Panq

You're right in that running HA just for a WoL timer would be silly, but (presumably) it's already running for other, less silly purposes.

I'd say the main benefit is when the machine requires regular (as in daily) reboots, or if it's something you don't trust is fully private and want to be powered off outside work hours. Not useful for me, but I can see why it would be handy.

Karioitahi beach, right on the boundary between Auckland and Waikato.

Rode up a steep hill and found a decent bit of weather this morning. And a rainbow down the other side, too.

Replacing the hanger is probably a five minute job. Finding the correct one is much harder. Replacement spoke is cheap, but making a wheel run true is a bit fiddly and I'm not particularly good at it.

I've already put aside plenty of money for an upgrade, it's the choosing one that I hate.

Also: NZ has a Workride scheme where you can get a bike with no GST paid off over a year from your pre-tax wages/salary. It works out somewhere around 50% off the actual sale price for a typical worker (though some of that is from your own Kiwisaver contribution and/or student loan repayments, which you're technically just putting off and not actually saving in the very long term).

I've been trying to ride my bike into work instead of driving lately, but today it decided it's had enough of hauling my fat arse around and the derailleur hanger snapped in half.

Probably should use it as an excuse to upgrade, but I hate shopping for expensive things.

tips on soldering

In addition to the other comments - if you're soldering to something that can sink a lot of heat (a great big copper connector, or the ground plane on a circuit board), you will probably need a fairly broad tip. A finer tip can't transfer heat fast enough, so you end up having to hold it in contact for far too long to get hot enough to melt the solder and (counterintuitively) you end up melting plastic or overheating components. Doubly so if you've cranked up the heat to help.

FedEx have their own drivers in Auckland?

I can confirm that they have at least one.

To be fair though, our supplier invests a fairly large chunk of money in freight, and in the past ran their own dedicated flights when the previous carrier (maybe TNT? Can't remember) wasn't reliable enough. I have no idea if FedEx is that good in general or if it's only for these sort of high-priority customers.

Between them, DHL and FedEx get almost all of our parts orders from Melbourne to Pukekohe overnight. They are unbelievably efficient compared to outfits places like Toll or Aramex that can't get packages across Auckland in under a week.

I remember seeing someone combine the two and had Home Assistant pull the photograph from USPS and attaches it to the notification when the mailbox sensor is triggered.

If I remember correctly, they are allowed to have a thumb throttle if it's capped at 6km/hr (which is still very handy for starting, especially on a cargo bike). On a generic Bafang/similar motor controller, that's a purely software limit that anyone with a programming cable can change.

Like some kind of masochist, I volunteered to head in about 90 minutes early, park at Clevedon, and ride to meet them at the top. I was only about five minutes short of actually beating them to the top, which I'm pretty proud of. That climb is hard.