i have officially pulled my main voice/sms/shitty internet sim out of my main phone now, and it only has an ethernet connection

the sim has gone into my tiny thumb-sized dumbphone, which will be what i carry with me when i go out

the other phone is now my house bank terminal and i have a better, more robust device coming, which will do this work, i seem to recall i ran xapo bank app on a rooted phone before ok, but revolut was unhappy, and the device will be able to limit charge to 80% so it doesn't blow up the battery when almost always on charge, and when it comes with me for navigation duties, i'll do what i can about the root control of radios and disable all of them, including the "emergency" one... GPS receiving only.

got my earthing mat sorted out and plugged in, and did something i was meaning to do for a while, moved all the cables out from underneath my desk so it was ok to put the carbon lamp heater behind my desk where it will keep my legs warm... the floor here is cold, and even, just before, i closed up the house, and the floor started getting noticably damp all over the place

one of the great things about the carbon lamp is it heats the materials not the air, so the light it shines on the floor will actually penetrate into the floor and the concrete slab and warm it all up, and that will hold heat for a long time, meaning that i will probably be able to not have the heater on sometimes at all even though it's cold because the slab around the desk has warmed up... oh yes, and my earthing mat is black and likely fairly thermoconductive as it is also electroconductive, and improve the absorption of the heat into the floor... last step is to disable the wireless radio on the modem and all i will have of radio in here is a teensy little GSM radio in that little phone, and that's it, and it can go on the kitchen bench instead of on my desk 

 oh, there is the steam controller radio too but that only activates when i turn on the thing... so i only get my balls nuked while i'm gaming haha, apropos lol 

 Cool!

One of my friends has had good experiences sleeping on a grounding mat. What have your experiences been with yours? 

I love IR heating!  

 hm idk if the earthing makes as much difference out here in the sticks, especially when i turn off all the radios and such... no nasty chemical factories nearby, just the occasional dust storm from the sahara blowing over, but i've got a heap of metabolic problems from sugar metabolism due to celiac and t2 diabetes or at least some kidney damage from artificial sweeteners... but it's probably helping me stay neutral so i'd guess it's helping but not maybe as much as when i actually get my diet right

and yeah, IR is the best... fun fact, these lamps were the first commercial form of electric lighting, they are a dim orange light, and emit a lot of heat... they seem to last pretty good too, carbon is one of the highest melting materials, even more resistant to heat than tungsten... i think of these vacuum tubes with carbon as being like the golden edges of burning charcoal without the burning part, just the warm 

 Very cool.

Yup! They are much better at heating than lighting!