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I forgot about it being able to join your home router for update, aka the tesla does this, otherwise it uses 3g. I forget about this as my car lives a 100m up the hill from my house.
The Joy’s of living on the side of a mini mountain.
Newer cars have wifi to create a wifi hotspot so you can all connect to its g4. It would be good if you could connect a USB hdd to it. Last summer I cobbled together my own trave wifi hub with a hdd conected full of films, for our trip to Spain. It would be nice if the car was capable of it. Also our wifi hub, using a hootoo passport, also meant the kids gold play multiply Minecraft.
I think it was earlier in this thread people was moving about transport, public transport and road works. My YouTube feed just surfaces the video, time-lapse, below of the Dutch building a tunnel under a motorway in a weekend.
Cleared it twice first time was just past week, second ‘beginning of time’, still get the same outcome. I’m sure it I’ll sort its self out.
Bothe the nexus 6p and pixel on chrome are affected. Though using the x scope browser I don’t get the issue on both devices. Strange.
Cheers Lee, I tried all excellent the final issue. Given its just this site, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a secure connection or not, I’m not going to reset my device.
It will probably right itself soon than later.
To maybe make you feel better, the MRI scams I had in 2002 where not a batch on the ones I had 10 years later. The diffence was 1950 grainy TV to 4k, I remeber when I had my first proper look in my back, I was amazed how far they come In 10 years.
Also i love the way the doc can slice the 4d image any which way and get any view s/he wants.
I don’t recall that being on offer in 2002. It may well of been, but the desk top pc in the consultents rooms may not of been up to it back then, so they couldn’t “slice you up” on the fly. Ether way the actually final pictures wasn’t very good, closer to an ultrasound picture, so whatever your wife did, may not of been picked up.
I personally think we should all get yearly mot’s, MRI and full bloods. Try and practice proactive medicine instead of reactionary medicine.
It’s not an issue, given everything I do on here is public. So I didn’t think twice about it when it appeared last night.
I got the email banner from you.
I’m currently getting an unsecured connection warning from chrome. See picture attached.
I find that the ‘Tens machine’ work quite well if my back plays up. It doesn’t really dull any pain more rakes your attention from the source.
It’s been a while since I fired mine up, so time I go a year or two with out using it, but always like it when I fire it up.
Like you I know my limitations, you just have to work around them, as one lapse of concentration and you can be laid up for a week or 4.
The most enjoying thing about the having lower disk damage, (probably applies you upper also) is when you do have a moment and your ‘backs gone’, is when people say “you know lying down doesn’t help, you should be up moving!”
I’m like, OMG, where have you been for my last 16 or so years, if only some one would of told me that. The soon get I’m being sarcastic.
It is true, keeping fit, keeping your core strong helps to prevent episodes, bit if you throw a disk or two, you ain’t even rolling off a bed, never mind “exercising”.
The trouble with having a bad back everyone thinks cos they have pulled a muscle or briefly trapped a nerve, they know what the pain is. Any one with back issues, knows every day of your life, the good days, your usually functioning at a pain level of 5, the bad days 6 to 7, and when it goes, you lie as still as you can holding an 8, knowing just a move of a toe or one breath to large will inflict an number 10.
I don’t think there is anything like back pain. Tooth achs bad, as is ear ach. But I’d but back pain above breaking a bone, I’ve don my leg, my ankle, collar bone, jaw and a few knuckles. The leg hurt in the moment. The collar bone nor so much, well I factored that ages 6 in a motor bike come lamppost incident, then two weeks later fell of my school chair and broke it.
The break hurt, the fracture not so much. The ankle I only learned I broke it two years after the fact, when I pulled my ligaments in the RM, an X ray showed I haven’t broken the it, but they asked when did I last brake it as thet could see the calcium build up. My mind went back to about two years prior when I slipped down a curb playing football, and thought I’d sprained it. I told my mum I thought I’d done something, she thought I was trying to get it of school.
Ive got off topic, bit log story short, out off my many pains, my back is the worst pain I’ve experiance. That and pulling a muscle in your chest, thst is a strange one, it’s very high on the 1-10 scale, probably an 8, but it’s a satisfying pain.
Like, when your backs ‘playing up’ but not ‘gone’ , and you can prod the swallon disks patruding out. You know nothing good can come of it, but in the moment, it’s a satisfying pain, almost calming.
