Happy birthday to my goat @OnlyFuturistic 🫡 yall already know that means we jamming out to his music all day. No better way to spend a full day at work
The Harry Potter books are KIND OF children’s books, but the truth is that it is the perfect series because it matures as you do, particularly with how it treats death.
There is no death in books 1-3, except as a background discussion, but each book bring us closer and closer to it, to the point that book 3 is filled with death omens.
Book 4 opens and closes with a death, but it’s the death of someone we don’t know very well.
Book 5 shows us to the death of a loved one, book 6 involves the death of someone we believed invincible, and book 7 brings us the death of the protagonist himself. No series has ever nailed it like that.
Back in 2011, I went into computer hardware repairs. I started with laptop chargers. I remember peeling back the rubber, soldering wires, and always staring at that weird plastic bulge on the cable. It didn't look like it did anything, but it was on every single high-end charger I fixed. I used to wonder if it was a hidden battery or just a weight to keep the cord from tangling.
It turns out, that little lump is the unsung hero of your workspace.
It's called a Ferrite Bead, and its only job is to act as a silencer for your electricity.
See, every electronic device is naturally noisy. They send out invisible electromagnetic signals. Without that cylinder, your charger cable would turn into a giant antenna, broadcasting interference that would make your Wi-Fi slow, your TV flicker, or your speakers buzz.
Inside that plastic shell is just a chunk of magnetic iron. It catches all that electrical noise and kills it before it can escape the wire.
It’s basically a muzzle for your cable so your gadgets can live in peace.
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