Nick
@nick@shore.me.uk
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boostedLooking for book recommendations for a precocious 8 year old reader who we got started on @philipreeve.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy - first Adventuremice but since has also devoured Railhead and is onto the Mortal Engines books! I think Sci-Fi is becoming his thing... Ideally books without swearing or sex please!
@sjoy.lol maybe too young, but Beast Quest series (there's tonnes of them). But my boy (now 14) recommended the Cherub series (though not sci fi) which he mainlined a few years back
I am quite keen on the idea of an electric car.
I am less keen on the idea of a car which spies on me.
@neil This. I don't think it's restricted to EVs though. I disabled manufacturers network access, and never link car to phone. Don't know how effective this though.... ☹️😡
@sborrill Thanks. I would need to find out which features require an Internet connection!
@artfulrobot @sborrill Mostly eSIMs these days, I think.
@neil To get the best from Octopus Intelligent Go, you need to grant access to Octopus to query the car's battery level. I send sat nav destinations to it. It's handy to send pre-heating schedules to it. But you can work around all these from the car itself or doing percentage calculations yourself
@neil Buy an older EV like a Nissan Leaf. My car doesn't spy on me because it doesn't have all the "software" the new EVs have.
Tesla love to spy on anyone. BYD. ? Don't know. Their latest does 600 miles on one charge. 250 miles on a 5 minute recharge.
@neil There's the rub...
I've been a "car phreak" since I was old enough to walk. I own like a dozen cars... half of them are even on the road and drivable.
I used to like all cars. Nowadays, I have zero interest in pretty much anything post ~2010 due to the complexity of trying to maintain it and more and more due to the invasive software and policies in cars newer than around that age.
Some makes and models are better than others. Would I buy a new BMW? LOL, are you serious? Would I buy a new MX-5... Maybe.
On the electric car front it seems like Hyundai/Kia have the best "normal" electric options in my market (Canada). Would I buy one... maybe... if I had to... I'm more inclined to find a good value used car regardless of propulsion I think.
I'd really like something electric as a new (to me) car when the time comes. Not sure I can do it given the software.
If I lived in the UK I'd probably be all over the Renault 5 / Alpine A290 twins as a daily struggle car. In my market we are stuck with the punitive auto industry BS from the south. It may change but ... we'll see. I have no idea what those cars are like from software or policy though. Maybe I'd walk out of the showroom.
I have an electric bicycle, which I love, and use as often as I can. But I am looking here for a car.
I kind of like the old Nissan Leaf, and it might *just* fit the bill, range wise. But I've also read various concerns. So I umm and aaah about them.
Newer electric cars leave me with a sense of "nice car you got there. Shame if we changed something about it or spied on you".
I am not a car person.
I drive, but I don't enjoy driving particularly. It is a means to an end for me.
I much prefer to take a train but, sometimes, is either not possible, or else does not make sense (generally, time or money-wise).
@neil I very much wish I was in a tax bracket where I could afford to have someone do an electric conversion of an older vehicle. Though now I wonder if there are services out there that mod your car to cut it off from the mothership and put it more under your control?
@neil and the price of an electric car that would replace my current diesel is a huge reason I won't be able to change right now.
@neil I have a hybrid, but I also have a driveway and my own charger, I think a key factor for me is being able to charge it on my own tariff rather than pay the much higher amount for a public one. I think it costs me 60p to charge it all the way, well okay its range is 20 miles for that but that ticks off most of my journeys here.
@neil My wife got a used 2022 mustang mach e. It was cheaper than my toyota rav4, and a much better value, not including the cost of gas.
As for spying from the govmn't. You can disable a lot of that garbage on this car, set things to not auto update, opt-out, etc.
If you are very concerned you can pull the antenna to prevent any spying/changing of stuff.
Maybe also consider the honda that was out of my budget.
I kept my old accord and am starting an ev conversion.
Apparently some of the older Nissan Leaf models are losing their connectivity options, which has caused some discontent.
But that may be exactly what you're looking for. Plus it probably reduces their second hand value.
@neil A elderly friend tried to do the right thing a few years ago and bought a old Leaf that had come off of a lease. Unfortunately the usable battery range was less than 40 MI, and the closest dealer for service was 50+ miles away with no charging point between. After a few strandings and several long distance tows, he wound up having to sell it. Due diligence would have saved a bit of a disaster.
@pmcdonald Ouch :(
@neil The thing with the old leaf is they have a different charging socket (Chademo) that’s harder to find chargers for.
I’m really glad we didn’t buy one on that basis alone. We were in a toss up between a long-range Leaf and a Hyundai Ioniq.
We are really happy with the Ioniq.
It’s probably spying on us.
@neil I made a little terminology cheat sheet if that’s helpful:
https://rosswintle.uk/2023/06/my-simple-ev-terminology-cheatsheet/
@neil Later eGolf (the range went up 2017+)? The 3G modem doesn't work anymore and uses the ABS for tpm so no radio sensors.
@neil the old leaf is on 3g so can't do any spying as they turned that off. You also can't remotely control charging or pre heating though
@neil
I own a 2019 Leaf ZE1, which is fine, but... Nissan shuts down the remote server by the end of this month and they're not offering an alternative at all. Quite pissed about it, as I depend on the remote battery SoC to make decisions about charging (when it's cheapest or the panels are generating more then we're using).
If you're fine with that, it's a nice car and a good tool for the job. Not amazing, not great, but good enough.
@timstoop Have you found (or looked for) a workaround for remote charging? Because I'd be reliant on that to charge off peak etc.
@neil OVMS3 seems to be the best option, but not cheap. OBD might be a cheaper alternative, but requires a phone running a prorpietary app.
I'm running into the issue that all these solutions require one to be comfortable rewiring their car, which is not me. Trying to find a mechanic that might do it for me.
Main issue is that the CAN bus does not get power when the car is not turned on, which it usually isn't when I'm charging. Seems like that's weird design, but what do I know.
@neil Btw, if you are really thinking about getting an electric car, check out Jonny Smith's channel on Youtube (The Late Brake Show). He has done a lot of sensible reviews of electric cars over the years and is UK based.
@neil
I think beyond a certain date they all spy on you. 2012? Don't know. But that would mean any modern all electric vehicle is another computer on wheels sending telemetry back to its producer and associated advertisers. You'll probably need to ID Verify, sorry 'age verify' to use it at some point.
Some people try to disable stuff but then cars either won't start or it invalidates insurance.
I miss driving and I'd hate to run an old gas gusler, but I'd also hate to have to buy a modern car.
@neil There was an option for a model one up from the EV we bought (MG4), which does have an internet connection. We couldn't justify the extra 10% for the bells and whistles, but now I'm quite happy about that.
But all cars are part of surveillance capitalism these days, one suspects.
@neil I got an mg5 a year ago - would definitely recommend. It has a screen for radio and you can connect it to android auto but apart from that it's all physical knobs and buttons and as far as I can tell it's got no internet connection internally.
