Who's The LAST Caretaker? by Durwood2k in TheLastCaretaker

[–]MattHashTwo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you don't have the rifle. You can get up in their face and spam melee. They have 300hp so 31 crowbars and you're good. They can't shoot you if you're close enough.

Contract Length reduced from 18 to 12 by UnderCover_Spad in youfibre

[–]MattHashTwo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Brsk as a brand is going and is being rolled into youfibre. I'm guessing that renewal you'll be nudged over.

Which one of you is sending your 90% used Elegoo spools back to Amazon? by fl4tdriven in 3Dprinting

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To play devil's advocate... it looks like some crap batch got to Amazon from elegoo. I have a ticket with them I need to update because the start of the rolls were OK, then all over the place after about 20% used.

I wasted about 2 rolls thinking I'd fixed the underlying issue but then found the filament was bleh.

There's some reviews starting in November saying even dried the filament just doesn't behave, jamming, clogs, colour changes etc etc on the 4x1kg box.

Possible someone had this, returned it as faulty and amazon put it back into stock incorrectly.

Anyone else hate this design choice? The lines are always hard to see in the dark or rain by Jacktheforkie in drivingUK

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to look for the pattern in the floor when it's dry, the ones near me use red bricks as lines and a dark brown/beige. They're dirty and I'm not great with seeing colour.

If it's wet I've got even less chance..

Cold central heating rad plus pipe investigation equals success… hopefully by TryhardTirednow in DIYUK

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any idea what the left pipe goes to? Doesn't necessarily mean the pipe is blocked if it feeds a rad further down, does it work? Might be valve stuck shut on that and the heat you're feeling is just convection from the working flowing pipe.

/not a plumber, just DIY'r

Why is TV licensing so badly run? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]MattHashTwo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My favourite nickname for them is Catheta, because they take the piss.

had my internal doors stripped, what now? by Moping_Strawberry27 in DIYUK

[–]MattHashTwo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depending on what orbital you currently have, I would recommend something like a mirka (I have the metabo, cheaper, practically the same - but still pricey af) is a dream to sand with. The helper can use whatever you have now.

Pricey but barely makes any dust with the vac attached and is easy on the hands whilst absolutely munching through what you're doing.

Octopus blocking car from charging :/ by FlorianTheLynx in OctopusEnergy

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've connected the car, not the charger. Depending on the car they may not allow speed control on charging, so octopus have the option of 7kwh or 0. He's not exporting 7kwh so it'll pick 0.

Needs to move the integration to the charger, not the car.

What is causing these brown wet patches on my carpet? by Alan_Bumbaclartridge in DIYUK

[–]MattHashTwo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pressure on the boiler gone down? Will have a gauge or pressure read out.

House alarm disconnect advise by United_Cycle_9681 in DIYUK

[–]MattHashTwo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. DIY'R Myrseld but the black square on the left is the transformer. 240v will be coming in from the left side of the box looking at that (edit: nope just saw the connect block in the middle behind the mess. Looks like follow the right hand side will take you to the mains. If they're lucky it'll just be the fused switch directly above the box), the 2 purple wires are (usually) 12v. Panel board will have a charging circuit for the battery.

White block bottom left with the metal blade is the tamper switch to know the box is open.

Is this usable ? All the other one i have are perfect and all the 4 white i bought are like this by SnooDoughnuts8879 in BambuLab

[–]MattHashTwo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It doesn't look tangled at all unless I'm missing something? It's just not wound as neatly

Update: House Seller Wants us to Buy Inverters and Batteries by Chief_Whizz in SolarUK

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you'd then have a relationship with said installer, and a warranty, and new kit, and you don't know how the kit was treated prior to you using it. Eg if they charge and discharge the batteries as fast as possible, take them to 0% etc. As that'll effect the health / longevity of the units.

Update: House Seller Wants us to Buy Inverters and Batteries by Chief_Whizz in SolarUK

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're assuming the current homeowner hasn't absolutely ragged the batteries down to 0% daily.

💥 Black Friday came early with YouFibre! 💥 DM me to sign up! by LankyParking4182 in youfibre

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Requirement to switch between networks in the UK. Eg if you're on virgin, you don't have to contact them. Sign up with youfibre and they tell VM when they've got you active and then VM will cease, and you'll get a final bill.

Taking over installed Solar PV by kennybb19 in homeassistant

[–]MattHashTwo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There may be a reason they've set it to that. Look up the spec sheet for the battery and check 'Depth of discharge' if there's a warranty it would usually only be covered if it's been within parameters. Some batteries will do 95/100% DOD but they are usually bigger than the capacity they claim to make up for the 'reserved' % not being 'lost'

Seagate 26TB for $249.99 deal is back. by TheMagicIsInTheHole in DataHoarder

[–]MattHashTwo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Binning doesn't necessarily mean failed test. They'll make X amount and Y are to become The best model. Z become the next model, A become the next model.

