learn a skill, then sell that skill
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Pursue a career based on electric or clean energy / efficiency technologies. That is the future, at least if we want one that we want to live in. There will be plenty of jobs and a million different, interesting directions you can go. Good luck! 
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I just had an idea.
So, one could use bent/formed nickle strips and 3D print battery cradles right? What about printing a battery cradle for 4p-8p, or even a full 12sXp battery cradle for an entire board. You could run everything as thicc nickel strips with punched bumps for the cells. Pressed up against the deck the cells shouldnāt come free, and youād be able to easily remove and replace bad cells. You could even use a few 8-bay 21700 chargers to charge batteries lol.
Idk itās a dumb idea.
If you were going to do that, ditch the nickel and use gold plated copper. Itās far cheaper and would perform better.
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or even just pressed copper plates. could even have small captive screws in modules to keep the pressure on. would be great for an easily repairable flat pack.
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Yeah the gold plate just prevents oxidation. Unplated copper would work as well. You could probably use tin plating as well.
The cells arenāt plated to my knowledge, so it might be excessive effort.
I think that or nickel could work well and be less expensive. Would need to check that electronegativity thing to see which metals are closer together (less corrosion potential).
Nickel-plated steel is used for the can and top contact structure.
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Come back when you find the answer! I bet most people have similar thoughts
Whatever you do, make sure you enjoy it. If you donāt, fuck it off and try something different.
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So whoās going to make the first gallium nitride powered ESC?
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It will be interesting to see how far they can leverage the benefits of GaN for the (relatively) tiny ESCās we use.
I wonder how much of an effect on the input capacitor size it has? This is a big part of the reliability and size issues we haveā¦IMO.
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You do know that you can reset your password?
I lost my phone smart guy, and had all my passwords saved in the password key chainā¦ then couldnāt remember the password to my email cuz it is always automaticā¦ And I was smart enough to not back up the email address cuz i would never forget my primary email info. How could I? AND THENā¦AND THENā¦AND THENā¦ I didā¦ 
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Well thatās stupid then.
To not even know a single password wtf.
People that use password managers often donāt remember passwords.
People that donāt use password managers often reuse passwords.
Youāre fucked if you do and fucked if you donāt.
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I would at least try to remember A: the Password managers password or the password for my recovery/Email.
2 things to rule the world!
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there is actually a method of creating unique password for every website / app that u wonāt easily forget of 
iL0v3d1cKz3sK8n3w5
iL0v3d1cKzP4yP4L
iL0v3d1cKz3b4y
iL0v3d1cKz4m4z0n
Etc etc
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When I worked on base the password management system for AFPERS was insane.
- It had to be at least 15 characters
- one upper case, one lower case, one number, and one special character required
- There could be no strings of 3 numbers or letters (ABC, 456)
- No known words in the dictionary allowed
I couldnāt think of one I could possibly remember. A bunch of the people there told me to close your eyes and just make a pattern your fingers would remember.
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if u r multilingual, then its very easy to make any unique password that will meet any requirement, the more fluent u r, the easier it is
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LOLā¦I like that!
My favorite is to use a foreign language word (not German, French, Spanish, or Italianā¦too common) but misspelled so itās not on any list, adding numbers/special characters as necessary.
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