@neil I suspect, not that this answers your point, that any new petrol or diesel would likely spy on you to a similar extent. Again, acknowledging the tangential nature of this comment.
@bloor Yes, quite probably! I guess that, because I am really only thinking about an EV, the state of other cars didn't really cross my mind.
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Then I can recommend Stellantis. Seems safe to assume that their spyware will be poorly-designed, buggy and unreliable.
@neil are you in or near any car sharing catchment areas?
Do you have a car already, just not an electric one?
> Do you have a car already, just not an electric one?
Yes - an old Honda Jazz. And I quite like it, but I am attracted by an EV.
@neil understood! Just trying to work out where you're coming from.
We have no car and do sometimes think about getting a runaround - but every time we seriously run the numbers, summing the insurance and either lease/hire-purchase payments or maintenance costs of an older car make us go 'oof'.
Even if we wanted to rent one every other weekend, and the most local car sharing service (Miles) feels expensive per session, it still ends up cheaper in all. So we still never get one of our own.
@neil but it's very different if you already have a car and a lifestyle which assumes easy access and regular use of one.
Not disparaging that at all - it makes more sense to go for an EV then. I hope you find one that isn't constantly calling home. A neighbour is selling their VW E-Up - I do wonder if that is also a spy, or is early enough not to be.
(Also they remind me of Yorkshire)
@sarajw @neil Yes to all this. I ran the numbers a lot when looking at EVs. If you can do it, not having a car is clearly the best thing. Even if you hire a few times a year.
If you don’t need it for work or mobility, you mostly buy a car for sheer convenience.
Our hand was forced when our old car only just got us home from a holiday!
Having an EV makes me feel much better about all my dad-taxi journeys. (Ask me about teaching a neurodiverse kid to cycle if you dare!)
@sarajw I imagine that, if I lived in a city, I'd likely use a car share.
It would also be lovely if we had north/south trains, rather than east/west (from Newbury).
@neil oh yeah. Lots of UK towns are just the wrong size for a decent metro or even reliable bus network, so you're kind of stuck with a car. Even bigger not-london places like Bristol are doable without a car but you still struggle without access to one.
@neil spying aside, I find things like being able to preheat/cool the car to be a huge bonus of having an EV. I have not had to scrape the ice off a car for years. Home Assistant knows our schedule and automatically preconditions the car at the right times. I do wish I could replace the SIM and have the car talk to my own server instead of VW's though, especially since car manufacturers now seem to think it is ok to charge quite high monthly subscriptions to use these facilities!
@tobifant presumably only of use when at home though? My car will preheat for things like leaving the pub, driving home from swimming, my wife leaving university in the evening, etc.
ICE vehicles generally use their waste engine heat for heating, so you have to wait until the engine has warmed up before you get any useful heat from them. Conversely, my EV has a 6 kW PTC heater that will get the cabin nice and warm within a couple of minutes and certainly deice the windows in 5.
> car manufacturers now seem to think it is ok to charge quite high monthly subscriptions to use these facilities
This bugs me a lot.
@neil yes, thankfully as I have a 1st Edition ID.3, it is from before VW realised that they could rip everyone off. But newer VW cars are being charged (I think) about £125/year for "connectivity" so that stuff like preheating can work, which is ridiculous. Owners really should have the right to use an alternative provider instead of being locked into one vendor.
@neil A few months ago we bought a low milage 2020 Kia Soul. I haven't activated the Kia app so it isn't spying on me. It could still be logging and reporting its location and performance details but it isn't linked to me. Or not directly. Does it collect data from my phone? Possibly but that's registered with a fake name Gmail address I don't use for anything else. Does Kia collect and link data from their dealer who serviced it? 🤔
@neil what about the basic ones like dacia?
@neil As I'm sure you know, it's not just electric cars, it's new cars in general. A breakdown of connected car security issues from a few years back: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/connected-cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-mozilla-foundation-says/
Do you have the engineering skill to retrofit an old car with an electric motor? 
You could be the guy fixing up a car in their garage AND the kook tinkering on something in their garage! 
@neil I pulled the fuse for wireless tech/onstar in my chevy bolt, so its a "dumb car" but still a sparky car. :)
@neil I'd really vibe with a stick-shift BEV.
Or a hybrid where I could somehow control the power split myself.
Or an automatic with throttle-by-wire and an ECU which simply didn't spy on me 🙄
@neil you can get a good idea of what each vendor collects here: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
@neil I've had two Leafs (mk.i & ii) Both had an opt-in function when you switched on. Range on the mk. ii is fine (40kWh) mk.i was not so good!
Now I have an eCorsa which does not have an opt-in so I assume it is reporting to base... On the plus side it does not seem to have any features that depend on this.
HTH
@neil I for one cannot wait to read a blog post and/or updated Toot with ye answer
It's a question I would very much like an answer for but with not enough drive to replace my 2019 reg car; 5 years into owning a car from basically new feels far too early, maybe I'll actually do it in another 5, we shall see. Cars be expensive
@neil
I drive several EVs all part of a car sharing co-op. I am assuming that 100s of people driving the same car really messes with the algorithm.
@neil Every car made in the last 15 years spies on you unfortunately. Electric or petrol.
@CjMalone Quite possibly, but I am interested in an electric car, so what other cars do doesn't matter too much to me here!
@neil Whether a car spies on you or not is more about modern vs old analog cars. Modern combustion powered cars spy on you like electric ones do.
@HumanizeMobility Sure, but I am looking at an EV!
@neil EV would also be the only option for me to replace my very old car. Did not think about the tracking issue. Never had to with old cars...
Annoyingly it turns out you cannot change the IP range on a Virgin Hub 5.
So that is a bit of a pain in the backside short term.
Medium term I need to implement my actual plan of placing a BSD gateway box between the home network and the router. But I'm not really prepped for that.
Might just raise the old gateway IP on my desktop for now and route via that to the virgin box. IIRC that is a thing that can be done... maybe, my networking is very rusty.
@yvan Do they still offer "modem mode" where all the routing on the hub is disabled and your own router can get the external IPv4 address?
@Edent @steve my plan is to just stick a gateway box with 2 NICs on my side of the Virgin hub with the Virgin box's network its side and my network my side. I'll investigate this "modem mode".
For now I am up and running now via the quickest approach I could think of... I raised the old gateway IP on my desktop and set it up to route for the existing internal /24 via the Virgin box gateway. Seems to be working, that took a lot of dusting off old skills lol... seems nothing has really changed since I last used to do this sort of stuff at least (or the "old ways" still work per se). I thought I was getting it all wrong but just for fun the NIC driver for my desktop seemed to be having a moment... couple of kernel panics... yay... reboot fixed that. (A concern for another day, it's just some default on-mobo NIC.)
@nick TBF I have run double-NATted setups like that for years previously and it generally seems to be fine, albeit can certainly be a little trickier to navigate/configure for some things... albeit since we moved into our current place we've just used the BT router as I never had time to set things up again properly until now.
