yesterday i was tense so i tried to set up an ipad that had been offered to me
i tried to set it up responsibly, uninstalling the apps, creating a never-before-used account but (yet again) after i setup the account and put my password in it said the password was wrong and because i had uninstalled the email app i couldn't get a confirmation email (and didn't have a working login to set up a third device) i put in the phone number to the house here to confirm the phone number but it wouldn't ring (it's a voip landline) called family member's cell phone with landline, it range, but when they picked up it kept ringing on my end and sent me to voicemail connected the ipad to a desktop to reset it and it said i needed to disable telemetry to reset it, then this required me to confirm phone number or email again so i took it to an apple support desk, which was at best buy i got to best buy and they said they'd schedule me an appointment for 4 days from now, at night. there wasn't anybody else asking for service. so i bought a toy drone. this is my first drone. it's just a toy. long story short i recommend _building_ a drone _rather than buying one_. if you do buy one, i recommend taking it apart before using it so as to plan to make something better yourself. this drone is fun but once you use it you basically figure "oh that's just a drone" -- _no_, that's the crippled drone they gave you to encourage you to spend more money for a better one. so one plan is to take apart this drone, it's a contixo TD1 dragonfly from best buy for $35 . it looks like it uses LED range finding. it reads the like firmware is designed for a higher end drone and crippled. its motors are geared _slower_ to power the rotors. it says to be careful if enabling the feature to fly it at very high speeds. the battery provides 3.7v volts, is charged by 5v, lasts 6 minutes, and takes 1-1.5hrs to charge. so basically if you ungeared these motors and attached a bigger battery you'd have an autonomous drone -- _not that i can do that_ but it sounds fun to look at the parts. i didn't find anything on the internet about hacking or modding this family of drone which is normal, most of the people who can do that have high-paying jobs from their expertise and work on higher end devices simply because those higher end devices are what they own. what i do find about customizing drones on the internet is the eachine h8 mini from 2016 https://devsketches.blogspot.com/2016/09/howto-flash-custom-firmware-to-eachine.html https://github.com/silver13 if i could port a little smidge of silver13's work to this device it would be pretty cool but honestly what i expect to do is maybe take it apart and describe something that i see. that's a reasonable goal for me. meanwhile though i still want to clean up this nettensors work i _almost_ stabilized
