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Living under a rock
Living under a rock and feeling completely out of touch with everyone else.
I rarely buy new items unless I have to due to me being a tight Scotsman however recently I have bought a few new items and their performance surprised me somewhat and made me feel a little like I’ve been living under a rock. I thought this would make a good topic for an HPR show.
SSD 256GB USB stick (Refer to picture 1 and 2)
It is a double ended USB thumb drive with a USB A one side and USB C the other.
I couldn’t believe how fast it was on my Mac; copying a 700MB file seemed almost instantaneous.
I couldn’t actually believe it had copied the file and thought it had been an error!
I tried it on my old PC running Ubuntu and was getting 40MB/sec write speed!
Even more surprising was copying files between a USB hard drive and the SSD usb stick, with both connected to my Raspberry Pi. This was achieving a sustained write speed of 60MB/Sec.
I’ve never seen anything faster than 40MB/Sec.
I think I’ve been living under a rock for a number of years while the rest of the world moved on!
My only concern with this technology is that I am not totally convinced about the long term reliability of SSDs. The SSD is great for transferring files back and fourth to different devices however for now I’ll stick to spinning hard drives on my PC for long term storage as speed is not so important to me.
Picture above shows how the USB SSD stick opens
LED Lantern (Refer to pictures 3)
This LED Lantern was recommended by my mother
We purchased it from Tesco’s.
!
The LED Lantern is 9 inches x 3.5 inches
The light output is phenomenal. It is diffused and fills a good-sized room with light.
It has a low output mode, which is still very usable and will increase the running time.
It also has a flashing option, which is likely only useful in an emergency.
I think the reason they were selling them so cheap was that the date code of the included AA alkaline batteries was almost out of date.
Picture above shows the new LED latern that I bought from Tescos Super Store in the UK
Laser printer HP M209dw (Refer to picture 4)
I needed to replace my old Epson inkjet printer with a new printer as it recently failed after 20 years of use! I covered the failure of my old printer in HPR episode
I'm finding it really nice to have crisp, clear, trouble-free printing again.
It’s also very nice that the printer does double-sided (duplex) printing.
I’ve been putting my new printer to good use printing out various
New Raspberry Pi4 server install
.
My new raspberry pi 4 is running an up to date distribution. This distribution has a corresponding up to date version
,
,
and found over 20 references to possible incompatibilities between the latest version of SSH and the old version of SSH running on my PiFace Raspberry pi!
Car tyre problems
Mrs. X’s car had a long-standing tyre problem.
The air pressure in one of her front tyres kept going down.
This caused a warning light on the dashboard to come on.
At first, it was taking a long time for the light to come on after it was pumped up.
Over time the leak got worse and the light came on more quickly after the tyre was inflated.
We eventually took her car to our local garage; they couldn’t find the fault.
The tyre leak continued to get worse.
We eventually took the car to a car tyre specialist called
.
They said that the tyre valve had a sensor and this couldn’t be separated from the tyre valve and that we would need to go to one of their specialist branches that can replace this. This would require a new sensor which would need to be reprogrammed. They warned us the repair could be expensive.
The following week, we visited the specialist Farmers Autocare in Corstorphine Edinburgh. They took a closer look and found that it was actually leaking around the edge of the valve. They ground down any corrosion around the alloy wheel, refitted the valve and added sealant.
In the end, the repair bill ended up being very reasonable.
We were warned that each of the four valves has a battery installed and that they have a finite lifespan and that due to the age of the car, any one of the four batteries could fail at any time.
Each of the valves would be expensive to replace!
I guess this is the price you pay for the complexity in modern cars.
Kindle pre 2013 No longer supported by Amazon
I have one of the affected devices. It’s a
” whose catch phrase was “I don’t believe it!”.
Roku streaming stick Feb 2026
Our old
. When I visited her I also found this a bit slow and buggy.
I previously tried replacing our Google Chromecast with an
for a full refund.
Mrs X came up with the idea of buying a
and didn’t expect to be much good due to the low price (£27 UK).
We bought the
and
. I have Kodi running on a
cable connected to the TV. These control signals are sent using
on my TV stopping it from now controlling
very often these days and I can also control Kodi using an old
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