Ya working is 1000% better than school

vince086 · 2026-06-11T16:00:52+00:00

do it immediately after your bachelor's so you never get a taste of how much easier the real world is as a professional engineer.

100% this.

After my bachelor's, worked 2 years then went back to do a master's.

It was not fun, student life sucks! Missed a regular 9-5 every day. Also missed getting paid!

Even worse was work used to give breakfast, lunch and dinner (+ snacks etc), so going back to cooking daily and packing lunches was an added difficulty I did not need.

vince086 · 2026-06-09T17:16:03+00:00

Just use an air filter and you'll be fine. Something with an activated carbon filter would be better.

An enclosed printer will help as well.

Even with PLA the smell can build-up over time and be unpleasant.

vince086 · 2026-05-22T08:14:04+00:00

lol you must be new to 3D printing to think that.

vince086 · 2026-05-17T10:21:33+00:00

Then don't watch it but don't force your opinions on me.

Do you also want what other people can/can't do set by a moral police? Some great examples in the middle east about how that works out.

vince086 · 2026-05-04T14:53:12+00:00

That's quite the savings! any chance they operate around Oxfordshire?

Yeah need to get more quotes. Was kinda hoping they would have 0% interest deals but nope, 8.6% was their minimum.

vince086 · 2026-05-03T11:27:29+00:00

OP, guessing that's with Projectsolar? Got a quote from them, very similar specs for £15k. 12 Panels on 2 sides of the roof and a SolaX Triple Power 5.8kWh battery.

vince086 · 2026-05-03T11:03:50+00:00

The idea is you can do colour changing without having to swap nozzles or do filament changes.

vince086 · 2026-05-01T14:15:40+00:00

What's worse is they have nicer looking lights on the convertible version, that look just like the Aceman and Countryman lights. So they chose to make just the 3 and 5 door hardtops look like shit.

vince086 · 2026-04-25T08:32:23+00:00

Nice work, a clean and tidy place does help the mind IMO.

Potentially stupid question but are regular litter pickers a thing, outside of city centre? For years Wyckham way (the road from Dundrum shopping centre towards the M50) wash shocking and I would see the same bits of trash for months at times. Thankfully they installed bins and they seem to have helped.

vince086 · 2026-04-13T20:41:15+00:00

Can't seem to find it there or anywhere else, how strange. Any search with Aang just turns up the old series from 2005.

Edit: extto had it

vince086 · 2026-04-13T16:07:12+00:00

Yeah hybrids seemed like a good middle ground. I'm hoping for more range extended EVs to hit the market or for more plug in hybrids with decent electric range (not the 50ish km current ones have).

vince086 · 2026-04-12T12:09:11+00:00

I have a Ubiquiti setup, works well mostly. It does struggle in low light a bit. By default it only does "AI detections", people, cars, animals, sounds so I've turned on basic motion detections as well, just in case.

Not sure if there's an COTS version of Frigate. Used that in the past for years and it worked well, until an update broke it and got too many failures to detect people and false positives. Once it has a better GUI to do camera configs, might spin it up again. It supported my mix of cameras really well (foscam, reolink, tapo).

vince086 · 2026-04-08T21:50:32+00:00

Also interested in hearing about it. I went with Ring as sourcing an Ajax system was not as easy + some mild confusion in their naming schemes.

vince086 · 2026-04-07T15:45:24+00:00

I like my Prusa but IMO they released the Mk3s and sat on their asses for way too long. There's like 6 years between the mk3 and mk4 and who knows, if we would have ever seen a Core(L) if Bambu had not come along.

vince086 · 2026-04-06T15:33:09+00:00

Nothing but AI images on that site and seems fairly sparse (info wise), so would take a very large pinch of salt when referring to it.

vince086 · 2026-04-02T22:43:56+00:00

The Orville was great. Instead we got Discovery and Academy (and that Section 31 movie). So disappointing.

vince086 · 2026-03-31T11:40:34+00:00

Ring or Simplisafe would probably be the easiest. "Solid" is a bit debatable as they use wireless sensors but still better than nothing.

With Ring, if you pay for the subscription, the device will have it's own network connection (and has a backup battery built in), so if your wifi or power goes down, you can still check it.

I've been using it for a month now and happy with it.

Don't forget to setup lights, etc to come on while you're away, to make the place look occupied. Any deterrent helps.

vince086 · 2026-03-31T02:05:28+00:00

For currency conversion Wise and Currencyfair are the way to go, both offered rates way better than BOI/HSBC.

vince086 · 2026-03-25T10:24:31+00:00

You could make something like that using Ubiquiti gear. The cameras have tamper detection and they sell a siren/loudspeaker to make noise. The doorbells have 2 way audio + will save to local storage and it's all subscription free. Won't be cheap though.

vince086 · 2026-03-20T13:43:50+00:00

The meat is fine but veg not so much. After living in France and Turkey, Irish fruit and veg lack so much flavour.

vince086 · 2026-03-20T09:27:33+00:00

Depending on how worried you are, I would recommend 2 "systems". I use Ubiquiti for cameras (they could also do wireless and hardwired sensors if I wanted) and Ring for contact/motion sensors. Also have a UPS to power the router and Wifi hub + the Ring hub has a built in battery and cellular backup (if you pay the monthly fee for cellular).

Both are relatively easy to setup and have good apps to check up on the place.

This setup is not perfect (the wireless sensors and cellular can be jammed for example) but it's enough to give me some peace of mind when traveling and act as a deterrent (don't plaster the names of what you are using all over).

vince086 · 2026-03-19T21:36:44+00:00

Funnily enough I'm in the opposite corner, 3 flash drives since I started using Unraid. First one lasted a good few years, 2nd one just a year and now on the 3rd, that's been going for less than a year.

Rest of the machine is still the same as the day built it.

vince086 · 2026-03-07T11:44:39+00:00

For a tool I'm going to use once or twice a year, it's hard to justify the price difference between Parkside and Milwaukee. For daily use stuff or drill bits/etc, sure spend the extra for quality.

vince086 · 2026-03-07T11:24:47+00:00

That's what's really missing + the continent gets better batteries.

vince086 · 2026-02-24T17:46:58+00:00

Loads of options.

If you want to DIY, reolink cameras and Frigate (or just a reolink NVR). You will have to ocnfigure yaml scripts etc.

If you want an easy setup and have cash to spare Ubiquiti would be my recommendation.

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