GNU: Not Unix

Yeah that might work, or the glass cutter idea is probably not bad either.

Really there's not a lot of liquid in the neck of wine bottle, it fills up fast compared to the rest.

Collecting the blue pages and not the red?

You might find that this game gets a bit difficult and the puzzles ramp up as you go farther along. I did finish the game when I was a kid, but my dad had gotten a walkthrough (that was physical, included a map, and was written from the perspective of a fictional person in the world documenting what they did to get through the game)

The maze and the music tone-matching with the organ were especially difficult if I recall.

Also there are actual novels to go with the world that my dad had too. I never played the other games but the books were okay. They cover the back story of how in the heck do books transport you anyway.

Yeah I see it too, just a bit like Alan Tudyk.

Imo the wine bottles may just be too narrow compared to how long the roots take to start? Not sure there's any thing you can do besides more time.

Regarding the part about how much power is sent to a device using a cable, that has to do with the charger (the plug or wall wart the cable is plugged into) and not the cable itself. Usually the charger will have text on it saying what voltage and how many amps it can deliver. And for your purposes of "how much power" you likely want to know how many amps. More amps is more power. But the device you plug in to charge needs to also support negotiating that many amps from that charger (different charger types as well and not all are supported by all devices, they all fall back to few amps if negotiation fails so it will still charge but it won't fast charge)

Without getting into it too far: it matters more what version of USB or HDMI the cable supports rather than the cable itself.

Ie: the cables are just wires. More wires (according to the usb or HDMI spec) = better cable (okay this is a huge simplification...) But the actual speed and power that can go through the cable depends on the things at either end of the cable more than the cable itself. The cable just connects them.

So I would look for the USB cable that supports USB 3.0 (look for a blue bit on the USB A plug, the plastic is blue to designate 3.0 A commectors) If it's USB C to C then it gets iffy, there are cable makers that make their cables cheap by providing enough wires for usb 2.0 (or even sometimes cables only have enough to just charge, not send data) but not 3.0. It can also still be worth it to have a 2.0 cable, so I wouldn't throw those all out just because they're not the latest and greatest, but the 3.0 ones are the ones to definitely hang on to, and will also have been the most expensive because of having the most wires.

At least then it's still OK.

Nice write up, also glad to see someone using bear blog in the field! Adding your blog to my RSS reader!

I think the move is to start with chickens, then graduate to cows. That's how my friend taught me many years ago when I started osrs (coming from RS3)

It is very tedious at first, I usually do cycles of playing and not playing because of the amount of grinding involved

Right, the Ford focus I bought for $17k in 2018 goes 350 or so miles on a full tank. I want at least that much range to consider a replacement.

Plus yeah, we're rural enough chargers aren't everywhere. Hopefully the range will be better and more chargers in a few years... And probably will keep the focus for the long cross county road trips.

I'm waiting to see regular reviews of those slate trucks and maybe a second model year/iteration. And maybe waiting to see if they eventually get better range. Sure not having a radio or infotainment is overkill, and only hand crank windows is overkill, but for $25k-30k and no big screen, it seems quite reasonable if all I want is a reliable box that moves around.