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NAB, 3 months ago to random

@neil I know it's not what you're after, but this has been on my mind for a while and I think I have a solution for my use case. Posting it here as I have this thread bookmarked... 🙂
For various reasons, I want to be able to play audio around the house (like "Front door has been left open", "Garage unlocked" etc.) and so having some form of cheap remote speaker hanging off a media server I can control from the home automation system would be perfect.
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NAB, 1 year ago to random

Thought I'd have a play with my own Mastodon instance. Hate it when I follow instructions to the letter (or when I think I have!) and then this happens...

NAB, 11 months ago to octopus

Took a chance on #Octopus #agile again and switched from Go last week. So far it's working well and we've reduced our average £/kWh from £0.24 to £0.19. Cross fingers the rates stay low for a while.

NAB, 4 months ago to random

I do some work for a charity and I've been asked to advise on software to use for internal communications - both day to day, but also to document trustee and CEO decisions to demonstrate compliance. For ephemeral conversations, Matrix is fine, but it's a longer term documentation management system I'm struggling to find - it needs to store documents (docx, xls etc.), but also have some form of wiki/diary type entry. But all this needs to be immutable and/or audited.
Any ideas?

NAB, 7 months ago to random

Continuing the "why can't I get #FTTP when there's lit fibre right outside my gate" saga...

A couple of #openreach engineers turned up today so I went out for a chat. Yes, there is lit fibre right outside my house and what's there is the main junction for the cable going North back to the exchange, into the two villages East and West and then down to multiple villages to the South.

The engineers had turned up today to patch in a new customer in the village to the South.

NAB, 9 months ago to random

The Boy's school have just sent the attached. Can't say I'm best pleased about this.

NAB, 10 months ago to random

Finally at the stage I'm ready to move e-mail away from Google, but struggling to find a (preferably Linux command line) tool to duplicate GoogleMail mailboxes to a generic IMAP mailbox.
Does anybody know of such a thing?

NAB, 10 months ago to random

Needed to speak to Three about a SIM I need cancelling - The problem is that if you don't know the phone number (and it was a data SIM I got years ago, so why would I?), they refuse to speak to you. All letters give the account number, but they insist on phone number. Gah.

NAB, 4 months ago to random

So The Sunday Times are reporting that universities are offering much lower grades for admittance to foreign students willing to pay ££££s than they are to UK students.
Well now, who'd have thought that turning universities into businesses would see them start to behave like... businesses?

NAB, 3 months ago to random

Today is the last day of a dry month. I thought not drinking may help me break through the weight loss target I set last year. It didn't - it seems I don't drink enough for it to have made a difference.
So what has a dry month done for me? About the only thing I can put my finger on is it's made me more grumpy - I really missed sitting down with a decent glass of wine or pint of beer at the end of the day two or three times a week.
Ah well, I won't be making that mistake again - live and learn!

NAB, 3 months ago to random

Being optimistic for a change, I'm hoping that this news will see BT/OR start to concentrate more on areas VM don't cover. Like MY BLOODY HOUSE.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/19/virgin_media_product_to_rival_openreach/

NAB, 2 months ago to random

A friend wants to use Splitwise to sort out who's paying what for a holiday. I've read their privacy policy and I don't like it one bit - "personal details used for advertising and may be passed abroad where anything can be done with them".
If it were up to me, then a shared spreadsheet would be fine, but I wondered if anybody knows of and can recommend a FOSS alternative?

NAB, 5 months ago to thinkpad

HELP!!
My nine year old laptop is dying (falling to bits, wireless network flakey (probably a loose solder joint somewhere), screen needs the occasional clout).
I'm looking at a 7th generation 4K #Thinkpad #X1Carbon. Has anybody with one had any problems putting #Debian on it? Is there anything I need to watch out for?

NAB, 11 months ago to random

Being paid £££s (well, pppps) to use electricity tomorrow and we have nothing to use it on - the car is already at full charge and it's too hot to turn heating on.

NAB, 10 months ago to random

Just about finished watching the whole of #STTNG and the big take-aways from the whole thing are:
a) Everybody is constantly angry in space, and
b) Star Fleet is a pretty awful organisation.

NAB, 9 months ago to random

It seems I completely overestimated the disk space requirements on my Proxmox Backup Server.

NAB, 1 year ago to linux

Yeuch. Every time I'm forced to use #ubuntu server I'm reminded how some people get great joy from making things as complicated as possible.

NAB, 11 months ago to random

11kg into my diet and I've reached the point where my trousers fall down while I'm out shopping.

NAB, 11 months ago to random

Watching some of #Glastonbury on TV and thinking it's my worst nightmare - too many people, bad audio, too far from the stage and those damn flags. Also, warm beer in plastic glasses, overpriced food and stinkin' toilets.
Do people actually enjoy this, or is it the sort of thing they feel they should enjoy so play the part?
But then I've never 'got' the celebrity fandom thing either.
It's probably just me.

NAB, 11 months ago to random

Got a really weird IPv6 problem I can't get my head around. Hoping that explaining the problem to other people will make the solution obvious.
Linux boxes 'A' and 'B' have a static IP in the same /64. Gateway (gw) is ::1 within the /64.
'A' can ping 'gw' and anything beyond all the time.
'B' can't ping 'gw', but can ping 'A'. Once an echo-reply is received from 'A', 'B' can then ping 'gw' and beyond. After a while (10 mins ish), 'gw' and beyond aren't reachable until 'A' is pinged again.

NAB, 6 months ago to random

I'm after a Tasmota (or at least MQTT) mains switch that will happily support a sustained current of 16A (a 3kW heater will be plugged in, but the voltage here does drop to 200v at times), so I need margin for error.
I can build my own, but it'd be clunky. Does anybody know of a cheap-ish (<£25) one box solution?

NAB, 1 year ago to random

Today's lesson - don't add a new host to a #Proxmox cluster when one of the cluster members is down - it all stops working. Crash course in rebuilding/fixing.

NAB, 4 months ago to random

The two sides of AI:
1 - That it can interpret a single command and produce something as complicated as this, and
2 - That it can get it so completely wrong.

That it can (1) is, when you take a step back, quite amazing. That (2) makes you wonder how (1) is even possible.

NAB, 4 months ago to random

Aaaaargh. d'Oh, d'Oh, d'Oh.
Next time, use ">>" and NOT ">" when trying to append to /etc/fstab.
#stupid

NAB, 1 year ago to random

Has anybody here used RWG mobile? Pricing is OK (not too good to be true, but OK), but the website leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Tried ringing them and just got a "we can't take your call right now, we'll get back to you shortly" message just before the line dropped. Now wondering whether they'll call back on the number I presented or whether nobody there cares enough to record a sensible message...