I shall certainly investigate modem mode options. The Mikrotik hardware looks budget friendly, I can find the hEX in the UK for under 50 quid, which is less than I was expecting to spend on something for this! (Expecting to find some random old hardware on eBay, or stick a second NIC in some random old hardware I have lying around.)
If there's a memory of elephants, a murder of crows, and a gaggle of geese, what would a bunch of sex-bloggers be called?
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable.
"You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered.
That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going to liberate us all from economic drudgery, what's the point of "getting in early"? It'll still be there tomorrow and I can join the journey whenever it is sensible for me.
Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of
FOMO
was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools. I've tried a bunch of them. Some are good. Most are a bit shit. Few are useful to me as they are now. I'm utterly content to wait until their hype has been realised. Why should I invest in learning the equivalent of WordStar for DOS when Google Docs is coming any-day-now?
If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours.
I didn't use Git when it first came out. Once it was stable and jobs began demanding it, I picked it up. Might I be 7% more effective if I'd suffered through the early years? Maybe. But so what? I could just as easily have wasted my time learning something which never took off.
I wrote my MSc on The Metaverse. Learning to built VR stuff was fun, but a complete waste of time. There was precisely zero utility in having gotten in early.
Perhaps there are some things for which it is sensible to be on the cutting edge. I took part in a vaccine trial because I thought it might personally benefit me and, hopefully, humanity.
But I'm struggling to think of anyone who has earned anything more than bragging rights by being first. Some early investors made money - but an equal and opposite number lost money. For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.
There are a 16,000 new lives being born every hour. They're all starting with a fairly blank slate. Are you genuinely saying that they'll all be left behind because they didn't learn your technology in utero?
No. That's obviously nonsense.
It is 100% OK to wait and see if something is actually useful.
#AI #crypto #future #technology
Alt...
Robot faced Mark Zuckerberg is wearing a VR headset - it digs painfully into his smiling cheeks.
Just found out (according to Peter Theil) that critics of AI are "legionnaires of the antichrist"¹
Hello fellow legionnaires!
¹Thank John Oliver (again).
Internet person: "But this unsubstantiated datapoint about a heat pump that 'someone I know' / my plumber mate / [insert random third-party] says they're shit"
How about near-realtime data from every single of the real Cosy heat pumps installed by Octopus Energy?
That's what we've done with the Cosy Heat Pump Fleet Performance Dashboard.
Hi all,
I'm James, and I built my own proper #SmartHome (and I build them for others too).
I now review the tech that goes into them, and do how-to's whenever I come up with something that I think others might find interesting.
I use #HomeAssistant, #AppleHome and #SiriShortcuts primarily. But I've also recently delved into #3DPrinting to add another tool to my belt in solving problems around my home.
I wrote up a deliberate process of narrowing down a performance issue using a profiler (with a brief digression into benchmarking tools). Fortunately (given that I was writing the post in parallel with doing the actual work) it turned out well, delivering a 30–40× speedup. #MyElixirStatus
Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.
Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure
boosted@Edent
For anyone reading this who thinks "you can't buy plugin solar panels from Lidl!" here's a link to Lidl Germany where that is definitely a thing:
https://www.lidl.de/h/stromerzeuger/h10031840?pageId=10067761%2F10067532%2F10031840&sort=price
@Edent this could be the start of something big. As someone renting a house with a large garden and paved area against a south-west facing wall, this is very interesting...
If I'm reading this correctly this allows consumers to feed solar into the grid. Do they get paid for doing it or is it just a case of if the sun's shining you might want to put your washing on?
@OneInterestingFact
Yes. If you have an export tariff you'll get paid for every kWh you pass back to the grid.
@Edent I look forward to the govt's publicity making that clear.
I look forward to the government ever making anything clear.
@Walrus What did your MP and Senedd member say when you complained to them about this?
Oh, come on. I do't have to make sense when I take cheap shots, do I?
@Walrus Kinda, yeah.
I used to work for the UK Government. We spent a lot of time and energy publishing things as clearly as possible.
Then some cleverdick would complain that we hadn't done a good enough job when, in reality, they just hadn't bothered looking.
I think that press release is pretty clearly written. If you genuinely don't then, yes, you should write to your representatives and complain. That's the only way feedback gets heard.
@Walrus @Edent Aren't the issues with unlimited / random feed back in to grid related to the infrastructure to handle it.
I may be wrong, but I assumed the hassle to get the limit one what we can feed in to to technical, not political.
If it is purely political, then hell yeh. Feed in that sunshine, and battery,
@revk
Yeah, the DNO can object if you're planning to put dozens of panels up and they think the grid can't handle it.
But balcony solar is likely to only be a couple of panels per household. Results from Germany are encouraging (albeit a different grid to ours).
@Edent I thought 3.1kW was allowed or some similar amount, for feed in without approval, so that sort of already covers it, no?
@revk TBH, it seems to change regularly. When we had ours done 5ish years ago it required DNO sign off, I think.
But, yeah, with all the grid upgrades going on it looks like it is just a regulatory problem.
@Edent @revk from the press release it seems the govt are working on making the process and regulations clearer to deal with (a consumer is going to have to tell the supplier to get the export enabled on the smart meter and the second MPAN allocated)
However DNO infrastructure isn't always the best (neighbour with 0 export, EV's or anything like that had a service cable failure, it took a month for UKPN to remove the temporary link from the next door house and rebuild the cable, which involved a week of having the road up and parking restrictions outside my house). There's also been at least one "make pumps 2" fire from an overloaded service cable on my street..
@Edent @OneInterestingFact Plug-in solar is usually not enough that feeding into the grid is actually worth it (mostly depends on how many forms you have to fill, but you are usually also not paid enough). The main reason you want to have a solar panel on your balcony is to cover your own consumption. Add battery storage to it and you can be quite independent of the grid for a large part of the year.
@phoerious @Edent
The devil is, as usual, in the detail. If every smart meter is automatically configured to measure export then maybe we have a winner.
If you don't get paid for energy put into the grid then balcony solar looks like an expensive way to make very small savings for those who don't have a way to shift consumption to the middle of the day or to store the energy they would have exported.
Adding a battery to my existing 4.4kW(p) PV system would have saved <£70 last year. Not viable.
@OneInterestingFact @phoerious
Yes, every smart meter in the UK can measure export. I've done it on several smart meters. You'll need to tell your energy company so they can pay you correctly.
@Edent @OneInterestingFact how would that work, I currently have a second meter on a feed from the inverter to export power and I get a lower price than I pay to import. It doesn't sound like plugin solar will have that and if it just runs the meter backwards then they are getting a better deal than I do.
Plus my system has to automatically disconnect from the grid in a power cut so as not to electrocute power workers.
@ianturton It won't physically run the meter backwards. Any SMETS meter will detect it as export.
Plug in solar also has to automatically disconnect.
