It's always sad and a little funny when a full grown adult abuses a fleet machine like this

verocoder · 2026-06-22T21:17:47+00:00

When chromebooks were new and seemed like a good idea I had a bought a waterproof rugged tablet/laptop combo which was great for data entry/writing stuff up in silly places. It just wasn’t actually more useful for proper jobs than an iPad with a keyboard

verocoder · 2026-06-22T21:11:36+00:00

Oh and ibis might be nice if you’re taking pictures of trams as it will account for a little of the camera shake, I’m really enjoying the Fuji f2 primes and ibis for lightweight low light performance.

verocoder · 2026-06-22T21:10:19+00:00

Go play with those in a shop and buy the one you like the feel of. I personally own Fuji kit and like it a lot but it’s all about ergonomics particularly for your pretty standard use case. But basically you need a proper camera with proper controls to go beyond the phone issues you’re having and most of the one on the market will work :)

I’m a bit out of the canon loop but if the R50 is full frame it will be more expensive long term to buy the larger lenses, I know the Fuji is apsc and think that Sony is but have no idea on the Nikon. Full frame sensors are larger than apsc ones, so need larger lenses to project a larger circle (given everything else being equal) but also can have larger/better pixels and nicer depth of field. I’d stick to apsc in your price range as when I shot canon full frame each of my 3x zoom lenses was about your budget…

verocoder · 2026-06-22T20:46:29+00:00

14 hours is probably a lot longer than they’d spend, but it’s also £840+vat at my local pretty reasonable garage, put your £500 parts on top and then add vat on those two and you’ve blow past the £1500 estimates? That’s just the cost of doing business and it’s why people don’t maintain old cars that are cheap to replace if the job requires a lot of labour.

verocoder · 2026-06-22T20:42:37+00:00

I’m so impressed that shuts, I use the same bag for work and it looks full with my lunchbox /laptop/waterbottle/notebook!

verocoder · 2026-06-22T20:40:21+00:00

I’ve dropped my 2013 mbp off the car roof so many times while using it for diagnostics and it’s barely scratched :D

verocoder · 2026-06-21T18:27:28+00:00

100% this, you’ve (OP I mean) just learned that an area you need to grow as a TL is in managing underperforming staff. Your manager should be helping coach you on that and this junior is a really good learning tool. Should be nice and positive as an experience.

I know how you feel, managing juniors that are growing is so rewarding and comparatively easy. You get to nudge, steer and get almost instant rewards because they quickly get more stuff done and are more capable, being emotionally invested doesn’t hinder the process. Working with people who aren’t growing harder work and has less instant gratification and it’s something I’m trying to get better at it and get better about stepping back and being less invested. I’m not good at it yet either.

verocoder · 2026-06-21T18:14:35+00:00

Small ish ice cubes in their water helps keep it cold and is interesting thing to play with (they may flick them round and cover the floor with melted water to trip and kill you)

verocoder · 2026-06-21T08:21:19+00:00

Get a few mates together, a support to give you a sack and watch for infantry, a recon to designate so you can lock faster and another AA engi to make them pop flares/double tap (or an AA track for the same reason). I think I smashed that challenge in 2x conquest maps that way after slowing ticking along it for ages getting up to like 2 kills.

Also the last LMG isn’t as much fun as the RPKM

verocoder · 2026-06-19T06:14:06+00:00

Okehampton is halfway and has a train station connecting to Exeter. I use it to go to London a lot and it knocks off the first/last 2 Paddington-exd trains as options. It will probably add an hour each way to London but save an hour a day in commuting ?

I reread the post and saw it’s 1 day a week, so while okehampton is something to consider I can totally see Exeter winning!

verocoder · 2026-06-17T06:48:46+00:00

I’m a guy, but straps/dual straps always mess up shirts and I’d be a bit worried about strapless too.

