Month: October 2021

Not been own-brand (neither expensive “mineral” nor own brand cheap fizzy tap water) fizzy water in local Morrisons for months! Was not in any old-brand supermarkets for a couple of months at least (Lidl still had some)  but Sainsburies got fizzy tap water now and Tesco have own brand fizzy mineral water. BUT!!! sure the Tesco mineral water is less fizzy than it was! That is to say it used to be impressively fizzy.

The thing is, this is a several years old problem, I researched it and it is to do with carbon footprint and energy costs and shutting down production of compressed CO2 in the UK. Our leaders are severely substandard it seems to me, except in the fields of bullshit and cover-up at which they excel!

Not checked if satellite videos still working for a while, assumed it was.

I encountered a few problems having switched to an old raspberry pi-b to do the downloads and encoding which is also a SkyPiAQ test node, just to see how the hardware video encoding works using the omx mp4 encoder, I mean not bad, but quality is mediocre anyway. A vfat usb stick auto loading thing was the problem. Still, it is amazing how capable those old pi-b computers were. (and the pi zero).
So switched back to running on a Pi3, tried using h.265 but browser players not compatible enough, shame as it is like double space saving for same quality as standard h.264, so anyway sat vids for today back up with better quality videos.
Will get round to linking to all the missing videos.