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Xiaomi do great suff, I have their light bulbs and the mija smart home kit, fire alarm and temp sensors. Their quality is amazing, and check out their prices comoaiers to all the compitition.
I also have their mija pens. They ain’t smart. Just a refil pen, with cartridges, they are very good indeed.
They are the apple of china. They sell quality stuff at a dear price for China, but cheap for us. The smart home stuff is great
The only down side to their smart hub, is its designed for the chins market. It can be voice operated like an Google now or echo but it chats to you in chinese. It’s also a light iteslt. And works as an exteition to the fire alarm. So when the alarm goes off thst does. It turn on ref to not to blind you. And turns all the smart bulbs on to. If they are RGB they come on red. Again to not blind you in the night.
All great products.
The whole schools and asking parents for money is also an issue in my area. The junior school all my 5 all went though was all away after a pound for this or that a few times a month, it was annoying weje we had 3 in the school at one point.
Jowever the last two years its gone stupid. It this week its alone, £5 to walk to a castle down the road on mandsy, £3 swimming on wednes day, an £1 for non uniform day on Friday.
Next week the school trip away needs to be paid for which is almost £200 (that’s not Thr school fault, but still. We must give the school £20 each month. Last day before Christmas they had a video afternoon which was £3 for snacks (cost about 50p)and they watched a video that was currently on at the pictures. So a bootleg off the Internet.
If these cose was 15 years ago when we had 3 there and I was in uni, there is no way we could of done £60 a month. They take the piss. They took them on a walk to the historical train shed ruin, which is nest to my house, I park in the old carpark. Its 3 mins form thd school. Iirc it cost me £2 for my girl to walk to the carpark she goes to evey day. I wad fuming.
The list goes on. Told you earlier today, I’m a miserable tw*t, and the Old nickel dime tackic is one of my trigger points.
A few years ago (7 actually) we went to Disney land Paris (crap Btw) tickets for 5 of us wad about £250, drove into their carpark and I had to pay €10 or we couldn’t go in. Oh that set me off that did.
Then as we entered the park we had a picnic under the pram in a cooler box. They tried to take it of us saying food want allowed in the park. Now went you set my wife off she isn’t quiet. They let us in just to shut her up . And we decided we wousnt spend a penny inside.l the park.
I also have an issue with gullavers world in Warrington charging £18 for an adult to get in. It’s z Park for under 12s pronaly under 10s really. There is nothing to do at all for anyone over 12. Nothing, no reason to be there. So if you have two kids, two parents it’s about £60 to enter. Now if they just charged for the kids I’d probably spend £40 or more on crap food, ice creams and over priced photos. But cos they charge for adults we have never spent a penny. In the park.
I have the same issue with alton towers charing a full child’s ticket prices for kids that can’t go on any of the rides.
You got me started now ed!
Oh shit, I forgot about that, my Halifax ultimate card gives me RAC breakdown, along with phone insurance, and travel insurance. I use the phone and travel, but never the breakdown. It offers other stuff to, but never used any of it.
It’s 15£ a month, but if you put 1500£ through it your not charged. I have a few cards like that, and my wife has the same Halifax so each month I play the cycling money through the accounts game. I need to close two tbh as I have no need for them bit don’t like closing bank accounts, just incase. So I transfers 2k from one to the other each month just to not get a charge.
My daily card I use is a monzo card. I got it cos it has cheap international rates, so it wa for when I was away, but it’s just so good, real modern banking, I ended up using it more and more. So I use that As my daily and my visa for anything over 100 and visa for fuel ad it lives in my glove box.
It’s in there as more than once over the years, the dutchess had used my card and not put it back in my wallet, and I’ve filled up the car before noticing. Its a good job garage’s give you 24h to return, if you let them know.
So now I have my petrol visa in my car. Its my first and only one, I got it years ago when I was building my credit up, I use it just like a debit card, pay it off evey night when I use it. I thin when I got it it had a 50 limit In about 1998. They keep raising it, but I ain’t spending it. I hate being in debt. Scares thd life out of me. House and business are the only good reasons to get in dent. Not because you want somthing. Save up, and do without. You’ll then cherish it more.
I watched my mother every year get in debt for Xmas, then spend all year paying it off, just to do it again. I just can’t do it.