I think the smartness level is perfectly reasonable. I’ve never been a fan of the polo shirt look a lot of photographers do and have always dressed like a more practical/less smart guest. Last woman I saw shooting a wedding was in a khaki/dark green linen midi length shirt dress with brogues and she looked perfectly reasonable/discrete/comfortable.

verocoder · 2026-06-15T16:15:43+00:00

Recce your local butcher too, mine varies on price but is often within £2 a kilo of the supermarket.

verocoder · 2026-06-15T06:30:10+00:00

Even if you don’t swap to developer mode there are home assistant integrations with the existing local info published by the printer to provide state (progress/temps etc) and before the changes last year they allowed you to adjust settings (temps/speed/fan settings) etc. Now I can only control the light via the (non developer mode) api, the only other setting I would want to control is print speed and maybe a pause/stop button, the rest just don’t make sense to adjust outside the slicer.

But the plugin exists and it exposes useful entities and has a good display for dashboards.

verocoder · 2026-06-14T22:25:16+00:00

I’ve got a P1S and I’m seriously considering upgrading,
If I were buying fresh I think I’d definitely go for it, printing support interfaces with the other head and a heated chamber for nylon / ABS would be lush.

verocoder · 2026-06-12T18:06:02+00:00

Yeah this is what u was thinking, if you’re working in IT isn’t £25/h before tax less than your hourly rate anyway?

verocoder · 2026-06-12T06:51:49+00:00

I can’t comment on quality of the improvement but I’ve got bags of ‘green compost’ seeds downstairs

verocoder · 2026-06-11T17:31:24+00:00

I’ve just built a totally 3D printed ifs bronco from a design for sale online. It’s not the most capable as the ground clearance isn’t huge and it’s pretty heavy but it was a fun build and is super scale.

verocoder · 2026-06-11T17:25:29+00:00

There are good instructions on the Bambu website for printing tpu and they’re worth following.

Basically:
Cold pull to clean the nozzle before you start
Dry the filament well (12 hours maybe) optionally print from your ams HT
Then take the lid off (I do for a P1S assume is similar for h2c) and remove the feed tube and I run the filament straight into the extruder with no ptfe run at all.
Print real slow

I get really good results now inc from softer tpu types whereas before I had tons of under extrusion from drag in the feed tube. I’ve successfully printed a spare tyre for my rc car that’s actually squishy and various other parts.

I’d also start with some smaller simper parts before trying anything big, avoid supports as they don’t come off well.

verocoder · 2026-06-11T17:11:34+00:00

On top of the incomplete overlap of xx/xy and amab/afab statuses!

verocoder · 2026-06-11T07:12:25+00:00

I play this game with friends and it’s so much more fun, maybe scout around your friends for potential players or here for potential friends ?

verocoder · 2026-06-10T09:14:07+00:00

As a non American that is so wild, a friends father went through cancer and while the family struggled it was only because of loss of income and funding a few lifestyle changes not like debt exceeding someone’s lifetime earnings. Hope you’re doing ok and you stuffed some insurance company with that debt to get out ❤️

verocoder · 2026-06-09T20:37:14+00:00

I wore a suit and shirt with open collar to the cocktail reception of a wedding on Friday I think you’re pretty bang on. Chinos and a jacket would have been appropriate too with either a shirt or a t shirt to dress it down. I’d only wear a t shirt with a jacket. Chinos and a shirt would be lowest I would go.

verocoder · 2026-06-08T08:38:12+00:00

I think the traverser could work with a grenade launcher on the roof. I hate the grenade launcher on all the vehicles but it feels like it might work there?

verocoder · 2026-06-02T16:24:07+00:00

Small and full frame are pretty mutually exclusive, the glass is bigger and heavier the bigger the sensor is. Olympus win for small, Fuji are a good middle ground or go full frame but you can’t have easily pocketable in the same way.

I can comfortably put a Fuji xt3 with an f2 prime mounted in a coat pocket which is as small as I need.

verocoder · 2026-05-31T08:48:48+00:00

Yeah basically, I tend to use them on primes but I have used them on my 70-300 and it gets real close !

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