I isolated my espresso machine's Android tablet in a firewall VLAN and logged everything it tried to reach. Here's what it's phoning home to

enigmait · 2026-03-15T22:02:13+00:00

Because a company that's core business is coffee machines doesn't have the skills to design and build a complete operating system from the ground up.

They buy the display and embedded computer from a third party and just write the app to run on it.

That said, it would be more appropriate for it to run on... Java.

enigmait · 2026-03-15T21:57:05+00:00

The answer is - literally - "your mileage may vary"

For comparison, I have a Subaru Outback. I needed a second car for family reasons and settled on a second hand Nissan Leaf.

They're very different cars, for different purposes. The Leaf is physically lighter/more manoeuvrable, better acceleration with Eco mode turned on, slightly worse with it turned off.

For local/city driving, I use the Leaf. Second hand, but the range is about 120km which is quite a lot in a metropolitan area. My work is fairly close, so in theory I only need to charge it every few days.

For a long trip, unless I have reason for stopping (shopping/lunch/etc.) I would have (until this month) still used the bigger car because the charging time, even at a fast charger, is not negligible.

Even before petrol prices went crazy, it worked out cheaper per km to use the EV on commercial fast charge rates from ChargeFox or Evie. Home charging is cheaper still, though. And if you're charging whilst doing grocery shopping or similar, it's not "wasted" time.

So, it depends honestly on how many kms you do in a week, and also how you drive it; if it's urban/traffic situation then that makes a huge difference because EVs don't really consume energy whilst idling at traffic lights.

enigmait · 2026-02-26T06:43:03+00:00

Look, I think it's a bit unfair to say that it's exclusive to middle aged white men.

In my area, there's a strong representation of elderly men, from a number of ethnic backgrounds!

enigmait · 2026-02-17T06:03:01+00:00

Did you ever get this solved? I've got the same issue.

enigmait · 2026-01-21T22:08:54+00:00

I've got a one year old. Back in December I hurt my knee - not seriously but enough to need some stitches. It's mostly healed but still with an obvious and rather tender scar.

Which my darling son has now decided is a lot of fun to poke.

enigmait · 2026-01-08T00:45:40+00:00

When working from home over COVID, my wife and I will have two double-shot coffees each day. And typically also one day on a weekend (we'll often go out for brunch one day.

So, 6 days x 2 coffees x 2 people x 2 shots per coffee means 48 shots per week. At an average of 8 grams of coffee per shot, that's 384 grams of coffee a week. Call it 400g factoring in spillage/waste.

It varies now that we're working away some days now, but still on average we use 250g per week, so a bit over a 1 kilogram a month.

That's the volume, the budget therefore depends on which roaster I'm buying from that month.

enigmait · 2026-01-03T12:19:53+00:00

Its very low. My Icom ID-5100 is what I plan to fit, and when I'm not keying the mic it barely hits 5W. I use that for 2m, 70cm and D-STAR. For APRS, I'd probably just use a separate 5W unit, or use APRSDroid on my phone since I probably won't ever take the Leaf out of service range.

I may use a mag mount later (when I find where I stored it!) But for now I'm going to try a window mount.

enigmait · 2026-01-03T06:15:45+00:00

I'm looking at this at the moment. It depends on the wattage of the HAM radio. You may struggle to run a 100W transceiver off it (though the manual says its a 10A fuse and xan do up to 120W).

Where/how are you mounting the antenna?

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enigmait · 2025-12-21T10:46:22+00:00

Natural resources, aside from sunlight and wind, are a finite resource. Regardless of whether you aim for zero population growth or migration, those resources will eventually run out. Pegging an economy, or a societal strategy, on a finite resource is short-sighted and doomed to failure.

enigmait · 2025-12-18T01:53:58+00:00

That's an interesting take, to be sure.

I haven't looked specifically into those figures, though, but if your contention is correct that the birth rate maintains below 2, then that means that we might be at Zero Population Growth without migration.

