Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

I got bored of video games about five years ago. They just all seemed the same. I used to love the realistic simulations of things. The original F-15 Strike Eagle (designed by Sid Meier and shipped by Microprose) was amazing. In fact, you can still run this game as F-15 Strike Eagle III on Windows…

No I don’t mean the submarines, I mean putting electric power into a boat. This has been a difficult challenge because of the power that it takes when you get close to planing. Boats draw very little power when they are at hull speed. For example, the Silent Yachts 55 (55 foot long boat), draws…

TSLA earnings call for the period ending September 30, 2019. — Read on www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/24/tesla-inc-tsla-q3-2019-earnings-call-transcript.aspx Wow Tesla just killed it this quarter incredible decreases in cost of goods bodes very well. Also very positive on shanghai gigafactory. They say it is 40% less capex and built in less than a year. Finally model Y moves up…

OK when you are traveling, you are going to hit a couple of strange situations. Here’s a tip list on what to do and to avoid when you are using an inflight, airport, hotel or public wifi spot. The net is that many of the security and convenience things you normally use will prevent you…

Well I need some more SD cards and I forgot them for this trip so what to get for a Sony A7R III. First thing is that they have two different readers. The slot 1 is a UHS-II with up to 300MBps write speed while slot 2 is slower. So use slot 1 for videos…

OK, in the continuing mission to archive all that is interesting. This comes from ancient history, but I remember reading this memo to this day. John Walker was the founder of Autodesk and he was really worried about what was going to happen as mass market beat high profit small markets. His note call information…

The new droplet on Digital Ocean has been working really well. Much faster than bluehost, but I am getting an outage about once every two weeks. The droplet seems to hang with a “no database connection” message. I normally just restart the droplet, but it is not good. The bluehost site would stay up for…

Well there are many new things in IOS 13, but one of the nice things is the markup tools. Now when you take a screenshot on your ipad, by pressing (hat tip to TapSmart) the power and the volume up buttons, you can add markup to it and then hit send. When you combine this…

Hat tip to Apple News (apple.news/Adc-k1z4WPyGVGEjkLFK-rg) and to Fossbytes (https://fossbytes.com/4-new-electric-cars-make-millions-evs-audi/) for explaining the various platforms that VW is going to use over the next few years. To review Tesla platforms To review, car manufacturers often use the same guts underneath and put different stuff on top as an example, here is how Tesla works. A…