In 2024, even the fact that the website goes down periodically, assuming it does, is now itself an art performance. Solar and battery tech is perfectly capable of keeping it up all the time without an excessive expenditure of resources. I could rig something that could do it out of what I've got lying around the house and I'm nowhere near crazy into solar, it's just some stuff I keep for emergency backup.
I don't think it's a huge shock that 400W of solar panels and a 2000Wh LiPo battery could keep an RPi running indefinitely. With just trivial tuning on the RPi we're looking at a week or two just to drain the battery. The RPi's consumption and the self-discharge rate are not too dissimilar.
I think I have the gear to set up the solar panels into a controller that offers a USB output without the 2000Wh battery, and could set it up into a far more reasonable USB power bank, though I'm not sure I have one that can be charged at the same time as it discharges. It's still a day minimum for an RPi to discharge one of those with a touch of tuning, and far less than a day to recharge them.
I follow this as part of my role and the number of lawsuits has been increasing steadily over the years. Last year was 4,600 (for websites/apps) in the US. So might not feel a lot but of course the bigger your app is the bigger the target.
This post is going to get a ton of comments... tomorrow :)
I'm also a slow thinker and here somethings that have helped me:
1. lean into your strengths. Like you said in your post where you asked for more time for him during tests. Real life is much more negotiable. Ask for time, Ask to think on this and get back, etc.
2. Like some of said, prep is helpful. Utilize your super power by taking a look at the material before. This can be intense like when I'm interviewing I really go crazy with prep but it can also be 5mins before the meeting, gathering your thoughts.
3. To get better at real time thinking, for me, is taking some lose notes during the meeting.
4. Sometimes you have to tune out the presenter. If all they are doing is reading out the slides, I've found ignoring the presenter, and digesting the content on my own is better. Then I come up with question to clarify my understanding, highlight a decision that needs made and my opinion, think about how this may effect other areas, etc.
To add to this, in a work setting, you can request that the deck being presenting is sent in advance to give time for people who think like this time to think and make the real time meeting much more productive.
UX designer here. I've learned that these changes are a delicate balance between allowing existing user to remain experts while improving the retention of new users.
This can be accomplished by making small changes over time that break up all the new info a user has to learn and avoiding the big UI reveal which people universally hate because all that new learning is required at once and they need to get stuff done.
Often times its required because as a product moves into mass market phase of its life cycle, it needs to be simple to use for lots of people, which mean it doenst work great for any specific goup.
Which is why I'm really in favor of allowing customizations to the user where appropriate. It allows experts to have control over their flow and new users can enjoy the UX optimized for them.
I think your experience actually proves the point and touches on why many dangerous and crazy POV have also been getting so much air time in the news.
Let's say you have 2 opposing POV: A or B
"A" has a silent majority so only 5 of the 5,000 people post a comment about A being the right POV.
"B" is a passionate minority so 5 of the 50 people post a comment about B being the right POV.
To the viewer, it looks like a balanced discussion and a topic open to much debate, both sides have equal voice but in reality "A" is by far the most accepted position.
+1 hate when your companies HR tools use this crappy AI stuff and you are stuck trying to figure how in the hell to get help, spending hours and hours finding out how to get help because your issue wasn't one of the 3 things the AI was made to answer (and AI is such a generous term, its more like a dialogue game)
