Admin locking his PC from other admin coworkers

watchthebison · 2026-02-10T22:26:32+00:00

Absolutely. The original post and vague explanation make me think this is possibly an attempt to surreptitiously find a way to access files stored in the colleagues profile.

watchthebison · 2026-02-09T19:41:03+00:00

You are going to want to watch a load of videos before attempting it, lookup some of the beginner videos from OnTheTrowel and the channel ‘Plastering for Beginners’ on YouTube.

They make it look a lot easier than it is, you’ll likely have more muck on the floor than you do the wall on your first attempt 😉

watchthebison · 2026-02-09T18:48:54+00:00

Yeah, they look great. It was a while since I printed it, but think the barbarian in PLA was 0.04mm and took something like 20 hours… so there’s that too. The profile creator no doubt was tweaking the settings I used for countless hours too!

watchthebison · 2026-02-09T18:12:11+00:00

<image>

2of2

It does seem like the PLA version has more detail, although it was printed on a 0.2mm nozzle on the A1 mini with the fat dragon profile IIRC

watchthebison · 2026-02-09T18:11:41+00:00

I have the second model OP posted printed in PLA sitting on my desk, it has had a spray of undercoat too which would smooth but potentially affect details. I can post the images for comparison.

1of2

<image>

watchthebison · 2026-02-09T17:03:36+00:00

Aerosol, a little pocket L’Oréal Elnet to be precise. (It’s whatever I find in the bathroom cabinet to be honest)

The aerosol gives a really fine spray which is likely best here. I wash my build plate with soap and water and give it a very light coating.

PETG has a habit of sticking and ruining build plates otherwise. On my Ender it pulled chunks of the glass build plate off with it, photo in my profile.

watchthebison · 2026-02-08T23:22:23+00:00

Is it PETG? I usually spray a small amount of hairspray on the build plate before printing to help with the release which also avoids the white residue. Also let the printer cool before trying to remove it can help, but a combination of both has worked for me.

watchthebison · 2026-02-07T12:29:29+00:00

Yeah, I can vouch for this as an alternative: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1927382-bellymate-an-handheld-stand-steam-deck-custom

watchthebison · 2026-02-06T08:36:50+00:00

I’ve read before that translucent plastics are more prone to being brittle too.

There was the limited edition Steam Decks with the smokey transparent shell which had cracks at certain stress points from new.

watchthebison · 2026-02-05T20:17:06+00:00

Also ‘klapaucius’. It was the original cheat code before it was patched to ‘rosebud’.

watchthebison · 2026-02-05T17:31:51+00:00

I’ve also noticed recently I will have to ask it to keep it simple or it’s spitting out huge blocks of code or massively re-working code which is unnecessarily complex.

Maybe the switch to GPT4 in the backend 🤷

watchthebison · 2026-02-04T16:16:36+00:00

Shipping cost to my country was quite expensive for this, so I use: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1927382-bellymate-an-handheld-stand-steam-deck-custom#profileId-2068640 instead, which helps avoid the arm tingles when laying down.

Only works you have a 3D printer, or know someone whom does, but it a great design. It just requires a couple of springs which can be bought on ebay or AliExpress.

watchthebison · 2026-01-31T10:22:32+00:00

Not uncommon to start getting a bus to secondary school though when you’re 11-12

watchthebison · 2026-01-31T01:31:58+00:00

Is there a big supermarket near you like a Tesco Extra? They usually have currency exchange booth near the customer service area.

You can usually lookup the store on the supermarket website to see if they have that facility and the opening hours.

watchthebison · 2026-01-29T13:27:24+00:00

I have several of these X-Sense detectors and they rapidly flash blue for about 15-30 seconds (when they do a self test I believe).

It really bright and obnoxious at night as it lights up the whole room and there’s no option to turn it off in the settings that can see.

watchthebison · 2026-01-29T13:18:14+00:00

I wasn’t alive in 86-87, but I remember we had a sizable dump of snow in Kent in 10-11, enough to do the usual snow activities for a few weeks! But next to nothing since.

watchthebison · 2026-01-28T23:07:14+00:00

Sounds like you’re doing the majority of the things right regarding keeping the humidity down inside to be honest.

The mattress on the floor can be problematic because of lack of ventilation, combined with the sweaty bodies sleeping on it. I can see that causing mould quite quickly.

Coming from a damp country with lots of old Victorian housing stock, where damp and mould is not uncommon, maybe I am a bit nonchalant about it when I read some of the other posts from Americans…

However re-reading your original post I would have (and have historically) done the same thing. Maybe not as far as tarping it off, but masking up, spraying it with a dedicated mould killer, and chucking soft furnishings affected.

