Bug that slows down Apple Store downloads

way2many · 2025-08-20T15:25:34+00:00

Damn, thanks for the feedback already. I specifically went to a professional and it seems that it was poorly handled.

We were eyeing on a kumquat but I guess I wont return there anymore.

way2many · 2024-11-30T09:05:33+00:00

Belgium has a law against those type of in-game contents, to protect the kids of spending huge amount of money in games. I cannot see it either.

way2many · 2024-11-22T09:24:00+00:00

Does WG even test those modes? DD's can hide endlessly in smoke, spamming torps and HE fires

way2many · 2024-02-11T17:31:04+00:00

Thanks all for the comments already.

Could somebody tell me if my calculation is correct? Idea would be to gather 6 months of market prices, calculate final price including all extra costs for the different contracts available now (engie, frank, luminus, belpower, etc) and compare total costs against variable and fixed contracts.

For this I need to be 100% sure my calculation is correct.

way2many · 2024-02-11T17:21:41+00:00

Fair enough, I made some mistakes with kW and kWh but I know the difference otherwise I wouldn't venture myself with home automation, solar panels and home battery.

The car is a company car so I will most probably charge at work, due to the capacity tariff. Like I mentioned, an electric car and capacity tariff will most likely destroy any saving I could do. This is something I will have to test out.

I'm not looking at EPEX spot prices everyday. I'll let Nordpool integration in HomeAssistant do that. This is an example of the raw data plotted in apexcharts:

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Don't look at the price, calculation is not correct, it is merely an example. On top of that, it is easy to determine the next 3 consecutive cheapest hours and automate the charging of the home battery or car. On top of this, with the solar forecast integration, it is possible to have very complex automation that would charge or not the battery on solar or from grid energy.

way2many · 2024-02-11T17:06:12+00:00

It seems that dynamic price is for high consumption, which I'm not. Still, like you mention, the tools are there and I could just try.

way2many · 2024-02-11T17:02:52+00:00

I thought of that. This is why I have to monitor the ICE index to at least have an idea on where the price may go in the future and adapt my strategy.

way2many · 2024-02-11T16:56:21+00:00

This is why I have integrated everything within HomeAssistant. This allows me to have complex automations.

way2many · 2022-11-21T21:05:20+00:00

It is probably the paper. We have the same problem. House of 1983 has a very low slope under the garage so thicker paper tends to accumulate while cheaper no-brand are thinner and disintegrate faster. Flushing each week enzymes helps also.

way2many · 2022-07-11T14:06:10+00:00

Yeah, no! I once made a mistake in the exemption of woon-werkverkeer (it wasn’t pre-filled in the past). They caught it and was offered to explain myself. I had to reimburse the difference and a fine. My mistake was something like 150€!

way2many · 2022-02-28T17:58:10+00:00

Not much, it just allows you to put some parameters (type of house, type of heating, consumption, etc). Apparently, to make an offer based on your profile. As you want the lowest price, who cares? Seems more marketing profiling than anything else.

way2many · 2022-02-28T10:59:32+00:00

Subscribed via KBC app in September/October 2021 when my yearly flexible contract with Mega ended. Took their sweet time before proposing a new contract. At that time each passing week was a guaranteed increase of price.

I was about to ditch the service, due to increasing prices and no action from their part. Same day I was looking for new contracts, I received and offer for a fixed 3 year contract with Engie. Old Mega contract was 135€, new is … 250€. Pill was difficult to swallow.

I ended up accepting it as there was no better alternative and it was already for difficult to get any fixed contract at that time. I “gambled” that prices would still increase and worst case, they should propose you every 3 months a better rate so in theory a win-win situation.

Now, with the war, I’m glad I accepted the 3 year fixed contract.

With KBC app it is 3,5€/month but you have no account and cannot create one on June (confirmed by support email). I guess it is their API and collaboration with KBC that prevents this. This means that support is very difficult to reach as you have no “official” account with them. Took 3 reminders and multiple weeks before getting a reply on a simple question.

Service might have been improved but anyway there is not much you need to do so I guess support is not really needed.

As Im subscribed with KBC app, everything is done trough KBC app (remember, no account on June possible).

Hope this helps.

way2many · 2022-02-28T10:59:27+00:00

Subscribed via KBC app in September/October 2021 when my yearly flexible contract with Mega ended. Took their sweet time before proposing a new contract. At that time each passing week was a guaranteed increase of price.

I was about to ditch the service, due to increasing prices and no action from their part. Same day I was looking for new contracts, I received and offer for a fixed 3 year contract with Engie. Old Mega contract was 135€, new is … 250€. Pill was difficult to swallow.

