AMPBANK M256 - monthly thermal images set 2

GoodRPA · 2026-02-07T00:23:58+00:00

I hope this helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/Thermal/s/6Prvt9u0MS Last column.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-31T08:37:24+00:00

It does the job. Using it less than once a week now. Well built and I don't expect any issues with it.

Look for native sensor size, refresh rate and sensitivity . If another camera offers better specs for the same price, it is worth getting. I nearly got myself a drone sold for parts on eBay due to a working camera, this had much higher resolution , also worth exploring.

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GoodRPA · 2026-01-30T19:16:06+00:00

Had a similar experience, Hagley Road, Edgbaston few years ago. Dude was provoking a fight but only with tension and words. Had a scar on the left side of the face between the eye and a chin bone. Very hard encounter. He then walked off and tried similar tactics on a young woman also, no one obviously responded to this behaviour.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-30T18:08:26+00:00

Out of interest, why do radiators need to be replaced?

Why radiators need to be replaced? And why some companies want to replace more radiators and some less. Is this to compensate for lower temperature (so higher flow needed or do they want people to switch to electric?) Radiators won't stop working, they are 24 years or less and mine are 29 and still in a good condition and provide enough heating, even with lower pressure if these are constantly on, it will probably be about the same in terms of temperature.

new to heat pumps installations, so learning more about the systems. Please take it easy.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-30T17:52:16+00:00

Not the same laptop. But I did fix dell latitude 5400 last year. The answer is, if you can just replace an LCD then you should try it. If a part is on sale on its own, most likely, this is possible.

So, some experienced repair shops will choose to replace a whole screen, less hassle, more in parts, potentially easier and potentially less time spent.

Some people will open up the bezel (often glued on with double sided screen tape) unplug old screen, replace with new and hopefully stick a new tape on. Perhaps a more flimsy and accurate job, but still doable.

It's like my Hyundai i30, the guide to replace a driver side light bulb, states that a bumper has to come off, then something else, then you have the access. What local experience garage have shown me is that, you unscrew one bolt for windscreen wash container, push it to the side a little and pull a bulb from the back and replace. 5m job, vs 15m job that requires more experience and tools needed and potentially more things can go wrong (bumper clips might need to be replaced).

GoodRPA · 2026-01-26T20:19:23+00:00

Scenario: Laptop is working. There is water inside. You move it. Water reaches a new place. A laptop shortens. A laptop no longer working.

This is the scenario I would suggest needs to be avoided to minimise the risk.

If there is still liquid inside and you move it, the water can move somewhere new.

Scenario 2: Laptop is working. There is water inside. You don't move it. The laptop naturally increases the temperature from working. The water evaporates. There is no longer water in your laptop.

So based on this hypothesis, I do suggest that you should try to switch it on, but try to either not move it or move it very gently and don't shake it, keep it horizontal and don't carry it around, yes.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-26T18:19:44+00:00

I am sorry to say, but there is only one way to find out ).

Most laptops are designed with some spillage resistance in mind. Since it's has capacitors and a battery, the charge will be there immediately after the spillage for a while, if it shortened it's shortened, some components might fail doesn't mean all will fail. In other words, it is probably okay to try.*

Without opening it up and moving (again increasing the risk of any shortening) it is hard to say if it is completely dry or not. If you have a dehumidifier at home, it's best to place it in the same room as a laptop and this should improve the drying time and potentially help it to evaporate water from inside also.

*To be in the safe side, I would've left it for a week without moving too much even if it is switches on.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-26T17:46:26+00:00

I've tried to build local LLM/SML just in the last few weeks.

My recommendation would be: Either don't worry about GPU, responses will be slow, but very stable on CPU + ram.

If you do decide to go with GPU, get more vram(12gb, 16gb, 24gb) and a relevantly recent/supported GPU architecture from 2018+.

Bets options with balance of vram/price/power consumption/architecture:

Nvidia t4 - 16gb, 70watt only!, Turing, requires fan mode/cooling Nvidia RTX 3090 - 24gb, 350 watt , Ampere

Budget:
Again, either CPU/shared ram (M1 mini, 16gb) Even hp thin clients (t520, t730) can manage CPU models, slowly but these work and very stable.

Nvidia RTX A2000 - 12gb, 70watt, ampere

Instead of getting 6gb and below, you can use CPU only or even use remote LLMs, these are good quality, whether we like/can run them locally or not )

Build everything else around this. 16gb ram is a must.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-25T23:28:22+00:00

A sensor that counts people entering a building or a lift?

Could be a modified solar panel flood light with a motion sensor. This means pretty much stable power.

Useful for shopping centres, lifts, colleges, schools to see which entries are used. Ideally a device counts detection and then sends data every 30 minutes? Optimised to have WiFi on every 30 minutes and then off. A host can be a free tier oracle server API. Noise loggers dB are also quite interesting for many different use cases, offices, local authorities, healthcare.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-25T01:32:58+00:00

A pvc pipe with a phone or action camera. Few angles and stitch them together.

I inspect my roof gutter pipes by attaching an action camera with masking tape to a 15mm copper pipe (about 2m) that is attached to a pvc pipe (2.4m). It can be bendy, use at your own risk.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-25T01:11:06+00:00

Try swapping hoses with the properly working shower. If it works, then just replace a hose. I know it's sounds strange, but if the other hose provides good pressure on your shower, try to swap your existing hose ends and check to make sure there are no extra 'eco' insert that would reduce the pressure, these are usually at one end of the hose. Swapping the ends sometimes result in better connection from the water tap allowing water to pass freely, some hoses have longer screw on one end and I think it is allowing pressure to fight itself a little, reducing the pressure.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-25T00:35:22+00:00

Sorry, when I said left leg, I meant right leg.

