I’ve gone for a full set for the i4.. which means I can clean and coat the BMW ones 😃
Winter wheels
Isle of Wight jazz weekend
Had a couple of days relaxing with great musicians. Such a nice festival in Newport witha mixture of music.
Iceland23
Had an interesting time preparing GPS systems for their Icelandic winter
Benchmarking libVIPS on huge image
Using the famous 7.9GB bluemarble image – I ran the vips-bench on my 12 core AMD 7900X to see how linear the speedup is with threads/cores – it speeds up well to 12 threads – but is really at full speed with only 8. What should be amazing is that we can process these huge files in only 5s !
System has 32GB DDR5 and was reading/writing to files in /tmp. I used a 3s pause between deleting output and running next thread-count.
Wifi upgrade
Having moved the broadband router to one corner of the house it was time to put a separate wifi AP in. The EAP610 from TP-Link was so good I have turned off the extra AP on the draytek router. Its also faster than mains networking (800 vs 400 Mbit/s)!
office PC silenced!
sadly I had to remove the motherboard to put this in but it was worth it for the quiet running
its a cool master hyper 212 by the way.. I also removed the noisy rear fan as this blows air out anyway
New kitchen – new wifi!
After weeks of kitchen work – we needed a better wifi link so I went for a TP-Link RE-450 which is a small plug-in unit which I hooked up to the ethernet point and setup in minutes. Nice design!
Trip to Arlesford
Home assistant!
I’ve been experimenting with homeassistant – to link up various IoT devices.. ikea, tp-link, philips, sonoff
I finally got around to adding a usb zigbee dongle (CC2531) with mqtt2zigbee and added a temp-hum sensor fairly easily. Next steps: moving hass to an ssd for safety and slowly removing philips and idea hubs!
fix for Boxster hood elastic
I finally found the right torx tool (right angle thing I normally open hard disks with!)
Open hood about 70cm, undo velcro straps, Loosen the screw:
Which releases the elastic
and outside its very easy to sew on a replacement a similar length. Clip back over screw and tighten! Hood now closes without catching on the sides! Previous fix only lasted 6 months (staple elastic over old one – as seen on youtube)