The WF batteries will probably be a stock battery. Given they was budget budget priced, (but very good) I can’t see they was designing anything themselves. I’d bet the only tooling they did was for the casings. Everything else wousl of been off the shelf.
But you’ve had a good run with them. I’d recommend waiting till the G7 comes out and buy a G6 when the prices drop. Also I’d recommend you get it of amazon. As my girl broke her charging port on her g4 (iirc) it was about 10 or 11 months old, they sent a replacment out, arrives the next morning and I had 30days to return the broken one.
Speaking of returns. I have a pixel gen one here, its over 2 years old now, in the summer Google replaced mine as the battery was shot, it went than fine to dead. Last week it died again. So today I sent an email to the cluster service rep that delt with my case. An hour ago she sent me a free rertn RMA and they will send out another one.
I don’t think I had a chance, I was gonna bin it. I’m made up. Both amazon and Google are probably the most hated companies on earth, along with face book, but I’ve only ever had good service form both. They replaced a nexus 4 for me once also. I can’t fault either. Made up about the pixel I really love that little phone.
Cheers Bob. I need to contact the insurers soon anyway as I’m off to Spain to watch the European Cup final (hopefully Liverpool make it).
For th last year I kept calling my insurer asking about European cover and brexit. They kept saying call back next month we dant have a plan for leaving atm, but as it stood (November I last asked) they said your insurance would be void once you got off the ferry, as is your licence.
Ive already sorted my licence, I got a international licence (two actually as France is on one and Spain on the other!). I’ve read that now if we leave cars will need a green card. So I’ll have to contact RSA and see where they stand, or rather where I stand.
If u can’t take my car, my BiL said I could take his merc AMG, but that gets about 19to the gallon, whealre as mine gets 30, hopefully 40 on the motorway. I’ve got a petrol now and they ain’t great on fuel.
So I really don’t fancy taking his AMG on a 3000mile drive.. That means less beer tokens. The FiL deisel octavia would be the best, but its ten years old so I wouldnt trust it. That will get 70mpg on the motorway like my old laguna did.
WOF who or what do you think the uk is? And where and how do you think we are going to get there.
We was a top nation, cos we mastered the wooden ship and we got rich off bulking less advanced people the then gun boat diplomacy.
We can’t do that now 1.cos there are rules now and 2. That era came to an end with the atomic bomb.
After WW2 America with the World Bank basically took over the world. Via economic hitmen which mortjed into the cia, or a branch of it.
We no longer have the money or technical advantage we once had to bully nations, and there is laws against it anyhow
What do you think our small island can do now, that boat has sailed. literally. Our empiř came to an end with ww1 and died with WW2. We are no longer in a position to become ‘great again’
Both Russia and America want the EU to fail as it is a threat to both of them, that’s why they are happy for us to leave, as they would like it to be the catalist that breaks up the EU. If that happens, America will control alot of it, (the nations with us air bases in) and Russia will take the easten States back.
Both America and Russia don’t even have to do anything either. Just sit and wait for us to all start squabbling about resources etc and both nations will step in as ‘peace keppers’.
Europe will be stpit between them including us. Given we have the US early warning nuke system, I’m sure America will take more and more control of the UK. And there is zero we could do against them. Nothing. We have great militery personnel, but we couldn’t sand up to the US. Nor Russia India or China. So I have no idea how you think we’ll rise back to where we belong. Without the EU we’ll be a whipping boy. And the brextremists are walking us straight into it
I usally only take cover when I’m going abroad. I use the compere the market sites, as they bring up far cheaper providers than AA and Rac and I found out that they use aa and Rac. So they are like a reseller
Thr last company I used was called ‘Green’, it was very cheap, for the ewuvialy cover of the big names, and it come with lose of key cover. Which I liked the idea of while in another contry.
But just to be safe we alway take the spare key away with us, the wife keeps one (she doesn’t drive), sue usally puts it with the passports (hidden in hotel etc) just incase I lose mine.
Since I’ve had new cars I’ve never taken out cover. But the current is covered but I’m not sure who with. I should really find that out. It’s a motability car, In wife’s name.
I agree with Dave above, never stick with any company. They always under charge you in year one, and rely on lazeynes to get you in year two.
In all my years of driving I’ve move every year bar one. That was with chaser (French firm) there second year was sightly dear than me moving but by £15 iirc, so I stayed. Usally they shoot up to a hundred or more more expensive.
