COVID-19 Tracker is a handy way of tracking the spread

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head over to bing.com/covid to get the latest number of Active cases, Recovered cases and Fatal cases in your area. The map shows regularly updated numbers for how many confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease have been reported. Areas affected are shown overlaid with orange circles on the map, with the size of the circle indicating the total number of cases. Hovering over a circle will show you numbers for confirmed cases, recovered cases, and fatal cases. Here are the most common symptoms and the percentage of people who had…

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Python newbie to building automated Python tools for Data Science with help from the guys over at pinataconsulting.com

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Its been a mad couple of weeks at work but in a quest to skill up while on the road, I found this very cool Udemy course from the guys over at Pinata Consulting, its a beginners course covering Python and focuses on data science use cases (fear not, its not hardcore data science, if it were my brain would have melted). This is the course on Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/pinata-intro-to-python/ and taken from the course site it covers the following over 12 lectures (01:45:03 run time) How to get up and running…

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Pi 4 Cooling Case + Better Thermal Tape

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Afternoon, Well my pi 4 (4GB RAM) has been getting little attention seeing as Libreelec is not 100% stable for it but for work I was able to use it for a product that we sell (product needs a vm to run a java app to scan files and this is usually a VM) I was using a hacked pi 3 case as I had plenty around but as everyone knows (unless you are in bunker planning on Nuking Mars) the new Raspberry Pi 4 runs *Very* Warm. I tried…

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Neos SmartCam review – Connection Drops

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What the back of the Neos SmartCam box promises Works with Alexa: Ask Alexa to show your Kitchen, Lounge, Nursery, or anywhere else you have your SmartCam, on an Echo dot, Echo Show or Fire Stick connected to your TV. 1080p Full HD with Live Stream and 8X Digital Zoom – 2.8mm focal length. 110º wide-angle lens. 1/2.9″ CMOS sensor. Motion & noise detection with alerts: When motion or noise is detected a 12-second video clip is automatically recorded. FREE Cloud Storage. Videos are stored for 14 days for FREE…

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LeEco Le Pro 3 Battery Replacement

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So my wife has a friend at work who is into there phones and like myself has an appreciation for all things imported. He has been having charge problems with his LeEco Le Pro 3, namely the phone would charge but battery drain was very high. After some checking it wasn’t a software issue (battery cycle count etc) so I said it probably needs a new battery. Imagine my surprise when the phone turned up at home to help swap the battery out…..happy days, never done one before and the…

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3D printed Newton 2100 Battery….TBC

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A good friend and I were stilling in the office one day reminiscing about the “old” cool technology we remembers in our younger days. Over a few days and some ebay’ing, there was an Apple Newton 2100 winging its way 😀 When the Newton 2×00 was originally introduced, it came standard with 4 x AA sized alkaline batteries that were loaded into a battery tray. Alkaline, rechargeable NiCd or NiMH batteries may be used. An optional rechargeable NiMH pack could also be purchased. Sometime after the initial introduction, things got swapped the…

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TREBLAB X5 EXCEPTIONAL SOUND + PORTABLE CHARGING BOX

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So this review has been a long….long time coming. I was away on holiday and I received an email offering 50% off for a limited number of these TREBLAB X5 earphone via Amazon. I though it was worth a look as the review were not too bad and also it was via Amazon (so no dodgy websites) What the official blurb on the TREBLAB X5 is….. Small, ergonomic, yet durable design – Newly optimized shape for better fit, perfected Bluetooth connection, improved hands-free microphone. Truly Wireless – The design is strictly for active…

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Plexus 0.1.8 not working on Libreelec 8.2.5 x86_64 for Acestreams

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Always looking to pass on fixes, techun.limited was sent a fix from a reader. My finest cut n paste….which is cut and paste from other sources im told. ========================== Installed Plexus 0.1.8 on Libreelec 8.2.5 x86_64 (running on a Vorke v1 Plus) only to find it was failing to run when trying open a test Acestream, it would just time out. Did some googling and found a few articles (some confusing, other not the fix). Using a combinations of posts we managed to get it working. This is what we…

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The Superbook by Sentio – Well it finally arrived and…..TBC

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Hi, its been a while since I updated techun.limited, works been busy and finding time has been difficult but out of the blue I finally received my Superbook by Sentio which was called Andromium Inc. A little history and introduction to the Superbook, the Superbook is billed as the the Universal Laptop Dock that transforms your Android smartphone into a laptop. When I saw this on Kickstarter some it was priced at $99, it promised to have a 10 hour battery life, ability to charge your phone, multi-touch mouse pad, 1080p…

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