Close guess - rocket engines are so loud that launch pads and test stands almost always need a water deluge system to stop them from self-destructing. If you have enough water in the way, the energy from the sound waves gets dissipated to a more reasonable (but still probably fatal) level.
Or it's insulated but over time I guess the sun would damage the plastic and air/water would start to get into the wire and corrode it?
Bingo! Ripped out a bunch of it yesterday and found a section of it where insulation has failed for whatever reason and the wire was crumbling to dust.
It uses induction - the base station sends a signal around the loop and the mower picks it up with a coil. The signal is inverted when the coil is on the outside of the loop.
Hopefully will find enough time (and nice weather) to fix the robotic mower's boundary wire. And by fix I mean rip the whole lot out and replace with the heavy duty wire. It's done well to last so long, but it's in too poor condition now for me to bother trying to patch whichever section is corroded.
Then I have to put my fancy new Old Man Mountain front rack on my bicycle and figure out how to mount my light to it.
I did the same except I did the lazy way for idiots: added a cheap USB network adapter to Home Assistant and connected that to a separate network switch. Reolink cameras have been rock solid and haven't complained about being air gapped from the internet.
As long as the punishment is fair and not unduly harsh, I don't see any real problem with criminalising misinformation in general. It's already illegal to lie about facts in a great many contexts (e.g. fraud, perjury), and reasonable people don't have a hugely difficult time distinguishing a fact from an opinion.
As a trivial example: "This is mine and you can have it for a dollar" is not an opinion someone can be entitled to, it is a statement of fact that is either true or not.
We recently got one of those ice cream gizmos that can (among other things) turn a brick of frozen fruit into a sorbet. It's surprising how good something incredibly basic like canned pineapple turns out.
Haven't tried any actually adventurous recipes yet.
Is dumb doorbell + separate CCTV camera a valid alternative? Even my fairly basic Reolink camera has a much better image quality than any doorbell camera I've seen, and HA can pull an image from it and push it to my phone in only a few tenths of a second whenever someone pushes the doorbell.
The sad thing is we don't even drive the Kuga that much, only for long trips. I think it would be a reasonable bet that we've spent less on fuel than we have on maintenance.
Last road trip from Auckland to Wellington, we just hired a big car (a mid-size SUV, I guess). 100% recommend anyone shopping for a car (or whatever) does a quick check to see if it's actually worth owning it vs hiring. In my case (one kid and no boat), it's way cheaper to just hire something big and flash for the occasional road trips.
It's the first nice day for a bit, so I rode the push bike in to work today. Forgot how slippery everything is in the wet and had a brief lie-down in the mud, but still made pretty decent time. I'd call it a fairly decent start to the day.
Tangentially related: we've got an electric sit/stand desk that sometimes needs the controller resetting, but the only way to do so is to unplug it and wait for the capacitors to discharge, which takes at least 12 hours or so. I wonder if I can just add a push button and a resistor... 30 seconds is annoying, but would be a huge upgrade from can't-move-desk-until-tomorrow...
Underneath the rocket for a launch, so probably less noticeable than all the fire and smoke.
Close guess - rocket engines are so loud that launch pads and test stands almost always need a water deluge system to stop them from self-destructing. If you have enough water in the way, the energy from the sound waves gets dissipated to a more reasonable (but still probably fatal) level.
Bingo! Ripped out a bunch of it yesterday and found a section of it where insulation has failed for whatever reason and the wire was crumbling to dust.
Nothing special, any copper wire should work.
It uses induction - the base station sends a signal around the loop and the mower picks it up with a coil. The signal is inverted when the coil is on the outside of the loop.
Hopefully will find enough time (and nice weather) to fix the robotic mower's boundary wire. And by fix I mean rip the whole lot out and replace with the heavy duty wire. It's done well to last so long, but it's in too poor condition now for me to bother trying to patch whichever section is corroded.
Then I have to put my fancy new Old Man Mountain front rack on my bicycle and figure out how to mount my light to it.
Did you go PoE or wireless? I was tempted to get the PoE version, but am now too lazy to run a cable.
Not my cup of tea, so I mostly just kept to the booth. Would have been pretty decent for any Lord of the Rings fans though.
Seeing all the cosplayers and other folks dressing up was rad, but we've more or less just sat in our booth and didn't check out much event-wise.
Only a few hours left at Armageddon. It's been pretty fun.
I did the same except I did the lazy way for idiots: added a cheap USB network adapter to Home Assistant and connected that to a separate network switch. Reolink cameras have been rock solid and haven't complained about being air gapped from the internet.
As long as the punishment is fair and not unduly harsh, I don't see any real problem with criminalising misinformation in general. It's already illegal to lie about facts in a great many contexts (e.g. fraud, perjury), and reasonable people don't have a hugely difficult time distinguishing a fact from an opinion.
As a trivial example: "This is mine and you can have it for a dollar" is not an opinion someone can be entitled to, it is a statement of fact that is either true or not.
You're right in that it's a useful tool for various kinds of abuse, but so is almost every useful home automation/home security sensor.
The most obvious/useful use cases I can see are:
Both should be easy with load cells under the bed legs but rather difficult otherwise.
(Useful assuming a household of two adults in one bed that is).
We recently got one of those ice cream gizmos that can (among other things) turn a brick of frozen fruit into a sorbet. It's surprising how good something incredibly basic like canned pineapple turns out.
Haven't tried any actually adventurous recipes yet.
Is dumb doorbell + separate CCTV camera a valid alternative? Even my fairly basic Reolink camera has a much better image quality than any doorbell camera I've seen, and HA can pull an image from it and push it to my phone in only a few tenths of a second whenever someone pushes the doorbell.
Hell, there were plenty of retail Christmas displays before halloween over here.
Some of my neighbours have had their lights up and on for the past couple of weeks. It really does come earlier every year (not that I mind).
Last road trip from Auckland to Wellington, we just hired a big car (a mid-size SUV, I guess). 100% recommend anyone shopping for a car (or whatever) does a quick check to see if it's actually worth owning it vs hiring. In my case (one kid and no boat), it's way cheaper to just hire something big and flash for the occasional road trips.
Oof. I'm pretty confident that I've spent less than that servicing every car I've ever owned, which is... 15 years or so?
Japanese subcompacts are so cheap that it's more or less impossible for me to justify buying anything else.
It's the first nice day for a bit, so I rode the push bike in to work today. Forgot how slippery everything is in the wet and had a brief lie-down in the mud, but still made pretty decent time. I'd call it a fairly decent start to the day.
Tangentially related: we've got an electric sit/stand desk that sometimes needs the controller resetting, but the only way to do so is to unplug it and wait for the capacitors to discharge, which takes at least 12 hours or so. I wonder if I can just add a push button and a resistor... 30 seconds is annoying, but would be a huge upgrade from can't-move-desk-until-tomorrow...