Homeless Guy Shows Off his Failed Product, feeling claustrophobic. CarPuter and Tiny DataCenter

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Spent a bunch of time at the coffee shop and then came to the library to scan receipts and ended up messing with CarPuter again and surprisingly brought it back to life.

12:00: Talking about benefits for supporters, thanks so much.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibmTJzDZZVI

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Yo and welcome to the Ice Pooge Daily Channel. This is a experimental tech and media

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brand and we span over multiple channels, platforms, etc. etc. So here's a pretty cool

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one for you today. You know how this all started off with Tiny Data Center and later on

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I built Carputer. You might not because I haven't talked about it that much but if you've

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been with me for the last six years, you might know how about all the projects that I've launched

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and gotten zero customers for any of them, giving me a total failure for years and years.

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But yeah, check this out. So what's this I have in my hand? Is it a keyboard in a mouse? I think so.

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So, first of all, what's this? That's a USB-C connection coming out of the laptop.

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Huh? What's this? Oh, that's the car pewter. And we just lost me on the screen.

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So I just did a little test recording and the frames per second is very not good.

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But yeah, this is what we're running and I busted out the whole tiny data set are great.

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I do have a whole bunch more stuff in storage. Which once again, I'm locked out of for non-payment

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because I've only got 50 bucks in the bill of 70 bucks and I get paid at the end of the week.

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So I think I'll be able to pay it without a wait for anything. I hate that my relationships.

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I was, it's like completely silent and then payment failed and then it's like,

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what am I supposed to say? The money is not there. You told me via email, you told me via text,

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and the money is not there. So what do I have to say to you? I absolutely nothing.

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So I'm just going to say absolutely nothing until I have the money.

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And just how I deal with that kind of thing. I mean, it's like telling them that I have the money

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or not. When I have the money, I'll be like, I have the money. Go ahead and charge the card now.

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Hey, it's something I never had to deal with in my life, not having money.

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Well, what is my, what is this my that we speak of? Does it count?

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Like when I was in high school, does it count? I just, I've lived a few lives. So my, my referred

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a multiple. Is it a surprise that I don't have any friends? Is it a surprise that I don't want to

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talk to people? Once I'm in a better spot, then yeah, I'll be not so avoidant. I'm just avoidant

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because I'm not really me. Wow, I did not expect to go on to this topic at all.

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I have no idea where this is coming from. Well, yes, I do, but I didn't expect to go on this topic.

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So yeah, I'm all excited about the Raspberry Pi because okay, the thing is this

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car putter has not booted up for a while. And so the solution I figured out was I got

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I have all of these, I've got like 10 of these. And this one had a couple

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heatsinks stuck on it. I noticed that the chip was getting very hot right when I turned it on.

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And so I took these heatsinks and stuck it onto the pie. And then suddenly it would boot and stay on.

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And so that was the problem heats. I'm guessing because when I built it and when I

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used as a daily driver, it was in a much colder season. And so the ambient temperature

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probably kept it cool enough to run. But now, in a warmer environment, like it was pretty hot in the

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car today. I've actually made it inside the solar panel covering the the window. So in the

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sun was shining straight in, it was quite hot. And then that, it's kind of cool because it

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sheds me and it gave me more power than I'm using, is giving me 20 watts earlier. Now it's only

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giving me 10. I bet if I slide it onto the roof, it'll give me more like what I was getting earlier.

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And since the sun's not beaming straight on to me, it's not a huge problem. What are we getting now?

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Now we're getting fake 15. And so we just got a 50% increase in power.

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And just from doing that. And it's a 100 watt panel. The most I've seen come out of it is like 50.

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So now we're getting 16. So that's about the peak there. I bet if I tilted it some,

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it would probably do a little bit better. It was somewhat vertical when I got that high and put so

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now it's 16 watts and in 17 watts out. So yeah, this is closer to the roots of what the channel

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originally was messing around with all kinds of computer stuff. So the car puter will run on

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this battery for like three or four hours. The big thing that I've been messing with has been actually

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making it show up as an ethernet device. And I did have it working for a while, but then I rebooted

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it and stopped working and I'm not 100% sure. What I need to do to re-sync it, get it talking again,

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but anyway. So once I have mobile service, I'll be able to actually run this. This uses like

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four watts or so and it's got a SIM port, a WPS button. It's actually got a corded telephone port

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and two ethernet ports. So this networking thing that I'm messing with through the USB-C cable,

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it's exactly the same as if the two devices were connected via Wi-Fi. So whatever the case,

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they'll be able to talk. It's just nice permit developer perspective to just plug in the USB-C and

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have it power and network and everything together. So at the kernel level, it works. It's just a

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network level configuration thing where I have to set the IP addresses and the routes to line up

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bright, and I'm just not sure why that's not happening. So yeah, a big old crow or Raven actually,

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I think, is it a crow or Raven? I think that's a Raven. If I saw I'm side by side, I could tell the

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difference. Anyway, maybe it is a crow. I think Ravens are more fluffy and crows are more oily

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slick. So anyway, yeah, the carputer is booting up again. I just put a fresh operating system on it.

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The last one that I had, while I was getting all of my stack, all of my apps and whatnot running on it,

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I was getting that done within Docker and Docker just abused the SSD. And it was also not the high

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performance type of SSD that I thought it was. I just got, I was mistaken, and I bought the right model,

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but not the right model. I bought the one I shopped for, but I shopped for the wrong one.

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So I got another one, although some of these of anyway, we'll see how it works out.

