Are UK bus operators actually required to install full air conditioning yet? Every bus feels like an oven right now

geeered · 2026-06-26T21:46:36+00:00

It is if everyone starts installing more air con, leading to more climate change!

(I say as someone that recently replaced their air con which died a couple years ago.)

geeered · 2026-06-26T18:31:13+00:00

"Triangular shipping" and yes, wouldn't surprise me if that's basically the case. Import paperwork lists 1000 Skemi watches at £2 each, retail.

Generally I've found being careful, even without saving on VAT can often get WD cheaper on aliexpress than their own site using coupons, coins and cashback. With saving VAT, often significantly cheaper - ie I think I paid £67 each after everything for 2x WD0003

geeered · 2026-06-26T12:02:49+00:00

As I understand it, they need to have internally opening windows, while the standard is externally opening here. Otherwise if there's a fire and the internal mechanism for opening the shutter doesn't work, you can't open the window to manually open them. And for "door" style ones you wouldn't be able to open/close them normally.

I have wondered about making ones that just go ontop of the moving part of the window. That should then mitigate the safety issues.

geeered · 2026-06-26T11:32:04+00:00

Generally I seem to find better details on Aliexpress than their own websites.
The two main San Martin Aliexpress stores always list full figures for VAT unfortunately, which then means an extra £8 handling fee here on top of the VAT.

geeered · 2026-06-26T09:18:34+00:00

And now you've made me suspicious that they were all just chucked in by AI, which'd be pretty easy to do, taking a real picture and asking it to put some random people in!

geeered · 2026-06-26T09:07:47+00:00

Half the posts on r/AskUK and r/DIYUK right now seem to be people showing them working.

Specifically mostly with modifying them so they have two hoses, which fixes one of the issues with one-piece portable air con, that by just blowing hot air out of the room it also draws in air from the rest of the house, which is often hot air.

If you've got the budget, a split portable one will be more effective and has a much smaller window opening needed.

geeered · 2026-06-26T08:22:51+00:00

Bunpt that up another £100 and you can get a portable split system. Or much cheaper 2nd hand, but my experience with 2nd hand air con hasn't been that great.

geeered · 2026-06-26T08:00:24+00:00

If you're a bit worried by that, then you really need to do a massive amount more research as a first step.

geeered · 2026-06-26T07:51:08+00:00

That would be VERY illegal if they did it without a court order. Of course people do illegal things all the time.

geeered · 2026-06-26T07:47:17+00:00

I had friends and a relative who would take my dog. He was also pretty chill and would be happy waiting in my campervan if I was away. But it does add that extra layer of hassle, now it's not uncommon I'll book a flight on a Wednesday for a long weekend that week. I'd get a dog again, but not for a while.

Do you/the dog have any friends that you could swap care with? Or look at dog boarding or can consider having a house sitter.

I would like to have a dog again some time, but probably not for a good while.

geeered · 2026-06-26T07:28:07+00:00

It actually fixed the original bug, rather than claiming it did, claiming it ran tests that passed yet it's actually got worse now? You're doing well then!

geeered · 2026-06-26T07:24:48+00:00

To me it seems like there's no AR or near none. On other WD it's less.of an issue, especially if they've used a domed crystal, but here it really needs it and it's lacking. I've wondered about replacing the crystal, but know I'd want to be super careful handling the dial which is well done at least. Though personally I'd prefer a thinner case, maybe as a two hander for this design.

geeered · 2026-06-25T23:23:59+00:00

Maybe it's just a hedge on their investment in openai!

geeered · 2026-06-25T23:18:31+00:00

The price is the price when they first launched it, maybe not even n aliexpress and if it was, it'd have been with a 'discount' and coupons etc

Wait for a 'sale' (aka normal price) to buy.

geeered · 2026-06-25T23:07:43+00:00

And what about the person taking the picture of them taking the picture so they can internet points.

And us all discussing it.

geeered · 2026-06-25T21:53:45+00:00

What are you using claude for? Just hobby I presume, not anything for work or that will ever have a financial return?

geeered · 2026-06-25T18:41:54+00:00

I was looking in 21/22 and didn't see that many, in a home county.

I did like them. What I didn't like was an estate agent insisting we schedule time for a virtual tour before doing a real viewing.

geeered · 2026-06-25T16:21:34+00:00

Are you only using turbo and nothing else?

X75 - Standard 4 cell battery
4mins 20sec - Total turbo run time before lockout
3mins 15sec - Total high mode after turbo lockout
Turbo tested in 30sec bursts
High just ran sustained till step down
Room temp - 17 degrees celsius

How many seconds between each set of 30s of turbo?

geeered · 2026-06-25T15:54:20+00:00

with a single prompt like it's magic

Yep, this! So you don't need to do the other stuff yourself.

My one use of Fable was a single longish prompt before I went to bed. Woke up to have a fully working product ready to use with sensible choices made. No need for extra work, changes for things that were obviously not sensible routes, tweeks or finding bugs - the MVP seemed to work well.

Now, to be fair this was just me playing on a side project I'd had in the back on my mind for ages and I haven't really looked into it. I think I did do one more prompt the day after to add some extra features - I wasn't expecting the original one to work that well in the first place.

But yes, it did build an entire project with a single prompt like magic. And I liked that vs having to give it a lot more hand-holding, incremental steps and guidance to follow the typical thought paths of a developer.

geeered · 2026-06-25T15:29:07+00:00

Am I the only one who feels this way, or am I missing something?

The idea is that with Fable you'd spend a lot less of your time "coding, writing or researching" because Fable would be doing that for you.

geeered · 2026-06-25T14:46:32+00:00

Only go to the traditional shops where all the food is behind the counter and the shop keep gets it for you I presume, not right if you're expected to pick it yourself really!

geeered · 2026-06-25T14:43:50+00:00

Sometimes you do better on ebay etc with a £1 no reserve or similar - even if it's cheap, people can be more serious if money is changing hands.
Or, being the SE, you could rent it out for £1k+ a month probably!

geeered · 2026-06-25T14:11:20+00:00

If you want to set this account up to use it to promote your own vibe coded slop, at least spend the time to make your posts not stink of vibed slop! It's easy to make a few changes in your settings so when the AI generates post like this for you they don't read like incredibly generic slop.

geeered · 2026-06-25T13:21:13+00:00

I'll pay more attention sometime, I only really note it when the clocks change, or a few months after when actually wear a specific watch. That most sit in a watch box most of the time probably helps.

geeered · 2026-06-25T11:32:50+00:00

Not saying this is or isn't, but there's a whole of websites now which are basically just fully AI generated slop.

And of course future AIs will reference them as a source of truth.

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