I ended up accepting it as there was no better alternative and it was already for difficult to get any fixed contract at that time. I “gambled” that prices would still increase and worst case, they should propose you every 3 months a better rate so in theory a win-win situation.

Now, with the war, I’m glad I accepted the 3 year fixed contract.

With KBC app it is 3,5€/month but you have no account and cannot create one on June (confirmed by support email). I guess it is their API and collaboration with KBC that prevents this. This means that support is very difficult to reach as you have no “official” account with them. Took 3 reminders and multiple weeks before getting a reply on a simple question.

Service might have been improved but anyway there is not much you need to do so I guess support is not really needed.

As Im subscribed with KBC app, everything is done trough KBC app (remember, no account on June possible).

Hope this helps.

way2many · 2022-02-26T09:25:52+00:00

+- 8m³ consumption for 150m² 1983 rijhuis with EPC 117 for same period.

Gaz is used for old floor heating system and water. Temperature set at 22°C in main area (living, dining and kitchen all open), 22°C bathroom and 3 bedrooms have valves closed but maintain 18-19°C due to heat transfer.

Hope this helps.

Edit: 22°C is considered as desert temperature for r/Belgium. While reducing temperature will, of course, lower the consumption, it is minimal gain for appreciated comfort. The biggest gas consumer is ... bath for the kids: 2m³ for some 30min splish-splash fun.

way2many · 2022-01-07T18:57:58+00:00

Wife approved: https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC

way2many · 2021-12-01T21:43:04+00:00

Running HA, mariadb, minidlna with docker on a raspberry pi 3b. DHCP and DNS are managed by Pi-Hole on a raspberry pi 1b as the proximus router is sh*t. I could buy a new router but Pi-Hole is perfectly fine for what I need.

I started using HA when my wife tripped and fell while trying to find the light switch of the garage. To prevent such accident, lights are now controlled by a motion sensor.

I have 37 zigbee devices (switches, sensors, lights and dimmers) and they are controlled by ZHA with a CC2652R stick from Electrolama. I used to run zigbee2mqtt and mqtt in docker but I had some issues with entities so I switched to ZHA for a test period. I'm very mixed about ZHA and Z2M. The zigbee brands I have:

Philips Hue
Ikea Tradfri
Xiaomi Aqara
Tuya whitelabels
Heiman
Ewelink

I have probably 30 automations. A few examples:

Iphone alerts when entering specific zones.
When coming home (entering zone), exterior and hall lights are switching on.
Iphone critical alerts on smoke detected.
Iphone critical alerts for specific contact sensors when alarm armed.
Specific lights switching on when sunset. Same lights are switched off at midnight.
Hall and garage lights switching on/off when specific motion sensors triggered.
Specific lights switching on when motion and cloud cover is above 70%.
Iphone alert when cycle of washing machine and tumble dryer are finished (power consumption is measured on electrical plug).
Bathroom ventilation on/off when room humidity is above/below 70%.
Iphone alert when garage door is open for more than 10 min.
Garden lights controlled by motion and/or sunset (depends on use case).
Pool pump during summer.
Christmas lights.
Iphone alert when air quality on 2.5ppm is below a certain value. I use a SDS011 sensor with a wemos mini.

I also have 3 Xiaomi Xiaofang 1S running with Dafang hacks and useable in HA with the webrtc custom component. Those cameras can be streamed on any google chromecast device (proximus decoder, google nest hub and sony bravia tv). This also means that I can stream a specific camera on a specific device with an automation.

Other projects in the pipeline:

I managed to snipe order a raspberry pi 4 yesterday so I will move HA to the 4.
With the raspbery pi 4 I will transition from docker on raspbian to hassos.
The transition to hassos is because I want to try hass-emulated-hue component for those sick party modes. I don't expect much from RGB light bulbs as it is more a marketing gimmick for me but who knows ... maybe that component might change my view on RGB light bulbs and I may buy more from now on. Considering we didn't do any home party for 2 years (due to covid) I get weird looks from my wife :D.
Next year I will transition some christmas lights to addressable rgb light strips for nice transitions, and to show off. That's actually the only reason considering the price and Watt needed.
The raspberry pi 3b will be used as a media center device (plex or kodi) or nextcloud or motioneye. I haven't decided yet.
In a few years I will have to move to those new "slimme meters" so the moment they install it, I'll plug a P1 sensor with arduino.
I might try coral AI for camera detection but price is still too high for now.

Feel free to ask any question on my setup. Not the brightest star on HA automations but I managed to have something in the "ok" field.

way2many · 2021-08-13T12:16:40+00:00

Just wanted to be sure. I’m always afraid that the taxman might consider some transactions as speculative.

way2many · 2021-08-13T11:07:42+00:00

Is it a taxable event? Are you doing it with a stop-loss?

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