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    Diesel money spat is costing South Africa dearly

    They should be using gas and not diesel but govt will not allow the pipelines to be built.
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    Ramaphosa to fire the whole Eskom board - Sunday Times

    For unvarnished accurate detailed insight into what is really going on with Eskom and the grid, please watch Desmund Bernardo's explainer video on YouTube entitled "00DEZZ - How bad is it?" Des is a Koeberg Licensed Reactor Operator and Senior LRO Trainer, currently a contracted consultant to...
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    MyBroadband Insights data revealed that Vodacom and Cell C suffer from disappearing data

    It would have been interesting to see what exactly the data contained. Were they perhaps spying on the phone at the expense and the cost of the user?
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    ESP32 Lolin TTGO T-Display on ESPHome

    FWIW. Note: Indentation is important in esphome yaml. It does not show up correctly below. You will have to install the font files manually into the correct folder inside the esphome folder tree. ==Begin Code== esphome: name: ttgo_td1 platform: ESP32 board: esp-wrover-kit...
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    COVID-19 Alert SA app vs Facebook - Permissions compared

    The article misses the point entirely. The danger of the app is not because of security or privacy, but rather because the need for it is premised on a whole bunch of lies, bad science and social conditioning. If you accept the app, you have fallen for the narrative, and app 2.0 may be actively...
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    ESP32 Lolin TTGO T-Display on ESPHome

    The board and display come as a permanently connected unit. This one came from banggood. Once you have the board and display working, it is a snap to display stuff on it. Mine currently just shows the time and date as provided over wifi from my local ntp server. I like the USB-C connector. The...
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    ESP32 Lolin TTGO T-Display on ESPHome

    To answer my own question: Thanks to Anton @semenyak on the https://community.home-assistant.io forum. It took me a while to cotton on that one has to create the custom_components directory, in the same directory as the device directories and .yaml files, and of course then populate it with the...
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    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

    One shortcoming in 20.04 is that documents in Libreoffice exported to pdf are just blank. There is a fix on the Libreoffice site: sudo dpkg --list | awk '/ii/&&/libreoffice/{print $2}' | sudo xargs apt purge -y sudo apt autoremove -y Then re-install the meta-pkg from Muon.
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    ESP32 Lolin TTGO T-Display on ESPHome

    I have been trying unsuccessfully so far to get the ST7789V TFT display working on this nifty little board in Home Assistant/ESPHome. From what I have read, the ST7789V chip is not yet officially supported in ESPHome and the instructions I have followed have not worked. I keep getting a...
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    ESP32-CAM

    You can get them locally from e.g. robotics.org.za too. You need a separate 3.3v FTDI or similar USB uart to program it. An external antenna is virtually a must-have. The Arduino sample sketch did not work on mine. It works fine with esphome/Home Assistant. Low frame rate, no IR mode, only 1...
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    Do you support the cigarette advertising ban?

    Banning things is wrong in principle. The principle is illustrated by the maxim that if they make enough laws, we would all be criminals.
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