GreatAlbatross

For components and wires that are made to a spec, I feel far more comfortable buying from CPC or Mouser.
Amazon sellers just feel like a coin flip if the guy is going to ship you CCA 24 AWG instead of OFC 23, in the hope you don’t notice or bother complaining.

I was planning to keep bees, until someone informed me that honey bees outcompete native bumbles.

And I fucking love bumbles.

So now I’m modifying the garden to be bumble friendly, and living without enormous amounts of honey.

Cutting dev time, because instead of having to use smoke and mirrors to create…smoke and mirrors, they can just use GPU manufacturer’s libraries to render it in real time.

Five guys do unlimited refills, but the cup is 5 fucking quid. Similar tale in Marugame Udon.

And that’s on top of a tenner each for the burger. At least they don’t police whos cup is whos.

I was expecting the cat to be serenaded.

However, depleted uranium tipped arrows sound very cool.

I absolutely agree.
Honestly, if NameBrand posted their prices, I might have considered them, as once my time organising/plumbing (or paying a plumber) is factored in, the difference isn’t so massive.
I just loathe the principle of having to get a quote for even the basic device in a box!

It’s a balance, they might not know exactly what the job would entail until they send someone to look, and labour could double the price if it’s something ridiculous.

However, they absolutely should be able to give a ballpark, and it drives me up the wall, especially when I’ve given enough details for them to do so.
I hate it.
If you won’t even tell me how many zeroes your service is going to cost, there is an absurdly high change you’re going to be wasting your engineer’s time doing a visit.

“How much for a 12000 BTU on the ground floor with electrical already run?”
“Well sir, we can’t give an accurate number yet, as we need to send someone out”
“Not even a ballpark?” “I’m afraid not sir”

Which led me to investigating what I could do myself…Turns out, they now make self-install units for about £600.
Or Costco sell a better brand one including fitting for £1500.

Or MSRP minus 10%, which they’re keen to draw attention to, despite the fact it’s on normal sites for MSRP -30%.

Same with certain home improvement companies that hope once you’re on the line, they can close the sale there and then.
I swear they must make all their money off people who don’t want to think about what the job involves, and just hand over a chequebook.

The water softener from Costco is £500, the one from ScrewFix is £400, but I’m curious how much the one from NameBrand is.
NameBrand website “Well, it can vary a lot depending on how complicated…”
Forum posts: “£2k including fitting and a year’s salt, £1500 for the unit”
(Which isn’t an insane price to just have it sorted, I just hate the bollocks excuses when everyone magically still comes out around £2k)

The physical staircase will cost me about £1000, then a few days of skilled labour for someone to fit.
I wonder how much one of those “we’ll just handle it” companies in the back of the sunday supplement could do it for…Oh, that’s 15 times the price, wonderful.

I would love to see a fork of this that makes it sound like a Geiger counter.
Maybe with scale options, so it doesn’t just become a humming sound.

Huh, TIL.
They’re now using plant based PLA, at least.

Ah, the Season 4 finale of For All Mankind.

2048x1080 is DCI 2K.

The slight difference between the ratios is why home releases of films often have small black bars at the top and bottom, as the DCI flat ratio is slightly different than 16:9.

We do now have PTP, which has several big improvements. But it’s a lot more involved to set up.

Thames Water casually pulling strings at UCAS. (Or at least, truncating them)

It’s crazy. I’ve been doing all my insulation calculations based on a delta of 20 (20 inside, 0 outside).

To hit the same heating requirement, I’d need to triple the amount of insulation for -40.

And the silly thing is, a pub pint should be 568ml. A pub in the UK selling less than a full pint wouldn’t be a pub very long.

Ah, excellent! Thanks for that, I’ll definitely see if I can do it under ZHA.

And no problem, glad you got off the hub!

Exactly this. When you read about the metaverse in something like Snow Crash, it’s a place built by enthusiasts, very cheap to use, and people have the choice of DIY, or paying someone to do things for them.

In the facebook’s version, everything but connecting costs money, and it’s all done by facebook.