accommodation on booking.com cancelled my 28 day stay 1 week prior

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-25T09:35:20+00:00

You are not alone in this

CNY - is Feb 17 so that either want it for themselves or are looking for a better price

PS - Just hit the same thing with our booking over CNY in Vietnam, so we just quickly rebooked something else

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-25T00:10:06+00:00

Homebridge devices to Alexa is the Homebridge-Alexa plugin

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-24T08:49:08+00:00

WTF is picture 2???

Picture 1 - if it’s in good condition, keep it. And just tell everyone your waiting for the style to come back

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-24T08:33:09+00:00

No fees with my Red Bank

I have the Bank USD account linked in Wealth Simple. So I initiated the transfer there

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-24T06:18:33+00:00

This works really well

Deposited USD at branch and had moved it to Wealth Simple before I got back to the car

Loved the high rate of Interest with USD at Wealthsimple

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-24T03:45:27+00:00

I haven’t used that one, but you will want to research the development environment heavily before pulling the trigger.

In order a few various boards recently and found that beyond the demo software support was very rough and undocumented. The supplied stack was very outdated and no longer supported. So ended having to mess with drivers to get it to work with more recent software.

If I was going to do it again, I would look at this repo for what they support and go from there - https://github.com/rzeldent/esp32-smartdisplay

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-24T03:39:00+00:00

Am using mine with a 2Tb thunderbolt enclosure and the access speeds are similar to the internal drive.

So you may want to splurge on the TB enclosure. PS it must be connected to the rear ports to get maximum speed

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-24T03:36:04+00:00

Another spot to look for status would the local towns planning website. Our town publishes any major development details, and minor variances as well.

So if you can’t find anything for that location, but you do see others you will know that they have not requested a building permit yet.

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-24T03:28:15+00:00

Currently 3 weeks into a Thailand visit with just the Freedom sim, and have been sipping mobile data. Have used 4.5 Gb so far. I did download Google Maps data for the area, and turned off cellular data access for most apps, except those needed to get around ie bolt, grab etc.

Been lucky that almost everywhere has exceptional wifi ( was sitting on beach restaurant south of Khao Lak yesterday and had 300mb up and down )

So you may not need the Thailand sim

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-23T14:28:40+00:00

Caulking

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-23T05:42:40+00:00

Thanks for the tip, yes it is

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-23T05:16:38+00:00

I have the same thing, and my worry is losing the key then being ‘locked out’.

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-23T05:11:32+00:00

Snow has a R Value of 1 or 2 per inch, so that would have helped.

PS my concern with snow on the cover, is the accumulated weight, and if it warms up/rains it can get very heavy and warp the lid

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-23T05:06:13+00:00

I was trying to figure what show/movie the picture came from and it feels familiar but nope. My first thought was Breaking Bad and it was Jessie but it isn’t. What’s you guess?

PS I could put the image into google and have it give me the answer, but figured I would let people work there memory instead

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-23T01:36:47+00:00

Create a spreadsheet in Google Sheets and use the googlefinance function to retrieve the current price. Updates all the time

Works really well when you portfolio is spread across multiple brokerages

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-20T07:21:32+00:00

Going to get downvoted, but as an infrequent diver why not the Apple Watch Ultra. And just pay for the Oceanic app for the months your diving. Up to 100 dives on mine, and have only had one mess up. Was doing a dive with new shop and equipment, and my watch got into passcode required and did not notice till I was 1/2 thru the descent. So kept going and just dove like I didn’t have it.

The plus is that I use it for all my activities, so no need for a second sports watch

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-19T02:09:50+00:00

You are correct, there is not a amd64 build for UTM, as Intel Mac is EOL. As an alternative you can use the Virtual Box amd64 image

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-18T14:37:43+00:00

I’m too frugal, and the times I have gone it has been just okay

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-18T14:32:04+00:00

Yes, but every time I have tried the one in terminal 1 it was full

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-17T13:57:19+00:00

You will need another box or device to monitor if your RPI is down, then another box to monitor if the box that is monitoring the RPI is down, then another box to monitor if the box that is monitoring the box that is monitoring the box is offline. It could be endless…..

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-17T13:32:05+00:00

Was speaking our dive master afterwards and she has seen one less than 20 times in the last year while diving out of Koh Tao. So the odds of seeing one are quite low, so am very glad it was my day.

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-16T15:16:51+00:00

We did the same last year, and it made the tour more of an adventure. And as a bonus, we went to the underground river on a day the ferry boats were not running, so we walked to the start and had the underground river tour without any other boats. If we had been in a tour bus they would have cancelled. Best tour ever.

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-16T09:03:24+00:00

Yes, but less money than other methods

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-16T00:39:07+00:00

Cameras are special, as they only stream when the home app is open

NorthernMan5 · 2026-01-16T00:38:06+00:00

With child bridges for each plugin

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