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It's quite literally kaamosmasennus as we Finns call it.

Merely losing the sun behind cloud cover for an extended period of time seems to have an effect if not the quite gradual but rapid shortening of available daylight. When the weather reports start including how gray it is today, you know it's the season again.

Increasing your vitamin D3/D6 dosage and being exposed to bright blue light daily helps most people to get through the winter.

They're still technically Avago Technologies, just wearing the name of Broadcom after the acquisition in 2015-2016. Not sure if there's much of Broadcom left, beyond the name and what IP they had at the time which was not sold off, like they did with the IoT related IPs.

"YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?"

I'd be really curious on how hard programmatic access to your own, personal banking data might be in the PSD2-era.

I can link my secondary bank account to my main bank's app so I can see the balance in one place, but the catch is that I need to refresh this authorization through the app every 90 days.

Ideally, you'd just use your banking credentials to authorise the API access and pull data through that. What this requires in practice, I have no idea but it probably involves a bit of bureucracy.

"Our PC"

I opted for Ikea glass containers partly for wanting to avoid plastics (except the lids) and partly to not have to deal with tomato sauces staining the pristine white plastic containers after a single use

Micro/nanoplastics are a secondary consideration overall, primary was just to reduce my usage of plastics a bit, even how infinitesimal it really is. I only realized how much plastic packaging I go through once I moved to an apartment with plastic "recycling", I still separate out most plastics but not everything.

I personally am not really swayed towards ditching whatever plastics I still have, given how ubiquitous it is and I am already happy with my Ikea glassware.

At the same time, I'm in awe and in horror of seeing those high current, high voltage disconnects being opened only to end up with a few meter high arc of current jumping through the air between contacts.

I was taught the procedure of disconnecting a 10/20kV disconnect for an on-site transformer (alas, only an old one that had been decommissioned) and that thing scared the crap out of me when I first heard the spring loaded high voltage disconnect actuate.

Having a 3 meter fibreglass pole to actuate the thing, just incase, tells you there is a real risk of the thing blow up in your face, on a good day.

> In the video it appears that Peter was using the Flipper Zero to wireless turn the power meter on and off, which also controlled the power to a large AC unit. Eventually switching the meter on and off while under a heavy load resulted in the meter self destructing and releasing the magic smoke.

Calling out Flipper Zero for someone (ab)using the meter's remote control features cuts me the wrong way: you could've done the same with any other SDR, not just the Flipper Zero.

It's not even a surprise this happened, the cut-off is not meant to be operated constantly to cut heavy loads. Similarly you should not use a breaker to turn off heavy (or any, in that matter) loads as you're needlessly wearing down the protective device, instead of a separate cut-off switch that's designed to be replaceable. Especially since it can be positioned downstream from the protective device.

It all boils down to which part of the circuit you can easily repair in case of a fault, in this case the meter is by far the least accessible.

Another note for nordic layouts and Linux: tilde (~) is considered to be a "dead key" on most nordic layouts, meaning you may need to follow AltGr + ~ with a space before typing out the dot. Otherwise you might get weird looks from the terminal trying to figure what you meant with the tilde-dot.

Incidentally, while testing on Windows (in both WSL and cmd.exe) with a Finnish layout: you do not need a space after typing out the tilde.

Another source of constant hilarity is when the voice guidance tries to pronounce the names of ring roads in Helsinki metropolitan area: Kehä I / Ring I. They're numbered using roman numerals (I through III) but Maps has no such knowledge of this so it just ends up rattling off the route number and "Kehä / Ring" with the ring road numerals as if they were just a literal letter I.

Sometimes the lane guidance also likes to pick up on the destinations from the overhead signs, trying to pronounce the Finnish and Swedish names with less than stellar results.

When Signal finally drops SMS support, I will also drop Signal. It always was SMS foremost, secure communications second when I initially started using it. Having people on Signal was an added benefit, not the main drive for using it.

For me personally, Signal will turn into a messaging app among dozens of similar apps, of which I have enough already. SMS was why I stuck with Signal over the years I used it and now I have no real reason to stay on it.

Time and time again, the HN Status Page/Incident Tracker is more accurate than the actual service's own.

For those of us in the dead key land (using AltGr to type ~), remember to hit space after typing out the ~, otherwise it won't register properly.