@Edent It is good news but I can't help feeling that we're all about to be scalped in terms of pricing.
I hope not, but big retail in the UK has a nasty habit of artificial scarcity and price bumps.
"The portable, plug-in solar panels can be placed in gardens or on walls and balconies"
Especially interesting since the price of a solar panels is competitive with the price of fence panels
@Edent excellent news if it turns out they don't screw it up.
but.
"plug it into your mains"? really? how does that work?
edit: even if it does work — how would i know it was doing anything?
edit^2: the relevant search term here is "G98". i'm still very confused what the hell this is, but it is a thing, in some areas.
@Edent I *love* this. These ultra low-friction options are absolutely key to popular adoption in the early stages.
@Edent in case anyone missed it, here's a primer on the potential of solar.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM
Watch or listen to the end.
@Edent I wonder why they were illegal in the first st place, are they notorious shoplifters or something?
@inpc because the grid was originally designed to support electricity flowing in one direction.
It's a bit like asking why it's illegal to connect your sewage pipe back into the mains. It wasn't designed for that and it carries risks.
Thankfully, the grid is mostly upgraded and can now handle energy flowing in both directions.
On that subject: I discussed your post this evening with a friend who's not on Fedi, and she raised an interesting question: when there's a line fault, how do you disconnect all the solar panels and keep them disconnected while the repair is carried out? Just as you say, the grid was designed for power flowing in one direction only. Is there a breaker by each house that the DNO can flip at will?
@Edent @CppGuy @inpc In the US, rooftop solar still requires an outdoor cutoff switch, even though the equipment is not supposed to send voltage back to the grid if there is no charge present. There was a lot of political resistance to plug-in units (ostensibly in the name of safety), but it does look like the US may make them legal soon!
@Edent
Not if you live on a listed residential estate
@Christo_459 You should write to your MP and assembly member to let them know your concerns.
But, it looks like you can apply for consent for a listed building.
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/building-services-engineering/installing-photovoltaics/consents-permissions/
@Edent @Christo_459 You can in theory but unlikely to be worth it for plug-in if your local authority wants you to do a planning application.
@annehargreaves @Christo_459
Sure, but you lose nothing by asking.
As ever, people need to engage with their local politicians rather than just feeling hopeless or ranting on the Internet.
@Edent @annehargreaves
I will certainly mail my MP but we also have a very strong residents association
I'm.travelling home to London on Friday so next week will set to.
@Edent power / sec nerd here. How does this not energize intentionally-deenergized lines? Mustn’t cook line repair crews.
@InkomTech because an inverter matches the frequency it sees from the grid. If there's no frequency, it doesn't output.
That's how all solar inverters work.
@Edent They are also making headway in the US. Now if someone would incorporate them into ventanas, roll down sunshades, used in every sunny country. You can thank me later.
@Edent I’ve seen these in Germany and it discombobulates me to think that I can feed electricity into my house the “wrong” way.
@Edent this does not say of there are any requirements for the plug-in solar. The main objections here in Norway is the potential for shock from touching the prongs on the plug, from something else plugged into the same circuit and from anyone working on the main powerlines, since the panels produce power even if there is no power from the grid. Are these things considered in the UK?
@gundersen no, we just let people die.
Of course they are considered. All inverters continually check for the presence of the grid's frequency. If the frequency is lost, it immediately de-energises.
@Edent haha, good to know you think of the people 🤣
I'm just sharing the objections of the Norwegian government. Is there a legal requirement for the balcony panels to have that kind of inverter? There doesn't seem to be an EU law, apparently. It would be good if we could just copy your laws, seeing as my government is mortally afraid of taking any decision on their own, but European champions in copying others laws
@Edent
Better to have batteries too or your solar can't be used at night or during power cuts.
Solar UPS systems have been sold for years and legal everywhere. They have an MPPT controller to charge the LiFePO4 batteries, an inverter to give 230V AC from the 12V to 48V nominal batteries and a mains charger to recharge the batteries if not enough sun.
Can be used to "move" cheap night time electricity to daytime in winter.
Far better than simply feeding solar power to the grid. This is a sop.
@raymaccarthy
What do you mean "a sop"?
Balcony solar works really well in Germany. Even without a battery, this will offset people's energy costs by letting them use solar in the day.
@Edent
Because Solar UPS doesn't need this "law change".
The LiFePO4 (unlike Lithium Ion) are safe and maybe 10 to 20 years life.
It's short sighted and a rubbish system to have no batteries.
There is less than 1/10th solar in Dec/Jan compared to Jun/Jul. Adding batteries means cheaper winter daytime electricity and typically 10 hours backup for vital stuff in Jan/Dec to indefinate during the summer.
Also many of the plug in cheap micro-inverters are poor quality & high radio interference
@Edent
I've halved our electricity bill and have the 12 panels on two shed roofs.
No contractor or law change needed because it's Solar UPS. No power fed to grid.
two systems: Bluetti & their proprietary batteries and Victron with a generic battery (both LiFePO4),.
Runs 3 freezers, fridge, internet/pcs, TV, satellite & some lights.
We'd save more with a smart meter as we then could charge at cheap night rate and use that during the day. Solar only is only good for the summer and no security.
@Edent it doesn't say when, which is important.
I do wonder though how likely anyone will now be to take action against someone who hangs panels on a balcony or wall.
Not very, I'd think.
#balconysolar
@Photo55 it literally says they're consulting now.
The action wouldn't be against hanging a panel (although their could be some health and safety things if not tied down). It's about making sure that the things are electrically safe.
@Edent
A subsidy, plus mandatory Solar + batteries on all new buildings.
Add to bus shelters, bicycle shelters, car parks etc.
This encourages poor quality solutions and changes nothing.
@raymaccarthy you do know the UK hugely subsidises solar, right?
And that new-builds will have solar by default. That's already law.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rooftop-solar-for-new-builds-to-save-people-money
I've got to ask, why are you such a doomer about this good news?
@Edent
Because it's mostly PR.
The Solar UPS was already possible without this is change and far better as It can make bigger savings & security.
The so-called "balcony" solar makes little difference. This is ONLY useful for people wanting to sell to grid that have maybe only one or two panels. You need a lot more, especially the darker half of the year to make a difference and then the extra cost of a certified electrician isn't significant.
Solar without the LiFePO4 batteries is stupid.
@raymaccarthy
No, that's not really correct.
A battery is only good if you can plug stuff in to it. Which means you need to route your cables around - and it'd be impossible to plug an oven in to it.
Balcony solar goes:
* Panel out of window
* String to inverter
* Inverter to mains via plug
Then *all* of your devices can use solar. Not just the ones within cable reach of your window.
Anyway, if you want more of my thoughts on solar - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/solar/
@Edent
No, that's nonsense.
Talk to an electrician and look at power of panel.
A typical 400W panel only gives that for a few hours each day in clear sky in Jun/Jul. A cheap "balcony" system is 1/2 that.
Maybe 10W to 40W at noon in Dec/Jan on average.
