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I have a hatred for people that overtake learner drivers. It really bugs me.
As to tailgaters I do what you do bob, but like to put my foot down, just as their is enough room to take over or when you see them winding it up to take over.
It’s not like I ever go under the speed limit.
Been close to 20 years with 4 buggered disks. I gave up long ago on any type of surgical fix. I even stopped going for my yearly mri’s about 7 years ago now.
Looking back I should of kept them up, but I got sick of the same msg every year.
Now I just pop tablets ten fold, as you said, and have learnt to second guess evey step and bend. I can do zero heavy lifting these days, well for the past ten years, and I can only do light labour work for a max of 3 hours.
It’s a good job I went and got me self one of them education things. Otherwise God knows what I’d be doing. I reckon I’d be a driver of some sort, probably long distance. Long long distance lol. Or f1 driver of course.
Happy birthday John. ?
Yes the ROKU 3 does all you ask, but I know you like your live TV, the roku isn’t great at that. You can get BBC, now tv and itv only. Legally anyhow.
Whereas the Amazon tvs have app support for live tv apps, as will any android based tv solution.
The roku is inferior to Amazon and android boxes, but I like simple when it come to veg time.
If you do go roku, don’t go lower than a 3, they are feeling their age. In the beebs wisdom, they rolled out the same app from ps4 down to the roku 1, it crippled the one, slowed the two, and you could tell of the apps heft even on the 3.
I find heat is overrated. Something we brits long for until we get it.
These days anything over 30 I don’t like, and once we hit 35, I go hiding for shade.
The issue with the artic is you sweat alot, so it can be very dangerous. Though year on year warm high wick clothing is I’m proving
The stuff we had in the late 90s was the 60s kit, now they have come along way. Some of the kit my BiL brings home is drop draw expensive items.
We use to call our wet gear (the one we wear not drunk, a cup of tea is also ‘a wet’) we called ‘our tea bags’ as they let more water in. Our warm gear, we called ho chi minh suits, (another gag), never came out the lockers. POS they was. We’d bought out own snugg kit, which I think is still selling high end military stuff today.
Super warm, weighed nothing, and could fit in its own pocket. Over 10x smaller than the crap issued. I doubt it’s still in service.
I’m not sure if that was one, it was about twice the size of a normal wasp and looked like batman.
Your pic of the millipede, is the reason I went for Norway.
Ed- if thier life depended on it, they shouldn’t be getting all panicked.
Never been sting by a bee or wasp, but am allergic to horse fly. Been stung twice and needed anti biotics and have two nice scares on on for arm and one on my calf.
I wad also stung but something that looked like an armoured flying beatle in Turkey. I wad riding a moped, and the ‘think landed on my mates chest, who was on the back of the bike. He panicked, flicked it downwards and the thing got stuck between my back and my friends crotch/stomach. The pain of Its sting was something else.
I brought the bike to a halt, FAST, the insect was lay on the ground, and we rolled the front wheel over it, the thing got up and flew off.
I can only discreet it as a mini bat man type thing.
20 years on I still have a £1 size scare on my lower back, it took about 6 months to heal, and was swollen for a long time. I think I had antibiotics for this to. But can’t recall. I was in the marines then.
I have no fear of the normal bees wasps, like most, but try to avoid horse flies, which isn’t easy with a 9 yo into horses and a sister in law that lives on a farm with many GGs!
I just don’t wear shorts, and keep my arms covered. I must admit to getting very smoked at women (some men too) that go mental if a wasp goes near them, the jump and run about, with no car for their own safety. It teaches very bad lessons to thier children. And is more likely to get them killed by a car, instead of a small sting. I know which I’d rather have.
Or you could just ignore them, and carefully bat them away. Worked for me for 40 years.
Christ youre quick, I was just spit balling ideas.
I’m sort how tos could be included. You never know they may learn something new.
Also did i mention my idea about a side section of this, up-cycled tech/gear. I line the idea of long “dead” hardware getting a new lease of live. Eg a phone now as a door screen or simply an android phone solely used to control microprocessor.
Written a big reply and the forum lost it before I posted!
So heroes again.
If we are reviewing pc’s I think we need to split the reward in to two, 1. How the pc performanes for the task it was bought for. And 2. We need to agree on a number of benchmark apps to test it so we have an idea where there gpu/cpu (and the combo) stack uk. Also a more real world test of say a sample video that we would need to say render on a free bit of software like blender.
I think this would give a good rounded view of the pc.
I’d like to see somthing similar for phones. I’m not that fussed on the high end, and luckily many here like to go the chi route, or moto route, and it would be nice to again, have a personal review, of how the device handles for their needs, and outline said needs. Them run a set benchmark suit and then over time we will see what the best poimd for pound phone is best, in each demograph.
