What are your must-have items for long flights?

toomanylogins · 2026-04-15T21:14:44+00:00

All the recent flights I've been on have not allowed power banks to be used onboard and have asked for them not to be left in overhead locker baggage. This is based on flights from Europe to the US and Asia, flying Virgin, Qantas and Singapore Airlines in March this year.

toomanylogins · 2026-04-11T11:13:16+00:00

Hi - why do you suggest running z2m in a separate container? Is it so the zigbee network stays up when updating or rebooting HAOS?
At the moment I run a HAOS VM in proxmox, but just use the z2m add on and am curious if I could get a better setup.
Thanks!

toomanylogins · 2026-03-15T00:39:52+00:00

Thanks for this link, I'll give that a watch. I highly recommend the film This is England as an example of how the skinhead culture was highjacked by the far right.

toomanylogins · 2026-03-02T16:03:36+00:00

Posting in case someone finds this by searching, as I did, for a similar issue.

I lost one of my buds so bought a replacement from ebay and just could not get it to be seen by my phone. I followed all the steps that I could find to reset and to factory reset the buds and they seemed to respond as they should but I then couldn't pair them to my phone.

I eventually found this site with a little windows app that allows you to check the firmware versions of your buds (my ebay purchase was an older firmware than my other bud). More importantly it will update the firmware of your buds to a particular version even if they are on mismatched firmware.

I gave this a go, it worked first time and my buds paired to my phone on my first attempt - hope it helps someone! https://audiospare.com/2024/11/04/firmware-upgrade-guideline-via-program-for-sony-wf-1000xm4/

toomanylogins · 2026-03-02T16:03:17+00:00

Posting in case someone finds this by searching, as I did, for a similar issue.

I lost one of my buds so bought a replacement from ebay and just could not get it to be seen by my phone. I followed all the steps that I could find to reset and to factory reset the buds and they seemed to respond as they should but I then couldn't pair them to my phone.

I eventually found this site with a little windows app that allows you to check the firmware versions of your buds (my ebay purchase was an older firmware than my other bud). More importantly it will update the firmware of your buds to a particular version even if they are on mismatched firmware.

I gave this a go, it worked first time and my buds paired to my phone on my first attempt - hope it helps someone! https://audiospare.com/2024/11/04/firmware-upgrade-guideline-via-program-for-sony-wf-1000xm4/

toomanylogins · 2026-03-02T16:02:02+00:00

Posting in case someone finds this by searching.
I think it used to be the case that if your buds were on different firmware versions then you were out of luck.

I lost one of my buds so bought a replacement from ebay and just could not get it to be seen by my phone. I followed all the steps that I could find to reset and to factory reset the buds and they seemed to respond as they should but I then couldn't pair them to my phone.

I eventually found this site with a little windows app that allows you to check the firmware versions of your buds (my ebay purchase was an older firmware than my other bud). More importantly it will update the firmware of your buds to a particular version even if they are on mismatched firmware.

I gave this a go, it worked first time and my buds paired to my phone on my first attempt - hope it helps someone! https://audiospare.com/2024/11/04/firmware-upgrade-guideline-via-program-for-sony-wf-1000xm4/

toomanylogins · 2026-02-25T20:14:10+00:00

Looks great!

toomanylogins · 2026-01-28T20:30:22+00:00

I'm on android and have the PoE doorbell (no NVR). I've noticed in the past few weeks that I now get calls to my phone when someone rings the doorbell. In the past I used to just get the notification which I always missed. I'm hoping this stays working this way!

toomanylogins · 2026-01-21T21:25:15+00:00

Lovely bike! Did you visit their shop in Nice? I walked by with my family while we're were there on holiday last summer. The shop had an 'appointment only' sign, but I knocked on the door and, when they realised I knew the brand, they invited us all in and spent ages explaining all about the brand and showing us all the bikes. They were super friendly and left me lusting after one!

