Aspman

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Loooong delay on reply. I've already got it and it doesn't have a KVM unfortunately

We're in a dip with a cellular shadow, we're also near the motorway which means if it's busy the cell we're in can shrink and we lose connectivity. Your download speeds are affected badly by contention, if the 5G is at 100% then you might well find more speed from connecting to a 4G at 50%. 3G going, I feel old, I remember when it was a big new thing. Actually I remember when 2G was quite the bees knees....actually I remember G 😪.

I've noticed an uptick in junk over the last month or so, makes me think some filter has been removed prior to being sold back to us. Most of what I'm seeing is so poor the filters from 15yr ago would screen no problem which is what makes me think it's being allowed through deliberately.

We've got a problem with speeders through the village, we're in a 40 but a lot (possible the majority) of cars are well above that. Traffic monitoring last year showed a lot of cars doing 80+ and an outright winner doing 105mph. We've no paths and kids have to walk along the verge to get the school bus and cross the road with cars doing these speeds so it's a real issue. We got a few VAS signs put up but if anything they seems to have made thing worse. The signs are in the middle of the village and ether side has now become an assumed NSL zone. Councils won't do anything unless you've proof so I found a guide online to setup a Raspberry Pi with a camera as a defacto speed camera. https://www.hackster.io/hodgestk/traffic-camera-9d3739 It uses OpenCV to detect objects coming into view and times their passing through. simple bit of maths works out the speed. I can follow instructions but I'm no coder and I can only get so far with this. The guide is a few years old and most of the software has moved on a bit. I've worked my way through but now got stuck. The code wants to call picamera for Opencv to work, but the newer versions of the OS use Libcamera. It's past my knowledged to switch the code from one to the other. Any Python gurus help out?

Not just Forfar it seems, they hit Kinross too. Quite a few cars now clamped up

BMW had (has?) an optional drivers package that includes upping the speed limiter to about 170. I wonder if those cas had been though that option.

I think it's more to do with volume of traffic. Motorways speeds down south (just back from a couple of long trips) seem to often be barely above 60mph. Lot's of cars have speed warnings but they're manual. I've got them set on a few of our cars but they are set at 90+, and they are just a warning bong not a limiter. My Maserati is a bit of an oddity, it's not signed up to the 155mph gentlemens agreement so in theory I can beat an M5 on the right road as the diesel Mas can ht 157mph.

We'll have to wait a few years for teh next headine that it was basically a scam to get get tax breaks and grant money. like the gigabattery factory. Billions spent, a few rich people getting much richer but nothing sold and no customers.

I think the world might be starting to pivot away from China actually. The Western political love-in with China is fading and the politicians are actually starting to listen to the idea that China is actually a lot like Russia and not to be trusted. We're shaking hands and rolling out the red carpet to a country which is actively attacking Westen interests 24/7. The US has started pulling out microchip fabrication from China and Taiwan and bringing them back home. That's not making much noise because it takes about 5yr to spin up a chip forge and billions of dollars. Russia as a former trusted partner in energy has opened some eyes that putting a large amount of your critical national infrastructure into the hands of your enemies is actually not a good iea no matter how many directorships it gets you after you are voted out. China itself has probably delayed its ambitions in the Western pacific for a few years now after Russia's play has backfired and resolidified NATO and Western military spending. But China and Russia both play a long game not the 4yr cycles of the West. Russia might be on it's way to being made a 3rd word country but China isn't Russia. They are much more strategic and disciplined. I think we'll start to slowly see some manufacturing be brough back to Europe. Not to the UK we're too expensive but to the Eastern states and probably to Ukraine when the dust settles. There will be big business to be done in Ukraine to rebuild. Lots of money to be made.

The refresh is 144Hz Needs to use HDMI as it's for a work laptop (only has hdmi) and PC. So just 2x input I have extensions right now but I think the port on the latop is starting to wear I did get a basic USB3 dock it does work but can't cope with the resolution

Does anyone know of a KVM that can handle an ultrawide (3840x1080) monitor?

I suggested to them that that car needed tested at "slightly naughty speeds". Enthusiastic overtaking speeds or possibly just any motorway down south speeds.

Dunno, but tbh I'll take it to a proper place for that myself

Car back, picked up and collected by salesman. Two new tyres, car checked for a tremor at higher speed. All 4 wheel balanced car tested with promise that appears to be sorted. Plenty of comms from salesman and service manager. Ok not the perfect start to new car ownership but I'll give credit to the dealer for handling the problem well.

It’s the far left shoulder that was really worn should have grooves to match the other side. Reminded me of my octy that used to do that on the rears. Aye car has quite a lot of leg room in the back🤣. My mate is 6’7” i think even he’d be quite comfortable.

It’s a 4wd model. All4 and JCW editions have 4x4

So had a slow puncture on the Q took it in and the tech warned me that the inner shoulder l of both tyres was very worn. Not dangerous but not far off it. Had a stern discussion with the supplying dealer which started with, “our prep records show 4.5mm across the tyre”. i sent a picture the conversation continued, “ah, very sorry about that I’ll see what can be done”. In fairness they are picking the car up next week and putting on two new Pirellis.

It’s got an electric handbrake 🙄 i will have a good look at the tire though. Typically it’s gone again now.

Discs are brand new now. Had them and pads done at the same time. Knocking before brakes done, knocking after brakes done

Not specifically but been going on for a bit too long for that, plus wheel has been off for brakes in the last week. Thought something might have been in the disk guard but again all that has been exposed and worked on recently. That why I was thinking something relating to the drive shaft

With alarms what you are actually doing is 1 - putting off casual attackers, they will look for alarms and if they see a box on yours then they will probably move on to another property 2 - if they decide yours is worth the risk an alarm going off points a finger at them and might make them give up or at least islikely to make them cut short their time in your house cameras are three fold 1 - same as above and obvious camera system is a deterrant 2 - if you do get burgled a camera system makes recovery or prosecution more likely 3 - depeding on your system you can check who is at your door or if you have shut the shed remotely Wired vs wireless. Wireless is easier to put in, wired is more reliable but harder to install. App systems again are easier to use but you run the risk of a system being discontinued by the supplier or app support ending. Cyber security considerations, if you want to view camera feeds remotely the feed needs to be pushed to the internet, that will mean that a 3rd party is either hosting that data or the box has a direct connection to the world. You run the risk of your feed being visible to the world and cctv systems do not have a good security reputation on that side. My home came with an alarm system, we normally only use this during holidays as the house is occupied the rest of the time. As it was a new build I had cables run for external cctv, we have 5 HD cameras. I'm not too worried about cyber security since I only have external cameras, if someon wants to hack in and see my drive well tbh help yourself. I would be less happy if there were internal cameras. Our cameras are POE so only need one cable for data and power. We have a combination of active lighting and low light cameras. They have teh facility for movement detection and have built alarms and warning lights but tbh I've never sat down to figure them out. Those facilities were more trouble than they were worth.

It is a tap tap tap and in line with speed so something related to the spinning parts on that wheel. A dig around online did bring up suspension bushes as a possible candidate

SAw this the other day, no idea what it was until today. thought it was a kitted out mini of some sort but it was a Healy Enigma

It's a 4 stroke so should all be fine. Some 102 + nitros might be the way forward. Maybe a wee blower to keep things rolling along