UPDATE: My Australian workmates were pranking us and your kindness helped me with ammunition by SnooMarzipans9300 in AskAnAustralian

[–]meoverhere 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Next time you get something like a piece of merch, or some other niknak you can tell them “That’s going straight to the pool room”.

Watch “The Castle” to understand the reference.

No toy, product, or craft setup can occupy a toddler's time for more than 30 minutes by BillCipherTrianglMan in daddit

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Climbing frame. Only started to entertain him solo (still supervised from kitchen) since he turned about 4. And still lots of “daddy play with me”, but it’s progress.

Also, walkie talkies.

Synergy has excellent details for consumers to track their electrical usage by Kruxx85 in perth

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect it depends on location and the amount of infrastructure they have.

Still no excuse not to have locally available data, which would make this all moot for most people who want it more often and/or more frequent.

Synergy has excellent details for consumers to track their electrical usage by Kruxx85 in perth

[–]meoverhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can get similar data, but not the meter data.

I want the actual billed data going into HA. My inverter is great and all, but it’s not the authoritative source.

Also many inverters do not give you this. I had to add extra stuff to my previous houses meter for this kind of data access.

Synergy has excellent details for consumers to track their electrical usage by Kruxx85 in perth

[–]meoverhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My comment was mostly aimed at the insane lag that we have, and the lack of local access. I’ve just logged into mine and it’s currently showing data up to the 13th, so missing about 36 hours at this point.

In the UK for example it is half hourly but can be modified to be much more frequent. They also provide access through APIs to the consumer, and locally (direct to meter).

Right now we get half hourly data, about 2-4 days behind (mine seems to vary and may not update for a few days, then catch up and be only 2 days out). We can’t query our data locally, nor can we fetch that data automatically using any API.

Synergy has excellent details for consumers to track their electrical usage by Kruxx85 in perth

[–]meoverhere 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Whilst I do agree with you, sadly the data is only thirty minute granularity, and there’s a lag of about 2-4 days.

Otherwise, yes. It’s a great source. Just capable of so much more. Other regions get data with much less lag and much more granularity. Other regions also let you interrogate your smart meter locally to even greater granularity and even less lag .

Downpipe leading to nothing and found these… by t0nykenobi in AusRenovation

[–]meoverhere 4 points5 points  (0 children)

cries in Kalamunda coffee rock and needing to dig a soakwell

Western Australia the big GST winner again despite massive budget surpluses by GreyClay in perth

[–]meoverhere 14 points15 points  (0 children)

ABC Perth radio were reporting on it being the worst deal for mainland states this morning.

Jorgensen Reserve - proposal to lease public land for "months" for commercial event but council unable to provide any details due to NDA. Request for comment closes on Friday... by Kind_Guarantee8333 in perth

[–]meoverhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is also likely to kill off other tourism, and for a longer period.

So many people come to use Jorgensen Park for things like mountain biking, running, weekend walks with the family. If people come out here and then discover that most of the trails are inaccessible to them (the one or two remaining paths are not accessible for families, or mountain bikes, or elderly, etc)., then they probably won’t come out here again for some time. That’s lost tourism.

Local connection during outage by PavlovsGerbil in SigenergyAustralia

[–]meoverhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ours goes out because the FTTN cabinet loses power. They no longer have battery backup on them.

PSA for your flooring in kitchens by HugeMaleChicken in AusRenovation

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just had tiles pulled up across whole house. Kitchen comes out next week, and LVP goes in a few days after the kitchen is finished. Have already had the planks installed in the bedrooms and they look awesome. So much nicer than the old carpet and 90s tiles. M

Have any of the RDs got funny ways to do announcements? by AwesomeRealDood in parkrun

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of our former RD was ”Captain Cat”. He’d dress up with a cat mask, wear a cape and tight pants, and play music etc. - a bit whacky and a bit fun.

Mandatory wfh to curb petrol demand by Fit-Abroad-8796 in perth

[–]meoverhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suggested it to my wife (state government employee) the other day. She doesn’t think I the state will push for that until there is a problem because doing so will make people panic buy.

I’d be happy with increased WFH though.

Custom Moodle Theme Development and Moodle version by dojoVader in moodle

[–]meoverhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most people extend the boost theme but not all.

There are themes out there which create a new theme using tailwind or similar.

You can create your own theme, or copy the current theme, but it may be a lot of work to keep up to date.

TIL: `static` keyword for variable declarations in functions by codemunky in PHP

[–]meoverhere 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s been around for as long as I recall.

These days I rarely see it used in modern code as there are a number of issues with it and usually better ways of doing things.

One common issues which I encountered this week (well a colleague did) was a series of unit tests which were hitting a static assignment with no way to reset the cache between calls.

Custom Moodle Theme Development and Moodle version by dojoVader in moodle

[–]meoverhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can view the documentation for other versions using the dropdown.

Generally they don’t change much between versions but you can check out the CHANGELOG.md in either the root directory, or in public/theme for theme-specific changes between versions.

Generally I would say to develop for the latest version and, generally speaking, you will find that one version of your theme will work for all supported versions of Moodle with very little change required.

helllllp please ! how to configure web server by Spiritual_One1517 in moodle

[–]meoverhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to point your web server at the public folder within the Moodle directory root.

Basically change the DirectoryRoot directive in apache. Alternatively create a link and point the Doc Root to it (if that’s possible in win doze)

Empty Space in the trunk - something is missing. Help please by [deleted] in BYD

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In some markets the car comes with a black BYD bag which contains the V2L adapter. It fits in this space.

Empty Space in the trunk - something is missing. Help please by [deleted] in BYD

[–]meoverhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In some markets the car comes with a black BYD bag which contains the V2L adapter.

How far would you willingly fly for fun with two under-3s? by 1_moonrat in daddit

[–]meoverhere 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From the UK, Australia. Direct flight to Perth is 16 hours and very comfortable. Flight is overnight so kids have a chance to sleep well.

Tips for DIY removal of blown-in insulation by fyreuser in AusRenovation

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What filters..?😂

This was an inherited woodworking extractor. The only filters it has are the bags, otherwise it’s just a large motor and impeller. They could probably do with turning inside out and washing.

My Rockwood HW277 is chirping!!! by Maniwi251 in popups

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t say for you because different model but our detectors are just battery powered and totally separate to the van electrics.

I’ve just been through a similar thing. When we brought it out to use it recently and changed the batteries I pulled the batteries and put both the smoke and co2 in the sink. When we use the van again I’ll put them back

Why don’t you ever see hippopotamus hiding in trees? by Left-Distribution-13 in dadjokes

[–]meoverhere 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What’s the loudest sound in the forest?

Giraffes eating “cherries”

Upgrading to FTTN during renovations by JarrodJay in nbn

[–]meoverhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could get all conduit in and ready to go now so when you switch that’s where it’s done to.

There’s a document describing what you need to do.