Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

He should be able to pressurize the system with compressed air to "encourage" any incontinence to show itself.
Saw that on "Wheeler Dealers" once

 

I was about to say that you can get kits to test that yourself easily enough… until I realised that a dirt cheap one is £100…!

 

You're probably safer with toast mate. Just means you'll have more room for good grub when you get out

 

Lazy colleagues who think that their lunchtime timing is more important than when everyone else is available.

(For the record, I've had to book a meeting at 1pm but checked everyone has time before for lunch).

 

LV decline to cover my new car, despite it being merely a renamed facelift of my current car.

So I'm off to Admiral, who will provide cover.

 

… Oops.



That little beige thing on the right isn’t supposed to be an empty hole, it’s supposed to have “stuff” in it like the one on the left…

Trying a case design I found, and I didn’t notice that the button wasn’t properly aligned with the stem poking through the case housing. Tightened down the screws and… [tiny crunching noise]…

I’ve got a set of SMD buttons on the way to replace it, but it’s going to be a bit of a pig. Those are some very small pads - for a size reference, that metal-shielded “hole” roughly in the centre of the shot is a MicroSD card slot…

 

Oh budgerigar!
An unhappy small round smart LCD, that's a pain and diddy too.

I had wildly thought one on a PC case with a camera lens in front to magnify it would be a fun project, but then reality bit...

 

Looks like my local council is selling the land that the garages me and my dad rent sits on, the sign says development land so not like we'll be tenants they want to keep as we don't pay much.
Doubt my savings will stretch the the full amount of land up for sale and my dads past all rat race stuff and not too bothered about doing mechanic work now.

 

We’re moving offices soon, and unsurprisingly we can’t use our exiting RFID ID cards. Instead, the owner of the new building provides its own access control system.

So… new ID badges…? - WRONG. “Install our tenant experience app, or y’ain’t gett’n’ in.”

I can’t describe to you how much I do. not. want. this kind of enshittified B-S just to get into my ****ing office.

Cheap, disposable burner phone time, and I’m not even joking.

And the cherry on top is that the car park we’re supposed to be using - and supposed to have a “season ticket” for - has just been closed by the administrators handling the collapse of NCP. The two other car parks nearby are already packed out by about 8am.

 

The bizarre reality of car insurance.

Checking out quotes last night for the new house address and whilst our Model 3 SR+ is in line with what we are currently paying, the Ioniq 5 is ~£250 more on the cheapest quote and our currently insurer (Tesco) doesn't even appear... (it did for the Model 3 so I know they at least quote on the comparison site). The Ioniq 5 is also around £200 more than the Model 3 which makes no logical sense from a pure car standpoint (much lower Ins group, ~177PS vs ~313PS, lower value, far less common etc). Obviously some reason in the back end somewhere but a right head scratcher all things considered.

It is what it is but I even did a quote on a used "Highland" Model 3 Performance (so ~£45k value, 460PS etc) and it was still less than the Ioniq 5....

 

I’ve worked for a price comparison site, a big one, and don’t even try to figure out insurer pricing strategies.

It isn’t always as simple as “the car” and “the driver”, insurers will adjust their pricing & risk assessments dynamically, especially the big ones. We’ve even seen cases where prices for a given car & driver profile get massively jacked up by an insurer; one moment they’re fairly reasonable, and then suddenly the prices are 10-50 times greater. Sometimes they’ll just stop quoting altogether for any given car or driver profile; not because of any adverse signals, but simply because they’ve already hit some arbitrary risk quota.

Only other thing I’d say is to not keep running quotes repeatedly. Insurers do keep track of you (and no, they’re not using cookies because they don’t need cookies to know who they’ve quoted for), and sometimes they might mistake your “behaviour” as, for example, a rate raider or ghost broker. You might stop getting prices, you might get artificially inflated prices, or you might even be explicitly flagged as a fraudster.

The whole thing is a total racket. And every time the regulators are dragged kicking and screaming into finally taking action, the industry responds by penalising customers in newer and even more “creative” ways.

 

Having some real difficulty in getting going this morning. Had a bad stomach over the weekend, not been feeling too ill, just loud and somewhat volatile...

Which has resulted in some not great sleep for the past 2 nights. Almost been fighting to stay awake in the office this morning.

/*edit*/ and as if by illustration of this. I just went to take my glasses off to clean them and realised that I wasn't wearing them, apparently I need to polish my eyeballs...

 

Decided to take advantage of the trade in offer on the Google store and upgrade my pixel 9 pro to a 10 pro since I was noticing a couple of issues with the port and camera. All fine with the 9 pro sent in and getting the full amount for the trade in... but then I notice an issue with the 10 pro. Faulty screen. What a nuisance.

 

Thanks, Funny thing is in this case it was more of a "oh ****, car insurance" moment that got lost in the fog of house purchase / sale thus thought I would check. Will run the change through our existing insurer and see what happens. Planning to drop down to one car anyway once the dust has fully settled after house purchase thus one less thing to pay in the future.

 

IONIQ 5 has been very easy to steal, takes a couple of seconds, this is more likely why, so many holes in it security that and CANBUS has made many cars a piece of piss to TWOC.

 

… and also this. The defect that Hyundai wants you to pay them in order to fix: https://www.theverge.com/news/757205/hyundai-ioniq-5-security-upgrade-fix-game-boy-device-attacks - paywall-free link: https://archive.is/Z0LSD

 

Any better?

 

Yes, thank you.

I perked up at lunchtime and felt absolutely fine. Stomach is still a little delicate, and still no clue as to what kicked it off. Was working at home today so a bit of an easier day, nobody dropping by my desk for a "whilst you're in...." sort of question.

Back in the office tomorrow but still very much looking forward to a long weekend, going to be much needed.