Without a battery you can't use ANY of the 400W if the mains supply fails.
You don't plug anything into the battery!
You plug into the inverter or inverter/UPS. The Electricity companies don't pay well for the Solar to grid!
Oven is irrelevant
@raymaccarthy
I have rather a lot of experience with domestic solar.
The point of balcony solar isn't to power your whole house. Nor is it to island your home in event of a power cut.
You're arguing against something that it explicitly isn't designed for.
It's to trickle feed energy into your home in order to reduce what you're drawing from the mains.
@Edent I concur. My solar panel (400W, absolutely not ideally positioned) does cover the base load of my apartment easily on most days when delivering power. That has reduced my electricity bill by around 15% compared to the year before. So it basically pays itself back in around 3 years. Good enough for me. @raymaccarthy
@matthewcroughan @raymaccarthy
Yes, that's the point of this proposal. You'll be able to hang them on your flat's balcony, or our a window. No need to drill into your roof.
Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.
Another of their tricks to try and take votes from green by grabbing their policys.
Remember how many promises Labour made, and how many they have broken, like most of them....
@Kerplunk you didn't read the Labour Party manifesto, did you?
They explicitly mention solar and other green policies.
Not sure how making it easier to get solar power is a trick. Do you want these policies now or only after another 3 years when Zack is PM?
@Edent don’t you still need a bi directional meter to use solar with your mains? Idk if it’s different there but here in the states almost nobody has those by default and has to get them swapped. We can’t just plug a solar panel in and call it a day
@officialdeathscythe Yes and no.
All smart meters support bi-directional power - although you'll need to tell your supplier so they can pay you properly.
If you have an old meter, it will spin backwards. See my video at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/12/free-money-from-the-sky/
@Edent
A great idea. I can't put solar on my grade 2 listed cottage. If this means I can put some in the garden, it's brilliant news.
@Edent any suspicion when from? Do we think weeks or months away?
@seanhood Write to your MP, tell them you think it is a brilliant idea, and ask when it will be in place.
That will show them (and the department) that their constituents are interested in green energy.
@Edent I love the idea of this, but the suicide plug on the end scares me. Assuming they have some pretty quick cutoff times or something in case you pull the plug out?
@jpwsutton Yes. The inverter which turns DC from the panels into AC for your home needs a "carrier" frequency to work. It has to match the Hz in your wires.
If it loses that, it instantly shuts down.
That's how all inverters work.
@Edent Makes complete sense. I guess I'd just never considered that would be fine on a type G plug too, but no reason why not I suppose!
@matthewcroughan
See my answer at
https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116233685137748142
@matthewcroughan
Knock on your neighbours' doors. Ask them who installed their solar and whether they'd recommend them.
@Edent
Don't forget the battery bank, inverter, control box.
Oh, and a balcony.
Or a roof.
Or even a garden.
@WellsiteGeo You don't need the battery bank. That's the point. If you have no space, you can literally hang them out of a window.
If you live somewhere without windows, you have bigger problems!
@Edent I thought it was already, and that you just couldn't get an MCS certificate for it (and be paid for the export)
@Edent ... And discover your internal wiring can't handle the power and burns the shed down?
@Edent Brilliant news indeed, ty.
Strikes me that plug-in solar isn't just for those unable to do a full-on permanent rooftop install due to not having roof access and so on, but also for those of us who'd love to go ahead with rooftop but can't afford the minimum four figure initial outlay.
That is: IIUC (maybe I don't?) the cost to entry for My First Plug-In Solar System will be a lot smaller than My First Rooftop Solar Installation; achieving the former will help save up for the latter.
@Edent "Plug them in your mains"? Not *that* simple, but yes it is good news!
@lbhudda
I mean, yes?
Solar Panel - Small Inverter Box - Mains Plug.
That seems pretty simple to me.
@Edent Sure thing, but that's *not what you wrote*! You can't plug a solar panel into the mains, and an invertor isn't a solar panel. I feel your message is misleading!
@Edent @lbhudda Wait really? I'm kinda curious how this works, since the current is gonna be flowing out of the inverter and into the plug? Does that mean that the plug has mains energised exposed prongs? Or some protection in there so it only turns on its supply when it detects mains voltage at the plug and so logically the plug is in the socket and safe
@Edent Happy days. Been waiting a while for this. With panels and batteries at an all time low these are exciting times. :-)
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My wood store with solar panels leaning against the front powering a Lipo4 battery in my shed.
this is great! microgeneration is such a viable form of energy production but it is rarely proposed because it doesn't provide a revenue stream for a lot of producers
@Edent "The Energy Secretary will today outline a package of measures to go “further and faster” in the pursuit of national energy security as a response to events in the Middle East. "
It's a shame it took a war to come to this decision...
@chewie
You know they've been doing a bunch of stuff *before* this latest conflict, right?
Massive amounts of wind and solar, plus all the grid upgrades.
@Edent sure, but balconsolar isn't exactly revolutionary
@chewie
OK, how about building the biggest off-shore windfarm in the world?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9zyx150xdo
Is that revolutionary enough for you?
@Edent I don't care whether it's revolutionary or not, it's just annoying that it's taken a war to focus their minds on something that should be a "quick win", and has already demonstrated it's potential in other countries.
@chewie I don't think that's quite correct.
The proposals have been in the works for ages.
See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/solar-roadmap/solar-roadmap-united-kingdom-powered-by-solar-accessible-webpage#fnref:28 from mid-2025.
@Edent So by "plug-in", does it mean I literally just plug it into a wall socket and go about my business?
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Donating! 🩸 If you can, please do, too!
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My left arm while donating blood. You see the tube, but not the needle.
Heh, it's the same dance every time.
"Have you donated from this arm before?"
"Yes, always the left arm."
"This is a very narrow vein. I will call a more experienced colleague [this time a super young lady in a headscarf 💚] to do it."
(I'm happy they do check! It's just always kinda funny ... I can tell them by now that there are two veins and that it is easier to feel them than to see.)
And then they are surprised that I'm done in 5 min max. Narrow veins but good blood flow.
And the reason I post about donating is rather simple: I long procrastinated on starting to. And then folks I followed on twitter kept posting about them going donating so that at a point I made the jump. So trying to give back into the circle of encouragement...
@vicgrinberg do you get free biscuits and snacks afterwards? We do in the UK 🙂
@Edent yes! They actually encourage you to drink and eat something afterwards. And it's really nice Dutch bisquits, raisin bread or nuts at my location. You can also get a "soup in a cup" and similar, though I usually go for the sweet stuff 😅
@vicgrinberg soup! We get water or fruit squash. But, yes, lots of sweet snacks and crisps.
Thanks for donating.
@Edent well, it's instant soup... (but I have to admit that I have some of it at home myself - lively childhood memories!). And thank you for donating, too!
@Edent
Oh, so I was wrong complaining (in my head) about pasta with tomato sauce and cake with coffee? Good to know.