For the last 15 years my insurance on all my cars had been around £280 every year. Usally year two will be about £400 so I move. I did get a woult in my girls ka out of interest and that was £160 lady year. Cheapest quote I’ve ever had.
They laughed cos we voted out. Then carried on laughing as our parliament royaly messed it up.
Though the vote was never ratified, government was not, and still arnt under obligation to go out. They did have the obligation to throw alot of money are looking into wether it was actully viable.
Now we no its not in our interest. They sould say so and pull the plug. And show their findings. Then everyone would be happy. Surly?
The vote has noting to do with democracy. It was a sampling of public opinion. Everyone just got carried away. Time for the adults to put it to bed.
I’d not bother investing in any other win mobile tech as in December all support ends.
Though given that it bombed as a platform, there is so few devices out there, the risk of being targeted is problem next to zero.
I have nothing against the win mobile stuff, I got a phone and a tablet to check it out. The os was good, thst tablet was poor even with it got full win 10 on it, but I liked the phone, but the ecosystem just never took off. And the appstore was just full of fake crap apps, and the few big apps that Ms paid to build an app, never updated or supported them.
The big mistake Microsoft did was start there Scroogled campaign as in retaliation youtube pulled all their apps, even apple wasn’t that stupid, knowing the Google apps are a staple. It back fired even more just a few months later when MS realised they had to stop the campaign as they was doing exactly wist they was calling Google for. And they even had to ramp up the efforts to make cotana work.
A real case of thd PR team not speaking to the development team, that cost them access to the largest apps on the planet. One of a handful of remelarkably silly decisions by MS for win phone. Its unlikely it would of ever worked out really. As they was far to late to the party.
Anyone remember Steve balmer laughing at the iPhone, calling it an overpriced toy, and not a real smartphone.
We have talked about the way Singapore is ran, and it’s very much in line with how I’d like ours to go.
The thing I dislike the most about leaving the EU is thst then our shambles has no oversite. I’d happily give away Westminster.
Before this brexit mess, I thought that in a tounge n cheek way, now I actully wouldn’t bother me.
They have shown over the last 2 years what a shambles they are. 2 year zero plan, with no direction. WTF are we paying them for. The EU have some all they need to, they haven’t treated us bad, they have been straight in this legal seperation, and even started planning and putting in the infostuture for a UKless EU.
What have we done, give 14m to a port with no boats, and lined up a few trucks in a car park to simulate a traffic jam.
They No, we are the joke of the world atm.
I disagree. But I don’t look at the world as an us and them. We are an ‘all’ . As long as we have “clubs” we have friction.
Either way the world is changing and current economic thinking won’t work as it won’t scale.
We need a more socalist approach, less focus on stock price and riches, less for us on little clubs and the power within them. As that is only good for the few and not the many. We need a complete change in pholisophy and economic thinking. As jobs come less scarce we’ll need to work cos we want to, but for much less time. A 3 day week for istance with a set sallery. But that is impossible to do in a capalist set up.
It’s the impossible question at this moment. But the one thing I do know is putting up more walls is counterproductive. And ultimately dangerous.
People of the world are already mad, as things get worse nations will get mad. Then where do we go? Only one way. That is why we need interconectivity, on a larger scale than just the EU.
The old conspiracy theories of one world governmemt, always focused on bad people holding power over all. Which I subscribe to, however for the sake of resource and food distribution I think it’s inevitable. We’ll only get there via war, that’s a given, as no one wants to give up power. That’s human nature. But I’d like the uk not to be a part of the problem. I’d like our leaders to be part of trh solution. Or at the least try and be part of it. At least make an effort.
By leaving the EU, we are taking a backwards step if you take the long term view.
For peace in the future, we need more nations to come together. Not spread apart. I’d be happy to stick in the EU, pull-in mre nations including Russia and their BRICS allies. Once that’s done we would have a big enough alliance the rest of the world would need to fall in line.
I’d see America and Saudi pulling the middle east into its own little alliance, but hopefully sense would see through.
It’s a pipe dream, and somthing I can’t see happening in my time (pronanly 30 years left of lucky), but that will be about the time when major issues will be showing, of we are still on our current path. Which I can’t see why we won’t be.
So I don’t care about the uk that much, it’s a tiny player in this grand scheme of things. That’s part of the reason we shouldnt be going it alone. As our children and grandchildren will pay the price, probably the ultimate price.