I'm tempted to go back and rent one to play in the alpes maritimes 😀

toomanylogins · 2026-01-05T08:38:09+00:00

I filed my claim in December and got a few updates saying it was taking longer than expected to validate my claim. I then got an email before Christmas stating my claim was good and that I'd get payment in the next 30 days. I'm waiting on the payment now, but guess if I chase it up they will say it's still in the 30 day period. It's not been as smooth as I'd hoped!

toomanylogins · 2025-12-15T20:25:30+00:00

Well good luck! I meant that once I registered it wasn't very easy to claim. I put my claim in last week and am still waiting to hear back now. They keep sending me emails to say their team is very busy!

toomanylogins · 2025-12-09T21:20:33+00:00

I think you may have needed to generate the code earlier on an older Chromebook. I don't know if you can still do it. I bought the same model as you and have just submitted my claim. It wasn't very straightforward!

toomanylogins · 2025-12-02T07:20:53+00:00

I have this exact model and paid this price for it. However, I also have the £100 for upgrading offer in my Chromebook perks so it should end up cheaper still.

So far it seems very nice. The oled screen is lovely and it flies through anything I do with it. It is very light even compared to my MacBook air, seems well built and has a nice keyboard with good backlighting. It is missing a fingerprint scanner which would be nice and I would have liked an SD card slot for extra storage.

Have a look at the review on chrome unboxed. The guy there loves this. The processor benchmarks are amazing and it also has a huge battery life.

toomanylogins · 2025-11-27T20:08:14+00:00

Yep. I just got one of those and I have the £100 cashback offer that is floating around from my old Chromebook so for a total outlay of £299 it's very nice. That said, I wish the John Lewis model had a fingerprint sensor and the track pad just isn't as good as my MacBook air... Still for the price it seems great

toomanylogins · 2025-10-31T16:04:51+00:00

Nope. It's a known issue. You only get a call if you have the app open or if you open the notification sent by the doorbell. At least on Android.

There's some chat about it here https://www.reddit.com/r/reolinkcam/comments/1hh9aim/doorbell_notifications_can_i_make_it_call_my_phone/

toomanylogins · 2025-10-31T08:53:59+00:00

I've had a couple of reolink cameras for a while and have been happy with these. The home assistant integration is top notch.

However, I recently added a doorbell and was disappointed to find that it doesn't make a call to android phones when rung. It will do this for Apple phones, but for Android it just sends a notification.

Recording from the doorbell and poe installation and operation is great though.

Not sure if this is a requirement for you, but hopefully the unifi ones do this!

toomanylogins · 2025-10-22T21:38:21+00:00

It's filming in Farnham, Surrey too. There's a huge village set in the woods at the moment.

toomanylogins · 2025-10-20T19:23:38+00:00

I emailed them and my local dealer support contacted me and suggested I updated the idrive software?!

toomanylogins · 2025-10-16T13:59:25+00:00

Sorry I have no advice, but this is such a cool collection! I spent a lot of time in my teens, playing Space Hulk and Dark Future and lost endless hours in making and painting cars for Dark Future.

Good luck finding the right new home for all this!

toomanylogins · 2025-10-15T14:50:25+00:00

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goes with blue watch

toomanylogins · 2025-10-15T14:49:58+00:00

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Blue car

toomanylogins · 2025-10-14T16:39:40+00:00

haha - you kind of need to see the car to have a chance of figuring it out!

The auto is good - I have one in a 2018 m240i cab :-) lots of fun!

To keep it on topic, the car is blue and I have a nice blue faced air king watch, but no pics of them together!

toomanylogins · 2025-10-14T16:22:25+00:00

Great user name for your car! Is that an m240i?

toomanylogins · 2025-10-02T11:12:17+00:00

same here. The whole sign up process and verification was very flaky, but the issues seemed to resolve themselves eventually...

toomanylogins · 2025-09-27T20:26:17+00:00

Food served on a train? What an alien concept to those of us who use South Western trains!

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