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by 3guk 4y ago
Working on my home assistant installation - slowly finding more and more ways to make it useful!
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by 3guk 5y ago
Check out the SammyGo stuff - https://forum.samygo.tv/ - quite a trove of information relating to the Samsung firmwares.
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by 3guk 5y ago
The LED strips are somewhat replaceable - you should be able to find them on either eBay, AliExpress or ShopJimmy. I will warn you however that it's quite an involved process - I know a fair few people who have managed to crack their L
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by 3guk 5y ago
I doubt South America particularly wants it back - I worked on quite a few of the South America rallies and it was quite clear that many countries didn't want it and couldn't afford it towards the end. It was particularly interest
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by 3guk 5y ago
It's such a shame that something like this has to exist and that the creators have to resort to a fairly fixed playbook of SEO techniques (like whole life story, recipe development etc etc). From my personal experience running a small
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by 3guk 5y ago
Link that isn't hiding behind paywall- https://archive.is/dGn3n
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by 3guk 5y ago
For small family home deployments I've always used ASUS stuff flashed with AsusWRT-Merlin - https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ - has been super stable and I've never required anything other than a local account to se
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by 3guk 5y ago
Quite surprised that How I Built This has not been posted so far - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this?t=16405... Very enjoyable to hear stories from founders of a selection of interesting compan
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by 3guk 5y ago
Damn that brings back some good memories of the internet of old !
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by 3guk 5y ago
I think a JISA (if you are in UK) with Vanguard is probably the best way to go with things - given the amount of time you'll have it open for you'll most likely see fairly decent returns. The Vanguard Lifestrategy funds get recomm
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by 3guk 5y ago
One thing that I end up relying on fairly often as part of my day job is Hotel Mode - https://factory-reset.com/wiki/Category:Hotel_Mode - most likely it will be of use to a lot of you who just want to lock the set to
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by 3guk 5y ago
https://archive.md/ATvE3 for those who are unable to see past the paywall.
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by 3guk 5y ago
Didn't really expect to see this from the Guardian - but at least it's nice that it's not stuffed full of affiliate links, as far as I could see almost all of them just link to the product page on the manufacturers websites.
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UK bringing in new Covid restrictions(bbc.co.uk)
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by 3guk 5y ago
Disable Samsung TV Plus - https://factory-reset.com/wiki/Samsung_TV_Plus - and you'll be most of the way there to removing a lot of the intrusive advertising that currently shows on the Samsung homescreen.
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by 3guk 5y ago
Most of the time - at least within events, we end up using "Hotel Mode" to disable some of the features or force the LCD to always boot up into a specific source.
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by 3guk 5y ago
I was kinda shocked by The Guardian to be honest with you - I had a similar experience when I came to cancel my subscription to The Guardian Weekly, which is an excellent magazine. In the end I just told my bank to stop the direct debit - I
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by 3guk 5y ago
I would completely understand if other types of debit card were accepted - but at least in the vast majority of my arguments with local shop owners, Visa Debit or Mastercard Debit are not accepted - cards which are otherwise accepted global
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by 3guk 5y ago
Yep, I had a direct email from Amazon this morning advising me that I could no longer use my Visa Credit card for orders. "Starting 19 January, 2022, we will unfortunately no longer accept Visa credit cards issued in the UK, due to the
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by 3guk 5y ago
Oh don't get me started with the EC card shenanigans - I've had so many problems in Munich with shops demanding an EC card as the only form of card accepted. Drives me crazy that in some cases it's either that (which is unava
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by 3guk 5y ago
Rather interestingly my bank (First Direct) in the UK swapped over from a Visa Debit card to a Mastercard recently - I wonder if perhaps there are things going on behind the scenes that consumers are not currently aware of. Rather annoyingl
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by 3guk 5y ago
Somehow the OneDrive clients still refuse to allow leading or trailing spaces in the filenames, along with a few other characters that are not allowed - seems to cause quite a bit of user friction at least with the non-tech guys that I work
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by 3guk 5y ago
Salvia is pretty crazy stuff, I tried it in my younger years, made the mistake of taking a hit - not feeling much and then taking a much bigger hit of much stronger stuff. Needless to say - the pictures on my walls came alive, cars started
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by 3guk 5y ago
I must admit - after having been a loyal Apple trackpad user for the past 10 or so years, I've never really had an issue with miss clicks or unexpected behaviour. With the recent WFH trend - I did convince myself to buy an actual mouse
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by 3guk 5y ago
Aren’t most sales of NFTs some sort of publicity stunt, given their limited utility ?
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by 3guk 5y ago
Busier than ever to be honest with you - with the added difficultly that a lot of our regular freelancers have either left the industry or are being snapped up quicker than we can book people. I guess it will no doubt be chaos for another f
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by 3guk 5y ago
Surely this will be circumvented primarily by people just registering with TLD registries that are not in Europe ?
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by 3guk 5y ago
Whilst I almost certainly work in a different industry to that of most of HN readers, I can tell you that it's having a massive effect. Our freelance pool has massively reduced in size - mostly through people moving on to find full-tim
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by 3guk 5y ago
I work predominantly in Event Production - I love to read anything tech related and occasionally some of the links posted here contribute to more creative solutions in my day job.
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by 3guk 5y ago
Based on the SammyGo project - https://www.samygo.tv/ - I'd say that it's relatively difficult, I think in most cases people are inclined purely to attach a HTPC or something similar to the TV and then just use th

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