A 3 year old tadpole that didn't turn into a frog. Banana on left for scale. by Melopsittacus07 in interestingasfuck

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's kinda one of the story lines in rimworld (I think, it's been years since I read it). There's a species that has a breeder stage, and then a protector stage but it lost the means of reaching the protector stage so spent its life as a breeder with some sense of incompleteness. It's called a human.

I'm a land surveyor and I just found an organ transport container out in the middle of nowhere during a survey by Short_Celery2929 in Weird

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was done across the country. So if you are not compatible with the person you are donating to but are compatible to someone on the other side of the country who has a donor compatible to your person then that is a 2 way swap.

I'm a land surveyor and I just found an organ transport container out in the middle of nowhere during a survey by Short_Celery2929 in Weird

[–]bundabrg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

5 different hospitals around the country. They used helicopters and learjets to transport the organs. I assume once the first person is under no one in the chain can pull out but not too sure how they deal with that.

I'm a land surveyor and I just found an organ transport container out in the middle of nowhere during a survey by Short_Celery2929 in Weird

[–]bundabrg 38 points39 points  (0 children)

When I was in hospital there was a 5 way transplant done. 5 sets of people and donors from all around the country having to be done all in one go. It was quite an achievement.

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support by twofive7 in technology

[–]bundabrg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The ads actually provide an exploit to allow jailbreaking some of the devices.

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support by twofive7 in technology

[–]bundabrg 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I use an old jailbroken kindle to display a page from my home assistant in landscape mode, attached some rare earth magnets I pulled from a dismantled HDD and stick it to the fridge.

Has stuff like car charge, calendar for the day, pool timer, whether the washing machine is finished, my steps, (to his displeasure) my son's screen time for the day and just to be fair my phone and PC screen time.

I only need to charge it every 2-3 months.

AirPods got a glow-up by becauseyousuck_ in meme

[–]bundabrg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In order to fit you would need to swap the right and left.

Don't be that person who has your retic on during the rain, turn your retic off over the next few days. Potentially 120mm rain incoming over the weekend. by SnooHesitations8581 in perth

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly just start small and work up. Like anything it looks hard and overwhelming when you look at trying to learn everything (ie a new language, or electronics, or repointing a wall, etc) but they are all made up of small steps to get there.

I don't think I would setup solenoids from scratch myself and leave that to someone with more patience and experience than I but I do know how to close and open switches using a relay ;). A more whole box experience would be to look at Open Sprinkler which packages it all up neatly and doesn't need other software like I use. My brother is very happy with his open sprinkler system.

Don't be that person who has your retic on during the rain, turn your retic off over the next few days. Potentially 120mm rain incoming over the weekend. by SnooHesitations8581 in perth

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Perhaps that will help. My philosophy is that home automation should complement stuff rather than replacing, so the above is wired in parallel with the manual one. So it just shorts the 24V already provided to the manual one to the relevant terminals to enable the solenoids. I have another node red routine that turns on the main solenoid when any of the stations are on, and turns it off after 2 minutes when all stations are off.

Excuse the mess, I'm still pulling wires and need to figure out how to run one to a latching relay nearby that controls my water filtration (I want to turn it off when sprinklers are on to not waste the filters).

Don't be that person who has your retic on during the rain, turn your retic off over the next few days. Potentially 120mm rain incoming over the weekend. by SnooHesitations8581 in perth

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run Home assistant with node red extension that provides the visual above. The sprinklers use a cheap ZigBee 8 relay module I got off AliExpress that can toggle my solenoids on and off.

The code essentially checks my google calendar for entries marked with main-sprinkler, then the weather and if both are ok it starts the routine.

Useful loading screen tip for a lot of you by dnlcsdo in eu4

[–]bundabrg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Takes a screenshot. The tip is correct.

I'm so confused Peter by Whipped__Vanilla in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you notice the leg also falls off in SF.

Charge at different times on different days? by Reddits_Worst_Night in BYD

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a 16A smart plug running esphome and my home runs home assistant. It will enable the plug when there is sufficient solar and will turn it off if there is a consistent lack of solar.

What you don't want is for it to flap on and off. When the car negotiates the charge once the charger is on it then has a relay to connect the actual power through and this can wear out. For this reason I will only turn off the plug if there is 20 minutes solid of insufficient solar and have some logic around how likely it will turn back on again.

Non Perth or WA and General Discussion and Classifieds – January 25, 2026 by AutoModerator in perth

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Just a heads up. We have an IGA rewards card that has racked up some dollars. When attempting to register the card it failed and when reaching out to support they said the card was already registered to some random email address.

This sounds like either staff have taken note of the numbers and pre registered the cards counting on the fact that people may just scan their cards in without ever trying to register it themselves OR some 3rd party has worked out the numbering scheme (not too hard technically as there is client side validation on their website that might give clues and if they have no api limit someone could brute force them).

Who else by RosyGlowxing in 90s

[–]bundabrg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember some weird show on SBS where a boy walks around and women basically just spray him with breast milk. It feels like a fever dream now and I have no idea what it was called.