@nick
Look, at the place I was donating blood in the city I used to live we would get 25€ for additional food expenses due to the blood loss. Back in the days me and friends would spend the money at a local restaurant. Compared to that, some pasta with tomato sauce is... you get the point: I didn't know, how good I had it. ;)
This thread is now developing into that meme ("you guys have xyz?").
@Edent @vicgrinberg
@nick
Don't you get some souvenirs like a mug or a small book shop vocher?
Oh man, Germany starts feeling like a luxurious blood donor's paradise...
@nick @ditol @vicgrinberg
Oh yes! Great for laptops and other gadgets.
https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115400793572610711
@vicgrinberg
I agree, but 25€ once every 2 or 3 months wasn't enough to be considered proper money even in my uni years. It really felt like reimbursement and they did their best to explain it like this. But I guess, with the recent cuts to the welfare state we may end up in a situation, where 25€ every couple of months DOES feel like proper money to many people...
I heard the sound of my cat in the kitchen hacking away. I went to have a look and it turned out I was right – he was establishing an SSH connection to a custom port while wearing a black hoodie.
Breaking news
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Bastards
Anyone had any luck with an external 4G antenna? Looks like there are a bunch of questionable ones on Amazon that might be just the ticket to turn a spotty, near useless 4G router into something passable.
@gadgetoid It is a minefield. I used to have one on top of a warehouse roof that worked... it was the second one I tried, the previous cheap one was total bullshit, did nothign at all ... just going to see if I can find them in the old business Amazon history.
@yvan thank you! It does seem like the sort of thing that could easily do nothing, and for that to be near impossible to prove. At least the signal is bad enough that I'd know if it got usefully better 😆
@gadgetoid this is the one that worked: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C1DGFPS
It was "only" 80 quid when I bought it mind. Has gone up a tonne! Not cheap!
It was put to serious use a few times as our whole office/logistics relied on an internet connection and the BT copper on the street was totally flakey. We got usable failover internet by plugging this into the 4G dongle on the router (without it we had zero bars, but it was inside a giant metal warehouse, the antenna OTOH was mounted on the apex of the roof outside at the other end of 5 metres of cable, and I did test with just the cable and no antenna and it didnt' work so the antenna being connected did do something.)
This is the one I bought that appeared to do approximately nothing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Y1N9ZTF
@yvan wow that gives me a ballpark to work with, thank you. The ones I had been looking at were around the £40 mark and they are probably junk. I suspect by the time I've invested in good hardware and managed to mount it somewhere useful I could have been enjoying a decent, no-hassle fibre connection just for the want of a few extra quid 😆
@gadgetoid there has gotta be cheaper options than that that'll work...
In actual fact I should have that one in storage somewhere I think. I'm tempted to crack it open and see what kind of bullshit is inside. (I cracked open the one that didn't work and IIRC it was just a PCB with some dubious "antenna" traces on it.)
@yvan hahaha, I'm almost tempted to order a cheap one from Amazon and have a peek. I'd bet just measuring the dubious antenna traces should give you a pretty good idea whether it can even physically work or not.
@gadgetoid yeah, I never had time to try and analyse them... that one is actually still up the top of a pole on the house.
I have also tried these ones: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bingfu-Outdoor-Waterproof-Vodafone-Cellular/dp/B086J9NBQ8/
But I am struggling to remember if I ever confirmed how well they worked. I vaguely recall they may have done something, but I never properly tested it and the site those ones were on had pretty much 100% reliable wired Internet so I don't think we ever had to use the failover.
@gadgetoid oh, haha... I clicked on the review with the most interesting looking photos... and the review is actually from me. Fuck my memory. 😂
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Screenshot of a review for this product: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bingfu-Outdoor-Waterproof-Vodafone-Cellular/dp/B086J9NBQ8/
With a couple of photos and text:
he antenna does improve signal, and using two of these with a 4G gateway device and the antennas in a high window gave me good a good 4G bandwidth boost. If they were still working I'd mention some exact signal gains... but an antenna broke.
This is why I'm rating this 2 stars and writing this review. These antennas are of very fragile design. The cable is fixed only by solder joins. So with use/movement of the cable one of mine has detached completely.
And they are not easily user servicable as the casing is very much glued shut. So I had to get the Dremel out and cut the bottom off...
What these need is a cable retainer device really. What I am going to do is solder the cable back on and then smother with epoxy or hot glue. I'll also squirt silicone into the metal cable entry to fix the cable (and improve water proofness.) And glue the butchered casing back together.
Water proofness is another issue I notice. The o-ring on the antenna base isn't any use with the provided brackets. But I guess it is for a whole other use case? (Mounted through sheet material... vehicle roof?)
Anyway - if you buy this I recommend at least pumping some odourless (non-acetic) silicone into the cable entry tube to secure the cable and prevent the breakage I have suffered.
@yvan @gadgetoid I mean... that looks like it's basically a couple of square inches of PCB copper, with a bit of steel wool stuck on the end for good measure.
@ahnlak yeah, I find the whole pcb-antenna magic a bit of a dark art... beyond my understanding. I also wonder if the antennas need to be connected onto a bigger ground-plane to work well (i.e. vehicle roof)... there is a not-fantastic electrical connection between the board and the metal-disc/brass-tube which I improved when I fixed this one by thickening up those outer pads with added solder. (It's all slowly coming back to me.) I then mounted the two antennas in an outdoor box offset at 90 degrees from each other [more wild stab in the dark than any knowledge/skill on my part.] That's presumably all still stuck to the side of a chimney at a pub in Cambride lol.
The "steel wool" is just a bit of foam that fairly pointlessly braces the board against some slot or something in the top of the housing IIRC.
@yvan @ahnlak so you’re saying if I get a ladder there’s a pub in Cambridge with antennas going? 🤣
Getting the darn thing up high is going to be a challenge, it’s in a sparse housing area but I think the line of sight to the nearest cell is blocked by a bunch of stuff and I’m pretty sure the house is chimneyless and there might be words said about unsightly antennas 😬
@gadgetoid @ahnlak ladder: yeah, kinda... said pub may well be using the antennas, albeit may not be aware of the fact... it was all left in place connected to the 4G dongle on the Virgin router. They may or may not notice 😂
Best way to determine antenna location is to test it I guess. So much depends on the location, lie of the land, etc.
@gadgetoid 🚨 WARNING WILL ROBINSON, WARNING 🚨
DO NOT BUY THIS ONE! I saw a coke machine with this identical antennae so I thought “What the hell?” and I bought this. Once connected to my T-Mobile 4G gateway it did exactly NOTHING.
Just my $.02 worth (or 2p worth 😂)
@gadgetoid We have https://www.solwise.co.uk/4g-outdoor-omni-232.htm on our boat and it works ok for 4G (need to ensure you connect it to the primary socket on the router). Doesn’t work for 5G as that needs multiple antennas working together. Looks like https://www.solwise.co.uk/A-PUCK-0002-V2-01 is the modern equivalent. Poynting seems to be the brand to go for.