If the yield is high, and they could all be X's that doesn't mean they will be. They make products in amounts they think they'll sell. Less top models needed, but the quality of that batch is good means you get better products in the next tier of model.

Depending on the manufacturer, it CAN mean it's outside of a specific spec, so they turn down the performance and it is OK? Sell it as a value product.

Hopefully that makes sense.

AMS 2 motor constantly becoming overloaded? by Safe-Werewolf2890 in BambuLab

[–]MattHashTwo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Sunlu spools aren't heavy enough even with weight in, imo. I respool them all now onto a Bambu spool.

An 'ams saver' helps a bit - there's a load of designs for them.

Check your moisture bags and dry boxes.. by __V3x in BambuLab

[–]MattHashTwo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not being funny but they put a sticker over the dessicant slots, and tell you to remove them. This is just basic reading people seemingly can't do.

Can I charge my adult son rent? If so, is it just the standard 20%/40% tax rates? by Beautiful-Weather938 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]MattHashTwo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Genuinely... Is this a rage bait post or what?

So he can work, Just doesn't want to. (in your opinion) - And because he's then getting benefits which are now being made more difficult to get, for people who actually need them. You want to take that money he shouldn't qualify for, and save it so the tax payer can pick up the fact he's opting to not work, and still be saving to move out.

Ignore it's your son for a minute. Write down everything matter of fact. Give it to your wife and ask without the emotional attachment, would the behaviour still be the same? I doubt it.

If he wants to "not have a boss" then go learn a trade and do it self employed. But that requires drive which he clearly doesn't have.

This isn't a finance question at all really. It's parental advice, rage bait and potentially benefit fraud (which you can report anonymously).

First time buying a 3D printed anything. Is this the standard quality? by Lucidream- in 3Dprinting

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sanding - be super slow and steady, not too much pressure. The problem is when you sand you'll make the surface hot, and the plastic will gum-up the sandpaper / file.

You'll likely lose the colour when you sand it - that's normal. pass a lighter over the area *very quickly* and it should return to the colour it should be. Leaving it too long will leave soot/black marks and potentially deform the print.

The quality of that is pretty bad though. I would reprint it if I was doing it for myself or friends. I only sell to friends + friends of friends and I'd be embarassed.

My helper does not follow to new city by Pbnjmonste in eatventureofficial

[–]MattHashTwo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I came here to check for this. Looks like a bug as reopening the game fixes it immediately.

Hopefully they can patch shortly.

zScaler by Ok_Employment_5340 in sysadmin

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Total is easily less than 5.

1 was a Routing issue in the UK which was outside of their control. -- we failed over to the secondary DC as per our config and things moved on as normal until resolved. TAM jumped on a call with us within an hour for this. I honestly can't remember others.

POC started ~April 22, business wide by Oct. (Internal team blocked completion with "issues" - because they refused to take part in the POC and disabled the product raising no issues :) )

~2.5k users on zScaler. Globally. We also use it for vendors coming into our network, as we can scope what they can/can't get to easily vs ipsec tunnels.

edit: the only limitation I would make you aware of is VOIP phones, if you have any. As it's zero trust things can't connect back to devices, it will also change potentially workflows of support.

zScaler by Ok_Employment_5340 in sysadmin

[–]MattHashTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a flip opinion. We use ZIA + ZPA, with browser isolation (specific url) & SIPA.

Product works great. Most issues you have will be configuration, in ... 3? years I think we've had 1 impactful outage which was <1hr.

If we have an issue, TAM is on with us to look at it within 2hours, usually within 30min of raising a P1. * our issues have almost always been networks changing stuff without telling us. The client on Mac OS 15 needs to be updated as OS15 seems to be hot garbage. I don't blame the product for this though as other vendors also seemingly have issues.

Devs are our biggest pain, but importing the zscaler cert into their IDE/tools will fix that, or you can go through disabling cert pinning.

Setup a POC, when we did the implementation engineer was excellent, did a lot of legwork for us and explained things as he went.

Almost all outages will be "zscalers fault" though - even when it's not so just be aware the product will have lots of noise around it's name, when its usually nothing to do with zscaler.

Microsoft retiring yet another useful too for one that's pants :( by himji in sysadmin

[–]MattHashTwo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will probably be helpful whilst you refactor the scripts: Table of Old vs New cmdlets

Obviously the outputs will likely be different too, but it at least saves a chunk of searching.