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There's also the issue whether trying to heat individual rooms using central heating is the most efficient way of doing it.

When I'm working from home in the winter and everyone else is out I shut the door to my office room and only heat that room. Seems to make sense compared to heating the rest of the house for ~8 hours more. But I haven't done any maths.

A really basic question, but our current analogue thermostat is wired to the wall. Does that mean I need to buy a wired Tado? Or can I repleace with a wireless version?

I had a programmer and wired thermostat. I've been too lazy to remove the thermostat (it will leave a hole in the wall) so have just turned that up to 30. The programmer was replaced with the Wireless Receiver, wired to the boiler. The starter kit I bought included a wireless thermostat which I didn't intend to use, as I have TRVs, but it turns out that a thermostat is required to switch the hot water on via the receiver.

I have the UK version as that has relays which is what I need. I think it can be switched into a mode where it will talk to a fancy modulating heat source but I've never tried that.

Starter kit I bought: https://www.screwfix.com/p/tado-v3-black-edition-wireless-heating-hot-water-smart-thermostat-starter-kit-black/701kg

and many TRVs. I bought basic. https://www.screwfix.com/p/tado-basic-white-smart-radiator-thermostat/861kg

I have Tado. It's mostly been trouble free. I had a problem with one TRV not turning off which after I opened a support ticket and went through the motions they sent a replacement.

I have lots of TRVs so lots of batteries to change every 9-12 months but it gives me the control I want, for example the guest room is currently set to very low but I can turn it up when someone is staying.

I'm using the WebKit HomeAssistant integration to control some things. That is local to my LAN, everything else needs the Tado cloud. I mostly use the app though as it is easier.

I believe fancy boilers and heat pumps can be communicated with using some sort of serial bus rather than relays. There are terminals on the Tado for that but I have no experience as my boiler is about 40 years old.

Any particular reason?

The inability to merge orders from multiple virtual shops and save on shipping annoys me but otherwise they have been okay.

Teemill - https://uktshirtprinting.com/

Shared with a relative of the head of the house?

At least they advertise a salary.

I just looked and apparently you can now buy them privately, which is different from last year IIRC, if you aren't on the NHS lists. Boots charge £98.95. For comparison a private flu jab from Boots is £21.95.

You might be able to have a self-guided garden visit for only 20 quid. Also in the summer.

as there are two tiles that are wholly within the grounds that I can't see any way to get with public access

They are open between late July and September. Guided tour is fifty quid.

What we really need is to stop the sewage getting in the Thames which is partly about treatment capacity but mostly about high storm run off. Slow the water down at source and then we don't need so much in the way of massive civiil engineering later. Having a swimable lake is great but I swim in the river and would like the whole thing to be clean.

Probably, I have no qualifications in this area.

It's a Development Consent Order for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. That is part of The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 which is an SI which is in turn part of the Planning Act 2008.

https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/application-process/the-process/

Presumably some sort of infrastructure compulsory purchase kind of thing. Like when building a road or railway.

One stereotype is Evelyn Rose, although she says you have to make it the day before

https://www.thejc.com/lets-eat/recipe/traditional-chicken-soup-slbaihze

Talks over £1bn UK port expansion ongoing after row

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9jp3ey0exo

Discussions about a London port expansion worth £1bn are ongoing as the government tries to resolve a row with the investor.

So if you are an evil employer we will ignore that if you have loads of cash to splash around?

The IANA are unlikely to break thousands of websites just for a bit of politics. It'll move from ccTLD status to gTLD status.

Apparently IANA see what happened with .su as a problem and now have a process for removal of ex-ISO codes.

https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/8/24265441/uk-treaty-end-io-domain-chagos-islands

Not all the really rich people deserve to be eaten.

I believe in contributing in line with your ability to. Which makes me annoyed when people 'earning' £2,200,000+ pay ~23%. Sure half a million is loads more than I even earn but my marginal rate is 40%.

I wouldn't want to eat Rishi Sunak though, looks like a scrawny bugger - wouldn't it be all chewy? Perhaps a really slow cooked casserole? It seems there is a book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-Rich-Cookbook-John-Beardsley-ebook/dp/B007S3WP6O

For household there is this less granular graph. I can't be bothered to register to find the source and dig deeper but maybe you can?

Average gross income per household in the United Kingdom in 2021/22, by decile group(in GBP)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/813364/average-gross-income-per-household-uk/

Per person

Anyone know if there's a bit of kit I can plug in to provide a guest network without too much faff

It depends a bit what you want the guest WiFi network to do. If you want it isolated from your local network so guest can't get to your other devices then you can't do that without lots of faff. I'd put the BT router in a box and get something sensible.

theoretical half gig that I pay BT for

You only pay for that to the nearest BT node. You don't get half a gig to Antarctica and a whole load of other destinations.

BT GPON? Can you get stats from the physical line? Perhaps not with a BT supplied router?

I plotted a rubbish graph. Note how it goes exponential. The rich have all the money.

Yes. The rich are very very rich. Income inequality is rising too.

If you look at 'Percentile points from 1 to 99 for total income before and after tax' [1] then the differences grow fast. 50th percentile is 27,200. Double that and you get to 87th. Double it again and you get to 97th. You have to, almost, double it again to get to 99. The people in the article are the top 99.999.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-from-1-to-99-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax

What are you trying to measure? Last mile? Path to some destination that is important to you including peering links along the way?

Any 3rd party speed checker might change the other end so if you want to start to control for variables then spin up iperf3 on a VM somewhere relevant and test to that.

foot dip pools between the changing rooms and poolside

Some placs (CenterParcs and Sportoase Philipssite Leuven IME) have changing cubicles with two doors - one side is to reception and the other to the pool. Provides a clear place to take your shoes off. A bit confusing the first time you use it though.