With the pc’s today, benching the cpu /gpu is really important. Intel has far to many options, and non of the higher end ones (even high mid range) are not needed for the majority. Even gamers.
So it just take my 10 year old i7 and i5, both working find, so when I come to replace these, I won’t be saying what’s the best cpu out today, like we would of 10 years ago. The i7 920 was relatively high up in tells ranks back then.
Personally I don’t think it will ever die and will always run current stuff, it’s thst good. I have a suspension that when they launched the first gen core i cpus, and seen AMDs responce, intel stared sandbaging. The chip is somthing special.
Talking special the SL9400 was unbelievable, it’s was years ahead of the Atom, but must of cost a fortune to develope give the price of that cpu, iirc it added about £700 to my think pad x200t.
If you ever look at the old pi table, that cpu held the record for record for £/performance and that was without factoring in it sipped juice.
TDP 17w 6MB L2 cache, it was clocked slow at 1.86ghz but punched way above its weight in performance and battery life. Sold with 8h, somthing that was massive back in 2008. For comparison my then (and new), dell xps 1330 with a discreet gpu couldn’t get an hour of life. At the time, I have to do somthing and the X200t (t being tablet) fit my needs, however it was expensive, but luckily I got a good deal.
So yes, I’m, now all for some reviews, but sum structures need putting in place.
@D-dan would be the best person to mock us up a blender render scenario for us to follow. A quite simple one, so the lesser pc’s are not sat for 10 hours grinding away.Everything my back door is open to let the dogs out, the pressure created sounds like it’s going to rip the slate off my roof.
Fingers crossed?.
Also my dog hates the sound of strong wind, he becomes very “clingy” and acts very strange . The bitch isn’t bothered by it at all.
I’m sat in my bedroom atm, and the dog, is in my bed hiding under the cover, growing a very few mins. The bitch is in her usual place on my knee squeezed under the desk. Good job is she is tiny. The girl is never far from me. The boy only comes near when something is a miss.
Warm, windy and dusty here. Not sure about the weather though.
If your not desperate, wait till mid December and they will offer you a better phone and or small bill.
The issue with normal folk like us doing reviews is we have little to measure our review on. So a great pc to me, may actually be crap in the grand scheme of things.
Dave would be in a good position for cctv stuff, but even then, the consumer stuff he would hate, may actually be good consumers stuff. But as he uses pro stuff, he’d think it crap.
Same with phones, for 90% plus of people the Moto G or even any E from 015 onwards is all most need, but again in the grand scheme, it’s not a great phone.
May be a section about products and experiences would be a better title, and it won’t confuse any newcomers into thinking we actually know what we’re talking about ?
Lol, story of my life Lee. I spent more cash on crap when lying in bed. I’ll trawl Amazon, eBay and alibaba for hours when bored.
The worst is alibaba and wish, as it’s too easy to spend a shed load of cash at £2 and £3 a purpose. The best thing about the two apps is the long delivery time.
Usually a negative but the crap you buy from there is always impulse, “forgettable” buys. So come 4 to 6 weeks later, the postman delivers you a surprise.
Yeh that marriage for you, the hight of the day is receiving presents you bought and forgot about.
You don’t have a link for an equivalent photo shop key by any chance? The office one worked a treat. I think I may grab a handful. Though I can’t see me using anything other than excel, I much prefer Google docs for writing.
At sub £4 for office, it seems rude not to. Grabbed one to check it out. Shame it doesn’t work on mac too! Sadly we have a mac invasion under way at my house atm. Two imac and now two mac laptops!
Dave I hope you refuse to but hdds in as primary drives. Actually I think there is a law against it.
Should be decent Lee, it has all the right specs.
Btw, I’m liking the new formite sign and tweak to the black top bar. Have you employed a designer ?
To many unknowns with chi phones, as Dave said moto G4/5 are excellent. We have 3 2016 moto g4, even the camera is half decent now. Not seen the g5.
The biggest plus the motors have is monthly security patches, which you won’t get with a chi phone. Unless you buy a good one like a xiaomi or huawei, but then your taking normal smartphone money, not chi phone money.
Huawei stuff Btw is fantastic. I did just have to replace the wife’s battery, and it was so simple to get into, they basically ripped off the apple approach (which is great) and improved it.
On the I phone you have to take out all the innerds, to get the the battery. On the P9 it’s just presented to you and it had these great sticky ribbons that just come away when it comes you pull on the tab, releasing the battery. Almost all other phones, you have to dig the battery out, hoping you don’t puncture it in the process.
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