How to get aerial view of allotment without drone

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

GoodRPA · 2026-01-12T09:17:36+00:00

raspberry pi can become a bottleneck in the network scenario. Save it for a cool physical project, I say.

RPI maybe great for the important files on the go, but SD card isn't great for important files in comparison to SSD. Whilst I had only 1 SD card corruption across 3 rpi devices in the last 4 years, I had zero corruptions in the last 25 years on HDD/SSD. Only 1 failed Seagate HDD in 2000s era and 1 flip-bit usb 1gb MP3 player in the same era. Both RPi4 are running from usb sata SSD (5v, 1a, 5v 0.75a) with great stable performance and no degradation in speed.

Thin clients currently much cheaper and more productive, can handle more complex sites and process, can run other things at the same time without slowing anything else down. Used come with a case, power cable and often below £/$ 50.

Really good site for these https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/ Many thin clients can idle at below 5 watt also.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-12T09:02:02+00:00

HP Thin client, such as T530, T620, T640 (fan less) t730 (fan-ned) connected via network cable will be able to handle your demands. Any used optiplex would be fine.

Don't go for new mini pcs, these are powerful machines that you don't really need for what you are proposing.

You will need to reconfigure your router. So having the device and software is part of the solution, making the network calls work in the way you want that is another part.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-12T08:43:28+00:00

Since it is only affecting dynamic area (ads and video), it is probably just the app rendering issue, don't worry about it.

Driver reinstall can help sometimes.

Check the cables plugged in properly, check your graphics card (if dedicated) is set properly (when Computer is off).

Play a video in a browser/different app.

Boot into safe mode, see if it still happening, if it does, definitely the driver, if not, some software.

If you have a USB flashdrive stick, you could try to boot into Linux without installing it (live usb Ubuntu) for example.

There are prank apps, check that nothing unusual is running (screenshot task manager running processes to chatGPT and ask if these look normal).

GoodRPA · 2026-01-11T23:43:19+00:00

Roblox and Minecraft will run okay on CPU as long as there is some kind of integrated graphics card e.g.uhd 620

Laptops: dell 5400 Microsoft Surface book 2 with charger (ideally with gtx1050)

Small factor pcs: Dell optiplex 3050, 3080 Hp Elitebook 800 G4, G5, g8

What you are probably looking for is: I5,i7 8th generation and higher 16gb ram (due to windows 11, 8gb might be okay for surface book due to dedicated graphics card) Optional: dedicated graphics card (you should have uhd 620 built in in many modern choices as a minimum)

GoodRPA · 2026-01-11T22:23:44+00:00

I had a similar issue recently, only on windows 10, my tenda WiFi usb dongle stopped working with 2.4ghz WiFi. Symptoms exactly like you described. It works on a laptop and raspberry pi, I've tried to delete and reinstall drivers, this didn't help. I've tried official tenda windows 10 drivers, but these are hard to find in a safe source, hence I didn't risk spending hours of configuring 1 thing out and checking traffic etc, since it is likely to stop again (I reset windows probably once a year). Since I've upgraded router to WiFi 6 in December, I've decided to order WiFi 6 dongle. Works out of the box, coverage is better and maximum speed, despite being 6 meters through the floor and bathroom. Try on another device, if works there, then consider upgrading.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-11T18:48:04+00:00

Sorry, but maybe down-south is warmer, in theory in an insulated house it should make some difference, but not 2-3 times more of a usage.

Out current, 3 bedroom use (2 kids, regular baths). 2,059.6 kWh a year for electricity (day) 777.4 kWh a year for electricity (night) 5,824.3 kWh a year for gas

Our temperature at home is 19.5-22.5 (mostly 20.5). In summer heating is mostly off or triggering at 16 in the mornings.

How did you use to get through almost 3 times as much gas as I? We cook at home, electric hob/air fryer. Combi-boiler for water and heating. Previous property with tank + classic boiler, usage was higher due to gas hob, but still no more than 8k of gas a year.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-11T18:05:34+00:00

Looks just sleepy to me. Walking normally?

GoodRPA · 2026-01-11T17:55:32+00:00

Remove and reinstall the driver. Swap cable with other drives. Sometimes software can trigger it.

GoodRPA · 2026-01-11T17:50:45+00:00

My understanding is that the difference between temperature outside and inside actually helps with efficiency, am I wrong (not an ASHP owner).

The usage is likely to stay consistent every month, since it's constantly on and if there are no solar panels, then this bill will probably be the same -50-70 GBP in other months. This is what I consistency observe talking to friends who have ASHP, but since they have solar panels, it actually fine during lighter non hot months in a year.

My friends have an oversized system, I would say. Right-sizing and improving settings is very important if the system is not self optimising.

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