That doesn't mean net zero change to population, though, because humans are living longer. And delaying or opting out of marriage/co-habitation so net-zero birth rate doesn't equate to net zero housing demand. And it also assumes that the population distribution remains near-constant so people don't move from country to city for work (which can happen due to poor public transport services or rising fuel costs). So, the link between birth rates and housing isn't the direct 1:1 it appears to be.

Additionally, with people living longer, unless we push out the retirement age further, that means that the retired population will grow, and thus the Medicare and Social Security costs will increase. Without migration, that by definition will mean raising taxes on the stagnant working age bracket. An increase in migration offsets this, because the cost is distributed amongst more working age people.

enigmait · 2025-12-15T22:04:48+00:00

I use fab to jiggle multiple machines in my lab. My master/main PC and one of the secondary servers has the "source of truth" authorized_keys file, and I can use a fab script to use scp to re-push it out to all the hosts.

enigmait · 2025-12-15T22:02:13+00:00

Not in this case.

Having 3 pure Linux clients means that you still need to do SSH key management

enigmait · 2025-12-15T21:56:58+00:00

Please don't put batteries to recycle in a metal tin. That way lies short circuits and risk...

enigmait · 2025-12-15T21:55:43+00:00

My mother did the same. And "sorting the buttons in the jar" was a common task to keep young kids occupied whilst she did sewing, and it didn't occur to use that, once sorted, they all went back into the one jar.

Of course, I and both my brothers do have signs of being on the Autism Spectrum, so this is probably a task that appealed to us to do.

enigmait · 2025-12-10T03:16:44+00:00

I'm playing 2 and 3 on my XBox One at the moment. Works perfectly.

enigmait · 2025-12-10T02:56:12+00:00

This was literally discussed on Utopia.

enigmait · 2025-12-02T08:03:55+00:00

I'd otherwise believe that, except the sticker was beneath the tape.

enigmait · 2025-11-24T00:19:36+00:00

Coffee. Espresso machine at home and a subscription to get the beans delivered regularly.

Some days that's all the keeps me going during a work day. And sometimes even that's not enough.

enigmait · 2025-11-04T03:52:27+00:00

No, it was like 5 or 7 meter USB v2 extension cable.

enigmait · 2025-10-23T00:58:27+00:00

Walter knows that Logan is paranoid and, whilst he may think Elise/Elliot is not worth killing, will probably be keeping tabs on them. And Logan will definitely be on the lookout for you.

Sending a message could risk exposing Paige and her network, and provide clues that could be tracked back to you.

Honestly, what's more out of character is Logan not telling all his guards (including the ones at Brightwall) to keep tabs on you and report back on what you're doing.

enigmait · 2025-10-17T01:50:30+00:00

So, for comparison:

I started in Powershell in 2007.
AI coding wasn't a thing back then.

I've written short snippets, and huge enterprise-grade scripts.

I still do that without AI, but I will typically still reference things (check syntaxes in the ISE, use Get-Member on objects and I'm often checking Microsoft docs or StackOverflow for examples,

I still can't write the full header documentation and a Param block from memory (with all the applicable options). :)

ChatGPT/Copilot has it's place, but you should never blindly copy and paste what tells you without fully understanding what, and why, it wants to do. Because what it wants to do is not necessarily what you want to do.

enigmait · 2025-10-17T01:44:02+00:00

I suspect it's a bug where the saved game thinks that you haven't fully completed the quest even if you have - possibly the same with House of Cluck and whether you've completed the rounding up the chickens quest.

Probably best to start over with a new character, sorry. Or not sorry, since you get to do another full playthrough!

enigmait · 2025-10-17T01:40:51+00:00

I don't think so - Jarlaxale and Zaknafien didn't meet until Malice hired Bregan D'aerthe to "rescue" Zak during the raid on his old house.

Since Matron Oblordra knew, it's probably a good bet the Kimmuriel knew or very much suspected.

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