GreatAlbatross

For components and wires that are made to a spec, I feel far more comfortable buying from CPC or Mouser.
Amazon sellers just feel like a coin flip if the guy is going to ship you CCA 24 AWG instead of OFC 23, in the hope you don’t notice or bother complaining.

Cutting dev time, because instead of having to use smoke and mirrors to create…smoke and mirrors, they can just use GPU manufacturer’s libraries to render it in real time.

Five guys do unlimited refills, but the cup is 5 fucking quid. Similar tale in Marugame Udon.

And that’s on top of a tenner each for the burger. At least they don’t police whos cup is whos.

I would love to see a fork of this that makes it sound like a Geiger counter.
Maybe with scale options, so it doesn’t just become a humming sound.

Huh, TIL.
They’re now using plant based PLA, at least.

2048x1080 is DCI 2K.

The slight difference between the ratios is why home releases of films often have small black bars at the top and bottom, as the DCI flat ratio is slightly different than 16:9.

What a lovely cat.

We do now have PTP, which has several big improvements. But it’s a lot more involved to set up.

Thames Water casually pulling strings at UCAS. (Or at least, truncating them)

It’s crazy. I’ve been doing all my insulation calculations based on a delta of 20 (20 inside, 0 outside).

To hit the same heating requirement, I’d need to triple the amount of insulation for -40.

And the silly thing is, a pub pint should be 568ml. A pub in the UK selling less than a full pint wouldn’t be a pub very long.

Ah, excellent! Thanks for that, I’ll definitely see if I can do it under ZHA.

And no problem, glad you got off the hub!

Exactly this. When you read about the metaverse in something like Snow Crash, it’s a place built by enthusiasts, very cheap to use, and people have the choice of DIY, or paying someone to do things for them.

In the facebook’s version, everything but connecting costs money, and it’s all done by facebook.

When I use Gumtree, I’m always on best behavior, as I know what absolute shits people can be on it.
I check it’s still available, if I want to knock anything off (within reason) I do it nice and early, then I schedule a time to collect (or even offer a deposit if it’s a good deal).
I picked up some garden furniture recently, and it was a very good price. By the time I got there, the lady told me she’d had 10 people trying to haggle an already giving-it-away price down.
Too many people like the “hustle” and reselling, when really Gumtree is for transferring items from someone who doesn’t want it, to someone who does.

Depending on where you are, there are a lot of charity bike places.
Mine came from there, I got a very solid ridgeback meteor for just over £100.

I looked into this for my car. The conversion has a 50 mile range, essentially replaces the engine with an electric motor, locks the car in 3rd gear, and replaces the fuel tank with batteries.

It cost about £3500, which was a bit much for me considering the car only cost £3k, and I could just sell my car to buy a 100mile+ leaf for the same outlay.

can you beat french bread

When it’s a day old, you can definitely beat someone with a baguette.

Ah, I meant I didn’t want to feel like I was condescendingly explaining things to people who already knew.

It’s free software, and supports a lot of things.

Homeassistant can be run completely locally. The on an old pc, raspi, or even a virtual machine when you’re trying it out.

Operation wise, you can use a browser, or the app for added functionality (for example, it can log the battery level of your phone)

And with the various sensors and devices you can build up automations.
So, for example, when phone battery is below 20% at 10pm, flash the bedroom light to remind you to charge.

They even have a demo based on a fake house on their website for looking at.

The only physical thing you’d need otherwise is a zigbee dongle (£20-ish).

You’ll need to have a zigbee radio on a HomeAssistant instance (maybe possible with other software).
And on HomeAssistant, run ZHA (or similar) with the zigbee radio.
Sorry if that’s teaching to suck eggs, just wanted to clarify.

If you’re already set up with that, it’s just a case of deleting a bulb from the Hue bridge, and searching for it using the zigbee integration. Once it’s deleted from Hue, it will go into pairing mode. You may need to power cycle the bulb if it does not appear in the search within 10s.

HASS was able to support my white/ambiance bulbs and colour bulbs without any issues. In fact, it responds faster. The only downside is that they don’t so much fade, as jump to a new value. The update frequency is about 2 times per second.

The good news is, most hue bulbs can be controlled directly over zigbee now. I migrated mine a few days ago, and the trickiest part was persuading Hue to delete the bulbs so they could enter pairing mode.

It’s possible. I have paw prints of varying size and pressure in the concrete around my house (thanks cat).

The ones from super wet concrete look almost like a duck/goblin footprint, the ones in drier screed look like those tiles, but much less deep.