Test of a calendar
Tailscale – after some frustrating failures – it works.
Tailscale release a new version (1.60.0) end of last week – and suddenly my ful mesh network works.
I have (Currently) a netowrk that sits behing a BT router, and a Pfsense firewall/router) in bridged mode (more about that later) and had a lot of conflicts between running NAT/Upnp on Pfsense and on the BT router.
But after a lot of fiddling and the new version – I can now seamlessly access all my 13 nodes with a minimum of problems.
The nodes include Tailscale installed on
– AppleTV
– Gl-inet AXT1800 travelrouters
– Raspberry pi 4
– PfSense
– MacOs
– Synology
So hopefully a fairly comprehensive mesh network that I will extend later on this week.
VOYAH cars and the cold snap
Last week one of my friends was driving a VOYAH Free (Electric Vehicle) from Oslo – towards Trondheim.
But after passing Alvdal the car just stopped – the whole dashboard started flashing, with no sensible error or warning messages. They had to leave the car there, and continue the journey using the train.
Part of the story is that at as far as I remember it was around -30C when this happened.
It will be interesting to hear the manufacturers explanation. Especially as their website states “made for norwegian conditions”.
Apple Photos bug when copying to Shared Photos
When trying to copy some photos to a shared folder I get
Tursn out the fix is to “control” click on the original photo or selection of photos,
and “turn off Live Photo” – everything now works,
You can undo this after wards (the Turning off Live Phots” after wards
Installing ruby 3.3.0 on Macos
Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) is getting really interesting at the moment, especially with the 3.3.0 release of Ruby. But it turned out to be a bit troublesome to install 3.3.0 using RVN. It rutned out that hsi works :
rvm install ruby-3.3.0 –with-openssl-dir=$(brew –prefix openssl@1.1
And Ruby 3.3.0 now installs
Toyota RAV4 PHEV granny plug charging problems
When my RAV4 was delivered it came with 2 chargine cables –
– A “standard” type-2 cable
– A 3 pin UK household cable with a type-2 to plug into the cars charging port.
The “standard” cable can charge the call from empty to full in approx. 2.5 hours, the 3-pin (“granny”) one takes around 6 hours from empty to full.
I use the type-2 at any public charger, and the granny plug at home, where I usually charge it over night, so 6 hours is perfectly ok.
But the other day I started having problems – the orange light turned on but when I plugged the other end into the car the light came on for a second, and then turned off, multiple times. No charging started. This was at around freezing point (0degrees celsius) – and raining.
I put the cable into the car (just in case it had gotten wet) and tryied again the next day, same problem. Using a public charger and the type-2 cable worked as it should.
But then I took the car inside inside to heat up and dry out – and the next day it worked as it should.
Could you make parking more complex?
From a parking lot in Hailsham – these 4 signs are posted 10 metres apart – and to put it mildly – making it very difficult to find out if you have to pay if you go to the restaurant.
It’s also seriously next to impossible for anyone to read the poster in the top image, as it’s place to far off the road surface and printed in too small fonts for anyone to read everything on the poster.
Serioussly – I assume the comapny behind the green posters is called “Your Parking Space” – they need to improve on this.
Interest 0 Spark and AI
I have been a long term user of Spark – and I am even a subscriber to their paid-for version.
This was released yesterday – and I look forward to playing with it to see if it can live up to the hype in a real user setting :
Pricing is relative
We talk a lot about “cost of living” in the UK, and energy pricing is often used as the example.
An example from Octpus
A spot example from Norway this week
For ease of reading – 0.24 NOK is about 0.024GBP.
And Norwegians are complaining about the pricing and cost of living as well.
Karma
While cycling down to Waterloo station I passed Buckingham Palace, and as the cycle lane light was red I pulled in behind the wating policeman on his bike.
The guy on the rigth decide to ignore the red light and the police, and cycled on, shortly pursued by the police.
The second picture is him arguing with the poiice – which I feel is a lost cause, and rather stupid.
