Wow, that does sound fun! So many questions! Do you fly the UAV or does someone else do that? Is it more like a drone or like a light aircraft? What does processing the data involve?
This sounds amazing! What kind of tooling do you use to achieve this, and what is the output format? Who consumes this information once it has been refined?
UAVs and modern computers really do enable some incredible things.
Hopefully today will be better than yesterday. Had a power cut. Friends down the road also lost power. Called power co, they logged with lines co. As it got darker I then noticed neighbours had power, took a tour around - yes we were the only ones out. Called back power co to find out where lines co was. They were dispatched 20 minutes ago, still took another hour to show up (still night so no mass storm damage to hold things up). Lines co finally arrived, discovered that our point of entry had burnt out and needed replacement by electrician. This is 8.30pm. House is dark, no heating. Looked for a sparky (found one through our local FB group and then tracked him down to find a number). He came and replaced, then had to call back power co to tell lines co to come back out to reconnect. Back on at midnight.
Awaiting invoice....
It's been so endlessly rainy that I've been thinking about buying a laundry dryer... Hard to justify a >$1000 purchase for something we'd not really use outside of the depths of winter though. It seems hard to find good info on specific models, anyone got a condenser/ heat pump dryer they'd recommend?
I just use the laundromat when I need to dry clothes. If you can, I recommend that. A home dryer can only dry one load of washing at a time. I can get 3 or 4 loads dried at the laundromat in the same or less time for like $6.
We've got an Electrolux one, have had it for over a year now and had 0 issues with it. They take a lot longer than a hot air dryer, but sip power in comparison. Our model uses a hose rather than a tray for the extracted water and it handles all sorts of loads fine. Only the 2 of us, so the time to dry isn't a big factor as we're not doing a whole families worth of washing over & over.
Do you need a new one? For something you're not going to use often, a second hand one might do?
I have a consumer.org.nz account so can find their reviews on models if it helps. A quick look through shows even top brands have poor reliability... If you go with new then picking something with a long warranty may be a good idea.
Yeah they're not very good and take an age to run. I looked at heat pump options when we got a dryer and the cost savings didn't stack up against the extra purchase cost unless you were running multiple loads a day through it. We only use ours in winter so not worth it.
Is it this one? https://www.harveynorman.co.nz/...
In the consumer.org.nz reviews, they have 22 dryers ranked and that's the only Bosche one. It came second to last overall. They rank based on multiple things but their drying performance score was 56 compared to 83 for the highest ranked model (there was one that got 85 for drying but was further down the ranks because of other scores).
I thought about this recently too and ended up getting a dehumidifier instead as I figured it has more uses than just a dryer. In Winter we usually end up putting the clothes in front of the heatpump. I find running the dehumidifier in laundry mode beside the clothes for a few hours at night, makes them dry by the morning. Bonus is we can dehumidify our bed rooms when we don't have laundry to dry. We did pay $600+ for the dehumidifier though, just something to consider.
Seconding this - we have a dryer, but it only really gets used in laundry emergencies when we need something washed and dried in a few hours. Dehumidifier + drying rack does the job really well, especially when its in the sunroom/conservatory.
We got a heat pump dryer from trade depot after the first lockdown. Gets daily use and still going strong.
It's made by Midea, one of the largest appliance manufacturers in the world. Trade depot can be a bit sketch, esp with warranty i hear so YMMV.
Really appreciate all the replies, thanks all for the input!
Four keys on my laptop have decided to just stop working (G, H, single quote and up arrow). Internet searches show others with the same problem, even the same keys, but no solution.
Tried cleaning individual keys, rebooting multiple times, even a different OS as a live CD. Even a bios test has them failing. External keyboard works fully, but lugging one of those around defeats the purpose of having a laptop at all.
Warranty expired too. Considering buying a replacement, aftermarket, keyboard as I can't afford to buy a new laptop and the rest of it appears to be working fine.
A frustrating problem.
I think this one is going to depend on your circumstances. Most likely you could argue enough to get it fixed, they will probably send it away and you'll be without a laptop for a couple or three weeks. If you paid $500 for it then you might struggle to get them to do it. If it was a $3000 model then I'd say you have a very good argument for getting it covered under the CGA, but it will depend on the store. There's also the risk they will claim you dropped it and not cover it.
But normally for me the conversation goes "I bought this from you a couple of years back, now it's not working". They say "Sorry it's out of warranty", I say "you're still required to fix it under the Consumer Guarantees Act". Then they get a manager and you repeat the conversation. They will normally agree at this point. If they say they can't do it without a receipt, tell them they have the record because the IRD requires them to keep the records for 7 years, and the GST Act requires they provide a copy receipt within 28 days of someone requesting it so please can I have a copy of my receipt?
Now, depending on how much $50 is worth to you and how much you like arguing with staff, it might just be easier to do it yourself.
Personally I have got a refund on a 2.5 year old laptop that died and a 2 year old phone that died, but I know some places are better about it than others.
Bought it direct from Lenovo, on sale for $1000 - I think it was half price. I believe international purchases are still covered by the CGA, might get in touch with consumer.org first.
To be honest I'd never heard of him, but checking his Wikipedia page I think I would have been a fan if I had heard of him.
I have done the odd laptop repair but these days I have a Framework laptop. Super easy to fix or upgrade, just difficult to get to NZ because they don't ship here yet.
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