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Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Lia🌈❤ on X: “Kocht voor weinig een pakket ongeclaimde pakketjes… kon net door de deur🤣 merendeel is niet interessant voor mij (gereedschap, opladers, cartridges) maar ook leuke zooi (waterkan, stickers, knutselspul). Er zitten ook mystery items in, oftewel “ik heb geen idee wat het is”.” / X

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--jeroen

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Veel gebruikte afkortingen in de oogzorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Had ik nodig om de brief van de oogarts te kunnen ontcijferen (:

[Wayback/Archive] www.optometrie.nl/serverspecific/default/images/File/Richtlijnen/Afkortingenoogzorg131104.pdf

Queries:

--jeroen

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Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/28

For modern scaleable UI applications, it helps a lot when one has a consistently designed scalable icon set with icons having the same dimensions and features.

In more than just one sense, designing and developing such sets is a lot like developing and designing scaleable fonts. It is not surprising that by now many of these are available as fonts.

Ons of them is [Wayback/Archive] Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn which on the page has the complete list: an impressive one indeed and as such a leap from the old dingbat fonts like Zapf Dingbats fonts (yes, I am more than ITC Zapf Dingbats old; most glyphs ended up in the Dingbats (Unicode block) in 1991), Wingdings from Microsoft Windows 3.1 on, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 in Microsoft Office versions until Office 2010, and the – now part of Core fonts for the web – Webdings as of Internet Explore 4.

Those old fonts only had small sets of icons – usually no more than 230, some just dozens – and Segoe Fluent Icons has a huge set of icons.

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Inside a cheap set of eBay digital calipers – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22

The innards of these devices and how those work are so cool: [Wayback/Archive] Inside a cheap set of eBay digital calipers – YouTube

It should be noted that the quiescent current of these devices is around 18uA, even when off (the display goes off until movement is detected).
Some users are reporting a very short battery life, but a typical 100mAh (0.1Ah) button cell should be able to supply 0.00002A for a very long time. (Theoretically 100’s of days.)

The linear capacitive encoder in these units is very impressive. The physical encoder is seemingly very simple, with the bulk of the work being done by the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). It’s very similar in its cost optimisation to the cheap, but super-accurate weighing scales.

I’m really impressed by the accuracy of these units for their price. They are very common on eBay for as little as £5 (about $7 USD).

Via [Wayback/Archive] Discord | #3d-print-cnc-kleien-figuurzagen | Angrynerds Podcast

--jeroen

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Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08

On my list of things to try: [Wayback/Archive] Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Goal is to see if the iPad can function as a larger touchpad to assist drawing on my MacBook.

Links:

Via:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] use ipad as mouse – Google Suche

--jeroen

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peter purgathofer: “… i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen …” – 🌱 hci.social

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06

The below post reminded me that around black friday I bought [Wayback/Archive] ADWITS 2-Pack 4K 2K 1080P 30Hz to 60Hz Support HDMI Display Emulator DDC EDID Headless Ghost Monitor Adapter Dummy Plug, Highest 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz – Gold Colour: Amazon.de: PC & Video Games

[Wayback/Archive] peter purgathofer: “today i gave a talk, where the…” – 🌱 hci.social

today i gave a talk, where the setup was that i had to share my presentation over zoom, but i didn’t have a second screen. this usually meant that i have to forgo seeing my presenters’ notes because my notebook’s screen would be the shared presentation screen.

i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen.

simple and effective.

--jeroen

Image from the Toot: [Wayback/Archive] 6af960c3f84a12e8.jpeg (2939×2821)

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BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04

One of my BMW E61 rear light fixtures leaked: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube

[Wayback/Archive] Tail Light Leak…? | BMW M5 Forum and M6 Forums

Personally I’d start with new gaskets.

In my case, it was the light fixture itself leaking, not the gaskets, so either the work in the video is needed, or a second hand tail light.

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--jeroen

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Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01

[Wayback/Archive] Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten

De Afdeling vernietigt de uitspraak van de rechtbank en overweegt hiertoe als volgt. Volgens de Afdeling volgt uit de systematiek van de Awb dat indien een ambtshalve beslissing om het register te wijzigen een beschikking is, het verzoek van een belanghebbende om een zodanige beschikking te nemen een aanvraag is in de zin van artikel 1:3 van de Awb. De afwijzing van de aanvraag is hiermee ook een beschikking. De ambtshalve wijziging van het Rijksmonumentenregister is een ambtshalve besluit waartegen wel kan worden opgekomen bij de bestuursrechter. Als de afwijzing van een verzoek tot wijziging niet wordt aangemerkt als een besluit op een aanvraag, dan staat tegen de weigering alleen de gang naar de burgerlijke rechter open. Dit vindt de Afdeling onwenselijk.

--jeroen

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Mercedes R171 SLK 2006 fuse box locations

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/18

Needed to check some of the fuses on the Mercedes-Benz R171 SLK of my better half.

Found them with [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] [Wayback/Archive] SLK R171 Fusebox layout.pdf through [Wayback/Archive] R171 Fuse Allocation Chart | Mercedes SLK World.

That forum thread also referred to [Wayback/Archive] Fuse box location and diagrams: Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class (2005-2011) – YouTube, but I found the PDF more clear than the video.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] r171 fuses – Google Suche

--jeroen

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ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/14

[Wayback/Archive] ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025.

De belangrijkste punten per 1 september 2025:

  • Er is een contract met: Actief Huiszorg BV, Alfa & Zorg BV,
    Centrum Zorg & Welzijn BV, Coöperatie Zorg en Plezier UA, Flexibel Zorg en Welzijn BV, Groenoord Zorgt BV, MIEP BV, Stichting ActiVite, Stichting DSV, Tzorg BV, We Take Care en Zorg Ondersteuning Nederland BV.
  • Er geldt voor Hulp bij het Huishouden dat alleen nog sprake is van Hulp bij het Huishouden met indicaties op basis van tijd. Dat betekent dat er geen sprake meer is van Schoon en Leefbaar

--jeroen

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