https://www.extrudr.com/shop-eu/products/greentec/?variant=UHJvZHVjdFZhcmlhbnQ6MTczNQ%3D%3D

Somewhat expensive but pretty temperature resistant.

It’s usually when they can stand by themselves that I decide they’re due.

No, no, I am kidding, however a week of normal office use, yeah, sure. I’d like them to die because of wear in the field, not in the washing machine.

Fun game to play in our village - put the wrong bin out on Tuesday evening for two hours, watch the confusion spread.

Every room has two circuits for the outlets and one for the lights so a fault can be fixed with some light and powertools available and so that every room still has power when a single phase goes out. The kitchen alone has about ten circuits, freezer, dish washer, oven, microwave, kettle each one of their own, induction stove three because 3 phase power and a few for the normal outlets. I just want to be able to run everything at the same time e.g. when making breakfast. It adds up that way.

One in the carport, one in the workshop, one on each floor of the house - that’s five plus the new panel I’m putting up for the greenhouse, not that many, imho. I just like clean infrastructure and hate core drilling concrete more than necessary.

Probability for that is 1:3, because usually it’s “doesn’t fit” *flip* “doesn’t fit” *flip* “fits” .

Smart move delegating that department. Coming from the guy that once mentioned that I liked one certain candle in the presence of some family from my girlfriends side, and now we have switched to those transparent IKEA containers for storing all the birthday and Christmas gift candles.

At least, all of that is going to make a spectacular bonfire one day.

Are you certain that you have enough candles in the house?

A few additional years in IT should dampen that down to a slight fizzing sensation in the general area.

I’ve found that complicated passwords plus using WPS for such devices are my most usable compromise.

Works with OpenWRT with some extra steps: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/basic#wps_options

It’s 2025 and I’m still holding IPv6 workshops for otherwise very competent people. So… No, not common enough yet.

Good network infrastructure at home always gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. The blinkenlights, the five bars of 5GHz Wifi even in the back of the garden, the dashboard showing all the devices connected to the network chugging along, it’s just, hmm, I find it very satisfying.

Also, it doubles as a presence detection for people which proves useful in home automation.

Well, there are reasons why the average life expectancy went up over the last decades. People back then just didn’t give a fuck about a lot of things.

Oh, right, have some JPEG then:

It’s sort of a disclaimer.

Germany.

And that’s how my dog learned that silently sneaking off the couch a few seconds before I entered the room weirdly didn’t cut it anymore one day.

Dog always gets that expression when the beardy dude that lives with him has one of his strange ideas, like in this case waving a blue box with a handle around. Makes no sense at all, but, humans, y’know.

He is the best boy, of course, no need to measure that. But I verified the low snoot temperature with a snoot boop.

Any IR thermometer is a thermal camera with enough patience and a few color pencils.

If I’d have to guess, I’d say from about up here to down there: