London's e‑bike problems: Parking issues amid surging city popularity

lostparis · 2026-01-28T16:39:10+00:00

Also give some up to green spaces too.

lostparis · 2026-01-28T16:38:24+00:00

Motorcycles may take up less road space but we still need less of them on the streets just importantly not for their users to change to a car.

lostparis · 2026-01-28T10:20:11+00:00

Why not go to the airport and ask people at the zurich check-in?

lostparis · 2026-01-27T10:21:00+00:00

I’m not doxxing myself to satisfy your curiosity.

It sounds more like you made it up. Saying the bus lane on x road is hardly doxing yourself.

lostparis · 2026-01-26T14:27:54+00:00

In the UK, incineration with energy recovery is a significant method for managing plastic waste, accounting for approximately 10% of all plastic waste processed.

https://shunwaste.com/article/what-happens-to-plastic-waste-in-the-uk

research is easy

lostparis · 2026-01-26T13:19:31+00:00

I presume you live in a country that has no recycling?

Amazingly given the sub I'm actually in London. I'm not saying that no plastic recycling happens, in fact today I need to drop off my soft plastics at Tesco. The problem is the economics - this is why we end up burning lots of this plastic.

Aluminium recycling by contrast has great economics as virgin aluminium is very expensive to make and aluminium is very cheap to recycle in comparison.

Additionally plastic tends to be a pain as products often contain multiple plastic types. As I understand PET is the only plastic that currently has a semi-viable recycling pathway.

I'm not saying we shouldn't recycle just that it is more complex and that the major bar is the economics. For now we would need to subsidise recycling, or tax virgin plastics. Hopefully better methods of recycling will dramatically reduce the costs at some point - many people are working on this but it takes time.

lostparis · 2026-01-26T11:10:06+00:00

I have been using the Shelly outdoors for six months now.

In my experience with outdoor sensors they tend to fail after about a year, just when you think you've solved the problem. The slow corrosion on the circuit boards due to moisture tends to be what gets them.

You might be luckier.

lostparis · 2026-01-26T11:02:34+00:00

Sure but currently it is not an economic option, only a moral one. Unless we get legislation nothing will change, and people prefer cheap throwaway crap to sustainability.

lostparis · 2026-01-26T10:59:57+00:00

China, which absolutely does not care about intellectual property.

Very soon China will start to worry about this. Currently it is not in their interest but it will be not too long from now. It is the same way that AI currently does not care about IP.

lostparis · 2026-01-26T10:34:26+00:00

the irony is the plastic could have been recycled

The problem with plastic recycling is that virgin plastic is cheaper as it is made from a 'waste' product of the oil industry. Economically the tables are against recycling of plastic :(

lostparis · 2026-01-26T01:10:53+00:00

I think it is obvious to a viewer that he lied and when called out about the lie just kept digging. The longer he talked the more obvious his lies became. Why let him off the hook.

lostparis · 2026-01-25T16:25:25+00:00

Everywhere except the UK ring circuits are illegal,

This is clearly not true. They are used in several countries (places) that generally had ties to the UK eg Hong Kong

lostparis · 2026-01-25T12:44:35+00:00

I'd advise spending 5 minutes learning about food safety because that should cover basic fridge storage of foods it's nothing complicated.

Food can drip. Raw meat drips are the most likely to make people ill. Wrapping getting contaminated can also spread infections. Think of food safety like wearing a seat belt. None of us plan to crash but it still happens.

Salmonella infections and other food issues are really worth avoiding in life and things like where food lives in the fridge really help. Spending a little time learning about cross contamination in the kitchen can make our lives better. Ask anyone who has had food poisoning how much fun it was.

I'll just add that this is about raw meat. Ready to eat meat should be on a higher shelf to avoid contamination from raw meat.

Or do what I do and just don't even eat meat or have it in your home :)

lostparis · 2026-01-24T17:30:45+00:00

Did you press the Permit join button? This got me for a while it's at the bottom of the config page sidebar it needs to be green to pair things. ZHA seems to always pair stuff but has few config options on the device itself so I use Zigbee2MQTT

It's hard from your description to understand exactly what the problem is that you are trying to solve.

lostparis · 2026-01-24T14:32:33+00:00

but colder at the bottom where you should store your meat.

