And bad news especially for whatsapp user.

Handsomedan:

 

Getting to the age where doing four leisure activities in the same week is just too much to cope with and knowing that I’ll be tired for the next month. 
For reference: Concert on Wednesday night, Mountain Biking and comedy show on Saturday night, A-League football at Mt Smart on Sunday afternoon. 

Crikey! I am so tired…

 

Living on the edge needs to become selective. 😉😁😎

Tinkerisk:

 

And bad news especially for whatsapp user.

 

Not really, this was people that chose to be discoverable by phone numbers being discovered by phone number.

The glow in the dark LED lightbulbs in my bedroom.

Yes, I know thats the whole point of them, but mine maintain a faint glow when they are switched off.

Not enough to light the room, just 4 softly glowing spots on the ceiling.

Spending far too many hours staring up at them wondering why they do that.

kiwifidget:

 

The glow in the dark LED lightbulbs in my bedroom.

 

Yes, I know thats the whole point of them, but mine maintain a faint glow when they are switched off.

 

Not enough to light the room, just 4 softly glowing spots on the ceiling.

 

Spending far too many hours staring up at them wondering why they do that.

 

Capacitive coupling across the switch and possibly switch wires that allow a few microamps to pass.

richms:

 

Tinkerisk:

 

And bad news especially for whatsapp user.

 

 

… this was people that chose to be discoverable by phone numbers being discovered by phone number.

 

If they are private individuals, there is no helping them anyway. You think too much in terms of the usual premise that you are surrounded by normal liberal thinking human beings, but we see the counter-evidence in autocracies.

Tinkerisk:

And bad news especially for whatsapp user.

CATS! I'm really sick of them. I feel like my place is under attack from every direction. Crap every where in veg and other general gardens.

Last night I was looking at my veg garden and a damn cat had taken a big dump and then managed to walk over every row of recently sprouted seeds.

And a week back, one got locked in the garage for like 2-3 days. Left hair every where and all over painting drop sheet. Peed in a few spots and must be another surprise that I'm yet to find.

Also knocked over everything up high and broke my custom build ESP8266 relay sump pump controller. Must have got caught up in leads and caused a short. Hopefully I can fix.

Plan is to fence garden area off up high with netting (access points) and look at building some moveable netting cover. Over them. Feeling quite despaired.

outdoorsnz:

 

CATS! I'm really sick of them. I feel like my place is under attack from every direction. Crap every where in veg and other general gardens.

 

Last night I was looking at my veg garden and a damn cat had taken a big dump and then managed to walk over every row of recently sprouted seeds.

 

And a week back, one got locked in the garage for like 2-3 days. Left hair every where and all over painting drop sheet. Peed in a few spots and must be another surprise that I'm yet to find.

 

Also knocked over everything up high and broke my custom build ESP8266 relay sump pump controller. Must have got caught up in leads and caused a short. Hopefully I can fix.

 

Plan is to fence garden area off up high with netting (access points) and look at building some moveable netting cover. Over them. Feeling quite despaired.

 

Guessing they're feral cats and not the neighbours' cats?

deepred:

 

Guessing they're feral cats and not the neighbours' cats?

 

Neighbours. 

outdoorsnz:

 

deepred:

 

Guessing they're feral cats and not the neighbours' cats?

 

 

Neighbours. 

 

That's a shame - because.

If you are handy with the likes of ESP8266 then you should do what the clever Aussie guy on YT did. Get a cheap security camera like a Tapo C310 that recognises and captures events such as "animal seen". Work out the patrol patterns of the cat(s) then set up garden hose with motion trigger to give them a blast of water.

There was a guy that set up a cat blaster but that just showed that cats are slow learners. The same cat got squirted time and time again like a version of Groundhog Day.

eracode:

 

That's a shame - because.

 

Touchy subject for some, but that is a great move and it is crazy it didn't happen years ago! Politics.

johno1234:

 

If you are handy with the likes of ESP8266 then you should do what the clever Aussie guy on YT did. Get a cheap security camera like a Tapo C310 that recognises and captures events such as "animal seen". Work out the patrol patterns of the cat(s) then set up garden hose with motion trigger to give them a blast of water.

 

Yeah I was thinking about some project along those lines. Even something in the garage to alert me to a cat trapped in there.