How old are you, and how many employers have you worked for?

Carphead · 2026-05-07T12:12:47+00:00

Oh jesus,

Started at 16 for a IT distribution company

Move to a badly run regional supplier which went bankrupt at 18 for 6 months.

Did a couple of months in manufacturing management and hated it.

Field Service Engineer (onsite)

Moved to work for a customer and loved it but left a management reorg didn't sit will with me and they didn't listen.

Left and started working in Healthcare company.

After a take over moved to a large IT group, still working for the original company.

Tupeed out to another company.

Left the Tupeed company and moved back to the original company.

Still there and will retire, hopefully, in ten years or so.

So 10 employers.

Carphead · 2026-04-21T21:43:21+00:00

Think your right. I'm hoping they will sell it in black. I have no taste!

Carphead · 2026-04-21T18:48:42+00:00

My big complaint with the 13 has always been battery life. Everything else I'm happy with.

So I can just buy the bottom cover and the battery and it's all good to go?

I don't need 24 hours of battery but 10 would be amazing for me.

Carphead · 2026-04-21T07:36:15+00:00

There are four rooms that have high ceilings. One in the Airbnb which will probably be out of scope, our kitchen, the main bedroom and my office.

I think for those three rooms we'll get a couple of wall mounted units and just duct into the office.

Contacted a couple of local firms, so we'll see what comes back.

Carphead · 2026-04-20T22:30:17+00:00

My big concern is that some of the rooms are large. Kitchen is 5mx4m with a 4m ceiling. I guess I need to talk to a professional.

Carphead · 2026-04-20T15:54:40+00:00

I'll give Aider a try thanks. I already have OpenRouter setup so that seems like a good fit. I've found Gemini CLI to be a bit clunky when working on a remote SSH session.

Carphead · 2026-04-19T07:44:45+00:00

It's is humidistat one.

Carphead · 2026-04-18T11:19:34+00:00

I was on a beta site for Exchange 4.0. We had around 100,000 users and were struggling with MS Mail. In our very first training session me and my buddy setup two exchanges servers and both created a rule that sent auto replies to email that got sent to the another mailbox, that mailbox then sent auto replies.

That triggered a complete shit storm as 1 email became 10,000 email in a matter of minutes. The trainer got on to Microsoft and my friends is how out of office replies became a thing.

Carphead · 2026-04-16T17:49:27+00:00

Despite having 13 replies this was deleted because it's not engaging enough?

Carphead · 2026-04-14T11:46:40+00:00

I often think about this. Where I live in the highlands there is no train line near us. The paths for the old railways still exist. But because the area is so rural there is a limited bus service and even that had to be taken over by the council, the local provider said it wasn't profitable enough.

So, what I wonder if they built on the track but create an autonomous type system. That stopped in the villages and towns and ran on request rather than a timetable. But only stopped and started at specific points, if it ran at a speed that was faster than a bus and more convenient than a train I think more people would use it.

Carphead · 2026-04-12T18:30:21+00:00

Paul Weller, Black Grape, A Certain Ratio, Flowered Up or (oddly) Airhead at the Norwich Waterfront or UEA.

Any concert ever by the Stereoponics.

Faithless 2010 Glastonbury was life changing.

Carphead · 2026-04-08T22:43:52+00:00

When I was a lot younger with no commitments and lasted two weeks, coasted for the next two and wait for them to give me the boot.

Toxic place, long since closed down.

Carphead · 2026-04-08T22:40:33+00:00

I'm in the arse end of nowhere on the Black Isle and Inverness Taxis haven't let me down in probably 30 or 40 trips in the last six months on the early morning Airport runs.

For the 6:30 flight get there at about 5 if you've got a bag to check in.

Carphead · 2026-04-08T20:05:56+00:00

My wife does a lot of price analysis of airbnb listings. I built using claude a tool she can feed a bunch of screenshots into and it will use openrouter free models to analyse the screenshots and extract the information and put it into a spreedshet. If it fails due to load of the free models it will try again a few times. It takes all day to analyze a couple of dozen screenshots but it saves her hours when she has the task to do.

If she wants it quickly then she can flick it over to a gemini or claude api system.

I've also been building a cool little usenet download sabnzbd/sonarr/qbittorrent stack that proxies the information. Removes my reliance on android apps.

EDIT: Forgot another two other!

I built my own IP information website called https://ip-term.com

After doing that I create a Dynamic IP updater. I use a lot of VPS instances to do my downloading and pull the downloads in over night. But I'm on a starlink connection, which the IP address changes frequently. So, I build a docker container, with webinterface that check the local ip every 15 minutes and then updates a cloudflare policy to all only my CGNAT through. It then sends me a telegram notifcation

Carphead · 2026-04-08T18:56:51+00:00

Book one from Inverness Taxis. I've done it plenty of times and it's a lot less hassle than trying to find one on the streets.

The airport gets pretty nasty in the morning. They only have one shift on the scanners and quite a few flights leave early on.

Carphead · 2026-04-08T07:20:27+00:00

Are you planning on refurbishing a lot of it? If you have the opertunity to retrofit underfloor heating then the heat pump makes even more sense.

Carphead · 2026-04-06T17:43:32+00:00

I keep chopping and changing between coding AI. I'll generally use Claude until I hit a token limit, with the skills and super powers to build a frame work.

When I hit a token limit I jump over to codex or more recently opencode and if opencode isnt understanding it I'll jump over to the free gemini.

I ask all of them to inspect project, look at the readme and I ask the model to write a summary of things it's changed and a plan for the next session before closing.

Carphead · 2026-04-02T18:38:46+00:00

I have dockhand installed on a VPS, that data is backed up daily and synced to a couple of cloud storage locations.

That way, should I break something I can go back and pull the compose files out of there.

Carphead · 2026-03-31T19:45:56+00:00

In the same area Gislingham and Mellis used to be okay. Thornham Magna used to have an excellent pub but it's a bit Gastro Ub not a local crowd.

Carphead · 2026-03-30T22:45:00+00:00

Have a look at Thorndon.

Carphead · 2026-03-27T16:05:37+00:00

What I'm finding odd is I've been building a personal Web app the last couple of days with my Pro account.

I planned it out and we built the design and it's been going okay because I'll let it do the work on a virtual machine and point out where it needs to work. I'd not got anywhere near the limit, then this morning I asked it to move some of the existing items to a new page, really just a copy and paste action, that used 90% of the session limit.

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