@ben We've got uPVC windows with that problem. Seems like the spindles (tangs?) are too short and the uPVC eventually gives way. I wonder how common this problem is?
@sldrant@ben truly! fascinating! goodness, when i did my test it hadn't rained for months!!! fail rates in Oz were high, but never prejudicial. it did tend to inform the next test, though. what constituted "evidence"? take it from someone that does this for a living. predicting, or subsequently knowing, when and where it rains is bloody hard work (read: impossible).
oh, and i eventually did emergency driver training. now that was a WILD test. put an ambulance into a full 360 spin and bring it out safely and forwards... yup. all done on a runway as there were some... spectacular fails! they're basically impossible to tip!
@pavsmith@ben yeah, you need a log book now with specific minimum hours of different driving. Means you're a learner for longer as you have to reach that minimum. This may be a good thing though
@pavsmith@ben thankfully I get few calls these days. I also recall a bank, pretty sure hsbc, who insisted on only calling on my home land-line, obviously only during office hours when I was away at the office, and then complaining that I never answered 🙄
@sldrant I'm doing the same, but I need the copy priming the cache not to use the local on disc cache. I believe I have a working solution for an air gapped network.
Vidaccio works well, I'll write it up at some point
OK, so my smart gas meter appears to have disconnected it's self from the PAN (and did so middle of last year).
All attempts to contact British Gas to get them to even talk about this are proving fruitless, you get forced to talk to a bot on the web page, which just cuts you off saying their too busy if you get to the point of trying to talk to a human. And the phone system did the same....
The point of a smart meter is not to pay BS estimated bills.
@sldrant dead dead, nothing on the screen no mater how much you press either button A or B.
Now I've told them it's dead they are coming to fit a new one (actually 2 since even at only 5 years old the current meters are both SMETS1). But I've been and looked at the bill I got in the middle of this period and there is no mention that they switched to estimated readings.
Ok following on from the builder installing solar panels on a roof facing east-northeast (not great, but useable in the morning) they have now installed some on a north-northwest facing pitch.
@ben my opinion is that we should stop focusing installs on south-ish sides and do more east/west to spread production. It's that or massive batteries.
Anybody know of a reputable source for a Windows 95 (sp2) ISO (and license key) or a vm image that will load in kvm/qemu, if such things are possible (the reputable bit).
I've got my dial up internet setup working and want a realistic OS to run with it. I'd go with Windows 3.11 but I really can't be doing with feeding a VM floppy images to do the install...
OK FTTP installed 300/50), but this house absorbs WiFi and I'm struggling to get the ethernet over power line adapters to sync at better than 20mbs . Not helped by the main router and demarcation point being upstairs.
Any suggestions for better downstairs coverage (next step is to try WiFi repeater, can't really cover this house in ceiling mount APs)
@ben I’ve seen huge differences moving powerline to a different socket/room so might be worth playing with that. Otherwise UniFi APs with wireless backhaul links