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Not very relevant, but the OKI printer I had, was not a laser, although most referred to it as such. It had rows of multicoloured leds, light onto a selenium? coated band, no separate oiling for the fuser, the ink contained the oil. I had to change it for a 'normal' laser. I was printing on 'foliac' transparency, for pcb trackwork, and the ink would not stick, but an ordinary laser's ink would. If I could remember where I put the printer, I could say what model it was.

This guy reckons VW will do OK (at least compared to Detroit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWIU4OZ9OTI

A bit like trying to sell a race horse, where what is wanted is a camel.

I reckon something like this, at this price point would suit a load of folk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrVGTzM81L8

Young Naomi, is a very clever lass. Has a few tech toys, lasers, cnc machining centre, and the like. It'll be interesting if she sorts out the suspension on that trike. And, iirc, a year or so she did a vid on updating her airbags.

The future of cheap electric vehicles? https://youtu.be/l4TvOanSJlU

Tesla - Michigan

I stopped watching Christmas tv, when they dropped 'The African Queen' and started showing 'the Great Escape'. I thought you'd need to know that.

Thunderbird is free https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/download/ Plenty of advice there and elsewhere on how to set it up.

with a few exceptions, it should be SORN'ed - so they should know who it is registered to

So, more or less completely meaningless, other than being a 'feel good' factor.

I've not seen the video to which you refer, but I do not understand how you have understood whatever was being shown. How is electrical energy related to dyno fuel? how much is a gallon of electricity? Is it selected values in an attempt to prove a point?

When I was referring to 'why use a NAS', I was assuming it was some proprietary system, wd/hp whatever. I have a window media server, but the 2012 version of windows server therein is being de-emphasised by M$. Realising that, I bought a cheap w10 single board PC with usb3, and a number of usb external drives, as a home-brew NAS. It runs headless, but it is easier to rdc via an android phone, cf a w10 pc! All files are in ntfs format, mirrored, etc, and if that, or any pc on the network, fails, I can more or less immediately get at the data via another pc. I run Octopi, to remotely control a printer - that needed a fixed ip address, assigned in the router, as the name did not always work. Of course, it may be something to do with the number of defunct hostfiles I've scattered around the system, with names of computers that no longer exist. As you are finding, windows networking can be 'interesting'. The history of their passwords is more interesting - some widows versions automatically capitalising words, some requiring special characters, etc. M$ probably owe me ten years of my life...

Maybe helpful - https://www.techinpost.com/the-network-location-cannot-be-reached/ and others out there. When your Nas fails, what then? If proprietary system, you'll be stuffed, until you can get the same system working again. Why not fix the ip addresses, don't use domain names?

The encouragement by governments to folk buying electric cars, has very little in connection with climate change, and climate change is not the real problem. There are other solutions available. But it is part of the trend to prevent private ownership, and obviously gives more control of the population's behavior. Iiirc, fuel tax in UK is about 29 billion gbp /annum. That, and much more will be recovered via electric vehicles, either by charging for miles driven, or electrical charging tariffs. The fun days are over

Everything tastes better with bacon.

all milk in tea is tastes revolting, as does the teabag rubbish.

Is that a bit of bacon lurking in the middle?

simple basic servo control

Always remember my dad mentioning desert chicken.