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Yeah, good Lord. So it's April Fool's Day. Probably have to work tomorrow. I always just go in

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at 9 o'clock and either get my schedule and don't work or every time going and start work

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and write my schedule down. So yeah, man, I've just been feeling just so claustrophobic and stuck into the

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like, I think it part of its the heat. Part of was just like,

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so I didn't have my earplugs today either when I went into Starbucks. I forgot them in my

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sweater pocket, which is now dirty. And so I didn't have my earplugs today too, so that was just like,

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there's only a few spots you can sit because the outlets and so I was like, right next to this

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speaker and it was just like, and I tolerated it for way more hours than I usually do as well. I went

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in at 637 and stayed until like noon. And knowing how much money I have, like, you know,

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I got the notice that the storage bill payment failed, so I'm like, oh crap, how much money do I have?

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Like, 50 bucks. It's fine. It's just like, I just hate knowing how much money I have.

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God, what is there to talk about today? Like, the Patreon did not get up to five people

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unfortunately, so I'm not going to release my app that I was hoping to release this month.

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We can try again for the end of the month. I do seriously appreciate all the Venmo support and

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everything. So what I will definitely at least do is everyone, so everyone who's on Patreon

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actually gets licenses for 100% off coupons for my apps that I've released on gum road.

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And everyone who's supported on Venmo, I will also give that same coupon to

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you because I seriously appreciate you all. I want to do something for you guys.

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I wish we would have got that app. I mean, my feelings say just release it, but I guess

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got a hold to what I said. You know, my feelings say just release everything right away, but that's

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not a wise way to go. I've found. So I was thinking I might release another app as a

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consolation because I have like 20 apps and only a few of them have been released and like half

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of them have been disclosed. But my big one, I really want to release it and I just got the thing

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is it's social. So it's going to require a few users using it for it to really benefit.

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And I don't even want to disclose the nature of the app. I'll just say like, you know,

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if three people are using it at sweet, if one person's using it, that's just me every day.

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And I forget that half the features are there because of the way that I design the apps,

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like a lot of the features aren't even in the app. It's just like you run some job that

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syncs something to the file system and the app reads the file system and so there's

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you know, that additional data there, all of a sudden when it's written to the file system by

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some other process. So, you know, that's like the Unix way and that's how I write

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it's usually write my apps. Like that's kind of the point of a lot of this is writing apps in this

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specific way. So yeah. What's the title of this one? Homeless guy talks about business that's failed

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to launch for six years. I have sold some freelance, so it's not a total failure, but

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I've done pretty much everything wrong, like going to my old friends

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before just trying to find a new set of people who appreciate it. I mean, how backwards is that?

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Everyone wants to talk about their day ones and help out their day ones and that maybe it was just

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too many years between day one and year 18 or whatever of my doing this.

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This feels like a total failure of a video, but yeah, we've been it's I was either the homeless guy

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rages or the narcissistic abuse ones that do numbers. And it makes sense because I've got

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unique things to say there, as far as just being a tech guy and building some tech products and

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blah, blah, blah, like there's a zillion of us, but to be a homeless tech guy who's

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fled domestic abuse and stayed in a homeless shelter and all this stuff, not April fools.

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That's that's a unique voice. People appreciate that and I appreciate y'all who appreciate that and who

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have helped me out. That's that's awesome. I just want to be a tech founder, man. I don't want

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to be a homeless guy. I want to be a tech guy. You know, I'm building all this stuff for myself

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and it's super empowering for me as a person who's like been through a homeless shelter and was raised by

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alcoholic parents and has been physically assaulted by my dad and had to go to a homeless shelter

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and blah, blah, blah, like nobody likes to have all that stuff, but it's you know, it's certainly

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not a made up marketing gimmick, although making that claim is something that narcissistic people

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would do obviously and if that claim is true, then I'm the biggest narcissist ever

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and obviously, you know, I could be putting on a show, I'm not, but it's one thing that coming on

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here every day has kind of done. So it does create real accountability in some ways, but on the

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other hand, you know, people still have claim when I was doing this at the very beginning of the

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channel that I'm just putting on a show that I'm just, you know, smiling for the camera, whatever.

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And that's such a common meme that like, you know, people get on camera and have one personality

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then they get off camera, they're like wildly depressed and like there's no way to prove that's

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not true. Like I've already been through the thought process or the thought train of like doing a

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24 or seven live stream, but that's just even if it were practical and everything,

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it's expensive because what have I been having problems with, you know, getting enough power to even

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empower these things, storage devices filling up, not having network connectivity, you know,

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you need all of that to do a 24 hour live stream. And when I was still in an apartment, I didn't even

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realize how expensive that was. I had a gigabit, fiber internet connection, you know, I just got an

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a terabyte regular, like big beefy hard drive, not even worried about how much power it uses,

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power included in rent, blah, blah, blah. So it's like, and even 350 square feet of space,

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like this. So when we talk about, okay, just tint the windows and use this as an office, like,

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like I'm already at the point now where when I set stuff down, I lose it and I have to like scan

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for like 20 seconds to find something I just set down. You know, so it's just like, it's death by a

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million paper cuts of inefficiency in such a tiny space. And then like, you can tell today with the

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wires jiggling, like I don't have to move much to jiggle stuff. Like I opened up the carputer,

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I lost a screw somewhere. So like next time I vacuum, I have to watch out for screws. I vacuumed

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recently, so I might just be able to pick everything up and find it on the ground because it's like a

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shiny metallic thing. You know, so I just give you a one more view because we're coming up on the

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20 minute mark. Oh, I've got a plant too. So USB-C, going right into the carputer and

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it's tiny data center stuff. I've just got two more servers right in my hand. How cool is that?

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So yeah, we're coming up on the end. You've seen me from a new angle for the first time ever, maybe.

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Thanks for joining us. Thanks for the support. I will call out the supporters in due time.

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Thanks a lot. Love you. Thanks a lot. Bye.



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