Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Bikes is different for sure - but bike quick cars ain't normally cheap..

It made me chuckle though, you encouraged a fence out the way, stalled at the car park, had the wrong gear ... and it's all because it's too slow.

 

Unless I find a decent estate, our next car will almost certainly be electric. We don’t do long distances at all, it’s all city stuff and short hops of no more than 30-40 miles at a time. An estate would be handy for hauling big sh-- around, but it’s not 100% necessary.

Oh the fence was all me, nothing to do with any shortcomings the car might have . That was purely an “information overload” moment: edging out backwards very gently because I can’t see past the cars parked either side of us, trying not to speed backwards and ram the wall behind me, trying to look over my shoulders in both directions, trying to keep an eye on mirrors… I’m damn well going to start reversing into the drive though, makes life so much easier when your neighbours both have SUVs that are impossible to see past.

Maybe I should just get a Renault Twizy instead, they’re basically just a motorcycle with 4 wheels so it might be easier to get used to

 

Right with you there.

 

Electric estates are already a thing, if you have coin.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/heres-every-electric-estate-available-now-or-near-future

I know a team of mobile EV service mechanics who use (and swear by) a fleet of MG5s.

 

Brave browser works great for no ad Youtube I find.

 

Useful to know, ta . We’ve got another 18 or so months on this car IIRC, so we’re in no rush. But it’s good to know nonetheless!

 

My problem with Brave is more philosophical/ethical than practical.

This is going to sound pedantic, but in the past I’ve tried to make an effort to cut myself off from Google as much as possible, and Brave is based on Google’s Chromium codebase. As well as pedantic, it’s also probably hypocritical given that I use YouTube frequently and my Gmail account isn’t going anywhere any time soon…

I’ve recently realised that I no longer have the patience I once had for the hard-line privacy battle, but the other problem I’ve got with Brave is the crypto-crap they ship with it. I know I can completely ignore it and not use it, but the fact that it’s there in the first place is an itch I can only scratch by uninstalling it.

 

Vivaldi and it’s own ad blocker, also works well with YouTube.

 

Huh. I was not aware of any of that. The fact that it shipped with crypto nonsense built-in had always made me feel… I don’t know… “icky”… about the true intentions of the developer/publisher. Good to see that my gut instincts were right on this one.

Yeah, when it comes to browsers you basically have only three choices: Firefox, which I still get compatibility issues with on some sites; Safari, which only really shines on a Mac; or Google. Doesn’t matter whether it’s Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, etc: they all share a common underlying codebase in Chromium. Yes yes, Chromium is “open source”… except it isn’t, not really. It’s a Google project, and Google gets to decide what goes into it (or gets taken out of it). Feedback from maintainers and user communities is not even entertained in many cases; if Google wants it then Google gets it. The more projects that use Chromium, the more Google gets to dictate web standards. Handing that kind of power to the largest advertiser in the world is objectively A Bad Thing™©.

 

I didn't know about all the history to be honest. I use Chrome for everything else.

 

Well after beating segate's rma portal into submission and making it clear that yes, you did actually make this drive, and yes, it is still under warranty... that's one SSD headed back for RMA

...once i've got some ink for the printer...


Seagate better not **** me about, I'm in no mood for it.

 

Driving back from taking my partner to work this morning, 60mph hear a noise like something had stuck in the wheel, two seconds later a loud bang and instant tyre pressure warning.

Tyre hit a nail/screw/something and tyre popped. Hobbled off the road and managed to change the wheel. Too close to tyre wall for it to be repaired, so £140 for a new tyre. Joy

 

@DeanSUNIAIU Damn mate, been a bit of a week or so for you eh?

Glad you hobbled off the road rather than spun frantically of the road.

 

It has indeed, been a shocking couple of weeks. If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck.

 

mrs has been nagging me to clean up a small room that is filled with random boxes of "things" i may need one day

..... so since yesterday me and the kids have been cleaning up, mrs is still pissed i for some reason , we spent whole Saturday and most of this morning making the room tidy tools etc in the right cases and stacked made a sorta table/work bench where me and the kids could work on a weekend project, peg board to hold rulers, squares measuring equipment, filament spools and clamps. I never had a room so organized you jsut cant win with women some times and it looks like we wont be going to watch dune 2 as a result tonite

 

Bloody hell what a weekend, feel like I've been going non-stop...

Could've done without the Win11 installer being an ass and refusing to see the ethernet connection, spent hours just trying to get Windows installed never mind drivers, applications, etc... I'm pretty sure I didn't have a problem with this board the last time I installed Win11...

 

Everyone in the household is down with D&V. I personally just have a stuffy nose which started yesterday.

But cleaning up shitty pants and vomit isn’t my idea of a good Tuesday.

Arm is also a dead weight at the moment and the medication for supposedly pain management, isn’t touching the sides.

 

We both had the same issue when things were changed that prevented the pharmacy requesting repeats from the doctors on our behalf. I have 7 meds on repeat (standard diabetic fat boy cocktail) but my wife has over 20 due to things like Hashimoto's, diabetes, fibromyalgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, and the rest... We have to use a website now called systmonline to request repeats each month from the doctors who then send it to our designated pharmacy. The problem is that this process can sometimes take up to 2 weeks so we have to remember to request a repeat as soon as possible each month in case we run out of essentials like our diabetes or pain meds (withdrawals from those suck if they get missed and as some of those are controlled they have to be requested and issued separately - endless fun).