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vik

@vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Aged RepRap core developer, ex- firefighter, emergency medic, longhair coder, Incident Creator at the Masterton Fab Lab, and a Twitter refugee.

"Si potest non bonum esse, cave."

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vik, to random
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It would not surprise me in the least if some independent search engines crash under the load from

vik, to random
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Anyone seeing irony in The Duck being down?

It's a f⬛ed-up duck.

vik, to random
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!!!DOG!!! COME HERE!

futuresprog, to random
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Bing is down.

I was going to say DuckDuckGo is down but it’s under the hood.

vik,
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@futuresprog mojeek.com is still up...

vik, to homeassistant
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is going well, but I need to move all the devices to another network SSID and password. Searching for how to do this is basically full of "why would you do that?" but no solutions that don't involve manually diving in to the config "secrets" - followed by replies saying "don't do that!" Well, security is one reason. I can't be alone here, right?

vik,
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@larsmb Thing is, I'm at a really good point to do it, before things get reeeealy complicated :)

vik,
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@PossiblyMax
Ah, another "don't do what you need to do" message. There is an awful lot of that in forums. No, actually I do have reasons and they don't fit in a toot.

vik,
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@PossiblyMax
Trust me, there are many things a man may do that are foolish, misguided, or seemingly trivial, because of the need to keep the peace...

futuresprog, to random
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I cross stitched my wheelbarrow since it was starting to crack.

Stupid plastic.

vik,
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@futuresprog
Much tidier than No. 12 Wire stapling though.

scruss, to random
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Thinking of making a
"Loud Bikes Get Piano Wire"
sign for our street (effectively a crescent, with a school on it) 'cos we've recently gained a couple of twats who like to razz up and down it way above the speed limit on racing motorbikes.

I'd like them to stop, please.

vik,
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@scruss This is why we're not allowed RPG's.

vik,
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@scruss "Non-lethal" you say? Challenge accepted... :)

nivrig, to random
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Proper Heisenbug has appeared with the bob clipping. Goes weird if I remove debug log line 🤦🏻‍♂️

vik,
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@nivrig Each bit lovingly recreated in the style of Shockley.

lightweight, to random
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Fascinating... just saw an ad on Facebook that Thrifty (car rentals) have gone 100% EV... I wonder what they know that the rest of the population don't...

vik,
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@lightweight Somewhere inexpensive that services and maintains EVs?

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Another score for predator-free NZ
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lightweight, to TeslaMotors
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Blimey - according to https://thedriven.io/2024/01/25/worlds-largest-ev-battery-maker-set-to-cut-costs-in-half-by-mid-2024/ the world's largest battery manufacturer, China's CATL will be halving the price of its Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries this year. "This means the price of an average 60 kWh battery pack will have dropped from $US6,776.00 to just $3,388.00 in just 12 months, saving EV manufacturers over $3,000 per vehicle."

Our (MG4 Excite) has a 51kWh pack... So we could replace a future (post 7yr warranty) failed pack for well under US$3k...

vik,
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@lightweight Another thing to consider is that your replacement battery pack is likely to have a greater capacity than your old one as technology progresses.

vik, to random
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Thought, aimed partly in the direction of @Br3nda, I've just been using my laptop's air vent to dry my CPAP, and it occurred to me that it might be possible to make a food dehydrator basically powered by the waste air/heat from a laptop in the same way.

vik, to random
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I found a blog post from a person who was at and is making my Quirkey keyboard - out of cardboard! http://www.mawsonlakes.org/building-a-cheap-n-cheerful-quirkey-one-handed-keyboard/

lightweight, to random
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Ouch, my former employer is caught up in the gov't service downsizing: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516748/about-30-jobs-to-go-at-crown-forestry-institute-scion

vik,
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@lightweight It's not like we need to grow more trees or anything...

vik,
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@lightweight Yup, politicians are either cutting government services so their mates can barge in, or creating government services so their mates can run them. Kind of win-win as long as you're on the winning side.

vik,
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@lightweight Pretty much Doesn't do much for the environment either in this case.

vik,
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@lightweight Last politician strangled with the guts of the last bureaucrat etc.

vik, to homeassistant
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Managed to get working with a pico W. The only trick was with the initial firmware load. The ESPhome menu offers direct connect an webserial, neither of which seem to be actually supported. But the download option is fine - it automagically builds a UF2 file that you just download and put in the pi yourself. After that it's all over wifi as usual.

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I wonder whatever happened to the child of a friend of my sister, whose parents gifted him—some time around the year two double-aught zero—the name “Anakin”. He’d be in his early 20s now, if he wasn’t beaten to death in the schoolyard.

vik,
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@Unixbigot I do recall a young brat in a supermarket in New Lynn around that time being chided by Mum going "Oh do stop that, Anakin!" Possibly one and the same?

vik, to random
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Should anyone be interested, I've put the main build files up for the 3D printer prototype here https://www.printables.com/model/876888-reprapmicrons-openflexure-block-stage

vik, to homeassistant
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Greenhouse now monitored by (homebrew ESP32 with two Dallas temp sensors bwahahaha) - air temperature and water temperature. When the Athom relay board turns up, it'll run nutrient into the water as well. All in a nice, 3D printed box. That's me for the day.

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