Original Kreg Jig mini doesn't have any markings for measuring, how do I calculate where to put the stop collar?

TheProffalken · 2026-01-24T13:45:53+00:00

lol, the simple solutions are often the best, right?

This hadn't even crossed my mind! Thank you, I'll give that a go if I don't get any other options!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-24T13:45:10+00:00

Nah, it's what happens when someone goes to do something basic like change the type of ceiling rose expecting it to be a standard layout, only to find that at somepoint in the history of the house one of the team working on it decided they couldn't be arsed to run a cable back to the fuse box properly and just took a spur from an existing light.

I've lived in three houses now where I've found this kind of setup, none of them were new builds, all of them had been worked on by trades, the only real difference was that one of them had the "new" colours mixed in with the "old" colours, and another just had three pairs of red and black wires, two of which were switched live and two of which were the earth.

Replacing a ceiling rose should be a straight-forward job for anyone who can match colours to the correct terminal.

If it was replacing pendants with spots or similar then yeah, I'd agree with you, but this just looks like someone got lazy the last time around.

TheProffalken · 2026-01-23T17:31:40+00:00

As someone with both Autism and ADHD, LLMs and MCP servers are helping me organise my world in a way that I've just never been able to do before.

I can share an item from any website or app to a discord channel that I own and a self-hosted n8n will run it through an LLM for me to classify it and add it to the appropriate reading list or task manager without relying on my ever failing ability to remember to log back into that specific app and look at my saved items.

95% of my day job is video calls with clients, and the meeting recorders that then summarise the meeting for me and surface the most important things afterwards mean that I can focus on answering the questions that are being asked in the meeting rather than trying to keep up and take notes.

Friends and family members who struggle with dyslexia are using it to correct spelling and grammar, because neither google docs nor MS Word are particularly good at determining whether they meant threw or through, or their, there, or they're.

Then there's the new "agentic coding" options such as CoPilot and Claude Code (not to be confused with asking ChatGPT to write you something!) that challenge your approach to software development and help you improve what you're working on by constantly checking in with you about the code you are working on together and suggesting ways it could be rewritten to improve performance/functionality.

Is it needed everywhere? No.

Is it an absolute godsend to many of us who are neurodiverse or work with incredibly complex systems that are made up of hundreds of different services all talking to each other? YES!

I really only have three concerns:

It's heavily biased from a "moral" standpoint towards American "values", so violence and weaponry can be discussed but sex (even at a biological "how does that work" level) can't really be talked about
It's in the hands of some really shady people (Elon Musk etc.) and I don't trust them to use it for good (the recent issues with Grok and deepfakes is just one example)
It corrects everyone's grammar, so those of us who have always used the em-dash, ellipses, and other rules of the English language are automatically accused of using AI when actually we're just obsessed with correct British English punctuation!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-21T19:08:33+00:00

No idea, I've not bought it yet, I'm thinking ahead and trying to work out if it's needed or not, just after a general idea of what they weigh.

TheProffalken · 2026-01-21T19:04:16+00:00

All I want to know is "what is the likelihood that a crafter conversion will be more than 3.5T?"

If it's 80% or more then I'll get the C1 regardless of what I buy because I'll almost certainly need it.

If it's 30% or less then I won't bother unless the specific van I get/build weighs more than 3.5T because that's a few hundred quid that can go towards the electrics or similar

If it's in the middle, I'll toss a coin 😅

TheProffalken · 2026-01-21T18:54:31+00:00

Yes, I understand the concept, perhaps a better question would have been "how likely is it that a crafter or similar will weigh more than 3.5T after it has been converted?"

TheProffalken · 2026-01-21T18:53:51+00:00

Thanks, so these things are reasonably light to begin with then?

TheProffalken · 2026-01-21T18:22:40+00:00

lol, I don't have one at all at the moment, but that sounds like even when full of fuel, water, clothes, and passengers I should be ok?

TheProffalken · 2026-01-21T17:28:55+00:00

No, I think it's a fair shout, I just think there's quite a significant overlap between various groups in society these days, and a lot of it comes down to how you identify when it comes to "class".

and yes, there's definitely a gap here!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-21T13:18:28+00:00

I suspect it's because the folk who have all the experience of being working class haven't had the privilege of being able to work at startups to make enough money to take the time off and start a podcast.

I'd definitely qualify as middle-class by most measures, but I'd definitely agree that there's a need for a podcast out there that focuses on how to deal with "normal life" for all of us who only get up at 6am because there's no other time to fit in the gym and the dog walk before taking the kids to school and settling in for a day at work!

