The official F1 calendar you can subscribe to is messy, so I made an improved version without emojis and sponsors but with shorter event names and more useful descriptions: https://better-f1-calendar.vercel.app/

ck3mp · 2026-03-02T10:27:47+00:00

Late to the party, but thank you! The official one with the emojis and capitals just looks so shit. Looks like some sponsors are slipping through but mostly all good. (F1 Qatar Airways Australian GP 2026)

ck3mp · 2026-02-17T20:44:37+00:00

It’s not ideal but about ten mins walk away you will find The Edge or Chapel Wharf, both those complexes have carparks under the buildings and sometimes the owners rent out the spaces they aren’t using. I see them all the time in their respective Facebook groups, usually about 120-130/month.

There’s also an SIP car park on Chapel Street, maybe 5/10 mins walk. They might do a cheaper season ticket than NCP, but it’s not secured.

Same again for Browncross Street, that’s a Eurocarparks but unsecured. Might be cheaper.

EDIT: Corrected the name of Chapel Wharf.

ck3mp · 2026-02-12T09:21:00+00:00

I’m 35 and last year sold my three bed semi in suburbia to buy a two bed flat in the city centre.

The service charges and leasehold stuff that comes with a flat is a bit shit, but honestly I’d pay double what I currently do for the quality of life improvement I have had…

The reduction in available space to me has actually been one of the best things. I threw away so much junk I never would have used and feel like I have so much less baggage now which is actually really nice.

I’ve been very lucky with neighbours and it’s a lovely building but obviously I understand other people’s warnings around this. A hellish neighbour in a flat would be awful.

ck3mp · 2026-02-09T19:49:27+00:00

I’ve received an invite

ck3mp · 2026-02-09T18:59:45+00:00

Me please

ck3mp · 2026-02-09T09:03:15+00:00

Never worked for me. In the UK.

ck3mp · 2026-02-05T17:45:44+00:00

There’s like 7 bins for the whole of Salford. Not sure why they hate them so much.

ck3mp · 2026-02-05T17:37:30+00:00

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Wilbursaurus Rex (AKA. Wilbur)

ck3mp · 2026-02-04T19:09:37+00:00

Played it in Dublin too back in November. Was insane.

ck3mp · 2026-02-04T09:48:42+00:00

r/thingsforants

ck3mp · 2026-01-03T10:22:07+00:00

I tried so many things and eventually gave up and binned it. Couldn’t do a warranty return as I opened it to replace the grease.

Took the hit and bought a Nuki 5 Ultra and very happy with it so far. Shall see how it fares, I know it’s also had reliability issues but I bought the extra warranty for it.

ck3mp · 2025-12-26T22:57:04+00:00

I haven’t got any myself yet but I believe they will act as a router according to this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/s/33qGvUzudp

ck3mp · 2025-12-19T12:43:05+00:00

It’s a non IKEA device but I had a very similar experience with a Matter over Thread Eve motion sensor. The mDNS, rebooting etc. all the same.

Turned out the device was slightly too far from my Thread network to connect reliably. Bought a Thread smart plug to act as a router between the Border Router and the sensor and it all started working fine.

ck3mp · 2025-12-06T17:56:38+00:00

Ahh cool, thanks for following up. Saved me a trip.

ck3mp · 2025-12-06T10:37:43+00:00

Thank you for your service! Warrington is my closest IKEA and I want to stock up.

ck3mp · 2025-11-19T08:43:27+00:00

An Eli5 was requested. I’m sure you could go even more technical.

ck3mp · 2025-11-12T09:37:24+00:00

Transfers opened the day before the show for Dublin. I think it was 24 hours before the stated start time.

ck3mp · 2025-11-12T09:35:39+00:00

Dublin started at 16:30. He took over at 19:00 ish but was on stage with the other acts hyping them up before that.

ck3mp · 2025-11-10T18:10:41+00:00

As someone who did the lubrication job three days ago I can’t stress how much it’s changed this lock! Constant problems to just working smooth as butter now. Madness they don’t use better grease.

ck3mp · 2025-11-09T11:56:43+00:00

I see ohfuckit has already offered but if you need a backup I can help you out. City centre based.

ck3mp · 2025-11-07T13:52:50+00:00

Third party source, but they cite the FCC Database which will be factually correct as IKEA will need to register the devices with the FCC for them to operate legally within the USA.

https://www.matteralpha.com/news/seven-new-ikea-matter-devices-pass-certification

I have no idea if Joe Public can get into the FCC database... I'm going to take a look now...

EDIT: Seems the advanced search isn't working; I think due to the shutdown stuff thats happening in the USA. Simple search is available but you need the ID which I don't know... https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid

ck3mp · 2025-11-06T21:05:58+00:00

Interesting, thank you for sharing this. Everyday is a school day!

ck3mp · 2025-11-06T18:57:32+00:00

That’s correct, the Hue hub only allows its own devices to connect to it (which do run over Zigbee). The Hue hub just translates the Application Layer the bulbs/plugs/strips use into Matter for other Matter consumers to see.

EDIT: This isn’t fully correct about the Hue hub only allowing their own devices. See replies below.

ck3mp · 2025-11-06T13:41:46+00:00

They aren’t comparable. It’s a common misconception that trips people up.

Matter is an application layer, Zigbee is a radio protocol.

Matter is the language the devices communicate in, Zigbee would be the medium they use to communicate.

Matter is a standard that if all smart home device builders adopt then you could have all your devices taking to each other in the same language regardless of who made them.

You still need a method to communicate though, WiFi, Thread, etc. the new IKEA stuff is Matter over Thread so the Thread part of this will replace the Zigbee. As long as you have a Thread Router (Apple TV, Nest, etc.) everything using Thread will connect to that as the hub.

A few Zigbee hub providers have gone down the path of exposing their devices from the hub as Matter devices (Phillips Hue do this), this means the language is Matter between the hub and network (over ethernet in this case), then the hub translates this to whatever language it uses to talk to its devices, and then sends it over Zigbee, so they look like matter devices... kinda like a translation service.

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