[18:14]  * penguin42 comes to you via the medium of mobile broadband, since my VM has crapped out
[18:14] <daftykins> uh oh, again!
[18:15] <zxmpi> what's it like out there... in the... you know... world? :-P
[18:15] <penguin42> daftykins: Held to gether by rubber bands and dry tape I'm sure of it
[18:16]  * penguin42 is fairly sure it doesn't like cold/damp weather
[18:16] <daftykins> shhh that's their secret sauce! ;)
[18:17] <zxmpi> there's another kind of weather?!
[18:18] <penguin42> zxmpi: Well, sometimes it's only cold or only damp
[18:18] <zxmpi> ah... summer
[18:20] <penguin42> hey now don't get ahead of things
[18:21]  * penguin42 wouldn't mind trying a 5G device for a while to see what's possible here
[18:23] <zxmpi> if you someone with one borrow it for a weekend?
[18:24] <daftykins> i still think we need to invoke the plan of snipping your lines in the dead of night
[18:24] <zxmpi> or on launch day of a big game :-P
[18:25] <penguin42> daftykins: I heard of one datacentre near here, way the locals thought they wanted to cut off before robbing a bank; they went after the nearby manholes with wheelybins full of petrol
[18:26] <daftykins> o0
[18:26] <zxmpi> radio link for security at bank?
[18:26] <penguin42> not sure
[18:27] <zxmpi> be a piece of piss to have a 4g or even a 3g modem to send notifications and data
[18:59] <davef> Never did I think I would be writing Python code to control my humidifier.
[19:00] <davef> I want to integrate it into my Home Assistant, it has support for VeSync (the thing it uses to control it) but not my specific device. So I figured I'll try and add that functionality myself.
[19:00] <davef> So far it's working. I can change the humidity target, mist level, turn on/off.
[19:00] <davef> Now I just got to get that into HA.
[19:08] <daftykins> one false move and you wake up in a swimming pool for a home!
[19:09] <zxmpi> that was his ferns hacking the system to get better living conditions :-P