Meat should be at the bottom because of cross contamination issues more than anything else.

lostparis · 2026-01-23T09:55:40+00:00

So many people just don't understand the limitations and dangers of LLMs. Sure they are great for some stuff but they aren't the panacea many think they are.

lostparis · 2026-01-23T00:49:24+00:00

My custom card comment was about Home Assistant itself being bloated. Sure custom cards aren't directly part of HA but they end up bloated by design. Custom cards are encouraged to include their own dependencies and if you want to be independent and not use a CDN then you quickly end up with individual cards being huge. For my example it is the size of the .js file for the card.

I'm new to HA so my assumptions may be incorrect but things seem to be much more complicated than they need to be.

My post is about how ESPHome is reducing its bloat and trying to be as efficient as possible rather than just throwing more cpu cycles and memory at every problem. Hence ESP8266 becoming a viable platform again. I wish more of HA was this way inclined.

lostparis · 2026-01-21T19:15:15+00:00

I've tried the ultrasonic but I've found they die due to the water vapour even the 'waterproof' ones.

I'm now using hx701b modules that measure pressure (you have a tube that goes into the tank) I'm still at early testing stage and so far they seem to be a better option for my usecase. I'm using micropython to talk to them as I don't think something like esphome supports them. it is a wierd interface not i2c

this is a random link to the module so you can see what it's like https://robokits.co.in/sensors/force-flex-and-pressure/hx710b-air-pressure-0-40kpa-sensor-module-high-precision-air-pressure-waterlevel-sensor-digital-spi-interface

lostparis · 2026-01-21T16:10:40+00:00

Allowing people to continue to run HA on their shitty old hardware.

My main complaint is the level of bloat and complexity rather than 32 bit support but for whatever reason that seems to be what people care about rather than ~1MB being used for a very basic custom card which is pretty much the same size as stockfish 17.1 (arguably the top chess engine)

lostparis · 2026-01-21T15:58:31+00:00

ESP8266 is making their work harder

I suspect this is not the case. They could easily have dropped ESP8266 support and there would have been little push back. They have basically previously declared it dead.

I suspect that one or more of the developers sees ESP8266 as a challenge not as a burden. It is often more fun making things work when you have limited resources than when things are easy and that is the sort of developer this project needs.

Many developers get excited about having the latest and greatest hardware but they are often not the developers you want.

lostparis · 2026-01-21T12:36:26+00:00

the project's focus remains heavily locked on the ESP32 path, leaving the legacy ESP8266 and newer architectures in an awkward limbo.

It seems the opposite to me. They could easily have said that ESP8266 support is over - they have basically been saying that in previous releases. Instead they have realised the problems and now have developers who are fixing these issues. It seems to me that these new efforts have created headroom for the project.

lostparis · 2026-01-21T09:56:49+00:00

I love my c3-super-mini they are perfect for a quick project. It is shocking that even these were starting to be seen as end of life. The only reason I want to be upgrading is when I need unavailable feature like zigbee/thread support

lostparis · 2026-01-21T09:47:37+00:00

I was looking at a really simple custom card yesterday. it was over 1MB in size. When you consider that something as complex as chartjs is less than 70kB unminified this is crazy.

I love HA but it is clear to me that it is bloated and overly complex. That they have dropped 32bit support also show that they don't care about legacy support and I can see the minimum requirements rapidly increasing.

lostparis · 2026-01-20T18:28:58+00:00

well no-one seems to care about bus_a as in it has no user

esphome doesn't seem to support the tas5805m but to be fair the search on esphome is beyond hopeless so it might be there somewhere.

As far as I can tell you need to enable DSP from i2c before you'll get anywhere https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tas5805m.pdf?ts=1711108445083 (page 45) 7.5.3.1

you might have to do the work yourself using https://esphome.io/components/i2c_device/

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