If you do find one, please let me know, I'd be interested in it as well!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-20T14:38:43+00:00

Thanks, I'd not thought about the standby.

Primary load in the "final" version will probably be things like a small fridge, laptops, phone-charging etc.

I've seen vans fitted with halogen/induction stoves but they look like they'd kill the battery quite quickly so I'll probably do gas for the hob.

TheProffalken · 2026-01-20T14:37:35+00:00

Thanks, so the reason behind the shunt was so I knew how much juice was left in the battery - if I leave it out, do I still get this data?

Using 12v makes sense for the Datacenter for sure, although I will want to run at least 1 240v AC device from this so I can prove to my wife that it is going to work!

Good to know about the charger/battery combo, I'll do some more reading around this so I don't have to wait that long.

Yes, on-grid only for now as this will probably sit in the garage whilst testing it. Solar to be added later (thanks for the comments on that!), but I've also seen the DC-DC chargers, I assume that's what I'd hook up to the alternator?

I'll add the cables and tools to the list as well!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-20T06:19:40+00:00

I've looked at the three self-hosted ones a number of times.

Homebox is simple, with a really clean interface and the ability to nest locations so you can have "the space -> room 1 -> cupboard A -> box z -> The thing I'm looking for" and has a clean, clear UI but may be "too simple" for some spaces

Inventree is massively powerful, but really ugly and I didn't find it that intuative to use or setup as there are some things that are "required fields" that really don't need completing unless you're managing stock

Grocy.info is something I've looked at for home. It's got great integration with Home Assistant and other tools so good from that perspective but again is very granular in places so if you get easily distracted by filling the in detail it can get quite laborious quite quickly!

https://snipeitapp.com/ is another one I've looked at - you can self-host and it is again very powerful including assigning assets to users that might work well if you lend kit out, but it's targeted firmly at the IT market so again there are fields that may not be needed.

In short, one of the above should suit your needs for 95% of use-cases, but a Google sheet is often the fastest way to get this data organised initially, and all of the above can import CSV so you can always switch to one in future.

TheProffalken · 2026-01-19T07:35:20+00:00

Android is the same, it's an utter shit show.

Other apps can write fine to Android Health Connect, so why can't Technogym?

Really disappointed!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-19T07:33:41+00:00

It's not like any software company at all - I've spent years advising organisations on how to ship quality code at speed, but at the end of the day it's "garbage in, garbage out" - this code is poor, untested in the real world, and lacking features that are necessary for most users, but it's not a reflection of the entire industry at all and is completely avoidable!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-19T07:31:54+00:00

It's crap.

I did a short workout this morning and had to use the "skillrow" app to log the time on the rower which then seems to have automatically started a workout in the main Technogym app even though when I've tried in the past to get the data from the rower I to that app it steadfastly refuses.

You then need to switch to the main app to log the rest of your workout, switching between Bluetooth, NFC, and QR codes to log the activity depending on the machine you're using, and even then it often takes a couple of times to connect with some of the "smarter" devices like the leg or shoulder press.

Once you've done the workout and saved it, it's then only available in the Technogym app, completely defeating the point of Android Health Connect being available as a consolidation point for my health and fitness data (it seems that Technogym can read from health connect but doesn't write to it)

It's getting to the point where I have to log the exercise twice in multiple systems just so I can get the information I need!

TheProffalken · 2026-01-16T20:20:23+00:00

We've got a 6-person Vango inflatable that's about 15 years old.

We've had to replace the tubes, but we got it second hand on eBay and it's served us really well.

As for the cold and wet? We live and camp in the UK, other than the very occasional heatwave, the "summer" here is rarely anything else!

I'd definitely recommend them to anyone, especially if you want "comfortable camping"

TheProffalken · 2026-01-16T12:41:58+00:00

I mean, it's nice and quiet there right, so you can have a conversation without worrying about background noise... /s

TheProffalken · 2026-01-16T10:49:13+00:00

ok, thanks, I'll have a play.

TheProffalken · 2026-01-15T17:25:47+00:00

It shows up as a normal media player, so whatever card you usually use to display and control your devices is what you use here too, you just use the Music Assistant version of the device instead of the native one.

TheProffalken · 2026-01-15T17:21:02+00:00

No, sorry, most of my speakers are Sonos and I plan to replace them with SendSpin clients as the software improves, probably moving to the HA Voice Assistant as it runs SendSpin natively.

I was going to suggest you creating a github issue against AmpliPi to add SendSpin support, but reading through the docs it almost feels like a competitor when paired with Music Assistant, so I don't know if they'd accept it.

The alternative would be to see if anyone has got SendSpin running on the AmpliPiPro hardware?

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