Firstly well done to her bringing in £100k a month from bean flicking for the boys (and girls) or whatever she’s doing. I would hardly say that it’s a “affordable housing scheme”.
OnlyFans star earning £100k a month starts ‘affordable housing scheme’ for UK families
The Mirror
A Cynical person would suspect that if you needed to promote your non-standard business venture to the mass media. Buying a bunch of houses from the thousands of pounds you have already made, renting them houses out and making a small profit from that; promoting it as some kind of charitable deed would be a good way to increase your earnings on your main business.
Rebecca Goodwin rakes in £100,000 a month by creating adult content on OnlyFans, and now the mum-of-two is planning to use her earnings to create affordable housing
The Mirror
That said however, nice one for the families who are going to be getting a little bit of discount on the rent and fair play to her she’ll be bringing in £200K per month before the year is out.
So I just built and installed my first useful and working (well seems to be) Internet of things (IoT) connected bit of electronics.
1. What does it do?
It give me the live electricity use of my whole home. It’s able to show how much I am using now, how much so far for the day/week/month/year. It can give me the exact cost of my electricity broken down into 30 minute segment (or down to 5 minutes if I really need to).
2. How much did it cost?
1 ESP32 microcontroller £8.49
1 x Photosensitive Diode Sensor (for 5) £6.99
1 x Long USB cable that will reach you electric meter (for 2) £3.50
A always on computer running Home Assistant. (More on this another time)
A few lolly stick’s and a bit of electricians tape.
Time (lots of it).
On this point I paid a lot less than this but all the links above are for easy purchase from Amazon with super quick delivery. I had to wait almost 3 weeks for the stuff to arrive from some far away land along with some other stuff I was already getting. I also already had the USB cable and the DuPont cable kicking about.
Total (quick build cost): £27.47
(It cost me around £14 using stuff I had kicking about. I basically just needed a ESP32 and the sensor – if case you were wondering)
3. But why you mad bastard?
Kettle on, Kettle off
Picture the scene.
Your standing in the kitchen and one of your Alternative/Goth children come in to make a cup of hot Buckwheat Tea (it’s a thing) or whatever their hot beverage of choice is. Despite telling them for years to turn them lights off or not waste electricity by filling the kettle to the top; she’s at it again. This time however you can point to the live gauge on your mobile dashboard showing the needle jump from 400w in use to 3,500w in use.
Random Alt Girl
As Lincoln said “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember”
Having a better understanding of what power you are consuming helps you and the people around you have a better understanding of what you can do to make it better by reducing what you use.
Having the details and also the cost of what energy you are using is helpful for planning on reducing use and readying yourself better for your big fat energy crisis bill.
You could basically gain the knowledge need to put the bills on a diet and try and save some pennies.
It’s also pretty cool. If you have an interest in smart home geekery stuff it’s a great little project to get stuck into.
Let me know if you have built your own and how you did.
Sometimes when you get, used to listening to great albums from back in the 80s and 90s you get used to hearing the epic songs and standout singles.
When they are this good however you maybe don’t fully appreciating how good they were back in the day and that they (for the lost part) would have been performed live at most point and you missed out
Phil Collins is one of these artists where I have never actively looked back at live performances thinking that the album version of these great songs was enough.
Nope
I stumbled over this live performance of Phil performing “in the air tonight” at Knebworth in 1990.
Amazing band, amazing vocal and epic drumming.
Somehow the song feels more special seeing and listening to it in.
This is definitely worth 7 minutes of your life. (6min 33sec to be exact the extra 27secs are for saying (wow”)
