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    3d Printers South Africa

    Have been playing a bit more with AI to quickly generate OpenSCAD parametric files for repairs and replacements. Here is what Claude did for a new battery retention bracket for an Eaton UPS (the original flimsy one broke).
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    Two Airlink Embraer 190s perform dangerously low flyover at Cape Town’s DHL Stadium

    He initially referenced AIC 19-2 of 2001 for operations at flypasts and demonstration flights. One of the things stated in this document is "Multiple engine aircraft, capable of maintaining height with one engine inoperative and being able to climb back to a circuit height, may descend to 300 FT...
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    The 'Massive' Gauteng Weather and Storm Warning Thread! The Sequel

    Drove from PTA to JHB during the rain yesterday. The most notable part of the trip was Beyers Naude. The rain was washing that milky emulsion along the road, a slippery concoction of all the winter deposits being flushed. Struggled to pull off on uphill sections due to the wheel spin.
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    ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini experience outages in South Africa

    Gemma 4 was running just fine.
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    Two Airlink Embraer 190s perform dangerously low flyover at Cape Town’s DHL Stadium

    The complaints center largely around the aircraft heading towards the crowd while performing this show. This was regarded as unacceptable for displays after a small two seater aircraft crashed into a smaller crowd at the Ramstein air base in Germany. In addition to killing 70 people, there were...
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    Airlink ultra-low-altitude stadium flyover stunt under official review

    You can tell that the flyover was the big news, not one of the articles on this mentioned who actually won the game.
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    Airlink ultra-low-altitude stadium flyover stunt under official review

    I was at an airshow a few years back where some entitled spectators moved onto a spot that the aircraft were maneuvering towards and refused to move. The airshow was put on hold for a while until they were extracted. These rules are taken seriously. Of potential relevance to the Cape Town...
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    SA Politics Part 14 - The New Dawn turns to Dusk

    The DA likes to complain about the lack of street lights in Tshwane. These were working when they came into power. The DA decided not to fund street light maintenance and they were in their current state by the time the new crowd came in. The deterioration of the street lighting happened on the...
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    Two Airlink Embraer 190s perform dangerously low flyover at Cape Town’s DHL Stadium

    A concern is that the clearance over the stadium was 41 to 46 feet, which is about half of this aircraft's wingspan. This means that the aircraft would have entered ground effect in this area, which can cause the nose to pitch down. Since this is transient the severity of the effect is...
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    Post Office got R321 million of taxpayer money and is still in trouble

    The decline of the Post Office does have advantages. I had to go and collect a registered letter today. There was only one other person in before me and two counters open. This left little time to admire the way the paint was peeling off the ceiling.
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    Hard drives for NAS

    Backblaze buys hard drives based on what offers the best value at the time of purchase and assumes that hard drives fail. To account for this they have robust multi-server RAID. The average consumer is unlikely to go this way and should probably buy NAS specific drives which offer the...
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    Hard drives for NAS

    Seagate IronWolf drives from Wootware.
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    Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

    It looks like the adoption rate may increase in the near future. https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/ https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/china-orders-state-agencies-to-uninstall-windows-as-it-cuts-dependence-on-us-tech-2974571-2026-08-19
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    Changes to make electricity cheaper and prices clearer coming to South Africa

    They mention relief for industry and indigent households. Wonder who is going to fund this?
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    Windows 11 Support Thread

    PTSD triggered.
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