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Another pi-hole user here - several years now, though I only use it for DNS, not for DHCP. Works very well but needs occasional tweaking, e.g. even with just the default lists it can stop iPlayer on Google TV from loading - easy to fix though. On the whole, it's excellent and now with DNSSEC...

Fwiw I have a very similar setup to a sauna I built in the garden. I used the TLC 50mm X 50mtr conduit. It comes with a pull cord. What you need to do it to attach another pull cord to it, so when you pull something through it you are also pulling through another pull cord - so a kind of see-saw...

I have had a 100W 5Litre one for many years and use it all the time for cleaning jewelry, vintage electronic components, mechanical parts from the workshop, cycle chains & cassettes etc. I use a pH-neutral non-foaming cleaner (Tikopur) but it's expensive. Ultrasonic cleaners are agressive and...

I have a Leatherman Wave+ and love it. Always carried a multitool since whenever... The last few years I was living in the Gulf and spending a lot of time in deserts or up mountains. I had a Leatherman that I'd bought out there and was wonderful, but after a while the springs broke and it...

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True. Years ago it wasn't, but general French cuisine standards have fallen and British standards have rocketed, admittedly from a pretty low base. I still fondly remember the "menu a dix Francs" - generally a chicken casserole and a bit if fresh baguette - which was normally pretty good, plus...

A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich. The barman looks at him and says, "Hang on! You're a duck." "I see your eyes are working," replies the duck. "And you can talk!" Exclaims the barman. "I see your ears are working, too," says the duck. "Now if you don't mind...

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Just a quick addendum to why ELCBs were replaced with RCCB/RCD/RCBs and things to watch out for with RCBs. If the earth impedance at an installation was high, a short to earth from live could result in a potentially harmful voltage on anything connected to the earth (or protective ground, PG)...

RCD and MCB. Different things entirely. An MCB is just an electronic resettable fuse. An RCD trips if the difference in current flowing in the live vs. neutral exceeds the set limit, typically 30mA (simplified version).

Rockwool batts. Great stuff. Just built a garden sauna using 50mm rockwool and it's superb.

Wealden are just a few miles away from me. Used them for many many years. Excellent people.

It's on a Gaelic cross - it's in the cemetery at Winchelsea - my brother used to have the Arts & Crafts house just opposite. Allegedly, Milligan wanted to be buried in a washing machine as he said he'd spent so much time on the outside of one looking in, he always wondered what it was like from...

Sit tight. The administration scheme is government run so your current rates and any credit you have are protected. No other company is accepting customers, and even if they were it would be at a far higher rate. It's frustrating as we're electricity-only customers of Bulb as they are 100%...

Axminster and the usual suspects sell them. I'd be reluctant to buy such a critical piece of safety equipment from an unknown supplier - there's a lot of cheap ones on the web that I definitely wouldn't touch...

It's really not that special - if I went "fully professional" it'd probably be Cisco-centric, but for me sticking to UniFi all round makes for easily manageable infrastructure, especially as multiple buildings are involved. The UniFi bridge is pretty new to their portfolio - I like using...

Technology is and always has been my job - I used to run the technology functions (CTO) for large financial institutions. Networking is just a small part of that. I now own and run a cloud-based digital publishing business, so I have a semi-professional setup at home. It's easy as once set...

Probably just as well then that I have mirrored Synology SANs in two buildings 100mtrs apart - my office/workshop and the comms rack in the main house, both protected by online UPS plus several TB of Google Cloud storage as tertiary backup (our uplink is slow as we don't have fibre here yet)...

No direct fix - almost certainly confusion with the screen in standby... This is the basic issue (I'm a long-time developer: hardware design, software & firmware in a variety of languages). Higher resolution screens, more demanding graphics, increasing memory footprints, more functionality...

...or rip them onto a server and then you can get rid of the CDs... Go digital and no CDs, no cd player, no loss in quality either. I did this with our 500+ CDs some years ago. Not looked back.