penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

TRV: I just took a file to the metal shim I'd added to the valve converter and it's now down to 6.5mm; lets see if that's happier. All a bit too experimental and mechanical for my liking.

So 3trv's happily graphing away; still need to tweak my office one.
The bedroom one turns itself down between midday and 6pm.
I'm finding I need the bathroom and office ones to be set warmer for it to feel warm; not quite figured out why yet.

Nothing on TRV seems standard. The thread, the valve pin height, the travel of the pin; nothing. The thread seems to have settled out now at M30, but it's a surprise they work at all.
A valve 'head' has the temp control, it screws to the actual valve which has a 'pin' which is open (hot) up and closed (cold) down (only thing standard).
I have a thread adapter, that's machined metal with an extension pin - the length of which is wrong for the smart TRV I have. Frigged with a spacer; working?

I still find it funny when ST actors show up in random TV programs. Geordie^WLevar Burton is the 'principal' in 'Perception' (A so far pretty bad) US crime drama they've just started showing over here.

My dollie nicely loaded up with a pile of previously unmovable old computers.
From bottom to top; Sun 3/60 (x2) 68020 based, an HP 9000/735 using PA-RISC (actually upgraded from a 730), Sun Ultra 1 (SPARC), and an SGI Indy (MIPS) on top.

Hmph, the EUrotronic Spirit Zwave TRV doesn't like the screw converter I've got to make it fit on my office radiator - which is a shame because neither are cheap - I might have to play around with lengthening/shortening the pin.
This converter is basically a machined metal cylinder with the right threads, and then a free floating extension pin down the middle, with circlips that limit it's distances.

Just taking a dollie home on the tram!

Just seen the first daffodils of the year; it must be #spring !

Sigh, the end of the weekend and my list of things-to-do is pretty much done; unfortunately the hackiest it got was fixing a shell script to cope with power outages
(which are hopefully now fixed).

For some reason I'd not noticed #bash lets you & a whole loop - e.g.

while true do whatever done &

makes life pretty easy.

I spent a few years working on Itanium projects at Transitive (an emulation company) - it was a fun (if slow) chip to work on. I've got a disembodied Itanium2 (and it's heatsink) but not a full machine.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13924/intel-to-discontinue-itanium-9700-kittson-processor-the-last-itaniums

Related; but what do people use on android for copying sim data between sims?

Trying to transfer contacts between my parents dumbphones is frustrating; since the old and new phones are locked to different carriers they won't take each others sim at all; I'd expected them not to work on the network but hadn't banked on them refusing to startup at all.