…Goddamnit.

Of course, they happen the most when you are expecting something.

Back in the day it was an SMS or a call. Then maybe also an email if you had a good feature phone or a BlackBerry.

Now everything has an app and they just love notifications…

See Derek of Vice Grip Garage on YouTube, picked it up from him :)

I loved that TV tuner cartridge.

Had a pair of NiCad battery packs in the end - folks got sick of buying the ‘good’ alkaline batteries for it. Always had one on boil while the other was draining.

Oh nee :((

It’s a Synology NAS so will work with the Synology DSM integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/synology_dsm

There’s definitely ways to poll the sensors of other devices though. I had some janky sensors set up before for monitoring a standard Linux box.

We’re doing fine here:

Aber Deutschland ist geschmolzen :(

Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.

Why, I don’t know.

Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

Common names include:

• armadillo bug
• boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
• butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
• carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
• cheeselog (Reading, England)
• cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
• cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
• chiggy pig (Devon, England)
• chisel pig
• chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
• doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
• fat pig (Ireland)
• gramersow (Cornwall, England)
• hog-louse
• millipedus
• QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
• mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
• pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
• potato bug
• roll up bug
• roly-poly
• slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
• sow bug
• woodbunter
• wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)

Nice :)

appleptic (apoplectic), iscream, coretheapple, thatsfruity, applewhy…

crapple probably too far in the moaning direction, despite being a classic.

Either way, watching this space :)

Exactly - some are perfectly fine. The cheap ones are terrible, crossthread too easily, get up in your face, dribble, or all of the above.

Sports style bottles solved the problem long before standard caps got in the game. They get disposed of together here either way, even if the cap gets yanked off for being stupid.

I don’t understand how they end up separate in disposal in the first place. The whole point is that you can reseal the bottle and move/store it without leaking. If you’re not actively using the bottle, it gets resealed to move or store. When you finish the bottle, you probably have the cap still in hand or very close by.

Tangentially, I’d love to see a Pfand type system here.

First block on my list ¯\(ツ)/¯

Rock on :)

Confirmed issue, just gave it a test.

Adding the uBlock Origin extension to Tor Browser will resolve it and make the links proper again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Working fine for me on Mullvad.

Arstechnica is a Condé Nast fluff piece machine.

Hackernews not so bad, but still owned by YC. They are investors in Reddit and seeded a lot of other tech startups.

I’ve got it covered :) - whole duplicate set of hardware & drive image. Recapped the board last year & replaced PSU too.

I won’t touch the DOS software it uses to actually run the plant, the lads can have at that.

Design/machine people are a wholly different breed of user…