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  • A low-wiring way to do it would be to replace the bulbs with hue/similar bulbs, then just put a battery powered button in the location you want to have the controls. £10-ish for each button, plus however much the bulbs are.

    Then just have the button set to toggle the lights on/off (you can also call different presets like dim etc by pressing and holding).
    Then hass just directly sends the on/off commands to the bulbs.

  • Piston aircraft still use it. Which makes it doubly annoying when some tit in a cesna decides to circle around town at 1000'.
    Not just making a noise, also cropdusting with TEL.

  • I unblock ads on AVForums. And honestly, the ads are either really well targeted (because I'm probably going to buy that amplifier eventually), or random ebay stuff.

    If they started serving up the generic "reduce belly fat in 2 seconds with this simple trick" with some AI generated picture, I'd re-evaluate very quicly.

  • I get the feeling that in the past, the effort required to cycle self-selected people a bit.
    Now with cheap assisted bikes, it's easier than ever to become a 100KG object travelling at 20mph.
    So maybe it should have more requirements, in a "greater good" kinda way.

    Kinda like when drones took off (heh). The rules for how to use model aircraft needed refining, because the barrier to flying a 2KG object near an airport became much lower.

  • If you give people a reasonable, legal way to do things, people will generally do them.
    And the odd twat doing 30mph on the pavement is much more obvious, rather than blending in with people who would otherwise be following the laws.

  • Honestly, I might even extend it to push bikes.

    And make it so inexpensive to get the insurance that there is no excuse.

  • This seems like a good first step.
    Move them out of the "technically illegal, but lots of people use them anyway" area, and into the "legal to use, but you have to register and carry some form of insurance".

  • At least they didn't get sent to Australia!

  • I look at the fees charged nowadays, and I'm convinced that if I had just finished my A-levels, I'd just go and train as a paramedic.
    You still get a degree, except as it's also an apprenticeship you get paid.

  • To me when someone says groomers, it puts my mind to tackling the child abusers, or anti-lgbt people accusing people of the same.

  • Asda, in my personal opinion, is a little crap.
    It's not as cheap as aldi/lidl, yet somehow has a worse shopping experience.
    It just feels like a knock-off Morrisons nowadays. Or a UK walmart.

  • Back to office.

  • Yep, at least it's not randos selling notes with "AK 47" on them for £5000.

  • There is something beautiful in TF2 kicking off the whole cosmetic microtransactions/lootbox industry, then sitting back and continuing to be a fun community game for the next decade.

  • The problem with this style of foam application, is that you cannot get to the wood to check the moisture content, without ripping down the foam (or probing through it, exacerbating any problem).
    So there isn't a way to test. And as there have been problems, the lenders won't take the risk on any more.

  • Just to clarify further: Condensation management as part of insulation is half the battle, but frequently overlooked.

    The problem comes where cold surfaces meet warm air, and what happens to the moisture in the air at that point.

    The spray foam seals the timber in a way that it cannot be accessed from the inside, but generally a membrane in not installed on top of the wood. So warm air can still get through.

    If my room is full of lovely 21 degree air, and the outside is zero, then if that air is able to get to a nice cold roof truss, it will be dropping a lot of evaporated water on the truss.
    And if that wood can't get sufficient airflow to dry out, it'll get damp. And eventually rot.
    Meanwhile, you can't even get to the truss to look at it, because it's covered in foam.

    So the mortgaging companies are (very understandably) staying away from that potential hot potato.
    You could have a house that looks absolutely fine, until the trusses start collapsing.

    The ways we work around it are either ventilation (having the roof itself still vented to the outside), vapour sealing (stopping warm air from getting to the insulation), or using ventilation that breathes (water/vapour can move through it, allowing it to dry out naturally).

  • If you polled the average high-street go-er, I'm not sure if they'd prefer another dodgy phone repair place, or a hydroponic farm.

  • I sharpen my knives with a grit block maybe every 6 months, because I want sharp knives, but was told an angle sharpener would leave me with BBQ skewers.
    It's hardly a "masterful man task", more like 20 minutes to do a kitchen chore. Like refilling the dishwasher salt. Or cleaning the bin.

  • I guess in the services, the command chain is still there at night, if required.
    3am food service, it's just you, the other night-shifters, and 400 drunk people.
    Any management with power is safely tucked up in bed.