So I don’t care about people being put out cos a polish or Indian guy has arrived in my street. I say welcome. It his globe as much as its mine. Any this is the attitude we all need to adopt. No just the uk but the world over.
I sound like a friggin hippy now. Irl I’m a miserable tw*t, I like it that way, bit I still fear for my children’s future. And I’d rather they was free to travel and work anywhere on the globe (the EU is a good start), than be imprisoned on this small lump of damp rock.
If we all was under on government, just think how much time energy and money wousl be saved on military things alone. That effort gould go into progressing GM foods, curing illnesses, and figuring out a new ecominoc model that will work for a population of 11bn with work for probably 5-8b. That’s alot of houses with zero income. A good war could solve the number issues, maybe cull a few billion, then we just carry on. Hardly a good strategy .
Given we have a minimum wage, there is no need to “combat undercutting wages” .
Also if we looked at our selves as EU citizens instead of something different. Adding mainland money to the collective to help less privalidged parts of th EU doesn’t seem that much of an issue to me.
Maybe fight for a more transparent system so we can see how the innerworking work, then the memberstates could lean of the government if they don’t like the process.
Id also want to stimulant the movement of people also. Maybe by introducing a minimum wage across the whole of the memberstates. Making it easier for the proorest of peoples a better chance at relocating if local factories (for example) close.
It would of been nice in the 80s when the majority of pits closed if their was an easier path out of dead villages for example
You have just stimulated some interesting ideas. I’d be all for tighter integration.,we need to stop the inward view, and thinking Britain is better. Its not. We should be thinking as people as a whole. As the current model and direction of right leaning borders and the capalist model doesn’t scale for our inevitable future of 11billion people, and never ending automation and AI.
At some point, veryclose, probanly within 50 years, we won’t have work for all to do, so inevitably we’ll have a class of non workers. Under the current system, it won’t work. Putting borders up only makes it worse.
I think Labour is a joke, and has been since TB killed of their reputation, and they never found a string eight leader to take them a ‘a’ direction. It’s been a joke.
The tories haven been much better, and everyone hated Cameron but jokes in us ad we got May!
I think this mess could be a great oppertunity for the lib dems (remember them lol) to grab alot of seats. If I was them (I don’t even know who’s in charge), and an GE is called, I’d stand on one issue, staying in the EU, I font know if they would win. It’s doubtful, but as parliament (ie con and lab) is being blamed for this shit storm, I think there could be alot of protest votes they would pic up, us alot of Stan he’d leavers wousl but aside party pl politics for 4 years, to aim for they pro EU vote.
Basically write off the next 4 years, to stay in Europe, then bevy time round Vote in thd party I want to run run the country.
That would be may plan if I wad the lib dems. I don’t even know their position on the EU. But if I wad them I’d drop all beliefs for the shot at making th party relevant again. There is a good chance they would get eight seats to Atleast be in a position to form an alliance, bit this time only take it if you can follow thou on your policy. Unlike Cleg did.
This is thd same policy I think Labour should if dine last time round. Though thd Lib dems have noting to lose by doing this. And all to gain.
Go all in in remaining in EU, and some lose stability and taking stock of the nation BS that wouldbe what I’d run on. I’d talk about abit how the last government had negated the nations busines for two years while focusing on a failed EU exit, etc.. I’d finf thd biggest flaws and tlak about steaming the leakz, and stabalising trade links across Europe and stability. And if highlight the rules in imagrants always being allowed to be sent home after 3 months but both sides of government had always ignored this and say (don’t need to do) that they would implent a plan to fix this etc…
Thr last one alone would fire up some protest votes,
Wetherthr lib dems deliver this or not is irrelevant. That is they way I’d go. You can fall back to norms once you get some seats back, while trying to hold them.
I’d vote for them over ether Labour or tory atm. Both seem clueless, so what do I have to lose, rom picking a joker card?
Loads of great scifi books, it’s probably the genre that pushed audio books to begin with
I like the old Larry niven stuff, bit it’d hardly ages well. But still great, serin how yesteryears writers thought tomorow would look like.