@rebelmike oh wow it’s been a hot minute since I’ve heard of Solwise! Used to review their gear probably more years ago than I’d care to remember 😬
Added to the list of considerations, thanks!
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Just spent half day reconfiguring #SIP trunks on #FreePBX and #Asterisk (using chan_pjsip) as one of our providers silently yoinked #IAX2 support - #VOIP is as cursed if not more so than #PSTN / #ISDN circuits, except you don't have to crawl around as much in corners and roofspaces amongst spiders, mouse-like rodents and possibly snakes (if you have them in your country), and there's less chance of ending up on the wrong side of 100-120 volts (either AC or DC, depending on whether its ringing voltage or the strong DC voltage that British Telecom and others used to send down certain ISDN lines in 90s/00s)
@vfrmedia What a non-boring life you have in Good Old England! Do you have any telecom operators that provide the IAX2 interface? Then run from FreePBX (it's still a PBX for blondes) to a normal Asterisk and you can even use chan_sip for now, it looks like it won't be disable anytime soon. And don't forget to take the system indoors, out of the attic where the prim British rats roam and the Victorian vipers crawl behind them.
I feel your pain 🙂
chan_pjsip + FreePBX can turn into a rabbit hole very quickly, especially when providers change capabilities without proper notice. IAX2 can actually be a relief in some cases (NAT-friendly, fewer SIP headaches), but of course it depends on the use case.
If you need a second pair of eyes on the config (PJSIP/IAX2, NAT, codecs, security), feel free to reach out.
Also happy to help with EU DID ranges and UK geographic numbers if that becomes relevant.
Had to open 5060 inbound to get one providers trunk to signal inbound calls (either #STUN isn't working there or some #NAT issues), with predictable results..
Got older version of #fail2ban on this box to yeet all blighters trying to get in - by turning on security logging in /etc/asterisk/logfiles_custom.conf (add entry security_log => security), updating regexes in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d and pointing failt2ban jail to check /var/log/asterisk/security_log (main Asterisk log is in wrong format and I don't know enough regex to fix that)
Also registered a #Voipfone virtual PBX extension to use as an extra trunk (needs contact-user and from-user set in #PJSIP config)
The picture @alex drew a few months back sums up exactly what dealing with these #VOIP #trunks is like
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Drawing of elephants trunk with snake head at the end
remembered to add the new security_log file to #Asterisk conf in /etc/rotate.d - hopefully this works and I don't get huge log files on the server..
Alas, log does not seem to get picked up by logrotate - changed filename to /var/log/asterisk/fail2ban (already in /etc/logrotate.d and previously working) to see if thats any better (as apparently #FreePBX can alter /etc/logrotate.d but its not clear exactly where this happens!)
it turns out maybe some regexes in fail2ban may have been fine, but the full log generated by #Asterisk didn't contain "security" events so it couldn't find any to catch). I've also added "notice" to the security log and the regex *now* seems to snag these!
Turned off FreePBX software #firewall as fighting with #fail2ban #iptables rules (never worked straight anyway and didn't guard #SIP traffic), checking if config persist across reboots and services start correctly.. #VOIP
Everything now seems to be working. Now I know SIP trunks work even on this old server and versions of #Asterisk / #FreePBX I can plan for when our main analogue lines have to be ceased and reprovided as SIP (and will be looking into using a cloud server / VPS as its hardware is getting old, and should stop a problem we have at a remote site where the ISP controls the router and won't open up firewall ports other than as chargeable work (which means I had to use a different cloud #PBX service for that site)
Just over a month and I've tamed all the #trunks (with abundant snake heads at the end), made sure 1500+ #blighters are yeeted (with more trying every day) got inter #PBX #trunk working between on-premises and cloud #FreePBX - just waiting for porting of first analogue number to check this (and CLID presentation) works and then main office one can follow.
Took many late evenings, a lot of research of everything from old #BritishTelecom training manuals to some from Universities in India and the Indian telecom companies, and I've learned a lot more about #SIP even since 2008 when I built the first #VOIP #PBX used at work.
Thankfully #routers seem to handle #SIP over #NAT a lot better than they used to (even got an extension it working over #LTE with #Linphone)
@nick one provider won't deliver inbound calls without it being open and the numbers attached to it are well known and in regular use (we were previously using IAX2 trunks for these numbers which didn't attract many attack attempts but the provider abruptly stopped IAX2 support without warning us)
@nick some of them do, the others don't (I'm looking at porting out the numbers from the ones which do not provide a modern level of support)
I've investigated what is going on and fail2ban is catching them anyway, things look worse as SNGREP is catching the packets at kernel level before they hit the firewall..
@vfrmedia The fun thing is when you have to resort to using E1 links to tie a Cisco SBC and SIP switch together because they can't agree on SIP/RTP handling of V.150 modem signalling (for "special" telephones). You know it's a mess when the NSA has to publish guidelines on how to make it work (SCIP-216).
Firewall settings add to the hell that is VOIP.
Recommend telling your kids that back in the day the length of time it took to dial a phone number was proportionate to the sum of its digits
Entirely Foreseeable AWS Outages
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Once you strip away the marketing hype, agentic systems like Kiro AI are just automation tools.
The difference between Kiro and regular infrastructure management tools is that the latter are deterministic. They can be tested, analyzed, and bugs can be reliably, provably fixed.
That's just not the case with agentic tools. They are by their very nature non-deterministic. And that's the last thing a systems engineer should want.
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My wife and her two siblings decided to visit the Victoria & Albert museum today, and had a really great time. She and I will probably go back at some point, as I was working today.
Rather than take the train they Ubered from where we live (near Bagshot) all the way to the V&A and back again.
I thought I'd try and run the numbers on what the cost consequence of doing this was.
The station we most frequently use is Woking. And tickets from Woking to Waterloo are £15.20 return after peak. -->
--> So in train fees alone, there would be £45.60. But that is not where it ends. The'd have had to drive to and park at Wokingham. A day's premium parking (near the station) is £21.00. Ordinary car park is £14.00.
I think since they left from the house door and arrived at the door of the V&A in the uber, it's probably fair to take the £21 option. So £21 in parking, added to the £45.60 train fares. So £66.60.
But that would only get them to Waterloo, and the V&A is nowhere near that. -->
--> I can only estimate the cost of an Uber from Waterloo to the V&A but Google's AI suggests between £15 and £25, so let's go in the middle at £20. So now we're up to £86.60. Of course one could walk (50-75 mins) or use the underground. Jubilee line west -> Westminster, change for the District/Circle West again to South Ken. I think on a contactless the tube would be £3.50 each. Call that £10 as an option. And around 25-30 mins probably. So, again, uber is probably the fairest comparison.-->
--> Then returning the £10 would apply again, but they'd already got a return from Waterloo to Woking, and the car would already be there.