Or is that just me :scratch:
I’m fully scanned, and upto date, I’ve damaged 4 disks, from L2 upwards, L2 is about 5th of the size it should be, the other 3 are just misshapen.
As its more than 2 disks, they won’t touch it :negative:
When I seen this last night, watching BBC news live, me… Well, I said to the wife, ‘IT’ should now be a core subject like eng, math, science, if we want the uk to even attempt to challenge the future world, whatever it may be, it will be made of bits and bytes.
My youngest (8)does ‘IT’ at school,and it consists of, booting a pc and finding office. What they shold be going is playing coding games, with sprites etc… , and making small arduino projects, which is a great way to learn a bit of a c++ without realising, and see instant physical actions of their code.
I’m a big fan of learning while doing, it’s fun and you learn just as much s ruing finds up as you do by getting it right.
Way back on the 80s, you could get a magazine, spend a weekend typing in code, and you got a decent result, that won’t wash today, but a simple servo and motor, moving a car, will instantly grab kids that didn’t know they liked coding. And once they grasp (you give them) the low hanging fruit, they will naturally want to then learn a little more code, to do more advance stuff.
If you sit a kid down an say today we are learning c+, the class will be asleep I 10 mins. Bit show they sorting simple, and the power of the code, you’ll get them.
But no we are stuck with boot windows open office…….
I get massive ‘slow and sharp’ pins and needless, on my feet and anckles, if i sant still for more than 3 mins (brushing teeth, that’s how I know it’s 3 mins, or is I sit on a dining room table for more than 10mins.
Today Bob, them computers are leased for a couple of grand a year. Well it’s actually the software that is leased, and you have to pay every year to get the update every 6months.
I know my local mechanic, nice enough guy, was saying, it’s a massive monopoly con, you have to have it, and they charge a fortune.
This company that leases the software, has relations with all the manufacturers, they get the information for each car, and bundle all the engineers softwares together.
The computer to turn your ser ice indicator off is about £30 now. I know. Ow my car you can do with out an extra device. In the settings you can either turn it off altogether, or reset the counter to 15k.
With an obd2 port adapter (£2 and up) and a free android, (there are many some free others paid, all sub £5) you can read all the cars sensors and see what’s what, on some cases to can write code to).
Yes the zetec engine in the ka was a little ripper. My Mum had a 1.3 zetec and got the 1.6 one with leather interior and electric windows, the engine added nothing, due to the added weight of a real interior.
It just wasn’t as good as the bar bones, cloth, metal manual windows. She never liked it as much as her old one.
The new (outgoing one) is terrible, the incoming 5 door is, to me, the successor to the fiesta, it’s no ka, too big, but give the fiesta is bigger than the the escort, I think this new ka, witch I think is built on the fiesta chassis, may be very good. But I bet they don’t offer the 1litre 3cylinder turbo, thst they put on the fiesta. Thst is A cracker of an engine. Vauxhall also has a 1L 3C engine that is just as good, but I for small cars. It knocks out about 120bhp. Will have e no gusts top end, but is ment to be a peach to thrash.
My main buying point is 2003 onwards, as that is where the they put an air bag on it. Plus I think abs too. But it may of always had that.
I’ve spoke in another thread, how I’ve circumvented the need for bending on 2 of my rigs. With the use of USB hubs, and on/off/reset button hot glues to the under side of my desk, to the side of my seating position.
When you have a ‘dickie’ back, you second guess every footstep, lift, and twist.
I scrapped my last car for £100, the up and coming Mot may bite you in the arse. You should of sent it for an inspection, before you bothered with your licence and Inc.
I’d of said to the bloke selling, I’ll cover the mot inspection, if it come out favourably (whatever your willing to spend) then give I’m his £100.
With his sale price being its final scrap value, it would of raised alarms to me.
I’m about to enter into the used car hunt, at a level I’ve never been at, sub £1000 for a ka, for my girl, so I’m about to start looking at what should be looked out for on the origanal ka. I’m no michanic but ad the car isn’t mine, I have to get it write.
Your swift takes a nano sim, so it’s the right size for the tablet.
A full sim is the size of a credit card. The credit card size that the sim is housed in is a nod to those days. My first phone used a full sim, you slid the full in to the phone from the bottom, and about 3mm of the card stuck out the bottom.
The sim you would of been using for the last 20 years is a mini sim, we was standardised on them for a long time.
A micro sim is what’s in your swift and many devices, bit that is going to have a relatives short life, as my last 3 or 4 devices have used the nano sim.
