Tim W

S1 Lotus Elise in British racing green under a street light.

125k miles, 27 year old and she still looks fantastic ♥️ #lotus #elise

If you earn £100,000 a year, and get £500 in interest, even though that £500 is tax free, does the income over £100,000 remove £250 of your tax free allowance?

Lovely thanks for getting back to me.

Blimey! I'd instantly be muting any company wide channel.

Worse than Teams?

Alexa, play Good God by Korn.

I'll keep my eye out. This looks right up my street 😀

Got a link to YouTube music? I think I found it but the last episode there was from October.

It was Trump repeating Putin's (false) rhetoric on the invasion that triggered it, but it could have easily covered several of the other batshit insane things that have happened in the last month.

Four more years of THIS is?! Decent Americans, I am so sorry for you.

He used the CC1101 to read the signal from the remote. No idea how he figured it out; but I remember him saying "I'm sure this is using manchester encoding" and it was well over my head.

My dad recently used a CC1101 to reverse engineer the radio control of his blinds, using MQTT to get it into home assistant. I'm sure he'll confirm that trying to figure it all out was indeed very difficult.

Greater Manchester Police said a driver clocked at 164mph (264km/h) on the M62 in 2023 was using a cloned number plate. Kent Police confirmed they were unable to trace the driver of a Seat Leon travelling at the same speed on the M25 in Swanley in 2022.

A Seat Leon at 164 mph?! Ummm... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh shit... Brb.

Working from home is 'not proper work', says ex-Asda boss Lord Rose says it harms productivity but expert says hybrid work can be as good as full-time in the office.

If Lord Rose wants to spend the day watching me work from home and see just how much I do/get done then he's more than welcome to.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does anyone know how you wire a Vaillant 3-wire kit to something like a VR66? My plumber never bothered to install the latter and I have a 3 wire kit doing nothing and the current setup just bluntly kills the power to pump and boiler all at once when demand is gone.

Keeping the Nest keeps the system wife-friendly 😂

I'm thinking of embarking on a bit of big project. Get a pi or something talking to Nest through opentherm, and then have an ESP talking to the boiler via ebus and get proper weather compensated heating going rather than the dumb on/off I have now.

Quite a lot I need to figure out on this.

Second observation: if you hit a Nest Heatlink about where the relay is with a hammer with an appropriate amount of force you can unstick the relay. This is one of the few times where hitting it with a hammer has been more effective than hitting it with my wallet.

I saw a follow up on another news site. The problem was a billing mistake where they'd applied the peak rate to the off-peak meter. Not actually anything to do with the smart meter itself.

First observation: if I had a modulated weather compensation setup my boiler would be too big. It can't modulate down to the lower flow temp.

My heating is stuck on (due to a relay welded on in Nest Heatlink). I've manually set the boiler flow temp to 33 degrees. This will be interesting to see how comfortable the house is and how much it costs me in gas compared to the 65 degree flow temp it was on before.

I hadn't thought about looking at my flue temp. I must get my thermal camera back off my Dad.

In the other article this references, they claim the problem was a CT clamp on the wrong way around. I'm not an expert but I fail to see how that's plausible. This is bullshit isn't it?

How to check if your smart meter is overcharging you Millions of households are at risk of overpaying their energy bills due to faulty smart meters

Reading this I can't help but feel this is more smart meter fear mongering. They claim it was costing someone £5 to boil the kettle. I think what was happening was the display was showing it costing £5/hr at the current rate when the kettle was on. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Most of these claims about Grenfell Tower are wrong - Full Fact Grenfell Tower was not built by a Labour council.

I just saw a post on tiktok making several of these claims 👇. What struck me was there was no option to report it as general political misinformation, or a way to add community notes other than commenting. X is a cesspool, but the community notes feature is a good idea fullfact.org/online/Grenf...

My car is currently complaining about:
1. BMS malfunction
2. Start/stop system malfunction
3. Oil change due
4. Service due
5. Tyre rotation due

I wonder if I can get any more by the end of the year.

It's an actual language.

A German shepherd dog lying on a sofa with the tip of his tongue poking out and looking, in my humble opinion, super cute.

Happy 4th birthday this derpball.

The day I was having yesterday...