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manuel

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About manuel

  • Birthday 03/05/1982

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    Bristol
  • Real Name
    Rowan
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    Hex
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    Afghanistan

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    Bloody Bristol

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  1. It’s ok, I can handle myself with these things, it’s the fact they are always trying to shaft all of ithe employees (often by stealth) and not everyone would maybe even realise or feel like they should stand up to it. It’s so unnecessary and creates so much mistrust and bad feeling and most of the time lowers productivity overall. in other news it looks like deliberately failing to deliver the post for a year has paid off and they are going to get to axe mon-sat postal deliveries. So probably redundancy and or just shitter contracts incoming.
  2. Found a cloud based option called simscale that looks to do the job -
  3. yeah - they decided that they needed the hours to be more seasonal, so for 15 weeks ish from sept we worked an extra 24minutes a day (colder more brutal conditions heavier bags etc...) with the agreement that they would be given back in the summer/when the workload dictated. cut to now - they are giving them back 24 minutes a day shorter - but what ho - without 24minutes, three of the 6 days are now under 7hrs, so you can only have a 30min break instead of a 40minute one. So they've pinched 30mins a week of actual work for 15ish weeks from us, which works out around a day. BS. Such a shoddy way to treat your staff.
  4. RM just stole a day of work off all full time employees in our office (and potentially across the country) in a massively underhand way...
  5. Thanks Dave, no need to drag anyone else into it 🤣, its more a "if I can I will" for my own curiosity and just to get an idea for the amount of difference small changes might make. When you are old and you only average 200watts per ride a 10W saving is pretty big.
  6. Nice! Side question - If I wanted to run some very simple cfd aero analysis of some bike bits and bobs - what would be the go to free solution?
  7. That is cool! I’ve been using mine to make wahoo and mudguard mounts for the road bikes recently, not quite on the same level 🤣.
  8. Two new bikes, one for getting to work and winter road bike, and one for the dry. The trek looks a lot nicer in real life, and it is rapid. Went waxed chain on the summer bike as it won't get that much use 🤣 Picked up the trek on the cycle2work scheme and transferred all the stuff to the tifosi as I had a group, bars and wheels already. The Rostra Frameset was a bargain at £240!! so I think its around £2350 all in for both bikes, which Im pretty happy with.
  9. If you were designing a house from scratch, I guess the number of device might become big enough to be a problem, but with a decent router/network set up I can’t really ever see there being a problem for a relatively small number of devices. I can’t imagine they are taking up much bandwidth at 99.9% idle most of the time
  10. No, I’ve gone Wi-Fi over zigbee/whatever. Although the heating has a little one which is annoying. All the Shelly bits can be set up to run locally with ha if needed (I think), which is nice, but I’m not that bothered. The main reason I stopped using home assistant was I needed the raspberry pi for something else, and I wasn’t really doing anything I couldn’t do already without it
  11. not too much, but all the heating in the house and shed. The lighting in the shed is fully wired in, and a load of incidental lighting in the house. My top tips are - don’t get any google stuff, and Shelly stuff just works. The shed lighting is a Shelly dimmer wired into the back box onto a couple of dimmable flat panels. It has never ever failed or crashed or been unreachable. Rock solid and can work fully locally if needed. I’m planning to do the house lights at some point like that (possibly into the ceiling rose). I have a lamp on a simple shelly relay/button which is just as good. Dabbled with a little home assistant but could not be bothered to go that deep. id like to get some automated blinds for the shed as it’s south facing and a lot of glass!
  12. manuel

    F1

    It’s just so dull. Well done the FIA…. It’s nice to see mclaren travelling around near the front as a pair of cars again, and having a bit of chrome on!
  13. Was on under 2% but new one is starting in a week. Managed to get 3.99% but it’s much longer than I initially hoped for at 5 years. It’s an extra £150 ish a month, which doesn’t sound much but for our combined pitiful earnings is quite a burn, especially when you factor in the rises in gas/elecy and even the rises in council tax! It’s a struggle, but we had it good for a long time, and it’s still about 1000000x cheaper than renting. Also we live in our own little housing bubble so if it came to it we could always leave and buy a house mortgage free in 90% of the country. (A decked out 3 bed a similar size just round the corner went for 600k🤪) I have been living in constant fear that the bank will pull our deal before it starts.
  14. Again…. That’s just not cricket.
  15. People don’t seem to understand the rules of cricket. Three former international cricket captains, and one of the greatest bowlers of all time - paid to do commentary - don’t understand one of the most fundamental laws of the game. crazy pills
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