Bob when you take out your micro sim, before you try it in the tablet, inspection the sim, you’ll see, another smaller sim can be popped out of it. That will turn your micro sim into a nano sim. The nano is smaller than your finances nail, slightly smaller than a micro sd card.
Almost all new sim card are build to be a “Russian doll” starting with the full sim, and housing all sims down to the nano.
3 had the best deals last summer. Iirc it was £15 for unlimited data. If you go to the continent the unlimited turned to “just” 12gb. Which is a fantastic Deal.
On about day 4 of our 28 day adventure the data stopped, this was a shock to me, but I called 3 and they was excellent, I was shocked as excellent serice isn’t usually a thing for comms companies. They said the issue was work in the area I was (southern spain) and I should be good in under a day, andthat he would personally get back to me in 24 to make sure.
An hour later the service was back up. The guy did call, but ‘true caller’ (the app) blocked it as spam twice, so I white flagged the number, but didn’t expect another all, but the day later he called to make sure all was well. This really meant alot to me. Especially given he must of known, I’d just got the sim to go abroad.
I always say, you only k ow a company, when you have an issue, and how the fix, or don’t, defines that company.
Though I’m not with 3 I’ll recommend them over EE, which is terrible, I was with T-mobile, which was great, before the amalgamation.
Half way thought this, I realised my 3 sim was phone, text and data, and tour just after data. So sorry.
But I would like to ask, can’t a normal sim be used in the sim slot. As I have an thinkpad x200t that has a slim slot, and it will happily accept a lot normal phone sim, and just use its data.
Ive never owned a tablet with a sim slot so am totally unaware of what will and won’t work.
However Bob, as you have a swift, why don’t you use its 4g data via the tablet in question when needed.
On the swift, If you go to- swipe down / settings (cog) /more/ tethering and mobile hotspot / turn on hotspot / then it will let you set up a wireless modem, that acts just like your router at home.
Your route to the hotspot mode, may be slightly differnt, but they are much of a muchness, and should be enough to navigate you.
Much cheaper than having a second data bill, the only time it makes sense is if your going to use the tablet alot outside the home. And it would have to be alot, to make it a worthy expense.
Just for the knowlage, I’d try sticking your sim In at some point to see if it works as a data only sim once iterated.
I knew that about Maggie Bob.
I’m not much of a whiskey drinker, in my late teens early 20s I couldn’t stand the stuff. Apparently its a scotch fans dream.
I have some usb extentions , but and a USB 3 one for USB 3 hub, I also have a USB 2 hub but that’s tucked away, at the back (actually its hot clues to the back of a monitor. That has sound, mic and a hdd plugged in etc, the set and forget things.
I use the usb3 one for daily duty. I don’t have much usb 3 kit, 1x portable Sammy hdd, and my phones, and the transfer speed alway amazes me. I had to get a pci to usb card to retro fit it in. Only hald it about a year now. It replaces a low profile USB 2 and card reader. I use a USB to micro adapter now, as micro sd has won that battle. Though I have a camera that take the old Sony duo card. So I have a duo to usb convertor, blutac’d to the underside of the desk.
But by far my greatest item pc related is the on/off/standby button extention, I mentioned in the last thread. It always annoyed me crawling under the desk to turn it on. Especially when my back was playing up.
Them self adhesive tidies look good. I bay the rolls of velcro and hot glue them where they are needed. The hold well enough and are reusable. And you can make them as big as you need.
I had to get anal about my wiring once we got the dogs. One day one pulled a load if wires out, when he got tangled, running under excited! So now it’s really neat. Unlike the wire on any pc I’ve built. I just leave the top Bay empty and cram all the wires in there. Job done.
Top tip for ssd installation, hot glue to the bottom of the case. I love hot glue.
Nothing good about Aberdeen, it’s windy, it’s cold, it’s rains and that eat fish.
For me the west coast is alot more hospitable weather wise. I grew quite partial of Devon when I was down south, never took to the east coast of Scotty-land. It was just miserable.
Every one say where they come from is boring, but they really have a good shout at being correct.
It actually a butterfull place, but God the weather is poor. All the time, or it seemed like it. At the time if I wasn’t in Scotland I was in Devon, and the weather seemed to be good alot.
I seen somthing last month, that Aberdeen, wasn’t really hit by the 2008 crash, but since opec started playing silly buggers with the oil and gas prices, over the last 2 years or so, it has had cripping effect on the erea.
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