Technology Connections

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I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now. he/him https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections

A yellow game boy color playing Tetris. It is on the high score screen, and the three high score names are "great fuckin plonk"
A screenshot from the Car Sized website showing a Honda Civic hatchback next to a Chevy Trax. The two vehicles are remarkably similar in size but the bottom of the Trax body is higher off the ground than the Civic
An electrical box with a fitting connector attached on the wall and two wires coming out. One wire is yellow and the other is grey
A cross arm with four three light signal heads on them. Each signal has the top red light shrouded with a larger and longer shroud than the other two lights
A close up of the back of the can which shows various benefits to this product. This claims it is a good source of fiber.
A refrigerator shelf with red cans on the left and yellow cans on the right. They are branded "Plezi Fizz" and one flavor is cherry limeade and the other is strawberry lemonade. The artwork is strange, with an alligator wearing headphones on one and a lion wearing sunglasses on the other
An Ionna electric car charge dispenser in the foreground with a Menards store in the background
A parody of the KFC logo where Colonel Sanders is replaces with Jesus. The logo says JFC
An otherwise normal-looking Illinois license plate with the characters K9GHX but squeezed into the left-hand side of the plate are the words "HAM RADIO" written vertically in two columns of tiny letters
An Illinois Fleet Permanent license plate reading FP 256328
The interior of the dishwasher features on the technology connections. YouTube channel. Inside on the bottom rack is an engine block, crankshaft, and flex plate. The top rack has a cylinder head and other various parts
The humidistat showing current relative humidity of 36% but it is not running.
The bottom of a dishwasher with a square heating element (covered in some mineral buildup) surrounding a rectangular plastic piece with slots and in the center is a depression with a removable vaguely triangular piece with large-ish holes.
The menu board at Runza. The first three combos are the weird burrito things, and they also have fairly typical cheeseburgers and chicken strips and other fast food fair
The exterior of a Runza restaurant. Awnings advertise that it has "frings" (a mix of french fries and rather terrible onion rings), runza sandwiches, famous french fries, legendary burgers. The marquee sign out front says "Philly runs a we meat again"
A Hyundai Ioniq 5 stopped in roughly 8 inches of snow. The snow is nearly up to the bottom of the open door, and the front fascia of the car is touching the snow
A view of the tread on the car's back left tire. The treads converge in the shape of a v, with the v shapes forming arrows pointing towards the rear of the car
A close-up of a car wheel and tire with a Hyundai logo in the center. The tire is surrounded by and even filled with melting snow
Two bright pink streaks in the sky from the aurora borealis
A Sony cassette deck in operation and going through automated music search
The plastic scoots included with two boxes of the same detergent product. Both have five arbitrary fill lines, but the scoop on the left has a much sharper drop between 4, 3, 2, and 1 than the other
Two boxes of Gain brand powdered laundry detergent of the island breeze scent variety. Both boxes contain 2.6 kg of powder, but one claims to contain 89 loads while the other only contains 80
A white Pebble watch on my hairy wrist with a watch face that almost perfectly emulates what the original game boy pokémon game looked like. Currently a battle between Eeevee and Pikachu is taking place, and the current time is displayed in the text box at bottom
A pebble smartwatch with the screen illuminated. It shows a large numeral and inverted within the eight is the angle of a clock face to show 35 minutes past
A white wristwatch on a hairy wrist. It's sports a black and white e-paper screen because this is one of the recently re-released Pebble watches
The dashboard of a Hyundai ioniq 5 indicating that the key battery is low after I power the car off
The front control panel of a Frigidaire dishwasher which for some reason has five differently colored indicator lights - The type usually found on industrial control panels - installed now in a line. Three of them, green, white and red are lit. Blue and yellow are unlit.
An image of pipes underneath a kitchen sink. The leftmost pipe has two hoses attached to individual valves, one hose goes to the right towards dishwasher and the other goes straight up towards the faucet
A mid-century modern Warner Brothers logo only vaguely reminiscent of the classic WB shield, followed by a groovy, stereotypical '60s modern geometrical font in bright colors on a stark black background. Music is barely passable as live music with just a few instruments playing, but the same medley as the classic cartoons
A Williams Funhouse pinball machine. Lots of lights are flashing and a dummy head named Rudy is speaking (its mouth and eyes move)
The sound test menu with "million plus" selected
Williams Funhouse in the test menu, multiball music t.7 5
A Williams Funhouse pinball machine in the test menu. The display reads "SAUSAGE T.7 16 REPEAT
A screenshot for an Amazon.co.uk page comparing dehumidifiers
An EV-go DC fast charger with a yellow and black sticker (close-up in second image)
A YouTube comment with 303 likes: "The fact that Pennsylvania has two great urban cities that are ridiculously affordable compared to others in their class is commendable. If I lived in PA you would never catch me living within a mile of a suburb" To which someone replies "Agreed, but don't define "suburb" as "not within city limits". There is a lot of urban amenity in inner suburbs like Etna and Dormont, for example. Don't limit yourself to where a bunch of white guys drew lines on a map a couple hundred years ago."
The ABRP estimated trip from Key West, FL to Valdosta, this time showing 10 hours and 42 minutes of driving with three charging stops.
A screenshot from A Better Route Planner revealing in a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 it would take 7 hours and 14 minutes to drive from Miami, FL to Valdosta, GA with only 32 minutes spent charging at 2 stops
A black cat laying on the back of a sofa with his head smashed upside into the top of the cushion. His eyes are open but look very wrong and his teef are showing in a goofy way.
A white audio cassette on a barren shelf. The cassette is labeled "Ketchup" in large blue text, and drawing of a sock monkey appears on the right. Small text reads copyright 1992 by highlights for children inc, based on the book "Ketchup goes to town"
A red and white wire coming out of a junction box in a wall
The backbox of a funhouse pinball machine by Williams with the electronics exposed and a trouble light shining into it
A car tire with a mysterious spot on the left
An antique Silvertone AM/FM radio dating to the 1950's. It's a dark brown bakelite with a dark green dial and brass accents. It has a simple geometric design of diagonal lines in front of the speaker grille at left.
A chart showing the various charging levels possible from a Tesla wall connector depending on the size of the circuit it is attached to. Table goes from 60 to 15 amps
A YouTube video and thumbnail. The thumbnail is a split image with a space heater on the right and a component of that space heater on the left. An arrow points at that component and the text prevents fires appears. The title is "The clever feature that makes cheap heaters safe — and why they're actually dangerous"
A black cat staring at the camera while sitting atop a heating vent in the floor.
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