to see what the 3 Winners come up with in June!

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Had another visit to the Dentist today…came back and saw THIS…this was the first good laugh I’ve had in DAYS! (Yes, it hurt, but I was laughing so hard I couldn’t stop!!)

Goldberg has a worthy successor…

But is this some sort of visual analogy on how Windows patches are made?

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By far the best one I have seen yet. The Looney Tunes gang couldn’t do it that well.

Byte me!

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This contraption reminds me of some of the computer code I have had to debug and fix from time to time. It works (sort of), but good luck making any sense out of it!

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There’s a bunch of stuff like this; Sprice Machines are similar:  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sprice+machines

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Or you could play machines with The Incredible Machine 2 (abandonware). Hours of problem solving weirdness.

cheers, Paul

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I like OK gomusic group, they are good at this. check this out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c&t=172s

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OK. I’m going to violate my policy shunning YouTube links on the main blog page. (Yes, I know any YouTube link brings along trackers.)

If/when I go to YouTube – on my laptop browser if I clear cookies and on IOS – if I clear cookies, will that clear out YouTube trackers? If not, how do I clear? I use Duckduck go browswer on IOS and it has an auto clear option. I clear my cookies regularly on Firefox on Windows.  thanks.

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I have “DuckDuckGo privacy essentials” plugin in my chrome, which states, that can protect me against tracking tools. Also every day I run Malwarebytes to detect unwanted guests. I do not delete cookies periodically, just once in a while. Must say, that dont use 3rd party antivirus, just Windows Defender in Windows 1809 Enterprise.
Also I must state, that I do not visit any potentially dangerous sites like “adult” sites, or torrents on my computer.
I visit youtube A LOT, and if there is tracker in youtube link, what can we do about it?

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Same here, Defender, Duckduckgo, Malwarebytes, try to not to go to any unknown/suspect sites (I run virustotal  on url’s and files).  I have Adblock +, HTTPS everywhere, Privacy Badger.  Still, I don’t trust sites like You Tube and wonder what they are tracking, how can I ensure I am not being tracked.

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More info on trackers in this thread.

cheers, Paul

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OK; since my name’s Lyle, I guess I have to pass the pepper.  lololol

Very much enjoyed this one; actually passed the link to the youtube video on to my friends.   Big fan of Rube Goldberg contractions.   lol

 

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Many thanks for this heads up! One of the commenters mentioned that this what happens when engineers have too much time on their hands. I suggest that this brilliant young engineer did not have enough time, else he would have been able to get a pepper grinder to work from a drone hovering over his dinner plate. Anyway, this old man (and another Woody, BTW) was tickled by the video–even if it meant dealing with You Tube.

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