Pupdate

Towards the end of the month it started staying dry enough to start returning to some of the longer ‘summer’ walks.

The end for ‘Trigger’s AirPods’

In a previous post I’d mentioned that I probably should have spent my money on some new AirPods Pro rather than keeping on replacing parts of my old ones. That was borne out by yet another failure, with the right earbud going all crackly. I’ve now got myself some AirPods Pro Gen 2.

RISC-V dev board

I have a talk on Dart/Flutter on RISC-V coming up at Fluttercon in July, so I wanted to get some hardware to play with (rather than just QEMU emulation). After a bit of poking around the StarFive VisionFive 2 seemed like the way to go, and took a couple of weeks to arrive (when ordered from Amazon).

The initial experience with Debian was a little lumpy, but then an Ubuntu image came along, which easily does everything I want – running Dart and Docker.

Solar diary

May brought another substantial jump in solar output, which came just in time for getting the hot tub out for the half term break. So far it looks like it’s running almost entirely on generated electricity rather than imported. That means I’m missing out on Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) income, but that’s pretty measly, so the tub isn’t costing too much to run.

On the topic of SEG, I called EDF to chase up my application, and it was stuck for no reason. I was told that I’d be contacted in a few working days to get the final pieces set up. That was three weeks ago, so I fear another call is needed to chivvy things along. On the positive front they said they’d pay for export from the original meter reading at application all the way back in October.

Beating Beat Saber

I didn’t spend much time on Beat Saber this month, but the short time brought a decent handful of Full Combos on the remaining Lady Gaga levels.