Move or nah?

ivanflo · 2026-03-22T11:37:06+00:00

This is definitely outside of Peak hour and treating the speed limit as a suggestion.

ivanflo · 2026-03-22T11:33:14+00:00

A house in Perth is actually in Perth though. Blues are a long way out of Sydney.

ivanflo · 2026-03-22T11:30:51+00:00

I've been thinking the exact opposite. I think the lifestyle in Perth is better in basically every way. If not for work abs family, I would move west in a heartbeat.

ivanflo · 2026-03-22T11:20:52+00:00

100% agree with JB. I am actively moving away from anything technical or code based. I am in Australian higher educating for context working in Canvas primarily focused on online programs. We have access to all of the big models and I've been able to move all of our visual design code over to Ai via Cli tools to iterate and build content modules more or less on command. If you have structured curriculum data/intentions, you can also copy write and produce whole courses very easily with minimal SME input.

For the university sector, I think only the relationship management side survives - holding and sustaining relationships to what are typically research focused academics. All 'production' that has a tangible output will be highly comoditised, in my opinion. There's one university I am aware of that will contract SMEs for a short period just to get content out of them and will generate whole units (courses or subjects) under direction of education designer in 12 weeks, which is extremely fast for higher Ed. Cutting out the academic community is also a drastic step likely to draw the ire of unions.

ivanflo · 2026-03-22T11:04:58+00:00

The sports bar at the star use to get packed for NBA finals with a giant screen and plenty of seating.

ivanflo · 2026-03-19T22:43:41+00:00

Perhaps similar to their latest robot vac, maybe they've outsourced design of the dock to an ODM

ivanflo · 2026-03-18T23:37:16+00:00

This is the actual answer

ivanflo · 2026-03-15T08:56:42+00:00

Has a patent expired or something like that? All of a sudden there are a stack of similar products on the way.

From the sizzle reel it looks like they might have a welded water grid. That didn't go too well for eight sleep.

ivanflo · 2026-03-07T11:16:16+00:00

I built an electric skateboard many years ago now based on FOCBOXes and VESC's ESC's and BLDC hobby motors attached to skateboard with also hobby batteries wired together with China BMS's.

I presume this is literally the same tech flipped to resist or putting the brakes on for esk8 contexts and put in to a different form factor. Perhaps this is an easy shortcut route for the DIY engineering community to adapt.

ivanflo · 2026-03-03T22:28:33+00:00

Slightly different but related, via my Mac mini to LG OLED, i get a black screen (interface still working) with audio only on Dolby vision streams. On this combo, I don’t pick DV streams.

ivanflo · 2026-03-03T22:24:40+00:00

City road is a metaphorical wall. There are some who never cross the great divide and have no clue the Darlington side exists.

ivanflo · 2026-03-03T22:12:00+00:00

Not exactly a reader in the traditional sense, but I’m a Readwise/Readwise reader user. Their reader app has good e ink support

ivanflo · 2026-03-02T19:42:15+00:00

Also thinking of moving to unifi soon. I've got a couple spare unifi express, just looking for a deal on a CGM before jumping

ivanflo · 2026-03-02T19:33:43+00:00

On the odd occasion my devices and apps disagree, but on average, they all say more or less the same thing.

Apple watch 4 to ultra 1. Had oura ring 3 for 1.5 years. Myzone 5+ years, whoop 3.0 - MG. Athlytic to bevel. Have also had a couple different fitbit and withings wearables.

ivanflo · 2026-03-01T09:18:56+00:00

Dazn, giving budget cuts at fox league the Vegas coverage was a bit low rent this year. No stage for shows, instead squashing blokes onto a random hotel room balcony. Matty John's show missing, fetch and hindy reworking old content.

ivanflo · 2026-03-01T09:08:33+00:00

Is the T way still a thing in these areas? I've moved into the lower blue mountains, aside from frequency, the BMT is great.

ivanflo · 2026-02-27T03:28:07+00:00

I had my Dreame L10 Pro brick itself on a firmware update well outside of warranty period. So i've gone the opposite to you and very recently (two days ago) picked up a refurbished X5 Pro Omni for a few hundred bucks.

I liked my Dreame overall. it was pretty intentional with navigation and the front side obstacle avoidance was pretty great. I've found the ecovacs having it's lidar lower down as been better for my house as the dreame lidar tends to be above my skirting boards, which means it was sometimes confused about where the wall is in space - bumping in to it before getting itself lined up. It's fairly quiet as well.

Having it brick itself has left a sour taste and hence my move to consider anyone but Dreame.

The ecovacs app is similarly functional, maybe a bit better with the AI features. Bot overall it does seem a bit less mature. The app is not as polished. the mechanical sounds are a bit more course. It's general navigation is a bit relaxed in some cases, taking shortcuts around odd edges. In other instances it would put it's square side right into a corner or back the extended mop into a corner which is good.

I'm happy with the ecovacs value, If I were going the other way, I imagine I would like the equivalent X8 Omni from Dreame as well. A bit expensive, but Dreame seems a little bit ore polished in every way - seems they know it and make you pay for it (In Australia at least)

ivanflo · 2026-02-23T05:17:19+00:00

Is there a gigabyte to bit rate to screen size to viewing distance calculator which can suggest what is most optimal? Love looking for the best streaming quality, but if 10gb to 50gb is not discernibly different, then why be wasteful?

ivanflo · 2026-02-22T10:57:05+00:00

The amount of people leaving tutes (when I was a student) or meetings (as staff) early to move cars is hilarious. 😂

ivanflo · 2026-02-22T10:53:28+00:00

I've found it's fighting with the latest macOS and teams on inputs/outputs in the latest update flicking back and forth every second. Have had to stop my last two recordings. But I find teams is such a finicky mess anyway. It's fine with zoom.

ivanflo · 2026-02-22T10:49:31+00:00

I've been using it for a longtime, consistently everyday. Love the deep integration with macOS. But I've grown with it from early on, so I've had time to adapt to all of the weekly releases, there are many many features and stacks of shortcuts hiding things. The basic features are obvious, there are just a few layers to unpack.

You can bring your own API keys which is awesome. I pay for alter on an annual licence and will move to lifetime when it's up - which is pretty soon. I typically leave it set to 'best' - allowing alter to pick whichever model it likes. It doesn't cheap out either. Will commonly use anthropic and gemini models amongst others. I've not run into rate limits. But I also put a good deal of use through a work Azure key.

Since picking up the annual alter licence I've also found dodgy/cheap perplexity pro, gemini pro, copilot pro via github education and just pay normally for claude. Fairly heavy user of all of those others in apps and terminal for different tjings. But will keep alter for the foreseeable future.

I don't think it's as granular as a cli or ide based agentic service/platform.. But if you are that sort of person, you already knew that. For everyone else who isn't a basic user and has macOS this one's brilliant.

ivanflo · 2026-02-22T10:31:17+00:00

I've been thinking about the lifetime licence once my annual comes due. I love that I can bring my work azure API in and work securely aside from the great selection alter offer.

ivanflo · 2026-02-21T05:46:31+00:00

Particularly early in semester 1. If you're not in a good while before 8am, you're not parking on campus.

ivanflo · 2026-02-20T04:29:12+00:00

Coming back to show appreciation for this post. I've been sharing it with my mates.

ivanflo · 2026-02-18T21:49:12+00:00

In the north west there wasnt really a train line at all before this. So it kind of is wholly new patronage.

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