So my total for driving to Woking, Parking, Train to Waterloo, Uber to V&A, Uber back from V&A to Waterloo and return, I think, is £106.60 return. If we did use the tube, I think we could reduce this to £86.60.
This morning the uber from door to door was £75. The uber back home, again door to door, was around £65, I think.
-->
So uber door to door £140 in total.
Drive/Train/Uber/return same way £106.60 - only £33.40 more expensive for a lot less hassle.
or Drive/Train/Tube/return same way £86.60 - £53.40 more.
Unsure whether that feels 'worth it' or not. The first one definitely feels better value.
I think because train tickets are "per person" whereas ubers are "per car" there might often be situations where an uber is maybe almost cheaper for some kinds of journey. Which is mad, and a bit of an indictment of rail pricing, really. Although to be fair, off peak tickets never seem awful value.
An Uber costs £x, shared between Y people, to give you £Z each.
If you worked out how much it cost to run an average train journey and split the cost by how many people booked tickets, so there was an incentive to annoy as many people as possible to take the train to get it cheaper for everyone, I wonder what would happen?
@bloor Plus:
- Don't need to plan in advance
- Can travel direct from start to finish
- Time has value
That last point is my biggest mistake whenever I go on holiday. I tend to use public transport but what I perceive to save in money I definitely lose in time.
@bloor At least in Wales the trains have group tickets too.
Even then some years back a bunch of Swansea football fans celebrating their brief return to the premier league booked a limo from Swansea up North and back as a special treat and discovered it was cheaper than the train
@bloor around here there is also the issue of reliability of the trains. Half the time that I try to take the train there are problems, and I either take the car instead or just don’t go. Shame, as it is a super easy walk to the train station from our house. 😒
@bloor how does the estimated travel time compare? I'll often take the slightly more expensive option to save a degree of hassle with changes, waiting around etc
@glaringanomaly Leaving at around ten they got from door to door in pretty much dead on one hour I think.
I know it is possible driving/parking/Woking to Waterloo to be at Waterloo in one hour, but then the Waterloo->V&A would be on the top. So yes the uber is a time saver too.
The uber was an EV too. So .... not as bad as a petrol/diesel. Although of course the train still ran, so I guess there has to be a higher footprint.
@bloor How does uber to and from your local train station compare to the parking; i.e. so you can do uber<->train<->uber ?
Just popped into Currys to get a new toaster. £180!! No chance.
For that I would want it to butter the bread too.
If only we had proper electrical shops like we used to have where we could buy things....
A&A fibre install day… this time at least I’m getting texts from CityFibre though it’s a little concerning it says they’ve arrived and are nowhere to be seen 🤦
(Does say they might be elsewhere working on infra)
Pushed through my incessant cold to clean up the driveway and move some more plant pots. Wish I hadn’t 😭
No sign yet!
They sure do have an unhelpful interpretation of “arrived.”
They have now arrived and are beginning the install 😱
I have a bunch of very unhelpful block paving that needs to be lifted 🙃
I think a good deal of that is getting past the cemented in ones at the edge.
He’s making good progress!
Current status: sitting at my unholy complicated router config page wondering how the heck to route my internet through the PPPoE connection on VLAN911…
Wow when I was a dummy and added my VLAN to the bridge taking down my PPPoE connection I *immediately* got a link down text from AAISP!
So far my efforts are going poorly. Figured I’d use PPPoE quickset to get me most of the way and finagle the VLAN after, but using that immediately boots me off the router 🙃
Well my *router* can ping Internet services…
Well the TLDR was the obvious problem- the PPPoE link was not automatically added to the WAN interface list, so it was excluded from the default masquerade firewall rule.
To shadow this problem I had also set my router’s local address incorrectly so my computer couldn’t even ping it.
Have now tweaked my other router and I’m pretty sure I’ve probably got some horrible double NAT situation going on I ought to fix. Nothing a DHCP Relay can’t fix 💀
@gadgetoid just run everything over IPv6 :)
@ahnlak I ought to give it a try at some point. Suspect I have a bunch of devices that wont be happy 😆
Hivemind :
Can this possibly be legit? And if not why not?
@bloor Is that "fused" as in "fused plastic"?
@IvanSanchez well, I cannot tell, as it is a sealed unit
@bloor I suppose it /might/ have a non-replaceable fuse, but I'd be very surprised. Even then I'm not sure it's legal?
@bloor I have doubts about the supposed fuse. You could always run more than 5 A through it and see what happens.
@bloor Pretty sure the earth pin shouldn't be part insulated, the dimensions look all wrong, there should be more clearance between the pins and the edge of the housing, and wtf is going on with that fuse? I'd guess there's also a hilariously small amount of copper in that cable (if its even actual copper) and I've seen cables like that where the earth wasn't even connected. Most likely an absolute death trap.
@bloor one of those nearly burned down my office. I have the photos somewhere but seems to be unable to find them. Only a PC was plugged into it but it melted the socket and plug. Ergh.
@CenturyAvocado Amazon refunded in full on first request. Note: I didn’t buy these
@bloor 100% not legal. Earth should be all metal, not sheathed (or all plastic if not earthed) and there’s obviously no fuse. Except for what is presumably the bare minimum of copper clad aluminium they can get away with in the cable. It does at least look like the earth pin is longer than the others.
@bloor Get a pair of pliers and rip the prongs off that thing to make sure no one ever plugs it in. Fire hazard and electrocution hazard.
If the seller is UK based then report it to them and to trading standards. If the seller is based abroad then it's up to the individual who imported it to check its compliance with the regulations.
@bloor
I was told as a kid that its never legit to pull things apart at the dinner table. I never got a satisfying answer as to why.
@bloor earth pin should not be sleeved (dangerous - means the appliance won't be earthed). The plug dimensions are wrong and may allow fingers to touch contacts (dangerous), almost certainly does not have a fuse, despite saying "fused" (dangerous)... But really, would you trust that it was actually fused when it fails to meet the BS in so many other ways?
Also would not be surprised if it used undersized copper plated aluminium wire.
@bloor Very very NOT legit, and my experience is the wires are a thin strand of chinesium and get very hot in use.
"In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud" 😅
https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator
@evemassacre "nah bro trust me, we need those gold connectors on our SSDs for higher-quality bits"
It's Sunday evening - have a great week from the Fediverse Barista (photo from 2023)
#HaveAgreatWeek #CheersSunday #Barista
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Person in a blue suit (me) sitting outdoors under a brick portico, smiling and raising a wine glass in a friendly toast. Rustic courtyard with stone flooring, wooden tables and countryside in the background. Photo taken in June 2023, relaxed Sunday evening atmosphere.
The speakers at the third #MikroTik Professionals Conference have now been published on our website. We have selected MikroTik experts from all over the world who are coming to MTPC Prague in March to explain how to use many of the new features added to RouterOS v7 in the last few years. Tickets are still available for sale. Free beer (other drinks are available) the evening before! Plus of course, the famous free raffle! https://mtpc.world/agenda/
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