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I'm more curious about the big potato with mouse teeth marks in the loft...so many questions!

Thanks for clearing that up Nick (the other one!)

I know how a UPS works Nick, I’ve installed enough in my time. But it’s not about you it’s about people identified as vulnerable and, ok, ‘a battery back up’ is what is recommended by Ofcom for those in such a situation even if it only provides 1 hour minimum as they can still call relatives to at l...

Yup, the issue is the many devices that rely on the old pstn phone network and wont work with VoIP such as alarm systems etc and if you have a local power cut the devices won’t work where with pstn they would still have worked over the old powered lines. For alarms, and if compatible there are units...

Good Battery management will top n tail the charge and discharge of the potential battery capacity…IE -5 and + 5%. This improves battery life, also manufactures may over provision on capacity leading to better life…

Probably the most relevant thread for this, not sure of the validity of the claims or ‘leak’ but thought provoking all the same…

NVMe on the Pi

What type? they are all cars afaik, think you mean manufacturer but it’s hardly disgraceful that there are recalls unless negligence can be proved…enter DQ…manufacturers rely on so many parts suppliers and quality checks are probably in places to keep compliance to spec. but sh8t happens… “The infam...

That’s peanuts, have a go at ford instead

https://www.startrescue.co.uk/news/top- ... f-all-time

Ahem…I was a systems architect for cloud storage solutions and yes I can see the confusion when somebody mentions the ‘cloud’ it can mean many things. Yep. It's a complicated and confusing world out there. "The cloud" is really a marketing term and is much abused by companies and punters ...

Ahem…I was a systems architect for cloud storage solutions and yes I can see the confusion when somebody mentions the ‘cloud’ it can mean many things.

Blimey that’s two new words I’ve had to google

Desktop Ubuntu works well on the RPi5 better than Raspian IMHO which seems clunky graphics wise. Raspbian does fix the fan issue though but it should only be a matter of time until a new kernel fix from Ubuntu is released. Thinking out loud, I do wonder where the RPi is going, would you buy one just...

Result!

Sorry Nick never knew active usb cables where a ‘thing’