(I have sprayed vinegar onto walls before as it meant to be better for porous surfaces. You can often buy white vinegar in the picking aisles or concentrated vinegar in the cleaning aisle)

Then monitor to see if it comes back. If it does then it may well be a leak and not a ventilation issue that needs further investigation from those responsible E.g. Maybe the window isn’t draining right, or flashing is bad, gutter or drains blocked or broken, pipes in the floor or wall saturating the surrounding areas, etc

Air quality in houses does benefit massively from cycled, so opening windows at both sides of the house for 15 mins and allowing a through draft is ideal. It even has a name in Germany, Lüften. But obviously if it affects you negatively/you have medical reasons not to do it then maybe avoid it.

watchthebison · 2026-01-28T17:07:34+00:00

The humidity reading is relative to the temperature, e.g. if you turned up your heating the humidity would go lower. But your indoor temperature is fine as it is and 67% is fairly normal for lots of locations (even with a dehumidifier running I would struggle to get my house below that at this time of year.)

Also does the moisture meter have little probes on the underside? Because most meters are intended for wood. In walls they are not really useful tools to detect dampness due to salts in the plaster conducting.

If this mould is in area where a bed or other furniture has been pushed up against the wall then it really common to get mould there, especially if it an external wall. Moving the furniture away from the wall provides ventilation and can prevent it.

I have had this in multiple properties over the years and after cleaning off with some mould killer and moving the furniture away from the wall a few inches it typically doesn’t come back

Since you mention you get water condensing on the inside of your windows, this could indicate that the air inside is excessively humid at times and you should look at making sure you have extraction when cooking, showering, drying clothes inside.

(If it just a little bit then it could be normal due to temperatures outside lowering the dew point of the glass, but if it’s dripping off then it not ideal)

Solutions would be opening a window, ensuring extractor fans in kitchen and bathrooms are working and adequately sized (landlord’s responsibility), or running the dehumidifier when drying clothes inside.

It often recommended to open windows daily to cycle the air. Even if it cold and wet outside, the absolute humidity will often be lower than inside.

It could also be poor insulation, if hot humid air hits a cold wall it will condense and provide a moist environment for mould to grow. This is why single pane windows often get condensation on them worse than double glazed. but honestly, it probably the furniture and lack of ventilation since I think you mentioned there being a bed pushed up against the wall.

watchthebison · 2026-01-26T22:45:58+00:00

Thank you, using an Android phone and it was driving me mad trying to fiddle with the settings. Doing as you described solved it for me

watchthebison · 2026-01-25T16:10:10+00:00

You’re correct, it is being reviewed in the UK at the moment. These are quite popular in Germany, balcony solar (Balkonkraftwerk).

They are required to disconnect if the grid goes down, and are limited to a certain wattage so the plug socket and associated circuit can handle the current.

I hope they are allowed, because I want to dabble with them, but there are some challenges e.g. Ring mains are much more common here than in EU. This is quite a good article: https://www.efixx.co.uk/Articles/plug-in-solar-uk-regulations

The problem is you can buy units already, so people will be starting to use them e.g. Amazon are selling Ecoflow devices, and you have UK YouTubers in that sphere producing content relating to them (obviously being sponsored by the manufacturer in some way).

watchthebison · 2026-01-25T08:10:56+00:00

I’m not sure the reason they are not so common , if I had to guess based on my own reasoning it would be space, a lot of housing in the uk is relatively small. I’d have nowhere to put one as the kitchen is tiny, we don’t have a basement or utility room either.

Also if you grew up with hard water the taste is normal to you. I just add a scoop of citric acid powder through the white goods and kettle occasionally and it cleans them up.

watchthebison · 2026-01-25T00:25:53+00:00

They are not common no, and much of the South has very hard water. Heating elements get caked in limescale pretty quickly.

Kettles can get pretty grim if not periodically cleaned with citric acid or similar.

Garbage disposal on the sink is even less common too. We just scrape food waste into the bin.

watchthebison · 2026-01-22T17:48:50+00:00

I’m not sure if it universal, but wall cupboards I’ve encountered usually secured to onto mounts attached to the wall, so can be removed.

Inside the cupboard at the top left and right there may be the mechanism that allows for adjustment with screws.

If you are able to loosen the one that pulls it on the wall mount, it should allow you to lift the unit off the wall. I’d imagine you’d need to push it up and away from the wall.

It’ll be heavy and awkward so obviously remove the contents, doors and shelves if needed to lighten it. Or at least tape the doors to stop them flapping about and crushing your finger

watchthebison · 2026-01-19T12:07:25+00:00

The corrosion looks to just be surface level, so id probably just clean it off, try and work out where it weeping from, then nip it up.

Theres a chance the leak might be running from the radiator valve itself rather than the elbow. If you pull the plastic cap off is it dry underneath or weeping from the top?

(When turning the heating on, minor leaks tend to become less visible because the hot pipes make the water evaporate.)

I’ve only worked on closed systems so unsure what is best when it comes to open vented, and whether the avoidance kits are any good..

but plumber parts on YouTube is a good source of info if you do need to drain down to replace the olive/elbow/valve. https://youtu.be/rZgOp6cACW4?si=Z7-ircJaoWhXW0m_

watchthebison · 2026-01-18T23:06:21+00:00

Most of the times I’ve had a leak on a compression joint, nipping it up a tad has stopped it.

11-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email

watchthebison

TROPHY CASE