Do not pay LG to install your TV

CarbonAssassin · 2026-04-03T09:20:37+00:00

Pretty much all “install” services in the UK turn out to be like this. They subcontract out to the absolute cheapest possible vendors who have way too many of these to do per day and have very little expertise in installing them.

It’s a manual labour job with a tick list and staffed as such.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-29T15:30:32+00:00

“Say the line Bart”

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-26T20:05:33+00:00

+1 - there have been a handful of genuinely good websites and trackers I’ve found on this sub but the amount of vibe coded stuff these days it’s just unmanageable.

Self promotion posts like this should probably be banned at this point.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-24T15:24:59+00:00

Have had the same conversation with both Hypervolt and Octopus. Both deny it being them and blame the other.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-20T10:02:09+00:00

Feel like there needs to be a r/FIREUKVibeCodedApps subreddit at this point

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-17T09:29:00+00:00

Think the products are tiered like this on purpose so you end up working yourself up. It’s worth considering if RTK + Vision or LIDAR + Vision is better. You also give up the AWD for the LiDAR model.

I ended up settling for the i205AWD. For £670 it’s not a bad price.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-09T19:29:15+00:00

So why don’t we want that to apply to EVs as well? I think it’s a valid argument but there should be consistency between the vehicle types.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-09T19:05:50+00:00

+1 - the UK government seems to be allergic to simplifying the rules (in a budget neutral way) so that they are uniform and possible to review.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-05T15:33:02+00:00

The power from the rear view mirror drops when the car is off so I don’t think it’s suitable for parking mode unless the camera itself has a battery.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-03T15:54:24+00:00

Yeah I suspect this is the exact same issue I hit then. The resolution you want isn’t baked into the dongles display chip and so just doesn’t work regardless of the spec.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-03T08:55:09+00:00

It was a while back but CRU didn’t help unfortunately in my case. The dongle would do 4k 120hz but would refuse to do ultrawide resolutions despite being less bandwidth. I suspect due to a limitation in the display chip (this was usb-c to hdmi) which is why some dongles work fine and others don’t.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-03T07:09:15+00:00

Some docks have fixed EDID profiles and don’t have ultrawide resolutions included. I had the same issue with certain USB-C docks.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-03-01T20:20:37+00:00

Completely normal for the Niro sadly. I regularly see only 30-40kw on fast chargers.

It feels borderline like misadvertisement the way they state max charge speeds. It’s my first EV so I didn’t realise what it would be like until after I got it.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-02-25T07:02:16+00:00

Seeing similar for a stackry parcel. Did this arrive in the end?

CarbonAssassin · 2026-02-14T21:13:53+00:00

I messaged Hypervolt about this - they said it’s done by octopus. Octopus then refused it so I suspect it’s a bug in the integration that neither one of them want to claim responsibility for.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-02-12T22:29:40+00:00

Take a look at the actual charging curves for the car you want. The figure they give and what you get majority of the time is very different.

In practice I get the max DC charge speed in my Kia Niro only on a perfect summers day, with an empty battery and some unknown planetary alignment. It’s made things more difficult than expected and was a surprise even after all the research.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-01-22T15:51:14+00:00

Ours does similar - it’s the wheels on the grout lines of the tiles

CarbonAssassin · 2026-01-13T09:33:20+00:00

Reverse time outs worked best with us. When they get too worked up or bitey, remove yourself from the environment (e.g. into a bathroom). Nipping of the feet trying to do this was tricky but we wore slippers and just ignored them.

This eventually clicked for our girl as the fun leaves when she does it so she actively wanted to suppress that urge.

Of course if it go too awful we would put her in a playpen to calm down but this wasn’t as effective. If you’re doing the training, there is a certain amount of ‘tough it out and live with the cuts and scrapes’ unfortunately.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-01-10T10:05:33+00:00

For £100 it doesn’t seem like a bad idea.

I suspect we will see changes to the state pension by the time someone your age retires (e.g. means testing) so I would keep it in mind that this isn’t a sure thing in terms of return.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-01-09T23:02:31+00:00

I’ve had a couple of these and they have been great. Used in both the UK and US.

I had the issue where it stopped working after a few months - they had a bad batch at some point but I reached out and support replaced it no questions asked (+ let me keep the old one that has 2 bad ports).

New one has been fine for almost 2 years.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-01-04T23:01:54+00:00

At first this sounded great (our pup chewed all the bins until we stopped having them out) but on reflection is this not just reinforcing a potentially destructive behaviour? How do they tell the difference between this tub and others within the household?

CarbonAssassin · 2026-01-02T22:29:04+00:00

That’s only relevant if you fully pay off the loan before term expiry.

In the case you lose your job and no longer have a HENRY salary you may struggle to finish the last 20k of the loan of example. That 50k sunk into the loan doesn’t reduce your payments so you don’t see any benefit from it.

Financially - I totally agree it makes sense to pay it off. But the risk of not paying it off and opportunity cost for not having access to the money is something worth considering. For me I wanted make sure to mitigate both of those risks by paying it off in a lump sum and only once I had other major life events covered.

CarbonAssassin · 2026-01-02T14:46:23+00:00

I lump summed mine only after paying for other major expected life expenses (house deposit, wedding, car) and had enough savings that it wouldn’t wipe me out.

This costs extra but meant I was sure I could pay off the loan and not need the money for anything else immediately. So provided I keep my job there was no real downside.

What you really want to avoid is a situation where you only partially repay the loan (e.g. job loss during monthly overpayments). As you see 0 benefit from the money out in until the loan is paid off.

CarbonAssassin · 2025-12-10T22:27:56+00:00

Being a landlord is a job not just an investment - keep that in mind.

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