One of my fav scifi book and my first audio book was ‘do androids dream’ a take on blade runners ‘do androids dream of electric sheep’
Currently I’m reading the “expoditionary force” book 2 SpecOps, . By Craig Alanson, I like it qiuted a bit. I don’t the first book in in under a week called ‘coloumbus day’ that I’ll be finish in two days time. And I’ll do book 3, and then read some war stories.
That’s basic my rythem. A few scifi then war stories.
Audible is by far the best way to go, as all their stuff is professionally produced and read. You can go subscription and get a book a nitj for £8 or 2 for £16
Jowever there is a work around on a lot of books. The expoditionary force series I’m currently reading are 1 credit each (1=£8) for a subscriber, or about £25 for the audio book. However if you purchace the kidndle edition for about £3 you can get the audio book for £3.50.
Almost evey book on there has some sort of deal, where if you by a kindle edition you get thf audio one much cheaper. If its under the value of the £8redit ,buy if not use redit.
Your rust book is free, if you decide to stay on as a sup or not. So you get a credit for subscribing and your sum only starts 30 days after you sign up. So you can sign up pick a boom then cancel if you wish. That was may plan in about 2008 (when it was us only).
Also if you like to read, as well as listen, kindle and Audible books have somthing called whisper sync, so you can read on one and it will syck with the other. So the book for example will start off from the page you left off on and vice versa.
As regards of podcasts. There is everything for everyone out there. As everyone’s tasted differs, you’d need to find your own way there. Get a decent pod set app, line dog catcher of podcast Republic (I use the latter now, but both are very good) and just get looking via the menus.
Or if you know of one search it out, via the apps search feature. If it’s not there, the website relating to your podcast will have an rss url you can manually enter (c&p) into the app and that will find it and update as new episodes are release.
If you like scifi, I use to listen to Weird things podcast for a good while. Its not was it was, but the early ones are very good. The anfield wrap is a God oen of youre interested of filling Liverpool closely.
I’m no Diane Abbot fan, but QT treated her discustingly last week.
Wether he was at faulf of not, sure its his duty to admit fault. Its not like he pronaly pays for his own insurance anyhow.
The sun being low is irrelevant. As fa as I’m away it’d in the same place for everyone.
The road that leads to my road, the sun sets in Teh winter band on behind it. It’s a tigh road with double parked cars and kids playing. It’s a 5mph job as its scary in the summer, with the kids darting in and out. In the won’t you just can’t see from 2pm to sun set.
I don’t buy the papers, so the only place I’ve seen that he crashed was via my wife telling me about it. It hasn’t crossed my.news feed. But I think I have it set to no royal stuff. So I’ll have to depend on my wife to inform me when she pop her cloggs too. Not having live tv and all.
Mrs told me last night. She said he was fine. So I was said, why is it news then? More an advert for 93 year olds to not drive huge Rangrovers.
Her gob certainly makes my head spin. She is trully turning into a modern kid. Shill and tv are drumming liberalism (social justice warrer like shite) into them.
It’s quite concerning tbh.
My youngest lad that’s very clever and dyslexic, (18), drive me mental. He can’t hold words in his friggin head. He takes everything as literal. This has drove us mad since he was about 5. Lol.
I’ve set Monday night to one side. And I’m gonna go through every site in my last pass and change them all. Even though most are 16 digit random generated pws. I’d have it set higher but alot don’t like more than 16 and then it ends up a bit to much of a faff, you be jumping back and forth.
I may try 32 characters this time, until I hot to many sites that moan.
I must admit, I rearly change passwords on sites. I know you should every few months. But given we must have 100s if not 1000s of sites how is one ment to change them all every other month. That’s a full time roll in itself.
I was just talking about passwords with my 10 yo girl, she brought me a piece of a4 paper with all her accounts and her passwords.
1. I was amazed he had half of them,
2. I was happy she has heard me going on at mum about reusing passwords. (something mum hasn’t done!)
3. Her password wasn’t waht I’d call great, but non was on the list.
4. I didn’t realise she was so organised.
5. I really don’t know what she gets up to, it seems. She is far beyond what her siblings was at. But given the closet to her is 8 years older, the internat age wasn’t trully hear then they was her age.
Need to keep a closer eye on her one thinks.
Ive just explained two factor to her, and she is exited to now go and impliment that on her accounts. Luckily she is on giff gaff, so if she loses her phone, she can still carry her number forward.
These kids are for brighter thsm we take them for. I bet the one behind the hack was only 12.
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