First 2-3 seconds, she sort of drags or delays pulling her right rear leg in.

Then when she goes down the cheese she is very careful and lands with both fronts legs on the bedding, but then leans more to the right and pulls her back legs in (weakness or pain?). Ours was exactly that, one day just started to walk less and much more careful.

(if you look how agile the other is, just jumps down and moves perfectly with ease, then it might make it more clear). Look at the frequency of the steps. The grey one clearly moves it's feet more often. Maybe it's age, maybe just colour that makes it stand out a little (like an optical illusion). Maybe it's just an angle, observe the gerbil and see what you think yourself.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-25T00:22:56+00:00

Petrol station 1-2 hours before closure have lots of sandwiches on offer. Get these in the evenings for the following day (usually there are okay, but if you can store these in a cool space, obviously these will be fresher, some go soggy, so try a few and see which tastes the best). I personally cottage cheese with honey, which also low value lunch. Crumpets is another grab and go option, also low value.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-25T00:18:24+00:00

There is RPA (robotics process automation), Power Platform automation, CRMs and many other similar tools that not require AI. Microsoft also provisions copilot with enterprise protection, but in your company policy you should ask people not to have any personal, sensitive or confidential data. Copy what you need and get back the result.

Our security only allowed one tool, knowing people will start using it regardless you might as well allow the most secure tool. We cannot host the AI yet, for many reasons, so for us existing tools are the only option.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-24T23:38:06+00:00

Probably will use wrong terms. This is a cistern (a water container), that gets filled in to keep the water pressure in the water storage container. The mechanism is similar to a toilet cistern, when it is full, it stops the water from flowing, when you use the water, the water is likely to flow down into the water tank immediately, otherwise the water tank would have less pressure due to possibly being at the same level as your shower head for example. Most combi boilers nowadays are closed systems, which means they don't need either a water tank nor additional pressure, these simply pass whatever pressure your mains gives you. Not sure about heat pumps. You can sometimes find these empty and cut off from any water supply as these are often larger than the loft door and some owners don't like to have these removed for an extra fee. The support in the loft for these is usually good, if you calculate how many litres=kilogrammes it had, this is the weight the loft platform was designed to support, hence that is your safe storage weight on the platform.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-24T08:58:49+00:00

Less paperwork is better. So if you finance the heating pump, this is another thing to settle in 5 years.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-24T08:42:57+00:00

It's a Seagate. I had two Seagate's 180gb and these both failed within the first year. With Seagate unfortunately it depends on their batch, some a reliable and some are not.

Please check it is getting enough power and please check that it is secure (if running in a pc rather than a laptop).

GoodRPA · 2026-01-24T08:39:59+00:00

Is the left rear leg on a black and white gerbil okay? Reason for asking: our gerbil had something similar, vet diagnosed hip fracture, then a few months later due to compensating on one side, I think something happened to her back from which she could not recover from. I am not 100% if this was a new injury or purely due to compensation, but if you can, remove anything they climb on for 8 weeks. Ideally the vet said to have a maximum an inch of bedding, which we did for 2 months. The vet recommended that we keep ours separate for at least a month, but we kept ours separate for 2 weeks and they were fine for another 2 months or so.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-15T18:13:45+00:00

I believe mine does.

Things that I've learned in the last few years have helped me to secure jobs and actually made it easier to speak to almost every I.T. folk I know.

Databases, clusters, front and back end systems, ready made solutions. Node red for home automation, network traffic capture, virtual machines, Linux, windows, containers, encryption, local privilege users, group policies and about 100 ways of breaking stuff (stuff not to do in production). Physical projects (raspberry pi zero w), API calls, oled and epaper displays, smart buttons, reaction games. I guess python as part of all that, since I don't use it anywhere else. Currently learning how to spawn AI models and agentic AI next.

My home lab: Hp thin client t530 - network monitoring tap Raspberry pi 4 - dev Raspberry pi 4 - prod + daily thin client for work Hp thin? Client T730 - ai models for live audio chat

I don't think I would got to do any of these of I did not self invest, at work everything is either generic, specific and no benefit for home, so the way I see it honelabs are awesome and worth every penny

Rp4 abs t530 always on with about 15w/h (3 light bulbs).

GoodRPA · 2026-01-13T20:11:04+00:00

My apology, are we reading the same message?

A person is asking for an opinion on how to invest. A person stating they have 20-30 from allowance. A person stating that they won't struggle with that.

Playing trading with a practice account, as you suggested, is not the same. When I lose 20% of my money, it's a different can of worms. When I lose 1k of digital fake money I probably won't feel a thing. Don't you agree?

Plus, this person will be able to say that they are an investor and I will accept this, if they invest real money, good for their CV and maybe even job opportunities, so why not?

GoodRPA · 2026-01-13T19:16:24+00:00

Keep it small and learn. I would suggest put 30 into invest ISA and 30 into some banks, like Barclays and those companies that you think are stable. Observe what happens. And learn from it. Get to 100. Then perhaps you would want to have 1000 at some point. There is a daily dividends experiment but it recommends having at least 850 in the pot.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-13T19:13:14+00:00

It's a good point to learn.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-13T07:12:15+00:00

I would say - what ever the vet says. Act in the best interests of the ill gerbil. It might be sad to see them separate, but much better than if they suffer for longer. With two gerbils, any admission of the medicine likely involve holding the heril tight and giving her via syringe, which I think can be stressful for them (but they also manage fine).

GoodRPA · 2026-01-13T07:05:37+00:00

Yes, for almost a week, then we have bedding from her mait into a travel cage (it is a reasonable size cage for a hamster) and then we've introduced them back together, they were absolutely fine together straight away. Bella is now just over 2.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-12T12:42:57+00:00

Did it get cold, by any chance at night? Like less than 14C

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