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Super interested to know if this is an option with any providers
I didn't investigate much or I don't remember, bit the bullet and renewed with YJ.
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This. Solid. https://www.merlincycles.com/garmin-varia-seat-post-quarter-turn-mount-103545.html
There's also a KOM cycling one with BOA dials but it's an overkill (and 3x the price) for a round seatpost.
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Been having some pain/sorenesss in the lateral upper knee area (behind/above) possibly on the IT band, due to pushing myself on a 'lumpy' ride few (erm, 5?) weeks ago. Will probably need exercise to strengthten it and my power is also a joke nowadays due to becoming a chair/sofa potato. In order to not wait for weeks for the GP, I finally decided to use the Bupa thing we've been trying out (but never used) this year. Surprise, it's a joke as they require forms to be filled by the GP, to prove it's not an old injury. Will remember this when it's time to renew few months later.
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Anybody having multi-monitor woes, specifically apps being opened going into an unused (connected, but turned off or not in correct input) display, or not remembering their correct display designations (but they're correctly designated in the dock right-click) and how do I fix it?
Currently I do a dock right click "Assign to display 2" "Assign to display 1" dance and they come back, with bad coordinates and I then have to adjust the window position again.
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Have one, if you're going to put it in a draugty place (ie. my garage) consider getting the P1S which includes an enclosure (or you could use the cardboard box it came in upside down, in a pinch) would yield to better prints when printing things with a larger footprint. The price difference is £20 cheaper than buying/printing your own afterwards (about £110 + waiting for plexi panels from China) and looks much nicer.
There's also the Creality K1 (and K1 Max) which looks the same, probably functions the same (if not better?) as well. It's been exactly a year since I got my P1P, wasn't an option back then.
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Have been using Roborock S5 since ‘19, still solid (bar some regular sensor/cleaning alerts, which seems normal)
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upgrading rads won't be cheap itself - we have what, 10 across the house, and they're all big
The quote includes rad swaps and the rads itself. For me upgrading 10 of the 14 rads the quote was ~£3,200. There were extra costs though, another asbestos test (~£100), a structural survey (~£200, which yielded bad results), planning permission (~£270) and I still need to get a chimney blocked. So it will add up to £4000 if we go ahead (still waiting more info from Octo guys, as they want to see what really they can do to make it right about that bad structual survey, before me cancelling the install. I don't want to involve another trade to fix that but I'm happy to pay Octo to get it fixed, assuming it would be at a reasonable cost)
In comparison to that, a new boiler install quote came at £4,500 (including a gas-pipe upgrade) very straightforward, no headaches. But is it really what to go for in 2024? (I'm now waiting to see if it's possible to go with the ASHP install...)
BTW recently tried BritishGas for the HP and the auto-quote (subject to survey) came in at £10k after the grant. Needless to say I didn't book the survey.
If I can afford the HP I will go with that, if not, the old creaky boiler remains for now until I'm fed up with the vented tank.
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About £520 in so far (PP fee, structural eng + extra asbestos report) but in the meantime I should line up another combi survey -- BG came in about £4k but can't reuse my beloved tado.
Got new quotes for few 35kw combi options, looks like the scales are tipping that way (cheapest is a Glow-worm). The plumber/installer (which seems nice and capable) also clocked the gas pipe needing an upgrade (straightforward run) which is something the BG video survey unsuprisingly missed. Will need an updated Tado EU/eBus receiver that I'll need to sort out in the meantime.
On topic: I'll quickly contact Octo sometime next week to cancel, also try my chances getting that £270 I paid for the PP (which hasn't progressed at all) back.
Looking for a cheapo access point or wifi router that will do surfshark/nordvpn. I normally use nice stuff but this is for a friend, who wants to violate Netflix' terms (separate SSID/device from their home wifi, for the TV). Fired up my 6 year old Archer C7 to check but apparently (latest firmware being from 2018) it doesn't do such things. OpenWRT isn't an option as I don't want to deal with IT support afterwards.